@Randy LOL!

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, August 06, 2022 - 10:10 pm: Edit

KEEP BREATHING is a limited series (six episodes) on Netflix. A 30-year-old female New York lawyer heads off to the Canadian wilderness to check a contract detail with someone involved in the case. Her commercial flight is grounded so she gets another flight which crashes in the Canadian wilderness. And I mean wilderness. Bears, trees, racoons, poison berries, and more.

Remembering girl scout training 20 year earlier, she sets out to survive and escape, all the while battling not just the elements but her self-doubt and the baggage of her screwed up family and her inability to build a romantic relationship.

If there is a "message" it is not that plucky girls can do anything but that city dwelling humans who remember what they learned/heard long ago can survive if they just don't quit.

She does some things right, and does some things wrong, and learns more about herself than she does about survival. The actress (Melissa Barrera) is the plucky Mexican babe from Scream 5/6 and she's a force of nature when she gets going. Beautifully shot in the wilderness it is well worth binging for a lazy afternoon of stress reduction.

At my age that crash would be a death sentence, but I always have my multi-tool and combat knife on my belt, along with a bit of paracord, and I had a lot more survival training in Boy Scouts and the Army than "Liv" had in Girl Scouts. I certainly would not have stayed at the crash site for five days once I figured out that nobody knew where I was or was going to come looking for me.

And I would not have burned all the money in the first fire.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 09:38 am: Edit

2 Choices really.

1) Stay where you are and make a decent sized signal fire. If they are searching they will find it eventually.

2) Walk down hill until you find water. Then walk down stream until you find people.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 09:50 am: Edit

Mike made the point I tried to explain and did it better.

Liv wandered in circles while I would have stayed in sight of the river and just gone downstream.

By Michael F Guntly (Ares) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 10:15 am: Edit

I am thinking that, if in the Canadian wilderness, amongst millions of trees, and that wilderness is as dry as California wilderness (or anywhere close), a decent sized signal fire might not be the better choice.

I think I would follow SVC.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 11:57 am: Edit

"I always have my multi-tool and combat knife on my belt, along with a bit of paracord..."

TSA took my multi tool several years back and as such I no longer travel with them...Combat knife is an automatic "please step aside sir" so that gets checked or stays home...one can likely keep/bring the paracord along. You did say this was not a commercial flight so there is that.

On my way back from Strat22, I did sit next to a man flying from Dallas TX to CA who had (and used) a bag of yarn and two aluminum knitting needles. Quite surprised that made it through since the last flight to AMA in 2021 they removed some oversized (by 2 oz.) hair gel.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 04:31 pm: Edit

Liv was on a private plane so my multi tool and knife skate through, although I have to assume she went commercial part of her trip. She also recovered her baggage from the plane (which is where my multi-tool and combat knife rode to Hawaii). A significant point is that in an unexpected situation you will only have what you carry. The one thing no one can take from you is some useful skills like how to spot Polaris, build a fire, or how to walk a straight line in a forest (sight three trees in a row, walk to the first one and use 2 and 3 to sight 4, repeat).

I am a firm believer that every American needs to spend a bit of time in Boy Scouts (which takes girls now), the wilderness, and the military. Watch a few survival videos on youtube, buy a couple of small survival items, keep a working flashlight and a piece of paracord with you.

The single best thing you can do is walk 4,000 steps a day to get in minimal shape and have enough canned food in your home to last your family at least three days. (You also need water which can be stored in bottles or you can just buy cans of fruit juice or something.) I wouldn't waste money on supposedly 99 year freeze dried food. You have to cook it, and canned food will last longer than you will.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 06:50 pm: Edit

We should continue this down in Surival.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 03:48 am: Edit

FIGHTER SQUADRON
Free on Youtube, this corny WWII P47 squadron movie is worth a watch if only for the extensive real combat footage included. That and the black cat scam.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 06:01 am: Edit

FOR ALL MANKIND
Excellent scifi series recommended by Paul Howard. This is an alternative history of the US space program if the Cold War never ended and America never got bored of space. I just watched #7 and saw Apollo 24 land on at the moonbase on Shackleton crater. Brilliant writing, excellent acting.

There are 30 episodes on APPLE TV and ten more being filmed.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 08:45 am: Edit

We've binged every season of For All Mankind. Apple TV has a lot of great shows.

* Loot: a multi billionaire divorces and tries to do good. It's a good indicator of how people with money get completely out of touch with real life.

* For All Mankind: already talked about

* See: Postapocalyptic world where everyone is blind. I originally thought this was a stupid premise but actually works well.

* Severance: Wage slaves split their work memories from their others, effectively having two completely separate lives.

* The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray: Samuel L. Jackson plays a man with extreme dementia who gets his mind back temporarily and tries to wrap up things he left unfinished. Dementia is my biggest fear and this one had me in tears. Jackson is a surprisingly good dramatic actor. And only says MF once!

* Probably more I'm missing.

I don't usually recommend streaming services but I highly recommend getting Apple TV. Even if it's just for a month to binge those.

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 11:40 am: Edit

FOR ALL MANKIND - Great show, just need to look past the political in your face stuff. A great premise and some twists as the show progresses.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - 09:29 pm: Edit

Accidentally stumbled on an excellent YouTube channel the other day, "Chief MAKOi." He's the chief engineer aboard a bulk freighter and he vlogs about shipboard life and engineering work.

Maybe it's just my (weird) imagination, but I can easily imagine the chief engineer aboard a SFU freighter doing the same thing.

If ANY of you have a curiosity about the life of a modern merchant marine, I can't recommend the channel highly enough.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, October 29, 2022 - 03:18 pm: Edit

Posted as a warning to others:

There is a television show remake of a 1959 Blake Edwards movie.

The original movie, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, named Operation Petticoat, probably needs no introduction, imo it was a fun story and some very good cinematic shots of U.S. naval ships and aircraft.

The remake is titled Operation Petticoat 2, and Starred John Astin as the Captain of “A misfit crew and a obsolete submarine.”

Among the cast, was Jamie Lee Curtis (one of the nurses) and daughter of Tony Curtis.

The series lasted 2 seasons (1977-9).

I haven’t seen any episodes, but all of the exterior shots were reused from the original movie.

I did read to episode guide (there is 5 minutes I. Will never get back again...) and only half of the episodes were documented.

Unless you are VERY seriously into self abuse, I advise you to not waste any time on this. You’ll only regret the utter waste of time.

You all have been warned.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Saturday, October 29, 2022 - 07:13 pm: Edit

Don't forget the prequel: Petticoat Junction.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, November 12, 2022 - 12:43 pm: Edit

New TOP GUN movie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3rQ3328Tok

By Michael F Guntly (Ares) on Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 10:58 pm: Edit

The last of Hogan's Heroes, Robert Clary (Corporal LeBeau), passed away yesterday at age 96.

By Vincent Solfronk (Vsolfronk) on Friday, November 18, 2022 - 11:47 am: Edit

Mr. Clary was a Holocaust-concentration camp survivor. Truly an amazing story.

I always enjoyed watching Hogan's Heroes when I was young.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Sunday, November 27, 2022 - 11:04 pm: Edit

Glass Onion. Go see it. Nuff said.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, February 01, 2023 - 03:42 pm: Edit

Well, I have heard about a new movie called "Avatar II", or some such. It is supposed to be a sequel to "Avatar." I will not be going to see it even if I had the ability to. It will, no doubt, be a new film where the Eaarth loses, but we deserve to lose because of what we have done to our own planet. Doubtless it will please the brainwashed youths who have been raised in the last generation. Me, not so much.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Wednesday, February 01, 2023 - 05:43 pm: Edit

The only movie trailer I've seen in the last year, that I might care to see is the Norwegian film "Troll"....
Probably won't catch it in a theater, if lucky I will run across a video somewhere....

I did find their movie "Troll Hunter" from 2010 very interesting.....

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, February 01, 2023 - 06:06 pm: Edit

Troll is on Netflix

By Dennis Bergendorf (Wildcard) on Wednesday, February 01, 2023 - 06:39 pm: Edit

SPP:

Just think of it as more like a cross between Red Dawn and Independence Day, but on another planet. Just some hometown folks repelling an alien invasion.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, February 01, 2023 - 09:41 pm: Edit

My understanding is that the original Avatar was a protest film about how indigenous people in Brazil were suffering due to the government working with the loggers. The aliens were a stand-in for native tribespeople and so on, but Cameron made it to be a vehicle to bring world attention to that cause.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Thursday, February 02, 2023 - 01:11 am: Edit

Having seen both "Troll Hunter" and "Troll", I consider "Troll Hunter" to have been the better movie. "Troll" had a much bigger budget and better production values, but a much more pedestrian story, with (for the most part) less interesting characters.