Movie: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

 

I liked this movie a lot when it came out.  I haven't seen it for years until tonight and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it again.

It's flawed, there are slow spots and some stilted camera work, but there are also some visually wonderful scenes. 

I liked Yves Montand better seeing him after all these years but unfortunately there was little chemistry between him and Barbra Streisand.  

Ms Streisand was at her comedic best in this film.  Particularly in the flashbacks to 19th century England. We don't get to see enough of this waggy natural humour in her later films.  

I read that this was heavily edited down from an original three hour running time and I wonder how many awkward moments were the result of this.  

Still,  I loved seeing it and will watch it again in the future.

Lack of forethought

 

So, I bought a new flash drive so I could copy some things from one flash drive to a separate one.

BUT, my new computer has only two USB ports and they are side by side.  My old flash drives fit fine side by side but the new one is wider and once it was in the port there was no way anything could fit in the port beside it.

So I copied the files to the computer and from there to the new flash drive.  But I had not wanted to put that information on my computer.  Sure I could delete the file afterward but we all know that deleting a file does not mean that it is unretrieveable. 

USB ports and flash drives have been in use for years.  How could this potential problem not have occurred to the person designing the flash drive case  - or their supervisor or anyone down the line in the production of this product?

Netflix: Fear Street, Parts 1,2 and 3.

 

This was great fun.  Good story, good cast, good effects.  It just whipped along and came together nicely. Some nice moments and just enough feely stuff that you actually could care about the characters.

Netflix: Slasher: Seasons 2 and 3

 Season 2, I watched a bit and while I know summer camp and cults are traditional in slasher films I just couldn't face another summer camp or another cult.

Season 3.  This was pretty good, although a little talky at times.  The last two episodes seemed to go on forever - they easily could have been edited down to one episode.  I didn't feel particularly sympathetic to any of the characters - they all could have died for all I cared.

I find it interesting how blase I have become about blood and violence in shows like this.  It certainly was realistic in this production but somehow I didn't find it in the least disturbing or scary or repulsive.  It just felt like same old same old.