I too am old. But younger I suspect. Still - I couldn’t remember a single actor in that movie even though there are at least seven leads. Wikipedia lists the stars as…
Charles Bronson
Yul Brynner
Horst Buchholz
James Coburn
Steve McQueen
Robert Vaughn
Eli Wallach
Six of them I saw all the time on tv in the 1970s when I was a boy. But I have no idea who Horst Buchholz is. What the heck. I surely watched at least parts of the movie a few times. But that was the fat-back era of tv and all movies were ruined because they were “edited for tv”, scan-and-pan, and jammed full of commercials. I’ve never seen it in its pristine form. Westerns aren’t my thing at all but all this nostalgia means I’m going to look for a torrent.
No that’s also actually part of the bit I’m not that old either. Just feels old transitioning at my current age.
But the Magnificent Seven is a real hoot without ads or editing. I watched it with my grandfather I think when I was a kid on VHS. Obviously it’s a rip-off of Seven Samurai by Kurosawa. But that movie rules so that’s fine.
No that’s also actually part of the bit I’m not that old either.
Well, how dare you - young lady. In all seriousness things have been a nostalgic for me recently. At another site I posted about the first mixtape I made when the word wasn’t even invented yet. And yesterday I posted a vid of a kid with a skateboard getting tear gassed by the pigs but he showed tremendous resolve by very slowly walking away and then equally slowly turning around and giving them the finger. I wonder if he was in pain and/or puked after that.
Something twigged in my memory. In the Mesozoic I must have seen a similar but super-tame fictional version of a kid facing off against the cops. The kid surely didn’t give them the bird. He must have only gotten the last word. Reality hits so much harder. I saw “Mesozoic” in post by Heather Thomas. She was the stuntwoman on the Fall Guy.
Ninja edit. I preset my oven. I remembered I have Stouffer’s Spinach Soufflé in my freezer. It reminds me of 1970s and more so the 1980s. It’s a comfort food and I need a break from my doomscrolling of pigs on parade in LA. I want to be optimistic but things just get worse and worse.
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joke explanation
Yul Brynner is a deceased actor who starred in the Magnificent Seven (1960).
His name is only barely similar (yu-noise at start -er sound at end).
The joke is Uri Geller is both so insignificant and I’m so old, I’m mistaking him for a famous but long dead star of the silver screen.
I too am old. But younger I suspect. Still - I couldn’t remember a single actor in that movie even though there are at least seven leads. Wikipedia lists the stars as…
Six of them I saw all the time on tv in the 1970s when I was a boy. But I have no idea who Horst Buchholz is. What the heck. I surely watched at least parts of the movie a few times. But that was the fat-back era of tv and all movies were ruined because they were “edited for tv”, scan-and-pan, and jammed full of commercials. I’ve never seen it in its pristine form. Westerns aren’t my thing at all but all this nostalgia means I’m going to look for a torrent.
No that’s also actually part of the bit I’m not that old either. Just feels old transitioning at my current age.
But the Magnificent Seven is a real hoot without ads or editing. I watched it with my grandfather I think when I was a kid on VHS. Obviously it’s a rip-off of Seven Samurai by Kurosawa. But that movie rules so that’s fine.
Well, how dare you - young lady. In all seriousness things have been a nostalgic for me recently. At another site I posted about the first mixtape I made when the word wasn’t even invented yet. And yesterday I posted a vid of a kid with a skateboard getting tear gassed by the pigs but he showed tremendous resolve by very slowly walking away and then equally slowly turning around and giving them the finger. I wonder if he was in pain and/or puked after that.
Something twigged in my memory. In the Mesozoic I must have seen a similar but super-tame fictional version of a kid facing off against the cops. The kid surely didn’t give them the bird. He must have only gotten the last word. Reality hits so much harder. I saw “Mesozoic” in post by Heather Thomas. She was the stuntwoman on the Fall Guy.
Ninja edit. I preset my oven. I remembered I have Stouffer’s Spinach Soufflé in my freezer. It reminds me of 1970s and more so the 1980s. It’s a comfort food and I need a break from my doomscrolling of pigs on parade in LA. I want to be optimistic but things just get worse and worse.