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Jul. 1st, 2018 03:56 pmQuiet weekend. Went to massage therapist for work on back, hips, and sinuses, also digestive issues.
And watched a few things, also wrote a bit, and took pictures of flowers. When the news is nasty, I take pictures of flowers. I'd share them with y'all, but can't figure out how to post pics from Facebook or my phone on Dreamwidth.
1. Yellowstone
Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, and stars Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, Wes Bentley, and various others. It's about a rancher in Montana who is fighting people from invading or taking his land away from him - either for frakking, lumber, land development grabs, water rights, a national park, or providing habitat for the Native American Indians who once resided there. And is a good depiction of why tribalism and capitalism don't work or rather bring out the absolute worst in people. (Your Mileage May Vary, but that's what I took from it.)
I found it to be more compelling and better written than AMC's The Son, which had starred Pierce Bronsan and I couldn't make it past the first fifteen minutes of. This one I've watched three hours worth and it's holding my attention.
Kevin Costner is quite good in it, as is Luke Grimes and Kelly Reilly. And there's clearly a lot of money in it for a Paramount Channel television series. More than ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox series.
The set-up? Dutton, who owns a huge ranch in Montana, is struggling to reunite with his estranged son and run his range. But the local land-developer and big city transplant wants to build a huge housing development next door, which would use a good portion of his water. And the local Native American Indian tribe wants to take his cattle and a portion of his land back. Not helped by the fact that his estranged son, a veteran and decorated solider, has married a Native American Woman and had a son by her. This son is a horse trainer but is making next to nothing on it.
All hell breaks loose when the son's brother-in-law and the local Indian tribe decide to steal a bunch of his father's cattle. And the father fights to steal them back. In the midst of the fighting, one of the Dutton boys is killed, and the son's brother-in-law is killed. The story takes off from there...
It's worth checking out if you like modern Westerns. It's not a soap opera. More a family crime drama on a ranch. Airs on Paramount Network on Thursday Nights. Next episode is in two weeks. (They go on a brief hiatus around the 4th of July...for some reason or other.)
2. Tomb Raider - the new one, starring Dominic West, Alicia Vikanda, Walter Goggins, with Kristen Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, and Daniel Wu. It's a lot better than the first one, although that's not saying all that much. Good cast, decent acting, dumb story and script.
Richard Croft: I underestimated your...capacity for -
Lara: stupidity?
Richard: I was going to say bravery.
Me: Actually a little of both. Very brave people also for some reason seem to be REALLY stupid. Oh, my father told me to destroy his journals because this is dangerous and if it got in the wrong hands everyone could die. I know, instead of destroying them, I'll go find him and figure out what this dangerous thing is that will destroy the world.
And while I'm at it, I'll go buy myself, I won't access any of his money to help, and I won't worry about being robbed and just loosely hold my backpack and ask for information.
And...take the most rickety boat I can find with a drunken captain out into dangerous waters.
Seriously??? Indiana Jones was at least intelligent. No wonder this did not do well. I spent most of the time thinking, how dumb are you?
Other that it was a lot of fun.
And watched a few things, also wrote a bit, and took pictures of flowers. When the news is nasty, I take pictures of flowers. I'd share them with y'all, but can't figure out how to post pics from Facebook or my phone on Dreamwidth.
1. Yellowstone
Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, and stars Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, Wes Bentley, and various others. It's about a rancher in Montana who is fighting people from invading or taking his land away from him - either for frakking, lumber, land development grabs, water rights, a national park, or providing habitat for the Native American Indians who once resided there. And is a good depiction of why tribalism and capitalism don't work or rather bring out the absolute worst in people. (Your Mileage May Vary, but that's what I took from it.)
I found it to be more compelling and better written than AMC's The Son, which had starred Pierce Bronsan and I couldn't make it past the first fifteen minutes of. This one I've watched three hours worth and it's holding my attention.
Kevin Costner is quite good in it, as is Luke Grimes and Kelly Reilly. And there's clearly a lot of money in it for a Paramount Channel television series. More than ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox series.
The set-up? Dutton, who owns a huge ranch in Montana, is struggling to reunite with his estranged son and run his range. But the local land-developer and big city transplant wants to build a huge housing development next door, which would use a good portion of his water. And the local Native American Indian tribe wants to take his cattle and a portion of his land back. Not helped by the fact that his estranged son, a veteran and decorated solider, has married a Native American Woman and had a son by her. This son is a horse trainer but is making next to nothing on it.
All hell breaks loose when the son's brother-in-law and the local Indian tribe decide to steal a bunch of his father's cattle. And the father fights to steal them back. In the midst of the fighting, one of the Dutton boys is killed, and the son's brother-in-law is killed. The story takes off from there...
It's worth checking out if you like modern Westerns. It's not a soap opera. More a family crime drama on a ranch. Airs on Paramount Network on Thursday Nights. Next episode is in two weeks. (They go on a brief hiatus around the 4th of July...for some reason or other.)
2. Tomb Raider - the new one, starring Dominic West, Alicia Vikanda, Walter Goggins, with Kristen Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, and Daniel Wu. It's a lot better than the first one, although that's not saying all that much. Good cast, decent acting, dumb story and script.
Richard Croft: I underestimated your...capacity for -
Lara: stupidity?
Richard: I was going to say bravery.
Me: Actually a little of both. Very brave people also for some reason seem to be REALLY stupid. Oh, my father told me to destroy his journals because this is dangerous and if it got in the wrong hands everyone could die. I know, instead of destroying them, I'll go find him and figure out what this dangerous thing is that will destroy the world.
And while I'm at it, I'll go buy myself, I won't access any of his money to help, and I won't worry about being robbed and just loosely hold my backpack and ask for information.
And...take the most rickety boat I can find with a drunken captain out into dangerous waters.
Seriously??? Indiana Jones was at least intelligent. No wonder this did not do well. I spent most of the time thinking, how dumb are you?
Other that it was a lot of fun.