On 6/1/2026 9:21 AM, super70s wrote:
"Air" on FX. I'm not the world's biggest pro basketball fan but the
story of how Nike and the other shoe companies went after the hot rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 and developed a shoe around him was interesting.
It might be described as the basketball equivalent of "Moneyball" with
Brad Pitt (baseball) and "Draft Day" with Kevin Costner (football).
Great cast including Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman and Viola
Davis so it was hard to go wrong. Lots of snippets of great old 1980s
songs (generally used quite appropriately) so it really takes you back.
I saw this in the theater and liked it. I should try to watch it again
at some point.
Nikes were the tennis shoes to wear in the early '80s, I remember buying
a pair back then but in my advanced years I switched mostly to Dr.
Scholls and, most recently, Skechers.
Me too! I don't have time to worry about brand names. I just want my
feet to not hurt. LOL
The ankle-high Air Jordans were so
successful Nike was able to buy out Converse a few years later, as we
learn among the many text updates as the movie ends.
One annoying thing I thought FX did (other than the commercials) was
make a big announcement about how the film was rated R and "viewer discretion is advised" every single time they came back from a
commercial break. Maybe the wholesome Disney who owns them forced that
but it just seemed like overkill. There's no sex or violence at all in
the film and -- besides a few f-bombs sprinkled in -- the language
wasn't that bad at all. It's not like the movie was airing on a major network, it was on cable TV. Also kind of ironic since they like to bill themselves as "FX - Fearless." Shrewd of them to show it on their
network during NBA championship week though.
I watched:
District 9 (4K disc) 2009 sci-fi movie written and directed by Neill
Blomkamp. The movie stars Sharlto Copley as a South African bureaucrat
in charge of evicting over a million stranded aliens from a slum the government put them in. They are to be relocated to an even worse
ghetto. But while most of the stranded aliens tend to be docile and
easily manipulated, Copley encounters one alien who is brighter than the
rest and planning to return to his abandoned spaceship (which still
hovers over Johannesburg) to save his people. The movie holds up very well.
Elysium (4K disc) 2013 sci-fi movie written and directed by Neill
Blomkamp. Set in a dystopian future, The movie stars Mat Damon as one
of the exploited poor left on Earth while the rich live a carefree life
of luxury in an orbiting space station. Jodie Foster costars as one of
the evil elite in charge of keeping things the way they are. After
being mortally wounded on the job Damon's only hope to live is to make
his way to the space station where they have medically technologically
that can easily cure him. But Foster sends her psycho assassin (Sharlto Copley) to kill Damon and any other sick poor person with dreams of a
better life. The movie holds up we enough. Although it does feel a lot
like District 9 with a bigger budget and no aliens.
The Black Hole (blu-ray) Sci-movie about a group of space explorers and
their robot side kick on a mission to find habitable life in space. The heroes encounter a black hole and are betrayed by someone they thought
was an ally who tries to hijack their spaceship. Remains one of my
favorite movies and holds up great. And the score is just beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bGOsQFMEbs
Interstellar (4K disc) Christopher Nolan' s 2014 unofficial remake of
"The Black Hole" about a group of space explorers and their robot side
kick on a mission to find habitable life in space. The heroes encounter
a black hole and are betrayed by someone they thought was an ally who
tries to hijack their spaceship. Remains one of my favorite movies and
holds up great. And a great score as well. The docking sequence will
go down in history as one of the best things Nolan ever filmed.
"It's not possible."
"No, it's necessary"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7yqll5uV4
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