How much ham and corn can you take?

[LVSteve]

Nope, I'm not on about dinner, I'm talking about goofy movies. Today we had a large dose on the OTA Movies! channel. All four Matt Helm films closely followed by both of the Flint movies. I couldn't watch them all as I had a soccer match to watch and cleaning to do after my contractor gave us back our kitchen.

What I did see was fun. Dean Martin poking fun at Frank Sinatra all the time, and Cyd Charisse strutting her stuff in one of the films. That said, even had I been able, I doubt I could have watched them all, back-to-back. Just too much corn and ham in one sitting.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Steve, the movies today are awful. I refuse to see anything in a theater, haven't been to in years. Why give your bucks to a bunch of Hollywood goonies. Old movies I watch on TV and on tape when they knew how to act, not now.

 

[Golddollar]

Just too much corn and ham in one sitting.

I thought you were talking about one of my stage plays!

 

[Greyman50]

I watched part of the Flint one, got sleepy and went to bed. Have Way To Much to do.

 

[Onomea]

Speaking of Dean Martin, turns out Tom Selleck's ranch in California used to belong to Martin. (Apropos of nothing much at all...)

 

[Xfuzz]

Speaking of Dean Martin, turns out Tom Selleck's ranch in California used to belong to Martin. (Apropos of nothing much at all...)

Saw an article where Selleck says he will possibly
loose this ranch if Blue Bloods is cancelled.
Hard to understand....

 

[LVSteve]

Saw an article where Selleck says he will possibly
loose this ranch if Blue Bloods is cancelled.
Hard to understand....

Have you seen California's property taxes?

Seriously, Tom Selleck wouldn't be the first, nor the last, film and TV star to burn their money and/or make bad investments.

 

[Skeet 028]

Flint movies were terrible Matt helm not much better. Even the James Bonds were pretty repetitive. I like the old whodunits...even the B and C grades. And the old Scifi movies from the 40s and 50s...Action films these days are all about killing/maiming...death/destruction

 

[rockquarry]

Dean Martin and James Coburn were in some good films; Matt Helm and Flint pictures weren't close to good. Awful.

Matt Helm novels were written by Donald Hamilton who was a pretty good gun writer, though he started writing about guns and hunting pretty late in life, well after Matt Helm. He wrote some stuff for GUN DIGEST but may have also had work published elsewhere.

 

[CH4]

Rarely go to the theater anymore. Besides being expensive, the content is generally lacking substance. However, at the urging of a buddy, I went to see Civil War. Left at about the halfway point.

 

[lihpster]

Dean was a better singer than an actor, but he did pretty good. I liked him better in Westerns. He somehow seemed to fit. No offense to Jeff Bridges, but Borrachon was the original Dude.

 

[CajunBass]

I remember seeing "Matt Helm" and "In like Flint" in the theaters, and I thought they were great. Of course I was 14? Maybe 16. I forget when they were released. One of my buddies mother would drop us off in downtown Richmond on her way to work. We'd prowl around downtown poking in and out of stores until the Lowes threater opened, then watch the movie a couple of times, then hit the street again for an hour or so. We'd eat lunch at the G-C Murphy's lunch counter, or at Kelly's burger joint...home of the Dragon Burger. Cheap eats. We never got into any trouble. Even the bums watched out for us. Store owners called us by name. When time came, we'd walk on back over to 7th and Broad and his mother would pick us up and we'd go home. Sometimes we'd catch the Fairfield bus and ride it out to Fair Oaks and she'd pick us up there.

Big time adventure for two country kids in the mid-late 60's.

 

[MelvinWalker]

Saw an article where Selleck says he will possibly
loose this ranch if Blue Bloods is cancelled.
Hard to understand....

The very last place Tom Selleck should have bought a ranch was California. He could have bought a spread in Northern Florida with thousands of acres of longleaf pines and low property tax. In fact he could have claimed a "homestead exemption" which makes it dirt cheap.

 

[dave1918a2]

Todays movies are either all talk or all killing and mayhem from girls, guys, and no where near enough aliens. Haven't been to a theater since around '95'.

 

[NFrameFred]

Saw an article where Selleck says he will possibly
loose this ranch if Blue Bloods is cancelled.
Hard to understand....

I'm guessing it was said tongue in cheek and designed to whip up fan outcry to put the heat on CBS to reconsider. Kalifornistan's taxes notwithstanding, Tom also said (again, tongue in cheek?) that 'like any actor when a part like his Frank Reagan goes away you wonder if you'll ever work again'. Really ? Tom Selleck - never be offered another role ?

He did further offer that if Blue Bloods were to finally actually be canceled he would make more "Jesse Stone" movies, so I doubt he worries about finding work.

 

[robvious]

maybe Selleck could get a reverse mortgage...?

 

[Buford57]

Since we've inserted Dino into this, I recently saw an interview with him where he talked about the westerns he made with John Wayne. "Sometimes people see me on the street and say 'There's Perry Como'. Nobody makes that mistake about Duke".

 

[dmn57]

I recall the Helm and Flint flicks from when I was kid. I'm pretty sure they were never intended to be cinematic masterpieces but instead tongue-in-cheek attempts to capitalize on the fascination of spy stuff at the time, not unlike 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E' series. Kinda from the 'so dumb it's fun' genre. Might have to revisit them soon.