Given last week, I am a tad apprehensive about selecting a movie. Didn’t help that I wrote the piece on Monday, checked on Wednesday and the Warlords of Atlantis was available, then Poof! Gone. If it ever comes back I will try again. That was a great film. Well, life continues on. I will not take it as a bad sign that the first film of 2026 was pulled. And so today we have…
Attack of the Robots
I noticed I tend to focus on the classics more at the beginning of the year, and then move to newer films as the year goes on. Why break tradition? So we continued this week with an older film. This one has popped up on a lot of watchlists, and it might have been viewed by one or two of you.
It’s a French film! In Spanish! You guys LOVE subtitles! Also, this stars Eddie Constantine, the detective from a ton of other spy/mystery films including Alphaville. Note for those who have no clue what I am talking about: Alphaville is one of those things you get to see in a film class – it was considered “A New Wave Super Spy film” and it had a lot of influence by the time the 1980s came around. In this film, Eddie is not playing his famous Lemmy Caution character, although all of his characters look and act exactly the same. There is another guy in the film named Lemmy (Eddie’s son) so that can lead to confusion in any other reviews you read about this film.
In any case, this is another Eurospy film, where a villain figured out he can use people with Type- O blood as robots to kill European world leaders. European leaders must survive! Eddie Constantine to the rescue!
Wait, Eddie wants to stop the villain? He should find the guy and give him a medal!
Forget I said that.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! If all goes well we will continue with classics – next week will be a Coffin Joe double feature of At Midnight I’ll Take your Soul and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse!
Wouldn’t feel bad about Warlords of Atlantis. Shit was totally out of your control.
It just made me mad. It was hard to decide in the first movie of the year. And it was a blow out, pulled probably that morning.
It was like the mess of the first show, almost five years ago.
It depends on the spoken language.
To elaborate – If I can listen to the language without getting irritated, I can work with subtitles. I can listen to English, Japanese, or German without getting annoyed. I dislike the sound of Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi.
Have you seen Alphaville? The computer belches lines in French. Really it burps the lines.
Here’s one of the scenes with the computer:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7aCEe9MYdvM
I’m afraid I have not, and it’s not on my list.
I’ve got a backlog of 56 items of a total of 10,344 minutes currently waiting for my time.
🥴
Well Alphaville is German anyway. Jeez.
And oddly big in Japan.
Alphaville was very influencial, but it wasn’t a good movie.
Agreed. I am enjoying this one more.
Hm. Perhaps you have seen these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xKHj1JFNYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-wH8SrFro
English can sound weird to foreigners.
Personally I dislike the Chinese, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi.
I was big when I went to Europe.
I imagine I would be huge in Japan.
Not mentioned, but here are 2 great Russian songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hwELsSesvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vvPXz-Qes
I suspect UCS would not be happy with the pop music in Tanzania. This was the hit song when I was there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eyAeqkV2gg
The song above has some charm. Many of my Peace Corps pals learned to sing it because it was played so often.
Tanzanian pop is better than kwaya (choir, ie religious) which is…well, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfhYV9Ir_u0
I’m guessing Mongolian and other throat singing is straight out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzhD_bHF7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_lrwQiuCM
UCS implied (by mentioning subtitles) that his objections are about spoken rather than sung language.
I dislike the sound of Chinese
Cantonese or Mandarin (or all of the)? Northern or southern accent?
@Gustave – All of the above. I could not tell you which language within that category any given voice was speaking, just that I dislike the sound of them all.
counterpoints(?)
Chinese Internationale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djL1LsUmmGo
Spanish Internationale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ylKMmvGuU
It’s a catchy song.
I think Russian sounds particularly nice when sung.
Disagree.
How about the Azan (call to prayer)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-8AtTDx20
Amantu billah (I believe in God)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6zx4gngPA
I don’t think you understand.
more counterpoints(?)
French opera: l’oiseau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U
Farsi song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0juyxaYkZzg
This channel has some great stuff from around the world. Here’s my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJEUxVGQIuk
Now that’s a 60’s horn section.
Man, this opening is awesome!
where a villain figured out he can use people with Type- O blood as robots to kill European world leaders.
This looks like it has promise. I will queue it up. I won’t be able to watch tonight.
Thanks RJ!
Enjoy! It’s pretty cool.
The fancy casino scene where they are sipping Coke a Cola with cocktail straws is great.
Is that white 19 – 25 year old supposed to be Chinese, like in Dr. No?
There is a group of inscrutables in this film. BUT, the assassins have some dark skin color that make them look kind of occidental, at least in B&W.
Talk me out of buying a new car and into just replacing the turn signal bulb on the current one.
Pricing of new vehicles is completely out of whack. I can’t see how anything new is worth the retail pricing. Buy used if you need to get something newer that what you have now.
Because on a new car if the turn signal stops working you will be buying a whole new lens assembly and not just a bulb.
I blame the government.
… which you may have to finance. 😳
Just buy a BMW.
I don’t do subscription cars.
Lol, I had a customer with a BMW that had lenses that pointed the way the steering wheel turned. One of them went out, BMW wanted $2,500 for the assembly. No aftermarket option at the time. Same customer traded that thing in on a Honda Accord.
Tater is correct.
Tater is partially correct. Consumers share plenty of blame though. The gov’t isn’t mandating iPads on the dash, Apple/Android Carplay and all that shit, that’s all consumer driven. My wife won’t buy a car without the biggest/bestest navigation and then still uses her phone rather than the got-dammed factory navigation, which no longer seems like an option.
You are the government.
Because repairing your current car is less expensive than taking on the cost of new (plus the enormous initial depreciation)
But there can be the sunk-cost-fallacy….dont ask me how much Ive spent on Track John (MD).
Listen to Tres. If it’s just a taillight, fix it.
If it’d had been a taillight, I’d have changed it out.
Heck, I’ve had an orphan duct-taped to one of my bumpers for like 3 months now. He holds a flashlight and does his thing when it’s time.
The losses in aerodynamics in terms of fuel are worse than the savings on replacing the bulb. Plus, you have to keep changing the flashlight batteries.
Just fix it already.
Debate stirs on Facebook after deputies spot flashlight used as car headlight
New cars are terrible, and terribly expensive.
More expensive to fix.
What year is your current car? Cars were damn near perfected in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was hard to find fault with most of them. Now, the opposite is true.
2016 model year.
Then largely depends on what it is. If it’s a Ram pickup, there’s a good chance it’s not the bulb anyways and is the circuit board in the lamp assembly.
It’s a C-Max, one of the least popular cars Ford sold in recent times. Only 900 the whole month I bought mine.
It’s a fucked-up Focus under the skin.
Aren’t they all hybrid or full EV?
Mine is a Hybrid. They did sell an EV model, but there’s no way that would have driven across the country.
Well, you’re at 10 years, unless the battery pack has already been replaced, it’s due any minute and I’d have to say, I would recommend selling now while it’s running.
I should get a hidden tiger for my front porch.
January 8 in Iowa. We have a thunderstorm going on.
It’s better than snow.
Lots of wind here. And it was 80 degrees until the sun went down.
We’ve had several days straight over freezing which is refreshing.
Are there tits?
Not yet?
Not this week.
AI-Lobster Girl’s turn-and-smirk is far too enticing. And worrisome. I’ll poach her again, just to confirm my suspicions.
This video has a great creepy robot voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO5EkU0Qk9A
Derpy! How have you been?
Oh, getting by. I dragged my feet on switching my license to Tennessee, so now I have to pay a fine and jump through hoops to get it reinstated. How I hate bureaucracy. On the other hand, my car insurance is a lot cheaper now. Florida is crazy. I’ve been enjoying the cooler weather here. I was told a slot at the welding school should open up in February, so I’m just passing the time now.
In a way, my life is a shambles because I’ve been out work so long. On the other hand, I don’t like working much anyway. It’s a good thing I’ve been so frugal.
My anthem continues to be The Big Rock Candy Mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
I applied to the Ukrainian International Legion again, but they haven’t responded. Last I read, all the legion units have been disbanded, and the remaining foreign fighters have been folded into assault brigades. Have fun storming the castle, I guess.
join the legion here
https://ildu.mil.gov.ua/
I will respectfully decline to join the legion.
I too, grow weary of work.
Here is another excellent version of Big Rock Candy Mountain.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlXjShG4XQ
Also I really don’t think joining the legion is a good idea. Stay here and continue your adventures.
Joining the Ukrainian legion is a good idea if you want to catch a drone or lose your feet.
It puzzles me that the US has sent billions to Ukraine while at the same warning Americans not to join the fight. A few hundred Americans have gone and about 50 have been killed there. That implies a high casualty rate.
Meh, my own sister chided me for not going. Scroll down to see.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/08/more-weird-glitches.html
Just for fun, check out my giant disc golf friends,
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20260104_132942-scaled.jpg
Short People got no…
Still though, Bobbo, you’re a giant among men.
A truly humbling statement Sir, I thank you,
5’10”
WTF indeed.
I’ve had a hell of a go the last two weeks.
Air compressor in the worktruck took a crap on the job, the job was only 75 miles from home. I finished the main part and sunset it was during the week I took the spare worktruck back to the job two days later. It was 6-8” deep mud and I forgot to take spare socks. Whatever. I knew what part it was so I had my wife order three of them so I could fix it and throw a spare in the back of the truck.
It was furring the week so I had plenty of time rather than my two day crunch. A breakdown was not cool but a good time for it to happen.
Got home, took a day off waited for parts went to another rare fitting the week job even closer to home. Only 14 miles! Took the spare worktruck to blow the cobwebs out and make a list of all the stuff I hadent stocked in it over the years. It turned out to be pretty bare. About a quarter of the way through the job it took a crap. I spent several hours diagnosing and jumping around what I thought was the issue to no avail. Tore down and went home.
There’s a Monty Python skit for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YpBo9WuKRE
I’m in the 20th percentile for male height. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reminds me of this
https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/arnold-schwarzenegger-between-andre-the-giant-and-wilt-nachrichtenfoto/1222015017
Not shown, Wilt “The Stilt”‘s 3rd leg.
I was expecting people with oversized discs, like serving platters.
Nah thats Ultimate frisbee golf its like rugby in the air, fuck that
Meh, it’s not your fault they pulled it. I was watching the series Get Shorty on Amazon in December when all of a sudden, they pulled it at the last 2 episodes. So then I was able to go to Tubi to finish it and now, a week later, it’s back on Amazon.
Ugh in what few years I have left I’m content to just watch old shit over and over that I already own or which is easily available rather than play the dance of where-is-it-now with any new material.
Hell, the backlog of stuff I need to catch up on is enough to keep me busy for years.
Get Shorty was a surprisely good series. My only complaint was it was too short (only 27 episodes total, no pun intended, I swear).
Based on the movie with the same name?
I believe it was canceled after it had gone on hiatus for covid bullshit reasons. They just didn’t bring it back.
Based on the book the movie was based on. Starring Chris O’Dowd.
Just read an X-Men story from the 70s where Magneto figured out how to control people with the iron in their blood. I wonder if the authors watched this film.
Perhaps you’d enjoy these comic book parodies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKpjjL8fP4
There was a nu-Who story with the same theme. Nothing nu under the sun, I guess.
(Watching a Hartnell episode right now – some ridiculousness with Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and everything else including the kitchen sink thrown in)
I remember that particular comicbook series!
Read this, watch the video, tell a friend,
Free Iran!
https://evebarlow.substack.com/p/the-invisible-revolution
I want to see some ayatollahs and mullahs swinging gently from trees and lampposts.
Brought the normal worktruck back to the job. Thought Injad the compressor fixed.
Nope. Still bad. Worked enough to get my cracks air arced out, started to weld up the cracks, peened one about halfway. Compressor fully took a crap. Figured it was a bad head. Isolated one head, wouldn’t fill the tank on that head. Went to the other head. That one was bad too. Had my wife come get me, after she’d already brought me spare parts and my leathers in two seperate trips.
Here it’s eleven and I’m at home getting the spare truck with a bad pendant but good air compressor. I can weld and use the compressor with one truck and run an extention cord to the other truck to run the rotation motor.
What a mess.
I have three hours more crack repair to do then switch back to welding with the regular truck.
I’m so thankful that all of these failures are near home and not in southern Idaho or in Wyoming where the next big job is going to be.
I’ll get it all sorted and forget about it.
Look at Hunter Biden here!
I do it by the pound man.
https://youtu.be/hQmIyqdea6g
https://youtu.be/Aq6KNRyvm-Y?si
https://youtu.be/vsTfaAShh2Q
https://youtu.be/t9aDnTQPLAo
https://youtu.be/ErGjJ-SjBQ4
https://youtu.be/HGmTVMZR0hE
Mornin’, glibbies. Took yesterday off, so first workday since Mon, which seems eons ago. Oooh, 61 out in mid Jan? Me likey, even w lite rain.
I actually have some pep in step. Had the first solid voca rehab lead and may get an eager meet ‘n greet soon with ’em. For now, I’ll plug along with my positive chemical IV, which is stand-alone today. (Weed vape, besides.) Should get to chat with Minne. Munchkin later, relatively safe from derp in Sauk Centre.
Speaking of Derp, good to see ya, bud. (He and I have oddly symbiotic or coinciding character arcs, it seems.) Have a solid day. Hope I get a good look at Luna on my commute, that soothing bitch, in the best way possible.
Kick ass, all of ya. Onward and up.
Clocked in. Let’s rock, honey bunches of oatmeal.
Press release disguised as “news”
Happy Friday Glibberati!
🌦️🍳☕️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTbwC2B9dY
🎶🎶
Morning, Sean.
*waves*
Sine waves, or Katrina waves?
gnarly waves
Good morning, Sean, U, Ted’S., and EfE!
Morning, GT
Hey there, U. How are you today?
Shoulder hurts. Car was frosted up, slowing down my start on the day. Traffic was slow, so I’ve got less slack time to enjoy my breakfast before the workday. I scheduled an appointment to get the dead bulb changed on my car because getting the darn thing out is an adventure.
My right hand was numb from my bum right shoulder blade (old mime injury) pinching a nerve, as it sometimes does. Getting up to go get my coffee (and adulterate it with sweetener and half-and-half) helped some. I had to scrape frost off my car windows yesterday, but today it’s 61 degrees and raining.
Good luck with the turn signal bulb. Maybe they can plug the car into some diagnostic machine and make sure it’s not an underlying electrical issue killing your bulbs? 🤷♀️
I had a few jokes and couldn’t decide whether I wanted to go with “You shouldn’t be fighting old mimes” or “Maybe some invisible ice would help”.
I’d get some invisible ice but I’m stuck in this invisible box.
😱
“Belgian court jails wife who boiled, starved, and caged her husband with their 60 chihuahuas”
https://rmx.news/article/in-the-doghouse-belgian-court-jails-wife-who-boiled-starved-and-caged-her-husband-with-their-60-chihuahuas-rejecting-excuse-of-menopause-and-stress/
Sounds like she was quite a catch although the 60 chihuahuas should’ve been a giveaway.
So a husband boiler, not a bunny boiler?
Left out of the story: how’d a healthy man allow himself to get locked in a kennel and periodically brutalized by his wife? Seems like an issue that would be corrected pretty quick.
He was into petplay?
Four more hours and I can sleep.
Heading to Brooklyn?
I’m in The back of the van(box)
I hope you get away from OMWC!
Was I not supposed to get in the white van?
The van stops at STEVE SMITH’s place.
There’s nothing quite like having a new shiny car with a full warranty.
That being said, there’s little on the market that would excite me or motivate me to take delivery of what would be my 10th new car.
Now that I’ve moved into a mode of keeping them, I’ve been obsessed with exterior care products. Kinda wish I would have done ppf on the GTI.
I keep looking at the Maverick. It’d be my first truck, and a compromise between the cars I’m accustomed to and a full-sized truck.
I do find the Mazda CX-50 Meridian with that gorgeous terracotta interior intriguing.
I don’t know anything about the Maverick. I have heard that Ford no longer gives loaner cars for service though. I don’t know if that’s a local thing or nationwide. That would be a deal breaker for me.
That’s got to be local. I got a loaner in December when they had to wait for parts for my C-Max.
My mind boggled at the notion, but this was straight from my GF’s interaction with the dealership.
Is it a corporate owned location, or a franchise?
Franchise, AFAIK.
A coworker of mine has a Maverick and raves about it. Great for what it is, and a not insane pricetag.
Fords interior is superior to that of the Chevy stuff.
If I was going to get a trucklet I would probably go with the little Honda thing.
Break #1. Up there in ongoing ‘Quickest 2.5hrs at Work’ contest.
Looks like more FAFO in Portland. The instillation of fear and LARPy fantasies is showing the power of the long game. Sigh.
CNN is panicking but pleased with Trump losing power.
Ev oversees CCs overseas. More confidence needed and being found in different ways. Will continue. Break over. Here we go.
Nice take down.
perp needs a better belt.