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Hi friends, how are you? I am kind of a struggle bus over here. whats new am I right? The sickness I brought home as a souvenir from Mexico got really terrible and scary one night and I ended up in the ER. Good news-loaded me up on the good stuff and it should get better. with time. I have just had some really weird health symptoms since then and I am not sure if they are related or not but they are kind of freaking me out. UUUGGGHHH always something sick-ie going on I know-so annoying!
In other news BIG week for PIB!!
Movie Madness Update-We have our sweet 16 people!! I was sad to see a lot of them lose but still very optimistic about the ones we have left! Who do you think will take it all? a #1 seed or an upset?
PiB Pick a Flick! March is almost over so if you haven't yet-make sure you submit your March pick. On the pick a flick post, it also has a link to a google sheet where you can confirm that your submission was recorded!
Top 15 Leftovers Poll-The Poll this week is any movie from our top 15 requests that did not get drawn for the bracket. It ends Wednesday and its close so make sure to go VOTE!
We are going to be having our EXTRA BUTTER LIVE on the last day of the month 3/31 in true PiB fashion. The end always sneaks up on me, but I really do love our hangouts so I hope to see you there!
It is our kids spring break coming up-we are staying home which I am actually looking forward to. That garage isn't going to spring clean itself and hopefully we can find something new to us in our own city type thing to do! Are any of you spring breakers? Heading anywhere fun?
Ok I hope you all have a great week full of a comfy bed, a great show and a fav snack!
Love you bunches of honey oats
Cassie
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Camera Man in the short from Back to the Future 3 why steel there
I think a Richard Chamberlain poll is a good idea
Hope you are feeling better Cassie. The Searchers is a great choice
welll well looks like Army of Darkness is winning the polls so far.. If it wins, she 'll be like "No, it's not hallloween yet, I'll watch the Evil Dead 1-2 before this one cos it's Evil Dead 3 after all." It'll break her rule of "Only horror movies on halloween reactions"
She already broke that rule last year when she had the classic monster poll outside of October, which was mostly Universal horror films.
The Thomas Crown Aiffair. Old and new!
Health-wise, I am a strong believer that taking the time to sit down and eat a complete and healthy breakfast every morning is huge. Mine is usually a bowl or two of shredded wheat or original cheerios, milk, a gulp or two of grapefruit juice, a cup of green tea, a frozen blueberry, raspberry, blackberry smoothie with some plant-based protein powder (I like to blend up some kale or spinach and throw a few tablespoons of ground flaxseed in there, too). A cup of black coffee once I get to the office. That breakfast keeps me going all day with no urge to snack well into late afternoon! Not that anyone asked - I just hate to hear how often Cassie isn't feeling well. :( Feel better, Cassie.
Took me a long time to realize that eating something in the morning was a good idea. For too long I was all about not eating all day and binging hard at 6pm. My natural thing seems to be a binge and purge cycle in pretty much everything.
Cassie, I'm looking forward to Oppenheimer (2023). I've been suggesting that movie to you & Carly, ever since the both of you watched Barbie (2023).
Dear Cassie. I have been watching you for a long while now and greatly appreciate the love you have for story telling and your willingness to dive in and embrace what stories have to tell. I feel at this point that it would be a crime to move on from Gene Hackman without watching "The Quick and The Dead". For a man I hardly knew (having not grown up on his older films) this one always blew me away as he steals the show among so many other great actors and actresses. Just my gracious and humble request for you to watch. I do not think you would be disappointed. Thanks for listening!
I fully support Braden's gracious and humble request. Quick and the Dead is a great little western, with fine performances from Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Leonardio DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman, Gary Sinise, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. That is far too many of your favourite actors to pass up!
I forgot to mention this: My niece is in Oppenheimer. She plays his grown daughter at the end of the movie! Proud Uncle!
That's great!
Been a very, very busy day at work or I would have posted more. Oppenheimer: I loved it. Great work by Nolan, Murphy, Blunt, Damon and Downey Jr. One thing that helped me out is when the film is in color, it shows the point of view or Oppenheimer/Murphy. When the film is in black & white, it is the the viewpoint of Straus/Downey Jr. The Searchers: Finally. Thanks Cassie!!! You said you would watch it and you did. True to your word. Thanks !! Filmed in Alberta (you will know which part(s) and Monument Valley Arizona/Utah. Arguably one of the best Westerns ever or at the top of every list. Inspired so many directors ( Lean, Spielberg, Scorsese) Hope you all enjoy. I just spent the $$$ for a 4K DVD player and my movie I ordered was The Searchers and then Oppenheimer
You just pushed me over the edge. I gotta buy the 4K too. Saw some screenshots earlier and I’ve been holding out for a while, but now’s the time… I want it. The day has arrived. Enjoy Bill.
Mmmm Honey Bunches of Outs. I've been having that every day lately. So good. Glad that you're doing Oppenheimer! Hope you get a second wind and a lion's share of health and vitality and kick a-- immune system going...and also that you don't totally abandon Severance. It's getting really juicy/mind bendy again! Second season finale was amazing.
Monty Python’s Humor, John Wayne’s Americanness… and never the twain shall meet… Unless you put an Atomic Bomb between them. (Yep… that’s the only way it could work. Brilliant intuition Cassie. ;-) The Searchers (Finally indeed :-) & Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Only one other thing comes to mind that needs to be said now… That which we are about to receive, we thank thee, O Lord… and that goes double for you, Cassie. Thank You, Thank You. 🙏 😉
Yeah true that's an interesting contrast for the same week.
I hope you’re feeling better. Sometimes there are cycles with illness and they’re hard to break. I can’t give you any medical advice because that would be unethical however listen to your doctors. There is no such thing as too many questions about yourHealth. On a different topic I found this really good snack toasted coconut marshmallows when you’re feeling better you should give it a try. Fun to eat when you’re watching a movie.
Honorable ethics Doc Larry! And great advice about asking medical questions. Toasted coconut marshmallows complete a sage post. 👍
Hope you are feeling and getting better everyday🥰🙏 . Auburn Blazing Saddles coming in strong , I think you'd enjoy 9 to 5 more beecauuse well if you know you know 😂😂😂 and hope either the professional or the book of eli wins 2 great movies. also A Bronx tale Great movie and I would take either Pitch black or invasion of the body snatchers havent seen that in 35 years Freaky 😁 Love you hope you and Carly are with us for many more years.
Sad to hear that you're still feeling under the weather, Cassie. Whose Line is it Anyway can be a riot! I really like the old British version better than the new version, though. Ryan and Colin are comic geniuses.
My first thought was that weird Betty Boop short they always play at Halloween.
Hello Cassie, if you see this I wanted to let you know they just announced Patrick Stewart will be in the next avengers movie releasing next year And Ian Mackellan now. Possibly McAvoy and Fassbender as well And Alan cumming as nightcrawler, and the original mystique and now James Marsden as cyclops too, this entire cast needs to be brought up on the next popcorn to go episode haha
Hope Patrick and Ian live forever.
Can you keep the rankings next to the school names throughout the bracket?
good idea, ill try to add that
I have been wanting to watch The Searchers and thus glad will get a reaction. Hopefully, now the cries for a John Wayne western poll by some patrons (which I was agreeable to) will now be deflated. John Wayne movies that I remember watching: The Cowboys (1972) (watched multiple times as a kid), True Grit (1969), The Longest Day (1962) (don't remember a lot), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), and recently The Quiet Man (1952). She reacted to the John Wayne non-western The Quiet Man in which the John Wayne character (Sean) throws his wife across the room with implication in the movie that is acceptable behavior. Also, the Irish community in the movie found it acceptable behavior to beat your wife with a stick. "Here's a good stick, to beat the lovely lady." Sean: "Thanks"
Until I get Sons of Katie Elder, Clay, I shall not be silenced.
Oppenheimer is so well done and I can't wait to see the reactions. It's no INTERSTELLAR but I guess I'll stop beating that dead horse... for now...
Nolan just has a way with building this fantastic tension in all his movies. I love it.
BTW: looks like Utah St. isn’t going to bring it home this year. So my New Hope is Maryland and Tennessee. Mostly because Wind River and Pitch Black aren’t likely to win any polls here; and I think that they are both worthy of our time.
As a lifelong resident of Tennessee and fifty year fan of all things Vols, welcome aboard! Also, I’d love to see a reaction to “Pitch Black” and think this is likely to be the only opportunity to see one.
Take time for yourself Cassie and get checked out with your doc. Listen to your body. Take care!
Cassie - I do hope you get well soon! We're all here for you. If you need time off, please do take it! Utah is a bit of a drive and the chicken soup would be very cold, but we can always send cookies. 😁 Thank you for these—especially the long-awaited THE SEARCHERS (John Ford's Roman Catholic allegory of flaw human beings and the struggle of life transposed to a western) and OPPENHEIMER! As for our likely Leftovers winner, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a longtime fave. Pure parody at it's best, albeit from a circa mid-1970s British perspective (this movie would most likely never get made in the present UK, and if it were, it'd be banned/cancelled/burried by govt censors).
Cassie - when you watch MP and the Holy Grail - it is important that you pay attention to the opening credits.
The las thing Cassie needs to add to her list of injury and illness is a Moose bite. They can be very nasti.
OPPENHEIMER is a good film (possibly Nolan's best) and as it is looking like MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL is going to win the poll, that should be a fun reaction, but the real winner this week is the John Wayne / John Ford masterpiece THE SEARCHERS. This viewing is long overdue. :-)
Be curious how "The Searchers" hits with Cassie. Hope she gets to "Shane" one day, that's the GOAT in my book.
great week of movies. So glad you are doing The Searchers. Hopefully we haven't hyped it too much....lol.
Impossible! :-)
You know, I was never a big fan of Westerns, but I recently checked out "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and now, I want to see more, so I'm excited for "The Searchers."
I first saw “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” sitting alone at my great uncle’s kitchen table on a rabbit eared 16” tv when I was about ten years old. I had never particularly been a fan of westerns before that and I have no idea what drew me in to watch it in the first place. But once it started, I was completely enthralled. I’d never seen anything like it and loved it immediately. Watching TGTBATU made me a fan of westerns forever after. John Wayne, who I had previously ignored as an actor, suddenly became one of my favorites - even though the westerns he made could not have been more different than the spaghetti westerns I first came to love. And, of all the great John Wayne westerns, “The Searchers” is the best (and that’s a high bar). You’re in for a treat, Stephen.
This is gonna be a great reaction week. “The Searchers” has to be on every western fan’s top 10 list and “Oppenheimer” is a modern day classic. As for “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, it may be my favorite comedy of all time. Get well, Cassie, and we’ll see you at the movies soon!
I think a movie Cassie and Carly would love is A Long Hot Summer with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
We've been trying to get a Newman/McQueen poll going for a while, Geoff, so answer me this. If you had to choose one for Cassie out of Long Hot Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (both 1958).....?
Thank you Cassie for The Searchers. As a fan of John Wayne and the western genre itself, I can say that this is AFI #1 western of all time, but also Wayne's greatest performance, for which he should received a oscar.
I used to get sick all the time. I don't anymore as I avoid all human contact.
Humans are worst disease carriers on the planet.
That's it we are putting Cassie in a plastic bubble.
The Searchers had an amazing new 4K scan released in Dec. It's absolutely stunning and will blow you away.
Bought it a week or so ago and have not watched it on 4K yet. Will do so on Cassie's reaction Thanks
Get well soon 🤞🙏❤️
Hi Cassie, it sounds like you got some some super nasty bug there. You are once again ahead of me in the sickness record! I hope you feel better soon. What another amazing week of movies ahead. Oppenheimer, that’s a biggie to tick off your list. The searchers, massive nostalgia for me. It’s was always on at Xmas growing up in the 80s. I think it’s one of Wayne’s best. He has a more complex character than In other Wayne westerns. But I do think there are other Wayne westerns you would prefer like Rio Bravo. It’s looking like the holy grail will win. It’s typical British humour! Silly, bonkers and brilliant all at the same time. Thank you for just being you and everything PiB, it really makes a big difference to me. You are the best ❤️
I think Cassie will find Oppy mostly boring tbh. Without Costner, would she have enjoyed the JFK movie, I wonder.
I was in the audience of Whose Line Is It Anyways in 2 episodes filmed in 2014! I really do hope you're able to stop getting sick almost every month some time. I used to be like that, years ago. I know with kids in school I'm sure that's much harder said than done. When I do get sick, I still usually end up giving it to my mom since we live together.
You need to stop traveling so much. Every time you go some where you get sick. Just stay home. You can plant a vegetable garden and eat fresh healthy vegetables.
The Searchers! Wow, how'd that amazing film get selected! Hope you like it. It's got real depth. Oh, and stop getting sick. It's like my favorite neighbor getting ill. I'll clean out your garage. You take walks in the park and watch the flowers bloom.
Cassie, so happy to hear that you're on the mend let's hope the doctors and the good Lord and keep you in the great health! Though I never saw what's My line, I did see Cab Calloway's short film called "Minnie the Moocher" from 1934 where he sang Hidey Hidey Ho. I have to say I'm beyond excited to see that you're watching John Wayne's "The Searchers" , it could quite possibly be the Best Western ever. However I got to warn you in my family John Wayne movies are like potato chips you can't stop at just one!
I thought that was a Shirley Temple song?
Cassie, I’m really concerned about your super frail immune system. You wound up in the hospital?! I think it’s time for a complete overhaul. Maybe go seek out a good nutritionist to help you come up with a supplement plan. I was so excited and hopeful when March Movie Madness began, but my dreams were quickly squashed when Kansas/Awakenings, my pick to win it all, was eliminated in the first round (what?!?!). I’ve still got some other picks in the running, so all hope is not lost. My hopefuls for the Final Four now are Mississippi (Ole Miss)/Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Kentucky/A Bronx Tale, BYU (how excited are you!?!?)/King Kong, and Kentucky/Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Get ready for a weird and wild ride when you watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail! Just remember, it’s humor that is VERY absurd at times, but there are also hilarious moments. You should recognize John Cleese and Michael Palin from A Fish Called Wanda. Looking forward to the live on the 31st! Please take care of yourself!
I think Cassie needs a witch doctor
"The Searchers" - Now we are in classic westerns times ! The Eastwood and Spaghetti westerns are another era and of film making times !
Westerns filmed in Italy is such a strange concept to me still.
Sooo excited for Oppenheimer
So excited for Oppenheimer
Hope you rewatch Inception and Interstellar with Carly some day soon.
Really hope you feel better.
Oppenheimer is a great movie. But its one of the movies where I have to watch with subtitles because there is so much happening in the dialogue and my ADHD brain loses track of what is being said otherwise
This may be another one of those movies that, while good, don’t make for good reaction videos. I’ve watched a couple of other reactors do it and I was underwhelmed by the reaction. I guess we’ll see what the sisters can do with it.
I would have thought with all the different illnesses you’ve had, your immune system should be stronger that anyones lol. But really sorry to hear your still not feeling well and I hope for a speedy recovery. I have to admit not a fantastic week for me as regards to the movie choices. As I’m not really a fan of western’s, The only good thing in Oppenheimer was the cinematography. I thought it was too long as it just felt like it dragged in lots of places. I also thought the score was too loud as it drowned out the dialogue most of the time (might have just been the IMAX cinema I was in) so I found that to be quite annoying. There’s lots of other things too but they would be spoilers so I’ll just leave it at that. I’m also not a huge fan of Monty Python, I think they have done better thing when they split up. But I wouldn’t normally have a little moan as there’s been other weeks I’ve not been a fan of the picks and I understand that’s how it works out sometimes, but I still think you do a great job at picking various different films hence it’s why I still subscribe. But I was hoping for one or two good films as it’s my birthday on Saturday, so I feel it might be another good time to bring up my idea of an 80s Sci-Fi week. Just trying to guilt you into to doing it 😂😂.
Hope you have a great birthday, Dean! And I agree with your comments on Oppenheimer.
Hi Cassie, so sorry you've been sick. Glad you are feeling better.
Should Monty Python win The 15 poll, it may be needed to counter balance the other two movies, if you know what I mean! What if Children Of Men or Training Day had won? What a week then??
Cassie survived a week where No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were back to back. She's a tough little trooper.
Enjoy The Searchers (1956) Cassie, it's one of John Ford's most famous westerns. Trivia note: David Lynch's final acting role was as John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022). It's only one scene but you can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6spjF98No There is also a 3 minute interview with Spielberg talking about his real life meeting with John Ford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXFyiaRbQ3A
"Hi de hi de hi de ho" was part of a Cab Calloway song called "Minnie The Moocher" from 1931. It's most contemporary use was in "The Blues Brothers" where that same Cab Calloway stepped out of his movie character and performed it as himself - much to the real delight of all the musicians involved in the film. Now you will have seen John Wayne in a real western. I hope you get to see his grand entrance in "Stagecoach" from 1939 some day. John Ford who directed "The Searchers" also directed "Stagecoach" and several others featuring Wayne including "The Quiet Man" which you enjoyed. "Stagecoach" features some difficult stunts performed or choreographed by stuntman/actor Yakima Canutt including one somewhat re-enacted in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
That is a very good point. After Cassie has seen a genuine John Wayne Western, it will be time for Cassie to see John Wayne in a movie NOT directed by John Ford! Thanks!
Hi Cassie, Get well soon! Just asking but, are you planning to react to a new TV series soon? I remember when you asked us for TV show suggestions. Don't worry if you're not, it's your channel and I fully respect that. (There is a new Netflix drama series called Adolescence that is really getting a lot of acclaim)
Will you be reacting to season 2 of The Last of Us when it comes out in April? I know how much you liked the first season so I’d be curious if you are going to be reacting to it each week or waiting for the entire season to finish?
My guess is she will put out a reaction every two weeks (for 2 episodes) as the show progresses
As you all know, I rarely push for movies on here, but given Bill's success (not even on a poll, man! High five!), I need to start thinking of one to champion. Ooh. OOH!!
I’m against this.
HAHAHA!!!🤣🤣🤣 I love that show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?!" I laugh hysterically every time I watch it, Colin Mochrie is my favorite! Sorry to hear you're sick again Cass, that's even more scarier that you ended up in the ER [vitrual hug🤗] get well soon! I checked and my Pick-A-Flick submission is confirmed, fingers crossed🤞I'm not giving up my pick until it wins lol! I watched your YT edit of "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" sorry I missed the premiere lol! I left you a nice $5 Super Comment on it😁 And I've submitted my vote on your Top 15 Leftovers Poll and so far I like what's winning right now and I'm already foreshadowing your reaction to the movie and me LMHO (Laughing My Head Off)🤣 Despite some folks here saying that you might not like the movie that's winning the poll right now, I think you might, and can at least appreciate it, and might find some enjoyment in the movie! It was one of the suggestions I gave you if you ever decided to do a whole week of King Arthur movies like you did with Robin Hood a couple years back, that was fun lol! Finally getting back into John Wayne movies, nice👌 Honestly I've never seen "The Searchers", but I've heard of it and I know it's one of my father's favorite John Wayne films! My favorite of his movies is "Chisum" I highly recommend it and I know you'll enjoy it! Get well soon Cassie, love and support, you and Carly are the best, and God bless y'all and the family🥰😇🙏😁🤗😉👍✌🌹
The Searchers? What's that? I've never seen that written anywhere here or in the comments for the last 10 years. Oppenheimer is great!
Do you even read the comments!?! ;-)
Shenanigans! Shenanigans! I declare Shenanigans! Bill gets "his movie" watched without a crushing loss in a poll like Show Me Love (1998) or Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995). Why? Just because more than three people have seen it? Or is it something more sinister like ... Shenanigans!? (jk) Congratulations Bill.
Hmmmm, that means Horror of Dracula (58) should jump the line and be next - wayyyyyy more people have seen it than have seen Indictment: The McMartin Trial or Show Me Love.
I like Oppenheimer. The Searchers is on my watchlist. Will be interesting watching MP and the Holy Grail all the way through (I don't think I've ever fully watched it). Spent 8 days in Mexico City in 2022 and didn't get sick (e.g., traveler's diarrhea known as Montezuma's Revenge when visiting Mexico). But the 8 days I spent in India, got traveler's diarrhea (known as Delhi Belly when visiting India), and had taken all the precautions. Knocked me out for 48 hrs in India.
Holy Grail is a breeze as long as you remember that logic and reality are utterly meaningless concepts.
You know, you watching The Searchers, a movie that my long-lost cousin Bill Maurer has been asking about for a while now, is just encouragement for me to keep requesting Horror of Dracula, right?
Gonna throw my support over to you in your "Horror of Dracula" quest. Nice last name
Yikes……the souvenir from your Mexico vacation does not sound good at all. I hope that you start to feel better.
I’m never going to that gift shop!
It's happening !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raising a glass to you, Bill!
Oppenheimer with Carly is a mistake
They'll be bored stiff
Sounds like whatever bug you picked up in Mexico was no joke. Hope you get well soon.
Hopefully "Oppenheimer" is a matinee special for Carly... it's a long one (on the back of "JFK" as well). Otherwise, it may be another outro where there is a Carly-shaped hole in the door from the speedy exit. And, glad you are recovering... doesn't sound great that a trip to a hospital was required.
I do worry about you, Cassie. The aliens in War of the Worlds had a more robust immune system than you have. Are you licking the sink or being sneezed on by armless people with red noses? Are you not observing the 5 second rule when you drop food on the floor? I'm just trying to help, because you appear to be the poorliest human being since Doc Holliday and we don't want you turning up for reactions looking like the newscasters on Batman '89. That would make us sad.
5 second rule? I thought it was the 30 minute rule. Oh well, it’s been working for me so far.
Hope you will feel better Cassie.
Win some lose some Cassie. You lost sense and sensibility but won Shakespeare in love. It's funny to see godzilla vs kong is still on.
I know The Searchers isn’t everyone’s favourite Wayne western, but for me it’s his most interesting Character in a western. Not so perfect good guy. He has a edge to this character, a dark past is hinted at. I think there could be a argument for better Wayne movies, but not a more interesting a complex character.
Sons of Katie Elder is more fun, I think, but The Searchers is probably the most iconic.
Always looking for an excuse to watch The Searchers. AND I haven't seen Oppenheimer yet, so WIN WIN.
Wondering if I should give Oppenheimer another chance as I really didn't care for it when I watched it first time round, will give that Cold Mountain another rewatch though when it's up on YT
should be up tomorrow!
Update on my condo: I will officially close on Thursday!!! Home owner here I come! I also saw watching Michigan State win their second straight Big Ten hockey tournament in person over the weekend so here’s to another great season! Go Green! To top it all off: https://youtu.be/JY3Hwni12yM?si=J_nzQ-GSG3sja9Bm
Congratulations Anthony! Enjoy home ownership. 😊
Love the searchers
Someone is up late!
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The Searchers!! Bill is going to loose his mind! 😆
I'm lying down, but nearly dropped my phone when I saw the news
Finally no more requests for The Searchers! 😂
Just means I need to increase my requests for Horror of Dracula