Re: [Cal_Boats] "Captain Phillips"

I saw the movie,,, good flick! I wouldn't mind seeing again. Jim Sent from Huawei Mobile Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: >OK, this movie has nothing to do with our Cals nor with sailing but it >is set on the water in boats. It's a movie version of the capture and >rescue of a container vessel's captain after he was kidnapped by Somali >pirates. It's a well-told tale, a couple hours of tension that ends >well, of course (Capt. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, and he does it >well, so you know he's coming home). Our Navy looks good in the film. >It's worth seeing on the big screen in a dark theater. > >Chris Campbell

It's just that a theater ticket is just too darn much these days. Wife and I stopped going to the theater three years ago. Actors are great to watch, but is their salary really worth millions? And you wait a few months and you can see the movie via Redbox for $1.25. I'm getting cheap in my old age I guess. But I remember .99 movie nights when in my 20's. And that was the 80's! On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Kool Beans <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I saw the movie,,, good flick! I wouldn't mind seeing again. > > Jim > Sent from Huawei Mobile > > > Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: > > >OK, this movie has nothing to do with our Cals nor with sailing but it > >is set on the water in boats. It's a movie version of the capture and > >rescue of a container vessel's captain after he was kidnapped by Somali > >pirates. It's a well-told tale, a couple hours of tension that ends > >well, of course (Capt. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, and he does it > >well, so you know he's coming home). Our Navy looks good in the film. > >It's worth seeing on the big screen in a dark theater. > > > >Chris Campbell > > >

Interesting thing is that as movie and sports events get more and more expensive to produce, the ticket prices go up to the point where it is a hardship to see things. I paid $400 for the two of us to see a show in Las Vegas. WTF! I couldn't believe I was doing it. But when things get really expensive, like the Americas' Cup, it is free. (sailing content). Allen On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Leslie Newman <d2… [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > > It's just that a theater ticket is just too darn much these days. Wife and > I stopped going to the theater three years ago. Actors are great to watch, > but is their salary really worth millions? And you wait a few months and > you can see the movie via Redbox for $1.25. I'm getting cheap in my old age > I guess. But I remember .99 movie nights when in my 20's. And that was the > 80's! > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Kool Beans <ne… [at] hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> I saw the movie,,, good flick! I wouldn't mind seeing again. >> >> Jim >> Sent from Huawei Mobile >> >> >> Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: >> >> >OK, this movie has nothing to do with our Cals nor with sailing but it >> >is set on the water in boats. It's a movie version of the capture and >> >rescue of a container vessel's captain after he was kidnapped by Somali >> >pirates. It's a well-told tale, a couple hours of tension that ends >> >well, of course (Capt. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, and he does it >> >well, so you know he's coming home). Our Navy looks good in the film. >> >It's worth seeing on the big screen in a dark theater. >> > >> >Chris Campbell >> >> > >

Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see how much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. ft. mansion at the moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond comprehension. My original contract on the project was $270,000.00 and through constant & considerable changes it is now over $625,000.00. He & his wife have designers globe trotting looking for amazing "things", which when something is found, an already completed room will be ripped out and redesigned for the new what-ever. There are specially designed rooms for his considerable movie memorabilia and sports collections, complete with museum quality interactive information systems. Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I am spending knowing what I see. On the positive side, lots of money gets dumped into the local economy keeping plenty of people employed including me and my employees. Sailing Content; I am still trying to find out if this guy owns a sailboat. Dan In a message dated 11/3/2013 7:11:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, al… [at] gmail.com writes: Interesting thing is that as movie and sports events get more and more expensive to produce, the ticket prices go up to the point where it is a hardship to see things. I paid $400 for the two of us to see a show in Las Vegas. WTF! I couldn't believe I was doing it. But when things get really expensive, like the Americas' Cup, it is free. (sailing content). Allen On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Leslie Newman <_d… [at] gmail.com_ (mailto:d2… [at] gmail.com) > wrote: It's just that a theater ticket is just too darn much these days. Wife and I stopped going to the theater three years ago. Actors are great to watch, but is their salary really worth millions? And you wait a few months and you can see the movie via Redbox for $1.25. I'm getting cheap in my old age I guess. But I remember .99 movie nights when in my 20's. And that was the 80's! On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Kool Beans <_n… [at] hotmail.com_ (mailto:ne… [at] hotmail.com) > wrote: I saw the movie,,, good flick! I wouldn't mind seeing again. Jim Sent from Huawei Mobile Chris Campbell <_c… [at] lsnm.org_ (mailto:cc… [at] lsnm.org) > wrote: >OK, this movie has nothing to do with our Cals nor with sailing but it >is set on the water in boats. It's a movie version of the capture and >rescue of a container vessel's captain after he was kidnapped by Somali >pirates. It's a well-told tale, a couple hours of tension that ends >well, of course (Capt. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, and he does it >well, so you know he's coming home). Our Navy looks good in the film. >It's worth seeing on the big screen in a dark theater. > >Chris Campbell

Chris, how do the Pirates come off? Aaarrgghhh! Jerry PS: The last thing our media will bring up is how these substance fisherman are facing ruin because far ranging fleets of foreign factory ship trawlers and long liners are decimating fish stocks all over the globe by over fishing, and obliterating the sea floor ecology. I've been following this story on BBC Science and other news sources. It's the really scary part of the story. Sad that yachtsmen and women, and seafarers are caught in the middle of this tragedy. We had 4 round the world cruisers, a couple who owned the boat, and two guests, members of a local yacht club here (Del Rey Yacht Club), people whose acquaintance I probably made in years past, who were murdered by the pirates when the Navy's rescue attempt went awry. On Sunday, November 3, 2013 12:38 PM, "ai… [at] aol.com" <ai… [at] aol.com> wrote: >Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see how much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. ft. mansion at the moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond comprehension. My original contract on the project was $270,000.00 and through constant & considerable changes it is now over $625,000.00. He & his wife have designers globe trotting looking for amazing "things", which when something is found, an already completed room will be ripped out and redesigned for the new what-ever. There are specially designed rooms for his considerable movie memorabilia and sports collections, complete with museum quality interactive information systems. >Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I am spending knowing what I see. >On the positive side, lots of money gets dumped into the local economy keeping plenty of people employed including me and my employees. >Sailing Content; I am still trying to find out if this guy owns a sailboat. >Dan > >In a message dated 11/3/2013 7:11:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, al… [at] gmail.com writes: > >>Interesting thing is that as movie and sports events get more and more expensive to produce, the ticket prices go up to the point where it is a hardship to see things. I paid $400 for the two of us to see a show in Las Vegas. WTF! I couldn't believe I was doing it. But when things get really expensive, like the Americas' Cup, it is free. (sailing content). >> >> >>Allen >> >> >> >>On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Leslie Newman <d2… [at] gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> >>>It's just that a theater ticket is just too darn much these days. Wife and I stopped going to the theater three years ago. Actors are great to watch, but is their salary really worth millions? And you wait a few months and you can see the movie via Redbox for $1.25. I'm getting cheap in my old age I guess. But I remember .99 movie nights when in my 20's. And that was the 80's! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Kool Beans <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>I saw the movie,,, good flick! I wouldn't mind seeing again. >>>> >>>>Jim >>>>Sent from Huawei Mobile >>>> >>>> >>>>Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>>OK, this movie has nothing to do with our Cals nor with sailing but it >>>>>is set on the water in boats. It's a movie version of the capture and >>>>>rescue of a container vessel's captain after he was kidnapped by Somali >>>>>pirates. It's a well-told tale, a couple hours of tension that ends >>>>>well, of course (Capt. Phillips is played by Tom Hanks, and he does it >>>>>well, so you know he's coming home). Our Navy looks good in the film. >>>>>It's worth seeing on the big screen in a dark theater. >>>>> >>>>>Chris Campbell >>>> >>> >> > > >

On 11/3/2013 6:25 AM, Leslie Newman wrote: > > > It's just that a theater ticket is just too darn much these days. Wife > and I stopped going to the theater three years ago. Actors are great > to watch, but is their salary really worth millions? And you wait a > few months and you can see the movie via Redbox for $1.25. I'm getting > cheap in my old age I guess. But I remember .99 movie nights when in > my 20's. And that was the 80's! I like seeing movies on a big screen in a dark room with a good sound system. It's a minor indulgence. I don't have a TV anyway, so that's not an option. Chris Campbell > >

On 11/4/2013 1:09 AM, Gerald Sobel wrote: > > > Chris, how do the Pirates come off? > Aaarrgghhh! > Jerry > PS: The last thing our media will bring up is how these substance > fisherman are facing ruin because far ranging fleets of foreign > factory ship trawlers and long liners are decimating fish stocks all > over the globe by over fishing, and obliterating the sea floor ecology. It's actually mentioned by one of the pirates in the movie. But the focus of the movie is on the rescue, not on international politics and economics. The overfishing story would be something that might appear in our local foreign-film series that shows movies--almost always extraordinarily interesting ones--that don't gain commercial distribution in the U.S. If you want to see a superb film on power and politics, rent /Nostalgia for the Light/, a film about astronomers and relatives of people who disappeared, set in Chile's Atacama Desert. It's breathtaking. Or try /The Lives of Others/, exploring the East German Stasi (secret police) in pre-unification Germany. Chris Campbell

On 11/3/2013 3:38 PM, ai… [at] aol.com wrote: > > > Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, > directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see > how much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. > ft. mansion at the moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond > comprehension. My original contract on the project was $270,000.00 and > through constant & considerable changes it is now over $625,000.00. He > & his wife have designers globe trotting looking for amazing "things", > which when something is found, an already completed room will be > ripped out and redesigned for the new what-ever. There are specially > designed rooms for his considerable movie memorabilia and sports > collections, complete with museum quality interactive information systems. > Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I > am spending knowing what I see. I'm not going to skip seeing impressive movies just because the producers make too much. They are simply another aspect of the wealth and income distribution skewing that is going on in our country and that we ought all to be worried about (all of us who make less than a few million bucks a year, at any rate). We should be worried because our big interest, sailing, is something that really became generally available in the second half of the 20th century when our country developed a thriving middle class. Previously, sailing was the activity of the wealthy. Boats were expensive to buy and to maintain. Then we developed a postwar thriving economy that supported production fiberglass boatbuilding, and pretty soon lots of people could afford a sailboat. We've got a top executive class now that is convinced that they are such special people that they are worth compensation in the double-digit millions per year. Me, I find it odd that these guys are so difficult to motivate that they won't perform unless we pay them outrageous amounts. It's always worth turning to the total-compensation tables of your corporate annual reports. I'm appalled. Some of those guys make as much in an hour as I make in a year. Chris Campbell

Chris, I like the way you put sailing content in your post. Nice job. Allen On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: > > > On 11/3/2013 3:38 PM, ai… [at] aol.com wrote: > > Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, > directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see how > much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. ft. mansion at the > moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond comprehension. My original > contract on the project was $270,000.00 and through constant & considerable > changes it is now over $625,000.00. He & his wife have designers globe > trotting looking for amazing "things", which when something is found, an > already completed room will be ripped out and redesigned for the new > what-ever. There are specially designed rooms for his considerable movie > memorabilia and sports collections, complete with museum quality > interactive information systems. > Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I am > spending knowing what I see. > > > I'm not going to skip seeing impressive movies just because the producers > make too much. They are simply another aspect of the wealth and income > distribution skewing that is going on in our country and that we ought all > to be worried about (all of us who make less than a few million bucks a > year, at any rate). We should be worried because our big interest, > sailing, is something that really became generally available in the second > half of the 20th century when our country developed a thriving middle > class. Previously, sailing was the activity of the wealthy. Boats were > expensive to buy and to maintain. Then we developed a postwar thriving > economy that supported production fiberglass boatbuilding, and pretty soon > lots of people could afford a sailboat. > > We've got a top executive class now that is convinced that they are such > special people that they are worth compensation in the double-digit > millions per year. Me, I find it odd that these guys are so difficult to > motivate that they won't perform unless we pay them outrageous amounts. > It's always worth turning to the total-compensation tables of your > corporate annual reports. I'm appalled. Some of those guys make as much > in an hour as I make in a year. > > Chris Campbell > > >

Hi Everyone! I agree that the prices are way to high to see a movie. Takes away the boating bucks. When I go out, I'm not afraid to ask for a "senior" discount. That way, I put the difference into boating bucks that would be useful for cruising or possible upgrades. At least I get the discounts in my area, I don't know about the rest of the neighborhood! If your young looking,,, try adding a little gray to your hair! Just a thought...... By the way,,,, the movie was very good........ Jim Ives - Kool Beans Rochester, NY To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com From: al… [at] gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:05 -0800 Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] "Captain Phillips" Chris, I like the way you put sailing content in your post. Nice job. Allen On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: On 11/3/2013 3:38 PM, ai… [at] aol.com wrote: Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see how much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. ft. mansion at the moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond comprehension. My original contract on the project was $270,000.00 and through constant & considerable changes it is now over $625,000.00. He & his wife have designers globe trotting looking for amazing "things", which when something is found, an already completed room will be ripped out and redesigned for the new what-ever. There are specially designed rooms for his considerable movie memorabilia and sports collections, complete with museum quality interactive information systems. Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I am spending knowing what I see. I'm not going to skip seeing impressive movies just because the producers make too much. They are simply another aspect of the wealth and income distribution skewing that is going on in our country and that we ought all to be worried about (all of us who make less than a few million bucks a year, at any rate). We should be worried because our big interest, sailing, is something that really became generally available in the second half of the 20th century when our country developed a thriving middle class. Previously, sailing was the activity of the wealthy. Boats were expensive to buy and to maintain. Then we developed a postwar thriving economy that supported production fiberglass boatbuilding, and pretty soon lots of people could afford a sailboat. We've got a top executive class now that is convinced that they are such special people that they are worth compensation in the double-digit millions per year. Me, I find it odd that these guys are so difficult to motivate that they won't perform unless we pay them outrageous amounts. It's always worth turning to the total-compensation tables of your corporate annual reports. I'm appalled. Some of those guys make as much in an hour as I make in a year. Chris Campbell

-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 11/11/13, Kool Beans <ne… [at] hotmail.com> wrote: Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] "Captain Phillips" To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, November 11, 2013, 1:15 PM Gee, now I don't feel so guilty about getting a senior discount for a burger at Carl's Jr. when I was a mere infant of 50, commuting up to Channel Islands to get Shpritz ship shape enuff to sail her to Marina del Rey. I'll be 67 in a few days and I can only remember my youthful 50'th year with fondness. You guys over 65 know what I mean. Jerry Chris, I'm working on a similar situation in the Hollywood Hills. She tore out and re-did the enlaid-tile landscape scene above her pool (with it's computer driven LED under water light display) Only this mad woman is a cheep skate who hates to pay me. Another contractor who is working on the hillside pool threw in the towel, he was making too much money with people in Malibu who were free spending enuff to make his efforts less painful. To me it is such a waste, when the Planet is in dire straits, to try to make yourself happy with bubbles and bobbles, and try to impress others who will think you are either foolish, or be made jealous, when people of means need to be striving tooth and nail to save our Goldilocks Space Home from conflagration; the mega-bomb that decimated Philippines is a case in point. I saw the aftermath of a similar storm in 1969, Hurricane Cecil, with recorded gusts hitting 225 MPH, according to Popular Science front page, published a year later. Homes reduced to kindling wood and debris filled basements, ships marooned on beaches, and reinforced concrete highway bridges either torn away or uprooted. Very sobering. Hi Everyone! I agree that the prices are way to high to see a movie. Takes away the boating bucks. When I go out, I'm not afraid to ask for a "senior" discount. That way, I put the difference into boating bucks that would be useful for cruising or possible upgrades. At least I get the discounts in my area, I don't know about the rest of the neighborhood! If your young looking,,, try adding a little gray to your hair! Just a thought...... By the way,,,, the movie was very good........ Jim Ives - Kool Beans Rochester, NY To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com From: al… [at] gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:33:05 -0800 Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] "Captain Phillips" Chris, I like the way you put sailing content in your post. Nice job. Allen On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: On 11/3/2013 3:38 PM, ai… [at] aol.com wrote: Not only are the actors making big salaries, so are the producers, directors, etc.. As a drywall & plaster contractor in So. Cal. I see how much money they are making. I am working on a 38,000 sq. ft. mansion at the moment for a producer who is wealthy beyond comprehension. My original contract on the project was $270,000.00 and through constant & considerable changes it is now over $625,000.00. He & his wife have designers globe trotting looking for amazing "things", which when something is found, an already completed room will be ripped out and redesigned for the new what-ever. There are specially designed rooms for his considerable movie memorabilia and sports collections, complete with museum quality interactive information systems. Every time I buy a movie ticket I find it hard to justify the money I am spending knowing what I see. I'm not going to skip seeing impressive movies just because the producers make too much. They are simply another aspect of the wealth and income distribution skewing that is going on in our country and that we ought all to be worried about (all of us who make less than a few million bucks a year, at any rate). We should be worried because our big interest, sailing, is something that really became generally available in the second half of the 20th century when our country developed a thriving middle class. Previously, sailing was the activity of the wealthy. Boats were expensive to buy and to maintain. Then we developed a postwar thriving economy that supported production fiberglass boatbuilding, and pretty soon lots of people could afford a sailboat. We've got a top executive class now that is convinced that they are such special people that they are worth compensation in the double-digit millions per year. Me, I find it odd that these guys are so difficult to motivate that they won't perform unless we pay them outrageous amounts. It's always worth turning to the total-compensation tables of your corporate annual reports. I'm appalled. Some of those guys make as much in an hour as I make in a year. Chris Campbell

On 11/11/2013 4:15 PM, Kool Beans wrote: > > > > > By the way,,,, the movie was very good........ My brother lives in Vermont. The captain and his wife are just ordinary local folks. The wife works in the hospital where my brother practices. So it's about an ordinary guy responding to extraordinary circumstances, my favorite kind of story. And that's why the final scenes are so moving. Chris Campbell

On 11/12/2013 12:53 AM, Gerald Sobel wrote: > > > Chris, I'm working on a similar situation in the Hollywood Hills. She tore out and re-did the enlaid-tile landscape scene above her pool (with it's computer driven LED under water light display) Only this mad woman is a cheep skate who hates to pay me. Another contractor who is working on the hillside pool threw in the towel, he was making too much money with people in Malibu who were free spending enuff to make his efforts less painful. > To me it is such a waste, when the Planet is in dire straits, to try to make yourself happy with bubbles and bobbles, and try to impress others who will think you are either foolish, or be made jealous, when people of means need to be striving tooth and nail to save our Goldilocks Space Home from conflagration; the mega-bomb that decimated Philippines is a case in point. I've been amused by the difference between "look at me" expenditures and ones made to enhance life. We all see the photos of the latest ultra-luxury mega-yacht owned by some gazillionaire. Whenever I see one, I think "paid crew" and "how much fun can that be?" Why own a boat if you can't use it yourself? I don't own a sailboat so I can be seen on it. I own it so I can sail. In the town where my other boat lives, the parents of a friend built a waterfront home years ago. They owned a classic powerboat and they had always lived on the water. They designed the home themselves (literally; my friend said his father was often at the drafting table late at night to have the next day's work drawn). It was designed to meet their needs. They wanted a place to entertain friends, which they often did, and a place where they could enjoy proximity to the water, which they had always done. The home is located in a portion of the shoreline occupied by what an old maintenance man called "the swanks"--the place where the fancy people lived. Now when I sail past that part of the shore, all the big "look at me" houses stand out like sore thumbs, big blots on the landscape. But you have to look for that family home, because it was designed to fit into its location as though it were part of the environment. Those parents lived the rest of their lives there, and the kids own it still (the 1954 wooden powerboat, too). It was not one of those extravagant toys that the owners become bored with after a year and sell so they can move on to some other stimulating expenditure. Those of us who enjoy sailing our boats are really lucky people indeed. We have something we enjoy doing and we do not need to orient our lives around buying things. Think about it. And then go pat your boat. Chris Campbell