Showing posts with label Orlando. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orlando. Show all posts

Monday, July 22, 2024

"Jaws 3-D" released 1983



Another bad movie that I enjoy watching Jaws 3-D was released into theaters July 22, 1983.  It had a stellar cast with Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Lea Thompson, and Louis Gossett, Jr.  Roy Scheider absolutely wanted no part of this movie. Quaid plays the grown up son Michael Brody of Scheider's previous role of Police Chief Martin Brody of Amity Island.

Jaws 3-D takes place in SeaWorld Orlando, where a young great white shark manages to enter from the sea and begins attacking and killing park employees. Mike Brody is a chief engineer for SeaWorld with his girl friend Kay Morgan as the senior biologist.  After they capture the shark, they realize that a much larger shark has also infiltrated the park.

Although it fared well at the box office, it did not enjoy the same success as its predecessors.  It was largely criticized, receiving an 11% rating from Rotten Tomatoes.  Jaws 3-D was nominated for five Razzie awards in 1984: Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Supporting Actor Louis Gossett, Jr.  The dolphins were also nominated for Worst New Star which is unfair, considering the material they had to work with.  Also, who said their acting was terrible?




Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Celebrating Pride Month - Stonewall National Monument, first designated LGBT historic site 2016



June 23, 2015, the Stonewall Inn became a New York City Landmark, making it the city's first landmark to commemorate LGBT rights.

On June 24, 2016, President Barack Obama officially dedicated the Stonewall National Monument, the first U.S. national monument for LGBT history.  The dedication came just two weeks after the Orlando nightclub shooting, which took the lives of 49 people.

In October 2017, a rainbow LGBT flag was raised on the monument.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_National_Monument

https://web.archive.org/web/20160818142844/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150623/civic-center/stonewall-inn-is-officially-nyc-landmark-unprecedented-move

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Celebrating Pride Month - Remembering the victims of the Pulse Nightclub massacre


June 12, 2016, a security guard who had pledged allegiance to ISIL walked into the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida and killed 49 people with a semi-automatic rifle.  Fifty-three more were injured.  The club was hosting a Latino night so most of the victims were Latin.  It is the worst attack against the LGBT in history.  It was the deadliest mass shooting until the massacre in Las Vegas the following year. 

So many young beautiful lives cut short by hate.

You can find a list of the victims here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting