Cinemascope
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I have the laserdisc set with the Crawford-Gable movies... wish those were all on DVD.
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Awwww... Catherine O'Hara was so good in For Your Consideration, which just came out on DVD!
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Maybe the first set was kind of a trial balloon... and yeah, RO should definitely record some nice new intros!!!
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Uh... I haven't watched the TV shows in ages, I should check them out again!
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I generally like just about all musicals!
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That was a good number! I also liked the one where she teaches French to Peter Lawford!
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Yes I did TiVo it. B-)
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I did not use quote marks, ditto marks, parentheses, or any other diacritical marks to emphasize the word idols. I simply said 'your idols, the critics'. There was no sarcasm there at all. You seem to idolize critics and feel that their opinion should never be criticized or challenged, and you cannot understand how people can disagree with them.
I do not idolize anything or anybody on the face of the Earth. It is absolutely false that I do not think anyone's opinion shouldn't be criticized or challenged. And no, as a matter of fact, I am the first one who very frequently disagrees with critics.
Stop making stuff up, it's not even funny anymore.
I honestly don't know anymore if you're intentionally misrepresenting what I've said, or if you actually understand everything backwards, everything you said in the paragraph I just quoted is just the complete opposite of the truth.
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Well that just brings me back to my earlier point. Once a studio doesn't have to order up a huge run of DVDs of a particular title (with the accompanying marketing costs) it might be a lot easier for them to offer a lot more stuff... They could just allow you full access to all the titles in their libraries... and let you know what's the most recent video transfer and how good it may be.
Then you could decide whether you want to watch a less than ideal copy or wait maybe months or years until it is re-mastered or restored.
In such a scenario, you'd be able to connect directly via broadband or whatever with the video library for WHV or whichever video company that owned the rights, and download it directly to your hard drive (PC or DVR) and then choose whether you wanted multiple viewings, or a single viewing (which today is kind of the difference between renting it and buying it).
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Well, it's always possible that imdb.com might contain inaccurate information.
The DVD of the movie sold by Sony UK is actually listed at 112 minutes
But at any rate since we know with certainty that this shot was blacked out because Claudia didn't want to appear topless, then I don't think any discrepancy in the running time might have anything to do with nude shots or anything like that.
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Just wish they could come up with some extra features. Many people were disappointed with the first volume of the DVD set because it didn't have any extras.
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Well, if TCM hasn't shown the movie the it is probably because they haven't been able to get the rights to it. Whether or not MPI thinks it would benefit, or whether they tried to strike a deal and couldn't come up with an arrangement that was mutually satisfactory, is something that we really don't know.
VHS and laserdiscs are far from being a "non-issue", many people continue to collect, sell, buy, and trade those movies that have not yet been released on DVD.
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My favorites would be Jean Arthur and Myrna Loy. :x
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I wish they'd release Love on the Run and Strange Cargo, too!
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Danny,
I forgot to thank you for posting all the smilies!
Thanks a lot you're awesome! :x
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I'm not sure why you think that "extra packaging" confers legitimacy. I can buy an album on the iTunes store and from the point of view of money going to the artist, I don't think it makes any difference.
And all that extra packaging is ultimately bad for the environment, it's much more environmentally conscious to avoid packaging as much as possible.
And so the same thing would be true of movies sold and stored in some way other than a DVD... just like I can have an iPod that's full of music and not have to worry about CDs.
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Annie, in all honesty, I do not insist that you agree with me, and I certainly don't have any idols. I take it that you use the word "idols" in a sarcastic way, and that right there is part of the reason why you always seem to be at my throat. Stop the sarcasm and the condescending treatment and you'd find I'm really not at all like you seem to think.
Your reaction to the review was quite negative, I think, even though it had no reason to be... to me it seemed like a fairly enthusiastic review, if you find it is otherwise then we can just agree to disagree. And yes, the characters in the movie are tired stereotypes, many Asian-Americans have already said so and the musical was even re-written completely for the stage to address some of this... just do a search for "Flower Drum Song" and "asian stereotypes" and you can find a lot of information about it.
As to your other point, about foreign movies and American movies, you are entitled to your opinion but you can't reasonably expect people are going to plunk down their hard-earned money to watch crappy American movies when they might find something much more interesting at the local arthouse that happens to be from Mexico, England, or Taiwan. It's their money, and they should have every right to watch a foreign-language movie instead of a Hollywood turkey if that's what they want to do.
I don't think you can be taken seriously in your appreciation for the arts if you put protectionism and trade barriers above artistic merit.
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Yeah I think it was still rare for big stars to make cameos like that in movies, although that would change by the mid-50's with Around the World in 80 Days.
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MGM heaven is where it's at -- and we're getting a lil' bitty taste of it in March with Gene Kelly as SOTM!
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Well yeah but in the meantime we can just record them off TCM... if and when they release a double set or something it'll be worth checking out!
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It's a good set, but the colors in All the Gang's Here are pretty disappointing for a Technicolor movie.
I turned the color all the way up and it still didn't look quite natural. Reds were too strong and yellows very pale. All the color schemes seemed out of whack -- very different from usual Technicolor movies. (I watched it right after Coney Island, another Technicolor musical from Fox from 1943).
Ironically there is a Busby Berkeley documentary in that same DVD which shows a few clips of the movie, in FULL Technicolor glory -- and those clips look 100 times better than the movie itself.
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Did you take out Carmen Miranda and "Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat"?
I just watched The Gang's All Here jus the other night, isn't that the one with all the dancers and the giant bananas? Is chorus choreography not enough to qualify as a "dance number"?
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IIRC, Kino Video issued a restored version of the movie that was the full length on VHS and laserdisc, but hasn't re-issued it on DVD.
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And what does Paramount have to do with it??
Paramount released the movie theatrically back in '64 but doesn't own the rights anymore. That's why the DVD (like the VHS and laserdisc before it) is being released by MPI Home Video.
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