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I don't know. I'm pretty sure El would've demanded that only fake karate could be used.

Don't you guys ever look at the schedule? Yes, 'Tentacles' played on Underground a few months back, but more importantly - it's scheduled on TCM Underground THIS Saturday night - 3 days from now. Enjoy!

I don't really see any of the three main Marx's as dim-witted in their characterizations. Not even Harpo. I see that they sometimes pretend it as a ploy. But they are pretty sneaky and know what's happening - which is not the case for their marks. However, the later pictures - after 'Day at the Races' - did begin to lose, progressively, more and more of this sense. It's the early movies that I see them as cunning and clever.

The last few times I've been to the theater to see a movie, I was with my kid. Everyone else in the theatre starts to move as soon as the credits begin to roll - all bunched up to each other making their way out of the rows and up the aisles. I just sit there like you, enjoying the closing music and reading some of the credits - in no hurry to jam myself into the slowly-moving crowd. But my daughter always moves to get up, and when I don't she'll look at me quizzically. Like she thinks I'm a weirdo or something. I tell her to relax, there's no hurry. But I can tell she feels strange just sitting still while everyone else is exiting and I usually give in before the credits are done and say "okay, let's go". When I watch a movie at home, I usually do as you - let the closing music play on to the very end and just lounge in the feeling of the entire movie.

I hope not. Speeding up closing credits and dropping out sound are all signs of a beginning disrespect for the product itself. That's not been TCM's m.o. in the past, so I'll just assume it has something to do with this special recent Oscar pics program and hope it's not a significant sign of anything to come.

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Clicked on the wrong post to respond to there, joe. I think it was Mr. Gorman's you intended to. It happens. Did it myself a couple days back. ADDED - Oh Wait! Did you not realize that my comment was about the post that inspired your response of horse ****? I say **** all the time, but I do it like this - sh!t. I hate being asterisked.

Yep. What's "sad" is that someone would actually say that and not have sense enough to be embarrassed.

Already got a TCM recording of 'Brain That Wouldn't Die' in my collection. Tomorrow I add 'A Bucket of Blood' and 'Spider Baby'. Did you know that 'Spider Baby', which was filmed in 1964, wasn't released until 1967? And it was released under 2 different titles as the 2nd feature of 2 different double feature presentations. So it was possible to see one double feature where the 2nd feature was 'Spider Baby' and then the following week go to another double feature where the 2nd feature was 'The Liver Eaters' and exclaim "what the hell - that's the same damn movie we saw last week".

Well, I am a mushroom farmer, ay.

Mr.Gorman: In 'Nice Dreams' Paul Reubens is wandering around in the nut house. I just think he's hilarious. I think I've liked him every time I've ever seen him. Recently he's been in James Spader's series 'The Blacklist'. Versatile personality, that.

No - slapstick is mostly what the Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, and The Three Stooges did. The Marx Brothers comedy was far more clever than that - satirical, verbally witty, socially teasing (especially of the wealthy). But I won't fault you for not liking them. Each to their own. Well..... I fault you a little.

Now, do you really believe that people ever actually rolled in the aisles?

Reckless abandon! Reckless abandon!

I'd rather show them a PeeWee segment from the Letterman show - or a Paul Reubens scene from 'Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams' or one of his episodes of 'Reno 911'. A lot of them would at least know him as PeeWee. I think that's who I spoke about, did I not - in the post that inspired you to say "it's subjective".

Dumbest statement of the thread so far. And MovieCollector liked it!

Good luck to them. We can't even get TCM to show movies like 'Zabriskie Point' or 'Portnoy's Complaint'. If sex is even a little bit of an aspect, TCM has very cold feet.

Straining is for noodles.

I liked 'The Island'. Pretty good adventure movie. The all-time nadir for him has to be 'Jaws: The Revenge'. Most pay-checked of all his paycheck movies. Just abysmal, that one.

It was the eagles' day off. They don't punch in until the Tuesday, and they work only a three day week. Damn unions.

It was always murky. It's not getting any clearer, but it's not getting any murkier either. "Classic" just has too many definitions and many of them are so prone to subjectivism that I doubt a single universally accepted definition in terms of movies will ever be agreed upon.

I love the books as well. My 11th grade English teacher turned me on to them. He stood in front of the class and praised them, telling us he'd award good points to anyone who book-reported on them. I've read them 4 times in my life. Not gonna read them again, though - running out of time now. The movies did a fantastic job of bringing the novels to the screen. I was never able to imagine it could ever be done so well - but we live now in an age where all things are possible in movies. When reading 'Return of the King' I never became bored by the long ending (what's known as descending action which happens after the climax, I believe). But for some reason, I did with the movie. I don't agree that the movies are better than the books - but it's very close - as close as anyone could want. I don't think many Tolkien fans will be disappointed by them.

Anyone else find 'Return of the King' to be a bit much? Some of it feels redundant after 'Two Towers'. And it certainly drags on too long for my liking - I was bored silly by the time it ended. As with 'The Empire Strikes Back' being the high point of the Star Wars trilogy, 'The Two Towers' seems like a better movie than the award-winning 3rd chapter of the Rings series.

Sid who? Emmy-Jean what? I asked 43 people who they were and they all shrugged their shoulders. Guess I should've asked a "critic".

Yeah, I like jokes like that. My favorite is the long lost fakawee tribe who can sometimes be heard wandering through the jungles - "fakawee...fakawee...where da fakawee?"