darkblue
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Some people can only give criticism. They tend to say they were joking as a really cheap comeback to having received any.
Such people might be happier if they blocked all but their sycophants.
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In addition to enjoying Chaney in his horror roles playing on late night television, I also have vague memories of seeing Lon playing Chingachgook in a 1957 TV series, Last of the Mohicans, later retitled Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans.
The series was actually filmed in the Toronto area. For years I was under the mistaken (apparently) impression that it had been partially filmed in a marsh land just a couple of miles from my home. Quite a few episodes can be found on You Tube.
When I was very young I saw Lon filming a scene at Mimico Creek. That's in Toronto's extreme west end, where I grew up.
I was with my grandmother (my dad's mother) and she kept saying in a kind of awe "That's Long Chaney, Ricky". Yes, she always thought his name was "Long".
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Re: THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Will someone explain to me how spoofing senility and oncoming dementia is funny? I had firsthand experience with this, and it's not.
Laughing feels better than crying.
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I saw that the DVD for Claudine is also full screen, not wide screen, so perhaps this is the only source available. I too would prefer the theatrical format, but I would give TCM a pass if there is no alternative and they are trying to show something different for the sake of their guest programmer.
Wish they had shown a full screen version. Woulda been a hell of a lot better than windowboxing it. They don't windowbox any of their other movies, so why this one.
Anyway, it's not a question of giving TCM "passes". It's a question of whether I'll watch something that's windowboxed. TCM can do whatever it pleases - it can run a sports crawl if it wants to - but all I'm saying is I don't like windowboxing, was disappointed to see it, and won't watch TCM when they do that.
Which is my loss, I guess - but what the hey.
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Well your choices are black bars or pan and scan. if they filled the whole screen , you would only see a portion of the film. And miss things going on to the left and right of the action.
Your tv screen is not sized the same as the film you are watching. Can't fit a rectangle into a square.
Didn't you bother to read any of the other posts here? My screen is not square. It's widescreen. It can be filled side to side, and usually is. This time TCM ran a movie window-boxed.
I hate windowboxing. It's like having a small tv all over again.
So, I didn't watch the movie - just like I don't watch anything that's windowboxed, whether its a station showing 'The Simpsons' in windowbox format or TCM showing a movie in windowbox format.
If it ever becomes the norm, I'll switch over to an all-DVD diet.
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One person seemed to approve of the decision. Perhaps that was the controversy?
Bingo. I wouldn't call one person trying to get something going without any takers a controversy, though.
Makes me wonder why we bother to control ourselves like that.
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11:30 p.m. The Haunting (1963).
I'm sick to death of it as a movie.
I'll only watch it to see Claire Bloom - what a woman! I love her.
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On a channel we now get called DECADES and on some shows shown on H&I, there's black bars on the sides of the screen, closing in the picture on the sides instead of the TOP, as letterboxing does.
If THAT'S "windowboxing", then I don't like it either. AND, I don't really understand the WHY of it.
I don't know what that is. Window-boxing shrinks the picture down to the central part of the screen with black borders all around - all 4 sides.
Great way to turn a 40" tv back into a 20" tv. It's stupid.
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As far as I'm concerned, when something is put down in the subs it might as well not exist at all.
Out of sight, out of mind.
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Well, there you go. I thought September and November were not bad. October is dull (in my opinion). But December takes the cake as far as bad scheduling.
Dull? There's all kinds of movies that are being shown this month that have hardly ever - if ever - been shown before.
Whatever. To each their own.
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LOL. That's good to know! Now use that word in a sentence............
Boog er was played by Curtis Armstrong in 'Revenge of the Nerds'.
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Absolutely agree. I've just finished going through the first week and it is nothing but repeats and very cheesy Sinatra films.
How often does TCM have a monthly schedule that isn't 95 percent cheese?
This month (October) is just about the best I've ever seen - I'll be filling my Hard Drives to the max this month and that'll come in handy for the very light December.
Sure wish 'Burnt Offerings' had stayed on the schedule this month, though. I feel that loss.
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How do you feel about letterboxing?
I don't mind letterboxing. In fact, now that I have a decent sized widescreen tv, I prefer it.
But I truly hate window-boxing.
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Shown window-boxed.
Arghh.
I hate window-boxing so much.
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True scholars do their own research? Why are you asking the board for help with movies that exhibit stalking behaviors for a paper you're writing then?
Yeah, really - why does she expect us to do her work for her?
I think that's pretty similar to what she asked, right?
She should read a book!
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But since 'it is what it is', we have to live with the existing protocols.
But we still get to complain about it - that's some comfort, I suppose.
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Yes, let's hope it doesn't come to that!
No volunteers, huh?
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Then stop setting yourself up for shaming and go out and find out what today's technology really is before you reject it. Just go to Best Buy or wherever and actually see how modern video systems work and what they do. That way you would have an educated opinion on how today's technology compares to old ones.
Or just stockpile enough VCR's and blank tapes to last the rest of your life. The machine's can be bought on e-bay used for about 25 bucks - and you could take up collecting old VHS movies for a hobby (although that could get costly and require a lot of room. But it could be a lot of "collectable" fun - like collecting old baseball cards or comic books).
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I was an audience of one when I saw it, and I may not have laughed, but I cringed because it was soooooooooo stupid.
I didn't laugh because it creeped me out.
Lon Chaney Jr's version of the Frankenstein monster creeps me out too. Over at IMDb there's a post from someone who says that of all the Frankensteins portrayed in that Universal series, Lon's version is the one he'd least like to meet in an alley.
I agree. The 'Ghost of Frankenstein' monster is the weirdest looking - and scariest - of them all. And, it's the most miserable. This Frankenstein's got attitude - a "get the hell outta my face" belligerence. Forever after this 4th chapter, the monster would become more and more a mere prop - without any thoughts, basically a zombie rather than a character.
Anyway, I didn't laugh when the monster talked with Ygor's voice. And I didn't think of it as stupid either. It weirded me out, man.
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The 'Categorizing Threads' thread has been disappeared.
It's uncanny. Except for one member who didn't like the topic and tried to get some acrimony going so that it would be shut down - without getting any takers (nobody bit) - it was a perfectly reasonable, intelligently discussed thread that asked a valid question.
And still we've lost it. The one member got what that member wanted, even though people avoided conflict when it was baited.
I don't understand. I really don't.
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No, I think it was because the monster was getting older ... and older monsters tend to get a little chilly now and then, just like people.
Yeah - and after that movie he got younger. Makes perfect sense.
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Somehow, I don't feel like I've got a problem with not knowing who, DGF. At least, I didn't until you told me I did.....
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If you don't know who the rankers are, then you've got a problem.
Not only don't I know who they are, I don't know what they are.
What is it that J.D. Power and Associates is "ranking" exactly?
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Cut her a break!
Sorry, no. Don't want to "meet her" anymore.
Truth is, I was just kiddin' around - I never fantasized about her. I just like the alliteration and the way her last name rhymes with stuff.
Claudine
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I don't have HD. I subscribe only to basic cable plus. That's a digital but SD service. Thankfully TCM is included in that package.
99 percent of the movies carried on TCM fills my widescreen from left to right. I get full screen for old stuff and mostly letterbox/widescreen for post-50's stuff.
This windowboxing is just beginning to rear its unwanted head - I've noticed it on some stations that run re-runs of series episodes.
When I see it, I change the channel. Naturally, changing the channel from TCM hurts more, though.