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The only voice I ever known for Jiminy Cricket was Cliff Edwards. When I first read your post, I knew something was a little off for me because of Eddie Carrolls age.
I don't watch Disney shorts made after any of their main feature length movies because they sort of diminish them. Recent example is "The Emperors New Groove" (2000) and "Lilo and Stitch" (2002), I like the first movie versions only. Same goes for "Pinnochio" (1940).
Sorry to hear of Eddie's passing.
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What was funny is that Samson had one mortal fear, the very sight of this conjured up some repressed childhood memory.
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Just recorded and watched the movie "2012" (2009) we will have to wait until December 22, 2012 to say if the movie belongs on this thread. Funny thing is if it does predict the future, we won't be around to post it.
If nothing happens I'll post it on the *Bad movies we love* thread.
Edited by: hamradio on Apr 11, 2010 12:23 PM
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I just recently recorded and watched "2012" and this is one movie that could either fit this thread or the *Films that really did predicted the future* thread.
I'll let you know on December 22, 2012 (if I'm still around).
Funny, those modern version of Noahs Ark they had on "2012" has Made in China stamped on them.
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Here is a link to The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/4256186?page=10
2 movies that had something right on the button which is widescreen Hi Def TV. "Things to Come" (1936) and "Fahrenheit 451" (1966).
Still unknown if anyone took a flame thrower to one yet - with the state of television programming, one would think so. (referring to F451).
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Also do we really need more "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies like the 2010 remake of the original that I just saw the commercial of.
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This is not a movie but a TV series made in the UK, "UFO" (1969) which tells of a futuristic *1980.*
The thing that really stood out was Ed Straker's car with the gull wing doors. Sure enough the Delorean came out within the same time period with the same type of doors.
Car in "UFO"
Delorean
Another ahead of its time concept in the UFO series was S.I.D. (Space Intruder Detector) which used a closed 2 way data link between the spacecraft in orbit and the computer core in a harden underground shelter at SHADO.
Today systems i.e. GPS use close links between satellite and the computer control system on the ground.
Like to add S.I.D. is not artificial intellegence but simple voice synthesis. (with a British accent, lol)
S.I.D.
Photo of computer room along with S.I.D. and a *Space Shuttle*, remember this is 1969! Please take notice the astronaut making in orbit *repairs* to S.I.D. like they do to the *Hubble Space Telescope!*
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Dark is right, especially that silly goose asking Marguerite for 400 franks on her death bed. If only Robert Taylor had strangled her.
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The story is really not fully understood except by Star Trek fans. The whole story of "Planet of the Apes" was told though the sequels that followed. That told me that the scenerio is known as a paradox due to time travel. Not only is Cornelius and Zira the last of their kind (Escape from the Planet of the Apes) but are the Adam and Eve of their kind, the offspring they left behind to start their kind off.
The paradox is the apes should never exist to begin with. If you could break the alternative time loop, that is prevent Charlton Heston from going forward in time or prevent Cornelius and Zira from going back or kill their offspring, the apes would be no longer.
The only thing that really didn't make sense is how did Cornelius and Zira learn about spacecraft technology being in the bronze age themselves? They would have to in the outrageous short amount of time, pull the spacecraft out of the lake, dry it out and learn from scratch 3,000 years of future tech to fly the craft *back in time!* This is why "Battlefield Earth" flopped so badly, those primitives who could not read or write, fly Harrier jump jets - yeah right, STUPID!!
Movies do not suppose to insult ones intellegence!
I think the remake that was recently done was an alternative universe reality. Its ending did stuck with the novel.
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Normally Danny Elfman's music is on the boring side but there is one exception for me, its "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The music in that movie I really like and the only 2 movies of Tim Burton that is really any good which I have is TNBC and "Batman" (1989).
In the Batman movie, it says music by Danny Elfman but its mostly music by Prince. Prince added an odd but unique touch to that movie. By the way its the only 2 of Prince that I have, the other "Purple Rain".
This is what gets me, Tim Burton did so well in TNBC and I was looking foward to "The Corpse Bride", but was I ever so *disappointed!*. That movie was boring beyond belief and the music, Zzzzzz.
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Lol, what a beginning to "The Spanish Main", his excellency sleeps with a bonnet and eats with a table knife. Don't want to think what he does in private.
Oh yes the jailer has a peg leg, duh! surprised???
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The horror of that movie will never match the horror of this thread.
*Kill me, Kill me, Kill me now!*
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wouldbestar wrote:
<< Then there is Ali MacGraw's Jenny calling her in-laws on an old dial phone in Love Story; you don't see but can clearly hear her dialing the same digit for all the numbers. >>
Lol, so its *Jenny* who is the culprit behind this scam
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-888-8888
Goes to show that fact is stranger than fiction!
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I've seen a microphone in the theatre version of "Saturday Night Fever" back in 1978. Its when John Travolta went to Stephanie's apartment to apologise after assaulting her. Its just when he entered the apartment and you see it at the very top. You don't see it in the video version.
I watched it twice that day and I told the manager about it, he thought how stupid that blunder was after seeing it for himself. He buzzed the projection room, telling the projectionist to "frame it up a little".
There is also a microphone blooper in the Viewmaster reel of "Family Affair" about Buffy breaking her leg. Its when Brain Keith is talking to his freind and in the back, you see a mirror and the studio had a desk microphone that is clearly visible though the mirror sitting on a table. I always love looking at that one.
Trivia: Anissa Jones actually did broke her leg in a playground accident, the studio had to work it in..
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I love to spot bloopers / mistakes in movies and the movie TCM is showing right now "Camille" was shown in the 1982 movie "Annie". Anyone who has seen "Annie" might remember that Daddy Warbucks bought out Radio City Music Hall for his private viewing of "Camille" with Grace and Annie.
One would say what is wrong with that? Well the time *plot* in "Annie is 1933 - exactly June July 1933 for the movie version. "Camille" was released in *1936!*
So Radio City Music Hall managed to show a movie 3 years before it was made. I know the Warbucks billions can buy anything but really.....anything?
Funny John Huston and Ray Stark knew (or I thought they knew) the 1930's time period well. They even manage to get the calendar in Miss Hannigan's office correct. Another blooper in the same movie is at the railroad draw bridge, they showed a 75 foot "air cushion" box car decades before they were made.
Please feel free to use this thread to talk about similiar bloopers in other movies and the movie "Camille" itself. Get off topic if you like.
Oh by the way in "Camille", how many of you wish that silly, self centered woman who asked Marguerite for 400 franks on her death bed died instead!?
Edited by: hamradio on Apr 6, 2010 11:47 PM
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gagman66 wrote:
<< COPS is not one of my favorite Keaton two-reelers >>
Was that because they didn't play "Bad Boys" on the main title?
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This is a great pirate lineup. Thank god they didn't commit "TCM sacriledge" by airing "Pirates of the Caribbean".
Be sure to get a meal from Long John Silvers while watching the TCM lineup.
By the way, how did that guy got stuck with the name Horatio *Hornblower?* If thats his birth name, I pity his childhood.
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In the good ole days of time since past, we use to call that TiVo and DVR's.
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You might think this is deja vu but the crabs in " The Attack of the Crab Monsters" that phases in and out of space, doesn't that remind you of a creature I previously posted below??
Lol must be suggestive thinking. Could this be the reason you like " The Attack of the Crab Monsters"?
Thread is really bad (in a manner of speaking)
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Valentine, my original post was about the movie "Knowing". My comment was explaining those ships at the end of the movie as well as the angelic beings taking away a handful of children to colonize another planet (to start over) were much like the Vorlons. Since you are a B5 fan you might remember that the Vorlons wanted us to think that they were angelic beings.
Both alien craft from "Knowing" and B5 were similiar in appearance - this was my reasoning for mentioning it, plus the original poster asked what was a Vorlon.
If you haven't seen the movie "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage, its somewhat a unique but good (in my opinion) movie.
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A Vorlon is this guy in uniform (encounter suit)
which is this guy out of uniform
Who hates this guy
who drives the Vorlon organic based ship below.
Now is this *bad* or what?
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A lot of people thought "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage was a bad movie but I like it very much. Those ships or whatever they were at the end of the movie reminded me (a lot) of the Vorlons
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*The Dark Side of Oz*
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Lol this story didn't went beyond the tri-state area.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/86044622.html?storySection=story
If they ever catch her, she will be spending the next 20 years in the prison workshop making vacuum cleaners.
NO TCM SIGNAL YET AGAIN
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I think you should trade up.
I have a policy to do everything myself. I did my own Directv, telephone and cable installations myself. I tell the cable/phone companies to only bother with the pole to house feeds and I take it from there. Same goes for electrical.
None of my systems has ever given me any trouble.
What I love about Directv is that there is little to worry with and I always have a spare box on hand just in case. Cable is simply a redundant backup (for thunderstorms and special events I don't care for) plus it gives me local programming.
I don't like having a telephone company to handle television and vice versa, I wonder if this is the root problem with Comcast. It's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
Technicians?..... I forgot what they look like.
By the way, how many of you got a specially trained dog like a German Shepard to go after this most annoying technician if he comes within a 100 feet of your front door?
Edited by: hamradio on Apr 12, 2010 11:31 PM