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3 movies. "Moonraker" (1979) when Drax seem to be at a lost of words when he encountered James Bond in space. He just sort of rambled. I always thought he was the first villian to be wrote off because he ran out of things to say, ha. "Notting Hill" (1999) when Julia Roberts said ''I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her". Need to date more I guess. Did John Travolta's entire dialogue help to sink "Battlefield Earth"? (besides ape-humans learning to fly jump jets in 1 day - stupid!)

Well I am speechless. This has to be the most tasteless disrespectful thing I have ever seen. Having a picnic at a cemetery?? Must be one of those "only in California" event. Does this suppose to convey a message that the Addams Family and the Munsters are *normal?* Where are the ghouls from the Living Dead when you *need them?* (let them have a picnic if you get my meaning!)

I do the same thing, when I hear the title "The Thin Man" I think its a dream date for the Olsen twins.

HollywoodGolightly wrote: << (Normally, I'm predisposed to liking movies set in France in the 60s, for family reasons) >> The 1998 movie "Madeline" might be interesting to you since the plot is around the late 1950's to early '60's and the director Daisy von Scherler Mayer made the movie look like that it was *made* in the 1960's. The entire movie is filmed in Paris and is family oriented. Some might find this movie boring though. Trivia Michel Legrand who wrote the music also scored "Never Say Never".

lzcutter wrote: << As for me, it may be growing up out here in the west, but the story of the Central Pacific and their efforts to build a railroad through the Sierras has always been the story I wish had been told on film. >> Will this video do? http://www.wapda.com/shop/DVD/product_details.asp?cat_id=103&node_id=&product_code=B000EOTEL8

For $234,000 I could buy me a much newer (lighter in weight) Rolex, have a retirement nest egg and pay off the guy to stop sending me those *annoying* Rolex replica junk emails. But the $234,000 question is, can it take a licking and keep on ticking? If I pay *that* much for a watch, it better survive the super solar flare in "Knowing".

filmlover wrote: << just sitting around like a timebomb, counting down the seconds, ?3?2?1?CRACK!!!)? > That reply has been nagging in the back of my mind since you posted it and couldn't figure out why until today. I just remembered something that happened a long time ago and what *actually* did happen was a plastic material that did do just that. You might find it funny but for me, its something that still disappointing. Back in 1969 I built a model Saturn V Rocket, it was one of those type of kits that required airplane cement to assemble. I had it for only about 6 years and for no reason, matter of fact is still puzzling, is that the plastic skin of each of the 3 booster assembles simply cracked and literally fell to pieces. To this date I don't know why it happened. The body of the boosters were mostly a bendable sheet of plastic that was formed into a tube which made up 60% of each section. What is so ironic in your "3 ...2.....1...CRACK!!!" was that it was a model rocket instead of a Blu-ray disc.. Its one of those things that if one would to figure out the cosmic significance of it, one would go crazy, lol. Here is a photo of the same rocket I got off the internet. *Yes*, things can fall apart or crack by some natural countdown. Go figure.

I am surprised at the number of movies people on the forum *own!*. Lol, I have only 27 DVD's TOTAL and have only purchased 20 VHS tapes and around 12 Laserdisc. The rest "collection" are recorded material. Most movies I have ever viewed were types that were only seen once or twice and thats it. I don't even use Pay-per-view any more and when I did in the past it was very rare that I did. At present I am only planning to watch "Valkyrie" when it plays on Starz later this year. I'm in no big rush, thats why I am not paying the Pay-per-view fee. There are simply no other movies I am interested in at present. Maybe I'm easily bored. Filmlover when you stated that you have HUNDREDS of Blu-rays, my goodness, you don't call yourself filmlover for nothing, lol.

Thanks for the info, I just only heard about the problem last night and was a little concerned especially after my brother just got over the unknown upgrade headache earlier this year that was NEVER mentioned by anyone before. The upgrade did work and was the most nerve racking hour seeing the Blu-ray *slowly* update itself. After seeing that on G4 I said, oh no not *another* problem! You gave me the reliablity info I needed. No I never had any DVD's or CD's to ever crack or get scratched up. I still have the *original* first generation CD, "Christopher Cross" that was made in West Germany (beleive it or not) 1978. Europe had CD's a while before we got introduced to them around 1983. The Time Magazine article in 1983 was the first time I've ever heard of them. Superficial (not deep) scratches can be polished out of CD's with a special cleaning kit. To date I have every CD and DVD I have ever burned or bought. I'm glad to hear that the problem seems to be with Netflix only. According to the article, Netflix is going to raise their rates because of their losses even though its NOT the renters fault. I don't own a Blu-ray player at the present, but am in the process of owning a DVD Recorder. By the way when are they going to come out with a *Blu-ray recorder?*

I am watching the G4 (TechTv) at the present and they just had a 1 min technical update about a possible problem with the Blu-ray disc. According to the info, Netflix subscribers have been having problems with cracked Blu-ray disc. I thought Blu-ray was just as durable as standard DVD's and compact disc. If they are more fragile, I am glad I don't have them at the present. Have any of you had any problems. I myself found it very tough to actually break or crack a DVD or CD. I always keep mine enclosed whenever I am not using them. I went to this site to verify what the G4 guy just informed us. According to them Blu-ray are more fragile (not good!) http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/cracked-netflix/

My local downtown theatre show both Trinity movies as a double feature around 1980 (a re-release probually). The film looked like it seen better days (quality wise).

Sometimes trying to mix *reason* with the board is like mixing oil with water. Salad anyone?

I think you're referring to "Trinity is Still My Name". I loved the scene when he along with his sidekick was dining in a fancy restraunt. The poor waiter, Lol.

Remember the funny 1971 Italian made western "They Call Me Trinity" starring Terence Hill?

The very recent "Under the Tuscan Sun". It has many Italian towns in the setting.

How about "The Pit and the Pendulum" 1961 with Vincent Price?

I might be posting this too late, on tonight on The History Channel July 7th at 12:00AM "Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem", Description A 1930's crime spree give rise to the FBI when people like John Dillenger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde often had technological advantages over local police.

Talking about being played to death, it will be on tonight, July 7th at 1:00AM on *AMC!*

I just recently mentioned on a thread about the possiblity of the "Holodeck". I was thinking about a future version in which the TCM classics, like "Gone with the Wind", "Casablanca", "Rear Window", etc. were recreated by a computer and brought to "life" inside a Holodeck and we could interact with the screen characters. Imagine a scenerio with James Stewart in "Rear Window" that I would approach him, snatch the camera away from him and say, you shouldn't be a peeping tom, how would the "movie" get its plot rearranged? The "Dixon Hill" charactor in Star Trek TNG is a lot like "Sam Spade".

You are *correct* about the networks, like NBC , etc. they are going to soon be history. Ever since Jay Leno left, I haven't hardly watch the networks at all with the exception of the Law and Order series. Even CSI is not the same since Grissom left. I *hate* these pinhead reality (reality my AS*) shows. How stupid. Like I have always said the heydey of the networks was during the 1960's to the 1970's with shows like Gunsmoke, Mannix, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, etc. Those days are GONE forever. My local networks use to show many classic movies like TCM do late at night and I still remember as a kid watching "The Wizard of Oz" and similiar movies. I like to say that there was a Star Trek The Next Generation episode in which they came across one of those "frozen after death" group of people (those who are frozen in which they hope that they can be brought back to life and cured in the future) and one of them asked what is on television. Data replied, television ceased to be during the latter part of the 21st century. I wonder will that prediction come true a *lot earlier* then the producers of Star Trek TNG thought at the time??

Well CK all I can say is *Congratulations*, you seem to be very thrilled at winning it plus you must had a terrific 4th of July weekend.. Now if only *I* could win an unbuilt Heathkit SS-9000 I will feel the same way you do (died and went to heaven). But as my luck goes, nope.. Just in case some of you want to know what in the heck I am talking about http://www.heathkit.nu/heathkit_nu_HeathStory.html

Well you're right, no one behaves this way, because its a *hoax!* Time to get out the reading glasses. http://www.prairieghosts.com/amityville.html The only real *horror* is calling this movie a classic.

The list of movies I like has nothing to do if its classic or contemporary but simply the movie itself. I would like to point out that my earliest memories of movies are the horror flicks of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. I like them at the time I didn't know what the term "classic" was. The movies I like has a LONG time span from "The Christmas Secret" 1898 to "WALL e" 2008. My taste for music is the same.

I watched a documentary (if thats what it can be called) on The History Channel "Secrets of the Founding Fathers" and after seeing a little of the *musical??* "1776" I came to the conclusion that the History Channel was correct that *everyone* was high on hemp. Read the Critical reception about "1776" on the wiki site. If a sequal is ever made it might be called "Song of the Freemasons"