hamradio
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I've mentioned one a little while back.
http://forums.tcm.com/topic/259870-time-rider-1982-movie-blunder/?tab=comments#comment-2022495
While looking for some photos from the Munsters TV series, came across this.
Stage hand wearing a T shirt.
The Gods must be watching over him.
Ow watch those doorways.
Another movie prop (helmet) that had a useful function.
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2 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
I see.
Also, I think your point alludes to why studios remake films like THE LION KING so these properties can be "new" again for a younger generation who may not want to watch the older versions.
It's sad old school animation are frowned upon to the younger generation vs CGI.
Remake "Snow White", hope not.
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12 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Probably something that was made before they were born..?
Was trying to make a point, films i.e. "Jurassic Park" is OLD to the last generation but is it suitable for TCM.
"Lets Dance" and "Saturday Night Fever" are equally ancient to them.
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What is an older film to a 18 year old?
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10 hours ago, lydecker said:
No doubt about it, Flying Monkeys!
Just laughed, can see a human ear.
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Just shows what a little renovation can do.
The Munster's house
Before...
..after..
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3 minutes ago, Dargo said:
I'd say this creepy old mansion used as the setting in Robert Wise's 1963 The Haunting could be considered every bit as much a "character" in this film as any of the actual actors in it...
(...and I don't mind saying here how THIS "character" scared me more than a little bit the first time I caught this movie on television as a teenager back in the late-'60s)
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Found out what scared the crap out of me when I was between 6 or 7. Being at such a young age, my perception was off thinking it was a gorilla / tarsier hybrid. Must had tuned in after the opening and turned my head and changed channel after seeing that! Took 59 years to resolved the movie title mystery.
"Black Sunday" (1960)
This is why memory recollect cannot be relied on while witnessing anything while being so young.
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16 hours ago, GGGGerald said:
I just posted this yesterday in another thread:
Food of the Gods (1976)
Speaks for itself !
This should give you nightmares.
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A little revealing isn't it?
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Sure looks like him.
Was that why he was chosen for "Six Bridges to Cross" (1955)?
Reason why I'm posting this is I'm watching "Mysteries at The Museum - Smoking Guns". The guards said the masks were grotesque. Really?
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6 hours ago, Peebs said:
From "Objective Burma!"
Mark Williams: What if my parachute doesn't open?
Capt. Nelson: Then you'll be the first one on the ground.
An alternate response would had been....Don't worry the ground will catch you.
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1 hour ago, EricJ said:
He's like Boba Fett, Darth Maul and Captain Phasma--One film, creates memorable character, and then offed. Leaving us to wonder what might have been.
Darth Maul had a memorial service to remember, they played "I Fall To Pieces".
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"Madeline" (1998)
Spanish Ambassador....Ladies, may I present the reason we have opened to your our home: our birthday boy, Monsieur Jose Marco Filipo Juan Franloco Lopez de Vega Esteban Machado Jorge Santiago de la Rocha Gaspar Carlos de Fuentes Coruna Diego et Sevilla! Of course, his friends call him Pepito.
Was there ENOUGH room on his birth certificate??
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11 hours ago, sewhite2000 said:
It's a very awkward looking scene with the CGI Jabba replacing the human actor who was actually walking alongside Ford. Jabba also looks much smaller to me in this scene then he's shown to be in his other appearances.
During the enhancement of the scene, someone pointed out that was before Jabba got lazy and fat from eating all those big greasy slugs.
Lame excuse since he was quite fat in Episode I.
Question, how did the Hutts ever got the first "manned" rocket off the ground or their first airplane?? -
This conversation about enhancing older movies with CGI got me thinking about "South Park - Free Hat".
After watching the new directors cut of "Raiders of The Lost Ark", everyone either melted or exploded. Cartman said...Man, that new version must have sucked *****!
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10 hours ago, DougieB said:
You're right to use the idea of marriage, because the movie finally brought together elements we always felt the art of filmmaking had promised us but so far hadn't totally delivered on. That opening shot is a great example. As well as being eye-splitting, it was ear-splitting: I remember the rumbling at the "back" of the theater, then the feeling as the sound moved ominously overhead, then the first glimpse of the battleship moving onto the screen as the sound followed it ahead...and followed and followed as the entire ship came into view. The sound editing as well as the special effects set a very high standard and together they created an experience moviegoers had been waiting for.
Ships are class like our navy... Frigates, destroyer, and dreadnought.
(The word dreadnought is also used to describe some of our historic battleships)
Technically its a Imperial I-class Star Destroyer.
Venator Class Star Destroyer from the Republic era (Episode III)
Nebulon-B escort frigate
Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought (First Order)
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7 hours ago, Fedya said:
Looks more like Buck Rogers disco.
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George Lucas was smart and insightful placing the plot in a galaxy far far away.
Poor Milky Way, bet those in the Star Wars galaxy is looking back at us and saying..Those poor people on that planet, must be very lonely.
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37 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:
does tonite's version of star wars have that stupid cgi smoke ring when the death star explodes?
and screw that 'a new hope' HS too.
not a bad lineup as we get to hear the real kirk belch out "KHHAAAANNNNN!" as only shatner can.
You should know George Lucas had budget, time and technical constraints. He wanted to convey his original concept but couldn't. Try to do Episode I in 1977!
Star Wars barely got to the silver screen, other studios turned it down with later regrets.
Stargate Atlantis with the better improved "smoke ring".
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8 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I remember being in the check-out line at a supermarket with my mom not long before the film's release and seeing a magazine cover of C-3PO in the Tunisian desert. I couldn't even wrap my head around what this creature was, exactly, it was so different and more exotic than any film still I'd ever seen before, and I knew I had to see this movie.
Before the film's release I got the LP soundtrack which included a poster. Count the mistakes!
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I purchased it when it came out on (was a long awaited event then) on the CED videodisc. After the player went to the landfill, got the DVD Trilogy box set. Kept the CED and a couple others for memories.
Episode IV, 42 years old and not rebooted - I'm stunned.
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1 hour ago, Feego said:
Years ago, I remember reading one of Roger Ebert's Q&A columns that featured a question similar to the one that got this thread started. A disgruntled theater-goer wrote in to complain that they had just watched The Wizard of Oz on the big screen and were furious that it was not shown in its original widescreen aspect ratio. They complained to the manager, and when told the film was supposed to be in Academy ratio, they said "Bull!" (that's literally what they wrote to Ebert). Ebert, of course, set them straight, but in a very polite manner.
On a similar note, I once read about Shirley Temple renting a copy of her own The Little Princess on VHS. The clerk, who clearly did not recognize her, warned her that the tape was colorized and not the original black-and-white. She politely informed him that the movie was indeed filmed in color. He said no it wasn't, they didn't make color movies back then. I believe she just said ok and let it go at that, secure in her knowledge of the truth.
Clerk needs to watch the movie, and pay attention to the MAIN TITLE!
Bloopers in the Movies
in General Discussions
Posted · Edited by hamradio
Can't find a clip but in "Annie" (1982) just after escaping the clutches of Rooster and tearing up the check, notice the railroad boxcar in the back. There were NO 50 foot Hydra cushion frame variety in 1933!
Another mistake is painfully obvious, Punjab looking down from the helicopter. The miniature set is laughable - can see the SLOT in the middle of the street (used a slot car).
(coupled with the modern city skyline at night)