sewhite2000
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I had Geek Squad expunge a virus from my computer one time. It was over $200.
Yeah, those kids know how to do everything. Not sure if everything they know how to do is legal. I remember subbing for a high school tech class one time. The latest Spider-Man came out on a Friday, and these kids were watching it in the classroom on their computers the following Monday. I was actually less concerned about their goofing off in class than the feds breaking down the door. We're warned to report Internet piracy in every form of home entertainment we watch. And Spider-Man is not one of those arthouse films that they put in the theater for one weekend and then make it available on streaming. And this was before streaming, anyway. "There's no way that's legal," I told the kids. They just blinked at me. "Yes, it is," one of them said. Touche!
As for "grabbing a teenager", well, at my age, it would probably bring in the vice squad! ?
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On 10/30/2018 at 7:59 AM, cigarjoe said:
Go to your nearest Best Buy, they have a Geek Squad. Tell them you just want to stream programs to your TV without spending a lot of money, tell them what you have and they can tell you what you need. It's not rocket science, they even make house calls.
For which they will charge no more than $300!
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I actually remembered I had not seen Curse of the Mummy's Tomb before, sort of a B-team effort from Hammer, with Cushing, Lee and Terrence Fisher all AWOL, so maybe TCM doesn't show it quite as frequently. So, there were four movies on that list that I'd never seen before.
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Reprising the same thing I did last year. Summer is my "dry spell" for TCM viewing, because I watch a lot of baseball in the summer, folks. A lot of baseball. Probably not a week between April Fool's Day and Halloween that I watch TCM more than twice, except for All-Star week, when there are four days with no games but the All-Star game. And I might go as many as three weeks without watching at all. I've just begun diving back into TCM full throttle the last couple of nights since the World Series ended on Sunday.
But, let's look back and see if what I did watch amounts to anything interesting or unusual. It will still add up to quite a few films, but this stretched out over a space of seven months. I will list the films chronologically by year of release. Almost all of these viewings were in primetime hours. That's when I'm usually able to watch. Maybe a handful were late night. I don't think there are any daytime movies on here at all:
Der Blaue Angel (German-language version, UFA, 1930)
Of Human Bondage (RKO, 1934)
Imitation of Life (Universal, 1934)
A Woman Rebels (RKO, 1936)
My Man Godfrey (Universal, 1936)
Pygmalion (Pascal/Dist. in US by MGM, 1938)
Gone With the Wind (Selznick/MGM, 1939)
Son of Frankenstein (Universal, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Columbia, 1940)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (MGM, 1941)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros., 1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (Warner Bros., 1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (RKO, 1942)
Mrs. Parkington (MGM, 1944)
Great Expectations (Cineguild, 1946/Dist. in US by Universal, 1947)
Pinky (20th Century, Fox, 1949)
The Mudlark (20th Century Fox, 1950)
A Star is Born (Warner Bros., 1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (United Artists, 1955)
Some Came Running (MGM, 1958)
Horror of Dracula (Hammer/Dist. in US by Universal, 1958)
A Summer Place (Warner Bros., 1959)
The Mummy (Hammer/Dist. in US by Universal, 1959)
No Love for Johnnie (Rank/Dist. in US by Embassy, 1961)
Lolita (MGM, 1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Universal, 1962)
The Great Escape (United Artists, 1963)
8 1/2 (Cineriz/Dist. in US by Embassy, 1963)
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Hammer/Dist. in US by Columbia, 1964)
The Cincinnati Kid (MGM, 1965)
Far from the Madding Crowd (MGM, 1967)
Funny Girl (Columbia, 1968)
Bulitt (Warner Bros., 1968)
The Devil's Bride (Hammer/Dist. in US by 20th Century Fox, 1968)I tend not to watch many movies set before the Victorian Era, a personal prejudice. I suppose a lot of Westerns might be technically during or before the Victorian Era. I pick my Westerns very carefully. But anything swords-and-sandals or pirate ships or knights of the round table or whatever, it has to come highly recommended before I watch it. Sorry, Errol Flynn. So, you can see that guided my viewing choices.
By decade the movies I watched were:
1930s 8
1940s 8
1950s 7
1960s 11Nothing from the silent era, but nothing post-'60s, either.
By studio, if you count American distributors of foreign films as a studio, which is a bit of a cheat, but just to really Americanize things, that's what I did:
MGM 8
Universal 7
Warner Bros. 5
RKO/Columbia/20th Century Fox 3 each
United Artists/Embassy 2 eachAll the early Hammer horror films were distributed in America by Universal. It was probably a big kick for them to be distributed in America by the studio they modeled their films after. Anyway, that probably gives Universal an unusually high representation on my list, but hey, there was also Imitation of Life, Dodsworth and To Kill a Mockingbird. Officially, there are no Paramount films on my list, although the English-language version of The Blue Angel, which I think aired the same night as the one I watched, was from Paramount, and I just as easily could have watched it.
Have I just watched too darn much TCM (or does TCM not have enough variety)? Only three movies I watched all summer I had never seen before: Mrs. Parkington, The Mudlark and No Love for Johnnie. The Mudlark was a TCM premiere; Johnnie was a relative rarity. Mrs. Parkington has aired many, many times, but somehow, I'd always missed it: this was, I think, the last Greer Garson MGM film I'd never seen.
Okay, thanks for my indulging my ego, as I shove all the movies I watched into your collective faces.
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Must admit, considering I now think of myself as something of an expert in classic film (at least among the people I know in "real life", if not so much here!), Farrell's name wasn't immediately recognizable to me. I'm even scrolling back up to top of the screen to make sure I spell it right. I think I seriously have her confused with Joan Blondell. I even watched some of the Torchy movies when TCM made a night of them, and I think at the time I thought I was watching Blondell! So, I definitely need to educate myself this month. Looks like I've seen several movies she was in, but I just don't remember her specifically. She was the woman who forces Paul Muni into marriage, then betrays him in I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang? I definitely remember that role. But, as I say, this month will hopefully give me a chance to get to know her career better.
Edit: I just remembered I believe I was actually thinking of the Maisie movies TCM once made a night of, which was neither Blondell nor Farrell, but Ann Sothern. Lotta blondes in the '30s and '40s movies. Sorry for being so confused. But I've also at least seen Smart Blonde.
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There has been another thread about this as recently as this year, in which I saw that very Indiana Jones-inspiring jacket and hat for the first time.
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On 10/28/2018 at 7:09 PM, jamesjazzguitar said:
Yes, this is another 'kids these days' type threads and that is why I focused on the 'old guy'.
Again, seriously not my intent, although both you and Lawrence interpreted it as such. I just wanted to transcribe this cross-generational conversation that I happened to overhear without really passing judgment on either side. My sole purpose was that I thought it might be interesting to members of this board. I guess I failed at that, because I was assumed to be against "the kids" by multiple persons.
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Ha ha well, I still like listening to radio, primitive form of communication that it is. I have a long commute to work, and I just can't listen to only music in my car. Also like to listen as I'm getting ready for work. The station I listen to stays largely politics-free, unlike the Internet trolls. I must admit the people on the radio do fairly frequently display their ignorance of movies and song, topics on which I'm overly educated, which occasionally annoys me. Sometimes, they express hate for actors or musical artists I love.
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19 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
In the end, this thread is another "kids these days!!!" lamentation, of which we seem to never be in short supply of.
That was actually not my intention. Maybe my bias is reflected in some of my asides. I tried to give a fair presentation of both sides. I feel empathy for both of them actually, remembering what it was like to be the age of these young people and often not having my opinions taken very seriously, but also the encroaching fear of one's opinions completely fading into obsolescence, as I'm already experiencing!
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Oh, well, people are prone to hyperbole, and I forgive the guy his original, admittedly unsupportable statement. He just really wanted these young people to know about these movies. He did probably make them immediately defensive by leading off with such a strong statement.
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His first sentence was that they were the scariest of all time, but he pretty quickly conceded that younger viewers might not think so.
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I love Rosemary's Baby and wish TCM was able to show it once in a while. I think The Mummy is my favorite of the Universal horror pics, although it has been a very long time since I've seen The Wolf Man. I remember watching The Black Cat on TCM a number of years ago and thought it was wonderfully weird. I see it aired on TCM twice last year, but I missed them. Hope I'll see it again one of these days.
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That's an interesting topic of its own. When I was a kid, all those That's Entertainment! movies were coming out, and made me think MGM never did anything but musicals.
I suspect the caller was not super-knowledgeable of film output by studio, but he just remembered the Universal logo appearing before all his favorite horror movies from his childhood.
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So, I listen to a local sports and men's talk radio station. The weekday programs are hosted by people generally around my age. The youngest host is about 46; the oldest 73. An interesting thing the station does is turn over the weekend shows to the young people who work as producers or board ops or newsroom guys during the week. This is their chance to be hosts. Probably they're attempting to groom them to take over the weekday spots someday. Although, when they do, it will probably be the last day I ever listen to the station, because these weekend hosts, the oldest of whom turned 30 this week, I don't connect with in any cultural way, because if it happened before 1990, they've never heard of it. When they wax nostalgic about video games, it's not Space Invaders and Pong; it's Sonic the Hedgehog and GoldenEye. I listened to a guy today who not only had never heard of Bryan Adams; he'd never heard of Ryan Adams, and didn't understand the joke about their similar names. He's 28.
So, this was two weeks ago Sunday. Sorry for not getting around to it until now. During this month of Halloween, one of the weekend shows is running a recurring bit where they're getting a 27-year-old who's seriously creeped out by horror movies to watch what they believe are some seriously scary movies. So, they've been Googling "scariest movies of all time", and only making him watch movies they've actually seen or remember. The watchlist has skewed extremely modern, because they're highly dubious that anything old could actually be scary. For example, The Exorcist comes up on every list they Google, but they haven't made him watch it, because it's from the '70s, when, in their minds, everything was old and stupid and boring, so there's no way this movie could even be one per cent as scary as House of a Thousand Corpses, which they did make him watch.
So, on the very last segment of the show, they take calls, and they took one from a guy born in 1952. He told them the scariest movies of all time were the Universal horror flicks released in the early '30s. They were reasonably respectful to him, but ultimately, the things they said indicated they had SO had it with old people telling them everything from long ago was better than what they like that you could almost hear their eyes rolling through the radio waves. At first, they were extremely dubious how he could even be aware of the content of movies released 20 years before he was born, as they themselves had clearly never in their lives watched a movie from that long ago before their own births and instantly assumed it was impossible that anyone from any generation ever would have done that. He told them he watched the movies on TV many times as a child.
They pressed him on what exactly made these movies so great and would they really still be considered scary by the modern generation? He faltered a bit here, acknowledging that these movies might not seem that scary to a generation raised on jump scares but that what was so great about the movies was the pathos of the characters - none of them come across as pure evil; each monster experiences very human feelings of loneliness, love, revenge, despair, etc. The young people didn't have much to say about that.
The producer of the show, who's also in his late 20s, actually tried to support the caller. He'd seen Nosferatu and thought it would be helpful to say how even though it was a very old movie, it was incredibly weird and atmospheric and can still give a modern viewer a sense of unease. Unfortunately, I don't think the caller had ever heard of Nosferatu. He seemed to only know American movies. So, this effort to find common ground fell flat. The caller completely froze. I think he thought he was being made fun of, and immediately said, "Well, thanks for taking my call" and hung up.
One of the show hosts finished things up by a being a bit snotty, saying, "Well, we appreciate him telling us why everything in his generation is better than in our generation, and we're going to let him go back to pulling up Beto signs out of his neighbors' yards" (A reference to the Senate race here in Texas, where all the young people are supporting Democrat Beto O'Rourke and automatically assume if you're old, you're voting for Republican Ted Cruz, which is probably fairly accurate).
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39 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:
I can get into YouTube without using any password.
Yeah, I don't really know what one needs a password for on YouTube. I don't have one. Possibly you need one to comment on the videos, which I've never tried. Or I guess to upload a video of your own possibly, which I've also never done.
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1 hour ago, TikiSoo said:
Guess I'm lucky to be low income-there's nothing to steal!
Believe me, I'm quite low income, and they still stole what little I had!
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I have no idea what a fire device is, so I'm probably one of the people thinking everything you say is voodoo!
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I think hackers can do anything they want. They got into my email account recently and through it, they got into my PayPal account to make unauthorized purchases.
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Oh. Well, that I don't know. I assume they will only show us the winners after the contest is over.
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Looks like it, yes.
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On 10/11/2018 at 2:07 PM, LawrenceA said:
I'm curious if it will have any effect on FilmStruck.
Well ...
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12 hours ago, Zea said:
She gave heightened meaning to the word "trouper".
3 hours ago, TikiSoo said:Oh thank you so much for not writing "trooper"
This got me wondering ... does anybody know what the heck a "super trooper" is, like from the ABBA song? Wondered about that much of my life (trouper? I don't even know how they spell it). Is that just mangled English for the sake of a rhyme, or is that some real thing like a vehicle or something? "Like a super trooper, lights are gonna find me shining like the sun ..."
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I would like to say High Anxiety had TWO funny ladies in it, the other being Cloris Leachman. Hope they at least mention her in the outro!
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All right, well someone either stay up until 6 am, or set your alarm early and let me know how this all turned out!
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Aug. 31st, 2018 Worst Day of SUT Programming Ever!
in Summer Under the Stars
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Ooh. You probably don't want to watch tonight, then.