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Kid Dabb

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  1. This link here connects to a Criticwire survey of the best horror movies of this century, i.e, since 2000:  I raise the question because two of the last contemporary movies I've seen are A Girl Walks Alone at Night and It Follows.  Both are competent, but not especially brilliant.  I'll say more about the latter at the end of the week, but right now, I'll say my horror movie of the century is The Others, followed by Under the Skin.

    I have seen The Others (2001), and I did like it enough to watch a total of three times. I knew there was a twist in the plot, and was ever vigilant until about 3/4 of the way through, when I figured it out. Still, I very much enjoyed Nicole Kidman's performance, and would watch it again just for that.

     

    I believe this should be in the top 10 of any list of horror movies of this century. I believe The Sixth Sense (1999) far outperforms The Others (IMHO), and would be my top pick, but alas, that was last century..

  2. So is Cobb's daughter only 2 years younger than he is?

    That conjures up some interesting scenarios.

     

    I was figuring, Lee's daughter is so attractive, and since she probably got all of it from mom..

    mom must be way gorgeous (I haven't seen her yet). 

     

    Wait.. I found this. Julie's mother is indeed quite beautiful. How fortunate; Lee.

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  3. Star Trek wasn't the only show with "redshirts". In the last few months I've been watching a lot of Rawhide episodes. Whenever you see a new drover around the campfire, you just know he's bound to get caught in a stampede.

    It's gotten to where we can spot 'em a mile away

    :)

    Here's Julia Cobb. She figured prominently - better than most red-shirts.

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  4. He was just demonstrating.. like the vacuum cleaner salesmen of olden days: When one is crushed, it cannot be returned to it's original form - gone forever. He then quickly pulls out his handy-dandy-ṣpic-and-spandy vacuum cleaner to demonstrate to Kirk how well it works, even on another planet.

     

    It's all quite simple, really.

    :P

  5. Wasn't there an urban legend that if they were wearing a certain

    color of uniform top they weren't coming back to the Enterprise?

    I got a kick out of the one where they changed people into

    something that looked like large laundry cubes. Can't recall the

    details, but I laughed every time I saw it. Don't throw him into

    the washer.

    Yeah. Anyone beaming down in a red top was pretty much toast. When two or more "reds" went, at least one was a goner. Scotty wasn't immune, either! He was killed several times.

     

    Here's that "large laundry cubes" episode

    :lol:

    It's By Any Other Name - a second season episode of the original series, first broadcast February 23, 1968 and repeated May 31, 1968. It is episode #51.

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  6. Any foreign film with sub-titles....

     

    My wife and I tried to watch Life is Beautiful a few years back and we had to turn it off after just watching ten minutes. They talk so fast that I found myself reading the sub-titles more than actually watching the film.

     

    If there are sub-titles in other films, for instance like The Longest Day, the characters are not talking as fast so I have time to watch the action on the screen and still read the sub-titles. Same for Dances With Wolves.

    I have the same difficulty. It's not that I don't like the film(s), I just can't do the film(s) any justice when my attention is divided. Many times, for talkies, I will turn the audio off and put on some good classical music.

     

    And you're right about foreign films talking fast.. their audio tracks are sync'd differently than Hollywood's. Many have the audio a quarter to half-second earlier than ours, because that's how their audiences prefer them - many times this has fatigued me and I'll watch something else.

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