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> {quote:title=JonnyGeetar wrote:}{quote} > > P.S.-Isn't Berri-Berri some kind of Japanese food poisoning or something? > Beriberi a nervous system ailment caused by a vitamin B deficiency. I think it used to be rather common in the US. In Japan, I don't know. Pellagra is also a vitamin B deficiency disease.

TCM should bring us the head of Alfredo Garcia!

I'll be watching the Gouramis instead.

Best psychedelic horror film ever made. I saw it on the IFC, before the IFC became a farce, I saw it in a theater, as part of a Japanese film series, and watched it again on TCM. It's like Sam Peckinpah and Terry Gilliam dropped acid and made a movie together.

Warren Oates, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Dean Stanton, James Coburn

Joel McCrea? Coming in May? The heck you say! Make him go away! Just kidding - I'm looking forward to him too.

When Barry died, he was at the extreme left wing of the Republican Party, and it wasn't Barry who had moved, but the Party. Many of Barry's positions are to the left of some of today's Democrats. From wikipedia: >By the 1980s, with Ronald Reagan as president and the growing involvement of the religious right in conservative politics, Goldwater's libertarian views on personal issues were revealed; he believed that they were an integral part of true conservatism. Goldwater viewed abortion as a matter of personal choice, not intended for government intervention. > >As a passionate defender of personal liberty, he saw the religious right's views as an encroachment on personal privacy and individual liberties.[50] In his 1980 Senate reelection campaign, Goldwater won support from religious conservatives but in his final term voted consistently to uphold legalized abortion and, in 1981, gave a speech on how he was angry about the bullying of American politicians by religious organizations, and would "fight them every step of the way"

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}When quoting me, please do not edit out certain things I have said and replace it with ellipses. It deliberately takes what I have said out of context and that is surely misleading. I don't think that's an honest way of responding. Thanks. If I had edited what you said without the ellipses, that would have been dishonest. Your full post was just below for everyone to see. If I had not edited out your line saying the film was 'not a classic,' my statement would have meant that I thought the film was a classic, precisely because you thought it was not. That was not my meaning at all. My point was that the qualities you described, (and I quoted,) demonstrated that the film IS a classic, to me. I made my point in the most simple, direct, honest, and NOT misleading way I know how.

TCM showed *The Last Man on Earth* recently.

> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote} > VOICE is sort of a time capsule, showing what a group of artists managed to produce in under two weeks, and here we are decades later watching that document ... ...It is rather frayed around the proverbial edges, all scratched up and about to disintegrate in our very hands. Now, that's what *I* call a classic.

So, we could show the Maya *Apocalypto*, and ask them if it's a classic.

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}I actually would be interested in what Plato would watch. I just don't understand what the Isle of Wight has to do with it! Yeah, I guess what Plato would watch would be interesting in itself, but not a concern to me, while watching a film. Isle of Wight would be IoW. In other words, back atcha...

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote} > *Surely there must be "classic schlock?"* That may be part of the point, there are classics of genre. For me, King of the Zombies is a classic. Okay, you got me there! I enjoy that stuff too.

When I watch a film, I don't for a moment ponder whether it is a classic, or not. I try to get into the film, understand (if called for,) and enjoy it. Its status as a classic, or not, is totally unimportant. IOW, I don't care what Plato would watch, in his cave, or elsewhere...

I take your point, but *GWtW* is a bad example to use with me, because I think it's schlock. I do think we need some time to decide if something is really a classic, but not 25 years. I saw *Hugo* recently, and think it's a classic. But, I'd have to see it a couple of more times over a few years, to see how it holds up. Lots of people would've called *Titanic* (1997) a classic, and I think it's schlock. I'd say that probably more people then thought it was great, than do today, but that is just my guess. There are plenty of films that have wowed me when new, but not held up. There are others that I thought were decent, but not great, on first viewing, but have grown in stature in my eyes, over the years.

I realize that films are not cars, or comic books. But with cars, anything 25 years old, or older, is considered a "classic car." With comic books, anything from the 30s is considered a "Golden Age Classic," and books from the 50s and 60s are considered "Silver Age Classics." These denotations ARE made purely on age. So, although I don't completely agree with that rationale when applied to film, I don't find it that unreasonable, either.

We've plowed that exact same ground many times in the past.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}Haven't we already had this discussion? Many times? It's deja vu all over again. Nah, this time it's deja vu all under again...

She should say "It's your turn, Charlie,' and abdicate.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > But don't let "truth" stop you from stocking up on the "little blue pill", just in case. > > Huh? I'm not sure what you're talking about. About not shooting blanks.

I think *Eraserhead* is a classic...

Now, I would say that the first Flash Gordon serial, where Jean had the ethereal blonde 'do, is the best. I'd give an honorable mention to Buck Rogers - a mountain that opens up - how cool is that? For nostalgia, I'll mention Commando Cody. I watched those religiously in the 50s. When I was probably 4 or 5, Tim Tyler's Luck was my favorite, along with one I found almost too scary to watch, and don't recall the name of. I do recall that the lead baddie was a spider woman, and she often killed her enemies with a poisonous poke in the back of the neck, from a stinger that would come out of a small hatch in the back of a chair.

Interesting. Amazon says it's available as a MGM release, from 2010.

> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}It is the citric and phosphoric acid which does that. Lemonade will also have the same effect. > Of course, but you don't have to tell the kids that. It's sugary sodas you want to discourage them from drinking...

> {quote:title=OtisCriblecoblis wrote:}{quote} > Why would anybody from a country call themselves by the name of the > continent? I call myself an American because that's the country I'm from, I'm from The United States of America, aka the USA. Everyone native to the western hemisphere is an American. I realize that those of us in the USA have tried to appropriate the name "American" for ourselves, but that doesn't make it accurate, or right.