cjrogan2003

kriegerg69, you are truly ridiculous and infantile. I love TCM, except for three things, VERY different this time: 1) Showing more Cheap-O-Color (Eastmancolor, Metrocolor, Warnercolor, DeLuxe, Pathecolor, etc.) films than those in three-strip Technicolor. 2) Continously showing poor, faded Eastmancolor dupes of Technicolor films 3) Airing new films from the 80s and 90s. I like this cinematography salute, but I am SO annoyed about them airing the Saturday Night Live cast. Let me add one more thing to boot: TCM's movie openers are NOTHING compared to the ultimate opener. Do you remember it? It begins in a foggy atmosphere. When the cloud breaks, we can see cars in a suburban neighborhood. Slowly, we race down the street past all these houses, which slowly takes us to the big downtown of the city. When we get past the skyscrapers, we zoom up to the stars. A large star, centered in the middle, shines brighter and brighter and brighter until it explodes, leaving behind little stars and a giant silver monolith. The giant silver monolith slowly moves down from the center of the screen and it reveals itself to be a giant "HBO". As the big letters get closer, they rotate clockwise. When the big "H" gets to the very center of the screen, we turn around southwest over to the "O", which has multicolored laser beams going around it. The outside of the "O" disappears, and it takes us into the center of the "O", with all these rainbow lasers spinning around the "O" in a counterclockwise direction. We then get over to one, and it forms the big letters HBO FEATURE PRESENTATION. A final laser beam makes it disappear. Remember that?

There were actually three sequels: Daughters Courageous and Four Wives, released in 1939, and Four Mothers, released in 1941. Four Daughters' cast is an all-star Warner Brothers film: Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, a young John Garfield, Dick Foran and Frank McHugh. BTW, has anyone seen Swingtime in the Movies, a 1938 Technicolor short with cameos from Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, the Bowery Boys, John Garfield, Priscilla and Rosemary Lane and Pat O'Brien? I LOVE the segment with the waitresses "Swinging Through the Kitchen Door"!

I am very happy over the recent showing of Technicolor short contemplations (Hollywood Wonderland) and older shorts from the mid-1930s (Changing of the Guard last night, Carnival Day this morning). BUT I am extremely disappointed by TCM's small selection of full-length Technicolor features: 27 Technicolor films, 100 Eastmancolor...COME ON? IS THIS NETWORK BECOMING THE NEW AMC? I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF EASTMANCOLOR! EASTMANCOLOR IS B.S.! STOP AIRING THEM! I WANT TO SEE MORE TECHNICOLOR FILMS AND MUCH LESS EASTMANCOLOR FILMS! Technicolor Eastmancolor (three-strip camera) (Metrocolor, DeLuxe, Warnercolor, Pathe, etc.) Mogambo Sounder Plymouth Adventure Kiss Me Kate Bathing Beauty Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows The Pirate Anne of the Thousand Days Young Bess Giant National Velvet Irma La Douce She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Some Came Running An American in Paris Tennesee Champ The Adventures of Robin Hood The Treasure of Pancho Villa The Barefoot Contessa Trapeze Moulin Rouge Dangerous Exile Duel in the Sun It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Best of the Badmen Deliverance (R-rated films on TCM? NO!) Meet Me in St. Louis Where Eagles Dare Becky Sharp (THE FIRST!) The Devil at 4 O'Clock 3 Godfathers Tootsie (DEAR GOD, NO!) The Virginian Fletch (DEAR GOD, NO!) King Solomon's Mines A League of Their Own (ENOUGH NEW FILMS!) Little Women South Pacific Rancho Notorious Betrayed The Band Wagon Hatari! Duchess of Idaho The Magnificent Seven Quo Vadis Terms of Endearment The Half-Breed Two Loves Bend of the River Picnic The Yearling Oklahoma! San Antonio The Greatest Story Ever Told The Mating Game Guys and Dolls Spartacus The 7th Voyage of Sinbad The Hound of the Baskervilles The Black Stallion Chato's Land Live a Little, Love a Little Alexander the Great Lawrence of Arabia Hawaii King of Kings The Singing Nun Roe Marie Steal Away, Joe Harum Scarum Around the World in 80 Days The Yellow Rolls-Royce The Sheepman The Rounders Beneath the 12-Mile Reef Gigi Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Kramer vs. Kramer (too contemporary) The Wind and the Lion The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight Wait Until Dark Home From the Hill Nevada Smith The Way West From the Earth to the Moon It's a Dog's Life How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying The Wheeler Dealers The Last Voyage Sweet Bird of Youth Paint Your Wagon Fiddler on the Roof Cabaret New York, New York (R-RATED FILMS? NO! Annie Hall (no more Woody Allen, PLEASE!) How to Murder Your Wife Two Mules for Sister Sara Gambit North by Northwest Cool Hand Luke The Hawaiians Dead Poets Society (GOOD LORD!) The Age of Innocence (SHOW THE '35 VERSION) The Remains of the Day (A CLASSIC?) The Sacrifice (WHAT THE...) War Paint (PATHETICCOLOR!) The Unforgiven Apache Comanche Geronimo Run of the Arrow Born Free The Black Stallion Returns Where The Boys Are What's Up, Tiger Lily? (WOODY ALLEN STINKS!) Gate of Hell (JAPAN'S FIRST COLOR-EASYFADE!) Day of the Evil Gun Cat Ballou The Pink Panther A Bridge to Far The Man Who Would Be King Sleeper (ENOUGH WOODY ALLEN? PLEASE!) 2001: A Space Odyssey A Christmas Story Escape from Alcatraz Telefon TCM's lack of Technicolor films is APPALLING!

I have some great news to say: just before My Dream Is Yours Came On, I managed to catch Hollywood Wonderland this time. I was recording Romance on the High Seas and was going to record My Dream is Yours, and it came on. It's 15 minutes long, so why not use it as regular fillers. Did anyone else catch this? The colors are BEAUTIFUL, and it may surprise many people that most of the numbers that they use are from the mid 1930s. I would like TCM to stop using that "Face the Fear", "It's Not Real" commercial for Halloween with those annoying flashy graphics and the young people.

A few more VERY annoying commercials, tell me what you think: 1) I can't stand the "Now Playing in the Supermarket" commercial. Don't you think its annoying. I actually liked the old jazz one. I wish they would bring it back. 2) This October commercial for the horror movies (the one with the flashy graphics and all the young people) with that annoying "IT'S NOT REAL" voice. 3) When that Ben Mankiewicz one about how his grandfather wrote Citizen Kane comes on, I feel like strangling Ben. When he introduces a show that's fine, but his voice on that commercial gets me incensed. 4) And of course, TCM's Classic Movie News. That woman's voice gets me SO ticked off, and it seems that they have too much emphasis on new films (Chicago, About Schmidt, Frida, Spy Kids 2, Secondhand Lions, etc.). I wish TCM would stop playing this. I HATE IT SO MUCH!

ARRRGGGHHHH! I should have known, I didn't even check TCM because I wasn't at home at 4:30! Could someone please send me a video of that?

More three-strip Technicolor films. TCM does not air much of these great films, only about 20 to 25 a month. I'd like to see about 50 three-strip films a month, including some we haven't seen in a long time (like Warner's first Technicolor film God's Country and the Woman, Bette Davis' sole Technicolor performance in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, etc.), and since three-strip Technicolor is VASTLY superior to Eastmancolor films which air much more than three-strip (there are about 70 scheduled this month), why not show more of them since they are the REAL color classics?

Here's a few more: the scene with Audrey Hepburn in the big hat and with the dog is actually from Funny Face, not from Breakfast at Tiffany's. And the scene where the large statue falls down, if I'm not mistaken that might be from Samson and Delilah. I have wondered about that scene where the guy jumps off the rock with the sword. What film do you think that's from?

I have a few updates: the scene where Wallace Beery is fighting is from Min and Bill (that's Marie Dressler he's fightingj with). And you forgot the scene from Flying Down to Rio with the girls on the airplane, which occurs before Groucho Marx does the mirror dance. The scene with the "CHARGE" is not from The Charge of the Light Brigade, but from Gunga Din. The scene with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in a starlit room is from Swing Time (1936), the scene with the Nicholas Brothers is from Down Argentine Way, and the scene with Lena Horne is from Cabin in the Sky. The Technicolor calvary scene you mentioned is from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Hope this helps!

One short that I am looking for, "Hollywood Wonderland", last aired between The Man I Love and The Beast With Five Fingers on September 2. If anyone has a video copy of this, please send it to me because I loved that short and I'd like to see it again.

I desperately want some three-strip Technicolor Vitaphone/MGM shorts, either on video or anyway! I WANT THESE SO BADLY AND I AM SO TIRED OF TCM NOT AIRING THEM! WHY NOT JUST RELEASE A COLLECTION OF THESE ON DVD? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME GET THESE OR I WILL STOP SUBSCRIBING TO TCM IF I DON'T SEE THESE AGAIN! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Venerados, I didn't mean what I said. I don't know what I was thinking when I said that. It's just that I don't like foreign films as much as others do and they are just damn boring! Again, I am very sorry.

Ha ha ha, Venerados is a **** who loves foreign films and will regard them as beautiful! VENERADOS THE ****! HA HA HA!

I have had it. I can't believe TCM always does this when they have a 27-minute block between films: Instead of airing 20-minute two-reelers, they waste 15 minutes by airing the same lousy commercials they have aired over and over and over and over...Here's how it went: first we had to see that STUPID "Movie News" with that annoying voice, a trailer, "Grace Kelly..Spencer Tracy..." (Word of Mouth), that ANNOYING "Now Playing" commercial in the supermarket, and the VERY LONG "In Memoriam" of Donald O'Connor (where they play his entire Make 'Em Laugh number from beginning to end) I HAVE HAD IT WITH TCM NOT SCHEDULING THEIR ONE-REEL WONDERS. IF THEY ARE GOING TO AIR THESE, WHY NOT MAKE A SEPARATE SCHEDULE ENTIRELY FOR THEM! IT IS SO TIRESOME, LIKE BACK IN MAY, WHEN THEY AIRED MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, DESPITE THOSE 45 MINUTES BETWEEN THEIR NEXT SILENT FILM, THEY REFUSED TO LIST THE ELUSIVE MGM STUDIO TOUR, WHICH IS 32 MINUTES LONG, YET JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO THEY LISTED A 12-MINUTE HAROLD LLOYD SHORT! THAT IS RIDICULOUS! I WANT YOU ALL TO E-MAIL TCM AND TELL THEM TO CREATE A WEEKLY (NOT MONTHLY) SCHEDULE FOR ONE-REEL WONDERS, BECAUSE I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WANT TO SEE THESE, ESPECIALLY THE TECHNICOLOR ONES!

The most overrated films of all time are, in my opinion: #1 Citizen Kane Why isn't Gone With the Wind #1 on the AFI lists? This film is droll and boring compared to Gone With the Wind, a TRUE masterpiece! What the heck do the critics love so much about this "masterpiece"? It's just a slow-moving, noirish film that basically pokes fun at conservative news editors like William Randolph Hearst! BORING! #2 Casablanca What do the critics love about this film so much? This is a much better film than Citizen Kane, but I would place it at #5 rather than #2. As a conservative, I like the film because of it's anti-Nazi and pro-French Resistence thene, but I think they just take it too seriously. #3 The Godfather Definently NOT your traditional Hollywood film! Made just a decade after the Production Code was abandoned, this film went to new levels in violence (23 deaths), criminals getting away with murder, etc. Again, in my opinion, no film made after the Production Code is a classic, but this could somewhat count as a "classic" if you judge the film by its artistic merit. #4 Singin' in the Rain I just don't get it! This and The Wizard of Oz may be the best musicals ever made, but why is it consistently placed on lists like these? I love the film because of the music, the accurate costumes and hairstyles (unlike later films as I mentioned on a previous post), the Technicolor, etc., but that doesn't make it a MASTERPIECE! It is a musical masterpiece, but not a FILM masterpiece on the same level as Gone With the Wind or Lawrence of Arabia. It borders on absurd! #5 Chinatown Even more of a departure from tradition than The Godfather, this film is worse than The Godfather because it is littered by F* words (the word is NEVER EVEN uttered in The Godfather!), sex scenes, and a very un-traditional Hollywood ending. Just a stupid, coarse little film that is not a classic, as no film made after the 1960s is. #6 The Graduate DRECK! This film was made at the crossroads period between the Production Code and the ratings system, and this film (along with Bonnie & Clyde) are often credited for breaking down the last barriers of the Production Code, who had gotten to a point of laxity even beyond the pre-code era! Being conservative and a devout Roman Catholic, I find this film offensive because of its glorification of sex, immorality, licentious and adultery. Just a stupid film that is SO overrated! #7 Some Like It Hot How the heck is this America's "funniest" film? I don't find it very funny, I find it somewhat offensive! Made just a few years after the Production Code had ended its enforcement with the resignation of Joe Breen, the PCA began to approve films that were more vulgar and racy, like this, especially since it contains homosexual overtones! Too overrated. The best comedy, in my opinion, would be a Preston Sturges film like The Lady Eve or a screwball comedy like Bringing Up Baby. #8 Psycho You heard what I said about Some Like It Hot being made at the beginning of the Production Code's second "pre-code" period. Just a coarse, violent film that showed the first toilet flushing in a film, censored nudity in a shower, etc. TOO overrated! This is not Alfred Hitchcock's best. To see good Alfred Hitchcock, try Notorious, To Catch a Thief or I Confess, among others. #9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! Those are the only words to describe this post-classic "classic" film made LONG after the Production Code. Written by Ken Kesey, the notorious leader of acid tests in San Francisco during the hippie period of the 60s, the film presents a Communist theme of rebelling against "repressive" institutes like mental wards. My have times changed! #10 2001: A Space Odyssey BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING! This film is just SO boring! Can I say anything else? No. Now you've heard my opinion, what are your most overrated and underrated films?

One of the most bizarre and unusual film endings of all time is the end of Baby Doll (I am a devout Catholic, and I behaved like the Legion of Decency and did not watch 98% of the film, but caught the very last scene): Archie Lee (Karl Malden) has been arrested and the marshal's car slowly drives away. Vacarro (Eli Wallach) tells Baby Doll (Carroll Baker) that he'll be back tomorrow. Aunt Rose (Mildred Dunnock) and Baby Doll just sit on the porch and watch, saying: "He'll be back tomorrow..." The music, probably the most ominous and bombastic ever written, gets loud as the marshal's car pulls away from the decaying mansion and into the night. The image then fades to an illustrated picture of the mansion with the words "BABY DOLL" and then it just ends. VERY bizzare. What are some other endings that don't make any sense?

I am looking for some of those early Vitaphone Technicolor shorts, and a 1947 short called "Hollywood Wonderland" (it was a "That's Entertainment" style show in which two singing hosts took people on a tour of Warner Studios and saw archival footage of 10-year old Technicolor shorts) which I catched one night earlier this month and did not record it. If someone has a copy of this film, could you tell me please?

Haven't you noticed how INACCURATE films like "Bonnie & Clyde" are? The film is supposed to take place in the early 1930s, but Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) wears her hair like its from the 1960s! Haven't you noticed this mistake on this and other films? What are some other films like this that contain inaccurate hairstyles, costumes, etc.

Everytime I hear the Essentials opening music (the "tap dancing" sounds), I walk out of the room because I know what's coming next: Hi, I'm Sydney Pollack, sometimes director, sometimes producer, sometimes even an actor... Help me finish the rest of it.

Yes, the late 1960s and early 1970s were definately a time of pushing the envelope. The strict Production Code, declining since 1956, was replaced by the ratings system in 1968, and this opened the door for X-rated films like "Midnight Cowboy" plus hardcore XXX-rated films like "Deep Throat" and "The Devil in Miss Jones".

You mean that Essentials commercial where they play that background music that sounds like the old HBO theme? I like the music, but I CAN'T STAND SEEING THAT 3-MINUTE COMMERCIAL 1 billion times! I also HATE the 6 minute "Movie News" segment that shows nothing but news films! I also hate the "Now Playing" in the supermarket, the "Painting with Light" segments with Alan Cumming and Sissy Spacek, and the modern-style commercials with Ben Mankiewicz. And the: "Grace Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Vincente Minnelli, typical Hollywood story, damned good actress" (Word of Mouth) is SO annoying! When TCM has 26 minutes between films, many times they refuse to air Pete Smith specialties, Looney Tunes and MGM cartoons, the Crime Does Not Pay two-reelers, old Vitaphone musical shorts, early two-strip Technicolor shorts, three-strip Technicolor musical shorts, the 1925 MGM Studio Tour, 100 Years at the Movies, etc. What did TCM do to the "What a Character" interstitials (the one with the lady going into the photo booth at the beginning that looks at the careers of character actors like Marjorie Main, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest and Hattie McDaniel). What did TCM do to the "Star Stories" (the one that begins with the guy going into the "Buy War Bonds" newsstand and puts magazines up, then we see a profile of a star) I really do get tired of their commercials. I agree.

I noticed that in November, there will be an entire night of films with the Saturday Night Live cast: Tootsie, Fletch, A League of Their Own, Driving Miss Daisy...COME ON, TCM! IS THIS NETWORK SLOWLY BECOMING ANOTHER AMC? Why is it that many times when TCM airs a film theme they have to throw in a 80s or 90s film, like they did with the movie spoofs theme by throwing in Austin Powers, or when they have a theme about classic baseball movies like The Stratton Story or The Pride of the Yankees and have to throw in A League of Their Own, or when they have a romance classics Valentine's Day festival theme with The Philadelphia Story or It Happened One Night they have to throw in Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally, or when they have an aviation theme with films like Test Pilot or Flying Leathernecks they have to throw in Top Gun, or back in March when they had a truckload of new films like never before (in what way are Reversal of Fortune and As Good As It Gets "classics", those sound like stuff that AMC would air.) And what's with this new program that is going to start in October where they have modern stars host films back-to-back ala AMC and this Ben Mankiewicz jazz with the MTV video-style opening and the close-ups of Ben without looking at the camera? I am very, very, VERY worried. I think it's time TCM quits showing all 80s and 90s films and only shows films from the 20s-70s!

What the heck did you do to me and all my posts? Why are all my posts from before August simply say "GUEST"? I thought TCM abandoned guests registering last December. PLEASE tell my why I am a GUEST!!??

Why, why, WHY does TCM absolutely refuse to list their "One Reel Wonders" and "From the Vault" which can be up to 30 minutes long, but they list 12 or 20-minute Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton shorts. I like the One Reel Wonders, especially the old three-strip Technicolor musicals and the 30-minute 1925 MGM Studio Tour, and I find it rather annoying that TCM does not list the One Reel Wonders yet they list Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton shorts which are shorter.

I agree. In my opinion, TCM should just letterbox the CinemaScope films, and nothing else. The films that are 1.66:1 or 1.85:1 that they letterbox can fill up an entire screen and nothing is lost when this is done.