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tonite at eight. without a doubt one of the most overlooked war movies I have ever seen. john garfield and buddies keep their beat up B-17 going. great film.

strictly for millennial fanboys. real trekkers beamed out ages ago when paramount permanently hamstrung star trek by removing shatner with that awful generations movie back in 1994. that's when they killed genuine star trek. real trekkers like the late bjo trimble would be sickened and appalled by what has been done to roddenberry's creation. "atlantis is gone...but free men, wiser men, carried the civilization of the mother empire to the four corners of the earth. -paul frees, atlantis, the lost continent

yeah! I wanna see Shanty Tramp!

and tcm never shows any of k. gordon murray's mexican horror imports either. they call themselves cinema aficionadoes? some of chubusco-azteca studios' horror films have truly astounding atmospheric cinematography. that oughta mean something to an outfit like tcm and yet they never show mexican horror genre films with the great abel salazar or german robles. true space cadets know slackness when they see it.

if I was programming for tcm you'd get a real mario bava treat... his first film 'caltiki ll mostro immortale', which big self-professed cinemaphiles tcm never show, followed by black sunday.

who was Chuck Norris' boyhood hero?... J O H N W A Y N E

doan forget FIST... who are we?...FIST! -sly stallone

what? no osborne? then I ain't a goin'! no sir!

schallert finally kicked off? talk about a long career. the guy's been on screen since before moses. decades and decades of movies and TV. a real trooper. whatta legacy. from getting strangulated by a robot in 'gog' to a cameo as a weatherman in 'the monolith monsters' to TV dad martin lane and practically everything else in-between. the guy did it all and for so long. an impressive long-lasting legacy. william schallert was a true icon.

tcm are slackers big time. take the passing of christopher lee. what did they do? showed their chopped up americanized print of the first dracula film from 1958... I woulda shown the 2012 restored BFI print with the original british title and complete dracula sunlight disintegration scene that tcm's aging americanized print doan have. horror and science fiction is not tcm's main focus and they continue to demonstrate this by their slackness and unwillingness (apathy or just plain disinterest) in presenting the best possible product. they should be embarrassed to have shown that lousy print of Frenchman's Creek.

choose.

take me for instance. I'm open-minded. enough to watch one of them late sunday nite silents if it be something interestin'. but when it ain't!.... that's when an outfit like tcm causes viewers to vamoose. they'll turn to somethin' better or just plain make it themselves like I do. just burned a disc I did. got some funny as heck carol burnett skits offa youtube and mario bava's overlooked science fiction gem caltiki, the immortal monster, the SCARY blob movie. a gem like that might as well not even exist as far as tcm is concerned. when it comes to horror/sci-fi, their slackness runs deep. "I can't do a thing with the enterprise now. she's bound to drift! -scotty, 3rd season ep 'the tholian web' kinda like a stagnatin' film coffer.

the car started to seem better to me after I would guess my third or fourth viewing. the car itself contributes to improving the film by taking out john marley early on. and doan forget the funny exchanges between john rubinstein and R.G. Armstrong. the little [...] thinks he's cute with a lighthearted "bye bird" and then the car deliciously grinds him and his french horn into the dirt. gotta love that.

the only stephen king adaptation of any worth is the unforgettable 1979 CBS mini-series salem's lot. also 'the langoliers'. I doan particularly fault you, Dargy, for not thinking too much of The Car. for me it's one of those films you hafta sit thru a number of times before it grows on you. first time I watched it, probably on pay cable, I thought it was pretty bad because it wasn't what I quite expected it to be. today it is to me a minor classic. there are some subtleties you're not gonna appreciate the first or second viewing like after they find that bicyclist that the car sends over the bridge. while brolin and cox are talking, the camera focuses in on a distant shot of dust being raised by the diabolic car moving in the desert. that is very creepy and suggests great evil. personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel or a remake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSwIhx6KYU

cleopatra.

is it me or does dorothy comingore sound like judy holiday.

I think kane sees himself as someone who can make anybody's dream come true. jedediah suggested to him that his problem was he expected the masses to be grateful to him for his beneficence. (sorta like obama) so susan alexander tells kane she wanted to be a singer and so kane says to himself if that what she wants then by ME she shall have it. that's how kane thought.

yeah, maybe bi-weekly or tri-weekly.

svengoolie's pattern seems to be to show a good film and then follow a week later with a bad film. last nite's good film was 'the car' now we must suffer thru a bad film. next week's calling dr. death. I hope gilbert gottfried talks right into svengoolie's ear.

when a print looks that bad it shouldn't be shown.

I'm glad this thread was started because I intended to comment on the absolute lousyness of that awful print tcm showed... that an exanple of the respect today's tcm truly has for cinema? what an insult to arturo de cordova and joan fontaine. and I thought Blackbeard the Pirate looked bad.

here's all the st-tas underscores tacked together. this just might be the best presentation of the tas music we'll ever gonna hear.

doan hold your breath waitin' for tcm to show 'the tiger makes out' from 1967 starring eli wallach and anne jackson. I doan waste my time waitin' on tcm to do things that are sensible.

I'd but johm marion's cartoon music for filmation up against anything composed for the big screen by john williams or jerry goldsmith. that cartoon music had a powerful dynamicism missing from a lot of big screen film scores.

as a lifelong couch potato, there is music I have patiently awaited someday being commercially released to the public like oliver nelson's six million dollar man underscores as well as alotta 1960s cartoon music by filmation studios. I've always been particularly fond of the underscores to The New Adventures of Superman which debuted on CBS in 1966. it's all gone thanks to Hallmark, the people who care... http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=40108&archive=1