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Bava?..... Hey! tcm has never shown caltiki the immortal monster, mario's blob movie.

am I to understand that it would be technically impossible to smilebox either 2001: a space odyssey or ice station zebra? I sure do wish they'd try though.

my bad...but you know what I meant. they HAVE NOT done justice to the whole of cinema... and I bet you THIS. should tcm ever honor William Cameron Menzies, they will show the shorter and inferior US version of Invaders From Mars. why? because it will be a lot easier for tcm slackers to get the shorter inferior US print than the UK print. even though the UK print is better, that will mean nothing to tcm.

at least that is what I call it. I noticed it with the opening credits. some almost unnoticeable frame-jumping. the moving truck on the highway with lon hitching a ride so he can roust hud. anyone other than myself notice the frame-jumping of the truck as it moves? it should be a smooth fluid movement but minute changes with the frame rate can cause, imperceptible to alotta people, this sort of anomaly.

it's tcm's fault because they never show Hot Spell(1958) or The Flame Barrier(1958) or the UK cut of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders From Mars.... and by failing to do so they have done full justice to the whole of American cinema... slackers!

I wish TCM would show alotta mini-series' like Masada, Blind Ambition and and Washington: Behind Closed Doors BUT ... that would no doubt be asking for too much. might as well ask them for the expanded UK cut of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders From Mars.

Hurricane from 1974, an ABC-TV movie of the week with Martin Milner, Larry Hagman, Frank Sutton, Will Geer and Michael Learned.

starts at two this afternoon with the hasty heart and never lets up right with a face in the crowd into late nite. this is one sunday that tcm programmers decided not to waste. my complements... "That's better. That's more like it!" -the captain (james cagney)

this is the kind of programming choices that is slowly but inexorably causing dismayed longtime tcm viewers to write-off a increasingly disconnected tcm...imo. someday all that will be left is a tiny niche of silent film enthusiasts. that seems to be what tcm is working torwards.

Aw, I'm just a kidder...no kiddin!"

Widmark must've enjoyed having fans come up to him over the years and asking him to do Tommy Udo.

I managed to get the tracks to FSM's cd release of Adolph Deutch's music to TLLT. charming music and lucy & desi sing!

she was pretty wacky in that new moon trailer trying to fix nicky his salad for his ragu of beef dinner. "ragu of beef?..I'm your boy!"

doan forget this guy...

only shot I liked are the tie fighters headin' towards the imperial destroyer. hope jabba shows up.

March's Hyde is like Jerry Lewis on speed. but dammit if it ain't entertaining.

I think she looks hotter in that awful wig.

Exactly.

yeah, a golden age for drama with teens and twentysomethings. older generational people were written off like 30 years ago.

todays Hollywood stupes do not know or care about the past history or chronology of past American television shows and they certainly do not care about established comic book character histories or story development. it's all meaningless to them as all they wanna know is pc captain planet-esque or teenage ninja turtle-ish horse dung. because they are a group of foul-ups who do not care if intelligence or continuity is behind anything they churn out. they're idiots!...and they doan care. why should they raking in the moolah they are? they couldn't get back to basics even if they wanted to because they simply would not know how to. imagine putting Mr. Kotter's remedial level sweathogs in charge of the jet propulsion laboratory. the Hollywood studios have fallen into the hands of people who oughta be doing trash pickups and scraping up dog doo from parking lots. nepotism? who knows?

the spin is that it is bombing at the box office very badly. for starters the human torch is now black. nick fury ain't enough for the political correctists.

obviously the film is for teens and juveniles but marvel finally has blowtorched it's own behind with this one. you fool around with a franchise's origins too much and eventually you will screw up and screwing up with the younger demographic, contemporary hollywood's core audience, is a terrific feat. screwing up with today's smartphone-wielding younger demo is a pretty good screw-up. marvel productions lets some know-it-all kid re-imagine the fantastic four and it woan even work with the smartphonics. very outstanding. the fantastic four was already bent outta shape with the earlier films. why re-imagine the fantastic four for a demographic that was never really familiar with it's comic book origins in the first place? today's incompetent hollywwood foul-ups continue to proceed with the assumption that the younger demographic will never be interested or capable of appreciating 20th century american society as it was decades ago so they have to contemporize everything and now they have rebooted what they had previously contemporized. today's smartphone kiddies were never really familiar with the fantastic four in the first place. 1961, the world's greatest comic magazine begins... Reed Richards, brilliant middle-aged scientific genius with some graying hair builds a rocketship prototype manned by himself, his best friend and pilot Ben Grimm, his young wife Sue and her kid brother Johnny Storm. think joe cartwright with blonde hair. cosmic ray exposure, fantastic powers gained and a resolve to use their new powers contructively and altruistically against the backdrop of 1960s NYC. their main guidance, the wisdom, judgment, foresight and scientific genius of Reed Richards. That WAS the fantastic four of yesteryear. but stan lee got old and off into the hands of hollywood buttwipes it went. this is what you get when you write off generations of older film and TV viewers. you kill a little bit more of past americana. but to continue the pattern of dumbing down anything and everything, even todays comic book superheroes hafta be authority-disrespecting impetious-minded twentysomethings...even Reed Richards! I'm sick of it. 　 　

wake me up when princess leia sees the ghost of jabba the hutt.

Bobby Ewing's dream sequence and failing to make Steve Forrest the new Jock Ewing.