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or have the reel transported across the atlantic by the tcm classic cruise ship.

sure they follow the money trail...and along the way what was forgotten is movie making is suppose to be an artform. they sure seem to be clueless about that. so we're all suppose to understand the overriding profit potential of fifteen year olds? I understand it and today's Hollywood money grubbers suck because of it!

hollywood today is run by incompetents. they should know how and be able to make movies that can appeal to a broad multi-generational demographic. I started watching movies and tv shows as a kid. first for me mostly low-budget 50s sci-fi then on to more serious fare like the 1940s and 30s crime noir genre with cagney, bogart, robinson and garfield. then historical and biblical epics like the Egyptian. I first saw that on a CBS affiliate station outta Philadelphia on a Saturday afternoon 40 years ago. I've loved it ever since. my point is that as a 1960s couch potato space cadet, I learned to like these genres as I grew up by watching them. films that were made three and four decades before I was born. those now extinct analog crt days. now some say on this board that older fare being in black & white precludes the possibility or expectation of todays teen demographic ever developing any familiarity with any of it. hey, I first watched The Egyptian on a black & white TV! formatted for a crt TV screen! loved it and without color! no, I'm sorry. there IS something wrong here. and I know what it is. todays studio execs are clueless bleep-ups!

and doan forget the kitty jumping away from her as sinuhe backs her down. the cat knew.

well, personally I think if sinuhe had to bankrupt himself and blow the funds for his adoptive parents second life, he shoulda done it for a better looking babe than bella darvi she's a woof-woof.

The Egyptian is an exceptional epic of ancient Egypt and it is beyond me how anyone could think that Edmund Purdom's performance has any shortcomings. his performance is low-key but tremendously heartfelt. there is so much pathos at the end after completing the story of his life for his son. and the nearby guards not knowing this dying old man was the unrecognized true son of a great pharaoh denied his heritage because of human avarice. yet learning this toward the end of his lifelong sojourn the two things that sinuhe the egyptian valued the most were truth and goodness. so aptly we read at the end: "These things happened thirteen centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ" ...and Michael Wilding was damn good too.

Kiss of the Vampire aka. kiss of evil. a good one. some turn of the century motor tripping honeymooners short on petrol run afoul of some local aristocrat vampire cultists who start out real hospitable. a very well-directed little diddy by Don Sharpe. starts out real good too. some professor shows up at his daughter's funeral a little tight and rams a shovel right through her casket. that guy ain't gonna have his daughter a vampire. no sir!

Wilma's hot but john goodman is more stupid as fred flintstone than fred flintstone.

I thought Trog a fairly good horror film since first seeing it on the CBS Late Movie 40 years ago and John Scott's music is quite good.

it's a great film and I always watch it. it's visual opulence is on a par with DeMille's The Ten Commandments. this film is also notable for history's first put-down of twittering by horum-hep. (victor mature) watch for it in the tavern during horum-hep and sinoray's all-nite bender to commemorate the old pharaoh's passing. . .

is that bob Osborne? looks like it could be Sam Wanamaker.

I saw The Doomsday Machine twice on it's original NBC run, did you?

I am quite fond of alotta 70s films and a few 80s and 90s films. the problem is Hollywood today has only one demographic in mind, teenagers and young adults, mostly those who came of age in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.

what for? how about some movies. what am I suppose to do with AFI honors steve martin besides not watching it?

Ron Howard! only decent film he's done is Apollo 13.

I think you hit the nail and that is what I have been getting at. they have been aiming at fifteen year olds for years now and what about everyone else? they're just are no more Sidney Lumets, Robert Aldriches or John Sturges' any more. all we got are a bunch of quentin tarantinoes and spike lees who have a decidedly non-traditional approach to filmmaking. films are not gonna rise to being an artform simply on the basis of ultra-violence and cgi. take Alfred Hitchcock, he didn't just throw mindless violence at the audience.

now take the new vacation movie. it is now rusty's turn to be a complete a-whole like his dad. stupid. what? they think chevy chase is over the hill comedic-wise? I sure as hell doan. here's the story I woulda gone with. a nostalgic Clark Griswold gets the idea to recreate his family's 1983 odyssey only this time he is even a bigger shtootz than before. maybe chase didn't wanna do that but he sure coulda imo if he wanted to. so we're suppose to buy Rusty Griswold being just as big a shtootz as chevy was in all the past movies? I mean how smart does a Hollywood person hafta be to see chevy chase is at the heart of all those films and that is the problem in Hollywood today, near total counter-intuitiveness. so vacation will fail because these Hollywood shtootzes didn't have the sense to hand the comedic chores over to chase like they should have. how dumb can you get.

just ask yourselves this...where would Hollywood today be without cgi?

yeah, but what is sadly missing from todays pathetic offerings is any appreciably well-done dramatics because today's Hollywood people simply do not know how. all they care about are the cgi sequences they build their life action scenes around...and they doan even do the cgi. the studios' cgi nerd technicians do that. look at something like the towering inferno from 1974. Irwin Allen directed some action sequences as well. that is old school competence compared to todays incompetent mediocrity.

the sandpiper does have that nice semi-topless shot of elizabeth taylor while Charles Bronson chips away.

go take a look at the upcoming films listed on IMDb like a Lego Brickumentary. that does sound like sesame street. compare the vintage stuff shown right here on tcm to todays fare. could or would todays Hollywood turn out a film like Judgment at Nuremburg? the subject matter is way off. what are fifteen year olds gonna care about WWII? nothin'! our culture has been dumbed down from intelligent filmmaking to sesame street level HS. anybody who has watched as much movies and TV as I have for close to 50 years now can plainly see this. it was not an impossible feat to reboot Nat'l lampoon's vacation for 2015. the problem was that no one in Hollywood today knew how to. the people running the studios are dumb enough to let parking attendants and trash collectors write and direct films and the current crop looks it. it's very simple. todays Hollywood "filmmakers" think filmmaking is a big joke, like writing for snl or tales from the darkside, rather than it being an artform. they doan take any subject matter or it's execution on film or it's translation to the screen seriously. Hollywood is dying of acute sesame street / cgi syndrome. I can see it, others can't.

my point is that everything outta Hollywood seems geared to an audience raised on either sesame street or transformers. where is the substance and the interesting subject matter? minions? a play on onions. yellow pac men in overalls. a terrific idea for ten-year olds. where are the historical epics? nowhere. where are the war films? nowhere. todays films swing back and forth between saturday night live skit-like comedies to sesame street-like cgi fests. to me that is decline.

they can't even remake comedies good anymore. the new vacation movie. any stupe can figure out...easily...that the previous films irregardless of the setting or situation, were always built around the antics of Clark Griswold. that was the glue that made 'em work. today's hollywood stupes couldn't even figure that out? I would watch the new film only for the chevy chase-beverly d'angelo cameos. no other reason to at all. another thing, how come today's movie titles all sound like something that belongs on sesame street? must be an indicator of the mentality of today's Hollywood studio executive. I doan doubt it. well, if the aging celebs of Hollywood's yesteryear on the tcm classic cruise doan mind. why should I?

it's because of men like you that all film noir must end... because all you of earth are stupid! Stupid!

whose arty?