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love them Japanese miners-killing meganulons.

I bet you didn't even watch it.

the early seventies saw a lot of this type of low-budget amateurish horror flick and I gawked at my share as a kid and teenager. an independent station in my viewing area was always showing this along with bob clark's other zombie feature children shouldn't play with dead things but at least that one had some clever humor along with the obligatory gore and there was a sense of justice when alan the tyrannical acting troupe owner gets his from orville whom he disrespects throughout that film. no such luck here. dead good boy andy returns to home and hearth to perplex all with his quiet detached personality. doan talk much but smiles occasionally and even informs his loved ones that he has been dead which they let pass and no doubt chalk up to his wartime experiences. andy spends evenings up in his room in a rocking chair and during the day lays around in a lounge chair like a corpse which he is. in front of some adoring neighborhood kids andy throttles the beloved family pooch butch in front of all the hero-worshipping kids who are now traumatized. now in the real world his parents oughta have him dragged off right there on the spot but andy gets cut alotta slack by mom while dad who loved the pooch goes to a bar for solace. later on andy's sister who readies din-din for the pooch is told to forget the dog was ever there by mom, meanwhile dad brings home the family doctor to talk to andy who's busy rocking in his chair. the doc who suspects andy's first meal may have been a hapless truck driver who gave andy the hitch back home gets an after hours office visit from andy who lets the doc know he is dead and then decides doc might be a good intravenous taste treat and pokes the doctor repeatedly with a needle. after draining the docster andy lightens up a little and accepts a double date with sister. at the drive-in andy's sister and boyfriend decide to get some popcorn meanwhile andy's upper forehead starts bleeding so andy decides his old girlfriend who is guilty of nothing but pining for him gets to be his next meal and andy proceeds accordingly. when sister and boyfriend return to the car andy presents himself and the only thing for him to do now his throttle sister's boyfriend which causes sister to loose her marbles. then deteriorating andy is off to his preprepared grave with mother's help and that's the end of this bob clark garbage.

I'll watch forbidden planet to test my later picture settings on my tv and north by northwest for the always hilarious auction segment. "how do we know it's not a fake? it looks like a fake."

forbidden planet followed by north by northwest. (yawn)

that be exactly what I was tryin' to say. if ya can't show it right then don't show it at all.

I say tcm oughta get off their lazy accolade-prone duffs and make 'em then. now there's a project! tcm makes 3-strip prints of ice station zebra and 2001: a space odyssey.

yes, but shouldn't tcm have enough sense to be aware that they've gotten a hold of an edited print and upon realizing this choose not to show it? suppose they aired a heavily dubbed print of dog day afternoon and nobody watched it. if tcm does not edit films for a reason (uh...artistic integrity?) then why would they air a chopped up print for no reason other than laziness?

is my favorite atom bomb movie. I think it should be colorized.

song of the south too?

should the old planet of the apes movies be shown any ol' way?

so there is no way tcm could show ice station zebra or 2001: a space odyssey in the same way they have smileboxed how the west was won? I be not a technician so I hafta ask elementary questions... but if they can do it... well sir... I wanna see it.

I did notice that. certainly not chronologically ordered which is the rational way to show them.

I'm waiting for Barbarella: the later years with jane as a washed-out anorexic hag.

months ago close encounters of the third kind had been on youtube but it was removed. a good one too! the special edition director's cut. tcm has shown a version with neary's hilarious outdoor shrubbery nutso routine but without the moorcroft, wyoming huckster who is seen saying to a crowd "you're all going to be real sorry if you don't have one of these early warning systems like a gas mask. why even my dog has a gas mask and anyone of you is worth more than a dog." and he's got a gas mask on his hound dog. I wouldn't waste my time on any cut of close encounters that didn't have that hllarious dog with a gas mask scene. anyways I was going through stuff on my external usb hard drive and I came across that file now long gone from youtube. think I'll give it a good dvd treatment.

whatever became of the juke box in Bleeker's Café in The Wild One?

"maybe you're right." -rooster cogburn

it's been on TV already.

Yeah, I did watch the whole film and the impression I got is when lily sits in on the board meeting with trenthorn. trenthorn knows exactly what she is, a very opportunistic strumpet so when he shows up later in paris and gets involved with her seems kinda dumb. I mean should trenthorn have really been surprised at her unwillingness to give up her acquired wealth she worked so hard to get?

I love that ending. the sphere goes supercritical and the psycho-bimbo gets it. being a space cadet and not a nuclear physicist I would say the sphere is fissile material kept from going critical by the box which is shielding... and I also think wesley addy looks like anderson cooper. what is that sphere?....super-compressed radium!

I'm just sayin' young duke was a lucky guy here. she loved Brent, terrific but he still plugged himself. tom powers' brother shoots some poor guy then himself and she just stands there taking it in. such a creature could not love anyone and she seems most aware of her indifference.

because she had no interest in him and thus he was not moved to shoot himself in the head like them other poor bass terds.

I always watch it whenever it is shown. one of Taylor's best films. He gives a sincere heartfelt performance as Tibbets.

I think I like him better as Ranger Cory on lassie.