NipkowDisc
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Not only the acadamy award show was too poltical.For a long whiilte they kept politics out of it. whether it was conservative or ,even alledgedly liberal.Becase it was a show for entertainment They were acting like fox and m.s n. b. c..What 's worst t.c.m did not introuce more never before seen academy Award nomminies or winers ,that have yet to be seen .There was a lack of variety again .Just over exposed popular
I agree. before this past show it was just an annual dog and pony show but this year it was very political. I guess they're still smarting out there from the midterm results.
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Clint Eastwood as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street...
HO, HO, HO, Punk!
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STAR TREK
leonard's katra would be pleased.
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All Satellite Signals are subjected to interference…FROM THE SUN. Those sun outages happen in the Spring and Fall. This outage will have no lasting effect on you DIRECTV System. Your picture will return in a few moments. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Yep, the SUN just ruined "The Captain's Kid" airing this morning.
Oddly, such interference occurred with the TCMHD (Channel 256) broadcast yet other channels were completely unaffected.
Just one of the frustrating issues TCM viewers are being subjected to by the DTV provider.
maybe that's what ruined airport last nite.
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Where was R2D2 when he needed him? I hope he yelled "Fore"!
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Sorry ND, but seein' as how Chuck's cold dead hands are NOW six feet under and thus will never have the chance to tackle that Shatner part, I suppose you'll just have to be satisfied with watchin' your boy Big Duke and HIS take on the Genghis Khan Story when TCM gets around to showin' it occasionally!!!
LOL
guess so.
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watched the young stranger thursday afternoon which is immensely entertaining I think. rich hollywood studio exec james daly has his son hal driving around an old heap that he somehow managed to outbid wally cleaver for.
quite frankly it looks like gregory peck's old staff car from twelve o'clock high.
we get this shot of young hal tryin' to get his old heap goin' with his parent's palatial residence in the background with guests on a sundeck...
no doubt amused at the sight of their hostess' son trying to get his rod started.
a film that's always alotta fun. personally, I like it a lot more than blackboard jungle.
then after that planet of the apes...again. these days I only watch the beginning of the film with the crash and their subsequent trek inland.
after some forty odd years the novelty of heston dealing with intelligent civilized apes has worn off a bit for me.
as the spaceship somewhat augers in with the fancy camerawork, we also get to hear some retread sound effects borrowed from lost in space, then the ship hits the water...
they wake up, see that their lovely companion now looks like norman bates' mother, something gives and the ship starts sinkin'.
taylor orders dodge to send out an sos to earth just for the helluva it. also tells dodge to blow the escape hatch before the power goes after which it does. then it's "forget it! abandon ship!" from heston.
taylor then starts waxing negative which will last only up until he meets the monkeys. you know the rest.
also tried to watch airport later on in the evening. was enjoying it too but the picture started getting' glitchy probably due to the weather.
the picture kept getting glitchier until it became unwatchable...
so I turned it off.Danno tell off Dr. Lochner.
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What movie would YOU like to see?
a young Charlton Heston as Captain James T. Kirk!
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was the force with him?
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I watched all three LOTR films on tcm the other nite. the whole thing came across as very repetitious. I mean how many battles are we talking about here in all three movies? dozens? the main warrior guy with the short scruffy beard looked like one of the carlin brothers from high plains drifter.
and does all that cgi require continuous sweeping camera angles throughout? that's my main complaint. why the continuous sweeping camera shots? even that gets monotonous. I was hopin' sauron would finally show up and finish 'em all off.
if you ask me, Ralph Bakshi's 1977 animated film is much better than all this peter jackson shakespearean wannabe crap.
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I had never read any of the books, but always wanted to. I was given two premiere tickets to the first movie and hoped it would be an easy introduction to what I expected was a great story. The auditorium was like a geek festival-boy was I excited!
Instead, I was extremely disappointed with the movie; the sets, costumes and cgi looked cheap and fake not pulling me into any sort of fantasy. Either the acting was ametuerish, or the writing not very good, because I never cared about ANY of the charactors. In stead of a multi-layered intricate story, all I saw was a long "chase" storyline that meandered here, there with seemingly no purpose other than introduce another "monster".
I really wanted to like it, but it was no more than an overblown, expensive version of a Harryhousen sandal movie, inho.
I watched all three LOTR films on tcm the other nite. the whole thing came across as very repetitious. I mean how many battles are we talking about here in all three movies? dozens? the main warrior guy with the short scruffy beard looked like one of the carlin brothers from high plains drifter.
and does all that cgi require continuous sweeping camera angles throughout? that's my main complaint. why the continuous sweeping camera shots? even that gets monotonous. I was hopin' sauron would finally show up and finish 'em all off.
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How come we never get to see Sauron?
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my current wallpaper...
admiral nelson pulling out the control rods on the seaview's reactor pile.
I can't help it if I love radiation.
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Well, for the last 3-4 weeks my analog tv set has distorted pictures - some are narrow like stringbeans, others are wider and go off the screen and other pictures are tiny with black bars on top and bottom. The worst are the lower channels like 2, 4, 5, 7, etc....A poster here said my adaptor needs to be changed to a digital adpater or converter....so the Comcast tech. comes here and says "it's the channels that are putting out these types of signal now"....it has nothing to do with Comcast and he looks at my adaptor and says it is the only adaptor they have and tells me it is a digital adapter....so I guess I'm stuck with distorted pictures now....this guy said lots of people are complaining. Does anyone else notice this?
you need a flatscreen TV. get a cheap 720p unit.
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still in the process of watching it. just watched the big train wreck scene and it was hilarious. merryville passengers including, fred, ben and olivia on the train then the scene shifts to the cab with moe and curly or is it them two guys from petticoat junction who drive the cannonball?
a bee shows up in the cab while curly is snacking on an apple. he notices the bee, alerts moe and spits out what's left of his apple. the bee lands on curly's hand and moe says "doan get him mad." the bee stings, curly yells and wacks the bee. the swarm quickly attacks and curly's butt hits the lever and the train races outta control and over it goes with all aboard.
note to fred, ben and olivia. don't travel by train. -
this man is not James Bond.
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Surreal? I doan now about that? but irwin allen did direct the thing himself. hey, it is an enjoyable film because of all the stars and their performances. Caine is good as the stalwart even heroic entomologist bradford crane. Widmark is a hoot as general thaddeus slater a military guy who doan like being subordinate to an egghead like crane. lovely katharine ross is the girl.
but hey, the swarm is alotta fun. jose ferrer and richard chamberlain get bees and chamberlain does a crazy chiropractic excercise and blows up the whole dam nuclear plant with them great irwin allen pyrotechnics.
say what you want about irwin allen but the man always delivered enjoyable melodrama no matter how dumb the film or tv show
lets her it for irwy!
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Surreal? I doan now about that? but irwin allen did direct the thing himself. hey, it is an enjoyable film because of all the stars and their performances. Caine is good as the stalwart even heroic entomologist bradford crane. Widmark is a hoot as general thaddeus slater a military guy who doan like being subordinate to an egghead like crane. lovely katharine ross is the girl.
but hey, the swarm is alotta fun. jose ferrer and richard chamberlain get bees and chamberlain does a crazy chiropractic excercise and blows up the whole dam nuclear plant with them great irwin allen pyrotechnics.
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now that you mention it: yes I do remember. thank you for reminding me. I am also reninded of William Shatner's meltdown about the blinking lights on the ambiguously purposed machines in the background of his control center set near the end of "Airplane II: The Sequel"
I wish I could embed the clip. It is pretty funny.
go to youtube and look up "blinking beeping Shatner." they've even though the musical remix.
he was a beeping and a flashing all nite long...
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wow, just who ISN'T in this turkey.....?
- Michael Caine as Dr. Bradford Crane
- Katharine Ross as Helena Anderson
- Richard Widmark as General Thaddeus Slater
- Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Hubbard
- Olivia de Havilland as Maureen Schuester
- Ben Johnson as Felix Austin
- Lee Grant as Anne MacGregor
- Jose Ferrer as Dr. Andrews
- Patty Duke as Rita
- Slim Pickens as Jud Hawkins
- Bradford Dillman as Major Baker
- Fred MacMurray as Clarence Tuttle
- Henry Fonda as Dr. Walter Krim
- Cameron Mitchell as General Thompson
Sheila Mathews-Allen?...
YA-HOOOO! YA-HOOO!
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since I recorded this today on my vcr ( an inexpensive low-cost alternative to dvr ) plus I got tons and tons of vhs tapes even some unopened plus I have two vcrs I grabbed from a trash depot.
later on I'll watch it and see what the running time is. something to watch later after the eleven o'clock news.
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Thanks for explaining the entire plot. I can skip it now.
but half the fun is watching.
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today at three thirty. always a good one for me. a bad film on the whole but quite watchable because of good acting from michael caine, henry fonda and richard widmark.
the always inventive irwin allen comes up with nifty ways to kill celebs on film.
he has bees sting jose ferrer and richard chamberlain and then blows them up along with a whole nuclear plant.
not satisfied with that, he has a train derail with hordes of unfortunates aboard like fred macmurray, olivia de haviland and ben johnson.
good ol' irwy!
he shoulda ran for prez on a platform of bee prevention.
I got the goldsmith score on cd.
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despite the fact that he shoulda put up a fight with paramount to come back as kirk....
but he didn't.
now if ol' shatner had felt a little bit more about kirk the way Clayton Moore felt about the lone ranger, he'd be an even gooder guy.
but hey, star trek's dead so it doan really matter now.
why do old line trekkers like me harp on this stuff...
BECAUSE...
none of the 1980s theatrical trek films were what they could and shoulda been.
put 'em together (six films) and you have only a handful of scenes from all six films that are worthy of being compared to the original series...
and the 1970s filmation cartoon is better than those cruddy movies.
whatta's that say when a saturday morning cartoon is superior to theatrical films with multi-million dollar budgets?
not a helluva lot.
I blame paramount. they hadda know a few years after the cancellation that nbc had made a mistake. but whatta they do? they pussyfoot around until the end of the 1970s before even starting on a movie.
of course Roddenberry's humanistic idealism coulda slowed things down a might too.
hey, I'm fair.
Actress Lynn Borden dies at age 77
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When Don Defore and Whitney Blake left Hazel they were replaced by Ray Fulmer and lovely blonde actress Lynn Borden.
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