LornaHansonForbes
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ALSO you got a watch out for that occasional demon VCR that’ll eat your clamshell edition of THE BLACK CAULDRON.
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On 11/22/2021 at 2:34 AM, Mr. Gorman said:
The 'stuff' inside the VHS tape is 'mylar' which is coated with these sticky 'magnetic particles'. → When you insert the tape in to your VCR the mylar runs through the heads of your unit and you get a picture and sound on your television screen. Some VCR's have 2 heads; some have 4. There may have been some VCR's with 6 heads or 8 heads, but I need to look that up!
It's not at all like a digital disc which is read by a laser if I'm not mistaken. A digital disc doesn't really have a 'movie' on it, you know? It's just bits and bytes that are 'read' by the laser and you get a picture and sound on your screen. I think that's how a DVD works. I honestly have no idea about '4k' and barely any idea if Blu-Rays work the same way as DVD's.
(I have 5500 VHS tapes and 2 Blu-Ray discs so the 'count' is a bit lop/sided).
I one hundred percent welcome this thread becoming a VHS discussion.
I hope you live in California or someplace arid, I live in Southeastern North Carolina and it is incredibly hot and humid and the mold even gets inside cabinets.
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14 minutes ago, ElCid said:
OK, now I am confused by your post.
well, before I titled my thread about THE CONSTIPATED EMOJI, I wanted to make sure THE AUTOCENSOR didn't **** it out, so my post would have been titled "I THINK THIS SITE SHOULD GET RID OF THE **** EMOJI" which would SURELY have caused ALL KINDS of confusion.
this particular thread seemed like a safe place to run the test.
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testing, testing:
constipated
this pass the autocensor test?
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PS- Poor LOUISE FLETCHER, just bless her heart, you know? Like it's her fault she won an Oscar for a role no one wanted in a weak year for women, SOMEONE SHOULD'VE LINED UP SOMETHING LEGIT FOR HER IN TV OR SOMETHING! SO SHE DIDN'T END UP DOING THINGS LIKE THIS.
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46 minutes ago, Fedya said:
Funny that one of you would mention Laura Dern and another grizzly bears, as I just watched:
Grizzly II: Revenge (1983/2020).
The movie was made by Americans in Communist Hungary (which was slightly more open to the west in the early 80s than the rest of the East Bloc with the exception of Yugoslavia) in 1983, but held up for financial reasons until somebody could get all of the elements together and cobble together a film that was officially released about a year ago. (Apparently there was also a bootleg floating around that has some different footage.)
At a national park, a supersized grizzly bear is killing people in revenge for poachers having killed the bear's cubs. The opening scene has the bear killing a young George Clooney, Laura Dern, and Charlie Sheen, who all get top billing although they're dead within 10 minutes. Meanwhile, the park superintendent (Oscar-winner Louise Fletcher, although obviously not for this role) is trying to organize an outdoor festival concert in the park much to the consternation of the rangers who know the danger from the bear.
The plot is a mess. The acting is terrible. There's all sorts of stock footage inserted. And the music for the concert is a hilariously awful Eastern European simulacrum of early 1980s New Wave Music that has to be seen and heard to be believed. (One of the artists is performing in Hungarian.) All of it combines to make something that's well into the "so bad it's good" range.
If you're looking for a serious movie, this rates a 1/10; if you want "so bad it's good", a 7 or 8/10. Apparently the bootleg version (which I haven't seen) includes more of the 1980s music. This one has some insert shots of hipster musicians wearing Greenpoint New York shirts, something I don't think Hungarians back in the early 1980s would have been familiar with.
If you've got the Showtime/Flix package, it'll be on again this week (Wednesday, I believe) and next; check listings.
OH WOW, THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I HAVE FOLLOWED THE STORY OF THIS FILM, apparently the PRODUCERS who held the rights BLOCKED EVERY YOUTUBE VIDEO that discussed the [bananas making of this] movie and used the 40ish minutes of existing footage in any way [there are A LOT of BAD MOVIE COMMENTARY YOUTUBE CHANNELS)
and apparently they were NOT NICE about it.
the whole story of this "film" is WILD!!!!!!!!
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9 minutes ago, SansFin said:
I am far from the best choice for explaining technical details in English but I will try to make it understandable. Please forgive me if this seems a mish-mash.
The tape used for recordings has a coating with tiny particles which can be magnetized. That is why it is called: magnetic tape. Whether or not a particular particle is magnetized is part of the 'code' of the recording. Example: adjacent particles which are respectively: magnetized, not magnetized, magnetized, not magnetized can be read in binary as: 1010 or in analog as on-off-on-off.
The recording head of a tape recorder selectively magnetizes some particles and does not magnetize others to match the data to be stored. A permanent magnet makes all of the particles magnetic. This removes/replaces any previously recorded data.
thanks, i kinda get it. more or less. i think.
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NO, I DID NOT FORGET DIANE LADD, SHE JUST DESERVES HER OWN POST OF IMAGES OF HER ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED PERFORMANCE IN THE MOVIE (sadly, it was WHOOPI's year, but DIANE is just EPIC in this movie, as is this one particular wig she wears that I HOPE SHE KEPT BECAUSE IF IT WERE MINE, I WOULD WEAR IT EVERWHERE.)
I HAVE KNOWN WOMEN LIKE THIS. IF YOU THINK DIANE LADD'S PERFORMANCE IN WILD AT HEART IS 'TOO MUCH' I WILL LET YOU KNOW, SHE TONED IT DOWN.
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I was disappointed that I missed WILD AT HEART (1990) when it aired on TCM UNDERGROUND some months ago, lucky for me they re ran it and i caught it this am.
This is wild, because it has been 30 years since I have seen this movie, but as a 13 year old in 1991, my family stole pay-per-view and this ran 24 hours a day on endless loop for about a month in the SPRING TIME and I watched it SO MANY TIMES, and IT SPOKE TO ME ON MANY LEVELS- I will also note that I am from WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA (aka CAPE FEAR- the setting of this movie)- although it seems as if a goodly chunk of it is shot in California passing for Texas and NC/SC, although I may be wrong.
There are so many things I remember about this movie, which was in many ways a seminal viewing experience for me and (in retrospect) one of the most influential films of the 1990s...
i'll go ahead and get the fact that the ending is a sloppy mess out of the way, also the fact that NICOLAS CAGE gives a failed performance that ultimately hurts the film, he sounds like MR BURNS doing ELVIS...
THERE IS ONE PARTICULAR SCENE that could have been the highpoint of the movie, where LAURA DERN'S character tells him she is pregnant and he is elated...only she follows up that she does not want the baby and CAGE (and DAVID LYNCH whiff the scene,) in the end, WILLAM DAFOE walks off with the (debateably) best scene in the film soon after. HOWEVER, CAGE is one of those actors like CHARLTON HESTON or ELIZABETH TAYLOR who can allow a huge movie to hang on their shoulders while giving a watchable or highly amusing failed performance for which one gets ones nickel's worth in the end.
growing up, I knew A LOT of LAURA DERNS and LAURA DERN is great in this movie, especially in the end when she serves KIM BASINGER IN LA CONFIDENTIAL LEVEL OLD HOLLYWOOD 1990s GLAMOUR REVIVAL at the end
sadly, her performance ends up suffering because she isn't getting what she needs in return from CAGE as her onscreen PARTnER.
I HAD TO STOP THIS MOVIE MANY TIMES BECAUSE IT OVERWHELMED MY SENSES.
[spoilers]
Even though there are things that don't work- IT'S A GORGEOUS FILM, and a very watchable 2 hours and five minutes, it is THE ESSENCE OF 1990S NEO NOIR (happy ending aside.) The locations are hypnotically feculant, HARRY DEAN STANTON is great (the ONE understated performance), GRACE ZABRISKIE is in this looking like MAGGIE SIMPSON'S UNIBROW BABY ARCHENEMY PLAYING THE ANJELICA HUSTON ROLE IN THE GRIFTERS and ISABELLA ROSSELINI made me wish she had played the ANNETTE BENNING PART in that film she is such sinister feline perfection in her small part.
the cinematography IN THIS FILM should have been nominated.
Also, even though DAVID LYNCH'S dialogue is not good, HE KNOWS IT and he doesn't try to act like it isn't, on the visual points and the pacing he succeeds so much, I ain't mad.
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52 minutes ago, Swithin said:
and Mae Questel.
BETTY BOOP?!
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Kind of like “HOT DASHBOARD VHS RELEASING CO.”...?
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11 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said:
WELCOME TO ARROW BEACH (1974) was released by the Magnetic Video Corporation in 1979. I have an aging MAG videocassette of "Arrow Beach". It's never been legally released on DVD or Blu-Ray that I know of.
The good thing is the U.S. Magnetic release is the full-length version running 99 minutes. There are overseas PAL-format VHS releases of "Welcome to Arrow Beach" that are all the short version running approx. 84 minutes where the "cannibalism" angle was nixed. The only full-length homevideo release I know of for "Arrow Beach" is that Magnetic tape.
Lou Rawls sings a charming little tune called "Who Can Tell Us Why" and reminds us that "We're all born to die". Can you dig it?
I am confused about some thing, and I don’t mean to betray myself as completely stupid, but I seem to recall that rubbing a magnet against the VHS tape was a bad thing that would erase it, am I thinking wrong? I’m just commenting on how odd is that a video release and company would be named magnetic...
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Edit- EYE OF THE NEEDLE would also make a *great* Mother’s Day film.
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hi hey Note: I am posting this review using my phone and I have issues editing and voice translation doesn’t always hear things properly.
I watched EYE OF THE NEEDLE (1981?) Which I only knew of from Danny Peary’s book “alternate Oscars” where he recommended a best actor nomination for Donald Sutherland for this pic. For some reason I was thinking this would be a big sprawling John le Carré type epic, and in some senses, it is, but it’s a very intimate film, quite a bit like RYANS DAUGHTER re-imagined as a thriller bordering on slasher movie.
I liked it.
Unfortunately I had to watch this movie in two large chunks a week apart, I started watching it and paused it and then it got lost in my Hulu feed until just now, and I think that maybe does affect the way I felt overall, but for some reason I want to say the ending of the movie is a lot tighter and more engaging than the first half. (It takes a while to really get going)
THE SCORE BY MIKLOS ROSZA WAS TOO MUCH. IT GRABBED YOU AND SHOOK THE **** OUT OF YOU WHEN IT WAS NOT NEEDED IN MANY OF THE SUBTLER MOMENTS, But it worked fine at the end.
But that was the only thing about the movie that felt out of place, outside of that it seemed very much like a modern interpretation of a sort of film that would’ve come out in the late 1940s with Joan Bennett or, maybe Deborah Kerr in the lead part.(only no multiple topless shots tho)
Which brings me to the best thing in the film, the performance of Kate Nelligan who is utterly exquisite, I know I use that word a lot, but I can’t think of any other to describe her, as the unhappy wife of an bitter (but HOT) alcoholic invalid living with their youNg son on on a deserted island off the coast of England in 1944, their lives are disrupted when a Nazi spy with information about the Normandy invasion washes ashore and aims to use the radio to contact an offshore sub.Why yes, there are absolutely hints of “the shining” and this would make a great companion film with THE NIGHT DIGGER (1973)
I love isolated island movies. AND THERE ARE CLIFFS AND A LIGHTHOUSE!!!!
I don’t often say this, but this movie could be remade successfully . If you pared down the story to make it a bit simpler, and then just went for a raw technique-filled final half hour which went all In for the tension, I really think you could tell this film in an even leaner, meaner version that a modern audience would totally get.
note: Now that I think about it, this movie also *kind of*reminds me of that one “tales from the crypt” episode where the housewife has to fight off the killer escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus.
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WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? is surprisingly not bad.
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MY THREAD SHALL NEVER DIE!!! IT WILL LIVE ON FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!! ENTOMB IT!!! CHAIN THE LID, LET IT SLIDE DOWN TO PAGE THREE, But know it is a matter of time before it is freed from the crypt to roam again.
BWAHAHAHA(coughcough) HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
...oh we have fun don’t we?
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13 minutes ago, CinemaInternational said:
It took a bit of searching but the other three were the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, the 1973 Hal Ashby film The Last Detail with Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, and Otis Young, , and the little-seen 1974 Robert Altman fiim California Split with George Segal and Elliot Gould as compulsive gamblers.
you must've missed Peebs's post a few posts back, he/she cracked the mystery quite fast- you'll have to get their source!
(some people keep meticulous schedule histories)
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I think I would have liked THE LATE SHOW (1978) a lot better with JACKIE GLEASON in the ART CARNEY role.
a non sequitor, I admit, but I'm having a slow day.
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I dunno, I just thought some of you might find this interesting, JACKIE GLEASON'S FILM/Tv credits copied and pasted from imdb, (these are strictly his appearances AS AN ACTOR, he has more credits for his singing and producing. )
final film" Nothing in Common
Max Basner1968 Here's Lucy (TV Series)
Ralph Kramden- Lucy Visits Jack Benny (1968) ... Ralph Kramden (uncredited)1965 Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (TV Series)
Self / Game Show Emcee- Episode #3.28 (1965) ... Self / Game Show Emcee1955-1956 The Honeymooners (TV Series)
Ralph Kramden- A Man's Pride (1956) ... Ralph Kramden- Dial J for Janitor (1956) ... Ralph Kramden- The Bensonhurst Bomber (1956) ... Ralph Kramden- Alice and the Blonde (1956) ... Ralph Kramden- Mind Your Own Business (1956) ... Ralph Kramden1953-1955 Studio One (TV Series)
Uncle Ed / Sam Wheeler / Jerry Giles- Uncle Ed and Circumstances (1955) ... Uncle Ed- Short Cut (1954) ... Sam Wheeler- The Laugh Maker (1953) ... Jerry Giles1955 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)
Jackie Gleason- Jackie Gleason Show (1955) ... Jackie Gleason1953-1954 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series)
Reginald Van Gleason III / Reginald van Gleason III / cameo- Accidents Will Happen (1954) ... Reginald Van Gleason III- The Great White Hunter (1953) ... Reginald van Gleason III / cameo1953 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV Series)
Ralph Kramden- Ralph's Diet/Alice Plays Cupid (1953) ... Ralph Kramden1952 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Ralph Kramden / The Poor Soul- Episode #5.38 (1952) ... Ralph Kramden / The Poor Soul1949-1950 The Life of Riley (TV Series)
Chester A. Riley / Chester Riley- Five Dollar Bill (1950) ... Chester A. Riley- The Banned Book (1950) ... Chester A. Riley- Junior and the Bully (1950) ... Chester A. Riley- Riley's Quarrel (1950) ... Chester A. Riley- South American Job (1950) ... Chester A. Riley-
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On 11/16/2021 at 12:02 PM, Shank Asu said:
Hmmm, i don't know the middle two there.
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973) is (I THINK) a Mexican film about two little girls growing up in a tiny Mexican Village who mistake either a convict or a wounded man as THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER, having recently seen the 1931 film at their local movie palace.
(I apologize if I am getting details wrong, too lazy to wikipedia)
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BILL PAXTON also had the RARE DISTINCTION of starring in one of the handful of good episodes of TALES FROM THE CRYPT. PEOPLE IN BRASS HEARSES.
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On 11/13/2021 at 2:07 PM, CinemaInternational said:
I looked up Taking Tiger Mountain, and although barely released in 1982/1983, it seems that it was actually filmed around 1974, when Bill Paxton was 19.... I know he's gone now, but I wonder what he would have thought of basically his teenage porno tape done by his friend turning up on national TV for all to see....
19 hours ago, Shank Asu said:Watched [TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN] (and with subtitles- i always have subtitles on when they're available). During the opening scene i couldn't believe of the set-up and could almost believe this is the type of study you could expect to be going on today at some place like Berkley, but the film seemed to go tame for me as it progressed. Obviously the oral sex scene and the scenes between the two men would've been pretty shocking when this was released, and i am shocked seeing Bill Paxton in this, but i thought it would get more raw. I read that they filmed it all without sound and that added in narration later, and a lot of what this film was doing felt effective, but then i got weary of it, especially the non-stop news cast. I just wanted a break and some quiet. I think this was an interesting film, but would've been much better as a short film. Apparently the script was changed multiple times with different sources being used as the inspiration for each version and i'm curious how much of the final product was based on Burroughs work. I've read 2 and a half novels by Burroughs (the half being the book he co-wrote with Kerouac where they alternated chapters) and i had the same sick feeling in my gut after this film as i did after reading Naked Lunch. I doubt i'll be watching the re-worked version of this- especially after reading it only made the film worse, but i'd recommend watching this film to someone just because it is pretty out there and had some unique things going on with it.
Belated thanks to both of you for the replies.
it is always oddly extra-comforting when you see a REALLY WEIRD, but also really really really REAAAAAALLY OBSCURE MOVIE and then ask "did anyone else see that *** damn thing or was I hallucinating at four am???" and get similar reactions from other viewers...that way you know you don't have to call the GAS COMPANY to come over and see if there's a leak.
Quite a few years ago, BILL PAXTON was a TCM CELEBRITY GUEST PROGRAMMER (OSBORNE was still with us) and a sliding-scale of celebs would (once a month) pick FOUR MOviES to show, ONE OF WHICH WAS ALMOST INVARIABLy DUCK SOUP OR SINGIN IN THE RAIN...
And BILL PAXTON showed up and picked four of the MOST GENUINELY ODDBALL OFF-THE-WALL INTELLECTUAL, CLEVER ESOTERIC PICKS, I mean, all four were intriguing (this was before I had DVR or could HULU already aired movies or i would have watched all four)
one was JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, i DON'T recall what the other three were....
lONG STORY SHORT, I know he is no longer with us, but if anyone deserves to be the one man, dead or alive, to have engaged in a REAL LIFE SEX ACT ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, then, y'know, BILL PAXTON seemed like a pretty cool dude to be that guy.
"GAME OVER, MAN!!!!! GAME OVER!!!!!!"
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48 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Belfast (2021) Theater 7/10
The 1969 riots between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland is seen through the eyes of a young boy and his family.
A good new film by director Kenneth Branagh. It's mostly in B&W, with a few color sequences. The riot scenes are powerful and frightening. The acting is excellent, the young boy Jude Hill is one of the best child performances I have seen in years. Catriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan are also great as his parents. Some flaws are it gets a bit manipulative and sentimental at times. There is a nasty villain in it that seems a bit one note but he is so hateful you can't help but despise him.
There is a good soundtrack of many Van Morrison songs. There are clips of several classic movies. High Noon (1952) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) are seen on TV. The family goes out to the cinema to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1969). The also see One Million Years BC (1966). When Raquel Welch appears on screen in her furry bikini, the mother says to her husband, "I can see why you picked this one"
i cannot for the life of me find it now, but i just read an article/review yesterday (well, skimmed it actually) that was kvetching about this being a retread of the movie ROMA and also clearly being the best picture frontrunner because it was manipulative.
WISH I could remember where...slate? Huffpost?
ah well, if folks are already salty, they may as well start engraving the Oscars now.
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24 minutes ago, Fedya said:
Getting shouted at in German is only a problem if you speak German.
I'm sure there are even people out there who pay for the experience...
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WHAT is GOING ON with TCM UNDERGROUND?!
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ALTHOUGH....
I do have to take the time to tell you All that this weekend’s UNDERGrOUND is LUST IN THE DUST and POLYESTER.