Movie Collector OH
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29 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
Wasn't it a card game originally? I seem to recall my mother, who was an elementary school teacher back in the 1990's, talking about kids always bringing the cards to school. It sounded like an anime version of Magic: The Gathering, which was a card-game version of Dungeons & Dragons...the nerd lineage goes way back. I know there have been multiple TV shows and movies, as well as video games, of Pokemon, and my nephew was playing that newest mobile phone version last year or the year before.
This is the "Easter egg hunt" game that made the news last year. Various groups of strangers would be found congregating (trespassing) on private property, just because their cell phones all led them there. The game used the GPS capabilities of the cell phone to geo-locate each user. Each participant would then aimlessly wander around while looking at the cell phone and actually see the Pokemon character in the back alley next to Mr. Smith's trash can. So as "collatoral damage" of the game being played, you would get a number of people crowded around in some very odd places they would normally never be.
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They are starting from the beginning, but just haven't gotten that far back yet.
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1 hour ago, slaytonf said:
Your list shows White Christmas (1954) last shown in December 2006. I seem to recall seeing it more recently. But I guess I misremember.
I just checked the months it aired, and it aired twice during 2006-11 and twice during 2006-12. So likely a special presentation for them.
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7 hours ago, limey said:
It was on TCM last weekend & I think I recollect it being on this year's schedule a few times before - it's one of those Christmas films that can put in an appearance throughout the year. MovieCollectorOH will no doubt, have the details in his database.
I do agree that it would be nice to see films like IAWL on-air without commercial irritations.
You rang?
7 hours ago, jamesjazzguitar said:There are a few hear that retain a database of every film TCM has shown. Maybe they will comment on how often Meet Me In St. Louis has been shown, but my guess is at least 4 times a year (if not more).
Yes.
[drop-offs in 1998 and 1999 don't reflect lack of airings, they are just months of TCM schedules I didn't receive yet, but that I would love to have.]
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2017-12Those last three are:
Sunday Dec 10, 2017 @ 1:45pm
Saturday Dec 23, 2017 @ 12:00am
Sunday Dec 24, 2017 @ 6:00pm@ the OP: most of us use a DVR in an effort to not miss as much. Some of us see DVRing as just an initial step and go a bit beyond that.
p.s. Here is a summary of the movies shown on TCM that I put together. People here sometimes use it as a quick reference for finding out whether or not TCM has played a movie (it is large and will take a while for your browser to open it):
http://moviecollector.us/reports/TCM_SCHEDULES_SUMMARY_alpha.htm-
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Maybe one of these two? They didn't always list the shorts in their schedules.
Vaudeville Days (1942)
Heavenly Music (1943)
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1 hour ago, yanceycravat said:
Perhaps a nice flaming rum punch!
At this establishment:
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40 minutes ago, limey said:
I'll start by nominating Bad Taste (1987) from Peter Jackson, prior to his travels thru Tolkien town.
A gloriously tacky plot & special effects result in a fun, cultish combo of 80's horror, smirky sci-fi & Kiwi comedy. TCM really ought to show it on Underground some time.
Anyone got a spoon?
I'll have to check this out.
As far as "new" stuff, there is the venerable Larry Blamire. The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra (2001), for instance, is quite good. A takeoff on the old 1950s sci-fi, complete with all the stumbling blocks.
But to get back to the OP's question, very few are on par with Just Imagine (1930). IMDB categorizes it as "Comedy | Fantasy | Musical | Romance | Sci-Fi". Everyone does a quickie genre filter and is keen to point out Rocky Horrow Picture Show. But no, Just Imagine is not even anything like that. It is sort of a hackneyed combo of Metropolis (just the scenery - also the spaceship that would get used in Buck Rogers), the element of time travel (what the 1980s would be like, from a 1930s perspective), early 1930s vaudeville comedy and music, and a space adventure/romance.I suspect that it isn't popular specifically because it doesn't fit into any Hollywood cookie cutter mold, or any modern-day expectations for what an old movie should be like (that is a particular draw for me). That and it is an obscure nearly forgotten "Fox Films" era film. Maybe Disney will bring it to the forefront in some sort of release, the Murdoch iteration of 20th Century certainly didn't.
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Disney's older films as shown on TCM are generally in great shape, and their scans of their large screen color movies tend to look amazing. I wonder if Disney might actually have better copies in a vault somewhere of the oldest "Fox Film" movies than the Murdoch iteration of Fox, just because they are Disney. I realize there was a Fox warehouse fire around 1936 or 1937 which destroyed a bunch of "William Fox Company" originals, but hey a guy can dream.
Anyhow now I am wondering how far back Disney's film preservation efforts go, or rather when did they get started. I see clips from the B&W Steamboat Willie shorts every so often, but usually just in documentaries. Then jump ahead and you get these amazing transfers of their color films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s as seen on TCM. In great condition for as little as they have been seen. Could this be a tip of an iceberg? This is probably well documented, but I am a bit busy right now to figure it out.
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This is probably cheating a bit, but it is easy enough to read. Just scheduled this to record.
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I've decided, I don't like the look of the emojis here. They look too sheepish. Any work-arounds?
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17 hours ago, NipkowDisc said:
first they overcomplicated their registering process and then finally did away with their message forums and by doing that IMDb made it clear they had no interest in any further public feedback period.
so **** IMDb.
Tee-hee. The way you use that grin looks sheepish. Actually just about all the emojis here look sheepish. So basically the less people use the emijois here, the less sheepish they look. Hmm.
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Just now, LawrenceA said:
You can also sign in via your Amazon account. That's the only way I sign in, as I have neither a Facebook nor Google account. I'm not sure what you mean by direct usage. As long as I can recall you had to sign in via one of those options. While I can recall a time when you could create an account with no tie-ins, even then, if you wanted to leave comments, you had to "verify" your account by giving a credit card account, which I never did, and which is why I never left any comments or reviews, even after that requirement was dropped.
You are probably correct. I haven't tried in a while. It probably uses the Amazon login.
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9 hours ago, calvinnme said:
I think they gave users NO warning before making our reviews impossible to access exactly because they figured we were going to do what I'm going to do - make a copy of the reviews to a safe place and then delete my review from imdb. It will just be harder now because of what they did. I hope Bezos and his cronies have fun writing all of the reviews that those of us in the 1000+ club intend to delete. I may post some in the worthwhile "I Just Watched" thread on the TCM boards, making it clear I did not just watch them, and then either find another place for all of them OR maybe even start my own blogspot.
I haven't attempted trying on IMDB, but something like this may be of use
http://www.httrack.comIf you have trouble there, maybe archive.org has your post index page stored (you probably don't want their entire website).
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7 hours ago, Ray Faiola said:
Looks like you can't sign in directly to IMDB. You have to sign in with Google or Facebook. Nuts to that. And what is "Get Satisfaction"?
There used to be an option to directly use IMDB, in addition to the FaceButt and Goblin. Is that gone now too?
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18 minutes ago, limey said:
Get Satisfaction is a 3rd party forum host, that some companies use for their 'support' forums, rather than using in-house resources. If said company employs someone to answer queries and/or there are sufficient knowledgeable users, it can work quite well.
If the Google/Facebook login thing is true, then welcome to the wonderful world of data-mining!
Get Satisfaction is probably not a bad idea for them, being that they deleted all their forums.
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12 hours ago, MikeF said:
Wow, glad I checked the forum before leaving a (useless) message at their published contact number. I considered doing that because the web site has no contact information for website technical issues. Duh #1.
I've been unable to use Watch TCM with ANY cable provider for multiple, sometimes unknown reasons.
- Using current versions of Opera and Google Chrome, website gives me the incorrect message that 'Flash needs updating'. Not true, probably the dev-child-web-designer is using simple minded user agent checking. Duh #2.
- Firefox v52 ESR login attempts results in an endless authentication request loop. Duh #3.
Guess I should update Wikipedia's definition of Cluster**** to refer to TCM's back office (IT and customer service).
Gawd help us if the AT&T merger is successful, another big, inept, teflon big corporation to eff things up even worse.
Bonus Duh - why doesn't TCM have a Roku app? (or am I wrong). I'd rather watch movies on a 42 inch screen than using their silly Android app (old guy WTH).
LOL
Another Duh that we have come across is that the Watch TCM login script requires for you to have your third party cookies enabled (defaults on Firefox 52 ESR may need to be changed here, not sure). To get to that option, you might need to go to the Preferences/Privacy & Settings/History settings and change History "Firefox will remember history" to "Use custom settings for history". Then if needed, change "Accept third party cookies" to "Always".
It's really not a good idea, they just assume everyone does it though...
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14 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Sad.
You two haven't been to the Stupid Science thread that much, have you.
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32 minutes ago, Hibi said:
Not something climate change deniers would like.....
Actually, the more I think about it, I highly recommend it!
"Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) denier"
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48 minutes ago, limey said:
They'd probably be happy with 1-line reviews along the lines of This movie ROX - buy it yesterday!!!1!!111!!
Having said that, the helpful/unhelpful tick-box system could come back to bite the commercial side of things, judging by the waves of negativity the Ghostbusters reboot attracted, even before it got near a cinema screen - positive sale-encouraging reviews could be buried by the mob looking to join the downvote bandwagon.
As with anything else, that is the system at work. Most accounts are tied to a real person with a real email address. Within that mob are real voters who simply didn't like it. Any attempts to stifle that represent vote manipulation. So I think it should have been left alone. The results will not be what they intended. All I'm seeing in that related thread is a bunch of their top reviewers talking about bailing.
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Just now, limey said:
Personally, I think a mobile platform is a pretty awful place to encourage movie reviews to be made from - the typing experience is bad & instant gratification tends to work against making a well-thought, considered review.
I also tend to agree that this may have more to do with monetizing the IMDB site, than to produce a better review environment.
Totally. It seems they are taking the reviews and reviewers for granted, even though there will be new movies yet to come which would still need reviewers and reviews.
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20 minutes ago, Dargo said:
HERE is a screen shot of Marie's sculpture...
That was a funny episode! I knew exactly what that was before I even read your post.
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12 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
I see that an Inconvenient Truth is scheduled. Pretty controversial documentary.
12 hours ago, limey said:Uh oh. Brace yourself for another round of political threads...
Forget about politics when it is the science that takes a beating. I have read that there were some wildly inaccurate things said in it. So there might be some possible crap-fest value to it. Or not... I do enjoy a crappy movie every so often, but wasn't thinking along these lines.
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5 hours ago, calvinnme said:
These commenters are far more eloquent than I on the subject:
Bottom line - If you contribute to imdb you might want to read this and join in on the tirade.
I read some of that, sounds like they have been dumbing it down for "smart" phones. The header at the top gives it away. That and all Amazon's marketing and alterior motives. It would appear that they want to hide honest reviews of bad movies. "All movies are good, remember to buy them from us".
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Every now and then I go through IMDB reviews if I like a movie or want to see more about it. Not sure if this will actually impact the way I use it or not.
There is another little thing that I have been keeping my eye on:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-data-now-available-in-amazon-s3In a nutshell, they have upgraded their systems over a long upgrade process. Some components were 20 years old or so and became difficult to support with newer software. Part of this resulted in the removal of their forum, though most believe it was done for other reasons - as do I.
Then there is this. For a long time there has been a downloadable version of the IMDB database for individuals who are familiar with developing databases or who like to play around with parsers. Now there is a newer system in place which is "transactional" - meaning for some, where simple queries here and there would be sufficient, they can just build something that goes out and retrieves info for one or two movies at a time. It is in the plans for them to remove this longtime available downloadable version of the database, but enough conversation has taken place in this thread that they have delayed it so far, and have plans to replace it with something similar. It would just be located on a newer system.
That wouldn't impact my project really, as
-a- classic movie info just doesn't change for the most part, so there is no sense of urgency for me to get updates real soon (as it was, I only updated mine about once a year)
-b- there will be something to replace it eventually, so I can wait and pick it up later when it is ready for prime time
-c- adaptations to my system for the sake of importing a newer format DB are the least of my worries, there is little they can do to make it any more difficult...in fact it may get easierSo anyhow this linked thread is just some people talking who, like myself, have built their own solutions to use the IMDB data offline. I didn't really have anything to say there.
I just hope Amazon doesn't completely ruin IMDB. With these updates they are essentially trying to squeeze a multifaceted system, one that took decades to form, into a newly built prefab structure - just because that would make life better.
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Hollywood Running Out of Ideas?
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Hey, I used to catch Animaniacs. A Hanna-Barbera cartoon.