kriegerg69

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > *Millies* pioneered many of the special effects still use today like the "twining" used in "The Parent Trap". The disappearing/reappearing trick was used in the TV series "Bewitched". > > Scientific knowledge was more advanced during the late 19th to early 20th century we give credit for. If only Georges *Milies* had the info available, what wonders he could had apply to early cinema. > Uh....the name is *MELIES* , people. Good gawd.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > I'm a bit bleary eyed this morning. Stayed up too late watching the Georges Millies offering on Sunday night. The name is Georges *Melies* . The DVD set you want is here...it contains every known surviving Melies film: http://www.amazon.com/Georges-Melies-Wizard-Cinema-1896-1913/dp/B0013K8J90/

> {quote:title=Filmgoddess wrote:}{quote}Pacino? Egads. With each passing year he gets worse and worse. I would almost add Dustin Hoffman to that, especially when you see him in a tv commercial poking fun at himself and a couple of his movie roles. Not very amusing to see. Also add Jack Nicholson to the list...I haven't been impressed with him in years. He now just seems to be playing the same personality in every movie he makes, almost as if he's simply doing his own personality every time. SO many think of him as such a great actor...I don't. He just seems to play himself every time.

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}It seems to work in three stages the first time you open a new window and want to comment: What you guys are commenting about NEVER happens to me. Are you sure you aren't referring to clicking Reply when you're NOT logged into the forums? Otherwise, I'd say it's not the TCM site but something in your browser's security settings (hence the "Authenticating" message you get). "and once you go through it, as long you keep the window open you don't have to do it again" That definitely sounds like something you need to change in your browser's security settings. No matter how many windows or tabs you open in your browser, it should always recognize the fact that YOU are still into a certain site. It usually has to do with remembering things in the cookies a site places on your drive through your browser. This definitely doesn't sound like anything having to do with the TCM site. It's your browser's settings.

"By the way, Blanche...we got remake rats in Hollyweird!" :^0

> {quote:title=obrienmundy wrote:}{quote}In my opinion, the two sets of threes are: Ann Rutherford, Nora Ephron, and Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine, Richard Zanuck, and Celeste Holm. Well, in my opinion I chose the ones I did because they all died much closer to each other, within a few days. Ann Rutherford died two weeks before Nora and three weeks before Andy. Nora died one week before Andy, and Ernest died five days after him. Zanuck, Sage Stallone, and Holm all died within a couple of days of each other. I would count the "threes" in terms of how close to each other they went. I'd sooner group Ann Rutherford, Frank Cady, and Susan Tyrell, all of whom went within a couple of days of each other....so make that nine. Three sets of threes. Try six...two sets of threes: Nora Ephron, Andy Griffith, Ernest Borgnine. And now we got: Richard Zanuck, Sage Stallone, and Celeste Holm.

Why? The last remake for tv in 1991 with the Redgrave sisters was dreadful. Anyway, I'd rather see Jamie as Jane, and Meryl as Blanche.

> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote}'You Better Watch Out' - about that crazy guy in the santa claus outfit, flying away in a truck. > Completely disagree. Same here. It's considered to be the best of the killer Santa movies. This IMDB review also explains something people don't understand about that ending: "I know there's a lot of people writing that Santa's van magically flies away at the end...well..I don't think that was intended to be taken literally. It's what poor crazy Harry is seeing in his delusional head. In real life, the van hit the bottom of a very long fall and Santa, no doubt,was dead. Do they actually have to show the van crashing to get that idea across?"

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote:}{quote}Trog. Hey, that's a fun film! How can you not like Joan Crawford stomping her foot, smacking her hands together, and yelling at the caveman "TROG! MIND ME!! TROG!" :^0

> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote}201 motels , Empire of Passion , Putney Swoop , Heavy Metal , Freaked. It's 200 Motels (with Frank Zappa, but I've never seen it), and *Putney Swope* (very odd film directed by Robert Downey's father).

Absolutely...the killer carpet that sucks up people! :0

I always thought they were supposed to be skinnydipping?

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}An actor's retring and un-retiring could be a way to garner publicity. I could understand that....and get more roles thereafter...but if someone WANTS to retire, regardless of the reasons why, then let them. Who's to say that the public should be complaining or making comments about an actor's retiring...or not retiring, for that matter?

> {quote:title=Filmgoddess wrote:}{quote} > But with Gene Hackman and Sean Connery retired for 10 years now, I still lament. They were actually still giving great performances when they retired. They still had more to give. I don't really think that Mr. O'Toole did. I knew about Connery (hasn't made a movie since 2003's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), but didn't know about Hackman (whose last film was in 2004, incidentally).

I agree with you on that (wasn't it about an older man in love with a very young woman?). I haven't been impressed with O'Toole in years. Just because someone has been around for a long time does NOT automatically mean they're still a great performer. A lot of things simply wear out and go bad with age. Paul Newman, not too long before his death, announced he would be retiring because he "felt he could no longer give a performance of the same quality he used to give" (paraphrasing). People CAN be lured out of retirement, though...Leonard Nimoy "retired" when he turned 80, and then seemed to "come out of retirement" to do a voice for TRANSFORMERS 3, and has been appearing on some tv show recently.

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote}I'd say the worst movie on TCM to date is a tie between "The Apple" and "Freaked", both TCM Underground entries. I couldn't find any redeeming value in either of them. I do...at least with THE APPLE. It's a cult classic....I love it and consider it to be an underrated movie. Great music and visuals.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}Another no brainer, "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Why? Just because it's been called "the worst movie ever" for the past 35 years or so? It's a fun, no-budget cheese classic...that doesn't automatically make it THE worst. Compared to some of Ed Wood's other movies (and I like his films, incidentally)...PLAN 9 looks like STAR WARS compared to Eddie's other films.

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > > That makes three, Andy, Ernie and now Celeste. > And Nora Ephron and Richard Zanuck in that same time frame. Try six...two sets of threes: Nora Ephron, Andy Griffith, Ernest Borgnine. And now we got: Richard Zanuck, Sage Stallone, and Celeste Holm.

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote:}{quote}As may be common among some folks here, I'd never heard of Sam Fuller before I became addicted to TCM. You're kidding? I've never seen any film he directed, but have you ever seen *A Return To Salem's Lot* (1987)? Sam costars as an aging vampire vampire hunter, and he gives a fantastic...and very funny...performance in the movie. Sam steals every scene he is in.

Here is a possible solution (amazing what one can find through Google): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/problem-with-website-security-certificate/bb42a9ad-ef04-4c9a-9344-1f3b39e272fd

> {quote:title=skimpole wrote:}{quote} > Are there any earlier movies where corpses are mutilated by not entirely unsympathetic characters? Come to think of it are there any later movies? (As part of the answer, the corpse must already be dead, and the mutilator must not be responsible for its death.) ALSO to restate...since you clearly don't understand where I'm coming from...and to go with what you said in your original post (quoted here), is what is done to the corpses AFTER the person is already dead, and the dead body is mistreated afterward. The one exception I would point out in these examples is that the mutilator is responsible for the deaths....but that's getting into needless nitpicking. You're trying to make this TOO narrow and limited. The mutilation of Alfredo Garcia...hence the HEAD of the title...occurs AFTER he is dead and buried. His head is severed from the body. NOT while Garcia is still alive. Got that? In MOTEL HELL, the people are not turned into Farmer Vincent's Fritters until AFTER they are dead. You can clearly see the bodies in the smokehouse hanging up like sides of beef, waiting to be "fritter-ized". They are not ground up while the victims are still alive. Got that? HOUSE OF WAX has Vincent stealing the already-dead bodies and THEN coating them with wax to become figures in his wax museum. The sole exception to that is the ATTEMPT on Phyllis Kirk, who is saved at the last second...but otherwise all the other victims are ALREADY dead. Got that? Same thing in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE...the bodies are not turned into barbecue until AFTER they are already dead...not while they're alive. Got that?

Sounds like fun!

Sylvester's son, Sage, age 36, is dead. No details are known yet.

This is idiotic, asinine, and ridiculous that you keep doing this and won't simply ANSWER the question.

That's rather pathetic to hear.