kriegerg69
-
Posts
2,471 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by kriegerg69
-
-
...but they need to show it in the original 3D.
-
Unfortunately, the days of a movie being shown on network television as an "event" are long gone. Movies on tv really used to be something special, and shown once in awhile....not every few days (or hours) like today. But that's called change....today, the studios have to make money back on their investment somehow....hence the reason movies get shown on tv so quickly after theatrical showings, and so often on tv. The studios make money every time a movie gets shown.
-
*Good point, Filmlover.... 'nuff said again.* :-)
*Just because we pay for cable service with TCM (or some people actually pay for the addition of TCM on their service) does not make TCM their channel. People in the U.K. actually pay licensing fees for their televisions (or some kind of tv tax, I think). Paying for cable (or tv) really comes down to the same thing as if you rent a movie, pay for a ticket at a movie theater, or buy a DVD...I see it as the same thing. It does not imply anyone's ownership of said movie or station....you're paying/buying for the privilege of viewing it. Nothing more.*
-
Even though I have it on DVD, I would watch something like Me and Orson Welles (an excellent period film about Orson's pre-Kane stage work) as much as I would watch Citizen Kane itself. Or, for that matter, Tim Burton's Ed Wood as much as I would watch one of Wood's movies on TCM.
I don't see the difference or the problem with a movie about a period as any different than a movie from that period.
-
I still have a typewriter I bought back in the late 90's....and haven't used it in years, because I do everything on the computer now.
It's also getting (or going to get) harder to find typewriter ribbons, you realize....if not a full computer, people have word processors these days.
Again....like it or not...outmoded/outdated technology and forms of print or communication are slowly going bye-byes.
-
*Good point, Filmlover.... 'nuff said.*
-
The only thing I still do with outmoded technology is to transfer them to a superior format...I have very few vinyl LP's or tapes left, and I periodically get some recorded to CD, or have replaced LP's and tapes with either a CD or digital download version. Same thing with VHS...what I have I either replace with a DVD or find a better version online to record to DVD. I then either give away a purchased/factory made item or if it was a VHS or audio recording, I simply throw out the tape it was recorded on.
-
Why?
Welcome to the digital age (as I so frequently say here and there online). Practically anything and everything can be gotten online, many music stores have shut down or gone out of business because everything is going the way of digital downloading.....Yes, even movies are downloadable (commercials on tv now advertise "Now on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Download"), many publications have gone online-only or electronic (magazine and newspaper sales have dropped drastically and many publications have stopped paper printing), and even the Postal Service is cutting corners due to the huge drop in mail volume because of emailing and texting. Film for photos is gone....everything has moved over to digital cameras, many Hollywood films and tv series are now shot digitally instead of on film, and eventually theaters will be all-digital with the movies being digitally transmitted to theaters for high-def projection.
-
What the technology is heading towards....and some computers are already there....is what is called Flash drives (or "Flash memory"), in which there is NO physical recording medium (like a harddrive).....everything is recorded into a "memory". There already exists computers which go as high as terabytes, which is greater capacity than gigabytes (GB). Eventually, there will be no more physical medium (CD's, DVD's, computer harddrives, etc.)...it will all be in Flash-type memory storage.
-
Between the two movies....I like *The Bells of St. Mary's* much better than *Going My Way*.
-
They should have fired her much sooner....I can't stand her. NEVER liked her hosting.
-
*I've had a Tivo for several years now, and a DVD recorder longer than that....and when I got both (especially the Tivo) I stopped using an inferior, outdated format like VHS. I usually record to the Tivo (which is a DVR) and then to DVD to permanently save something.*
*Why would I want an inferior format? I don't even record to audio tape anymore....I use CD's and master everything on my computer before going to a blank CD.*
-
"He vill carse ze day, zat he vas burn a Frahnkenshtein"
"WHAT?"
"I said that he will curse the day that he was born a Frankenstein..."
-
Ridiculous complaint....TCM really doesn't show THAT many post-70's (or 80's for that matter) movies, so what's the problem? As others have said: People back in the era of the 30's and 40's likely wouldn't have considered movies then to be "classic.
Zip it and come back in 20 or 30 years or so and a lot of those movies you griped about WILL be classics from an age standpoint.
Sheesh! :-(
-
Excellent point....all it seems half the posters here do is to gripe, kvetch and complain about one thing or another regarding TCM. :-P
-
Ridiculous argument....ever hear the old rhyme "30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31"....so since most months have 31 days, that should be an obvious reason.
-
> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> > There are a number of differences between the B&W DOCTOR X and the now-available color version.
>
> Thanks, I wasn't sure if there were any differences. In that case it would be interesting to see what they are.
The differences can't be that much.
-
> {quote:title=ChorusGirl wrote:}{quote}
> I have an ongoing list of movies I cannot find anywhere...no vhs, no dvd, not on cable, not on you tube, not streaming on the net...just locked away in some vault collecting dust.
>
> Interested to know what other people's "holy grails" are. Some of mine are pretty obscure, which makes me want to see them that much more...
>
> *Girls About Town* (Kay Francis)
> *M* (the 1951 remake)
Well, I found the 1951 "M" last year online....not sure what the source of the recording was....but it looked very close to DVD quality. Can't possibly be that "rare" if I found it.
-
You also miss the point that has been brought up here numerous times: TCM can only show a film in the format provided to them by the studio, and if a studio doesn't have available a widescreen master or restored version of a film, they can only provide TCM with whatever they have available.
Case in point: a few years ago I was looking forward to see PEPE again for the first time in decades, and even though TCM advertised the original 3 hour+ roadshow version, what they ended up showing was the shorter 158 minute general release version. Unfortunately, that's the only version Columbia could provide to them. That's the version they've been showing ever since. I've also seen a couple of movies which have only been shown in full screen versions, not widescreen....because that's what was provided to TCM. Same thing with mono vs. stereo...TCM shows Around The World Under The Sea in mono (I think).....but it was released years ago on VHS with the original stereo soundtrack. Strange that MGM couldn't provide TCM with a stereo master.
-
Remaking? Ridiculous....I assume as director, because she's too old to play Rose. Bette Midler already remade the movie as a tv film in the early 90's, and it was a perfect role for Bette.
-
How about the opposite: Performers who sing/dance and c-a-n-n-o-t act?
I'd put Ruby Keeler up there...I enjoy her dancing, but think she was a lousy actress. I've never understood her popularity.
-
Madness, I would still disagree...that very notion suggests going all the way: For all silent movies, let's colorize them, remove the title cards and dub in actor's voices actually speaking, record a new music score which may not be suitable for the film, crop it for widescreen, digitally add visuals not originally present, and re-edit the movie to suit the tastes of today's audiences.
Hogwash and piffle...
-
That is kinda strange....but that featurette isn't meant to indicate that every movie on TCM is or will be shown in a letterbox format, much less in its correct aspect ratio. It's meant to illustrate the purpose of letterboxing.
-
In your case it was wandering down the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City. :-)
During my "party days" back in the 80s, when I was going regularly to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show (which I've probably seen around 370 times by now), one time some friends were passing a joint around so we all got very buzzed....and halfway through the movie the sound went out-of-synch for me. I was hearing things slightly before or slightly after the image, but not precisely where it was supposed to be. Only time I can recall seeing a movie when I was high.
Miracle on 34th Street
in General Discussions
Posted
Not to mention the Lux Radio Theater adaption with Gwenn....making five times the story has been done.