kriegerg69
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> > Hepburn...I enjoy Streisand, but have never thought of her music as an actress.
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> Great post! Best one I have read in ages.
Typo....I meant "much" as an actress. Edited my earlier post. :-P
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> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> I still see where technogy could be used to replace title cards. Just put the dialog on the bottom of the screen.
That wouldn't always work, since the length of time a title card is displayed is often as long as the character would be speaking....in many cases, if not most cases, there'd only be a few seconds left of the before and after shots of the character during which a subtitle could be seen.
> I still don't see where anyone has made the case that title cards add to the artistic merit of a picture.
It doesn't...it's the fact that title cards ARE the dialogue.
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You are correct....the actual song title is "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm".
Let's also not forget several Our Gang shorts which featured musical numbers that Buckwheat was a part of.
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Hepburn...I enjoy Streisand, but have never thought of her much as an actress.
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'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' actress dies at 72
Feb 7, 6:11 AM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tura Satana, who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" has died of heart failure at age 72.
The Los Angeles Times reports Satana's death was confirmed by her manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said Satana died Friday at a hospital in Reno, Nev.
In "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Satana played Varla, the leader of a trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers who kills a man with her bare hands. The women then set out to rob a wealthy older man who lives on a desert ranch with his two sons.
Meyer has said the movie was an "absolute loser" when released but was rediscovered by the 1990s. It has since been shown at film festivals and art house cinemas.
Satana's other credits include the 1963 film "Irma La Douce" and the television shows "Burke's Law" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
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Absolutely NOT....a truly ridiculous, idiotic, and asinine suggestion....for several reasons (and the notion is worse than colorization, IMHO):
1. Simple desecration of an art form...period. Would you want to take recorded performances by a mime such as Marcel Marceau and add a voice or narration to it? Methinks not! Adding synchronized sound effects or music....yes.....but NOT voices!
2. As someone else has pointed out: Title cards were quite often inserted at a point where the actor would BEGIN to speak, and then returning to the actor after the card has played out simply shows them closing their mouth. Removing a title card would quite often prove IMPOSSIBLE to dub a voice afterward because actors often were never shown fully speaking a line of dialogue....so from a practical standpoint that's simply idiotically impossible.
3. Synchronization/Dubbing: Trying to get it RIGHT would often turn out like a badly dubbed Godzilla movie.
4. Getting the RIGHT voices to use would also prove a challenge...in other words, a mismatched voice to what a performer looks like would probably turn out comedically as a result.
LEARN to appreciate silent films for what they ARE.....for cryin' out loud, I was watching silent films when I was a young teenager and ENJOYED them.
Also as another person pointed out, WHY does everything not up to modern standards HAVE to be changed to suit our modern tastes or technologies? THEY DON'T.
"If it ain't broke...don't fix it!"
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Well, back in the 1930's the Marx Brothers had a couple of musical numbers where they performed alongside black performers, so...
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There was a comment here a few years ago from someone at TCM who commented that they were unable to list shorts on the schedule because" they are often scheduled at the last minute". Now for the past couple of years (or whatever), they HAVE been listing shorts on the schedule....so that's hardly an excuse to use about "scheduled at the last minute". Now they're NOT listed on the schedule.
TCM Programmers simply need to get their act together and be more planned and organized, and then they CAN list shorts on the schedule. It's not that difficult to figure out....certain types of movies get scheduled in advance, so schedule the appropriate types of shorts to go with them and then those shorts CAN be listed.
Doh!
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I don't understand why this is being labeled so "rare"....it's been around on home video since the 1980's, which is when I first saw it, about 25 years ago.
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> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote}
> That sea monster explains why they shot to the surface so fast.
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...or maybe the Seaview got outta there when they saw this underwater:
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> Universal produced two very different THE BLACK CATs (1934 & 1941). Bela Lugosi was in both but the films had nothing to do with each other.
> Likewise, there was a CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and CABINET OF CALIGARI.
> MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1929 & 1961) were two very different films, both based on Jules Verne.
There was also a 2005 Hallmark tv remake of Mysterious Island with Patrick Stewart as Captain Nemo.....very different and an interesting take on the story and the character, but quite different from the previous versions.
There have been other adaptions of The Black Cat with that same title but having next to nothing to do with either the previous versions or the original Poe story....just similar in name only.
There was also a remake/homage a couple of years ago to the original CALIGARI utilizing the actual background images from the 1919 classic, and inserting different actors into the film background via computer. Same story, but not quite the same way it played out.
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> {quote:title=NorbertFronczak wrote:}{quote}
> Hattie McDaniel always played a black maid and when criticized by the NAACP for playing such roles she told them, "I could either get paid $100 a month as a real maid or $750 a week playing one in the movies!"
This "maid story" has been brrought up a couple of times in this thread...what I heard on TCm awhile back was that Hattie told the NAACP "Hell, I'd rather PLAY a maid than BE one"...and of course, she made enough to obviously be able to afford her own maid.
Showed them, didn't she?
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> Hilarious! Gotta' love *Margaret Hamilton*.
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> She was also doing television in the 70s and 80s
She and Mary Wickes were regular cast members on the Saturday morning show Sigmund and The Sea Monsters in the early 70's.
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> {quote:title=MovieProfessor wrote:}{quote}
> It was only after Esther retired from show business and went into a series of business ventures that she acquired a certain amount of wealth.
One those was Esther Williams Swimming Pools....for many years there used to be one of those stores near us.
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> {quote:title=kingrat wrote:}{quote}
> pure escapist entertainment - FOUL PLAY
I've never cared for it....overrated, IMHO. It's a ripoff of Hitchcock's far superior (and far more escapist, IMHO) The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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1. I will assume that English is not your first language.....I had NO idea what the heck you were trying to say.
2. Assuming that I am wrong and you're simply poorly educated, this is what your message was like...Every place that is underlined in red is what my spell checker in Firefox was showing me was wrong.
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Ever since the beginning of television, there have been signal outages and losses, and so-called "blackouts". That's the way it goes, because nothing is 100% perfect. What's the point of bringing it up or complaining about it? It won't change a thing or take you back in time to what you missed because of the outage.....signals go out now and then.
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I used to have these sets years ago and sold them on Ebay years ago...probably should have kept them, but oh well. Mine were in MINT condition, by the way. Great selection of excerpts from the movie and scores.
Definitely would be nice to get these sets issued on CD.
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I think it has something do do with my Comcast service...I not only don't get email reminders from the TCM site, but I also have periodic problems receiving confirmation emails when I register on a site...and yet NONE of these turn up in my Spam folder. They simply don't appear...period.
Any idea of how to get around this?
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> {quote:title=222characteractor wrote:}{quote}
> I usually stop watching a movie if there is any smoking being done. I realize that classic movies often featured much smoking, so I try to watch those unless the smoking is overdone.
That's a ridiculous reaction, IMHO....what else do you stop watching when other practices or habits appear onscreen?
Some amusing smoking:
The Addams Family tv series....either Gomez and his cigars, or Morticia with her "Do you mind if I smoke?", then producing the smoke mysteriously out of nowhere surrounding her own body (a routine ripped off by Fenella Fielding in "Carry On Screaming").
Then there's David Johansen as the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged (1988), asking Bill Murray "Do you mind if I smoke?", and the smoke initially blows out of his ears ("Smoke! Smoke! Just watch the road!!" Murray shouts back), and later when Murray gets out of the cab....the smoke billowing out as he opens the door.
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Ham, that's exactly the sort of thing I posted in another thread...and MY reply got deleted and then the thread was locked.
Point made...
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This thread is nonsense and obviously started by a troll....who has posted nonsense like this before....but instead of doing something to get rid of the trolling, the admins here keep deleting MY comments about this ridiculous person and allows others to post comments about it. The most I can do is to click "Ignore Member"....like I had to do with another troll here. The admins simply don't care about this crud.
This thread is a load of you-know-what and should be deleted (NOT locked like another troll thread I commented on), and the poster who started it either moderated or banned. Period.
This is a waste of everyone else's time. This is what this person has posted recently....and always the same baloney:
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Well, my previous reply got deleted, and likely because I was simply speaking the TRUTH.
Again....Destroyer, you say you won't bring it up again and yet you bumped this thread with a reply to your own post and DID mention this movie again.
Like someone said in another thread.....do everyone a favor and go AWAY.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> I equate this nonsense with what was done with the Original *STAR TREK* series. Adding all this modern CGI garbage. You can't even get the series anymore without all these lame computer enhanced effects.
I agree with you about what was done to TOS for Trek (and they've actually considered doing something similar with STTNG)....but you're wrong: You CAN get the original versions on Blu-ray disc, which gives you the option of watching either the original or altered versions.