EricJ

So...they're still mailing DVD's, then? I thought Reed Hastings stopped buying new ones back in '13 after the Qwikster thing, when he wanted Instant Netflix to realize its manifest destiny.

And mostly public domain. Which seems to be the reason most new fledgling cable/streaming splinter services start up nowadays.

A pox on you for mentioning that insufferably Millennial "female-demographic" ad. 😓

If you mean that Roberto Benigni thing--and we love you, Roberto, but YEESH!!😱--that's because Collodi's story is considered a national cultural treasure in Italy. And the movie was the all-time Italian #1 box office at the time, which brings up the "Scary, huh?" point: What is the one thing Italy is the most royally PO'ed at America for?: Mussolini? The post war? Nope--Italy has cultural rage issues at the US because we still prefer Disney's commercial and sanitized "good" Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket, to Carlo Collodi's original "troublemaking" book-Pinocchio without Jiminy. Just talk to one sometime. Even after seeing the text-faithful Benigni version, they simply can't understand why Americans find the original book one weird mama-jama. As for why Del Toro...this was going to be his "dark twisted" version of the story, back when he still thought he had a movie career before "Pacific Rim" and "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". Yep, he's been busted down to Netflix (or he's been "Adam Sandlered", as the streaming kids say), and now he can indulge all his dozen or so Tim Burton-esque aging-horror-fanboy projects to his heart's content, which is what Netflix-deal folks do. Thanks--Now I can't UN-see that, which will be useful later. 😁

I'm trying to think of a movie where Darren McGavin DIDN'T play a reporter...Any help?

I was going to say that too--Only recognized him in Maltese Falcon as the nervous survivor of the HoHH. I don't know if it's long enough to count as a "great" performance, but I also remembered him as the hotel bellboy who makes a rather unfortunate babysitting job-recommendation in Don't Bother to Knock.

Yep, the first one--The second one had the shapeshifting "Dark Heart" brat making Faustian deals at summer camp: ...Not that that was any less satanic. 😈 Eisner's never been patient with the flops and overreacted to them personally--"Hercules" became unmentionable a few years later (Hades & Meg fans are only now emerging back into the light twenty years later, thanks to disk), and he pulled "Treasure Planet" out of theaters in December so it wouldn't embarrass the quarterly board meeting. Which caused the industry to first discover the power that after-Christmas vacation had on family movies, after Nickelodeon's animated movie ended up doing great business that Christmas instead. Probably for streaming, where most of the remakes are going now if they don't have expensive stars (like Will Smith) or directors (like Tim Burton) to pay for--Also, there was reportedly a non-Disney do-over of the entire Cauldron series being considered a while back, that fell through in development, and Disney's never been one to turn down a bargain if they think someone was trying to encroach on "their" territory. And yes, Aladdin and Lion King may have unfairly gotten them out of their post-Dumbo funk, and put them back in the mentality they were near the end of the 90's direct-video sequels--Where they realized that doing a sequel to something obscure like "Fox & the Hound" or "Dumbo" would help sell the original film on disk. At this point, we very well COULD see a live-action CGI version of that Aristocats sequel John Lasseter stopped them from making.

Actually, John Wayne was all over variety shows in the late 70's (starting with Dick Martin's running gag on Laugh-In), and this one was more of your standard red-state Bob Hope specials, only with Hope as one of the guests. Dean Martin plays Eli Whitney in a sketch; quick, guess the joke. 😓 (Yes, dear gods, I actually REMEMBER this one, although I didn't remember the title or it ending up on the cover of TV Guide. Yes, remember when TV Guide used to have political/industry articles about "How will the FCC crack down on TV violence?", instead of binge-fangirl gossip about the Game Of Thrones finale?)

Pull ANY movie from public viewing, and you throw down a gauntlet to the entire Internet. Do a search for "Roger Corman's Fantastic Four" if you don't believe me. "The Hunt" is probably already available as we speak. Of course, non-fans and Disney execs trying to shut up the controversy say "Eh, you wouldn't like Song anyway--The animated stuff's only 10 minutes, and the rest of it's mostly about the kid!" ...That's not the point, and they KNOW it. 😡

Unfortunately, Disney's got them, which is why Frozen and Captain Marvel are getting sequels... 😓

What, not even Neeson beating a dead horse? 😄

Uh, you ALREADY posted that in its own thread, without reading the article that said the Cussing Kids movie "rocketed" to #1 at the box office, beating the Angry Birds movie, the cute-n-quirky Indian-Bruce-Fan movie, another reason to send Richard Linklater into rehab, and Hobbs & Shaw in its fourth week when nobody wants to see it anymore and it still got #2. It's a long, hot August. 😓 (I can already see, on Monday morning, this is going to be "Ted" all over again: "Gasp! A comedy beat out Dark Knight Rises! Is the director a genius, or is this the end of the world? Let's get him to host the Oscars!!") It's the same reason some posters--on just about any forum--feel it's their "duty" to post any obituary that appears on their daily Google News feed to the rest of the group, topic or not, the minute they read it, until that becomes the ONLY thing they show up to post. When forum presence starts taking over in the mind from group camaraderie-discussion, that's how a fanatic usually starts. (And a fanatic, as the saying goes, is "One who doubles his efforts after he has forgotten his goal".) 😄

Alfred Jingle, Movie Critic. 😛 The '76 movie was SUPPOSED to be cynical 70's American-icon satire (why else would it have Walter Matthau?), which was Michael Ritchie's stock and trade. The '05 Billy Bob Thornton remake, OTOH, was just more of Richard Linklater's stoner obsession with his childhood, because he doesn't remember much since high school, and all he remembered from the '76 movie was the preteen cussing.

It's the Hungarian movie poster for Toy Story 4. 😆

Balaban as HAL's programmer in "2010" or as Francois Truffaut's UFO researcher in "Close Encounters" would be seen as "hip". This kid, OTOH, was just meant to be pathetic.

If you've joined one of THOSE film clubs that think David Lynch is a god on earth, and made you watch Mulholland Drive for your enlightenment and initiation, you have my sympathies. 😉 FMM, Lynch is watchable, but only up through Blue Velvet, inclusive. (And then the second season of Twin Peaks happened, as has already been discussed at length.) Essential Lynch is still Eraserhead, but as long as you go in prepared, and know what the heck you're in for. That one probably the most sums up Lynch's attempt at a "dreamlike" style--literally--and it's interesting if you know what you're watching, but there don't tend to be middle-ground opinions about it. (If you're squeamish, The Elephant Man keeps most of the visual tricks on a more stable linear plot.)

Or, as we used to say on Usenet, "IMDb [or Wikipedia] is your Friend". And Internet friends do seem to be rather the crux issue for him, from the tone of most of his threads. (And they keep pressuring Mickey to make one about Epcot Italy, but he thinks back on all the Princesses instead...Ah, that moment in the Trevi fountain with Ariel!) 😛

Well, as long as you're not the Carrot guy, or that weird French junkman who wanted the Robot's heart, that's okay. That's, er....the problem. He DOES seem like he's genuinely asking a TCM classic-movies cable forum about Disney VHS tapes he remembered as a kid. At least he didn't ask "When will TCM air 'Mickey's Singalong Circus'?" as a cleverly disguised excuse to post about it.

I'm on Warner's customer-survey list, and remember getting a focus-group question before it came out, "Would you buy a direct-video sequel to Deep Blue Sea if it had more campy tongue-in-cheek humor?" Let's see: Campy, tongue-in-cheek low-budget direct-video shark movies, that eventually play on SyFy...I WONDER what Warner had in mind, or who they were jealously hoping to imitate. 😓

Well, due to lingering grudges over her previous "incommunicado" phases, it's only because I suspect we're in for another jolly round of titled threads with "Any classic movies about irritating know-it-all male jerks on Internet social media forums who won't freakin' shut up?--How about Tom Hanks in 'You've Got Mail'?" Not that such threads have any particular motivation, mind you. Of course, any discussion of cinematic umbrage brings only two names to mind: and

The Faux Four in Yellow Submarine do such a good imitation of A Hard Day's Night banter in the script (with strategically planted lyric in-jokes), if you're on anything that alters you from appreciating it, you're the one losing out. Like your mom always said, if you need drugs or alcohol to have a good time with your friends, that says a lot about your friends. Back in the 90's, when there was the PSA push for "My Anti-Drug", early anime fans (who could only track down their habit on obscure $30 VHS tapes, and then had to go underground to find that) had a saying that still works for cult films on Blu-ray: "Drugs would be cheaper." 😄 I remember never being able to stay awake through Dr. Strangelove in college either, and while 2001 is no favorite, they're both a lot better at home, with popcorn and bathroom breaks to keep you awake.

Just watched the B&W Captain Blood a few months ago, and when Flynn and Basil Rathbone begin dueling, I was struck by just HOW MUCH of the Pirates of the Caribbean series (the first one, not the weird nonsense in the sequels) was straight out homaging Sea Hawk and Captain Blood imagery. There was this need by the late 90's to homage the "great genre of Pirate films", or at least wonder whatever happened to them, but nobody seemed to remember any of them except for the two Flynns. Of course, there's the old traditional belief that you can get anyone hooked on old films by showing Singin' in the Rain (it's not just a superstition, it's true, the trick is just to get them to watch anything else), but I've always tried to get newbies hooked on Rear Window, another one of the infamous Movies Millennials Haven't Heard Of--It's always so funny and cutesy in the first half, with Jimmy Stewart, and Thelma Ritter and the odd neighbors, and THEN, hehehh... 😈

The one second in back on the right, who needs the helmet.

Oh--That's what I was referring to: Couldn't remember, thought he extorted the money from Balaban who couldn't pay, and either Miles or Vaccaro paid him out of pity.

Reading the thread, I assumed they were going to be either Those Darn Millennials, or, with the cutesy quotes, maybe 11-12 yo.'s on movie night. When I was 12-15, getting me to watch Casablanca was like getting a TDM to watch Citizen Kane--All I knew was that Important Grownups were trying to tell me it was the Greatest Movie Ever Made without saying why. It wasn't until later, when I caught it at the local revival theater (we had such things in our town area back then) with a double-feature of another movie that it finally answered the one question every young viewer first asks: Does it have a PLOT?? And eventually found out, "Ohh, 'Is he going to give up the fugitive and get the girl, or be the good guy and lose the girl?'--I get it!" With such obstacle impediments out of the way, it's easier to appreciate the movie scene by scene. And when "Round up the usual suspects" ended up on AFI's Greatest Movie Quotes list, I thought, "Wait, that was a movie quote?? Like it didn't exist before 1942?" Although I prefer Leslie Nielsen & Priscilla Presley in the first "Naked Gun": "Maybe the problems of two crazy people don't amount to a hill of beans in this world...But this is our hill. And these are OUR beans!" And just think, they had YouTube's "How This Movie Should Have Ended", even in the long-ago days BEFORE the Peter Jackson LOTR "Why didn't they just ride eagles the whole way?" jokes.