EricJ
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7 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
A station (rather new) on my cable service called CHARGE has, for a few weeks now, been showing, on weekday mornings, some old JOHN WAYNE pre-"Stagecoach" westerns. Made by an the fledgling Republic studios.
And mostly public domain.
Which seems to be the reason most new fledgling cable/streaming splinter services start up nowadays.
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7 hours ago, Sepiatone said:
There was another TV ad in which a girl, talking aloud while driving asks....
"Can vegetarians still eat ANIMAL CRACKERS?"
A pox on you for mentioning that insufferably Millennial "female-demographic" ad. 😓
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9 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
There's supposedly another Pinocchio directed by Guillermo Del Toro being made for Netflix. It's stop-motion animation. I'll never understand the fascination so many have with the story.
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.
43 minutes ago, Peebs said:Here's Emma Stone in the "Cruella" movie out in 2021. She looks a little like Tim Curry's Dr. Frankenfurter, at least in the face.
Thanks--Now I can't UN-see that, which will be useful later. 😁
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I'm trying to think of a movie where Darren McGavin DIDN'T play a reporter...Any help?
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8 hours ago, shutoo said:
House on Haunted Hill : "They're coming for me now...and then they'll come for you"
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.
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
Is this the Care Bears movie that has Mickey Rooney in it? Or is that the second one?
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. 😈
7 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:Disney was just humiliated by the loss (cost:$44 million. $22 million in the US at the time in sales) and the new management which took over shortly before it was due to be released (Wells-Eisner-Katzenberg) hated the movie. So that's why it was nailed shut.
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.
7 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:The ultimate irony: the (Black Cauldron) film they disowned for years, is getting a remake too on the neverending Disney remake wheel now.
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.
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2 hours ago, Hibi said:
This show sounds horrible. I must've missed it, thankfully. I wonder what role Phyllis Diller played???
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?)
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4 hours ago, CinemaInternational said:
I honestly think that despite being banned, a lot have people have seen bootleg copies of Song of the South because they are curious about the controversy. I've seen a lot of younger people who couldn't possibly have seen it in 1986 (its last release) claim that they have seen it.
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. 😡
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5 hours ago, The Keeper said:
We need female (no testosterone) Corporate CEOs!
Unfortunately, Disney's got them, which is why Frozen and Captain Marvel are getting sequels... 😓
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13 minutes ago, LawrenceA said:
The Commuter (2018) - 6/10
Standard thriller tropes, with Neeson as the world's toughest 65-year-old. I wanted a dumb action flick after a day of pretentious arthouse foreign flicks, and that's what I got. And no animal cruelty.
What, not even Neeson beating a dead horse? 😄
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48 minutes ago, JakeHolman said:(Have you read your Twitter feed today?)
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!!")8 hours ago, TopBilled said:It's as if individual posters are not smart enough to find these articles by themselves. Why does someone need to keep bringing these things to everyone else's attention? Also, most of it is not really newsworthy at all.
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".) 😄
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9 hours ago, JakeHolman said:saw the preview ... pure trash ... glamorizing cussing in kids ... G rating dead ... only disney ...
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.
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15 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
What a unique movie poster! Must be a foreign film.
It's the Hungarian movie poster for Toy Story 4. 😆
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3 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
Bob Balaban's character in MIDNIGHT COWBOY was meant to be perceived as "nerdy" in 1969," but his style today would be seen as "hip."
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.
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6 hours ago, NickAndNora34 said:
BLUE VELVET (1986) *Score: 6/10*
I recently joined an online film club (majority of the members are people my age, which is nice) and I've been trying to broaden my horizons a little bit and watch different things. Of David Lynch's projects, I had only previously seen Mulholland Drive, which I did not love. I thought the concept was interesting, but I don't understand why everyone I talk to seems to love it.
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.)
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5 hours ago, The Keeper said:
David: There is a forum section called Information, Please. If it specifically designed for questions and answers.
I copied your question into my browser, and in seconds, found this:
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Disney_Sing_Along_Songs
The Internet can give you instant results to many of your questions.
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.
6 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:11 1/2
(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!) 😛
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On 8/17/2019 at 7:12 PM, The Keeper said:
Not a keeper, The Keeper. I collect animals and tried to snag Will and Penny.
Well, as long as you're not the Carrot guy, or that weird French junkman who wanted the Robot's heart, that's okay.
QuoteDavid seems genuine.
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.
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2 hours ago, LawrenceA said:
Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) - 3/10
Arriving a mere 20 years after the marginally-successful first film, this is more of a very cheap, poorly cast remake than a sequel. A group of scientists and technicians travel to a deep sea research station owned by obnoxious billionaire Carl Durant (Michael Beach), where they are working on genetically-altered bull sharks. The highly intelligent sharks soon start attacking the station and chomping down on the unlucky people. With Danielle Savre and Rob Mayes. Beach is the only cast member that I've even heard of. This was shot in South Africa on a very meager budget, with Warner Brothers intending this to be a direct-to-disc or TV flick. It's awful.
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. 😓
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6 hours ago, The Keeper said:
Welcome back! As before, you are leaving me scratching my head.
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:
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59 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
There are only a handful of films where I need mind-altering drugs in order to "appreciate" them. Funny but ASO and Yellow Submarine are the first two that come to mind.
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.
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3 hours ago, TomJH said:
Maybe I'm just a blind Flynn fan but when it come to his Captain Blood-Robin Hood-Sea Hawk-Don Juan quartet of swashbucklers made during the actor's prime years, I don't know how anyone CAN'T like them!
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... 😈
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1 hour ago, sewhite2000 said:
Hey, I'm sorry, what am I missing with the stormtroopers walking forward? I'm staring really hard at their helmets, but I don't see whatever it is I'm supposed to be seeing.
The one second in back on the right, who needs the helmet.
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4 hours ago, HoldenIsHere said:
Also, it was Joe Buck's interaction with Bob Balaban's character (a customer who didn't pay) rather than Joe's encounter with Brenda Vaccaro's character (who did pay) that led the MPAA to give the movie an X rating in 1969. A psychologist referenced the movie's "homosexual frame of reference" to convince United Artists to accept the X rating.
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.
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7 hours ago, Gershwin fan said:
Reading the thread title, I assumed they were going to be my age.
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.
6 hours ago, rosebette said:My 31-year-old son is hardly an old movie buff, but enjoys great dialogue and a compelling story. Casablanca is among his favorite old flicks, and like many young people, he hadn't been aware of the countless lines of dialogue that are now common expressions in our culture. As far as quotable lines, Casablanca is the Hamlet of old flicks. The other night, spouse and son were watching reruns of House as well as the latest Colbert show -- both of which quoted "Of all the gin joints..." and "The problems of two crazy people don't amount to a hill of beans..." The "I'm shocked...." line gets quoted almost weekly by columnists on both sides to reference the latest political hypocrisy.
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!"1 hour ago, Fedya said:I thought the alternate ending to Casablanca was something different:
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.
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Netflix Has Now Shipped 5 Billion DVDs to Its Members
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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.