deeanddaisy666
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Thank you, lzcutter.
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Welllllllllllll............based on Raygun's website, it looks like the next promo is called 'TCM Underground -- hosted by Rob Zombie'.
I have a sneaking suspicion we're all going to be back here talking about it!
P.S. Anyone know which of these is the Robert Montgomery video, or if any of these is really good?.........
FUTURE SHOCK
HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS
BEING BUT MEN HOLIDAY ID
SCREEN ON THE GREEN
GRETA GARBO
ORSON WELLES
HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS
FACE THE FEAR
THE ESSENTIALS 2006
FOLLOW THE SIGNS IMAGE PROMO
CINEMATOGRAPHERS IN FOCUS
CRIME WAVE
SCORSESE ON SCORSESE
MARCH MOVIE MADNESS
RACE AND HOLLYWOOD
LEADING LADIES HD
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Ah, understood Fred, thanks for clarifying.
One of the features of this board is its open access. I am not adverse to the punks and goths, but the mentally ill individuals of late are another matter. Since I am adverse to moderation, I accept all of these people with the understanding that we the members have to be self policing. This is preferable, imo, to the Gestapo censoring methods of other boards.
As to the video appealing to punks and goths, I (surprisingly, even to myself) find myself quite enamored of the piece. I think it was Chuck Braverman, Fred, who used these types of quick cut images in the Smothers Brothers Show? I can't remember, obviously.
So I am the first to say that I have an open mind to punks and goths coming on here, IF they have manners. One of them already said to another member: 'watch your mouth' so that's a matter of rudeness, not the fact that they are punk. As we have all seen, some downright ugly rudeness has overwhelmed our board lately.
As to MTV, as I've noted, I think it was only an opportunistic purveyor of the prevailing culture, as is any television station. TCM saw a need and jumped on it at a time when niche stations enjoyed a place in the sun.
Now, it is reality programming that is, somehow, mindnumbingly popular.
So if TCM is straying away from its original intent, yes, we have to call it on that. And I have been one of the most vociferous of the complainants, back when they programmed the anime crap. But as I've been told again and again, they have to move on, so I'd better like it or change the channel.
As to paying for it and expecting return for my/your money???? This applies to every last damned thing in the world today, imo. I don't get justifiable return for my cable, internet, electric, gasoline, phone, clothing, food, automobile, mortgage, tax, medical.....well, you get the idea. As someone who grew up in the 1950s, I don't feel I am getting my money's worth for ANYTHING today. However, again, like it or lump it.
The ONLY item where I am getting a good return for my money is my dog. He gives me slobbering, unconditional love all day, every day for simply food and shelter. You can't beat that at twice the price.
dolores
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Dammit, so we're into Day Two.
Fred, my golden words will be buried, as will my burning question, so I'll have to make a pest of myself to stay on top of this thread.
Now I know how an orange peel feels at the bottom of a dumpster.
dolores
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Fred, I'm reallllly interested in hearing more about your opinion on this. And yes, I love the fact that we all are giving an ENORmous amount of publicity to it....and hello folks, you do realize we the audience are being manipulated just a wee bit by TCM while we do this? It's akin to what Hollyweird does when it poses something outrageous in the vein of: any publicity is good publicity. Well, we are now party to TCM in this.
But Fred, I've long read your excellent posts and seen the images you've shared. I admire your expertise and the fact that you were present for SO many historical events in America's pictorial history.
So, and I am the first to admit that I am NOT the most open-minded of individuals here, I am very curious to hear why you don't like the promo? Are you against it in and of itself? As a video, I mean? Is it not well produced? Do you not like the music?
I agree that it is NOT an example of what I WANT TCM to BE....emphasis on WANT. However, you see the conundrum? The TCM I WANT is no more. TCM has moved on, and taken us with it. They now show crap from the 1970s on forward. And we the audience can either like it or lump it.
That said, don't you think the video is a perfect illustration of this? New music, new photographic techniques...although The Smothers Brothers Show utilized this same erratic imaging (I forget the artist) thirty years ago so what is old is new...cool people, sex, graphic ideas, with it people....this is the NEW and improved TCM. It's the Nip/Tuck 'classic movie' channel.
MTV began this assault on our senses, but it was soon accepted and overutilized by Madison Avenue and Hollywood alike. Hand held cameras, quick cutting video in soooo many of today's commercials, it's enough to give the usual audience member a migraine.
Long story short, I'm interested in what you, a professional in the field, find objectionable.
Thanks.
dolores
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dedhedjim:
On Jaws...I can see how that was manipulative, yes. I didn't mind it though, although I wouldn't sit through it again. Ditto to The Exorcist, and even SN Fever and I wouldn't bother with rest.
But Rocky Horror???? I'm curious as to why you hated it. I loved it and I don't even come CLOSE to being an "everyone" so I am interested in reading the opinion of someone who doesn't love it.
dolores
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Lately I've noticed several movies I feel have no place on a Classic movie channel (the 70's and 80's aren't classics in my book).
A big word to this, PollythePistol. That's what some of us have been saying for awhile now. However, time marches on, yada yada, and those of us who want TCM to remain the excellent niche station it was can just get over it.
As I've said, I think the promo, as a standalone music video, is outstanding.
As to the poll, I loved the promo and have long admired Janus films.
dolores
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Ditto.
Also, I hereby promise if and when (hopefully I won't feel the need) I leave this board, that I will NOT delete all my posts.
The board is making me dizzy this morning. :0
dolores
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Hey Sandy....you can talk about Hollywoodland again and bring this thread current, since it is being monkeyed around with behind the scenes.
Have you seen the movie yet? It looks a treat, as does The Black Dahlia.
Shame I won't go to the movies on a bet.
dolores
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It's a great day, isn't it?
The air is cleaner, the birds are singing, the Monarch butterflies are wending their way South, and I am still enjoying the heck out of MUSE.
It's just a beautiful day and I want to extend a thank you to all the truly decent people on this board.
May humanity, decency, honesty, freedom, and the qualities that differentiate real human beings from the monsters in the world long continue to reign, and give us power over those who would keep us in the dark and turn us into trolls and terrorists.
May those who were cruelly befouled by these monsters come back here to the company of good people.
Thank you everyone.
dolores
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There was a market for two and three reel comedies and he helped fill it. It wasn't high art. It was simple fun entertainment.
Another good point! He was the Ron Popeil of his day.
I along with many others tend to look at films of old with an overly critical eye. Many of them were NOT produced by artists, they were churned out by business men. The fact that some 'B' movies, done by actors who were under contract for X movies a year via studios that only wanted to make money, turned out to be eternal classics is just luck of the draw.
Hal would no doubt have something pithy to say to all of us here today!
dolores
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I take it TMN is now doing what RR did to his/her posts on these threads, i.e., deleting them and thereby bringing up topics which have no replies in them?
I have to admit. I have owned a computer and been on the Internet for almost seven years now, and this thread is one of the ugliest examples of what anonymous trolls can do to decent, honest, well-meaning people who believe posts put out there by so-called human beings.
I am sorry that so many people have left this board, but I cannot blame them. The trolls I have seen here are among the ugliest I have ever witnessed. They engaged in lies and vicious attacks simply for the purpose of hurting another person.
Amazing. Never underestimate the humanity of people. You will be wrong.
dolores
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In addition, despite whatever he did or didn't accomplish, he was instrumental in his particular genre. He may have made bad decisions along the way and hired people who had personal failings, but he did take part in recording the history of his time, including some wonderful shots of Los Angeles at the beginning of the 20th century.
He is useful simply for his part in the history of film.
To label him 'bad' is presumptuous.
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Yes, Rusty, that's the one. I loved Nightmare Before Christmas, so the weirder the better with me.
Thanks, Jon Parker, that's it, Sober. It's on that website, but I can't open it.
dolores
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I know, I know, I won't go on about music again either....but just to say I LOVED the music video from Tool. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Hey, TCM, make your next promo a really, out-there, bizarro one like the Tool video!
Just THINK of the talk it will generate!!!!
dolores
Wow, would you believe, even when it comes to Tool, Google and ye shall find:
http://www.toolband.com/source/video/
Rats, they don't open.
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I get the impression that she is weary of everything, including the lump of pretty boy on her bed. She seems to get more enjoyment from looking through the telescope into other people's lives...maybe her S/O won't get her cable and she can't see TCM!...than she does in her own life. And a decadent life it seems, considering the view from that apartment.
However, money can't buy happiness or so they say and as the song says Time Is Running Out for her.
I imagine her need for the tattoos was to prove to herself that she could still feel and was alive, and I get the same impression from her taking her top off on the balcony, she wants to be free and unencumbered and feel the air on her skin.
Maybe.
dolores
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Are the Shorts being shown for 24 hours beginning at 6:00am on Friday Sept. 15th tape worthy?
Is anyone here familiar with them?
Thanks.
dolores
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As surprised as I was, Quiller, to find I liked 'techno' music (I didn't know it had a name). I'm sure you can tell me the name of the song that was used in a Volkswagen commercial a few years ago, wherein the girl was dancing in ways that didn't seem physically possible? I remember reading at the time that she really could move her upper body that way, that the film wasn't altered.
At any rate, my fondness for songs like this...does I'm In Love With A Strict Machine also qualify?...just goes to show that you can teach an old dog new tricks!
dolores
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Yes, the September promo is the one with the girl with the telescope.
dolores
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Ohhhhh, the bee song, right?
I loved that song ... and the video too.
dolores
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Sorry, mrsl, I didn't understand what you didn't understand!
Yes, I keep referring to the song Time Is Running Out by the band MUSE which is playing behind the September promo.
Got it.
dolores
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No, I wasn't challenging you, I was just wondering so I could seek out Radiohead. I am still enjoying Time Is Running Out.
Re Charlie Chaplin, it's usually I who is bashing him, and posters who counter me. So on this 'commercial' thingy, I find myself in the unique position of defending something that is not loved by the majority here.
No, NortBanba, we're trying not to persecute here anymore. There's been too much of that lately and we've lost too many good people.
LOL, yup you've trumped me!
dolores
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jdb1, I saw a fascinating show on this somewhere. There's a name for what quirky people like moi have, only I don't remember it!
It seems when 'normal'
people dream, they are basically paralyzed so they don't take off in reaction to the mental stimuli.Well, the wires are crossed in people like myself and we can walk and talk while dreaming...scary to those who have to watch it, I'm sure!
There are drugs for this phenomenon, but I am not interested in being turned into a 'normal' person.
dolores
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Gee, now I know how those who like Charlie Chaplin feel!
Sincerely,
another whiny teenager :0
dolores
P.S. By the way, what songs of Radiohead are similar to MUSE? Thanks,
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It was not a good promo for TCM.
I disagree. I remembered TCM after seeing it. No, I didn't remember the movies. But I now can listen to MUSE and Radiohead and enjoy them whereas a week or so ago I didn't know these bands.
I remembered TCM after hearing Chet Baker's Look For The Silver Lining, I didn't remember what went on in the clip.
I remembered Little Richard after seeing the GEICO commercial, somebody had to remind me that it was for GEICO.
I liked it. I remembered TCM. We're arguing on behalf of TCM, giving lots and lots and lots of 'eyeballs' to their website. So, mission accomplished, no?