JonParker
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The Dogville shorts have been running for what seems like forever. There's even a shot from one of them in the new One Reel Wonders opener.
I can't stand them, but they seem to be popular. I'd imagine they'll be running all nine of them at one point or another.
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I am enjoying these so much more this time around than I did on my initial viewing. Kirk Alyn is a great Superman, Noel Neill is the best Lois ever, and the action keeps coming.
I have heard some criticism over the animated flying sequences, but I think they work really well. They're dynamic, well integrated into the film and work far better than the live action George Reeves flying shots. I always found those somewhat boring.
I have never seen the second serial, but have heard that it's superior to the original. If that's the case I can't wait.
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> I once called and asked him on his hot line
> that I had a major problem...."Him".... and asked if
> he could leave office within the 24 hour response
> time!!! He stayed
I don't blame him for ignoring you.
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> Try to get a Street Light Fixed, or a
> Pothole fixed in the road by writing your
> Congressman. You have a less of a chance of them
> listening to you than wrapping a pink bow on a
> lightning bolt during a thunder storm.
You might try writing to your municipal authorities, since they are the ones actually responsible for local infrastructure. Your congressman has nothing to do with it.
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I'd like to have that too. It's not up there with Leone's other films, but that's no reason it needs to be ignored. I don't even have a VHS of it.
Maybe at some point we'll get a DVD.
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> In fact, I am hard pressed to name a major male star
> of the 1990's, for example, who hasn't lost alot of
> their credibility in the 21st century.
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> Tom Hanks - that is the only one I can think of.
After "Bosom Buddies" and "Bachelor Party," Tom's credibility had nowhere to go but up.
I like Leo a lot, but most of what I've seen him in came after he became Scorcese's main man.
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> Plus, is there anyone on the planet who doesn't own
> that film on DVD? *lol*
Me!
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Oscar month is usually a wash for me, with a few exceptions.
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> You might want to learn a bit more about how
> programming, leasing films and the channels are run
> before submitting your resume.
Or participating in the programming challenge.
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> How lucky for his twinkie that she didn't
> get post partum depression, or he may have
> eighty-sixed her for a younger girl, maybe one of 16
> this time.
There's plenty of things to criticize Cruise for, but who he dates isn't among them.
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I hear yah. She looked awfully good.
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I miss Roger
> Corman directing of Mr Price in Poe's masterpieces,
> Arthur Robison's classic "A Night Of Terror", F. W.
> Murnau's "Nosferatu", I missed Chaney, Price, Karlof,
> Logosi. Chris Lee. The list goes on.
Um, have you actually looked at this month's schedule? Have you been watching at all?
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Beautiful. Too bad I can't go out tonight.
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The newbie leaves and we're left
> alone with each other madly typing insults at each
> other about how we treated the newbie. If you can't
> do anything but spend 15 seconds on a response then
> why be SO negative?
I used to belong to a mailing list where hazing the newbies was a regular ritual. The ones who survived it were welcomed, the ones who didn't left. I'm talking some serious meanness here, not the kind of hazing we see on this board.
I think we lost some good people that way, although we also ran off several utter morons. I personally managed to avoid the hazing by lurking first and seeing the general tone of the posts, then jumping in in the middle of a flame war. By the time the smoke cleared, no one remembered that I was new.
Eventully the insider nature of the list killed it -- after a while there was no one willing to join. It's too bad, because we had really good discussions at times.
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Man, y'all are old.
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"The Penalty" is fantastic. I own the Kino DVD, and it's really nice -- it has some extra features that aren't on TCM, looking at how Chaney portrayed a legless man and a look inside his actual makeup kit. Well worth it.
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> The person who created
> the BB commercials has obviously never been in a BB
> store. If you can find a sales person, the knowledge
> they have on movies or computers or CDs, etc., is
> nothing!
OT, but true. A few years ago i went to Best Buy to grab some RAM. I knew exactly what chip I needed. I went to the counter and asked for it, and the guy asked me what model computer I had. I told him. Then followed one of the most surreal conversations I have ever had.
BB: I'm sorry sir, we don't sell RAM for Macintosh.
Me: What?
BB: We don't sell RAM for Macintosh.
Me: I told you what chip I wanted. It's the right chip. It works the same on Mac or PC.
BB: We don't sell Macintosh RAM.
Me: There's no difference. Apple doesn't have RAM specially made for Macs.
BB: We don't carry Macintosh RAM.
The guy actually refused to sell me the chip. I ended up having to go to CompUSA (which is just as bad if not worse) to get it.
Since then I shop at Best Buy only if they have an unbeatable price on something I need. I do most of my tech shopping through the Net.
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I live right down the road from movieman1957, and TCM is still analog expanded basic on our system. If TCM was going all digital, wouldn't everyone be changing?
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> I had no idea Mr. Barry Allen was on that show! I
> love The Flash! He's not in costume, is he?
Naw, he's a fairly troubled teenager who was actually using his powers for crime. When Clark searched his apartment, he had a bunch of fake IDs with the names Wally West and Jay Garrick on them, which I thought was pretty funny.
I think he's supposed to make a return appearance this season.
> Is anybody working on a Flash movie? It would lend
> itself fairly well.
I heard that they were working on one, but I don't know if anything is happening with it.
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> I like the Lois on Smallville. The show has been
> getting more interesting since it's dropped its
> Dawson Creek element and is focusing more on other DC
> characters.
AHAHA! That's exactly what I was thinking. It really does have that whole teen soap thing going on, but in spite of that it can be really good at times. Lois has definitely livened things up -- Lana may be eye candy, but she's a completely boring character.
They do vary from the DC characters quite a bit at times -- see Barry Allen and Milton Fine.
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You have the right to your opinion, yes. And the intelligent and thoughtful posters who want to discuss movies will all leave.
Congratulations. More trashing of the boards with meaningless crap, all under the banner of "free speech." I'm starting to look at this board as a valiant but ultimately failed experiment.
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That was Kirk Alyn. I don't think he did much of anything else of note. He did physically resemble Superman more than most others who've played the role.
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> Expressing our opinions is "disruptive"? Really?
> Maybe some of us feel that 4 or 5 threads devoted to
> Rob Zombie is a little disruptive. Maybe I'll start
> some threads devoted to Seven Brides For Seven
> Brothers.
Comparing Rob Zombie to a gorilla repeatedly is not an "opinion," it's an insult. Any substantive discussion as to whether or not TCMU is appropriate programming for the channel, on either side, was over months ago.
At this point yes, it's disruptive.
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> This country was built on protest's (sic) and as I
> mentioned before I am exercising that right and will
> continue to do so with or without your approval!
> Thank you!
Comparing a lot of whining about a TV movie host to the right to protest oppression and war just makes the complaining look siller than ever.
And oobleckboy, maybe the TCMU site does need a message board, or at least its own segment under genre forums. Apparently we're being told that the anti-TCMU contingent will continue to be disruptive if we attempt to have civil discussion of the films here.
Talking Gangster Dogs
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Actually, that's one of the reasons I don't like them. The other is that the first one I saw was "All Quiet on the Canine Front," a parody of what I think is the finest anti-war movie ever made. It seemed like a pretty tastless subject for a short featuring dogs.
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