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Re: Great films they never finished

2010-01-07T13:25:02Z

The film was finished, Harry Shearer got to see it and wrote an essay
about it. I don't have a link, but some appropriate Googling might turn it
up.
*s*

Re: Good source for hard to find DVDs?

2010-01-07T13:22:30Z

Weird, even the old laserdisc (released as a double feature with Silent
Running) was released in a letterbox format with the original Panavision
aspect ratio. So it's not like they didn't have a widescreen transfer to
go with. Even a non-anamorphic transfer would be preferable to P&S.
*s*

Re: Netflix to delay renting Warner Bros. latest DVDs

2010-01-07T12:35:46Z

On Jan 6, 8:29 pm, "Mr. Hole the Magnificent"
Are they trying to discourage people from RENTING (and I think this
*could* be extended to kiosk like Redbox, too) and make them want to
BUY (like at Walmart) first?
Sure you could just rent it from bigbox places like Blockbuster;
though Blockbuster is a falling star, not rising (Netflix IS the

Re: Sean Penn returns to 'Three Stooges' film?

2010-01-07T10:22:48Z

Ad hominem noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.

Re: Best movie cars

2010-01-07T12:24:43Z

Barbara Bel Geddes' Karman Ghia in Vertigo

Self-hating Jew? Natalie Portmant doesn't like to play Jewish women, girlfriends (how about the aging college fratboy look?)

2010-01-07T12:23:36Z

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Re: Roger Ebert's Best Movies, 2000-2009

2010-01-07T06:07:12Z

On Jan 6, 10:10 am, Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-
As I said elsewhere that #1 is absurd.

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T04:58:31Z

Then you did not read my first response on 1-5-10.
The X rating was replaced by the NC-17 rating in 1990.
[link]
The films I mentioned in my first post received either X
ratings or NC-17 ratings or none at all.
For a list of all films rated NC-17, see

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T04:41:39Z

I can forgive anything that brings me Dean Stockwell's Ben.

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T03:39:26Z

Ain't the first amendment grand? I'm glad US filmmakers can finally --
theoretically -- make films that are "adult" in nature. Having said
that, I think "Blue Velvet" is a fake and pretentious bucket of
middleclass delusions. In that film, the "evil" is as fake as the
"good." It's junk but I'll defend David Lynch's right to spill his

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T03:27:33Z

So, NC-17 eventually replaced the discarded X rating, making 17 the
offical Adult age.
Thank you William for clarifying this since I've never had to pay
attention to ratings. Before I was an adult, there weren't any films
like this being shown to the public.
Rich Wagner

Re: "James Bond" Are you ready for a Sam Mendes directed 007?

2010-01-07T03:21:43Z

The Director makes what we see on the screen but the comments about it
being 'this' kind or 'that' kind of film forget the Director gets
handed a script, the Producer(s) are looking over his shoulder and the
Studio is poking him with a sharp stick, whenever possible.
My point is what we get isn't alway about picking a Director for his

Re: All-time favorite movie cat

2010-01-07T03:02:23Z

You got that right. It's just such an easy shot and I wanted to dump
on the rest of the film. Even so, Rooney's performance is utterly
despicable even for 1961. No excuse whatsoever. There aren't enough
slings or arrows. Or even birdshot in the butt to pay off that
mistake.
William
[link]

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T02:55:11Z

The MPAA hasn't used X as a rating since the 1970s. It realized too
late that by creating an X category that porn could then be
mainstreamed into theatres since it had a legitimate rating. X was
quickly dropped and NC-17 added at some later date allowing X to
define porn but not to have porn seem to have an MPAA rating or

Re: "Blue Velvet" (1986) On TCM Yesterday [Like "I Spit on Your G...

2010-01-07T02:21:37Z

So, what year would that be? 15?
If my children were adults (over 21) like you were, then they would
not be children any longer. Being X rated would not have prevented them
or you from seeing the film.
You were fully an adult when you saw it. Now, imagine just for a
moment that you saw this when you were 15. Would you still have laughed