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Post by angilasman on Apr 17, 2010 10:22:09 GMT -5
Three Ages
This Buster Keaton film theorizes that during snowy days in ancient Rome it was a good idea to use a dog-sled in lieu of horse drawn chariot in a chariot race.
Pretty awesome.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 16, 2010 22:26:54 GMT -5
Been watching Keaton shorts: Convict 13, Daydreams, The Playhouse, and Cops
The first two were okay, but the second two are absolutely brilliant. Cops is maniac, and The Playhouse plays with reality in a way that must have blown some minds in the 1920s.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 16, 2010 11:54:52 GMT -5
I like to think Dark Horse comics has a Hellboy/The Goon/Usagi Yojimbo trinity...
...I really like Dark Horse comics, btw. There's a Goon movie in developement, so that'll get him more well known, but no Usagi (which is a shame since it is quite possibly the best comic book ever published).
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Post by angilasman on Apr 16, 2010 10:17:33 GMT -5
Steamboat Bill Jr.
I wasn't feeling this Keaton film untill the last 20 minutes when the famous hurricane sequence starts - then it got awesome.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 15, 2010 19:36:40 GMT -5
^wait 'till later this year for Metropolis, when the extended version containing recently discovered scenes is released.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 15, 2010 17:05:59 GMT -5
Yojimbo
This is such a great movie. One of Kurosawa dozen or so masterpieces, and his funniest.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 15, 2010 14:47:19 GMT -5
Well, I ended up missing DD's sale... but I was so pumped for getting The Art of Buster Keaton that I ordered it from a highly rated 3rd party dealer on amazon.com. $130 wasn't a bad price for all the content.
-and it arrived today! Thing of beauty.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 13, 2010 15:35:49 GMT -5
MSTies have had a good thing going for awhile now... with the exception of the first 3 KTMA episodes and a better quality copy of MST3k:TM's deleted scenes, we have the whole series in great quality at our finger tips and a company officially cranking out great-set after great-set (with more and more surprises, film rights-wise). Combine that with Cinematic Titanic and RiffTrax, I honestly have nothing to complain about as a fan. ^What he said. Things are just about as good as they can be on the MST3K front.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 12, 2010 7:50:57 GMT -5
Watched two old Doctor Whos I got for my birthday this weekend.
Doctor Who and the Silurians
The Third Doctor encounters a race of intelligent prehistoric reptiles who've been in suspended animation for some millions of years and now want to take the Earth back. About four episodes worth of story stretched out to seven episodes.
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Sequel story from a few seasons later. The Doctor finds a base of aquatic versions of the reptiles and basically the plot from Silurians is re-hashed, but this time it's exciting and well paced and the monsters are better and The Master is on hand to match wits with The Doctor!
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Post by angilasman on Apr 11, 2010 18:52:16 GMT -5
The Flying Deuces
The one where Laurel and Hardy join the foreign legion. The first act and the ending are the best bits.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 11, 2010 16:06:31 GMT -5
^Have you seen The Phantom of the Paradise?
Like Rocky Horror, but better songs, better story, better everything.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 11, 2010 10:43:11 GMT -5
I don't like the way Olbermann conducts his show (and this is coming from a very liberal guy)... but I've watched enough of him to glean that he's got really nice taste in movies, TV, and books.
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Post by angilasman on Apr 10, 2010 19:02:12 GMT -5
The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman
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Post by angilasman on Apr 9, 2010 21:03:46 GMT -5
Now hear me out: I think we should replace an existing holiday with one centered on Mystery Science Theater 3000 itself. We deserve it, don't you think? And this country has so many no one will notice if we take just one. After scanning a list of holidays commonly celebrated in the US (and almost deciding on Pentecost Day) I've chosen Thanksgiving Day. ...but the name "Thanksgiving" is a bit too straight laced for our cow-town puppet show so we should probably select something a bit more... whimsical. I think "Turkey Day" would serve our purpose.
[shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow] What do we do on the newly christened Turkey Day? Well for one thing we put MST3K episodes on during the morning while preparing food (the parades have gotten to be very lame anyway), and after the feast the whole family settles down for a communal viewing of a classic MST3K episode. What's something that Thanksgiving was lacking? Well? That's right: costumes. A dedicated celebrator might decide to go all-out and spend months assembling a Godzilla or Gamera costume to wear to the occasion. Your 12 year old honor student spent all his lawn mowing money on the plastic bits and bobs to turn himself into an adorable Crow T. Robot. But your Uncle Greg and Aunt Rita, who are very busy at their podiatry practice, need not get too extravagent: just a simple jumpsuit can turn your busy relatives into captives on the S.O.L.! Cousin Jacob, fresh from his meth lab, needs no preparation at all to arrive as Zap Rowsdower! But let's look at the main event of the previously named "Giving of Thanks" - that is: the food. With a little linguistic hop-scotch even this becomes MST themed! A Turkey becomes the Crow! Cranberry sauce becomes Tom Servo sauce! Stuffing becomes Creeping Terror bits! Pigs feet become Manos, the hands of pigs! Any pan becomes a Jan-pan! And, naturally, stuffed possum become Hobgoblins! Sound like fun? Would you like to make a donation?*
*You will be expected to make a donation
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Post by angilasman on Apr 9, 2010 19:30:54 GMT -5
The kitchen exploding, the chair rising, the pictures rotating on the wall and a flame bursting out of the kitchen door, slightly preceded by a flying, make that flung, Oliver Hardy in Laurel and Hardy's Blockheads. They were the kings of burning down or destroying things. In Laurel and Hardy's Way Out West there is the running joke of Stan being able to snap his fingers like a lighter - causing a flame to appear on his thumb. He does it a few times in the film when a fire or a light in necessary, but I didn't find it terribly funny at that point. Ollie is amazed by this and a few times he snaps his fingers in a similar fashion to try to duplicate it. It never works for him. Near the end of the film when Stan and Ollie are trying to sneak up on the sleeping bad guy Ollie again tries his hand at the "hand as a lighter" thing and it works... and Ollie freaks out and screams bloody murder! Brilliant. The entire climax of Duck Soup is hilarious. From the "Freedonia's Going to War" number forward it's one great joke after another until the movie ends.
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