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Post by angilasman on Apr 7, 2010 14:32:02 GMT -5
I'll be waiting for BBC America's airing - am trying to avoid spoilers but the near universal praise is comforting!
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Post by angilasman on Apr 4, 2010 18:48:17 GMT -5
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Laurel and Hardy are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum...er, "Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum," in a world populated by nursery rhythm characters, Santa Claus, and an Ebenezer Scrooge-esque villian.
Not as funny as some other films the duo did (though there are some very funny parts, mainly stuff Stan does), but there's enough people in animal costumes, animals in animal costumes, some rather nice songs, and an army of bogeymen and wooden soldiers so it's all good.
Legend Films DVD of this is great: both black and white and colorized versions of the film and tons of old Christmas shorts and toy commercials (some of which were featured in the Rifftrax Christmas show).
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Post by angilasman on Apr 1, 2010 10:44:12 GMT -5
Invasion of Astro Monster (aka Monster Zero) To celebrate the announcement of the new, Hollywood Godzilla film I watched one of my favorites of the series. Love this movie, full of fun characaters and nifty 1960s special effects. Watched the Japanese version, which included a few extra scenes of Yoshio Tsuchiya's improvised alien dialogue. Oh I love this movie; I saw it in the theater when I was a kid (early 70s). I have the Japanese DVD also and I still enjoy watching it. When I was a kid I thought the part where the cute alien babe gets disintegrated was particularly chilling. Too many disney movies; that kinda crap wasn't supposed to happen. I saw it in a theater in 2004 at a Godzilla convention. Now let's see... Godzilla films I've seen in a movie theater (in order): Godzilla (1998) - Doesn't really count, does it? Godzilla 2000 Gojira Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II Invasion of Astro Monster Terror of Mechagodzilla Godzilla: Tokyo SOS Fun times, great audience reaction in a theater full of fans. Those last three were at a really old theater in Chicago that seemed to be a theater for live performances before being changed to a film theater many decades earlier. It was half decrepit old place, half magnificent colloseum from long ago. I really loved that place.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 30, 2010 13:19:47 GMT -5
Oops, here's the link to the actual Kino sale page... Deep DiscountAnd yup, they'll take a debit same as a credit card. Then 11 feature films and 21 shorts worth of Keaton-y goodness, here I come! ...when I get my debit card in a few days to replace the one that was destroyed. A race against time!
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Post by angilasman on Mar 30, 2010 11:34:01 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind Shout! doing internet only singles releases of Rhino episodes gone out of print.
I've already mentioned that it's a terrible shame to let such classic episodes go to waste and that in my perfect world Shout! should re-release the The Essentials set as "The Essentials Vol. 1", have Mitchel and The Brain that Wouldn't Die as Vol. 2, Pod People and Cave Dwellers as Vol. 3, ect.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 30, 2010 9:55:16 GMT -5
Invasion of Astro Monster (aka Monster Zero)
To celebrate the announcement of the new, Hollywood Godzilla film I watched one of my favorites of the series. Love this movie, full of fun characaters and nifty 1960s special effects. Watched the Japanese version, which included a few extra scenes of Yoshio Tsuchiya's improvised alien dialogue.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 29, 2010 19:45:58 GMT -5
I think there is little doubt that Godzilla will be completely CGI - but as long as he looks and acts like Godzilla (as opposed to in the Beast From 20,000 Fathoms-esque 1998 movie) I'm fine with it.
Oh, and "Godzilla back and someone's got to pay!"
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Post by angilasman on Mar 29, 2010 15:38:29 GMT -5
www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64648Yee-Haw! (that's right, I said it) The world's always a better place with Godzilla in it, and they've got a great example of what not to do in the 1998 film. dada dum, dada dum, dum dum dum dada dum, dada dum, dum dum dum dum dum da, dum dum da dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum da
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Post by angilasman on Mar 29, 2010 7:10:28 GMT -5
... April 8th, you say? Does Deep Discount accept debit cards?
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Post by angilasman on Mar 28, 2010 17:15:19 GMT -5
Picked up Watership Down again (after reading roughly a quarter of it a few months ago) and have also started Candide by Voltaire.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 26, 2010 22:55:51 GMT -5
"Mother Died Today." The StrangerI just bought a used copy. Never read it before. It's apparently a newer, more accurate translation and it uses the French familar word for mom: maman. So it is "Maman died today." I feel somewhat cheated. I just finished Leiber's fifth Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser book (The Swords of Lankhmar), loved it - well, the first half was a bit dry, but when Sheelba showed up it became as exciting, weird, and funny as a Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser story should be. Whenever people talk about best first lines I think of Catch 22, but then I realize that it's the second line I love. The first is the set-up.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 26, 2010 11:28:09 GMT -5
I'm looking for a Japanese SF film, from the 1960's or 70's. I don't remember much. There's a plane flight that runs into a storm and crashes. Then some of the passengers start disappearing. There seems to have been vampire aliens involved and I think there is a monster at the end. Ring a bell to anyone? EDIT: Never mind. As soon as I ask; and after looking for years; I have extraordinary luck and run into a site that lists all Japanese movies. And what do you know? One of the first things I randomly picked was the synopsis for the movie, there in all it's full glory: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell. There's no monster, but there was vampire aliens. I taped that off TCM a few years ago. Janus films have the US rights but haven't released it yet (they also own the wonderfully wacky X From Outer Space).
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Post by angilasman on Mar 25, 2010 19:08:25 GMT -5
Then I guess you haven't seen Robot Vs. Aztec Mummy lol, but then again there are some split opinions on that one. I like both Aztec Mummy and Mad Monster more for their cheap Universal Monsters ripp-off feel. Oh, and a bit more about Volume XVI: if the exceptional special features on Santa Claus weren't enough, they have both versions of Blood Beast, effectively making it a set of five episodes! ...and it came with a Toy! In second place I'd say 20AE: Werewolf, Laserblast, The History of MST3K, the reunion panel... and a toy.
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Post by angilasman on Mar 25, 2010 16:03:52 GMT -5
My friend, you covered mine with Swamp Thing! Yeah, that's really the only one I can think of as favorite comic book "run", since that, to me, denotes a piece of an ongoing series that was done by a particular creative team. Now; Usagi Yojimbo, Hellboy, BPRD, The Goon, and Concrete are creator owned titles done by the same people (or single person).
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Post by angilasman on Mar 25, 2010 15:59:34 GMT -5
I just rented and watched Ponyo. Ummm ... To be honest, I didn't like it. Maybe it loses something in its English conversion, but I just couldn't relate to it. The characters were obnoxious and it did start to get boring. Also, I think they glossed over Liam Neeson's character's desire to execute the genocide of humans. Also, that ending credit's song is just grating. It's a creative interpretation of "The Little Mermaid", but it didn't strike a chord with me. I think Ponyo is my least favorite Miyazaki film so far - I actually think it's a very good film, but it's audience is clearly very young children, and while other films he's done can be enjoyed from both a young and adult viewpoint this one is targeted, IMO, solely at the kiddies. - but I still enjoy it, and from a technical viewpoint it's quite an achievement.
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