TODAY I WATCHED (TV-series, Movies, Cinema Playlists) 2013

exact33 wrote:

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S.D. wrote:

Caught up with Revolution before it resumes this week from the 3-month hiatus(!).

I really couldn't get into that, the whole civilization collapse, people fighting for survival but all of the women looking as though they have had a team of hair and make up artists working non stop was just too annoying.

yeppers !

kinda/sorta like the old cowboy movies when they are on a cattle drive and their duds are spic n span and wrinkle free

Or on The Walking Dead, how the lawns remain manicured:

I just watched the ST-TNG episode that meme is from! It's a hilarious scene where Picard is reciting Shakespeare to try to convince a Ferengi commander that he really loves Troi's mother.

that picard episode os great!!

It's especially funny because Patrick Stewart is a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in England so this episode gave him a chance to "spread his wings."

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

James B. wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

S.D. wrote:

Caught up with Revolution before it resumes this week from the 3-month hiatus(!).

I really couldn't get into that, the whole civilization collapse, people fighting for survival but all of the women looking as though they have had a team of hair and make up artists working non stop was just too annoying.

yeppers !

kinda/sorta like the old cowboy movies when they are on a cattle drive and their duds are spic n span and wrinkle free

Or on The Walking Dead, how the lawns remain manicured:

I just watched the ST-TNG episode that meme is from! It's a hilarious scene where Picard is reciting Shakespeare to try to convince a Ferengi commander that he really loves Troi's mother.

that picard episode os great!!

It's especially funny because Patrick Stewart is a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in England so this episode gave him a chance to "spread his wings."

yep. I have really enjoyed going through ST:TNG. It is a pretty good show but really found its legs in season 4.

I watched the new Family Guy episode tonight.

Airplane! (1980)

Still hilarious after 33 years. Those Zucker brothers were some funny Jews.

SpectreFate wrote:

Airplane! (1980)

Still hilarious after 33 years. Those Zucker brothers were some funny Jews.

Great movie!

"The Walking Dead" -- damn. Fare thee well, Merle.

Fat Freddy wrote:

"The Walking Dead" -- damn. Fare thee well, Merle.

I'm all caught up on The Walking Dead now, tonight's episode was the first one I watched when it originally aired. Merle likes his Motorhead and Uncle Ted.

Patrick Stewart is completely awesome. His voice-over bit in Ted about Apache Helicopters was the only bit of the film that really made me laugh hard.

Love this Patrick Stewart scene from L.A. Story, here he is playing the head of the "Fourth Reich Bank of Hamburg"

SpectreFate wrote:

Airplane! (1980)

Still hilarious after 33 years. Those Zucker brothers were some funny Jews.

CLASSIC!


I watched a couple of goofy Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello beach movies on This! One had a young Dick Dale and his band and the other had Little Stevie Wonder. Cameos by Vincent Price and Boris Karloff as well.

Snapped
Golden Girls
Wreck It Ralf
Bar Rescue

Room 237. What a load of crap! I would love to see a decent documentary on The Shining, this most definitely was NOT it.

Grimm

Yesterday I watched some of the NCAA Tournament. And then a couple episodes of Duck Dynasty and Bar Rescue.

SpectreFate wrote:

Airplane! (1980)

Still hilarious after 33 years. Those Zucker brothers were some funny Jews.

Hunt down Zero Hour!, the 1957 movie Aiplane! is a remake of. A totally serious flick that you'll watch laughing because of Airplane.

Holy crap!! That's hysterical!! I vaguley remember hearing that the movie was based on "serious" airplane disaster movies, but I didn't know it was a word-for-word remake!!

The Shining: European Theatrical Version (1980, Stanley Kubrick)



The Shining was released first in the US in 1980 with a running time of 2hr 23 minutes. Three months later the film was released in Europe but in the interim Stanley Kubrick went back and edited out 23 minutes of footage reducing the running time to 2 hours even. For all this time people in the US have seen a different cut than the rest of world, these different versions have pretty much remained the same throughout the various home release formats over the years. The most recent US blu-ray release is the 143 minute version while the European blu-ray is 120 minutes.

I've seen the longer US cut countless times in my life and for years never even knew there was a shorter European version. I watched that cut of the film today and while it was interesting to compare I found myself missing many of the scenes that were either removed completely or radically shortened for the European print. Both versions of the film were edited by Kubrick, so in essence they are both "director's cuts" though years later Kubrick said he did prefer the shorter version of the film.

For people that have attention span issues the shorter cut might be the way to go, but I think the film loses some of the epic quality of the longer cut. It also reduces the amount of time before Jack goes totally bonkers (which is a rather fast transformation even in the long version) and gets rid of chunks of his backstory including the alcoholism. It also removes the scene near the end where Wendy walks into the hotel lobby and sees the entire place covered in cobwebs with skeletons sitting in the chairs...a shot I always liked.

A good film regardless, but I think Kubrick had it right for the US release.

007 wrote:

SpectreFate wrote:

Airplane! (1980)

Still hilarious after 33 years. Those Zucker brothers were some funny Jews.

Hunt down Zero Hour!, the 1957 movie Aiplane! is a remake of. A totally serious flick that you'll watch laughing because of Airplane.

This is now my next movie on Netflix. I gotta check out this Zero Hour!

S.D. wrote:

The Shining: European Theatrical Version (1980, Stanley Kubrick)



The Shining was released first in the US in 1980 with a running time of 2hr 23 minutes. Three months later the film was released in Europe but in the interim Stanley Kubrick went back and edited out 23 minutes of footage reducing the running time to 2 hours even. For all this time people in the US have seen a different cut than the rest of world, these different versions have pretty much remained the same throughout the various home release formats over the years. The most recent US blu-ray release is the 143 minute version while the European blu-ray is 120 minutes.

I've seen the longer US cut countless times in my life and for years never even knew there was a shorter European version. I watched that cut of the film today and while it was interesting to compare I found myself missing many of the scenes that were either removed completely or radically shortened for the European print. Both versions of the film were edited by Kubrick, so in essence they are both "director's cuts" though years later Kubrick said he did prefer the shorter version of the film.

For people that have attention span issues the shorter cut might be the way to go, but I think the film loses some of the epic quality of the longer cut. It also reduces the amount of time before Jack goes totally bonkers (which is a rather fast transformation even in the long version) and gets rid of chunks of his backstory including the alcoholism. It also removes the scene near the end where Wendy walks into the hotel lobby and sees the entire place covered in cobwebs with skeletons sitting in the chairs...a shot I always liked.

A good film regardless, but I think Kubrick had it right for the US release.

One of my favorites of all time. I was not aware of the other cut. Interesting....

When "The Shining" was first released it was savaged by the US critics, many of them complaining that it was overlong and was more grandiose in scope than a lowly horror film should attempt to be. Kubrick was upset by the reviews and I think due to that pressure decided to streamline the film before premiering it in the rest of the world.

If you go through history most of Kubrick's films are misunderstood and generally dismissed upon initial release...but then they go through a critical reevaluation 20 years or so later and become masterpieces. This has happened over and over again and I vividly remember it happening with The Shining when it was re-released in theaters in the late 90s. Many of the same critics that loathed it in 1980 retracted their previous views. I've always felt Kubrick was a good 20 to 30 years ahead of everyone else anyway.

S.D. wrote:

When "The Shining" was first released it was savaged by the US critics, many of them complaining that it was overlong and was more grandiose in scope than a lowly horror film should attempt to be. Kubrick was upset by the reviews and I think due to that pressure decided to streamline the film before premiering it in the rest of the world.

If you go through history most of Kubrick's films are misunderstood and generally dismissed upon initial release...but then they go through a critical reevaluation 20 years or so later and become masterpieces. This has happened over and over again and I vividly remember it happening with The Shining when it was re-released in theaters in the late 90s. Many of the same critics that loathed it in 1980 retracted their previous views. I've always felt Kubrick was a good 20 to 30 years ahead of everyone else anyway.

What are your thoughts on Eyes Wide Shut? Do you think that will be respected one day?

SpectreFate wrote:

What are your thoughts on Eyes Wide Shut? Do you think that will be respected one day?

I suppose time will tell, I know it got more favorable write-ups when the uncut blu-ray was released a couple years ago. At some point in the future it will get a theatrical re-release and it will be interesting to see how critics respond. I'm guessing sometime within the next decade we'll find out.

I saw Eyes Wide Shut twice in the theater when it was released and I loved it. The blu-ray release in the Kubrick box set from a couple years ago removed the "digital characters" that were inserted over some of the more explicit sex scenes to get the film an R-Rating. The scenes really weren't that explicit and work so much better in composition without those additions to cover up what was originally the primary focus of those shots.

Back to "The Shining" for a minute, this page from IMDB explains in detail all the scenes that were removed from the European cut.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_12

(interesting to note this page says the Euro cut is 113 minutes but that is inaccurate)

Red Dwarf - X

Watched the Behind The Music (Remastered) Bad Co.

A favorite band as a pup
Didin't care much for the Brian Howe fronted line up