I love Netflix streaming. I'm watching Life With Father.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Aims - Aug 23, 2010 4:26:41 pm PDT #10869 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
DavidS - Aug 23, 2010 7:56:22 pm PDT #10870 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm doing a little studying on Film History, Cult Films and the 70s (more on that in a second) and came across some interesting Trivia:
1. Who was on the first cover of People Magazine?
Mia Farrow
2. What does DVD stand for? (No googling!)
Digital Versatile Disc
3. When was HBO founded?
1972! Whoa. It didn't take off until 1975 with the Ali "Thrilla in Manilla" fight. Curiously, boxing was also a staple of early broadcast television.
4. What was the first video rental store and when did it open?
Video Station in L.A. (on Wilshire) opened in 1977. The owner had a collection of 50 videos on tape and rented them for $10 a day. Within five years he had franchised 400 Video Stations across the country.
5. Which was the first movie to use the revolutionary Steadicam?
Bound for Glory, 1976. Biopic of Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine.
Curiously the guy who invented the Steadicam, Garret Brown, also did a famous series of radio beer ads (Molson) as a voiceover guy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 23, 2010 8:25:38 pm PDT #10871 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The basic story is strictly SciFi Original Movie, but far gorier, with much better actors (Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, and Christopher Lloyd), decent-ish CGI, and very capable cinematography that benefits from beautiful locations. And, of course, exposed boobs flying off the screen at you at the slightest excuse.
The gore and gratuitousness kind of earns some respect for how blatant it is–it's not so much the Citizen Kane of killer piranha movies as the Planet Terror of them.
Polter-Cow - Aug 23, 2010 9:59:56 pm PDT #10872 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, and I loved Planet Terror ! Sounds like fun.
Strange Days was great! I bumped it up a star on rewatch. The first-person POV sequences are excellent. Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett are great together. It's never boring, and it has a great soundtrack. Definite thumbs up. Out of all Bigelow's movies I've seen, this one is the most My Thing, anyway. Didn't know it was written by James Cameron till now, though.
And I just learned some fun trivia from IMDb. The Fatboy Slim song "Right Here, Right Now"? The titular phrase is courtesy of Mace.
smonster - Aug 23, 2010 11:22:38 pm PDT #10873 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Digital Video Disc? That's the only one I can even guess on.
erikaj - Aug 24, 2010 4:52:50 am PDT #10874 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
HBO? Sometime in the seventies, but without shows, just movies and boxing.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2010 5:23:36 am PDT #10875 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
5. Which was the first movie to use the revolutionary Steadicam?
I'd heard it was first used for The Shining (for the scene where the camera is following the kid on the Big Wheel). But that was 1980, and the whitefonted answer is earlier.
Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2010 5:30:53 am PDT #10876 of 30000
hwæt
I always thought the first film to use it was Rocky.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2010 5:33:02 am PDT #10877 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, which movie was the first to use the not-quite-as-revolutionary Wobblycam?
A: Evil Dead
DavidS - Aug 24, 2010 6:29:58 am PDT #10878 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Digital Video Disc? That's the only one I can even guess on.
You'd think, right? But no.
HBO? Sometime in the seventies, but without shows, just movies and boxing.
You're right. 1972. So early.
I'd heard it was first used for The Shining (for the scene where the camera is following the kid on the Big Wheel). But that was 1980, and the whitefonted answer is earlier.
My favorite steadicam shot of all time is the Huggies chase in Raising Arizona, though there's another good back yard chase in Point Break.