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  1. Ejanss

    Next Gen Consoles Sound So Boring!

    Like most civilians, I don't watch any non-Alec Baldwin/Jim Carrey SNL sketches...DID they do one for the PS5?
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    No way: Forget Netflix, Ray Stevenson in "Punisher: War Zone" IS the MCU Punisher. :oops: (It's just too bad he couldn't have had a better movie, as by that point, we'd given up on low-budget pre-MCU Lionsgate movies after the Thomas Jane/John Travolta Punisher.)
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    They've been showing us enough clips--well, the same TWO, over and over--to make us realize it's being made by people who don't know the difference between June Cleaver, Laura Petrie or Samantha Stevens, and thought they all vacuumed in pearls and aprons. And, even more unforgivably to a...
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    Oh, I remember: This was right around the same early-00's time as the celebrity-news crowd all went nuclear over calling Gigli one of the "Worst films ever made", simply as a big tantrum against the offscreen Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez shenanigans at the time-- Even though Daredevil didn't seem...
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    Spidey 3 failed because of too many villains, insisted upon by too many cooks in the pot: Sam Raimi wanted to work his way through the villains chronologically, and was still on trying to find a "contemporary" reason for silver-age Sandman to rob banks, Sony wanted to stick with Harry-Goblin for...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Popeye – in Blu-ray

    Everyone on the movie had their own ideas--Robin's Mercer-muttering and Shelley's "Ohh, deeear..." were homaging the cartoons, while Jules Pfeiffer's script was homaging the comic strip. And, of course, 1980 audiences knew neither one of them, and it confused their poor lil' minds! :blink:
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Castle in the Sky & Spirited Away – in Blu-ray

    "Dubtitles" remain a major fan urban-legend, left over from the 00's days when Everything Disney Did Was Evil, especially to anime fans (ahemlionking)-- Most of the Disney disks had TWO subtitle tracks, the correct-translation "English", for watching with the Japanese audio, and "English SDH"...
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    20th Century Fox's CinemaScope films

    What's the problem with King & I, for someone who didn't buy the collected R&H boxsets? Disney Movie Club is now diving into their Fox catalog, and we're finally getting individual releases of the non-"Sound of Music" Fox R&H Musicals (maybe we did earlier, and I hadn't been paying attention)...
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    Next Gen Consoles Sound So Boring!

    Again, it's the Gamer mentality, that boxes MUST be made to let gamers be gamers, and give them rendering/processing Ultimate Power on their collaborative Call of Duty and Overwatch games-- What sold the PS2 and PS3 to mainstream customers, thus doubling their sales, was when we found out they...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Castle in the Sky & Spirited Away – in Blu-ray

    I always like to check in on Ghibli-fan discussions to see how many of them have even HEARD of "Lupin III & the Castle of Cagliostro" (now on Discotek and coming to 4K)-- The one Miyazaki that Disney DIDN'T touch, since it was pre-Ghibli:
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    Warner Bros. to Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including ‘Dune’ and ‘Matrix 4,’ Both on HBO Max and In Theaters

    Or, Universal will do exactly what they'd WANTED to do for thirty years, and finally almost got to do with Trolls/Invisible, namely get overconfidently greedy, sock exorbitant prices for the "neato" gimmick, price themselves out of the mainstream market, and generate mass customer resentment...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection – in Blu-ray

    I've always found a lot of stylistic and (nasty) personality parallels between Friz Freleng at Warner, and Jeffrey Katzenberg at Dreamworks, who "didn't steal" Disney movies about ants, Aztecs or horses, and had "never seen" Japanese anime before adapting "Shakespeare" for Disney. FMM, both are...
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    Favorite Christmas Episodes

    As for The Monkees' "The Christmas Show", it's...ehh: It's from the second season, when they were starting to wander off their scripts, and the story of the group babysitting 12-yo. rich intellectual mini-Scrooge Butch Patrick would have been better if the kid wasn't so danged insufferable. It...
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    Warner Bros. to Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including ‘Dune’ and ‘Matrix 4,’ Both on HBO Max and In Theaters

    "Bubble"'s the word I've used all along--in the mortgage derivative, tulip, and dot-com sense--in that it has three of the official starry-eyed delusions that PREVENT investors from asking basic caveat questions like "Where is all the money we're 'going' to make actually coming from?" 1) A new...
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    Warner Bros. to Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including ‘Dune’ and ‘Matrix 4,’ Both on HBO Max and In Theaters

    That's just it--It was NEVER coming. It was the Cold-Fusion of home theater. And yet every mainstream non-buyer who didn't want to admit he was a danged cheapskate would either use A) "The conspiracy of greedy studios!", and complaints about ticket surcharges and bad Dreamworks animateds, or B)...
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    Warner Bros. to Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including ‘Dune’ and ‘Matrix 4,’ Both on HBO Max and In Theaters

    And they laughed when we bought that '11 Panasonic 3DTV... :D (But don't worry, Samsung says they might have glasses-free 3D home screens ready by early '24!)
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    Blu-ray Review The Flintstones The Complete Series Blu-ray Review

    Also, it seems to be animated in Warner/CN's passive-aggressive "Retro-kitsch" style, as Warner still hasn't exorcised all their old 00's studio demons of trying to make vintage 60's-70's Hanna-Barbera look like Ren & Stimpy-style hipster-animated parody. They're still doing it, they've just...
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    Favorite Christmas Episodes

    Like most kinescope variety, that's public domain, and can be found anywhere-- Amazon, for ex., not only has a few PD copies, but their Red Skelton: the Farewell Specials (ie. 80's HBO) also has Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner, where Red's hobo character plays the old Cop & the Anthem story of...
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete Series Blu US Release

    Oh, whew--For years, I thought that had been cut out of the later broadcasts because too many viewers were confused by "BBC is shutting down for the night, don't forget to turn off your sets", and the screen suddenly going out with a last cathode blip. (Don't laugh, it's happened before, when...
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    Care and repair and maintenance of our extinct plasma TV’s, just to keep them going a little longer.

    Now we need a thread for those still taking care of our extinct 2011 3DTV's, just to keep them going a little longer... :angry:
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Popeye – in Blu-ray

    (Not to nitpick, but Showtime. HBO had some good series in the 80's, like Not Necessarily the News and Fraggle Rock, but it was Showtime that got FTT, the Broadway shows, and Garry Shandling. :angry: )
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete Series Blu US Release

    Well, I'm not with the secret police, anyway...
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete Series Blu US Release

    By that logic, so would the "Cycling Tour" episode. (Of which the only funny bit was Cleese's, with the Russian firing squad.) And not to nitpick, but...wasn't the Goon Show a long-format show? As opposed to the sketch roots of Cleese/Chapman's "At Last the 1948 Show" and Idle/Palin/Jones'...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Popeye – in Blu-ray

    I was no Altman fan (to put it mildly), but owning the complete 80's "Faerie Tale Theatre" boxset on DVD will warm your heart to Crazy Shelley in short time. ^_^ (Btw, anyone know the current ownership status of SD'sFTT? It came out from a small struggling independent label in the early days...
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete Series Blu US Release

    But--probably because of BBC standards--we still didn't get the legendary line from the Drug Raid sketch: Idle: "You just got that bag out of your pocket! What's in it, anyway?...Sandwiches?" Policeman: "Sandwiches?...Blimey, what EVER did I give the wife? :oops: " Wife: "I don't know, but...
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: Complete Series Blu US Release

    (chuckling) I take it you're kidding... :lol: As even if I ever have heard anyone say anything good about the fourth season--and Terry Jones/Michael Palin now dominating the long-form episodes with first draft scripts for "Ripping Yarns"--I've never heard ANY fans say good things about the Mr...
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    Favorite Christmas Episodes

    And, of course, the annual rotation of Mystery Science Theater 3000's heckling of Christmas movies-- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Joel Hodgson era), Santa Claus (Michael J. Nelson era), and The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (Netflix era):
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Popeye – in Blu-ray

    Good to hear, since reading this discussion always keeps sticking the Sweethaven song back in my head... :angry:
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    An Open Letter to the Folks at Paramount Home Entertainment

    I wouldn't mind Foul Play, but at the immediate moment, Paramount only seems to have access to the same catalog they're showing on their online "Paramount Channel". Of which the only one of the above is Young Sherlock Holmes, but that one's overdue for Blu.
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    Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

    The 10's were all about marketing movies as Nike sneakers, with iconic logos, three-word advertising slogans, product-release dates, and a peer-pressure that everyone had to be there on opening day. Now, they've got a slight problem with that strategy, in that it's hard to sell a sneaker when...
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