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Thank you. You understood what I was getting at. And to bounce off your first paragraph, I am definitely a nerd with respect to some subjects, and would even consider myself an über-nerd with respect to others. And in those instances, I embrace that nerdity with great brio. "Nerd" is not a...

Yes and no. Yes, in that I have no "time-specific" associations. But I guess that it depends on how specific you mean when you say "specific". I can tell you around about when "A Hard Day's Night" came out based on knowing when the movie was released, but I don't associate its release with a...

I grew up in the 60s. I love the music of the time. But I'm not nerd enough to remember when, specifically, any given song was released. Generally speaking, if it's "60s music", I'm good with it. There will always be people who are so into a given subject that they have the minutest trivia...

While I agree that most of these sorts of reviewers are just in it for the outrage, or to annoy the fans, I specifically take issue with using "pitch meeting" as part of this (I still haven't quite made up my mind on the Honest Trailers). I absolutely love Ryan George's "Pitch Meetings". While...

Actually, more often than not, it implies that they are very tall. It's generally used as an ironic nickname. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IronicNickname

It's unclear from the Variety article (unless I missed something glaringly obvious, which I wouldn't be surprised is the case) what the "opening weekend" covers. Normally, it'd be Friday through Sunday (plus Thursday previews), but since this is technically the Fourth of July Weekend (even...

But, I assume, not call you late for dinner...

You're joshin' us...

Back in the day, there were also a lot of short films adapting classic short stories that were made specifically for showing in school classrooms. Many of them ended up also airing on cable networks to fill their programming schedules, sometimes thrown together as a triptych fix-up "movie"...

I have all of the movies on UHD, so that's not an issue. But it's a useful note for those who don't. :thumbs-up-smiley:

Hunh. I use a site called JustWatch[.com] to check what's available where, and it didn't show any availability. I searched on "Young Indiana Jones" so it would pick it up regardless of title variation. I should've just figured it'd be on Disney+, to tie in with the new film. I wouldn't expect...

Young Indy was an interesting piece of television. Some notable filmmakers directed episodes, including Bille August, Nicolas Roeg, Terry Jones, Mike Newell, and Deepa Mehta. And quite a few episodes were scripted by legendary British TV and film writer Rosemary Anne Sisson. And some interesting...

Tell that to Bob Dylan.

So a thought occurred to me...if this film is set in the 60s, what are the odds that somewhere in the film, there will be a reference made to the Bob Dylan tune "Ballad of a Thin Man" (if the song doesn't appear outright somewhere in the film). Its refrain is: "Something is happening here, but...

Only 70, but... https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJwzAAAAIBAJ&pg=4111,2340193&dq=jack+la+lanne+queen+mary&hl=en

That would depend on how much he likes having bugs for lunch.

This reminded me of a quote from Tim Burton about The Nightmare Before Christmas: "If we can disturb just one child, it will have been worth it."

I had heard that at a convention quite a while back, Christopher Lee was asked by a fan who'd win in a fight, Saruman or Count Dooku. As I understand it, Lee was flummoxed by the question...not that he didn't understand the question, but why anyone would want to consider it.

Just plain-old Witness. He was even better in the later Peter Weir film, The Mosquito Coast. Quite frankly, I never thought much of him as an actor in his early days. But as time went on, he got better, then much better. He's doing a phenomenal job in one of his current projects: the...

Who knows, he might be a lot worse if he wasn't a toker. ;)

I hadn't noticed that, but then it's not something I would want to get, so... At any rate, since Universal and Warner have a distribution company together, this is rather like the instances I mentioned earlier with Fox releasing sets that included MGM/UA titles.

Toby Jones looks like Henry from Eraserhead in a wind tunnel.

I sit corrected. I should've known better. You wouldn't have an obviously older-looking Ford and Rhys Davies playing their characters not long after the earlier films (not to mention Crystal Skull being set in the 50s). I was just too focused on the 1940s bit, I guess. :hangs head in shame:

Since the film is set in the 1940s, Indy dying would not be canonical, unless it happened in a coda set decades later. Assuming The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles are canonical, it showed a very aged Indy in each of the episodes' bookends.

The Monroe set (Forever Marilyn) is rather a special case, as most of the films in the set were Fox films. The two that weren't were United Artists films owned by MGM, and Fox was MGM's distributor. The same happened with Fox's John Wayne Film Collection set, which included a UA film, The Horse...

That may be so, but I have so many other things that I really want to watch, I don't feel overly compelled to see it.

No, you're not. I only saw the first two of the prequels, and decided not to bother with the third. If it was just me, I probably wouldn't have made an effort to see the sequel trilogy, but my wife wanted to see them and wouldn't have gone by herself. I had problems with VII and IX, but they...

Nevermind. Just repeating what someone else already said.

Films tend to open with the distributor's card first, which would suggest Disney. But if I recall correctly, Star Wars 7-9 opened with the LucasFilm card. And the MCU films open with the Marvel Studios card. So you're probably right.

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