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Paramount to release "It Came from Hollywood"! Cool! (1 Viewer)

Scott Weinberg

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According to The Digital Bits Rumor Mill, Paramount should be releasing this one on 7/16.
Any movie buff who is roughly my age (the big 3-0) should certainly remember It Came from Hollywood. John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Cheech & Chong and Gilda Radner perform some silly-but-fun movie-related sketches and offer MST3K-ish voice-overs set to monster movie clips from the 50's!
(Did that make sense?)
This is one I'll definitely own, although I certainly anticipate a bare-bones presentation.
Maybe Universal will pony up with Terror in the Aisles someday! :D
 

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This is great news! Back in '87 this is one of the first LD's I got. The LD is P & S. I think the aspect ratio should be 1.85 to 1? I'm anxious to see it in it's proper aspect ratio. How can you not love a film that has a section devoted to Ed Wood's 'D' films, narated by John Candy? Gilda Radner is so good in the gorilla section. I love the big ape who shoots a "bird"! Some of the movie clips in this one are just priceless! :) I was beginning to wonder if this film had been permanently assigned to the dust bin. Thanks for this post that brightened my day!
 

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Many of the clips were from 1.33:1 material and were cropped to fit the 1.85 screen; this is one instance where fullscreen wouldn't bother me.
 

George_Reis

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I saw this in the theaters in '82, and watched it on TV and video about 50 times since! Great clips.

Amazing Collosal Man: "I don't want to grow anymore!!!"

Tommy Chong's reply: "Except maybe some hair."
 

Jack Briggs

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Oh, I want this one big time. I just love this loving look at some of Hollywood's greatest bad movies.
 

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While some of the movie was fun, I was never happy with the fact they considered THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL to be a "bad" movie. And they certainly didn't get the section on Ed Wood correct.
 

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Don't forget such other non "bad" movies in there like CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, WAR OF THE WORLDS and FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL.
 

Jack Briggs

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You know, I had forgotten all this (believe it or not). So, on second thought, forget it. I don't want it.
 

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Paramount has taken this off of their July schedule because of those dreaded "clearance problems." Martin Blythe has confirmed this in this thread at DVDTalk.
 

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