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| 09-07-11 07:11pm - 4817 days | #618 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I haven't seen Hanna yet but it's on my list. Another great movie with Saorise is City of Ember. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-12-11 06:48pm - 4812 days | #619 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this site so here is the link. This is mostly a movie review site but they love to mix humour with some insightfull thoughts on many movies. If nothing else, then please watch the review of the 3 prequel Star wars review. http://redlettermedia.com/ Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-15-11 04:03am - 4809 days | #620 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Dark Shadows: There will be a remake/update of Dark Shadows by Tim Burton. The film is scheduled for a May 2012 release and stars Johhny Depp, Chloe Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter and Michelle Pfeiffer. Dark Shadows was a soap opera on TV about vampires back in the 1970s. | |
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| 09-15-11 06:36pm - 4809 days | #621 | |
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FrothyCockstens (0)
Active Webmaster Posts: 3 Registered: Sep 15, '11 Location: St. Louis |
Dark Shadows is one of the greatest shows of all time.  | |
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| 09-16-11 10:57am - 4808 days | #622 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't know if I'd call it one of the greatest shows of all time but it is a true classic that has never been duplicated. My biggest issue with the remake is that the source material is a series that lasted 5 years so I'm not exactly sure how Burton will pull this off. I think he's a genius and a true visionary so he has the talent for the job but I can't help but feel that it will disapoint many people that remember the original series. Another problem is that most people have no clue what Dark Shadows is so are they going to want to see this movie? Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-16-11 11:57am - 4808 days | #623 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There was a remake of Dark Shadows on TV in 1991 that only lasted one season. It had Ben Cross and Joanna Going as stars. I never saw any episodes, because I never got into the original series back in the 1970s. A neighbor of mine tried out for the remake series (she was a model) and was glad the series sank, because she didn't get the part. Edited on Sep 16, 2011, 12:09pm | |
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| 09-16-11 06:43pm - 4808 days | #624 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I'd completely forgot about the remake. Either that or i blocked it out of my mind. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-17-11 09:45am - 4807 days | #625 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Yahoo! Movies Hollywood balks at big budget movies as DVDs drop APBy RYAN NAKASHIMA - AP Business Writer | AP – 2 hours 13 minutes ago In this film publicity image released by Disney, from left, Emma Stone and Viola Davis are shown in a scene from "The Help." The declining DVD business has forced Hollywood to rethink what it’s willing to pay to make a blockbuster. While Hollywood’s newfound cost-consciousness doesn’t herald the coming of sock-puppet cinema, belt-tightening could favor more character-driven productions such as “The Help,” which struck box office gold with sales of $97 million so far, despite a cost of just $25 million to make. (AP Photo/Disney, Dale Robinette) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood — long considered the land of excess— is becoming more cost-conscious, as movie executives rethink what they're willing to pay to make a blockbuster. After years of beefing up budgets to meet audience expectations, movie studios are cutting back and canceling projects that are too costly. Half-baked, expensive movie ideas that would have received approval a few years ago are now under scrutiny. For movies that are made, producers have to settle for toned-down special effects, cheaper actors and fewer locations for shoots. In the past five years, major studios have trimmed the annual number of films they release by nearly a third to cut costs and avoid having big movies compete head-to-head on opening weekends. In July, two major projects were stopped mid-stream because of budget pressures. The Walt Disney Co. halted "The Lone Ranger," starring Johnny Depp, even though sets were already half-built in New Mexico. Universal pulled out of "The Dark Tower," a three-movie, two-TV-series colossus based on books by Stephen King. A person familiar with Disney's thinking said the budget on "The Lone Ranger" was creeping north of $250 million, and the company wanted to shave it to around $200 million. Universal, which became a unit of cable TV provider Comcast Corp. this year, withdrew from "The Dark Tower" because of problems with the business model, according to another person, who is familiar with that matter. Neither person was authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Disney CEO Bob Iger explained the company's approach to analysts in July. "It's our intention to take a very careful look at what films cost," Iger said. "If we can't get them to a level that we're comfortable with, we think that we're better off actually reducing the size of our slate than making films that are bigger and increasingly more risky." Blame it on declining DVD sales. Until recently, studios could afford to churn out movies with heart-pumping action scenes featuring pricey special effects and high-salary actors. Although many of those movies cost more than they garnered in ticket sales, Hollywood could count on overall strong sales of DVDs to make up for excessive expenses. "The DVD buying boom covered up a lot of sins in the middle part of the last decade," said Tom Adams, principal analyst and director of U.S. media for IHS Screen Digest. But the curtain is falling on the DVD era. IHS said U.S. video disc sales fell from $10.3 billion in 2004 to $7 billion last year. The popularity of low-cost rental options, such as Netflix and Redbox, along with the ease of piracy, has cut into DVD sales, making it tougher to profit from the movie business. Blu-ray disc sales and gains in digital purchases haven't made up for the shortfall. Hollywood economics have been strained by movie budgets that have been rising steadily over the past couple of decades. To cut costs, some studios have dropped smaller budget movies with big-name, expensive actors, but kept making summer blockbusters based on franchises such as superheroes. That trend has increased the average cost of major studio movies to $78 million in 2011 from about $42 million in 1995, according to Bruce Nash, the founder and president of Nash Information Services LLC, which operates The-Numbers.com Fewer small movies means that each big-budget project has more pressure to deliver. Nash believes Hollywood will rely on tried-and-true material — sequels and reboots — rather than take a chance on untested pricey projects that follow in the footsteps of "Avatar." "Studios are willing to spend money for well-established franchises," Nash said. "There's not that much enthusiasm in completely new franchises built from scratch." While Hollywood's newfound frugality doesn't exactly herald the coming of sock-puppet cinema, the belt-tightening is likely to favor more character-driven productions such as "The Help," which struck box office gold with sales of $139 million so far, despite costing an estimated $25 million to make. That was the strategy former Disney CEO Michael Eisner pursued when he brought cheap-to-produce but profitable films including "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and "Ruthless People" to the big screen. While the millions made on each film don't stack up to the estimated $400 million profit on 20th Century Fox's "Avatar," Eisner characterized his strategy as an attempt to string together a series of small hits rather than always swinging for a home run. Eisner said many major studio movie budgets these days appear frightening. Big films can make more money, and they can also lose a ton. "Yes, you can make a small fortune, but you better come with a large fortune," Eisner said in an interview. "It's just a riskier business." Consider Universal Pictures' "Cowboys and Aliens," which had an estimated budget of $163 million but grossed $184 million in global ticket sales since its release July 29. Universal likely spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising, and it only keeps about half the take from theaters. Even if it does well on home video, the film is headed toward a multimillion-dollar loss. Hollywood couldn't afford to make those bets any longer. In 2004, American audiences spent $2.04 at home consuming movies for every $1 they spent on theater tickets, according to IHS Screen Digest. But that ratio has been falling consistently for the past five years. Last year, the ratio was $1.37 to $1. Meanwhile, box office sales in the U.S. and Canada were flat in 2010, as rising prices from 3-D ticket surcharges offset falling attendance. The declining home video market means a big chunk of revenue — more than $7 billion a year globally — has disappeared from the movie economy. Although theatrical revenue has grown overseas, thanks to booming markets like China, Hollywood is losing share to local producers. Producers of "The Lone Ranger" and "The Dark Tower" are scrambling to get the movies made after their studios balked. While neither project is dead, they may be made for less. Oliver Lyttleton, a U.K.-based writer for the blog The Playlist for IndieWire, said the inflated budget for "The Lone Ranger" might have been caused by an ambitious early script from 2009, which he read. It featured wolves, a mysterious creature named a Wendigo, a train crash, a silver mine that features a major battle scene and "loads of explosions." Not to mention the Western theme with its elaborate sets and costumes. He speculated that Disney might have to swap out director Gore Verbinski to shave costs. The big-budget director helmed Disney's first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, but, according to the Los Angeles Times, he clashed with a previous studio head over the budget of the third movie and was dropped from directing the latest "Pirates" flick, which came out this year. "It's not inconceivable that Verbinski will throw his hands up and just go, 'If I can't make the movie I want to make, I'll sling my hook,'" Lyttleton said. Disney isn't saying anything specific about how it might cut costs. The producers of "The Dark Tower" are faced with raising money and finding another studio to distribute the series. Producer Ron Howard said in a statement sent to The Associated Press, "we are continuing to be actively working on the project." Howard and his co-producer Brian Grazer face a tough fight. Not only did they produce the money-losing "Cowboys & Aliens," but Hollywood's love of sequels tends to fade quickly if the first installment fails to perform. Warner Bros., dismayed by the disappointing receipts from its June release of DC Comics' "Green Lantern," is considering abandoning plans for a sequel, despite heavy hints at the end of the film about a resurgence of evil yellow forces. In this publicity image released by Universal Pictures, Daniel Craig is shown in a scene from "Cowboys & Aliens." The declining DVD business has forced Hollywood to rethink what it’s willing to pay to make a blockbuster. “Cowboys and Aliens,” which had an estimated budget of $163 million but grossed just $129 million in global ticket sales since its release July 29. Even if it does well on home video, Universal likely spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising alone, and the film is headed toward a multimillion-dollar loss. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Timothy White) | |
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| 09-17-11 11:34am - 4807 days | #626 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I don't think Hollywood is anymore cost conscious now then they were a decade ago. The main difference is the amount of profit is now limiting their excesses. It's a fact that many stars now take pay cuts so that they can get a part of the profit from not just box office but those from dvd sales and syndication. When you couple that with the economy still being a major problem for most people in the WORLD and they unbelievebly crappy movies being produced by Hollywood the is it any surprise that studios simply don't have the money to produce the huge mega projects. Case in point The Lone Ranger. Disney had already given the greenlight to this project which had a $200 millions budget. The rumour that the budget was estimated to balloon to $250 millions is the main reason it didn't get done. We're basically talking about a western movie with very little need for special effects costing more than most CGI messes being produced at this moment. It gets worse when you consider that the movie was given the go ahead even after it was known that Tonto (an American Indian) was going to be played by Johnny Depp (a white man). I think Johnny is an amazing actor but he was not asked to play just any character so you know that every Native groups was going to be up in arms before the movie was half finished. No one who gave the go ahead had any problem with a white man playing a native. Will Hollywood learn anything from this years bad box office profits? We'll only know if we see less 3D(take any movie in 3D this year), less awfull remakes of classic movies(Conan, Fright Night and what not), less all CGI movies that have absolutely no story except the little tidbits that help the viewer know which actions filled sequence is coming up and I could go on. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-17-11 04:37pm - 4807 days | #627 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Johnny Depp is supposed to have a little Native American (Indian) blood in him. I've read that before. But I don't see why a western (or even a science fiction or fantasy) film needs to spend $200 million to get made. I don't mind special effects, but they don't need to spend the crazy amounts of money they do on special effects to make a movie interesting or enjoyable. And even though box office attendance has been slipping for years, the box office revenues have, for the most part, been rising, because of rising ticket prices. Ticket prices keep going up. And if you buy any refreshments, they cost a fortune. $5 for a cheap box of popcorn, anyone? And that's the small size. | |
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| 09-17-11 05:37pm - 4807 days | #628 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I was also quite baffled by the fact that the Lone Ranger had a $200 millions budget. I mean was this suppose to be a retelling of the story but in space rather than Earth? I suspect that part of the rising cost of tickets can be attributed to 3D tickets being more expensive. I think every movie in 2010 had a 3D version. I just saw that Disney is re-releasing The Lion King in 3D. The only thing I can say to that is FUCK ME. Don't get me started on the prices of food in theaters. If theater owners are no longer able to make money from showing movies and they only way to make a profit is to charge such high prices for fountain soda and popcorn then the entire movie industry is doomed to extinction. A movie ticket, a soft drink and a bag of popcorn will cost me about 24$ and I've noticed that the bag of popcorn has gottent smaller in the last few years. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-18-11 07:11am - 4806 days | #629 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I haven't seen The Lion King yet, unfortunately. I'm waiting for the version with Smell-O-Rama and Virtual Reality where I have a glass wall protecting me from the smelly animals. And I will also have my trusty A-SQUARE Hannibal 577 Tyrannosaur rifle, which is supposed to be the most powerful sporting gun in the world, able to stop charging rhinos, hippopotami, and rogue elephants. Pull the trigger on this baby and it has a kick you won't forget. | |
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| 09-18-11 09:02am - 4806 days | #630 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A sign of the times: A Barbie doll with a lower back tattoo (tramp stamp) was released in 2008. Maybe the members of PU are old fuddy duddies, who can't get with the times. I can't believe that Barbie now has a tramp stamp. What a slut! | |
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| 09-18-11 11:07am - 4806 days | #631 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I think they should have a Barbie with a kit containing different tattoos so that you can accessories your own barbie the way you want. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-18-11 12:44pm - 4806 days | #632 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The Lion King 3-D bet pays off big for Disney. Movie opens with $29.3 million to take the number one position this weekend. DVD + blu-ray sales will probably make a mint. Pat362 and lk2fireone hold their noses at 3-D movie exploitation, but the crowd says "Yes!" to this one. >>>> <<<< 3-D 'Lion King' feels the love with $29.3M opening By CHRISTY LEMIRE - AP Movie Writer | AP – 27 mins ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's 1994 all over again, with a re-release of "The Lion King" opening at the top of the box office. A 3-D version of the wildly popular Disney animated musical earned a surprising $29.3 million in its first weekend in theaters, according to Sunday estimates. The original film made more than $40 million when it opened nationwide 17 years ago. This huge number stunned many people, including the folks at Disney, who figured "The Lion King" would make somewhere between $10 million and $12 million, said Dave Hollis, the studio's executive vice president of distribution. He said the movie remains relevant and as entertaining as it was when it first came out. "But taking a page from the movie, there is a 'circle of life' thing happening," he said, referring to one of the film's themes. "You have children of the '90s who are now parents of the 2010s and they themselves are taking their kids to share what was, for them, a great experience two decades ago." It also helps that there aren't many options for families at the multiplex right now, said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "The post-summer period brings a preponderance of R-rated films and more challenging, esoteric, Oscar-caliber fare," he said. "For kids this is like a dream come true and for parents to be able to revisit 'The Lion King' — especially in 3-D, even though 3-D has taken a bad rap over the past year — just tells you the power that this movie has, how strong it resonates with people." Hollis said that while the film was also available in 2-D, 92 percent of the opening weekend's business came from 3-D showings. The story of a wrongly exiled lion prince (voiced by Jonathan Taylor Thomas as a cub and Matthew Broderick as an adult) who must return home to claim his throne, "The Lion King" was the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, behind "Forrest Gump." It ranks fourth on the all-time animated list with over $784 million. It earned Academy Awards for Hans Zimmer's original score and for original song for Elton John and Tim Rice's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." Last week's No. 1 movie, Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion," dropped a spot in its second weekend. The Warner Bros. viral thriller made about $14.5 million for a total of $44.2 million. Among the other new releases, the critical darling "Drive" came in at No. 3 with just over $11 million. Ryan Gosling stars as a stoic wheelman in the retro action picture from FilmDistrict. "Straw Dogs," a remake of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah thriller from Sony Screen Gems, opened in fifth place with only $5 million. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth as a married couple under siege in the rural South. "I Don't Know How She Does It," based on the best-seller of the same name, came in at No. 6 with just $4.5 million. The Weinstein Co. comedy stars Sarah Jessica Parker as a wife and mother of two struggling to balance her home life with her demanding job. Dergarabedian said such disappointing showings aren't all that surprising this time of year. Last weekend was the slowest so far this year at the box office. "It's been tough marketplace for wide releases. The newcomers are being met with some indifference," he said. "The audience was obviously a family audience that took over the multiplex this weekend." ___ Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1. "The Lion King 3D," $29.3 million. ($700,000 international.) 2. "Contagion," $14.5 million. 3. "Drive," $11 million. 4. "The Help," $6.4 million. 5. "Straw Dogs," $5 million. 6. "I Don't Know How She Does It," $4.5 million. 7. "The Debt," $2.9 million. 8. "Warrior," $2.8 million. 9. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," $2.6 million. 10. "Colombiana," $2.3 million. | |
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| 09-18-11 07:29pm - 4806 days | #633 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I'm trying not to call people who went to see the 3D Lion King stupid but I'm having a hard time finding another word that can convey my reason for thinking that and also be less offensive. This is a movie that is 17yrs old who was already re-released in the past in it's original 2D format and has been in VHS, DVD for a long time. It's even coming out in Blue-Ray this october. I know there haven't being many family movies released this month but how do people justify to themselves spending such a large amount of money for a movie that they probably already have in their home simply because it's now in crappy 3D and there was nothing else in theaters? Maybe I'm just jaded. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-19-11 07:26am - 4805 days | #634 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe there is a bright side to the high prices movie theaters charge for refreshments. I buy the popcorn and soft drinks, which I used to love while watching a movie, very infrequently. But it's better for my health. From a news article today at Yahoo: "Still, a clear and present danger is more likely lurking in your movie popcorn, which is considered a nutritional horror show to health experts. The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest compared some popcorn and drinks combos to consuming three McDonald's quarter-pounders topped with 12 pats of butter." | |
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| 09-19-11 03:12pm - 4805 days | #635 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
These are the type of overboard statements that to help discredit anything these well meaning organisation try to say. How about if they had simply said that eating a large bag of popcorn with a large soft drink while sitting down for a couple of hours is rather unhealthy and you should limit yourself to a medium popcorn and medium softdrink or dsrinka fruit juice. I know mine would be less eye catching but it's the truth and is more likely to have an effect. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-19-11 03:31pm - 4805 days | #636 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Dolores Hope, wife of Bob Hope, dies at 102 By BOB THOMAS - Associated Press | AP – 49 mins ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dolores Hope, the sultry-voiced songstress who was married to Bob Hope for 69 years and sometimes sang on his shows for U.S. troops and on his television specials, has died at age 102. Hope family spokesman Harlan Boll said Hope died Monday of natural causes at home in Los Angeles. He did not elaborate. Bob Hope died at age 100 on July 27, 2003. At her 100th birthday party, Hope appeared little changed: Her white hair was richly coiffed, her skin smooth and her voice deep and warm. She was brought to the party in a wheelchair but was alert and happy as she greeted old friends and posed for photographs. Hope mused, "I thought it was going to be just another birthday." In 1933, when Bob Hope was appearing in his first Broadway show, "Roberta," his friend and fellow cast member George Murphy persuaded him to visit the Vogue Club to "hear a pretty girl sing." She was Dolores Reade, a dark beauty whose singing of "It's Only a Paper Moon" entranced the young comedian. "I'll never forget what a wonderful singer she was," said Rip Taylor. "In fact, that's how Bob and Dolores met. It seems to me that they were always laughing." Hope returned every night and soon he was escorting her to her hotel after her shows. They married Feb. 19, 1934, and she quit nightclubs to join his vaudeville act. Then she retired. "Bob was the hot thing in New York then," she recalled in 1997. "I thought I'd better stay home and take care of Bob." When they moved to Hollywood in 1938 for the beginning of his film career, Dolores stayed home and devoted her time to raising the four children the Hopes adopted: Linda, Anthony, Kelly and Nora. "I had such a huge admiration for both of them," said Julie Newmar. "The quality it takes to get just one year older, says a lot about that fact that she lived to 102." She continued singing at parties, and in the 1940s she began accompanying Hope on his Christmas trips to entertain U.S. troops. In 1966 she sang "Silent Night" to hushed thousands of GI's who then rose and gave her a thunderous ovation, many with tears in their eyes. In 1990, Mrs. Hope accompanied Bob on his last Christmas visit to American forces, visiting troops who were in Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm. Marie Osmond, Ann Jillian and the Pointer Sisters did not perform, to avoid offending Saudi sensibilities about women entertainers. But Dolores Hope was approved and sang "White Christmas" to a rapt audience. "She was the first lady of the USO," said Carol Channing. "They didn't come any more patriotic, caring or talented than Dolores." She was born Dolores DeFina in 1909 in New York's Harlem to an Italian father and Irish mother, and grew up in the Bronx. Her diction faintly echoed the Bronx upbringing. "My father died when I was very young, and there was just my mother, my sister and me," she remarked in 1982. "Were we a needy family? I always like what General Eisenhower said: 'We were poor and didn't know it.'" She began singing early, worked as a model and a Ziegfeld showgirl and at 20 sang with George Olson's band. She adopted the name Dolores Reade, borrowed from stage actress Florence Reed. In her 80s, Dolores revived her singing career, recording three albums of old and new standards and appearing at New York's Rainbow and Stars as guest with Rosemary Clooney. Aside from overseeing two homes— the 18,000 square-foot mansion in North Hollywood and the 25,000 square-foot hilltop home in Palm Springs — Dolores Hope worked indefatigably for numerous charities. From 1969 to 1976 she served as president of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, Calif., then becoming chairwoman. In 1982, she explained her philosophy: "I like being with people, but I also need to have my time alone. I think it's terribly important to have some time during the day when you stop and take all the energy that you have given out and pull it back in, find the source of your energy. Then you work from there." ___ AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-20-11 02:42am - 4804 days | #637 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
That sounds unhealthy, I guess, but what the hell constitutes "12 pats of butter"?  Yahoo must have slipped up, because if you're going to demonize a food, or anything that people put into their bodies, you usually have to bring up how many months, years, etc. it takes off your life; then add how much it costs or will cost the public in healthcare; and finally bring up a possible (key word) link to cancer or a known toxin or poison. Making people shit their pants over their food is not as easy as it sounds, it really takes some work.  I say relax, and worry only if you're actually spending that much time at the movies (and eating a snack every time you're there). I'll die of old age or from the sheer stress of flossing the kernel shells out of my teeth before I eat enough popcorn to to get my 3 quarter-pounders worth. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 09-21-11 11:30pm - 4802 days | #638 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Turboshaft, you can't always oversell the dangers of over-eating. Here's a case that shows it's better to be safe than sorry. But no autopsy has been performed yet to definitely show the cause of death. ...... ...... Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies ReutersBy Olzhas Auyezov, editing by Paul Casciato | Reuters – 15 hrs ago KIEV (Reuters) - A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday. Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-liter jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said. Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites. Dumplings, called "vareniki" in the former Soviet republic, are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries. (Reporting By Olzhas Auyezov, editing by Paul Casciato) | |
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| 09-22-11 09:27am - 4802 days | #639 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
I can remember eating at a Piccadilly Cafeteria where the butter was served on little cardboard pads constituting a pat and thus a dozen of them would be about 3 inches of a stick of butter. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 09-22-11 02:54pm - 4802 days | #640 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
[QUOTE lk2fireone A sign of the times: A Barbie doll with a lower back tattoo (tramp stamp) was released in 2008. Maybe the members of PU are old fuddy duddies, who can't get with the times. I can't believe that Barbie now has a tramp stamp. What a slut!
Attention...... Coming soon at your neighborhood Adult Video stores: life-size, inflated, exact replicas of Barbie.... complete with tattoos, natural skin texture and body-orifices, budding tits, and verified certification of legal age. Batteries not included Edited on Sep 22, 2011, 02:59pm | |
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| 09-22-11 04:23pm - 4802 days | #641 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A photo of Harry Connick Jr. with his family (wife and 3 daughters) at the premiere of his latest movie last week in Los Angeles. What I find amazing is that his daughters are aged 15, 14 and 9. I look at the 15 year old, and she could pass for 25 or 30. The three daughters are nice-looking, as is the wife. http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/red-carpe...e-la-premiere#photo2 | |
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| 09-23-11 08:34pm - 4801 days | #642 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not strictly movie news, but related to art and literature: Massachusetts library reverses 100+ year ban of story by Mark Twain. Let's hope that Mark Twain is standing up to cheer this sign of literary and artistic freedom. Though I doubt he is greatly impressed by the news. ........ ........ Mass. library undoes century-old Twain book ban AP – 13 hours ago CHARLTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts library has put the Mark Twain work "Eve's Diary" back on the shelf more than a century after it was banned. The Charlton Public Library's trustees this week unanimously voted to return the book to circulation, reversing the board's 1906 decision to ban the 1905 short story. Trustee Richard Whitehead said the move was made to coincide with the American Library Association's Banned Books Week. The book was written from the perspective of the biblical Eve. It was banned because trustee Frank Wakefield objected to nude illustrations of Eve. Whitehead tells The Telegram and Gazette (http://bit.ly/r0CFgm) he considers the illustrations works of art. The 1906 decision drew attention from The New York Times, which reported that Twain was not particularly concerned. Charlton is 40 miles southwest of Boston. ___ Information from: Telegram & Gazette, http://www.telegram.com | |
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| 09-24-11 11:45am - 4800 days | #643 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Moneyball, with Brad Pitt as Oakland A's money-strapped GM Billy Beane, is really good, especially if you like Aaron Sorkin's intelligent writing. Jonah Hill is excellent in a subdued role that still benefits from his superb comic skills. It's a funny thing that I'm not a big fan of baseball or most other team sports, but I tend to really enjoy movies about team sports, perhaps because they break it down and make it more personal. I liked Contagion also, Steven Soderbergh in his cerebral mode is much more entertaining to me than his pop mode. I found his "Oceans" movies to be impossible to watch - just crap. | |
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| 09-24-11 12:17pm - 4800 days | #644 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Video illustrating the dangers of too much drink. Please, don't drink and drive, or this could happen to you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqc8pkcKJE&NR=1 | |
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| 09-27-11 12:56pm - 4797 days | #645 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
All right, people. I'm getting too old to be a real fashion plate. But there's still time for me to try to get with the groove before I get planted six feet under. So what's a fella to do when he goes out to buy new duds? Why, he's supposed to look in the women's section, of course! Let's hope that Liam Neeson and Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis and Daniel Craig and Jason Statham can dress up (in dresses) to show us that real he-men can look their best. ................ ................ Latest trend in hip-hop: Women's clothes By MESFIN FEKADU - Associated Press | AP – 9 hrs ago NEW YORK (AP) — The latest fashion trend in hip-hop has its male stars raiding the women's clothing department for inspiration. Lil Wayne jumped around in skinny women's pants during his performance at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. Kanye West wore a multiprint shirt designed for women at the Coachella music festival. Kid Cudi has been seen in a plaid skirt, Snoop Dogg often wears jewelry designed for women, and Pharrell Williams is a fan of the Hermes-made Birkin bag, the ultra-expensive purse favored by Hollywood's top actresses. Elena Kiam, the owner and creative director of the jewelry brand Lia Sophia, says initially she was surprised to see her women's line embraced by some of rap's top acts like 50 Cent, P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg, who has worn her pieces in music videos and on magazine covers. "When we were designing these really beautiful, sparkly necklaces, we thought more for top editors, maybe a celebrity movie star. We really weren't thinking about hip-hop," said Kiam, who also said Beyoncé, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus have worn her designs. "There was a rapper wearing the same piece as a soccer mom from Ohio," she added. Celebrity stylist June Ambrose says those multiplatinum musicians can pull it off because their personas stretch beyond the hip-hop culture. Of Lil Wayne's much-talked about decision to sport a pair of boxer-revealing, black-and-white leopard print pants during the VMAs, she acknowledges his attire was "eccentric, but you know, he's a rock star and pulls it off extremely well. "Fashion should be as unisex as it is right now. It's probably the most unisex we've seen it.," she said. West, hip-hop's ultimate metrosexual who will debut his own fashion collection in Paris next week, wore a flowing, long-sleeved women's shirt designed by French-based fashion house Celine earlier this year at Coachella. Though there were some who poked fun at his clothing choice, Ambrose saw nothing wrong with it. "I think it's acceptable if you're not wearing a pair of heels with it and you're not wearing lipstick and neither of these guys did that," said Ambrose, who has styled Jay-Z, Diddy and Will Smith. "They treat fashion like it is art." It's not just rappers — Russell Brand and rockers like Steven Tyler and Pete Wentz have worn women's clothes in the past; Janet Jackson says the famous black sparkly jacket Michael Jackson wore during his legendary "Motown 25" performance was from his mother's closet. And of course, androgyny has long been intertwined with pop, from David Bowie to Freddie Mercury to Prince (known for his trademark heels). Bieber, the 17-year-old pop phenomenon, admits he has rocked women's jeans because of their suitable fit. "I think I've worn women's jeans before because they fit me better," he told The Associated Press at a recent fashion event. "I just think that whatever works, works." "It wasn't like it looked like a woman's sweater," continued Bieber, referring to women's shirt worn by West. "It was just a regular sweater that just happened to be a woman's." But hip-hop culture — often defined as much by its masculinity as much as its music — always seemed to be different. It's hard to imagine Eminem raging on stage in a breezy women's top; rapper DMX once clowned Jay-Z for wearing sandals on the beach, deeming it unmanly. Hip-hop's style in recent years has ranged from oversized sports jerseys to sweats to baggy, sagging pants and plain, oversized white T-shirts. Lately though, hip-hop stars are likely to sport clothes that are made to fit, and sometimes, tightly, like rock and indie hipsters. "(Lil Wayne and West are) small enough to pull it off and that's really what it's about," Ambrose said. "I don't think Jay-Z could pull that off. He doesn't have the body type for it. But these two guys are pretty petite and they're able to pull those things off because (the clothes) come in a size that they can wear." Brea "BStar" Stinson, who has styled Usher, Bieber and Jaden and Willow Smith, says while women's clothes can fit better on some men, at times they can be too fit. "I thought those pants were great (and) that print is totally in right now, but I didn't think that they were appropriate for (Lil Wayne)," Stinson said. "The fit was wrong (and) I think there's only a limited amount of stretch a man is allowed in his pants, and they were just really, really small." Whether Lil Wayne will be sporting more women's clothes is unclear. Still, this latest trend in hip-hop isn't a new one, says Ambrose. She remembers seeing similar happenings in the 1980s with rappers like Grandmaster Flash, Kool Moe Dee and the Ultramagnetic MCs. Hip-hop was key in making diamond earrings popular for men in both ears. And Andre 3000 from OutKast was known for pushing the envelope with his style. "Those guys were wearing leather pants, blouses. If you go back and look at the eccentricity, it's really just come full circle," she said of the past generations of rappers. "Back in the late '80s and early '90s, guys were wearing bright-colored jeans, skin tights, like leggings, and high boots." Ambrose — who will launch her own VH1 reality show "Styled By June" in February — feels that fashion and hip-hop go hand-and-hand when it comes to self-expression. "I think one thing about hip-hop is that it's always been uncensored and unedited in that way, and I think that if you take a lyric and you put it to a look, then it really makes sense," she said. "(Rappers) say what they want to say and they say it in their way, so why shouldn't the fashion have the same emotion and the same voice and the same freedom?" ___ AP writer Nicole Evatt contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-27-11 02:35pm - 4797 days | #646 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Off Topic for movies. But part of entertainment news. And since there's little real movie news lately, and very few movies being released that I want to see, here's some TV news: I thought Andy Rooney would be carried off of 60 minutes in a coffin. But it appears that, aside from special appearances, he is retiring from the regular news cast. ....... ....... Andy Rooney Ending Regular '60 Minutes' Segment NEW YORK -- After more than 1000 broadcasts, Andy Rooney will make his last regular appearance on this Sunday's 60 Minutes. Rooney has been a fixture on the newsmagazine since 1978. And he'll make the announcement himself in a quintessential show-wrapping segment. It will be preceded by a career retrospective interview with correspondent Morley Safer. "There’s nobody like Andy and there never will be," Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and 60 executive producer, said. "He’ll hate hearing this, but he’s an American original. His contributions to 60 Minutes are immeasurable; he’s also a great friend." Fager will not replace Rooney, but he said that Rooney is always welcome on the broadcast. "It’s harder for him to do it every week," said Fager. "But he will always have the ability to speak his mind on 60 Minutes when the urge hits him.” Rooney has been a regular on 60 Minutes since Don Hewitt conceived the show in 1968, producing segments for Harry Reasoner. Rooney's first essay was about the reporting of automobile fatalities on Fourth of July weekend. That fall, he became a regular on the show. He alternated weeks with James J. Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander and got the end slot to himself a year later. Rooney joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts and also wrote for The Garry Moore Show (1959-65) CBS News public-affairs broadcasts including The Twentieth Century, News of America, Adventure, Calendar and The Morning Show with Will Rogers, Jr. | |
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| 09-27-11 07:11pm - 4797 days | #647 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I always enjoyed is comments. I wonder which old fart they'll pick. I would love his job and I would be willing to do it for has long as he did. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-28-11 08:58am - 4796 days | #648 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Sign of the times. IRA documentary footage taken from video game. Probably cheaper and easier than trying to capture events in real life, or stealing from a (fictional) motion picture where they would have copyright issues. ............... ............... ITV Admits IRA Documentary Footage Was From Video Game The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter – 8 hours ago LONDON - ITV has had to admit that scenes from the launch show of its new current affairs documentary series Exposure were in fact from a video game, after an eagle-eyed viewer spotted the sequence was not real. The footage of the Irish Republican Army apparently shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should have been a high point of the launch of the new strand - the first big current affairs series launch in several years. But the broadcaster has now said that "human error" was to blame for the footage switch. "The events featured in Exposure: Gadaffi And The IRA were genuine but it would appear that during the editing process the correct clip of the 1988 incident was not selected," ITV said in a statement. "Other footage was mistakenly used in the film by producers. This was an unfortunate case of human error for which we apologize." The debut episode of the series attracted 1.3 million overnight viewes - not counting catch-up or download viewers. The mistaken footage, which was identified on screen as "IRA film 1988" formed a main element of the documentary about the Irish group's relationship with Gadaffi. Copyright © 2011 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | |
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| 09-28-11 09:13am - 4796 days | #649 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The Parents Television Council says Playboy is pornographic, and that the new television series about the Playboy Club is degrading and sexualizing and should be removed from broadcast immediately. So all the PU members who think Playboy is non-pornographic need to rethink their minds: Playboy is PORN, and porn is EVIL! ............ ............ Seven Advertisers Drop Out of 'The Playboy Club' After PTC Calls for Boycott The Hollywood Reporter – 5 hours ago The Parents Television Council says seven companies have pulled their ads from the second episode of The Playboy Club — and they’re calling on Capital One, Samsung and Chrysler to follow their lead. Citing the show's ratings, the group's president Tim Winter says, “What has been clear to everyone outside of NBC must now be clear even to those inside NBC: The Playboy Club is a commercial disaster and must be removed from the airwaves. We call for the network to cancel this degrading and sexualizing program immediately." The premiere was soft with 5 million viewers and just a 1.6 rating in the ad-coveted 18-49 demo. It sunk 19 percent in its second week, with just 3.8 million viewers and a 1.3 in the key demo. The PTC has targeted the show for objectifying and degrading women since it was picked up by NBC. It vows to continue to ask members to contact advertisers "until they cease sponsorship of a broadcast television program that is mainstreaming the pornography industry." “As a licensee of the public airwaves, NBC has breached the public trust by airing what amounts to a weekly advertisement for a pornographic brand. As demonstrated by the Nielsen ratings for ‘The Playboy Club’ the past two weeks, any further airing of the show not only pushes an anti-family agenda, but is a profoundly bad business decision," added Winter. “Until the program is removed from the public airwaves, PTC will be calling on its members and other concerned citizens to contact the sponsors. Today, we ask Capital One, Chrysler and Samsung if their corporate values are in step with those of the Playboy brand,” Winter went on. | |
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| 09-28-11 07:10pm - 4796 days | #650 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Most of us don't consider Playboy to be pornography for the simple reason that it isn't. It's a magazine that contains nude or semi-nude pictures of women. I've seen many fashion/photography magazines that have plenty of nude pics in them. The models are usually less endowed than in Playboy but that's about it. In my view Toddlers and Tiaras is borderline child pornography and yet it's not even a show mentioned on the PTC site. You'd think that an organisation who promotes itself as advocate for the protection of good family values would be up in arms about a show that reduces extremely young children as nothing more than sexual objects. Now that's what I call being hypocrites. The Playboy Club was doomed even before it began shooting in large part because it's on the wrong network. If this had been on cable then it might have had a chance but then again the subject matter is just not that interesting. I mean who wants to sit through soap opera style drama about women who are basically cocktail waitresses? The only thing that differentiates them from every other cocktail waitresses is the setting. The popularity of Mad Men is why this show and Pan Am both exist. Mad Men has made the 60's popular. I suspect that Pan AM is also going to disapear rather quickly. Take a look at the below link to see someone's analysis as to why the show is doomed. http://gawker.com/5843863/pan-am-its-a-m...world?tag=television Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-28-11 07:13pm - 4796 days | #651 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I read this evening that Disney has decided to go ahead with The Lone Ranger. They have trimmed 30 millions from the budegt. I'm not sure if this means that the budget is now 170 millions or 220 millions. I still think that 170 millions is 70 millions more than they should spend on what is likely to be a huge piece of poop. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-29-11 09:46am - 4795 days | #652 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I guess it's pick and choose. You go to those movies (or watch those DVDs) you hope you will enjoy. And sometimes you are pleasantly surprised by a movie that's better than you were expecting. The good thing is DVD rentals (or streaming) can be very inexpensive. Certainly a lot cheaper than a movie theater. So unless I think a movie will be really good, or I am really bored, I don't go to a movie theater, but wait for the DVD to come out. | |
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| 09-29-11 07:01pm - 4795 days | #653 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The best thing about the movies that were released this year is that so many of them were so damn awful that I didn't see them or saw them only once. It's also great because I don't feel the need to buy them when they get released on dvd or Blue-ray. The prospect for upcoming releases is also great because very few of those movies look remotely interesting. I saw the first 2 Transformer movies in theater and also bought the dvd's and yet this latest releases was so bad that I hated saeeing it in theater and I will not be renting or buying this movie. I may not even go see the next one if it remotely looks like they are going with all the same cast. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 09-29-11 07:55pm - 4795 days | #654 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I agree that most movies this year were very unappealing to me. I keep looking at the DVD release schedule, and I am finding almost no movies that I want to see. I really hope this is a dry spell that will be followed by something better. I didn't buy any of the Transformers movies. I've got so many DVDs already, that I've only seen once. I really should look them over, or give them away, if I'm never going to watch them again. Thankfully, you can buy older DVDs on ebay or at some stores for really low prices. Or even new DVDs sometimes. I remember, when VHS tape was still new, you had to pay like $80-$100 for a movie. Thank God that's over and done with. But I think the movie studios are thinking back to the "Good Old Days" with regret. | |
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| 09-30-11 12:10am - 4794 days | #655 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Good christ, has anyone seen a preview of that robot fighting movie with Hugh Jackman? I thought it was a joke at first, unfortunately not I guess. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 09-30-11 12:16am - 4794 days | #656 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I thought the new Hugh Jackman movie about fighting robots was a bad idea, when I saw the first video. But since then, I've seen a couple more advertising videos/trailers for the movie. I'm not real big on the kid angle, but I think the movie might be OK. I don't know about paying movie theater prices. I think I'll wait for the DVD to come out. Redbox for $1 is great. | |
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| 09-30-11 12:19am - 4794 days | #657 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Somehow, I don't think PU members go to a lot of movies. Or even watch a lot of movies on DVD or streaming or cable. At least judging by the number of PU members that post on this movie thread. It looks like they are more fixated on straight porn. I like porn, but I think the movies can be enjoyable as well, at times. | |
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| 09-30-11 01:49am - 4794 days | #658 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not sure if this is movie news, but this girl (Hugh Hefner's former playmate) is almost certainly in a bunch of videos that were put out by Playboy. If she were featured lead role in a movie, I doubt I'd watch it. Even for free. I'm not real big on implants. .......... .......... Holly Madison Insures Breasts for $1 Million Girls Next Door star Holly Madison has insured her breasts for $1 million. The former Playboy cover subject says the Lloyd's of London contract will give her peace of mind while starring in the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas revue Peepshow. Madison told People, "I've heard about people getting body parts insured and I thought, 'why not?,' because if anything happened to my boobs, I'd be out for a few months and I'd probably be out a million dollars. I thought I'd cover my assets." Madison appears topless in the Vegas show, which charges $66-$126 a ticket before fees and taxes. She also takes the concept of insuring her breasts in stride, "I think it's kind of funny. I think they're getting the credit they deserve." She says, "They're my primary money makers right now." Madison has admitted to surgically enhancing her breasts in 2001 to their present D-cup status. She competed on Dancing With the Stars in 2009 and is prepping a new reality series about her life in Las Vegas, notes her website. Her first claim to fame was as one of Hugh Hefner's live-in girlfriends. | |
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| 09-30-11 05:41pm - 4794 days | #659 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Utah theater fined for showing "Hangover II" movie By JOSH LOFTIN - Associated Press | AP – 5 hrs ago SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah movie theater that serves liquor has been fined more than $1,600 for showing "The Hangover Part II." The fine issued by the state liquor board Thursday is the first for Brewvies, which only allows people 21 years and older to attend their movies and serves food and liquor to patrons. But under state law, many PG-13 and R-rated movies could net the theater a fine because of prohibitions on showing a film with sex acts, full-frontal nudity or even the "caressing" of breasts or buttocks. While the fine for the first offense was $1,627, repeat offenders may be fined up to $25,000 and lose their liquor license for up to 10 days. The law is generally used to regulate strip clubs, which aren't permitted to have nude dancers — g-strings and pasties are required to be worn — if they serve liquor. The law is applied only to businesses with liquor licenses, so it wouldn't apply to alcohol-free theaters. Utah Highway Patrol officers issued the citation against Brewvies in early September after a complaint was filed with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The movie was in violation because of multiple scenes, patrol spokesman Dwayne Baird said. "Hangover II" includes full-frontal nudity from male, female and transvestite characters and also has a scene showing a monkey simulating a sex act on a monk. Brewvies manager Andy Murphy told The Salt Lake Tribune they have always complied with the state's liquor laws, and "don't want to shake up anything." Brewvies got a state liquor license in 2009 that allowed patrons to have wine and mixed drinks. The theater has been open since 1997, but served lower-alcohol beers that only required approval by the city government. The liquor board established the fine amount for such violations, and there wasn't leeway in the amount for Brewvies, department director Francine Giani said, adding that she's planning to urge the board to revisit their fine schedule. | |
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| 09-30-11 10:50pm - 4793 days | #660 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Perhaps they just don't have anything to add, I don't know. I watch quite a few movies, generally Redbox or online, but have been quite disappointed with Hollywood lately. Movie prices at the theatre are so high, especially for 3D, I have a hard time paying unless I know it is going to be good - and there is just so much obvious crap. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 10-02-11 09:59am - 4792 days | #662 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I think your answer about going to redbox or online is why lk2fireone said that most PU member don't go to the movies. lk2fireone and I happen to be the only ones that post here on a regular basis so it's easy to assume that most of the others don't go to the movies or don't care about the subject. I'm a movie buff so talking about movies is always a joy for me. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-03-11 06:35am - 4791 days | #663 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There's supposed to be a zombie movie with Brad Pitt that will be coming out. But in case that's not enough for all us zombie-freaks, here's the newest possible zombie movie that might be made. PS: I'm holding my breath until its development and release. Or do zombies breathe? Wait. I found the answer on Yahoo, the source of all knowledge: "of course...how else do they make those groaning noises" But I also found a second answer, that I thought was pretty good, but this answer received 0 votes, so it was not a popular answer: "Just a second, I'll check my wife." .......... .......... Zombie video game to become film By Joshua L. Weinstein | Reuters – Tue, Sep 27, 2011 LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Lionsgate has optioned the rights to "Dead Island," a video game that became a sensation when its trailer was released, the company announced Tuesday. The studio bought the rights from Deep Silver. The "Dead Island" trailer was released in February and immediately went viral on the Internet. It is graphic, dramatic, gory -- and cinematic. The story is about a father, armed with an ax, who tries to protect his family from invading zombies. The trailer got more than a million hits in its first 24 hours online and nearly 10 million over two days. According to Lionsgate, the game "centers on vacationers whose island paradise becomes a living hell when a zombie outbreak quickly spreads. Cut off from the rest of the world, the survivors have only the available materials and the island's natural "weapons" to protect themselves from the vicious and growing legions of the undead." As TheWrap reported in February, Sean Daniel ("The Mummy," "Tombstone," "Dazed and Confused") is developing the project through his SeanDaniel Company. Earlier, Daniel was working with Union Entertainment on the project. Stefan Sonnenfeld also is producing. Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate's President of Motion Picture Production and Development is overseeing the project at the studio, with Jim Miller, senior vice president of Production and Development. ============ ============ In truth, I am not real big on zombie movies. I did like Zombieland, the action/comedy with Woody Harrelson, but I skip most zombie movies, even on DVD. | |
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| 10-03-11 07:00am - 4791 days | #664 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
After considering whether zombies breathe, I turned my attention to vampires, which I actually like more than zombies. Do vampires breathe? In some books vampires breathe. In other books they don't need to breathe (since they are undead). Actually, I have seen some movies where a person's head was cut off at the neck, so the head would have no connection to the lungs. And the head continued to speak or scream. How can you speak or scream without any lungs? In the normal world, you would not be able to. But in the world of movies, you can observe strange phenomena taking place. | |
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| 10-03-11 08:02am - 4791 days | #665 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Vampires, breath in death. The devote their sheer existence into removing the life from your soul. We without struggle or formation they hinder their victims to succumb to there evil deeds. Since 2007 | |
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| 10-03-11 09:20am - 4791 days | #666 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The problem with the vampire books, TV shows and movies that claim that vampires don't breath all forget that you need air to generate sound so speaking would be impossible without air. Therefore vampires breath if for no other reason than to be able to entice virgins in their graps. I guess the same thing applies to zombies or at least the ones that say BRAINS. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-03-11 05:56pm - 4791 days | #667 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Oops, I was planning on waiting for the $1 Redbox DVD anyway, but from this review, it seems even $1 might be too much to pay to see this one. On second thought, the reviewer does a real hatchet job. He comes across as just plain nasty and mean-spirited. I will be waiting for the $1 Redbox DVD, after all. ...... ...... Review: Jackman's 'Real Steel' is scrap metal By DAVID GERMAIN - AP Movie Writer | AP – 1 hr 19 mins ago "Real Steel" dresses up a bad idea — robots boxing — with all the computer effects and heavy-metal action that Hollywood can buy. But that doesn't cover up the fact that it's a bad idea. Really bad. And "Real Steel" is a really bad movie, with some embarrassingly awful moments for Hugh Jackman, whose silly Wolverine whiskers in the "X-Men" flicks seem quite distinguished compared to the outlandish trappings here. A horribly predictable mash-up of "Rocky," ''The Champ" and Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, "Real Steel" puts director Shawn Levy (the "Night at the Museum" movies) in contention with fellow robot handler Michael Bay for the title of worst blockbuster filmmaker in show business. With a team of executive producers that includes Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, Levy has all the resources a director could ever want. It all goes toward punishing noise and machine mayhem, the fight scenes stitched together by the humdrum drama of an annoying deadbeat dad connecting with his annoying young son. Jackman's Charlie Kenton is an ex-boxer scraping by in the near future as a promoter of brawling robots, which have taken over the sport from human fighters. Charlie's on the seedy side of boxing, his secondhand 'bots trading punches at fairgrounds and other unsanctioned venues while the big boys duke it out in televised league fights at huge arenas. A sleazebag who's built a life on skipping out on his debts and responsibilities, Charlie suddenly finds himself on the road with his 11-year-old son, Max (Dakota Goyo), after the boy's mother dies. Short on cash and needing a new robot, Charlie heads to the junkyard to pilfer parts so he can piece together a new fighter. There, Max stumbles on Atom, an outdated sparring robot that turns out to be a diamond in the rough, a scrappy machine that becomes a sensation on the fight circuit. From there, the drama as developed by screenwriter John Gatins and two others who share story credit goes just where you expect it to, without a ripple of surprise or originality. Father and son squawk and fight, find common ground and gradually make their way toward becoming a family, while Atom gets an underdog shot against the world champion. It's pretty nauseating, though not as nauseating as some of the images of Jackman shadow boxing outside the ring during the climactic match. He looks quite the fool doing it, capping an uneven performance in which Jackman generally is out-acted by the robots. Jackman is overly eager at the start to show how slimy Charlie is, and that makes the guy's abrupt transformation into father-of-the-year material all the more unconvincing. Goyo overdoes it, too, his earnestness growing tiresome and eventually cloying by the time Max becomes a ringside idol himself for his dance routines alongside Atom. The rest of the cast is thrown in as spare parts: Evangeline Lilly as a robot mechanic and Charlie's sometime love interest; Anthony Mackie as a bookie and fight organizer; Hope Davis as an aunt aiming to adopt Max; and Kevin Durand as a rival fight promoter. None of the humans have anything interesting to do. The robots are the stars. Life-size versions of some robots were built for the actors to perform with, while the fight scenes were created using human boxers whose movements were digitally recorded as the basis for the computer-animated robots' motions (Sugar Ray Leonard helped choreograph the fights). The bouts are deafening and bruising, more like demolition derbies than sporting events. It's hard to buy into the notion that fans could ever be as rabid to watch a couple of machines tear each other apart as they are to see two men sweating and straining and bleeding on the canvas. Without human consequence, where's the drama? "People wanted more carnage, more show," Charlie says, explaining why robots replaced people in the ring. The metallic carnage of "Real Steel" rings hollow, though. The filmmakers took the basic idea of robot boxers from a short story by "I Am Legend" author Richard Matheson, which previously was made into an episode of "The Twilight Zone". The only advancement "Real Steel" brings is production values. Hollywood robots have come a long way since that quaint old black-and-white show. Storytelling, not so much. "Real Steel," a DreamWorks release distributed by Disney, is rated PG-13 for some violence, intense action and brief language. Running time: 127 minutes. One and a half stars out of four. | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't know if I will go see this in theaters but at least it's get a 73% approval at Rotten tomatoes. I think many people will be disapointed because of the way they are promoting the movie. Most of what I've seen up to now implied that this is somekind of futuristic action movie where humans use robot to fight. People going into this thinking this is an action movie may be disapointed because this feels more like a father/son bonding movie. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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