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I love the way the skellies plop into the ocean like tiny dry turds, after all that drama.

it's a cool scene.

there is a pretty cool essay/article on Saving Private Ryan in the latest issue of The Believer. One thing I learned was that they used amputee stuntmen for some shots in the first scene. i hadn't known that. sorry, i thought i'd throw that out there.

This one's courtesy of the local Christian station:
Adolescent tough kids in Chicago embark upon a crime spree, beginning with heckling a hotel guard and sneaking into the hotel to swim in the pool, ending with somebody getting shot. The kids are sent to a Christian camp to get straightened out, but instead spend most of their time pulling out knives and flirting with skanky Christian girls with foot-and-a-half bangs and University of Wisconsin midriff shirts. The camp counselor assigned to the Chicago toughs' cabin is struggling with his own faith, because his sister has just died and he has just been diagnosed with HIV. (Although I was not able to catch any details about how the counselor had contracted HIV, it was abundantly clear that sex had not been a factor.)
The counselor is repeatedly caught drinking beer, reading philosophy books, and letting his campers sniff glue and smoke, and is finally asked, in so many words, to take his campers and leave. This makes the counselor feel awful, because it's his fault that the campers in his cabin haven't been progressing in their faith, because he's just been goofing around. In fact, in one scene, one of the street toughs shows the counselor a soapstone Jesus he's carved, complete with two nuts in his outstretched hands (to symbolize the carver and his brother), and the counselor's reaction can best be described as flustered with a twist of envious.
So the counselor takes these five or six gang kids into the wilderness to camp out, and one of them pushes him down and another presses a knife to his throat, but in the next shot, everyone's sitting around a campfire and acting civil again. Then there's a roughly eight-minute monologue by one of the kids about how horrible his father was, and how he wants to give his life to Jesus now, and it got boring so I switched over to watch Antiques Roadshow for a while, and when I switched back, camp had ended and the counselor was visiting the kids, playing a mean game of basketball on the mean streets of Chicago. And everyone hugged.

wow, that sounds good too.

I got that great 80's horror anthology Nightmares for three bucks too. the one where emilio estevez fights the evil demon in the video game. it's a great segment. mega-1983 videogame mania.

Oh man, I remember that film. I remember watching it with friends in 1986. On Beta. ;-)

Gaslight is a terrific film. I saw it on TCM, but unfortunately, not from the very beginning.

I hope you don't banish me to ILF for saying this, but I prefer the original Gaslight, the one with Anton Walbrook.

Yeah, didn't the original have that Murder She Wrote gal playing a tarty maid? Plus Anton W was beautifully over the top.

no, the later, more famous, cukor version had angela lansbery as nancy the maid. i have never seen the earlier version. according to imdb, the studio tried to have all copies of the earlier version destroyed when the boyer/bergman version came out. buncha weirdos.

Anton Walbrook was also good in the same directors' Queen of Spades.

PBS bless their heart ran both versions back to back on their
on-again off-again Saturday movie night.

Dead Babies Garish Britflick Martin Amis adaptation. Bunch of toffs spend their weekend getting wasted in a country-house, before being wasted by their "conceptualist" host. Hideous yet compulsive viewing

I heart Scott Seward threads.

speaking of Saving Pvt. Ryan...

In the throes of insomnia about 5:00 AM recently I caught the second half of DUEL, one of Steven Speilberg's early efforts (made for TV movie 1971) and probably my favorite film by him (no irony). Starring teh great Dennis Weaver, a demon-possesed tractor-trailer and winding California mountain roads. After five minutes I was stuck in old McCloud's fever dream, nervously sweating as the truck BEARS DOWN and the stalking Hitchcock camerawork never relents.

Commando was on FX last night!

Yeah, Duel is great. It is the summer of Jaws here on MVI cuz they filmed it here and they are celebrating the anniversary. there will be a shark parade.

It was Hugh Grant (very young edition) and Her Who Used To Be In LA Law running around a large stately home with some kind of dragon/ greart worm after them. They kept stopping to shag too.

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Maybe this thread can help you guys with your costume/float design for the parade.

Anna: Lair of the White Worm, a Ken Russell film

When I was in school I used to have a bout of insomnia about once a semester and invariably American Gigolo would be the late late movie.

There was a time on HBO where they showed Protocol & Ladybugs CONSTANTLY. maybe they still do. I actually saw Protocol in the movie theatre. I loved Lair Of The White Worm, but i haven't seen it since the 80's.

We used to joke in junior high that HBO stood for "Hey, Beastmaster's on!!!"