one's a bunch of people on horses and the other is either a location in Jerusalem which was where a bunch of people supposedly including the historical Jesus got crucified, or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
just slightly too late with that information stevolende
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Seems like it came up on another thread right before this one.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
or a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point.
subs plz chk
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
i've been in the UK for 12 years and i still get a little defensive about 'you all right?' i'm like, why shouldn't i be
You need to say "yeah not so bad, how's yerself?" and all will be well. If we said "hey how ya doin'?" like Americans do the responses would be all "can't complain / oh, fine, fine, you know? / it's a good life if you don't weaken" etc and it wouldn't work.
― michael schenker group is no laughing matter (Matt #2), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
once something like that is explained to you, how does it stay an issue for ya tho?
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
(no aggression, juat v curious like)
― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
a place that the Winter Olympics were held in Canada at one point
I think you got that mixed up with what one unit of nutritional energy value is called.
― pplains, Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
And yet a cavalry stampede and a Calgary Stampede have much in common.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 1 September 2019 05:13 (four years ago) link
There was no census at the (supposed) time of Jesus' birth, and no census has ever required people to travel back to the city of their forefathers (42 generations back no less!)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
The bones in tinned sardines are soft and can be eaten; they don't need to be removed.
― fetter, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
...were you trying to take all those teensy bones out??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Look, Mary had her story and Joseph had his census story. No reason to get all cynical here.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
The census story was what Joseph took his other wife
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
*told
François Truffaut stars in Close Encounters of the Third Kind??????
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
In at least one or two of the half dozen different cuts of the film, yes.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
You've never seen it?
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
(xp)
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
I'm choosing to believe flappy has seen one of the Truffaut-lite cuts (because if he hasn't seen it at all, wtf). That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later and I think he doesn't otherwise appear until the Devil's Tower sequence.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
I've only ever seen it once tbf and Truffaut being in it was one of the highlights.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Never seen it
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Me neither
― YouGov to see it (wins), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
It's good!
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
Seeing it tmrw
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Ah, you can report back. I hope Truffaut's in it.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
it's incredibly boring
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
YOU'RE incredibly etc.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
boring is a fake idea
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
I watched some of it at a schoolmate's birthday party on VHS and all or most of us got bored and gave up
went to a newly-struck 35mm screening of the director's cut in 2013 and fell asleep around the time a squad of alienspotters were hanging out up a hill
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Had no idea there were cuts without Truffaut, he adds a lot
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
I don't think they removed any Truffaut in the later edits, they just added more Dreyfuss.
In the original theatrical cut there's the opening scene discovering the 5 planes in the sandstorm, finding the latitude & longitude on the globe, Truffaut demonstrating the hand signals, and the scene in India where everyone points at the sky. The first recut added the ship in the Sahara scene.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
Fuck any version that doesn’t include the footage of the inside of the alien spacecraft. Spielberg hated it, but the studio wouldn’t let him do the Special Edition without it. NEVER LISTEN TO THE “GENIUSES”.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
AFAICT there isn't a version that doesn't omit something. It's a little ridiculous.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
I wish any actually-released cut had included the scene where the plane we here in the air traffic control scene lands, and Truffaut's team shows up to confiscate the passengers' cameras. It's a good scene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNG2FDKaZoQ
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
Also the scene where Truffaut tests Balaban's translation skills by having him read an erotic novel.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
they should restore the footage from the aliens' homeworld imo
https://wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com/asset/voices/2018/02/21/17359747/creepy_alien_smile-DMID1-5dv72z0f6-220x242.gif
― mark s, Thursday, 5 September 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
that 'alpha' + 'beta' gives you 'alphabet', realised approximately 45 seconds ago while reading an introductory bit on Ancient Greek appropriation of Phoenician symbols. seriously, that has just blown a hole in my brain a mile wide
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
welp
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
That whole extended bit toward the beginning with Francois and Bob Balaban was inserted later
Old Lunch factually wrong, cuz i saw it in '77, pal
u ppl should fall asleep to that Ridley Scott shit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
was def in my 30s before I realized the alpha+beta thing
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Forgiveness, Morbs, sorting out what is and is not included in the various cuts of Close Encounters requires some kind of flow chart, possibly a slide rule.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
So did I, and you're wrong. The movie has *always* opened with the black screen/credits w/swelling score crescendoing to a loud chord and the bright desert light of the Truffaut/Balaban/airplanes scene. Every cut.
This site details, down to the timecode, the differences among all extant versions, and there are none until 14 minutes into the movie. https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=491777
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Even the comics adaptation opens with that scene!
https://savacoolandsons.blob.core.windows.net/photos/13003/13003-x95y.jpg
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
Also the promotional Topps trading cards were sequential and this card is #1 in the series:
https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Non-Sport/75166/75166-1Fr.jpg
ANYWAY.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Okay fine, y'all are just going to badger me until I'm forced to admit that I hardly ever pay much attention to the first fifteen minutes of any movie because I'm too busy dancing around the room and singing the title over and over to the tune of Zapp's 'More Bounce to the Ounce'. Are you happy now? Are you?
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Hold up, I am cuing the filmstrip proving you are wrong. One sec
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
And for final emphasis, Vincent Canby's NYT review of Nov. 17, 1977:
Though “Close Encounters” is strictly a product of the 70's in its dress and manners, its heart is in the 50's. This is apparent from the first scene, when a squadron of World War II fighter planes, missing on a training mission more than 30 years earlier, suddenly turn up intact, as good as new, in the Mexican desert. In classic sci‐fi manner, Mr. Spieiberg's screenplay then cuts from this general introduction to the “mystery” to encounters with the mystery by individual folks in Muncie, homespun types like you and me who draw into the adventure
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Still loading the film strip
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link