A little bit of trivia, the subway set from Bad was reused or recreated for the all kid version in the movie, and Michael being the good sport, let Weird Al use it for his Fat video.
Wasn’t it just shot over at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn?
You’re right. The original video was shot in a real station. I’m going off my memory of an old interview with Al where he said the set was not from the original video. Therefore it must be a set constructed for Moonwalker?
Where were you in '77?
Double Trouble.
A Stevie Ray Vaughan film?
The Person in Question
The Big Picture (1989)
An odd little picture. It feels very low budget with a score to match but they got a lot of big names for it. It’s interesting that the film itself had a very similar journey to the one in the story. But there’s not a lot to recommend it. I think A Face in the Crowd covered this territory a lot more adeptly.
The Big Picture (1989)
An odd little picture. It feels very low budget with a score to match but they got a lot of big names for it. It’s interesting that the film itself had a very similar journey to the one in the story. But there’s not a lot to recommend it. I think A Face in the Crowd covered this territory a lot more adeptly.
If this song is in the soundtrack, I’ll give it the time of day anyway.
That 70mm series that I mentioned a few weeks back started last night with Lawrence of Arabia. In spite of having seen it in a theater as a DCP just three months ago, I decided to go again, knowing it would gnaw at me forever if I didn’t see the print. The print itself was from the 1989 restoration, and aside from some missing frames around the first few reel changes, it was absolutely pristine. Barring Disney striking new 70mm prints of the OUT at some point (which I guess isn’t completely out of the question since they did so for TFA), it doesn’t seem possible that any theater experience will ever top this.
Tomorrow I’m heading back in to see the only existing 70mm print of Sleeping Beauty. Definitely won’t make it to anything during the week, but on Friday night I plan on going back for 2001: a Space Odyssey. I’d like to see something else that weekend too, but I haven’t made any decisions yet as to what. Perhaps Spartacus.
“Manos” The Hands of Fate (MST3K)
Okay, so I finally watched an MST3K show, and man was that fun!
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“Manos” The Hands of Fate (MST3K)
Okay, so I finally watched an MST3K show, and man was that fun!
Now try watching it without a crutch. 😛
First batch of “Hoop-tober” flicks:
Amityville II: The Possession - 5/10
Phantasm II - 6/10
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings - 2/10
Return of the Living Dead Part II - 5/10
The Invisible Man (1933) - 7/10
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
“Manos” The Hands of Fate (MST3K)
Okay, so I finally watched an MST3K show, and man was that fun!
It is truly a wonderful show.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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(It hasn’t happened yet)
“Manos” The Hands of Fate (MST3K)
Okay, so I finally watched an MST3K show, and man was that fun!
Now try watching it without a crutch. 😛
I have many times. I even have the Blu Ray.
Can’t wait for the sequel. 😉
And there’s no shame in watching a bad movie with a buffer of a guy and his two robots. I find the complete works of Coleman Francis painful otherwise.
Where were you in '77?
Kicks (2016)
A solid film. Really enjoyed it.
Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.
disregard
Ghostbusters (1984)
37 Balls.
Out of 100? Blasphemy.
Not enough people read the EU.
you assume too much
Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.
You’re knocking some of the FX because they’re thirty years old? I don’t know of any other way they could have made the Terror Dogs run convincingly back then.
The tv and radio personalities helped root the movie in the real world. (As do the magazine and newspapers.) Larry King is secretly a immortal supernatural being, and would have figured prominently in GB 2, but his agent wanted more money. 😉
Where were you in '77?
Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.You’re knocking some of the FX because they’re thirty years old? I don’t know of any other way they could have made the Terror Dogs run convincingly back then.
The tv and radio personalities helped root the movie in the real world. (As do the magazine and newspapers.) Larry King is secretly a immortal supernatural being, and would have figured prominently in GB 2, but his agent wanted more money. 😉
I hated the stop motion devil dogs when I was 14. The vintage isn’t the issue. The quality is. Willis O’Brien’s work still looks interesting, Ray Harryhausen rarely had a bad shot. This is a year after the last great stop motion gig in Hollywood (Jedi used go-motion but it’s basically stop motion). The problem is mostly the compositing. The rod puppet in Alien 3 is let down to similar effect. While it’s kind of cool to have the voice of Shaggy in a goofy ghost comedy it does reduce a large chunk of the film to a clip show. I never noticed how creepy Bill Murray is in this film. Predatory, the sort of person who brings large doses of sedative to a date. Sure he resists temptation when Zuul is in Dana but it’s still weird. As is Tully and Dana being raped by demons inside each others bodies. I guess I’m really getting old to notice these things. As for my use of the balls system any long term reader of my reviews on here will note I rarely state what the score is out of, the balls are often replaced by even more bizarre counters, it’s just a number it’s not meant to make sense.
I have wondered where Venkman got the sedatives from. (I don’t think he actually brought them on a date. Peter is not that skeevy.) Maybe a cut scene explains it?
Where were you in '77?
The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
I honestly used to prefer Ghostbusters 2 over the original back in the day. Now I consider it as fresh and innovative as ROTJ & TFA.
ROTJ is MUCH better on every single level than ghostbusters 2.
That 70mm series that I mentioned a few weeks back started last night with Lawrence of Arabia. In spite of having seen it in a theater as a DCP just three months ago, I decided to go again, knowing it would gnaw at me forever if I didn’t see the print. The print itself was from the 1989 restoration, and aside from some missing frames around the first few reel changes, it was absolutely pristine. Barring Disney striking new 70mm prints of the OUT at some point (which I guess isn’t completely out of the question since they did so for TFA), it doesn’t seem possible that any theater experience will ever top this.
Tomorrow I’m heading back in to see the only existing 70mm print of Sleeping Beauty. Definitely won’t make it to anything during the week, but on Friday night I plan on going back for 2001: a Space Odyssey. I’d like to see something else that weekend too, but I haven’t made any decisions yet as to what. Perhaps Spartacus.
Wow, that sounds amazing. The only IMAX theater in Australia that is capable of running 70mm prints is closing down next week and won’t reopen till 2019 with some new digital projectors 😦 So as far as I know by the end of next week nowhere in Aus will you be able to see a 70mm film. Unless of course a theater brings in a once off showing like the Hateful Eight enabled a couple of places to do…
ROTJ is MUCH better on every single level than ghostbusters 2.
It definitely is better.
And TFA is in my opinion better than ROTJ.
But it is inarguably, factually better than Ghostbusters 2. This is not an opinion.
I really should go in and finish my ROTJ edit I started years ago… I really think I was on to something. I was pretty much done with it but it was in SD and when I restarted it in HD I just never could muster the necessary enthusiasm. I blame my lifestyle.
It definitely is better.
And TFA is in my opinion better than ROTJ.
But it is inarguably, factually better than Ghostbusters 2. This is not an opinion.
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Quite.