SilverWook

Perhaps this will cleanse your palette? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATDhGrhyjU

I saw a commercial bumper (with a few musical notes not heard elsewhere in TOS scores) once or twice in syndication. I presume it aired accidentally.

I wish Starship Exeter (the fanfilm production that started it all) would release the finale of their last episode. They really nailed the look and feel of TOS when they hit their stride. It's been several years now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9SQ4H2FgV0

Yelling "fire!" in a crowded movie theater just because you feel like it is still frowned upon though. A lot of these characters seem to relish in touching their toes to that fine line.

I unfortunately indirectly know a conspiracy believer. They also buy into a lot of the UFO conspiracy stuff too. I once pointed out them an alleged photo of a Nazi prototype flying disk was a doctored frame from Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers.  (Arguably a pretty good photoshop job, but I know my old movies.) I even showed them the exact frame from the movie that was used and they still weren't buying it. (They think somehow Ray Harryhausen had access to classified info to base his effects on.)  I pretty much wrote them off after that. Arguing with inanimate objects is more fun.

The sheer level of conspiracy crazy in people looking for secret messages from Stanley Kubrick hidden in The Shining is both amusing and terrifying. It's a shame he isn't around to enjoy it.

I wonder if conspiracy theorists were around during the American Revolution?

I think you just hit on the rationale behind nearly half of the films made in the 1980's.

I find it amusing the minute there is full frontal male nudity, the MPAA usually whips out the dreaded NC-17 rating.

Chalk up another fandom Bonnie Hammer flipped the bird at. Glad someone recorded these. :)

Major blunder for Paramount not to license these and put them on the boxsets. I imagine the actors would have to be compensated if the segments were used.

TV's Frink said:

v/h/s (2012)

Horror/slasher anthology film.  A few good stories, a few not as good.  The most disappointing part of this was the framing device, which was stupid, illogical, and ended very lamely.  Also, there was way too much gratuitous nudity.  Sure, 15-year-old me would have loved it, but 39-year-old me could tell that much of it was made by dudes who haven't grown up.

Two out of five tapes.

I'm a little fuzzy on what the "right" amount of gratuitous nudity actually is. ;)

They really spelled VHS that way? Were the filmmakers afraid JVC was going to sue? Poor Betamax hasn't gotten much horror movie love since Videodrome...

I wish they would reprint the making of TMP book. The pages are pretty loose in my vintage copy. The section that lists the directors once being considered to helm an earlier version of the film is pretty interesting.

I guess Harrison isn't coming on board after all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0vs9gYydo

;)

I can only recall Sarek saying it off the top of my head. Who else in TOS used it?

Back in the 70's, Marvel had to tell true believers that Vader and Dr. Doom would not be teaming up in spite of requests. Who knew?

I don't recall Von Daniken mentioning it. ;)

I knew a guy in high school who thought Dokken were musical gods when the soundtrack for that movie came out. ;)

I've seen movies shot from the point of view of a character, (mostly film noir) but can't recall a historical film made that way. "Found footage" would be a misnomer, as motion pictures didn't exist. Maybe historical docudrama would be a better term?

The BBC did a couple productions were a famous historical battle or some other event was covered as if television news actually existed. Think I saw at least one of those way back in high school.

There was an entire episode of MASH shot from the perspective of a wounded soldier who was unable to speak from his injuries.

Also, keep in mind even modern film cameras can't hold enough film for more than ten minutes or so. Hitchcock had to use clever camera work and editing to sustain such an illusion in Rope. Even something shot digitally would have to hide an edit somewhere.

Stanley Kubrick did shoot by candlelight for the 18th century setting of Barry Lyndon.

Things just keep getting stranger as the night goes on.

You  obviously haven't seen Genesis, or the one where Dr. Crusher gets shagged by a ghost. ;)

Well, Gene was a bit pervy in his own way. Green skinned animal women, and an entire race of bald humanoids who have to take an oath of celibacy just to serve in Starfleet!

Enterprise eventually addressed the Klingon ridge issue, and it dovetails nicely with Worf's unwillingness to discuss the issue when it came up in "Trials and Tribbleations". ;)

That poster has a real Frink vibe to it. ;)

doubleofive said:

Mrs. O'Five has a random thought:

Mrs. O'Five said:

look at this interesting drawing on a fabric designers blog I love: i dont get it, if it's a message.

http://heatherross.squarespace.com/view-portfolio/illustration/5196440

han solo is evil? guns are evil? trick or treating is evil? han shot first?

I'm not sure if i has a message, but Han does seem pretty angry, even though he convinced his mom to dress as Chewie.

 

Wookiees are protective and nurturing like parents? It's a nice image though.

TV's Frink said:

The more movies they make, the more material I'll have to work with.  And the worse, the better!

What a dilemma! ;)

doubleofive said:

Are people actually complaining about this? It's a joke, like the vuvuzela audio option. Were we complaining about how it doesn't accurately reflect how it sounds in a stadium? ;-)

A little verisimilitude in comedy goes a long way. This doesn't remotely look like what's it's supposed to be.

And this is a website full of people who live eat and breathe old video technology. ;)

It drives me nuts when Wookiee is misspelled. Especially when it's someone on the Lucasfilm payroll. ;)

There's a famous story of how Irwin Allen snuck into the Fantastic Voyage body sets to film an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where a bathysphere is swallowed by a giant whale.

There was also a Saturday morning cartoon series based on the movie.

zombie84 said:

Georgec, I just wanted to say your avatar is great.

But is it Reese, or is it Hicks? ;)

I did see a cross promotional car ad on tv today.

http://trekmovie.com/2013/04/17/star-trek-into-darkness-post-production-done-film-now-locked/