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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Well, I got a movie I liked for Christmas.

I’m not your typical movie buff, but I still have fun with them.

Favorite Genres [in no particular order]:

[ul][li]Beach Movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.[/li]
Hey! Mindless entertainment! I love this stuff! Actually, it’s a snapshot of the popular culture (or at least what they thought the pop culture was) of the 1960s. Bouffant, beehive, and “flip” hairdos. Greasy kid stuff! People wearing suits and B.C. (Birth Control) glasses and still thinking they are “hip”! It’s a great archaeological find (and reminds me of when my older sisters were teenagers and really dressed that way).

[li]Andrew Hardy movies (along with the boy’s town flicks).[/li]
Same deal as the Beach flicks, only as applied to the late '30s and early '40s. See the internet of it’s day, Short Wave Radio! See Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) portray a teenaged virgin male, when in reality he’d probably been married and divorced several times already! See parents displayed as wise, though not all-knowing people rather than hopelessly clueless boobs who’d be lost without their smart-assed kids to tell them what’s the deal! See people blithely make racist and sexist remarks without batting an eye in the course of normal conversation! See everyone assume the daughter will live at home for the rest of her life until she gets married! (See? I told you that the past is a foreign country!)

[li]Cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s.[/li]
Still much the same reason. What people find to be funny tells you VOLUMES about them. Besides, these cartoons were aimed at Mom and Dad. Bugs Bunny might have looked cute, but he (courtesy of his writers) was also quite witty.

[li]Every cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[/li]
[An MGM executive walks into the head office. A chief executive sits behind a desk and begins to speak:]

“We’ve decided to do another Tex Avery cartoon.”

[Reaches into a desk drawer and hands the executive a key.]

“*THIS time, don’t let him get loose!”

[li]Almost any Christmas movie.[/li]
I’m a Christmas junkie. I have almost 30 different Christmas flicks. Over a third of my collection consists of different versions of “A Christmas Carol”. What more can I say?[/ul]

What kinds of movies turn your crank?

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I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days
-W.C. Fields
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm

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I’m a big fan of screwball comedies from the '40
like “THE THIN MAN”
and pretty much everything by Danny Kaye

I’m pink therefore I’m Spam

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Let me differentiate from the “serious” movies, we’re talking candy for the brain here, right?

So that means:

**Japanese monster movies. **Godzilla, Mothra, etc. Today I got to spend the afternoon watching Godzilla beat the snot out of everybody (except King Kong and that was only at the very end, I think it was fixed) and I loved it, loved it, LOVED IT!

Basically anything involving a man in a rubber monster suit qualifies, so that also means those Bert I. Gordon classics as well.

Baloo already got the beach movies, but in that same vein I’m looking for that Gardner McKay epic I Sailed To Tahiti With An All-Girl Crew. Anybody knows where I can get a copy?

Ditto those juvenile delinquent movies from the 50’s . . . anti-drug films . . . the great body of work that is Ed Wood . . . and anything by the Marx Brothers, W.C Fields, or Warner Oland.

your humble TubaDiva
who stays home with AMC way too much sometimes.

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Oh, I’m wit’ ya on this one!

Me too! I had every one of the Thin Man films on tape (recorded from AMC), but lent them to my roommie’s ex, and they were never seen again (sigh).

Mostly, I like films that don’t leave me distressed, sad, or really pissed off as I walk out the door. This lets out most war movies and serious dramas. So, for me, I prefer a thriller, a comedy, or satire (or anything that was cheesily tacky enough to be aired on MST3K - Manos, Hands of Fate ROCKS!!).

StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
I Spy Ty.

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Four posts and all my guilty pleasures have already been mentioned:

Beach Party movies: Esp. when a first class band makes an appearance (The Pyramids, Dick Dale and his Del Tones).

Japanese Giant Monster movies: I’d kill to see that one with Johnny Socko and the giant robot again.

Tex Avery: Great stuff, esp. when he was with MGM. WB Chuck Jones stuff is always a great way to spend 6 1/2 minutes as well.

The Thin Man: One of my fondest teenage memories is a visit to the now defunct Balboa Theater in Newport Beach, CA to see a double feature of TTM and After TTM. I spent a full year and a half visiting that theater 3 times a week: Triple features of James Bond or Beatles movies, Humphrey Bogart marathons, 1950s 3-D monster movies, 4 Marx Bros. movies in one night, Spaghetti Westerns, Italian “Mondo” films, old Hichcock movies (The audience did a great MST3K job on “Strangers on a Train” long before that show ever hit the air), 1950s Samurai epics, silent Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton shorts. God, I miss that theater! It just isn’t the same on TV.

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if you like the old stuff, you would surely appreciate the silents we have. my folks probably acquired them as freebies or intros to the wonders of 8mm film back in the 40s. we have a copy of ‘steamboat willy’ w/ m. mouse before he took to using his real name as his stage name; abbott & costello in ‘oyster soup’; & laurel & hardy in ‘the paperhangers’, always my favorite.

when i was a kid there were regular showings of old silents, both comedies & dramas, & ‘our gang’ (little rascals) & shirley temple flicks on tv. what great, innocent stuff. our public library also played saturday matinees of flash gordon & 30s & 40s western serials.

even then it was high camp, but life was so much simpler: you always knew for sure who the bad guys were. {sigh}

The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to have it make a difference you lived at all.

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<sigh>

NYC used to be full of double feature houses . . . and I worked nights and had insomnia during the day . . . and so I’d spend the wide-awake afternoons at the movies.

Some of those houses are still open . . .but they’re Cineplex Odeons now. Not the same. No fun.

your humble TubaDiva

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Japanese monster movies (Rubber Suit Godzilla could beat silly CGI Godzilla with 3 claws and atomic breath tied behind his back. ;))

Hong Kong action flicks. 'Nuff said.

Eschew Obfuscation

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Take a look at the backgrounds of those old cartoons and enjoy a trip into the past. The cartoonists drew what they knew. I kind of like the old ones where they show up in a stripped down model T with ‘23 Skidoo’ and ‘oh! You kid!’ written on it. Remember Fred Mac Murray wearing a Raccoon Coat in one of his oldies?

Popeye cartoons, the earlier ones, have a wealth of cool stuff in the background. (Wasn’t Olive Oyle a prick tease? They cleaned her up in the 60s, I guess deciding that her going back and forth from Popeye to Brutis wasn’t cool.)

Notice how they shouted at each other a lot also. People often did that.

Also, if you have Disney cartoons, old ones, observe how Disney plays the same cartoon on TV today but with some violent scenes cut out. There is one with Donald Duck where he is struggling – probably with those two blatant and unrepentant thieves, Chip 'n Dale – over keeping his campsite in the woods intact and pulls out a machine gun. In the old version, he blasts them, and misses. In the new version, they cut just after he brings out the gun and come back after he has hit everything but them.

I love the old war cartoons with Bugs Bunny and Popeye where the Japs are shown with exaggerated teeth and huge slanted eyes with thick glasses. VERY politically incorrect today, so it’s rare to see them but you can get them on late night television now and then. Ever notice how in the early Bugs Bunny cartoons, HE started all of the shit he got into? Makes one wonder about the mind set of the ‘good old days’.

What? Me worry?’

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Bing & Bob.

Way cool.

Bing Sings. Bob clowns.

OOooohh! That Dorothy Lamour!

'Nuff said.

                 :)

“Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.”----Jung

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Marx Brothers movies. It’s funny to catch the Groucho’s double entendres I missed as a kid.

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I have a complete set of Marx Bros movies and did the FAQ for the mailing list: http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/marxlist.html

My collection of Fred Astaire musicals is almost complete.

I would kill for an uncut set of Warner Bros. Bugs 'toons.

JB
Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis

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No, JBENZ; you don’t have a complete set of Marx Brothers films. “The Big Store” is unavailable ob video due to legal squabbles. Wish I could get it. Sorry.

“Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.”----Jung

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I live for this stuff. I can’t get enough of it. Big bugs, JD’s, & aliens. The one I’ve always wanted to see, though, is Robot Monster. I can’t find a copy for rent anywhere.

The A&E Channel is showing some great stuff on Saturday nights now. They call it “American Pop.” They showed beach movies all summer (saw Dick Dale & his Deltones more than once!). Last night, I knew I’d been a good girl all year long when I flipped the TV on just in time to catch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Woohoo!

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I have SCCTM in my Christmas collection. I usuallu save it for “Christmas in July”.

–Baloo

I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days
-W.C. Fields
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm

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I love movies of all kinds. The only flicks I tend to steer away from are weepy chick movies (which I can be talked into watching if you dangle the right carrot in front of me) and most Westerns, although they can be great if done well.

I love bad movies. Stuff that the filmmakers really thought was great, but in reality sucks donkey. Ed Wood, wohoo!

My overall favorite genre is horror movies; I have a special place in my heart for creature-based horror movies. A great creature is a beautiful Thing. (ha!)

And put me down as another Tex Avery fan; I never get tired of Symphony in Slang.

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I love Monty Python movies, any movie with Bogey, and the Wizard of Oz.

I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!

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Ah! That mention of wartime cartoons reminds me. I have “Bugs and Daffy, the War Years” and one tape (about 1 hour) of “Private Snafu”. Good stuff, racial and cultural stereotypes and all!

–Baloo

I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days
-W.C. Fields
http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm

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Bing and Bob. Definitely.
The Marx Brothers. Absolutely.
I love the old Fleischer Popeye cartoons, if only for listening to Popeye mumble and getting some of the best jokes in the cartoon (jokes I completely missed as a kid).
Tom & Jerry, but only the good, ultra-violent cartoons they did; none of the sur-real stupid crap from the ‘60’s (yes, I do watch the Simpsons for Itchy & Scratchy, how did you know?)
The Beatles’ comedies (Hard Day’s Night; Help!; and Yellow Submarine (got a copy for Christmas with the ‘Hey, Bulldog’ sequence on it! Woo-hoo!)

JMCJ

“John C., it looks like you have blended in very nicely.”
-UncleBeer

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Actually Bosda I have “the big store” on video, i bought it not too long ago at a suncoast video.

Everybody got their Black and Decker… Blood and Fettuccini everywhere