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Nov 15, 2019 - 11:02 AM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
STAR WARS---the Disney+ presentation of the original STAR WARS movie's revised scene has Han Solo and Greedo shooting at each other at the same time. Also, Greedo has new dialogue when he says, "Maclunkey!". Greedo actor Paul Blake commented on "Maclunkey!", "I couldn't understand a word of it. (laughs) It confused me incredibly, but I've never understood anything about the movies anyway, particularly that. The convention I've just come back from, I had a million opinions from everybody. This new word! How absolutely absurd, what is George [Lucas] doing these days?"
Greedo says, "Maclunkey!" at 28 seconds elapsed time.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH19gKo7W7w
STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL---Jon Favreau said he wants to do a second Star Wars Holiday Special, “Oh I would definitely be interested in doing a holiday special. And I’m not going to say who I would be interested in. But one of the people is the member of the cast in an upcoming episode of the show. So we’ll leave it at that for now. I’ve been thinking about it. It’s ready, the ideas are ready. I think it could be really fun. Not as part of this, but there’s an excitement around it because it was so fun and weird, and off and not connected to what Star Wars was in the theater. The Mandalorian cartoon, the Boba Fett cartoon, from the holiday special was definitely a point of inspiration for what we did in the show.” The first 1978 CBS Star Wars Holiday Special was disliked by most fans. The cast included Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman and Art Carney.
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---Clive Owen will play Bill Clinton in Season 3 of the FX anthology series about Bill Clinton's impeachment following his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. Beanie Feldstein will play Lewinsky.
JOKER---director Todd Phillips said he would consider doing a sequel under certain conditions, “It couldn’t just be this wild and crazy movie about the ‘Clown Prince of Crime.’ It would have to have some thematic resonance in a similar way that this does. Because I think that’s ultimately why the movie connected, it’s what’s going on underneath. So many movies are about the spark, and this is about the powder. If you could capture that again in a real way, that would be interesting.”
SLOW HORSES---Gary Oldman will star in this Apple TV+ tv series based on the Slough House spy novels. Oldman will play MI6 head spy Jackson Lamb.
WIRELESS---Tye Sheridan will star in this Quibi/Steven Soderbergh tv series about college student who is trapped in his car in the Colorado mountains with only his dying smartphone.
GOLIATH---Amazon Prime renewed the series for Season 4 which will be the last season.
VARSITY BLUES---Quibi tv series underway based on the 1999 high school football tram movie that starred James Van Der Beek and Paul Walker.
FOLLIES---movie underway based on the Stephen Sondheim musical. Dominic Cooke is the writer.
TRIVIA---in Otto Preminger's ANATOMY OF A MURDER, Judge Weaver was played by Joseph N. Welch, who was chief counsel for the Army during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. Welch's comment to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, " . . . Senator. You've done enough . . . Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" was a turning point in McCarthyism. As a condition for appearing in the movie, Welch's wife played a member of the jury.
In Otto Preminger's ANATOMY OF A MURDER, Judge Weaver was played by Joseph N. Welch, who was the chief counsel for the Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings. He is shown with Jimmy Stewart and George C. Scott.
During the Army-McCarthy hearings, Welch's comment to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, " . . . Senator. You've done enough . . . Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" was a turning point in McCarthyism.
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STAR WARTS: Oh my god, this made me laugh. They just keep making the scene worse... it's a split second of a movie and they spend so much time and money going back to it.
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I figured out what Greedo is really saying in this latest bastardization:
McClunky.
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Star Wars whiners: Disney will give us the OOOOOOOOT, just watch! Suck it, Lucas!
Disney: Hold my McClunkey...
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Nov 18, 2019 - 10:01 AM
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Ado
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Star Wars whiners: Disney will give us the OOOOOOOOT, just watch! Suck it, Lucas!
Disney: Hold my McClunkey...
Hahaha! So true. When I heard Disney was buying Star Wars my first thought was, "I have a bad feeling about this."
As a business move it made a lot of sense, 4.05 billion is what it cost Disney and they recouped all that plus in 6 years.
But they have gone to the well too many times and Solo was a mistake.
Not sure they're recouping their billions or making a sizable profit, but my main point was, I never thought Disney and Star Wars was a good marriage. And I never thought Disney would be good stewards for the franchise.
Yeah, it is a hard question, I am not sure who else would have put the money out for the purchase, or to plunk out the big budgets either.
At times I have thought that Paramount has been a terrible steward of Star Trek, both when they held all of it, and when they just held the movies. Now Paramount owns all of Trek again. But when Trek had it's 50th anniversary, they did almost nothing at all with it, no new documentaries, no 4k prints, nothing.
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Now Paramount owns all of Trek again. But when Trek had it's 50th anniversary, they did almost nothing at all with it, no new documentaries, no 4k prints, nothing.
Paramount has been mishandling Star Trek since Desilu sold out to them in 1968. Don't get me started on how much of a missed opportunity the 50th was in regards to upgrading the show on Blu Ray...
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Man, I was really hoping the series would have gotten the “Twilight Zone” treatment. Corrected mono sound mix, corrected opening and closing theme music in the first season, network promos, proper logos, previews attached to the episodes, the 16mm “work print” of The Cage, new interviews and commentary tracks, isolated score tracks, and 4k scans of the films. Instead, we got the same 2006 Blu Ray transfers repressed in new packaging, with the animated series and new Khan transfers being the only new additions – which were released on their own anyway.
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Nov 18, 2019 - 4:31 PM
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Octoberman
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Man, I was really hoping the series would have gotten the “Twilight Zone” treatment. Corrected mono sound mix, corrected opening and closing theme music in the first season, network promos, proper logos, previews attached to the episodes, the 16mm “work print” of The Cage, new interviews and commentary tracks, isolated score tracks, and 4k scans of the films. Instead, we got the same 2006 Blu Ray transfers repressed in new packaging, with the animated series and new Khan transfers being the only new additions – which were released on their own anyway.
That would have been amazing.
Especially as I don't think the TZ will ever be bettered. They are almost exhaustive in how nice the last presentation is.
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