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[bk]

This Bollywood film's plot has been done a million times - in films, on Three's Company, and other TV shows.

[Charles Pogue]

Oh...I forgot to mention that sadly Cosmatos passed away a few years back.  I think it was some kind of brain tumor.  I know he had gone blind before he died.

[Jrand73]

I watched a very famous movie last night....for the first time.

Is Jimmy Porter supposed to be the most obnoxious character in history in LOOK BACK IN ANGER.....or did Richard Burton decide to play it that way....besides being too OLD, his yelling got very tiring and annoying after about half and hour....and he wasn't too convincing playing that trumpet either.

[Jrand73]

This Bollywood film's plot has been done a million times - in films, on Three's Company, and other TV shows.

There are NO new plots - and there are no new federation steps.

[Jrand73]

There has never been a Bollywood film advertised with the slogan:

You Have Never Seen Anything Like It!

[Matt H.]

Der B and I now have a Blu-Ray player.

We can now watch Wall-E.  We can also watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which we bought because we didn't want Wall-E to be lonely all by itself on the shelf.  Wasn't that nice of us?

Both are gorgeous high definition transfers. You should be pleased with the way they look.

[Matt H.]

I've always enjoyed Cosmatos' work, actually.

Geez, I think he's usually pretty terrible. Maybe I haven't seen the right movies.

[bk]

I think Cosmatos' movies are not all that good (save for the Rambo, which is) but I find his work always professional.  He just had the bad luck of the draw, scripts-wise.

[Matt H.]

I watched two BONES episodes while I cooked and ate lunch. The first was another in the Gormogon story arc with the last scene our first hint that Zach may be the apprentice. (Killing the lobbyist in his coat closet.)

[Matt H.]

The second was the Christmas episode where Booth and Bones kissed for the first time (under the mistletoe). There is a bonus to see the kissing scene in its full form with a wildly extended version of the kiss. Lots of fun.

And, of course, the end is beautifully sweet and sentimental and tear-inducing.

[Matt H.]

Next, I watched (and made a DVD-R) of RUDLOPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER recorded this week in HD. I was too old when the show first came on TV (1964) for it to have been an endearing part of my childhood, but since I didn't have any version of it here, I thought this would be a cheap way to have it.

[Matt H.]

I ended my afternoon of leisure viewing with THE EVIDENCE, an episode I recorded three years ago that was still on my DVR. I had liked this episode so much (had a gay storyline) that I wanted to keep it. And since it doesn't look like the series is ever going to come out on DVD, I finally got a minute this afternoon to make a DVD-R of it as well.

[ArnoldMBrockman]

I've been having a fun little e-mail volley with my close personal friend, Mr. Stephen Sondheim, about various and sundried things.

Can You Share any of the missives ?

[bk]

Not really.  The one thing I was trying to do, which was get him to come out here to do one of his college appearances that he's been doing isn't going to happen, because the colleges that have booked him apparently have all the money in the world to pay him and other names.  I mean, a LOT of dough.  I'd already gotten funding to get him out here and pay him what I thought was a pretty good fee, but apparently it's not even in the same country as what these people are paying (he told me I would be appalled - even he is appalled) - which, to my mind, is a little reprehensible, what with the economy and the school systems in the state they are.  But I tried and he was very sweet about it all.

[Matt H.]

Afternoon surf completed and now heading back down and will have to get to work on AMERICAN TEEN now.

WBBL.

[MBarnum]

Just now eating my lunch.  Fortunately we have had many consumers today.  But now there is a lull.

DR ELMORE all Bollywood movies are as long as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.....

and they all have subplots that go nowhere...that is just the nature of the beast. But they are pretty movies.

[MBarnum]

There has never been a Bollywood film advertised with the slogan:

You Have Never Seen Anything Like It!

LOL! So true!


Actually, half the fun of watching any Bollywood movie, new or old, is figuring out what US, UK, Japanese, Italian, Hong Kong, or other movie it is a copy of....and yet they always make it very Indian. They are cute and kitschy.

[MBarnum]

Just imagine THE GODFATHER or TOP GUN or THE EXORCIST, but with musical numbers.
(yes, all three have been done).

[Druxy]

Guilty Pleasures?

I do own DVD copies of SHOWGIRLS and XANADU.

The former is "fun," and has a lot of beautiful naked girls.

 

The other one has a nice dance number with Gene Kelly & Olivia Newton-John.

I also have DE-LOVELY which, despite what others may think, is not a "guilty pleasure," but a very entertaining, often moving, musical.

So there!

 

[Jrand73]

I like XANADU....or did when I paid to see it.  And I played the soundtrack album endlessly.....

[Jrand73]

Just imagine THE GODFATHER or TOP GUN or THE EXORCIST, but with musical numbers.
(yes, all three have been done).

All of the plots tied up in ONE Bollywood movie!

[Druxy]

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE?

I've only seen it once all the way through and that was about 35-40 years ago.

[There is no way I could sit through it again.]

It was late at night...about 1 o'clock in the morning...and my ex-wife and I were falling on the floor laughing.  It was so bad that it was actually entertaining.

BTW: I really like ED WOOD.  I think it's the best thing Tim Burton has done.

[Jrand73]

I think DR MBARNUM once linked to a site that showed the 'influences' of other films on various Bollywood movies.

But DISCO Dancer is still my favorite recent viewing.....and just in case you forgot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzo1NebtDk

My DVD was of course sent to me by DR MBARNUM.

[elmore3003]

Well, for a while it was more like SOME LIKE IT HOT. Then they dropped any interest in pursuing that plotline and it became the mother-son plot from TORCH SONG TRILOGY.  In THREE'S COMPANY it's two women and one man pretending to be gay, but here it's two men pretending to be a couple. It certainly runs the gamut.

It's almost time to leave for WHITE CHRISTMAS.

[bk]

I think people are really misunderstanding the topic of the day.  It's not about general guilty pleasure movies, but about a specific KIND of guilty pleasure film which was peculiar to the 70s and 80s, i.e. The Cassandra Crossing, Airport 75, Escape To Athena, Raise The Titanic and many, many others.

[Tomovoz]

DR Elmore

I am listening to "Robert & Elizabeth" this morning.

I know Now/Soliloquy bring tears to my eyes with their beauty.  Wonderful June.

[Tomovoz]

TOTD no clue!

[Tomovoz]

I also have no problems at all with "DeLovely" (nor with "Beyond the Sea")

[Tomovoz]

maybe it is the name Tom that scares people away from the Board.

[S. Woody White]

Just imagine THE GODFATHER or TOP GUN or THE EXORCIST, but with musical numbers.
(yes, all three have been done).

The original Exorcist didn't have musical numbers?

Why is it I remember a scene where Father Dyer is tinkling the ivories at a party, and then Regan comes downstairs and does the same, sort of?

Sure sounds like a song cue to me!