See - that's the problem with Hollwood - but then I guess that "An American special-effect in London" wasn't quite the catchy title they were looking for
- (* It's still a great movie *)
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Never heard of the first series you mention - I'll have to do some reading-up.temperflash wrote:Recently binged on "Love and Curses" AKA "She Wolf of London". I pretty decent and amusing TV series of its time.
Maybe not a classic unless you were a fan back in the day.
Now I'm re-watching "LEXX", working on the third season.
I watched one of the better Blu-ray releases of this movie last year and in the 'making of' section they explain that while the fire truck scene is puppets and stop motion the scenes with the plane flying through the billboard and through the hanger were done with a pilot at the controls!!Heavy Metal Spike wrote:.
A family showing of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World".
1963 baby !!!! (yeah - almost FIFTY-NINE years ago!)
It's sometimes tough to explain things to the next generation . . you know . . . once they have been exposed to high action & transformers & computer generated stuffs.
It's a bit like trying to share how state-of-the art, and held in awe, Harryausen's work was, when they think Jurassic Park is the norm.
Asking them to cast their minds back to when SCRIPT, HUMOUR & ORIGINALITY was appreciated . . . and that movies like these were LITERALLY years ahead of the stuff they watch nowadays . . . can be a hard sell. It puts them in a position where they perhaps struggle to understand how much early movie-goers enjoyed what THEY had at hand, and why these films were (and are) so venerated.
BUT . . . for some reason, fortunately, they didn't need too much convincing on this one
THREE HOURS & TWENTY-TWO MINUTES long - an absolute classic in EVERY sense of the word.
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Do you know what the true runtime was on that version Derek? - there are a number of edits out there and they don't always tell the truth on the packaging!derekc62 wrote:I watched one of the better Blu-ray releases of this movie last year . . .
Mine is from the Criterion Collection and runs 163 min.Heavy Metal Spike wrote:Do you know what the true runtime was on that version Derek? - there are a number of edits out there and they don't always tell the truth on the packaging!derekc62 wrote:I watched one of the better Blu-ray releases of this movie last year . . .
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Yeah - that makes sense - I found this on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/alternateversionsderekc62 wrote:Mine is from the Criterion Collection and runs 163 min.
As I recall it also includes 'reconstructed' deleted scenes using story boards, etc., and if you watch it that way it runs longer.