Comments | auggiewren: Short Road to Recovery

auggiewren

Short Road to Recovery

Oct 23, 2005 15:40

Thanks to a meager series of weight presses*, my right arm has regained most of it's previous jelly-like consistency ( Read more... )

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el_jefe59 October 23 2005, 20:04:46 UTC

(1933-Paramount) with Carole Lombard possessed by spirit of a murderer

I have a bootleg DVD of that!

auggiewren November 6 2005, 12:09:01 UTC

Universal should release all the early Paramount chillers starting with ISLAND OF LOST SOULS.

el_jefe59 November 6 2005, 21:54:08 UTC

Yes, they should. They should also re-release the Lugosi Collection in a 2-disc set so that all the movies will play without getting stuck!

delphicdays October 24 2005, 14:05:02 UTC

i've also not had a beer in too long a time. and peas and pork roast is not a bad way to smell... provided of course there is a reason behind it!

fweever October 24 2005, 14:09:30 UTC

movie nights are always good

mappess October 24 2005, 19:23:02 UTC

Maybe your cat just smells like what you want him to smell like.

Puddin' will only go to your arm if you are leaning towards such an angle that it will drain that way.

Wishing and Hoping. auggiewren November 6 2005, 12:11:52 UTC

I want him to smell like Jovan musk.

paulcurtis October 29 2005, 20:30:36 UTC

Ooh! I remember FRACTURED FLICKERS...are they widely available?

auggiewren November 6 2005, 12:06:34 UTC

I only recall Lon Chaney Jr. was upset over the job they did on his pop's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (haven't watched that yet). Movie buffs think critics today are harsh. Some of Hans Conreid's comments are devastating. For that matter, silents received even less respect in the 1930s and 1940s.
The 1932 Universal short BOO! not only made light of NOSFERATU but it also mocked FRANKENSTEIN which was only recently released!

VCI, specialists in serials and westerns, released the available episodes. My copy...ahemm...my friend's copy
came from the loco Borders.

paulcurtis November 6 2005, 17:19:59 UTC

My dim memory of BOO! is that it wasn't particularly insulting, any more than those Pete Smith shorts with recycled silent footage.

I've liked the VCI products I've seen, so I'll have to seek out Fractured Flickers...though I do recall their being somewhat controversial at the time, among movie fans.

"How Quaint". auggiewren November 6 2005, 17:31:42 UTC

My dim memory of BOO! is that it wasn't particularly insulting, any more than those Pete Smith shorts with recycled silent footage.

I was just surprise the way Universal treated their current horror sensation in BOO! I'll have to watch again. I remember some Vitaphone
short of the 1930s or 1940s was merciless with the silent dramas. Most recreations were also broadly drawn.

My late mother (b.1921) did not think films of her youth dated well ("We
used say 'Gee, that was a swell movie.'")