Aren't there any working class Irish guys who , like, open interior design consortiums or whatnot?

I think this is rue of Landis in general.  Over the years I
've come to enjoy the relaxed manner and tonal shifts in his work.  It even redeems BHV III a bit in my opinion

On a related note:  I think the opposite was true for Blockbuster and its effect on small video stores.  When a Blockbuster opened up in the late 80s in my hometown, in the same shopping center as a mom and pop no less , it looked like the end of a small business.  Today that mom and pop (and several competitors) are…

The employees in my B&N are shockingly knowledgeable, but having once worked at a chain record store, I know the feeling.

Wambaugh oversaw the production of the former and while it's a bit stodgy, and the ending is awkwardly (and falsely, as it turns out) upbeat, it is very earnest, and boasts some very good performances from John Savage and James Woods.  The quality of the latter explains why Wambaugh retained creative control over the…

Gable was perhaps charismatic leading men in Hollywood history, but most of his films forgettable.  Glad to hear that this one works.

I can't understand why the "gritty police" drama of the 60s and 70s doesn't get the same love from cinephiles as film noir.  Their pungent yet weary world view captures their relationship to their time more powerfully than any other genre.  Of course, who else but Paul Thomas Anderson would want to revisit the 70s?…

Wambaugh was really the first widely read L.A. novelist to specifically identify the racial and sexual fault lines of the city's criminal geography, rejecting the generic hard boiled tropes of the more celebrated private eye fiction.  His work also paradoxically extolled the official "thin blue line" pablum of the…

Which season had the episode with John Davidson in drag.  Man my grandmother really hated him after that.

YF needs to be seen in a theater where everyone is on the same vibe.  It seems overrated when watching it in your living room

But there are ways around that too.  Look at how Turner renewed copyright for IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, taking it off UHF stations forever.

Technically a director's cut is a preliminary version of a movie assembled by the director that is submitted to the studio/disributer for previews and purposes of fine cutting if the director does not have the right to final cut in the contract.  Hence the 3 theatrical rereleases of BLADE RUNNER.  With CEO3K you have…

And expecting new audiences to react with the same enthusiasm for STAR WARS as their parents with its original effects after they've seen something like AVATAR is a bit of a stretch.  Much of the ballyhoo is about marketing a new platform.  As the boards attest, there is a market for the original, and I'm sure that at…

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is still doing good business in my local non-arthouse multiplex after four months.  As long as certain prestige movies can draw strong per screen averages, theater chains, in selected markets, will give them a shot.

Actually this peak year was during a post war recession.  It was during the recovery that one sees a major decline in moviegoing—From 90 to about 60 million in 2 years if memory serves.

"Elizabethtown" was popular?  "Napoleon Dynamite" was good?

Hi Drop:  How's the Katzenjammers?

And what's wrong with that?

True, and the right to make alterations is essential to adapting movies to other forms of media.  Transfering a film to video, digital, high def etc. requires some alteration to the image to accomodate the new medium.  Same is true for the audio componant.  Adding dialogue or re-editing to change the action in a…

When the colorization debate emerged a quarter of a century ago I stood with the purists.  However, I'm not so sure the argument against colorization works in the case of Lucas.  As mentioned above, He does own the copyright, and disrespectful as his alterations may be to the technicians, they really don't have legal…