There was a period of horror shows marketed to children in that era. Probably no worse than goosebumps/are you afraid of the dark. AYAotD had some pretty dark stuff in it for the time, the more lawless land of early cable nickelodeon.
I remember the robocop show (and maybe a reboot that took place in the future?) being very sanitized action hero show.
Now I want a marvel budget swat kats movie where the police can't figure out two (wrongly)dishonorably discharged air force pilot engineers, running a military aviation graveyard, have built a high tech jet to fight crime in the middle of a major city.
Over halfway through watching stuff from 1957 (cool year so far), so I figured it was a good time to do one of my smaller competitive posts about the big award winners of that year. 3 English-language films, and two of them I'm guessing a number of posters here have seen for themselves. With all institutions rewarding a film this year, and the festivals tied across the board with 2 wins each, the question remains of who will break the tie. Or will the Oscars finally get a win?
Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Palme D'Or: Friendly Persuasion
Golden Lion: Aparajito
Golden Bear: 12 Angry Men
The Bridge on the River Kwai is decent, but definitely flawed. Reliant on national stereotypes (the proud, stubborn Brit; the brutal Japanese; the lazy but crafty American), and at times surprisingly static in its setting and characterization, but it's nonetheless more self-aware and engrossing than Lean's other epics. A successful, anti-heroic fusion of the POW tale and the men-on-a-mission story. Distinctive and expensive looking, but not very thematically or poetically rich.
Friendly Persuasion, a mostly forgotten Hollywood... thing, is about a family of Quakers who find them selves at odds with the American Civil War. I guess it worked as white, pacifist comfort food for a lot of Americans at the time, but now it can only be approached as some kind of bizarre, kitschy curiosity. And it is bizarre, with bouts of comedy (rascally farm animals), and 'aw shucks' characters in the face of it's larger, rather serious themes. But it's thin, even by low-stakes 1950's Hollywood standards.
Aparajito is the second film in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, and it feels a bit stuck between the naturalism of the first film and the wisdom of the supreme third film. It's nicely shot and atmospheric, but it's also a pretty straightforward tearjerker that feels more open-ended than the other two films in the trilogy. I've been able to appreciate it a little more over time (the film has a handful of poetic, slice of life passages), but some of my initial distaste for its melodrama still persists.
12 Angry Men is that one film that people who normally avoid or fail to appreciate older films really love. It's easy to see why: it's a well-acted, nicely paced, and dramatically legible film about guilt and liberal values. Lumet's direction, which emphasizes physical blocking and shot height, avoids the gimmickry that many one-room films fall victim to. It is perhaps too soft and clean in its construction to be a film that seriously addresses the justice system or larger questions of bigotry, but it is seriously compelling storytelling.
Every hard R franchise needed a cartoon and children's toys
Conan the Adventurer
This show fucking ruled! I still remember the theme song. CONAN the adventurer! Conan warrior without fear!
I completely forgot this show existed, saw the image, still didn't remember, saw you mention the theme song and was "oh fuck yeah I remember that show!"
EDIT: Also I had the exploding T-1000 toy and the Terminator mobile with cannon. I think there was a skeleton, OH and a fucking setup where you could add organic tissue to the skeleton to create a T-800. Toys used to rock.
Fellowship of the Ring had a higher body count, I'm sure, but no PG-13 movie has had more gruesome violence against human characters than Batman Returns.
Looks like one of those decorative statues all over Gotham City they have for wide shots.
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I'm watching 12 Angry Men for a class. It's excellent so far. I am also irrationally upset that a light switch was flicked down to turn the lights on.
The original or the Tony Danza version?
The original movie.
Also everyone should watch 12 Angry Men.
The 1957 one is great, so much tension in one room and not a weak performance in the whole jury. The 1997 one isn't bad either, but the cast is a lot more hit and miss, though i do love George C Scott and Ossie Davis in it.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
Did I watch a cartoon starring Wayne Gretzky, Bo Jackson, and Michael Jordan, or was that chicken pox fever and baseball cards?
A little bit of both?
I want to say it was Allstars or ProStars, something like that.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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Also just amazing synergy to have that trio. Two "Great Ones" in their sports and then Bo who played both the other major professional sports! I can't even imagine who you'd get at the time for MLB and the NFL to match MJ and Gretzky in star power?
Also just amazing synergy to have that trio. Two "Great Ones" in their sports and then Bo who played both the other major professional sports! I can't even imagine who you'd get at the time for MLB and the NFL to match MJ and Gretzky in star power?
As someone that was a freshman at Auburn when Bo was a senior, I think Bo had such a huge impact on pro football. It was sad that a hip injury would end his career so quickly. To this day I still remember Bosworth talking shit about Bo, and then Bo just trucking over him like it wasn’t anything.
Also in one of the houses I was in when younger had 2 switches on opposite ends of a hall that controlled the same light, so up/down to turn on would change constantly on each end
Also in one of the houses I was in when younger had 2 switches on opposite ends of a hall that controlled the same light, so up/down to turn on would change constantly on each end
Fun fact, light switches that are controlled with two switches function as an XOR gate!
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I remember the robocop show (and maybe a reboot that took place in the future?) being very sanitized action hero show.
Now I want a marvel budget swat kats movie where the police can't figure out two (wrongly)dishonorably discharged air force pilot engineers, running a military aviation graveyard, have built a high tech jet to fight crime in the middle of a major city.
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I can picture cartoon Axel Foley far more clearly than the Crypt Keeper, who I've probably seen.
I remember it sucked and the kids always got away and it became more infotainment, way too cartoony.
mmmmmm feels good.
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it was all very Toyetic
Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Palme D'Or: Friendly Persuasion
Golden Lion: Aparajito
Golden Bear: 12 Angry Men
Friendly Persuasion, a mostly forgotten Hollywood... thing, is about a family of Quakers who find them selves at odds with the American Civil War. I guess it worked as white, pacifist comfort food for a lot of Americans at the time, but now it can only be approached as some kind of bizarre, kitschy curiosity. And it is bizarre, with bouts of comedy (rascally farm animals), and 'aw shucks' characters in the face of it's larger, rather serious themes. But it's thin, even by low-stakes 1950's Hollywood standards.
Aparajito is the second film in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, and it feels a bit stuck between the naturalism of the first film and the wisdom of the supreme third film. It's nicely shot and atmospheric, but it's also a pretty straightforward tearjerker that feels more open-ended than the other two films in the trilogy. I've been able to appreciate it a little more over time (the film has a handful of poetic, slice of life passages), but some of my initial distaste for its melodrama still persists.
12 Angry Men is that one film that people who normally avoid or fail to appreciate older films really love. It's easy to see why: it's a well-acted, nicely paced, and dramatically legible film about guilt and liberal values. Lumet's direction, which emphasizes physical blocking and shot height, avoids the gimmickry that many one-room films fall victim to. It is perhaps too soft and clean in its construction to be a film that seriously addresses the justice system or larger questions of bigotry, but it is seriously compelling storytelling.
12 Angry Men wins Berlin the lead.
Scorecard:
Berlin: 3
Cannes: 2
Venice: 2
Oscars: 0
I completely forgot this show existed, saw the image, still didn't remember, saw you mention the theme song and was "oh fuck yeah I remember that show!"
EDIT: Also I had the exploding T-1000 toy and the Terminator mobile with cannon. I think there was a skeleton, OH and a fucking setup where you could add organic tissue to the skeleton to create a T-800. Toys used to rock.
yeah, I saw that episode of Clerks too.
Welp. I guess that's one less show on my bucket list, because I never want this explained:
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Happy Meal, happy movie!
i'm more worried about that 90s cgi apparition in the window
Looks like one of those decorative statues all over Gotham City they have for wide shots.
A lot of “we can’t show people dying so here’s a fate worse than death” from what I remember
The original or the Tony Danza version?
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Of course, it neglects to mention that almost everyone there dies horribly trying, but hey.
In the toy cannon (yes there was toy cannon) they all survived, but like apone got all cybernetic for some reason.
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There might be two light switches that control the lights and so up or down doesn't mean anything if the other was used to toggle the state.
yeah, and? A little thing like dying's never kept Ripley and the gang down.
The original movie.
Also everyone should watch 12 Angry Men.
The 1957 one is great, so much tension in one room and not a weak performance in the whole jury. The 1997 one isn't bad either, but the cast is a lot more hit and miss, though i do love George C Scott and Ossie Davis in it.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
You did. It was probably the only cartoon that had hockey as a regular thing until the Mighty Ducks cartoon where they were actually ducks
A little bit of both?
I want to say it was Allstars or ProStars, something like that.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
As someone that was a freshman at Auburn when Bo was a senior, I think Bo had such a huge impact on pro football. It was sad that a hip injury would end his career so quickly. To this day I still remember Bosworth talking shit about Bo, and then Bo just trucking over him like it wasn’t anything.
Thinking back on the crew of the Sulaco...is it strange to say I'd gladly let Vasquez kick my ass?
~ Buckaroo Banzai
it'd be strange if you didn't
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I think the us is the only place I've lived where you flick a light switch up to turn it on
Fun fact, light switches that are controlled with two switches function as an XOR gate!