F Troop will be a must-buy for me. First season in B/W was much better with the full vocal version of the theme.

Lester also did most of the final takes on the fight scenes in the Fortress, with a double used for Gene Hackman, who refused to come back for any new material after Donner was let go. This is the one scene that matters most above all IMO. Reprinted from the original script. INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUD...

The Brando scenes for II are for me, the only ones of great significance I want to see in a new "Donner cut". I've always maintained that those scenes, especially the one in II where Superman's powers are restored, are the ones that would provide the essential continuity from first to seco...

I didn't care about any of them. And frankly I think more and more we're reaching a point where Hollywood seems determined to only honor those films that are important to them from an agenda standpoint. And that's my only comment on that.

I can remember one PP cartoon in which they actually gave him a voice. Rich Little basically did a Rex Harrison style imitation in it. "Ant And The Ardvark" cartoons always had vocals, with John Byner doing thinly disguised impressions of Joey Bishop and Dean Martin respectively. The carto...

When it comes to Fox reissuing a movie on DVD, I'd rather see "One Million Years BC" given a new release, seeing how Fox was too stupid to do the extended Laser Disc cut last time.

Rumor has it that Fox will release the cartoon separately. And that's all I'm interested in since I've got the last boxed set, and the TV show, and the redone version of the first movie, and the old Image released DVD bonus with the extras (the unedited Roddy McDowall interview) that wasn't in the r...

The LD had an insert that explained what order to program the tracks to see the "complete" cut of the film. Made it pretty simple from my standpoint at least.

Although I tried to sell off the ET LD set (no takers), one LD set I'll never sell is the Criterion Close Encounters which allows you to program a complete cut of the film of *all* footage from the 77 and 80 cuts.

"Spielberg really presents both sides as human beings with feelings and families and presents both ideologies as being cut from the same cloth"

Without elaborating any further, that is precisely why the film is disliked by many of the people who have decided to dislike it.

I actually saw Narnia first, which I think was the smart thing to do. :) When I saw the previous FX scenes going on forever and ever, I knew that a perfect time for a restroom break would be when the spider pit scene came up. I knew that was going to go on forever too so it was the optimum time to s...

I just got back from seeing both Narnia and Kong in the same afternoon and this line sums up my sentiments perfectly about the latter: "the endless FX-mayhem got tedious pretty quickly." Exactly! On and on and on with seemingly no rhyme or reason but for the FX people to gloat "Hey, l...

I got it though it'll be awhile before I watch it. I only got it because of the presence of Stephanie Beacham in S1!

I agree complete with your review, Andy! And another thing about "Backstairs At The White House" that helps elevate it is that so much of what's depicted is dead accurate. I had a chance after revisiting this miniseries to read Lillian Rogers Parks' original memoir, written in 1961, and fo...

Kong 76 is a flawed film in many ways, but not IMO because of Jessica Lange. I think her performance holds up very well given the kind of character she was being asked to play (plus she looks so great in the native costume). I think of all the Kong 76 leads, Bridges was ultimately the weakest link. ...