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I knew I shouldn't have come here and read this, I had a bad feeling.......Mary Poppins.....aarrrggghhh......I can't stand the thought of it..... |
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About two weeks back BBC showed The Shining, which I loved and wished I had taped it.
Last Friday 13th, Dutch commercial TV showed it again! So I taped it. (yes, on VCR...) Unfortunately I couldn't watch it live so there's a lot of
commercials in it, most of them for sex lines.
And tonight, Belgian TV is showing the Shining again! So I can tape it without annoying commercials. And perhaps this time I can get DED to watch it
through.
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I love the Shining (or as groundskeeper Willy calls it "the Shinning"). The tv station SBS, who show the best world news, the best documentaries,
South Park, opera, art history shows, Mythbusters, The Mighty Boosh (one of Aspy's favourite shows..) etc. etc. occasionly do specials on some
director. They did one on S. Kubrick and showed all those great movies, one per week for a couple of months.
I love SBS!
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There's a museum in Gent (Belgium) that now has a show on Kubrick, which I'd love to see...
We have a channel called SBS. From what you're telling about your SBS they're absolutely not to be confused. SBS suck. Whenever they show a movie,
they interrupt it every 20 minutes for 7.5 minutes of commercials. And at around 11:30 they'll interrupt a movie for half an hour for the "news" and
entertainment news.
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OH that's bad. Very bad. Your SBS sounds like a commercial station. All our commercial stations are called Channel 10, Channel 9 (the biggest) or
Channel 7. The other two are SBS and ABC. I can't watch any movies on tv unless they are on SBS or ABC (the government-public station) because they
don't have any ads, except between programs. All the big stations have zillions of ads.
They used to show 6 ads every 15 minutes. Now they show like 10 ads every 10 minutes. It's just so bad. And their regular programs are completely gay.
I only watch them for the Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy and that's it (and mute the bastard ads when they come on).
TV is not worth the effort!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vivien_o_blivion
| Quote: | Originally posted by aquagoat
I knew I shouldn't have come here and read this, I had a bad feeling.......Mary Poppins.....aarrrggghhh......I can't stand the thought of it..... |
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Viv, that just reminded me of the Simpsons, where "Sherry Boppins" floats away on her umbrella and then gets sucked into the engine of a plane!
AHAHHAHAH!
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Yesterday Bedknobs and Broomsticks was on... which sort of a sloppier Mary Poppins, but enjoyable all the same.
A couple of days ago I watched Clue (Cluedo for the Brits and Dutchies) with my sister, one of my favourite films. It's a comical whodunnit with 3
endings. When the film was premiered the US cinemas got films with different endings. It has some nice quotable lines, like:
-(After a long monologue) To cut a long story short...
-Too late!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by scallopino
OH that's bad. Very bad. Your SBS sounds like a commercial station. All our commercial stations are called Channel 10, Channel 9 (the biggest) or
Channel 7. The other two are SBS and ABC. I can't watch any movies on tv unless they are on SBS or ABC (the government-public station) because they
don't have any ads, except between programs. All the big stations have zillions of ads.
They used to show 6 ads every 15 minutes. Now they show like 10 ads every 10 minutes. It's just so bad. And their regular programs are completely gay.
I only watch them for the Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy and that's it (and mute the bastard ads when they come on).
TV is not worth the effort! |
I think about the worst thing I had with a commercial channel was when I was watching Clockwork Orange for the 2nd time (which was necessary because I
had forgotten how the film ended) they didn't show the ending! Bastards! They stopped the film right after Alex jumps out the window, so it looks just
like a suicide.
(Not to mention that time they were showing The Shining with ads every 20 minutes, primarily ads for sex telephone lines (which are, well, highly
pornographical). That ruins the athmosphere... with the possible exception of that bathroom scene.)
Don't you just hate those movies where the voice-over is done by a character that dies in the end?
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Yeah...those porno adds...awful. And half the ladies look like Steven Seagal. That's not what one needs late at night.
Do all your channels have ads?
My favourite part of the shining is when you think the big old telephone communications guy is going to come and save everyone and then BAM he gets an
axe to the back!
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Yep, all channels have ads. But the state channels won't show ads during programmes and won't allow sneaky in-programme advertising. The Dutch
government has strict laws on the amount of commercials that can be shown during a show, but commercial channels are very adept at moving around them.
Also some Dutch commercial channels are located in Luxemburg in order to dodge the laws (and penalties).
Who's Steven Seagal?
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Ha ha, i know what you mean.
Maybe i didn't spell Steven Seagal right. Let me check...
No, i was right. Here ya go..
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Hmm... not the next James Bond... (not that Craig is gorgeous).
Most ones in the Dutch ads look like Lolo Ferrari.
BTW my favourite part of the Shining is I think the bit where the missus pages through Jack's writings and sees the infamous phrase in a large
quantity of different lay-outs. Just think somebody actually had to type that all into a typewriter!
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And yesterday I've seen the actual typewriter, complete with replicas of the pages, in the SK-exhibition in Gent. I'm now becoming a Kubrick-fan.
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Well, I would take Lolo Ferrari any day over the horrors that come on in the ads between Dave Letterman. At least one has no doubt about Lola's
gender.
I forgot about that bit.. Have you seen other Kubrick films? They're so varied.
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To be honest I still think JAmes Bond is Sean Connery.
But to see a film with almost 110 yr old Sean is not really fun.
There making the best out of it I hope and if not we have plenty old ones.
I'm still planning to see Histoire 'd O sometime and the Dutch movie "Blond Dolly"
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Apart from Clockwork Orange which I have seen a number of times, and the Shining, I have never been able to watch any other Kubrick film in full. I
think I'm going to raid the DVD store in Utrecht. 
Lolo Ferrari... well... watching her is a bit of a freak show, especially if you take into consideration she's dead... a controversial death too...
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Good point.
Out of the films i've seen, the only one i wouldn't recommend so highly would be Barry Lyndon. Not because it's bad or anything, but because it's very
very long and kind of boring and nothing really happens at all. Unless you like period pieces.
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We watched scenes from Barry Lyndon during the introduction week when I was about to study history. (We also watched scenes from Gladiator,
Blackadder, Braveheart and The Longest Day). It really interested me, even though it seemed like a stretch. Particularly the scenes with
candle-light.
Later, during the Roman History classes, we also watched half an hour of Spartacus (and Life of Brian, but that's another story). We also watched part
of that movie in history class at secondary school (but that particular teacher had the annoying habit of not finishing films we started watching. He
was also the one who forced Evita upon us.)
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Back to the Bond movies, I'm completely confused because I read recently the written versions and they are so different from the movies. Some movies
are build out of several stories and not used parts of the books appear in other movies that follow more or less the story in the book. Sometimes the
only thing in common is the title, but most of all, every spectaculair scene is not in the book.
I'm still wondering after I've seen the movie over and over again why on earth in "For your eyes only" The Greek girl leaves the diving equipment
behind. Later it is a life saver, but the need of leaving your oxygen down there is a complete mystery to me.
For Stanley K. movies I haven't seen one of them when they came out. Maybe I was to young. But I can remember al the discussions on Lolita and
Clockwork. From the last one I can remember all the pictures hangin' around the cinema.
And I'm looking for the Dutch Movie "Blonde Dolly"
Sybille Alida Johanna Niemans, also known as Blonde Dolly, was a Dutch woman murdered by strangulation on 1959-11-02.
Her murderer was never caught. Mrs. Niemans was born in Amsterdam as the daughter of a shoemaker. Her first job was that of a fortune teller, but
after her divorce somewhere in the mid-1950s, she became a lady of company for rich businessmen. It is assumed that she was murdered because of her
knowledge of things in the beau monde of the Hague, but this was never proven and it is unlikely the killer will be caught after nearly fifty years.
And why am I so interested, you may ask.
Well it's quite a nice story, When I was in The Hague redecorating the shower, I also visited the grave of my father.
On the entrance of the graveyard they have something new. In a all wether cabinet there is a computer and a printer. With the help of the computer you
can find graves by typing the name of the person who is buried there. I typed in my fathers name and when it came up, I printed the result The paper
was standard a plan of the yard now printed with the best route to the grave. On the plan there were also numbers corresponding with special views
for a tour around the place. On the back a short explanation.
The grave of "Blonde Dolly" was also mentioned and the short story of her life ended with "Her grave is now in posession of the city" Wich means that
they will clean the place for another one. Therefore I went to the grave now it was still possible, you can say, it was the first time of my life
that I visited a prostitute. Standing before her grave, I read the inscription and found out that she has the same birthday as my mother and she
died november the second. And that day of my visit it was November the second. Spooky isn't it?
[Edited on 13-11-2006 by DED] (changed some errors into new ones)
[Edited on 13-11-2006 by DED]
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