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| Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 12:29 PM (221 Views) | |
| Laughing Gravy | Sep 7 2009, 12:29 PM Post #1 |
Revered in the UK
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Hokey smokes, 24 years of this stuff. We start our new season on September 18, give or take a day. The schedule is up at: http://inthebalcony.com/FNF/ |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 7 2009, 07:14 PM Post #2 |
Mouth Breather
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God's in his heaven, all's right with the world. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 7 2009, 08:47 PM Post #3 |
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Yeah, if it weren't for me personally, Gus Schilling & Dick Lane would be, like, all but forgotten, right? |
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| Chandu | Sep 8 2009, 09:42 AM Post #4 |
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large
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Who? |
| Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Sep 15 2009, 05:38 AM Post #5 |
Balconeer Creeper
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Yeah, what he said!!! |
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"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire" | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 20 2009, 06:29 AM Post #6 |
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Last night’s FNF show was a thriller in more ways than one, although a bit adult-heavy. Six so-called “grownups” and only 2 kids this week. As always, we began the fun with an animated frolic; per the recommendation of Balconeer Foist Class Cliff Claven, we watched “Kiss Me Cat” (1953), which just zoomed off our cute-o-meter. Marc Anthony, that big-ass bulldog, has to teach his adorable pet kitten how to catch a mouse or the mean dad is going to kick the cat out. Very funny. Speaking of funny, next up was “Busy Bodies” (1933) with Laurel & Hardy. We mused openly about what sort of resume these boys presented to the HR Department that got them jobs working around band saws. A great short subject; the sequence in which Ollie gets his hands stuck in window frame is worth the price of admission all by itself. Then came one of my favorite shorts, “Quicker’n a Wink” (1940), a Pete Smith Specialty. Pete spends some quality time with Dr. Harold E. Edgerton and his nifty invention, the stroboscope, which allows us to see objects in slow and stop motion, like an egg being dropped into an electric fan. An Oscar winner, and it’s easy to see why: the photography is impressive, and in this case, Pete’s narration is suitably amusing. If you wanna see this short, you’ll find it in the bonus material on the Marx Bros.’ “Go West” DVD. Next, Our Gang starred in “The Little Ranger” (1938), their first short after leaving Hal Roach. This is everything the MGM series should’ve been but wasn’t; not least of all it is hilarious. Alfalfa goes to the movies and dreams he’s a singing cowboy. Great MGM production values, the kids are excellent, and Porky & Buckwheat have more dialog than I’ve ever heard them given in just one short, and none of us could make out more than a word or two of anything they said. A gem. “Dining Together” (1947) was the hit of the evening, so to speak. A really, really creepy voice narrates this 10 min. short on how nice it is for the family to sit down together at Thanksgiving. “It’s NICE to sit down together at Thanksgiving,” the creepy voice says as a bunch of people sit down together. Ten straight minutes of that, but we missed about 2/3 of the dialog because we were laughing so hard. This was a mesmerizing short; I wondered if the narrator hadn’t mixed up his script and thought he was supposed to be narrating a film about how to embalm a corpse, because that’s the tone he read his lines in. Happy Thanksgiving, indeed. After Curly suffered a stroke on the set in 1947, the next Three Stooges script was hastily rewritten for Gus Schilling & Dick Lane, and so “Pardon My Terror” is essentially a Stooges short sans Stooges but with the usual supporting cast (Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Kenneth MacDonald, Dudley Dickerson). I thought it was funny, but you know me. Following Michael Jackson turning into a werewolf and then a ghoul and menacing some poor girl in “Thriller”, we finished off the night with “Return of the Copperhead”, the first fabulous episode of our latest serial offering, “Mysterious Doctor Satan” (1940). The hit of the evening was Dave Sharpe’s leaping during the fight sequences; the serial was well received, although Balconeer Vulnavia seemed disappointed that there wasn’t much “aimless pacing back and forth” going on. We’re gonna have to get used to this serial, coming after “Mysterious Island” and all. The Balcony is dark this week but we'll be back in October, it says here on this schedule... |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 20 2009, 09:04 PM Post #7 |
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No movie this week, but NEXT week's movie promises to be a doozy, as 1950s science runs amok! http://inthebalcony.com/FNF/ |
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| marlin lee | Sep 20 2009, 09:16 PM Post #8 |
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Was there ever a time when 1950s science didn't run amok? |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Sep 21 2009, 02:48 AM Post #9 |
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Pretty good show, with the exception of the Stooges' short. Saw it a few months ago and didn't care for it. The old Popeyes and Dr Satan are great. As for the Creatures films- I ain't seen one o' them since the 70s, but I enjoyed them then. After 30 years I still remember (basically) the music from the 1st one, and like many films the music makes a big difference, especially in horror/suspense. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 22 2009, 04:59 AM Post #10 |
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I just noticed the date's wrong; it says Sept. 26 but it means Oct. 3. I am gonna have to fix that. |
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| vulnavia | Sep 22 2009, 06:34 PM Post #11 |
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Pacing, we want more pacing. It is NICE to see pacing on the screen. We are GLAD when the actors pace. |
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| rodney | Sep 23 2009, 04:54 AM Post #12 |
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I've been trying to figure out for years how to do what you're doing with FNF. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 20 2009, 07:18 AM Post #13 |
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Blood suckers from outer space this week in the balcony: http://inthebalcony.com/FNF/ |
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| Laughing Gravy | Nov 13 2009, 12:23 PM Post #14 |
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Inspector Clouseau solves a murder tonight at http://inthebalcony.com/FNF/. |
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| rodney | Nov 16 2009, 10:08 AM Post #15 |
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Those of us playing at home are curious to know what Karloff film you showed on Halloween. |
| Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer! | |
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