Posts by Lt. Brannigan

The Horrid "Color of Night", starring Bruce Willis (Who is is always entertaining), Jane March and Lance Henrikson.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Fun movie that is at its best when sticking with the source material and not adding unnecessary junk that detracts from the story. It has a great score by Harry Gregson Williams, and epic final battle that is arguably the best in the past 20 years.

Congrats to all who have reached milestones.

Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton.

A favorite of mine as Keaton's 4 distinct personalities leave me in awe of how individual they seem.

A horrible movie which just might qualify as one of the all time worst, The Target (2002) which stars Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert.
No redeeming qualities, stay far far away. unless of course you are like me and just have to follow a certain actor to what seems to be the very depths of cinematic hell.

I give it 0/10 stars.

For Christmas I managed to snag quite a few Bruce Willis, Brendan Fraser, Christopher Lambert, and Dean Cain movies for myself. Best of all no title was more than 2 dollars.
So I have been trying to play catch-up on my watch pile.

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Hi there LT. Don't know if this will help:

"While speaking at London's National Film Theatre in 2009, Ben Burtt disclosed that the alien gibberish sprouted by the Mos Eisley spy Garindan/Long Snoot in Star Wars was actually the processed voice of John Wayne. "

You can find it down near the end of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/trivia
Hope it helps, KEITH

That actually helps a whole lot, now I gotta drag out the DVD to see if I can hear Duke.

Thanks so much for your quick and kind answer, hope one day I can return the favor.

I know I haven't been here frequently, but I have been trying to whittle down the backlog of movies I got for Christmas and have just about got to a reasonable amount. But anyway I received two John Wayne books for Christmas, and one of them has me scratching my head as to the whereabouts this particular piece of trivia came in.

In "John Wayne: From Western Hero to Hollywood Legend"

it says

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Although the final result was heavily processed, Wayne provided the voice for the character of Imperial Spy Garindan in the first offering of George Lucas' Star Wars Saga

Sorry if this has been discussed to death already, but there is two strikes against me, 1: I am too lazy to peruse the backlog of posts, 2: I haven't been following the discussions like I should have.

Austin Powers, funnier than I remembered.

I have to ask, so please forgive me...

Is this for self defense or offense when you do your shopping friday?

Neat gun, by the way.

I had a tasteless cheeseburger from McDonald's..... It was horrible.... disgusting.... revolting.... nauseating.... and in the words of mature sensible adults everywhere, "Yucky".

The Outlaw Josey Wales, now my favorite Eastwood western.

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Before reading this remember I love America/Americans.

A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

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1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').

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2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of '-ize.'

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3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

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4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

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5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

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6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

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7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.

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8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

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9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

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10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

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11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

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12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

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13.. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

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14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

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15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.

God Save the Queen!

PS: Only share this with friends who have a good sense of humour (NOT humor)!

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But what's in it for me?

Quote from Gorch

I'm back on my meds now. Sorry for venting.

We deal in lead, friend.

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Nothing to apologize for.

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Bantha fodder!

How much money can that morally bankrupt old billionaire squeeze out of another generation? The first time it sold out was to market cuddly Ewok dolls followed by a succession of poorly written and dismally acted sequels. They were an abomination. Who can forget the pathetic pandering to a minority audience with Jar Jar Binks and the ersatz Ben Hur race?

Kids were mind numbed by laughable sleazy back door political intrigue, horrified by assassination of innocents, and bored with villains with downright goofy names.

How the hell can this soulless cultural vampire hope to suck more millions from kids with a trade name that has been sullied by naked greed?

We deal in lead, friend

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Why don't you say how you really feel? Keeping it bottled up is harmful to your health you know.

Anyway, when I first heard this news my mouth hit the floor in disbelief. Mainly it's because I didn't think that Lucas would ever sell his baby, but also 4.05 billion is a ridiculous bargain considering the revenue that Star Wars generates.

I heartily join Keith in wishing you a warm welcome to the best John Wayne site on the web. Enjoy your stay, and join in the fun!

Marvel's The Avengers, I seriously think that this movie is becoming like an addictive drug to me.

Quote from RoughRider

The quality of that Buck Jones title you mentioned (Range Feud), on those el-cheapo compilations, is pretty bad from what I've seen. The labels have simply copied the official Columbia VHS and degraded the quality even more.

VCI Entertainment has a nice version available on DVD-R, culled directly from a 16mm Gail Pictures television print.

The other two Columbia westerns (Texas Cyclone and Two Fisted Law) were released on DVD by Sony, the latter in a compilation.

VCI's Range Feud can be purchased here:

http://store.vcientertainment.com/product/range_feud/739

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The quality is pretty bad, but considering I got it for less than 5 dollars and it came with 4 movies. The Worst thing about it is I think it's a single layer DVD that they foolishly tried to make hold 4 hours.

But I was unaware that they VCI has released a better copy. But I refuse by DVD-R as a matter of stubborn principle

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, would be one that I would snap up without hesitation.

Some of his thirties films are simply not available on DVD legally at this moment, but it would help us if you would tell what ones you are looking for.

His 6 Universal pictures have never been available on DVD, at least in region one. As for his Republic output for that decade, you are just going to have to wait like the rest of us for Olive films to release them.
As for his 16 Lone Star/Monogram westerns, no one has of yet even bothered to do a proper restoration. So you best bet are those cheap multipacks that can be found everywhere.
Warners however have done a decent job in releasing the 6 B westerns he did for them in 32-33, You can either buy two triple features or all 6 individually.
His one feature with Buck Jones, I was lucky enough to get on an El Cheapo triple feature disc that I think has gone out of print.
Sony on the other hand has released the one John Wayne film they had in their library on DVD years ago.

What it boils down to is that the Duke's 30's films are woefully represented on DVD, and despite the immense popularity the studios are not willing to take risks on restoration on films that are 80 years old at this point.