Cipheron on 5/8/2023 at 22:24
Quote Posted by demagogue
Entire episodes and seasons of a lot of old TV shows are on YouTube. I think even a number of 1980s shows are there, but if it's before 1980 there's a really good chance... A few that I've already binged were Dobie Gillis, Sanford and Sons, Otherworld, 3 Stooges, Amos 'n' Andy, Honeymooners, Twilight Zone, Playhouse 90...
There were some obscure scifi movies I was watching too...
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRL4cXXX9Po) Hard to be a God, (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VRbaVNvSA) Lathe of Heaven, the Tarkovsky movies...
They made a film of Lathe of Heaven? I read the book when I was a kid. Thanks, I'll have to check that one. As for shows, i'm a sucker for completeness, so I'd hope they have entire seasons of Twilight Zone, not just a curated selection.
Tarkovsky's Solaris is really good. Better than the George Clooney version. The Clooney Version is slicker, being modern, but it lacks the sheer unsettling nature of the first film. That reminds me, Stalker is a movie I never got around to.
As for youtube, i discovered the open source youtube-dl project (switched to yt-dlp.exe version though). That thing is amazing. Much more versatile than any for-profit "youtube downloader" program. Because youtube-dl is a command line tool, you can hook it into a scripting language such as Python or just Batch, and send it commands to find and download videos fitting very precise criteria, such as all videos from a specific channel, in a range of dates, which include specific keywords in the title. So, i have a script system now, where i can push a single button and it scans X number of channels for new videos since the last time it was run, then downloads them all in selectable quality levels per channel.
My connection is pretty crap, so streaming videos stutter or buffer a lot, so this helps.
heywood on 6/8/2023 at 01:20
Quote Posted by Cipheron
Tarkovsky's Solaris is really good. Better than the George Clooney version. The Clooney Version is slicker, being modern, but it lacks the sheer unsettling nature of the first film. That reminds me, Stalker is a movie I never got around to.
Ditto.
demagogue on 6/8/2023 at 02:24
Oh that reminds me I was gonna organize a TTLG movie day/night and our first movie was supposed to be Stalker.
How does Saturdays 9am PST / 11am EST / 3pm GMT / 5pm CET / 8:30pm IST / 1am AEST work for people that may want to do this? I think it might depend on our proportion of US west coasters vs. east coast Australians. If we are Aussie/Newzy-heavy, we could shoot for an hour or two earlier. If there aren't any, we could shoot for an hour or two later. This felt like the most in between.
And then how does Stalker for the first movie this next Saturday sound?
The idea is we meet on a Meet link and use the text chat feature, and then the host just shares their screen running the movie. But for movies that are on YouTube, we could actually just chat over any text forum.
Well let me just make a Discord channel for it: (
https://discord.gg/p24PmXVt)
(After 7 days from this post I'll have to renew this, or you can PM for a new link at any time. Or I can just make it a public server that has a permanent invitation link.)
Well first, tell me what y'all think about the idea?
Would another day be better, Sundays?
I can't imagine a weekday could work.
Tocky on 6/8/2023 at 02:42
Since folks are posting old stuff, there was a time in the late 70's when shit got by the censors. I recall a western one night with a horrible torture scene where they had a guy hung upside down over a fire and when they did not get the answer they wanted they just let him go to scream over the flames and when they got everything they just let him go for good to scream. That had me and my buds saying wtf but after that they had a scene where there was this Mexican girl who danced in this loose top and Kevin said "damn, I think she is coming out of it". And she did. Titties galore on regular TV. Shit slipped by somehow.
Anyway this one somehow got an airing. It is the last made for TV thing I saw before I lost my virginity. Me and Laurie talked about it in our first phone conversation. Sow the seed. Plant the corn. The last film Betty Davis did and a strange one.
[video=youtube_share;kDZfuvzBQ9k]https://youtu.be/kDZfuvzBQ9k[/video]
mxleader on 17/8/2023 at 16:22
Cool Nightmare on Elm Street sequel:
[video=youtube_share;F8211d969kY]https://youtu.be/F8211d969kY[/video]
Tocky on 19/8/2023 at 02:18
Too realistically dark. I like my horror a step removed from reality. It reminds me that any given moment a man must be willing to drive a knife through a mans eye socket all the way heal butting it into his brain until it can't be clawed out and then drive until you reach an old timber road nobody will use again for twenty years driving until it runs out then hiking the body into heavy brush and spending the whole night digging ten feet deep and scattering leaves over the top before never coming back down that road again. Or something.
Anyway you will never guess what I have been watching all week. When I was a kid I had a favorite cartoon. It had rotting ships in Sargasso seas with lasers and frogmen and soundwave rocket downing weapons in the arctic and Pterodactyls in the Amazon and genetically altered kamado dragons guided by sumo wrestlers and mummies in Egyptian plots to rule the middle east and pygmies being defeated by sling shotted boulders and biplane German dogfights in the Andes and underwater submarine bases guarded by voodoo priests with blow guns and grave robbers at Mayan temples and flying saucers carrying mechanical spiders and Condors and doppelgangers and pirate treasure and Indians with magic rope tricks and gold hidden in logs floated downriver in Canada and bathyspheres and hovercraft and jetpacks and bazookas and machine guns on motorcycles and fake volcanoes guarded by lasers and werewolves and fuck it had everything. Everything a boy could want.
It even had cool into music- da daaa... da dut ta dut da da... da dut da dut dadadadadadadada daaaa da! It was Jonny Quest and it was only on for a short time in the mid sixties but I think it gave me a false sense that life was going to be one hell of an adventure. I had forgotten why I liked it so much but between my dads world travels and this cartoon I thought life would be weirder than Indiana Jones. Don't get me wrong, life has been pretty damn cool, just not traveling the world in a private jet with a world famous scientist cool. And they never made another one like it. After two seasons it was canned for being too expensive to make. Each episode was like a mission impossible/science fiction movie. Oh sure it had corny jokes and one dimensional characters but there has never been another cartoon that comes close to teaching science and technology and mixing it with world travels and myths and lore as this one. There was more to learn is this series than any since for a kid. It even had accurate military insignia on it's soldiers.
On average better than having to kill an asshole and bury him in the woods.
mxleader on 19/8/2023 at 19:40
Quote Posted by Tocky
Anyway you will never guess what I have been watching all week. When I was a kid I had a favorite cartoon. It had rotting ships in Sargasso seas with lasers and frogmen and soundwave rocket downing weapons in the arctic and Pterodactyls in the Amazon and genetically altered kamado dragons guided by sumo wrestlers and mummies in Egyptian plots to rule the middle east and pygmies being defeated by sling shotted boulders and biplane German dogfights in the Andes and underwater submarine bases guarded by voodoo priests with blow guns and grave robbers at Mayan temples and flying saucers carrying mechanical spiders and Condors and doppelgangers and pirate treasure and Indians with magic rope tricks and gold hidden in logs floated downriver in Canada and bathyspheres and hovercraft and jetpacks and bazookas and machine guns on motorcycles and fake volcanoes guarded by lasers and werewolves and fuck it had everything. Everything a boy could want.
It even had cool into music- da daaa... da dut ta dut da da... da dut da dut dadadadadadadada daaaa da! It was Jonny Quest and it was only on for a short time in the mid sixties but I think it gave me a false sense that life was going to be one hell of an adventure. I had forgotten why I liked it so much but between my dads world travels and this cartoon I thought life would be weirder than Indiana Jones. Don't get me wrong, life has been pretty damn cool, just not traveling the world in a private jet with a world famous scientist cool. And they never made another one like it. After two seasons it was canned for being too expensive to make. Each episode was like a mission impossible/science fiction movie. Oh sure it had corny jokes and one dimensional characters but there has never been another cartoon that comes close to teaching science and technology and mixing it with world travels and myths and lore as this one. There was more to learn is this series than any since for a kid. It even had accurate military insignia on it's soldiers.
On average better than having to kill an asshole and bury him in the woods.
That sounds suspiciously like GI Joe or Thundercats. I'm more a Starblazers kind of kid.
mxleader on 19/8/2023 at 19:43
Quote Posted by Tocky
Anyway you will never guess what I have been watching all week. When I was a kid I had a favorite cartoon. It had rotting ships in Sargasso seas with lasers and frogmen and soundwave rocket downing weapons in the arctic and Pterodactyls in the Amazon and genetically altered kamado dragons guided by sumo wrestlers and mummies in Egyptian plots to rule the middle east and pygmies being defeated by sling shotted boulders and biplane German dogfights in the Andes and underwater submarine bases guarded by voodoo priests with blow guns and grave robbers at Mayan temples and flying saucers carrying mechanical spiders and Condors and doppelgangers and pirate treasure and Indians with magic rope tricks and gold hidden in logs floated downriver in Canada and bathyspheres and hovercraft and jetpacks and bazookas and machine guns on motorcycles and fake volcanoes guarded by lasers and werewolves and fuck it had everything. Everything a boy could want.
It even had cool into music- da daaa... da dut ta dut da da... da dut da dut dadadadadadadada daaaa da! It was Jonny Quest and it was only on for a short time in the mid sixties but I think it gave me a false sense that life was going to be one hell of an adventure. I had forgotten why I liked it so much but between my dads world travels and this cartoon I thought life would be weirder than Indiana Jones. Don't get me wrong, life has been pretty damn cool, just not traveling the world in a private jet with a world famous scientist cool. And they never made another one like it. After two seasons it was canned for being too expensive to make. Each episode was like a mission impossible/science fiction movie. Oh sure it had corny jokes and one dimensional characters but there has never been another cartoon that comes close to teaching science and technology and mixing it with world travels and myths and lore as this one. There was more to learn is this series than any since for a kid. It even had accurate military insignia on it's soldiers.
On average better than having to kill an asshole and bury him in the woods.
That sounds suspiciously like GI Joe or Thundercats. I'm more a Starblazers kind of kid.
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Tocky on 19/8/2023 at 23:07
Quote Posted by mxleader
That sounds suspiciously like GI Joe or Thundercats. I'm more a Starblazers kind of kid.
They may have gotten some of their ideas from Quest. I don't see how they couldn't because Quest had everything. I mean, invisible energy monsters and giant crabs and Yeti tossing buhdists from mountain passes and bombarding villages with catapults. There were enough ideas in this show to last the rest of the twentieth century. It's no wonder my generation was primed for Indiana Jones and Terminator.
mxleader on 20/8/2023 at 19:03
I've never watched Quest. Maybe I should check that out.