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[Randall]

This was just put up, not that I think that we have any 2001 fans here...

[Ben]

Yep, a very big one right here!

Fun fact: my wife's Dad Jim was one of the team that built the centrifuge (and the Millennium Falcon, but that’s a different film!), and he was always picked personally by Stanley for his films, as well as doing private work for him at his home not far from these here parts. Jim's veg patch also used the suspended animation fibreglass pods!

For a long while we also owned one of the Dawn Of Man ape costumes (the female, which had pouches in the breasts to fill with milk for the real chimp to take). I actually wore it on TV for a charity event in 1989, and we went out into areas much used by Hammer Films to take some "authentic" fun pics before we sold it at auction (which made a good dent towards our home cinema kit).

I do lament selling it off, as it would have made an awesome lobby piece as you make your way down into the basement, but it was starting to disintegrate and would have had to have been restored and maintained, which the buyer would undoubtedly done. Looks a cool doc…will watch when we can, thanks for posting!

[ShyViolet]

Thought I’d post this for the heck of it. So sweet and sad! “You are Lisa Simpson.”

https://youtu.be/1igmzkmTv6U?si=qRJp9YyrD2qKq5tR

I really hope that if they make another Simpsons film to finally tie up all the plots and put to the series to bed with dignity, they’ll have Classic-type scenes like this.


OK, Marge’s goodbye to Homer was certainly heart-tugging, but overall the movie (which I still enjoy despite having seen it many times) had a kind of disposable popcorn-bubblegum-soda pop feel to it.
Now that time has passed, it stands out even more unfortunately. .
(Especially with some of the dated 2007 references.)

[Dacey]

Pretty amazing Richard Williams commercial from the UK:

[Ben]

Love Williams' London promo work from around this time! So much good stuff!

[Dacey]

Someone is making a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan film in stop-motion, and I’m not kidding, I actually thought this was some obscure animated film from 1994 that I had somehow never heard of. It feels that authentic!

[ShyViolet]

Two different versions of the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck intro to the Batman 89 VHS. (Notice the second version is a toll free 800 number while the original had a 900 number, $1.50 a minute just to order a catalog. Lol. )

https://youtu.be/P9dCpoBbj8k?feature=shared

[Randall]

Wow, never seen that. I had the initial issue of Batman on VHS, though it was the Canadian version of course. I think the Batman & Alfred Coke ad was on it.

[Ben]

A US thing, natch, as we never got these in the UK. The Batman variant didn’t make it here either, but they’re nicely done; I liked the "don't forget to call, folks!" way of signing off.



Which reminded me of this…which only really works in print:

Batman gets back from a hard day's crime-fighting to find Alfred waiting for him. "It's been a very long day, Alfred, please fill up the bathtub". Alfred stands for a moment, bemused. "Master Bruce", he asks, "what's a htub?"

[Randall]

That's pretty good.

[Dacey]

So I found this sketch from Hell...

[Ben]

Lenny was/is a comedy god here. Nick Park was flattered to have had his characters spoofed at the time, even if it doesn’t translate that well to you yanks and is now a bit creepy! To be fair, it was back then too, but Aardman were thrilled to have "made it" not the Brit TV establishment!

[ShyViolet]

Kinda neat fake trailer for Forrest Gump 2.

(But where the heck is Lt. Dan?? And why didn’t they incorporate more of Silvestri’s beautiful score?)

https://youtu.be/C0egFwK4hYs?si=gkdAPcP-ouVcHor5

[Ben]

"Kinda neat" is right…but thank goodness it’s not real and will never happen.

[ShyViolet]

Genius editing!

https://youtu.be/W85oD8FEF78?si=UG3-hvQCyXmv84mB