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Year: 1969
Director: Robert Butler
Plot: This film is another Disney comedy romp that takes place at the ubiquitous Medfield College. The plot kicks in when an interview, in which Professor Quigley (William Schallert) is denied a much-needed computer by apoplectic college president Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn), is broadcast to a student assembly. In order to help Quigley, the students convince rich college benefactor A.J. Arno (Cesar Romero) to donate a computer to the school instead of his usual 20,000-dollar contribution. Dexter (Kurt Russell), the student leader, attempts to repair the computer, but the machine is struck by lightning and transforms Dexter into a human being with the hard drive of the computer. Since the computer's memory is now in Dexter's brain, he now has information on his human memory chip about Arno's illegal gambling operations. When Dean Higgins puts Dexter on a televised competition for a prize of 100,000 dollars to benefit the college, every time the word "applejack" comes up during the game show, it triggers Dexter to regurgitate a rundown of Arno's illegal activities. In order to stop Dexter from exposing him, Arno kidnaps Dexter and hides him at his country estate. Dressing up as housepainters, Dexter's classmates come to Arno's mansion to rescue him. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:04:31 GMTThe Computer Wore Tennis Shoes1969Robert ButlerThis film is another Disney comedy romp that takes place at the ubiquitous Medfield College. The plot kicks in when an interview, in which Professor Quigley (<a href="/players/P____63545/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>William Schallert</a>) is denied a much-needed computer by apoplectic college president Dean Higgins (<a href="/players/P____24021/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Joe Flynn</a>), is broadcast to a student assembly. In order to help Quigley, the students convince rich college benefactor A.J. Arno (<a href="/players/P____61318/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Cesar Romero</a>) to donate a computer to the school instead of his usual 20,000-dollar contribution. Dexter (<a href="/players/P____62232/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kurt Russell</a>), the student leader, attempts to repair the computer, but the machine is struck by lightning and transforms Dexter into a human being with the hard drive of the computer. Since the computer's memory is now in Dexter's brain, he now has information on his human memory chip about Arno's illegal gambling operations. When Dean Higgins puts Dexter on a televised competition for a prize of 100,000 dollars to benefit the college, every time the word "applejack" comes up during the game show, it triggers Dexter to regurgitate a rundown of Arno's illegal activities. In order to stop Dexter from exposing him, Arno kidnaps Dexter and hides him at his country estate. Dressing up as housepainters, Dexter's classmates come to Arno's mansion to rescue him. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide23Tag Target (>10)1433http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t27009f14oy.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/The_Computer_Wore_Tennis_Shoes/6878/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Coming_Soon/3_13_New_movies_Oscar_nominees_hit_DVD_plus_t/216/40910/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: spout
Post To: Coming Soon
Post Date: 3/9/2009 3:04:31 PM
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Check it out! 3. Happy-Go-Lucky -- Watch trailer. It's considered one of the biggest snubs of the Oscars that charming star Sally Hawkins wasn't nominated for Best Actress. 4. Rachel Getting Married -- Watch trailer. FilmCouch's Kevin Buist says Anne Hathaway is great in an otherwise grating, tiring, "annoying" movie about...you guessed it: family conflicts. Huh, I guess content equals form after all. Blockbusters (and wannabes) 5. Role Models -- Watch trailer. Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott are funny together, but the film coasts way too long during the scenes of LARPing (live action role playing). 6. Transporter 3 -- Watch trailer. I haven't seen any of these yet, would you guys recommend them? I do always like Jason Statham, even when he's in bad movies. 7. Max Payne -- Watch trailer. Mark Wahlberg. Video game movie. Much stylized violence. 8. Repo! The Genetic Opera -- Watch trailer. Interesting-sounding shocker set in a future where a mysterious epidemic of organ failures turns healthy organs into a precious commodity. When organ buyers fail to make good on their payment plans, their organs must be re-possessed... 9. Saw V and Saw Goreology: Movies 1 - 5 -- Watch trailer to Saw V. It's a Saw movie, you know the drill. Hey, was that a pun? Lil' nuggets 10. Let the Right One In -- Watch trailer. Best vampire movie ever? Looks like it to me. 11. Synechdoche, New York -- Watch trailer. The Charlie Kaufman-penned film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've heard the film is intellectually demanding, but I've never felt like I've wasted my time watching something written by Kaufman. 12. Battle in Seattle -- Watch trailer. This feature recounts the events of the 1999 World Trade Organization and the ensuing riots. 13. Rocker -- Watch trailer. The Office's Rainn Wilson stars as a one-time promising rocker who now, 20 years later, gets a second chance. 14. Cadillac Records -- Watch trailer. The word: good actors, good music, so-so film.
]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:04:31 GMTspoutComing Soon3/9/2009 3:04:31 PMHITTING THEATERS 3/13 Disney's latest leading man: Dwayne Johnson in Race to Witch Mountain Race to Witch Mountain -- Watch trailer. This has Brendan Fraser's name written all over it, but it's starring Fraser's remake, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Of course, Brendan Fraser is a remake of Kurt Russell, and I bet that if the original Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) had starred a young, sexy hero (not the older Eddie Albert), it would've been Disney favorite Kurt Rusell (remember The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and The Strongest Man in the World?). PS - I'm mostly joking; I like Dwayne Johnson. Standing on the shoulders of Swedes: The Last House on the Left The Last House on the Left -- Watch trailer. Produced by Wes Craven, this is a remake of the Craven-directed The Last House on the Left (1972), which was kind of like Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (1971), which is loosely based on a novel (The Siege of Trencher's Farm) but reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1959), which was inspired by the Swedish ballad "Torres dotter i Wange," which is purportedly based on true events... The Whitest Boys U'Know: Miss March Miss March -- Watch trailer. A young guy wakes from a 4-year coma to find that his high school sweetheart gave up waiting for him to become a pin-up for Playboy. Needless to say, the guy sets out for the Playboy mansion to reclaim his old girlfriend; also needless to say, he's joined by a sex-crazed friend. LIMITED RELEASE Dirty movie: Sunshine Cleaning Sunshine Cleaning -- Watch trailer. Amy Adams plays a short-on-cash mother who's determined to send her son to a quality private school. Adams reluctantly enlists the help of her sister (Emily Blunt) to start a cleaning service that specializes in crime scene clean-up and bio-hazard removal. Is it just me, or do you pick up on an indie cash-cow vibe? I mean, could it really only be a coincidence that it's called "Sunshine" Cleaning when it's being billed as the next movie from the producers of Little Miss "Sunshine"? But ultimately, any pandering to the audience may not matter if Sunshine Cleaning is actually good. And with actors like Blunt and Adams, Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn, I've got high hopes. They ain't heavy, they's my brothers: Brothers at War Brothers at War -- Watch trailer. Documentary filmmaker Jake Rademacher's two brothers are soldiers. Jake spent three and a half years on this film, staying with four army units over two trips to Iraq, exploring his brothers' service and motivation. This very personal film appears to reveal a lot that's universal, as Rademacher seeks to understand what the soldiers in Iraq continue to experience. Dennis Quaid takes the bait: The Horsemen The Horsemen -- Watch trailer. Dennis Quaid, widowed detective, finds chilling connections between himself and the victims of a serial killer who's obsessed with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. To me, this still sounds like Se7en, Part Two. I guess whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your point of view. ________________________________________ NEW TO DVD 3/10 -- Oscar films hit the shelves Oscar alumni 1. Milk -- Watch trailer. The one Best Picture nominee that probably could've taken the laurel leaves from Slumdog Millionaire. I haven't seen it yet--I was too busy watching The Wrestler three times. 2. Der Baader Meinhof Complex -- Watch trailer. This Oscar-nominated foreign film looks really good, even considering I don't know what's happening in that intense trailer! Check it out! 3. Happy-Go-Lucky -- Watch trailer. It's considered one of the biggest snubs of the Oscars that charming star Sally Hawkins wasn't nominated for Best Actress. 4. Rachel Getting Married -- Watch trailer. FilmCouch's Kevin Buist says Anne Hathaway is great in an otherwise grating, tiring, "annoying" movie about...you guessed it: family conflicts. Huh, I guess content equals form after all. Blockbusters (and wannabes) 5. Role Models -- Watch trailer. Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott are funny together, but the film coasts way too long during the scenes of LARPing (live action role playing). 6. Transporter 3 -- Watch trailer. I haven't seen any of these yet, would you guys recommend them? I do always like Jason Statham, even when he's in bad movies. 7. Max Payne -- Watch trailer. Mark Wahlberg. Video game movie. Much stylized violence. 8. Repo! The Genetic Opera -- Watch trailer. Interesting-sounding shocker set in a future where a mysterious epidemic of organ failures turns healthy organs into a precious commodity. When organ buyers fail to make good on their payment plans, their organs must be re-possessed... 9. Saw V and Saw Goreology: Movies 1 - 5 -- Watch trailer to Saw V. It's a Saw movie, you know the drill. Hey, was that a pun? Lil' nuggets 10. Let the Right One In -- Watch trailer. Best vampire movie ever? Looks like it to me. 11. Synechdoche, New York -- Watch trailer. The Charlie Kaufman-penned film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've heard the film is intellectually demanding, but I've never felt like I've wasted my time watching something written by Kaufman. 12. Battle in Seattle -- Watch trailer. This feature recounts the events of the 1999 World Trade Organization and the ensuing riots. 13. Rocker -- Watch trailer. The Office's Rainn Wilson stars as a one-time promising rocker who now, 20 years later, gets a second chance. 14. Cadillac Records -- Watch trailer. The word: good actors, good music, so-so film. http://www.spout.com/groups/sci_fi/Re_fun_sci_fi/4/34192/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: SkyPilot
Post To: sci-fi
Post Date: 8/20/2008 4:00:18 PM
Body: [quote user="bishop"]shaggy dog? wtf? i should ban you from sci-fi for even mentioning that movie. you just lost 4 sci-fi points.[/quote] I'd love to see the points scale, because I'm about to go down a bunch: The Absent-Minded Professor and the remake Flubber The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and the remake The Nutty Professor and Eddie Murphy's remake (which reminds me of the recent Meet Dave) The Love Bug and all the sequels, remakes starring Herbie The Strongest Man in the World (what, no remake?) This got me thinking about bishop's original question: "why is it that so many sci-fi movies are either creepy, dramatic or dark? whatever happened to just plain fun sci-fi?" Good question. But let's be honest here, none of the movies mentioned here mentioned here are gleaming examples of great filmmaking, right? Maybe Time Bandits is a counter-example; I'm not sure because I only know this film by reputation. Don't get me wrong, some of these movies are a ton of fun (especially Ghostbusters), and some are considered classics in their own way (the original Nutty Professor and Spaceballs) but I find most of these movies to be inconsistent and draggy. Largely lacking in distinguishing style, too -- a scene in the middle of say, Flubber, could be taken from any zany comedy. I feel differently watching any scene from Blade Runner or Alien. The aesthetics of those movies are so distinctive. Turning to any scene at random is like meeting a kid and instantly figuring out who his parents are.
]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:18 GMTSkyPilotsci-fi8/20/2008 4:00:18 PM [quote user="bishop"]shaggy dog? wtf? i should ban you from sci-fi for even mentioning that movie. you just lost 4 sci-fi points.[/quote] I'd love to see the points scale, because I'm about to go down a bunch: The Absent-Minded Professor and the remake Flubber The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and the remake The Nutty Professor and Eddie Murphy's remake (which reminds me of the recent Meet Dave) The Love Bug and all the sequels, remakes starring Herbie The Strongest Man in the World (what, no remake?) This got me thinking about bishop's original question: "why is it that so many sci-fi movies are either creepy, dramatic or dark? whatever happened to just plain fun sci-fi?" Good question. But let's be honest here, none of the movies mentioned here mentioned here are gleaming examples of great filmmaking, right? Maybe Time Bandits is a counter-example; I'm not sure because I only know this film by reputation. Don't get me wrong, some of these movies are a ton of fun (especially Ghostbusters), and some are considered classics in their own way (the original Nutty Professor and Spaceballs) but I find most of these movies to be inconsistent and draggy. Largely lacking in distinguishing style, too -- a scene in the middle of say, Flubber, could be taken from any zany comedy. I feel differently watching any scene from Blade Runner or Alien. The aesthetics of those movies are so distinctive. Turning to any scene at random is like meeting a kid and instantly figuring out who his parents are. http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/Re_Pick_a_Pair/598/32022/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: unclefestering
Post To: Movie Games
Post Date: 7/2/2008 11:52:50 AM
Body: [quote user="SkyPilot"] [quote user="nickbianco13"] Say Anything... (1989) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) My girlfriend wrote a paper on GPB being the the future Loyd Dobbler who later became a hitman it should have been a sequel and they should be seen together. In my opinion. [/quote] Wow, that's really funny and interesting! This would be an interesting game. Black Snake Moan might be Jules from Pulp Fiction fifteen years later. [/quote] I once tried to trace history of Kurt Russell through his movie characters. I was trying to figure out what turned The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes into Snake Plissken. Maybe it was selling Used Cars?
]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:52:50 GMTunclefesteringMovie Games7/2/2008 11:52:50 AM[quote user="SkyPilot"] [quote user="nickbianco13"] Say Anything... (1989) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) My girlfriend wrote a paper on GPB being the the future Loyd Dobbler who later became a hitman it should have been a sequel and they should be seen together. In my opinion. [/quote] Wow, that's really funny and interesting! This would be an interesting game. Black Snake Moan might be Jules from Pulp Fiction fifteen years later. [/quote] I once tried to trace history of Kurt Russell through his movie characters. I was trying to figure out what turned The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes into Snake Plissken. Maybe it was selling Used Cars? http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/family/MemberTagFilms.aspxfamily
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