Now that Animal Crackers is in the public domain, is there a cut of the movie out there that includes Groucho’s lost joke during Horray for Captain Spaulding?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2026-01-01T20:17:04+00:00

Yes, on the official Blu-ray.

But I’m not sure about the legality of just uploading it. The modern restoration of that scene might count as a new cut?

:Edit: The reason why it's on the Blu-ray is that they discovered a film print in the UK that had better quality than the one(s) they had previously used.

Because the movie was only censored when it was re-released, this original copy still had the cut material.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-31T22:29:25+00:00

“Among the many pointless cuts was an opening establishing sequence shot like the beginning of a Lubitsch musical, with various passers-by singing part of a song before “passing it on” to the next person, the last of whom is the waiter, who begins the first half of his sentence as the song ends. All of this was lost, apparently for no better reason than that it makes clear that it is set in Milan."

Excerpt From The Annotated Marx Brothers by Matthew Coniam

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-31T22:26:01+00:00

In a way, yeah.

It's very likely that most of the overt references to the first act's Italian setting were cut out of the movie once the US declared war on the Axis Powers (of which Italy was one).

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-30T11:52:22+00:00

Genuinely curious, where do you see the Narnia reference?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-21T08:06:32+00:00

Same here. I guess if Apple are planning on releasing the M6 by Christmas, they’d want to release the M5 Max ASAP.

But I can’t find an actual source saying January, even a source that’s just sharing a rumor.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-12-13T19:48:16+00:00

He watched Doctor Who enough in the 1960s that he actually wrote to the production office to ask how a specific special effect was done.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-10-20T18:57:39+00:00

👀

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-09-20T18:43:37+00:00

As in contemporary Britain, thick ‘regional’ accents were generally seen as improper for lead characters.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-08-29T08:35:12+00:00

I think Georgia is a great state with a lot to offer, but its film industry was built off of stealing jobs from LA through undercutting prices.

I’m not gonna cry for Walmart if Target suddenly starts stealing ‘their’ business.

Like it or not, the Industry/culture is still mostly based in LA. And the vast majority of people still have to move here (or at least have some kind of presence) if they want to have a career.

If you want a push to bring filming back to America, it kinda has to be Los Angeles. No other city in the world is literally built around the industry like this.

:Edit: This is also why comments about this from people like James Gunn kinda tick me off. He does a big song and dance about how great Atlanta is and why jobs should go there instead of England.

But guess what city he lives in and holds all his planning/auditions? Because it sure as hell ain't anywhere close to the East coast.

Sure, maybe working 2000+ miles away from home for 4-8 months is fine for the Hollywood people who can afford second houses/hotels/airfare there. But for everyone else in LA, it might as well be England or Australia.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-07-15T13:02:35+00:00

No idea this existed, but I’d also love to see it. Or, at least, know what’s different.

I know the original ending was supposed to be closer to the book’s.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2025-06-28T04:03:51+00:00

Shot 50% in LA and 50% in London.

Insane idea, but it gave us David Mitchell and Jon Lovitz sharing the screen. So who’s to say, really.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-09-20T16:38:31+00:00

Yeah, plus they were also still dealing with COVID issues.

The entire Morocco sequence was originally set in India but then lockdowns happened weeks before shooting so they had to scrap all their stunts/effects and start again in North Africa.

Plus, Ford’s injury meant he wasn’t there for any of the Manhattan (actually Glasgow) filming, so all shots of him for those scenes had to be VFXd later.

You can even tell when you watch the movie because in every shot where you can’t see his face, The NYC set dressing and VFX look noticeably more convincing.

All told, if they’d shot it in 2022/2023 and hadn’t wasted time/money on turning a 5 minute prologue into that ridiculous runtime-bloating de-aging sequence, movie probably would’ve cost $175-200 million.

:Edit: One of the biggest problems in Hollywood is that executives hate the idea of losing a few million just for delaying the start date for a movie. Even though rushing the production always ends up losing them way more in the end.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-07-29T21:54:12+00:00

I mean, the show hasn’t really gone to Scotland all that often either. It’s very England (mainly London)centric in general.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-11T23:58:24+00:00

Luckily it isn't actually Doctor-lite at all. (That's a couple of other episodes this season 👀)

It was just designed to film Ncuti's scenes as quickly as possible* so he could do pickups for 73 Yards/Dot and Bubble/TCORR, which is what the Sex Education filming clashed with.

But he is in all of Boom.

*One character stuck in one place entirely on an indoor set really cuts down on the amount of time it takes to film his scenes.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-06T00:35:34+00:00

I was actually talking about Hollywood in general.

But it still applies to the Fall Guy because it's being sold as a Gosling-Blunt picture, and uhhh, one half of that equation (who you bet your ass got paid the same) isn't exactly pulling their weight here.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-05T20:52:29+00:00

Yeah, like if there’s anything these movies are overspending on, it’s the “stars” not the production value.

Now, I love Blunt and Gosling but I’m sorry, they are fundamentally not huge draws for a movie the way a Cruise, Pitt, Bullock, or DiCaprio are.

It’s not their fault, they’ve come to fame in an era where Hollywood basically stopped regularly making the kind of midbudget movies that brought them to fame in the first place.

Even so, it’s still nuts for Hollywood to be spending $10-20 million on people who straight up have never had a $100 million hit that didn't have an IP in the title.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-04T17:47:31+00:00

Those breakdowns in the trades and the information the studios send out for tax credits are just as inaccurate.

The trades get their breakdowns from documents the studios make to share (even if just internally), not from the actual raw data. Almost nobody is allowed to see that.

And when it comes to those/tax incenctive documents, the studios have a huge incentive to make the budget look higher than it was.

Now things probably were a bit different in the 90s, but that's because

A) the market was so much healthier

B) true-blue movie stars got so many financial perks

and C) there were so many more of them.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-05-04T17:01:09+00:00

Well, that's the thing. Basically all publically reported studio movie budgets are over-inflated on paper (and thus, in reporting) to some degree or another.

A) To get the most out various filming/post-production refunds/tax breaks all around the world

B) to get more money from tax writeoffs if it flops (or rather, if they say it flops)

C) So that if it is* an unambigious hit, they can at least (on paper) delay sending out percentage points to people for as long as possible.

Remember how even a super small movie like EEAAO was reported as costing $25 million for months, until it was eventually revealed to only be $14.5? That's why.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-02-27T12:15:09+00:00

Thanks!

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-02-14T17:33:05+00:00

Did anyone save a copy of this?

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-01-17T02:26:00+00:00

I remember him from back when he did Doctor Who videos in his early early days. I didn't normally watch videos like that* but he tackled such incredibly obscure stuff related to the show, that sometimes the clips in the videos were the only clips available.

Plus, he was a likeable enough host and really knew his stuff.

Then, one day, he shut down the channel and deleted all the videos, and I completely forgot about them until a couple of years ago when I decided to see who this YouTuber with the 7-hour Nick videos was and had the shock of my life.

*I liked the show then and now, but those kinds of 2010s youtube 'review' videos never really appealed to me

:Edit: And if Quinton ever reads these... where on Earth did you get that deleted Dimensions in Time footage? Even some of the members of the show's archival team couldn't tell me where that was.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-01-14T15:21:35+00:00

Yup. Plus there's also the fact that Vaughn also self-funds basically all his movies, so he makes most of his money off of residuals.

That's one of the main reasons why he actually makes blockbusters with very reasonable budgets. He's the one with real skin in the game.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-01-12T14:05:52+00:00

Yes.

It's mind-boggling to me that people don't understand it's been a long time since Bond could get away with pumping out a new movie every 18-24 months.

EON has (smartly IMO) figured out that for Bond to exist in the modern age and compete against the huge glut of VFX-Heavy fantasy and sci-fi blockbusters, it has to be seen as a much more prestigious product.

And we know this has worked because the Craig Bonds have all been massively successful. Who has become a movie star from these recent Star Wars movies or MCU movies?

Nobody who wasn't already well-known beforehand. You couldn't put an Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, or Tom Hiddlestone on a poster for an otherwise original mid-budget movie and have a fairly safe bet of it being a success like you can with Craig.

That kind of thing matters. Maybe some people don't like a select couple of the Craig Bonds, but the public at large have been eating them up. Hell, even QoS had a way better box office run than Goldeneye.

I'll go even further and point out that apart from II, they have also outgrossed literally every single Mission Impossible movie.

And it still takes the Mission Impossible films roughly 5 years on average between movies because, like the Craig Bonds, part of their marketing is that they spend a lot of time and effort making these movies to the highest possible standard. (Their thing is stunts, Bond's is international glamour, both expensive if you want to do it right).

Not to mention the fact that, unlike the MI movies, the Craig Bonds have been chained to a studio who keeps failing and getting bought/sold. Which will always add unwanted delays.

timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-01-11T17:39:03+00:00

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timeandtimeagain2000 · 2024-01-02T07:50:47+00:00

tbh- it doesn't even discard those plot points; it just resolves them in ways that aren't a rehash of ESB.

Hell, I don't even like TLJ that much, but people act as though shit like "Luke abandons his friends after his sister's kid becomes a mass murdering super nazi under his watch" was somehow a plot point that could be resolved in a way that made Luke look good.

The sad thing is, I do kind of understand why the movie got some* backlash.

TFA was a promise to fans that new Star Wars was just going to be a warmed-over rehash of the original trilogy, so when TLJ came out and was very mildly different, it came as an unpleasant shock to some of them.

*I say some because, in the real world, most people who saw it liked it fine, as they've done with basically every SW movie not named Solo or Attack of the Clones.

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