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One of my favourites - The Hard Way starring James Woods & Michael J Fox
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a strange one from the early 70s with peter o toole and susannah york as a rather too close brother and sister. |
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The Wizard is still one of my favourite movies. Think it was only ever released on DVD in the US. I did manage to obtain a digital download of this movie.
Im glad im not the only one who remembers the movie Josh and Sam. Remember seeing it on tv years ago. Also managed to obtain a digital download of this movie. Had it posted on YouTube for a while until the took it down. I have it on dvd but have to play it on my laptop because it is region 1. |
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The Super Mario movie never shown on tv.
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This thread typifies everything that's bad about DS...a long boring pointless list,MOST films are rarely on because the subscribers have most of the backlog.
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Bit cheesy, Bootle. But such a great movie. I have on VHS not sure if it ever got released, on DVD properly. Know you could get it on copies only for a long time. |
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Black Christmas (1974 version) is on dvd but only seen it once on tv
The Squeeze - film starring Stacy Keach and David Hemmings. I have seen it on tv one sat night back in the eighties and never been released on region 2. Strangely though a region 1 is available Unman Wittering and Zygo - great british thriller again with Hemmings that I am still waiting to see officially released. |
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This thread typifies everything that's bad about DS...a long boring pointless list,MOST films are rarely on because the subscribers have most of the backlog.
Perhaps you could mention this in your next contribution to the 'Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)' thread.
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The Super Mario movie never shown on tv.
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Tender Mercies with an Oscar winning performance from Robert Duvall. I've never seen the film - and I haven't seen it on the TV schedules(terrestrial or otherwise).
A few others :- Sling Blade - won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Billy Bob Thornton. I don't know if it's ever been on terrestrial TV or otherwise. The Apostle - with Robert Duvall again. I think I remember watching this sometime in the early 2000s on Sky Movies. Blue Sky - with an Oscar winning performance from Jessica Lange. I do think I watched a few years ago on TCM. Seems rarely screened. The Volunteers - with John Candy and Tom Hanks. I saw this late night on ITV back in the 1990s. |
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Don't forget the obligatory bitter, supercilious interjection. No thread would be complete without it.
Perhaps you could mention this in your next contribution to the 'Trivial things that annoy you intensely. (Part 3)' thread. ![]() Haven't seen these on tv for a long time (I'm not counting the Sky Movie channels). Original Assault On Precinct 13 Terminator Halloween Poltergeist |
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Tender Mercies with an Oscar winning performance from Robert Duvall. I've never seen the film - and I haven't seen it on the TV schedules(terrestrial or otherwise).
A few others :- Sling Blade - won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Billy Bob Thornton. I don't know if it's ever been on terrestrial TV or otherwise. The Apostle - with Robert Duvall again. I think I remember watching this sometime in the early 2000s on Sky Movies. Slingblade was on Channel 4 some years ago. The Apostle was on either BBC or Channel 4 (don't remember which) as well. |
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Tender Mercies has been on Sony Movies I think recently.
Slingblade was on Channel 4 some years ago. The Apostle was on either BBC or Channel 4 (don't remember which) as well. |
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The original was unavailable for home viewing till about 10 years ago which may account for lack of screenings over the years. I think it's been on a couple of times since then (late night BBC1?) but not often.
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Snort! Too funny.
Haven't seen these on tv for a long time (I'm not counting the Sky Movie channels). Original Assault On Precinct 13 Terminator Halloween Poltergeist Terminator does pop on BBC 2 ever now and again(I re-watched it a few years ago on there). Halloween was shown on BBC 2 a few years ago - on successive nights which included the sequels. Poltergeist was shown only a few years ago on BBC 1 late at night. Here's one that probably hasn't been shown on TV in awhile - George Lucas' masterpiece - Howard The Duck! The last time I saw that was around Xmas time 1994(I think) late night on BBC 1. That film is terrible. ![]() On a George Lucas related note - I know that American Graffiti gets shown on TV nowadays(it was on ITV 1 and now Film 4 has the rights to it) - but what about the sequel More American Graffiti. I have never seen that on the TV schedules. |
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must be a lot of independent low budget movies that havent been shown.
Cohen and Tate is a good little movie, sort of cohen brothers type thriller. |
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I can't remember seeing the John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday starring Robert Shaw on TV. Maybe it's because of the subject matter - a terrorist attack on the Superbowl.
In a similar vein, Two Minute Warning is another one that seems to have vanished. |
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I can't remember seeing the John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday starring Robert Shaw on TV.
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Do the Right Thing. Only ever seen it once when it was on TV and that was yonks ago.
First class work from Spike Lee & definitely in my Top 20 if not top 10 films of all time.Also Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources. |
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I can't remember seeing the John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday starring Robert Shaw on TV. Maybe it's because of the subject matter - a terrorist attack on the Superbowl.
In a similar vein, Two Minute Warning is another one that seems to have vanished. Two Minute Warning seems to be those 70's disaster films that never get shown no more like Juggernaut,Rollercoaster and The Big Bus |
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Malcolm (1986) - Aussie Comedy
Any 'Children's Film Foundation' one. Ghoulies Mac & Me |
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Any 'Children's Film Foundation' one.
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I guess a lot of this is because the whole landscape of TV has changed dramatically since the 70's and 80's where we had only 4 channels, so if a film was not shown on TV, it was not shown on TV.
But now the question is what is TV...satellite, cable, freeview, internet channels, download etc. I don't think you can limit it anymore to the few remaining terrestial channels, you have to consider all forms of TV. THerefore, most films are shown somewhere. I can think of very few films that are NEVER shown. And even in these rare cases they are available somewhere on some format. |
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Tender Mercies with an Oscar winning performance from Robert Duvall. I've never seen the film - and I haven't seen it on the TV schedules(terrestrial or otherwise).
A few others :- Sling Blade - won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Billy Bob Thornton. I don't know if it's ever been on terrestrial TV or otherwise. The Apostle - with Robert Duvall again. I think I remember watching this sometime in the early 2000s on Sky Movies. Blue Sky - with an Oscar winning performance from Jessica Lange. I do think I watched a few years ago on TCM. Seems rarely screened. The Volunteers - with John Candy and Tom Hanks. I saw this late night on ITV back in the 1990s. |
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The last time I saw that was around Xmas time 1994(I think) late night on BBC 1. That film is terrible.
First class work from Spike Lee & definitely in my Top 20 if not top 10 films of all time.