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Youtube and Google Videos / THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK
« Last post by falsealarms on May 24, 2024, 11:18:18 PM »Curly G dropped this rare gem on YouTube Friday night. It has apparently been remastered and restored.
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The Three Stooges - Shemp Years / Re: Cuckoo On a Choo Choo (1952)
« Last post by PeteHale on May 24, 2024, 07:05:45 PM »Funnily enough, your reasons for avoiding alcohol are very similar to mine. In fact they mirror my thoughts perfectly. I can not stand the taste of most alcoholic drinks (champagne is the worst) and the stupidity that many people tend to display when drunk is another major turnoff. Not to mention that it infuriates me when that stupidity puts other people in danger.Never drank, never will.
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Stooges DVD/VHS/Home Video / Re: Three Stooges shorts coming to Blu-ray this summer
« Last post by Tony Bensley on May 24, 2024, 03:40:27 PM »I'm happy with my DVD set. Blu-ray can only do so much.
The Marx Brothers films, especially THE COCOANUTS, were in much worse shape than after they got restored on blu ray. The Stooge films, comparatively to Paramount Marx or the Hal Roach catalogue, have been cared for pretty well. I don’t doubt the Stooge films look better in HD. I just don’t think it’s as necessary as some other films.When I viewed all 190 Three Stooges shorts several years back, among those 190 shorts, I recall ONE short from 1945 in which the end logo was in relatively poor shape. Apart from that and of course, the infamous cropped Widescreen transfer of GOOF ON THE ROOF (1952), and also the two 3-D Anaglyph versions of the shorts SPOOKS! (1953) and PARDON MY BACKFIRE (1953), they all look rather good on DVD! At this point, I'm just thankful to be above VHS quality, which did look really shabby by comparison!
CHEERS!
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Stooges DVD/VHS/Home Video / Re: Three Stooges shorts coming to Blu-ray this summer
« Last post by Larrys#1 on May 23, 2024, 10:34:58 PM »Call me crazy. but I felt Monkey Business, Horse Feathers and Duck Soup all looked rather soft on Blu-ray. Ironically, The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers look the best of the bunch since they both looked like real 4K scans. The last three movies, on the other hand, don't have that nice fine look. I do feel it was limited to the source and not due to the way it was transferred. I know there was a recently found unedited print of Animal Crackers, which is why this one looked the best. Albeit some bad footages, The Cocoanuts did have the same nice fine look and the scenes that were badly beaten up have undergone an incredible restoration job. Though I don't know why the last three movies don't have the same fine look as the first two. Maybe they couldn't get better sources?
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The Three Stooges - Curly Years / Re: Violent is the Word for Curly (1938)
« Last post by J_Kasumi on May 23, 2024, 01:53:51 PM »If putrid means wonderful, then, yes.
So, in Stooge terms, you’re saying it’s putrid?
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The Three Stooges - Shemp Years / Re: Cuckoo On a Choo Choo (1952)
« Last post by metaldams on May 23, 2024, 01:03:39 PM »I have a few alcoholics in my family and what’s even worse is they’re too prideful to even admit it. I have a few glasses of red wine a month and that’s it.
Alcoholism in real life is obviously not funny, but I can find humor in almost anything in comedy. Shedding light on the dark side of life can be catharsis for me.
I have a W.C. Fields avatar for Pete’s sake. I find the drunk humor in this short to be just fine. The mileage of others may vary and I’m cool with that.
Alcoholism in real life is obviously not funny, but I can find humor in almost anything in comedy. Shedding light on the dark side of life can be catharsis for me.
I have a W.C. Fields avatar for Pete’s sake. I find the drunk humor in this short to be just fine. The mileage of others may vary and I’m cool with that.
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Stooges DVD/VHS/Home Video / Re: Three Stooges shorts coming to Blu-ray this summer
« Last post by Dr. Mabuse on May 23, 2024, 11:58:06 AM »When comparing the DVD releases of Marx Bros movies like Duck Soup vs. their Blu-Ray releases, I’ve realized that Blu-Ray CAN do so much!
No complaints about the Blu-ray upgrades of the first four Marx Brothers films (especially "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers"), but my DVD of "Duck Soup" looked and sounded better. In fact, there were audio-distortion issues at the beginning of "Just Wait Till I Get Through It" that need to be fixed in future Blu-ray releases.
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General Discussion / Re: Crappiest Cartoon Studio
« Last post by metaldams on May 23, 2024, 11:44:36 AM »This thread has been brought back up, causing me to read an almost twenty year old comment about me in the campus dining hall. Holy shiitake mushrooms, the Internet is a strange thing. I’m reading this now as a guy slightly closer to fifty than forty.
Interestingly, my comment from twenty years ago about cartoons is still accurate. No change.![[pie]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/throwingapie.gif "Throw Pie")
Interestingly, my comment from twenty years ago about cartoons is still accurate. No change.
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The Three Stooges - Shemp Years / Re: Cuckoo On a Choo Choo (1952)
« Last post by Count Jerome “Curley” von Gehrol on May 23, 2024, 10:42:46 AM »The worst thing that a Three Stooges short can be is not entertaining — or even worse, boring — and that pretty much sums up Cuckoo on a Choo Choo for me.
Like Daddy Dewdrop said, any time the boys are split up/don’t work as a semi-cohesive unit, the short usually suffers — and boy, does it suffer! (Although not as much as the audience does…)
And also like Daddy Dewdrop, I’ve never found the “comedy drunk” character funny whenever one shows up. I had a couple of alcoholic relatives when I was quite young, but they were distant enough that they didn’t have much direct impact on my life (aside from my mother’s rigid disapproval of them). For whatever reason, I’ve always been a natural-born teetotaler (probably from seeing people my age act like complete asses when they were drunk, plus I can’t stand the taste of most alcoholic drinks), so I’ve never seen the appeal of drinking. (But that being said, the older I get, the more I understand why so many people DO drink…)
Anyway — sermon over! Like I said, I’ve never found the “comedy drunk” a funny character (a lot of them crop up in Bewitched, a sitcom practically swimming in hard liquor), so for as good as Shemp is at portraying one, his performance leaves me cold. And don’t get me started on Larry’s take on Marlon Brando — I feel bad for his fellow retirees at the Motion Picture Country House who were constantly subjected to it in the facility’s movie room at Larry’s request!
Even though this short is at the bottom of my “Shemp List”, I still rank it higher than the four Fake Shemp shorts…
For duty and humanity,
JohnH aka QuinceHead
Funnily enough, your reasons for avoiding alcohol are very similar to mine. In fact they mirror my thoughts perfectly. I can not stand the taste of most alcoholic drinks (champagne is the worst) and the stupidity that many people tend to display when drunk is another major turnoff. Not to mention that it infuriates me when that stupidity puts other people in danger.
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Stooges DVD/VHS/Home Video / Re: Three Stooges shorts coming to Blu-ray this summer
« Last post by metaldams on May 23, 2024, 08:57:13 AM »When comparing the DVD releases of Marx Bros movies like Duck Soup vs. their Blu-Ray releases, I’ve realized that Blu-Ray CAN do so much!
For duty and humanity,
JohnH aka QuinceHead
The Marx Brothers films, especially THE COCOANUTS, were in much worse shape than after they got restored on blu ray. The Stooge films, comparatively to Paramount Marx or the Hal Roach catalogue, have been cared for pretty well. I don’t doubt the Stooge films look better in HD. I just don’t think it’s as necessary as some other films.