Professor Fate's "Hannibal 8"

[3eighty]

Great model from a great movie..That is what caused me to fall in love with NW...

[David_H]

Ironically . . .when the movie debuted in 1965, the producers were hoping to capitalize on Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis' chemstry from "Some Like it Hot" a few years earlier. Unfortunately, the movie went way over budget and flopped at the box office. HOWEVER, it has become a major hit over the years from airings on TV. the irony of that was that the movie was so long (3.25 hours) they had to split it over 2 nights--and people would still tune in. (This is long before the era of VCR's etc). I raised my kids on this movie and even though they were born 20-25 years later, this is still a favorite, and I hope they raise their future kids with it as well.

It's a classic. God rest Jack and Tony . . .AND I miss Natalie every time I watch it. . .(Christopher Walken did it!) (jus' kiddin')

[hellnbak]

Ironically . . .when the movie debuted in 1965, the producers were hoping to capitalize on Jack Lemmon's and Tony Curtis' chemstry from "Some Like it Hot" a few years earlier. Unfortunately, the movie went way over budget and flopped at the box office. HOWEVER, it has become a major hit over the years from airings on TV. the irony of that was that the movie was so long (3.25 hours) they had to split it over 2 nights--and people would still tune in. (This is long before the era of VCR's etc). I raised my kids on this movie and even though they were born 20-25 years later, this is still a favorite, and I hope they raise their future kids with it as well.

It's a classic. God rest Jack and Tony . . .AND I miss Natalie every time I watch it. . .(Christopher Walken did it!) (jus' kiddin')

Yeah, it's a great movie. If they remade it nowadays, they'd have all sorts of CGI effects, probably blood and guts everywhere. I like the movies where all of the special effects were real, someone had to figure out how to physically create them and make them believable, instead of pushing a few buttons on a computer. I enjoy studying the old classics and trying to figure out just how they achieved some of those amazing effects. I'm a huge fan of the great Ray Harryhausen. He painstakingly created stop-motion effects for some of the greatest films ever made, not the least of which was the original King Kong. The stuff they grind out today just doesn't impress me, it's just too easy to create almost anything they can imagine.

BTW, I've been reading about them re-opening the investigation into Natalie Wood's death. Hope they finally do figure out what really happened, I've never believed it was just an accident. I know who I've always thought was involved, but won't name him here (his initials are RW).

[David_H]

I loved Ray Harryhausen movies as a kid. . .(The Sinbad movies . .. Jason and the Argonauts was my favorite)

If you watch Monsters Inc--the fancy restaurant where Mike W. takes his Monster Girlfriend is called Harryhausens's. Bit of tribute there.

aside: They did open for a few weeks the NW case and were looking at RW but I think they quickly closed it again. nothing new to learn. . .too much time gone by. . .I dunno. It kinda fell out of the news a few days later. I guess I could google it but I'd rather go on in my delusions about CW.

BTW . . .does it seem odd to anybody else that everybody connected to this case. . .last name ends in W? Coincidence????? I think not!

[hellnbak]

Well, it's been fun, but I'm leaving SU. Thanks to everybody for all the help and advice and encouragement, I'm outa here. Keep on sketching!

[David_H]

Say it ain't So JOE!

Although I noticed in an earlier post you needed to "take care of some things". Well good luck to you and your "things". I hope we will see you around here soon. We will sure miss your awesome skills and Creativity around these parts.

David

[gilles]

+1

[jason_maranto]

I'm not always your favorite person, but I really think you bring some great stuff to these forums... I hope you make it back someday.

Best,
Jason.

[andybot]

Sorry to hear it.
Wish you the best with what you need to take care of. Hope you do find your way back eventually.

[mwm5053]

Same goes here to the all above, Wish you well.