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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is what happens when I talk about a #jamesbond novel. My analysis of Fleming's ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, the film, the comic strip, the radio drama, the book editions and cover artworks. youtu.be/xOmwh027lWg

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) by Ian Fleming Book Analysis and Overview

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When the @arrowvideo.bsky.social release of TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA arrives and you find to your absolute shock that your name comes up between Wang Chung and Friedkin himself. *Faints* This is the first release since 1992 to have proper sounding original audio.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I’ve been looking forward to this release for ages. I can say at least the audio will be a dramatic night and day improvement over the defective Kino release.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One #jamesbond nerd talks about Thunderball for over two hours. I cover the entire saga, the court case, the novel, the films, the comic, the radio drama and the book editions. youtu.be/K6UbQTTu8G0?...

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Thunderball (1961) by Ian Fleming: Analysis and Overview

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

My yearly musings on the @tcmtv.bsky.social Classic Film Festival programming and potential physical media releases. youtu.be/EmDbgd1RA84?...

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2026 TCM Classic Film Festival Highlights

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I’ll never be as cool as Redford on a moped in NYC not caring that he’s late to work but it’s the thought that counts. crankshaftjournal.com/wp-content/u...

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

When the world is screwy and you actively despise your job to the point that you’re driving through downtown in broad daylight with your windows rolled down blaring the main theme of 3 Days of the Condor while parking…all week. youtu.be/3Gwuo6Fto1U?...

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3 days of the Condor FULL OST

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I enjoyed discussing the James Bond 4K UHDs released so far and their various quirks on #BondAndBanter.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Thanks to @arrowvideo.bsky.social @flicker-alley.bsky.social Eureka and others for some of the finest physical media releases of all time last year. There’s a reason why they swept my nerdy disc awards. youtu.be/kbE33341qX0?...

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2025 Best Discs of the Year Awards

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Yikes. This is giving me flashbacks of all the bad film professors who didn’t care that they ran things in the wrong ratio or with anamorphic distortion…. not to mention modern theaters who don’t care and just run DCPs on the same normal settings.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I spent Valentine’s with Nick and Nora. If you haven’t read Hammett’s novel it’s FAR grittier and more convoluted than the film we adore.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The level of noise reduction and processing is appalling not to mention the pitch issues that continue to plague modern releases…and the Kino releases drop original audio on some films to boot. These films did not need both 5.1 and Stereo remixes especially since MGM cannot get the mono mixes right

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

When you decide to study the audio preservation of the Pink Panther series and find it’s a rabbit hole of variations and problems including: Fake stereo, 5.1 remixes, stereo remixes, noise reduction, pitch problems, overprocessing, missing elements and some releases with no original audio at all.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Reading the biographies that detail this period makes it even more depressing. And to top that off, the only way you can see a decent transfer of his last film is getting an import bootleg Spanish DVD of an ancient unreleased master that also has PAL speed up.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

As usual, I don’t agree with some selections made for the NFR. Still this is the highest honor any film can receive. I find it deeply ironic that one of most deservedly won Best Sound Oscar films is on the same list with one of the worst ever mixes-which also got a Sound Oscar for some inane reason.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I still wish he had gotten to make Schindler’s List. Or anything for that matter. I consider his not being able to make anything from 1981 onward is the single greatest creative sin Hollywood ever committed. Absolutely insane to think that he went his office everyday trying to make anything.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I review several media tie-ins to the 1990 Dick Tracy film in addition to the barebones Blu-ray release. One rewatch, many interviews, videos, articles, three script drafts, five books, two Beatty biographies (the man is an enigma) and more was consumed in making these. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Dick Tracy - YouTube

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I guess I’m just leery until more details surface.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I’m terrified for the film preservation initiative that the @WarnerArchive has been leading with a slate of titles restored from the catalog each month. This program should be industry standard. All of that is on the chopping block. So is MPI and virtually every division.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

''Hollywood's like Egypt: full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.'' - David O. Selznick Somewhere Jack Warner is screaming bloody murder. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery's studios, streaming unit for $72 billion

Netflix on Friday agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery's TV, film studios and streaming division for $72 billion, a deal that would hand control of one of Hollywood's most prized and oldest assets to t...

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If it really happens it will not only be a day long remembered but fans will spontaneously burst out into Yub Nub outside theaters.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

That’s deplorable. I have my issues with the forum but that right there is something else entirely. I’m glad I hardly post there anymore.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

As a Hitchcock nerd who admires the entire filmography I try not to, but I can’t help it sometimes. As long as people don’t write off the less discussed films and only know the most famous ones I’m ok.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The scans themselves are great. Unfortunately they’ve been handled less than admirably with some suffering frozen grain. But even with that they’re a gazillion miles ahead of the horrible old Lowry masters. This is a mixed bag to say the least.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Here’s one of the most screwed up remix moments I’ve ever encountered. It’s unmistakable. They cut THE INTRODUCTION LINE!

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The start of Bond’s line is now some sort of squeak or bird noise instead of words:

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Some of the errors, deletions and sloppy work I’ve found so far in the terribly defective Atmos remixes of the Connery era #jamesbond 4K UHDs. These have hideous noise reduction levels, music replacements and crazy deletions. Do not ever listen to these botched things!!

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I had a lovely talk with Devan about the Dollars trilogy restorations @arrowvideo.bsky.social painstakingly carried out.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This must be an all timer Rick McCallum quote up there with “it’s so dense”. He says the “fun” of AOTC is similar to the “beauty” that occurs just before a car crash. From the oral history book Secrets of the Force.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

There is a 100% chance the copy of Lost Highway is completely rotted. That LD pressing is one of the worst rotters I’ve ever encountered. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/142...

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David Lynch | Sony LaserDisc Player with Personal LaserDisc Collection

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I’m preparing to go as detailed as I can. People need to know how much work went into these and how they obliterate virtually every past reissue and video master the films have ever had.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

They tweaked all kinds of things and every single effects shot so I wouldn’t be surprised if more production goofs were also removed. This all started with the DVD removing the snake reflection and guiding rod on the boulder from Raiders.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Arrow’s LE of A Fistful of Dollars has arrived. I made it into a booklet.😳🤯 My research journey began with these films over 20 years ago as a geeky teen.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I’m trying to read all of the DC Pulp Heroes annuals from 1997. This Superman story is very fun with some Doc Savage flavor-and then on the last page there’s a cameo of Doc and the Fabulous Five. This makes me deliriously happy.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I talk about some of the highlights in this year’s Film on Film festival, which is the greatest repertory film festival program I’ve ever seen. The BFI has outdone themselves yet again. This is a film lover’s paradise. youtube.com/watch?v=IBaF...

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BFI 2025 Film On Film Festival Overview

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When you’re reading a fan translated Young Indiana Jones KIDS book…and Young Indy holds a gun to the head of a Phantom of the Opera like madman to make him reveal the location of additional time bombs scattered throughout 1915 Venice. French Young Indy is hardcore like that.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Haha, the dialogue and sudden rug pulling of the theatrical ending almost reads like the novel Deckard could write at the Overlook…

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If I could somehow get my hands on them: Live And Let Die IB Tech release print Star Wars UK IB Tech release print

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The most underrated of Hammer’s masterpieces and one of the great sequels. It’s the direction they could’ve gone in had they stayed with the more intelligent yet fun films. Sadly it wasn’t to be as Evil of Frankenstein was a reboot several years later.

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Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader @damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

There’s no telling where the Warner splintering could end up.

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