Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) is the third in this franchise. Yet another group of teenagers are on their way to Crystal Lake for no apparent reason other than to have sex and get murdered, and Jason, again, for no apparent reason, obliges. Like episode two, the film starts with a recap of the ending of the previous episode, followed by some comedy attempts, then the bloodbath. Nudity was much less this time, with only Tracie Savage showing breasts in a shower scene.

IMDb readers have this at 4.2 of 10, and box office didn't recoup the estimated $4.5M budget. This was an attempt to make a Friday 13th formula film with little or no effort to embellish or entertain. This is a D. While it is technically decent, there is no "there" there. It reminds me of the "gonzo" style of adult tapes, which are an endless series of the old in and out. Here, we have murders, and not much else.

• The Second Presidential Debate: A Guide to Translating John Kerry's Fancypants Highfalutin Liberalese into Normal American Plain Talk.
• NBC ruffled by 18-49 ratings slump
• Can Guy Ritchie restore his tarnished reputation with Revolver.
• The Theater Counts for this week. New films: Team America 2500, Shall We Dance 1400, The Final Cut 100, Riding the Bullet 100, others below 50.
• This week's movies (NY/LA only): The Final Cut - 40% positive reviews. Split opinions. Some people found it engrossing.
  • Positive: (1) "For a movie that often feels like it's cobbled together from pieces of Minority Report, Blade Runner and other futuristic odysseys, this one is weirdly engrossing." (2) "A thinking person's picture whose only flaw is that the movie is never quite as good as its fascinating concept."
  • Negative: (1) "No re-edits can save The Final Cut from its own preposterousness and lack of genuine thrills." (2) "If there are decent, human, post–Good Will Hunting roles for the actor somewhere between the manic and the catatonic, Robin Williams hasn't found them."
• This week's movies (NY/LA only): Being Julia -65% positive reviews. "Features a magnificent central performance by Bening to go with its engaging and raucous storyline."
• This week's movies: Shall We Dance? - 33% positive reviews. "Exemplifies its distributor at its most blatantly opportunistic -- plundering the recycling bin for a no-brainer cash-in."
• This week's movies: Team America: World Police - 60% positive reviews. "A delightfully vicious film that’s bound to piss off everyone."
• Any movie that pisses off both George Bush and Sean Penn has to be good because of that alone! (Team America)
• An interview with Trey and Matt about Team America
• Another great scoop from The Smoking Gun - O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harassment Suit: "Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment"
• Three clips (extraits) from Five Children and It. "What they thought was going to be a dull summer in the country is about to become the most exciting adventure of their lives when five children dig up an eight thousand year old sand-fairy who is prepared to make their wildest dreams come true....at a price."
• Four clips from The Grudge. An English-language remake of the Japanese horror thriller "Ju-On", "The Grudge" is about a murderous supernatural curse born of a grudge held by someone who dies angry. The curse passes like a virus to its victims.
• Don't open any e-mail about David Beckham for two reasons. (1) it's a Trojan Horse (2) just because you should never read any e-mail about David Beckham
• Here's a clip from Oliver Stone's Alexander, the Alexander the Great biopic starring Colin Farrell. What a letdown. I've been looking forward to this movie, but this clip sucks mightily.
• Another in the "films in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies" series. This time: Jaws.
• Drive across the USA in four minutes.
• Copy of O'Reilly Complaint Against Fox News Producer.
• Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 is now calling it 291-228 in favor of Bush. They have moved Wisconsin back into the Bush column, and have moved New Jersey into the undecided group. They are also calling New Mexico, Florida and Ohio for Bush at this point.
• Bunning says rival's staff injured his wife. The Kentucky race between Saddam's kid and the baseball guy turned right-wingnut keeps getting nastier and stranger.
• For your lovely consolation prize, "who is buried in Petrarch's tomb?"
• The Alamo's director said Tuesday he believes members of an Al-Qaida sleeper cell checked out the landmark.
• You wanna see some serious sweater meat? Check out Sara Rue in Gypsy 83.
• Another great anecdote about old-time Vegas in The Sawdust Joint. Men About Town
• Britney is not lookin' all that good.
• "to my utter amazement, my newest children's book -- the sweetest of the five I've published -- has been branded 'vulgar' and 'obscene' by angry, vocal readers who just don't get it"
  • "The book is called "The Boy Who Looked Like Lincoln," and it's about an 8-year-old who looks exactly like Honest Abe: He's got the hat, the mole, even the beard. The unhappy boy is sent to a summer camp for kids who look like things: toasters, bowling pins, the Titanic. In the end, he learns the valuable lesson that looks are not important; it's your character that counts. This doesn't explain why supermodels make so much more than schoolteachers, but hey, it's just a kids' book."
• Four free short sample videos from Playboy Big Breast Babes!
• Playmate Gallery - Alicia Rickter, Miss October 1995 - Courtesy of PlayboyPlus.com!
• One Foot In The Grave presumably is the only punk rock band from the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona
• Nicky Hilton marriage already on the rocks? Dude, it's been almost two months. How long do you expect them to work on this?
• If you are really into fonts, here are a few hundred available for free
• Cubist Museum Garage Proves Problematic. (it's a spoof, dude)
• A consumer's guide to Oral Sex ...Or "one swallow doesn't make a hummer."
• Three clips from Birth, the controversial movie with Kidman and the little kid.
  • The official release: "A metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman stars as Anna, a delicate young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. As Anna, Kidman achieves a breathtaking emotional transparency to portray an intelligent woman who discovers another side of herself in the face of a bizarre, yet tantalizing possibility. The actress is beautifully paired with Canadian child actor Cameron Bright, who portrays the boy interloper with a haunting stillness and conviction. Bringing an assured sense of style and form to a decidedly unconventional narrative, Glazer creates a world that is at once strange and familiar, like a fairy tale. Like many fairy tales, "Birth" is part romance, part mystery, and part family drama - woven into a magical whole about love, mortality and the unknown."
• Some of Howard Stern's naughtiest remarks - a history of what he said and how much he was fined.
• NADER PLUNGES AFGHAN VOTE INTO CHAOS. Quixotic Candidate Denies Spoiler Role
  • Political activist Ralph Nader's eleventh-hour decision to run for president of Afghanistan has plunged that nation's first democratic election into chaos, raising fears that a final electoral result may not be known for months, if ever.
• 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A LADY . . .If You're Hoping To Get Intimate With Her!
• L'il Kim falls out of her dress, as always.
• After their ace loses, the BoSox future looks so dim they can remove the shades.
• And you think wrestling is fake? A professional wrestler from Georgia has been accused of stabbing his opponent 14 times with a prop during a match in Florida. Police charged 41-year-old Jerome Young of Smyrna, who goes by the ring name of New Jack, with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
• URLs Blocked in Saudi Arabia
• The Sun has some nice bikini pictures of Anna K in Mexico with Enrique

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Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

NOTE: because of a unique combination of circumstances with the Windows media player and some substantial bandwidth theft, we will have to do all of our movie files in zip format. Left click on the files as you normally would to view a picture. When you get a choice, click on "save", and put it on your hard drive in the directory of your choice. UnZIP and play from there.

I know this is not especially convenient, but it allows the film clips to continue. I can protect .zip files from hot-linking in the same way I can protect still images. For some reason, if I protect .avis and .wmvs from hot-linking, they will not play in the Windows media player, and I can't get a satisfactory work-around. Perhaps I will find a better solution, but for now this new policy allows you to continue getting the movie clips you want to see, which is much preferable to my abandoning the clips altogether.

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

Scoop says:

I made the .wmv versions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

Today the Ghost takes a look at the Eric Roberts flick "Stiletto Dance". One of the 10 movies he made in 2001. Actually, for a direct-to-vid Russian gangter/undercover cop movie, it isn't a bad watch. Plus, there is some decent nudity.

• French-Canadian actress Lucie Laurier gets nekkid in a couple of sex scenes as well as in a body painting scene. Mostly we see breasts and parital bum views, but there is a brief glimpse of the 3rd B as she spoons with Roberts. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
• Lucie Laurier zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

• Another French-Canadian actress, Anne Nahabedian, shows her breasts in a spirited sex scene. (zipped wmv).

Jack specializes in Euro-nudity....especially German movies and TV.

Vanessa Marcil

Nikki Cox
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

"A-TEAM: THE MOVIE"
How Cartoonish Can It Be Without Him?! - "A-Team" creator Stephen J. Cannell has signed with Fox to create a big budget movie version of the cartoonishly violent 1980s TV show. Sadly, Mr. T says he might make a cameo, but he will not star.