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I only bought the third disc of that Ultimate Horror Collection set as it included a copy of Carnival of Souls, which I’ve long wanted to own. Being an obvious public domain release, I expected the worst, figuring the quality would be absolute shit, but its a surprisingly decent transfer.

Spider-Man Unlimited isn’t the terrible show many fans make it out to be. The premise is bonkers, but all things considered, it’s a watchable cartoon.

CHRISTINE LYDON

"My body is a roadmap of pain, but pain has its reward."

"The power of the mind is absolute."

"I’m doing this? I’m … doing … this‽ I’m making the car move with the power of my mind!

The double-bladed lightsaber was introduced in the Tales of the Jedi comic as the weapon of the Dark Lord Exar Kun.
Aayla Secura (blue Twi’lek Jedi in AOTC & ROTS) was originally an EU character.

Spuffure said:

I have conservatives so much.

Donate your surplus conservatives to your local food bank.

Have to agree with AniStar on this one.

DuracellEnergizer said:

BOOKS

• The Adventures of Superman (George Lowther)
• Amerika (Franz Kafka)
• Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches (Charles Godfrey Leland)
• The Avesta
• A Black Theology of Liberation (James H. Cone)
• The Book of the Law (Aleister Crowley)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• The Castle (Franz Kafka)
• Catching the Big Fish (David Lynch)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
• Communion: A True Story (Whitley Streiber)
• The Complete Stories (Flannery O’Connor)
• The Conquest of Bread (Pyotr Kropotkin)
• The Courage to Be (Paul Tillich)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Dynamics of Faith (Paul Tillich)
• The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
• Gravity and Grace (Simone Weil)
• The Great God Pan (Arthur Machen)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
• Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Bart Ehrman)
• The Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
• In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu)
• Jesus, Interrupted (Bart Ehrman)
• A Key to Whitehead’s Process and Reality (Donald W. Sherburne)
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy)
• The King in Yellow (Robert W. Chambers)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)
• Leviathan Wakes (James S. A. Corey)
• Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (Charles Hartshorne)
• Principia Discordia (Greg Hill & Kerry Wendell Thornley)
• Process and Reality (Alfred North Whitehead)
• A Theology of Liberation (Gustavo Gutiérrez)
• Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual (Éliphas Lévi)
• The Trial (Franz Kafka)
• Where Witchcraft Lives (Doreen Valiente)

COMICS

• The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1 (John Romita Sr. run)
• Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
• Batman (Doug Moench/Kelley Jones run)
• Batman and the Outsiders, Vol. 1 (Mike W. Barr)
• Batman: The Golden Streets of Gotham (Jen Van Meter)
• Batman: Year 100 (Paul Pope)
• Blacksad (Juan Díaz Canales)
• Devil Dinosaur (Jack Kirby)
• Doom Patrol, Vol. 1
• The Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 (John Byrne run)
• The Fantastic Four, Vol. 1 (Walt Simonson run)
• The Forever People, Vol. 1 (Jack Kirby)
• Harrow County (Cullen Bunn)
• Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth (Jack Kirby run)
• Mister Miracle, Vol. 1 (Jack Kirby run)
• New Gods, Vol. 1 (Jack Kirby run)
• Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff (Peter David)
• Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt (J. M. DeMatteis)
• Supergirl, Vol. 4 (Peter David)
• Superman: Last Son of Earth (Steve Gerber)
• Thor, Vol. 1 (Jack Kirby run)
• Thor, Vol. 1 (Walt Simonson run)

The devil works in mischievious ways.

thatguyakira123 said:

Spuffure said:

Okay, I need to get this off my chest.

I fucking hate the way women are treated in modern media. They’re almost always seen in a sexual light, always have to fucking flash their bodies, be caked in makeup, fucking disgusting. I mean, yes, I know, stuff like this has been around for centuries, just look at some of Rubens’ stuff, but at least it was artistic in a way.

I bow down to media that portray women in a normal light, as a fucking human being.

And this is all coming from a man.

Sorry, I’m just really fucking pissed right know. I needed to get this off my chest.

P.S. you don’t need curves to be beautiful.

Becuase men are never objectified in media right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jSPcQNy6uk

It’s almost as if humans are sexual beings and sex sells. Though objectification has been toned down majorly during the past decade. Also everybody wears on makeup in movies and tv shows not just women.

I’m a sex-positive feminist and a nudist, so I approve of sexuality/nudity in media — so long as it’s balanced between the sexes and isn’t objectifying/dehumanizing. I don’t think we’re quite there yet.

NeverarGreat said:

Children of Dune

I remember quite liking this book the first two times I read it, but the latest time it felt rather lacking in plot. Most of the book is mired in a swamp of introspection which often teeters on the edge of full-on Randian rant. I really want to still like this book and it still has its moments, but they’re getting fewer and farther apart as I get older. 7/10.

I barely remember anything of the book. The miniseries is more memorable.

Jurassic Park

Speaking of rants, I had no idea that Ian Malcolm was the John Galt of this story. This is a rare case of the movie being better than the book. Maybe you could appreciate this book if your interest was computer science in the early nineties or the vagaries of Chaos Theory, but I’m a simple man who wanted a story about dinosaurs but got fifty diagrams of computer menus instead.

I’m just happy that Malcolm died at the end. 6/10.

The Lost World

“Somehow, Malcolm returned.”

The film is trash, so I had high hopes that this was merely a problem of the story being lost on its way to the screen. I still haven’t finished the book, but from what I can tell, the book is trash as well. It’s a different type of trash than the film, but equally worthless. Nobody in either telling has a good reason to be on Dinosaur Island Version 2 and they all deserve to die. I keep reading out of morbid curiosity, hoping that at least the raptors get a good meal. 1/10.

I’ve read/tried to read a few Crichton novels, but found none of them satisfying. Rumination on technical trivia may engross some readers, but not me.

It’s been years since I read the novel, but Stilgar was something of a father figure to Chani, no? Changing Kynes’ gender may serve to streamline things, making Kynes Stilgar’s lover and the two of them Chani’s parents.

Earth 2

I started watching Earth 2 in September of 2018. Yeah, took me three years to watch a show which lasted a single 21-episode season. The plots were middling and often boring, drawing my interest elsewhere, but the cast and premise were strong, which kept drawing me back in. I imagine had a second season followed, barring any Andromeda-style retooling, the series would’ve found its footing. Guess we’ll never know.

EPISODE RATINGS

• “First Contact” – 8/10
• “The Man Who Fell to Earth (Two)” – 8/10
• “Life Lessons” – 8/10
• “Promises, Promises” – 8/10
• A Memory Play" – 7/10
• Natural Born Grendlers" – 7/10
• “Water” – 7/10
• “The Church of Morgan” – 7/10
• “The Enemy Within” – 8/10
• “Redemption” – 8/10
• “Moon Cross” – 8/10
• “Better Living Through Morganite: Part 1” – 7/10
• “Better Living Through Morganite: Part 2” – 8/10
• “Grendlers in the Myst” – 7/10
• “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” – 7/10
• “Brave New Pacifica” – 6/10
• “The Boy Who Would be Terrian King” – 8/10
• “After the Thaw” – 7/10
• “Survival of the Fittest” – 7/10
• “Flower Child” – 5/10
• “All About Eve” – 7/10

SERIES RATING

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

ray_afraid said:

The Blues Brothers, prequel to Blade Runner, is possibly my favorite of that trilogy.

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Wish I had a name to go with those incredible thighs. . . .

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J0E said:

I just hate Star Wars as a franchise.

“Hate leads to suffering."

“Radiant, cool, crazy nightmare. Zen New Jersey nowhere.”

— a philiosopher with greater insight than George Lucas

“The Dude abides.”

— ultimate level philosopher

ISABELLE ADJANI

American Gothic

Close to a month ago, I came across the American Gothic DVD set in a used book store. I had neither seen nor heard of the series before, but I like Gary Cole and I have a fondness for '90s TV horror, so I took a chance and bought it, hoping I’d enjoy it.

Well, I wasn’t altogether impressed, unfortunately. Typical of network television then and now, there were just too many episodes and too little focus or momentum. Aside from Jake Weber and the nonentity he played, most of the cast/characters were great, but there just wasn’t enough mystery or atmosphere to keep me engaged. After five episodes, I’d lost interest, and only felt compelled to finish watching as I’d paid for the set. Well, that set’s gonna be finding a new home very soon.

EPISODE RATINGS

• “Pilot” – 8/10
• “A Tree Grows in Trinity” – 7/10
• “Eye of the Beholder” – 7/10
• “Damned If You Don’t” – 8/10
• “Dead to the World” – 7/10
• “Potato Boy” – 7/10
• “Meet the Beetles” – 7/10
• “Strong Arm of the Law” – 6/10
• “To Hell and Back” – 7/10
• “The Beast Within” – 7/10
• “Rebirth” – 8/10
• “Ring of Fire” – 8/10
• “Ressurector” – 6/10
• “Inhumanitas” – 7/10
• “The Plague Sower” – 6/10
• “Dr. Death Takes a Holiday” – 7/10
• “Learning to Crawl” – 6/10
• “Echo of Your Last Goodbye” – 8/10
• “Triangle” – 7/10
• “Strangler” – 5/10
• “The Buck Stops Here” – 6/10
• “Requiem” – 7/10

SERIES RATING

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

I used to dislike Axl Rose’s voice. Then I discovered modern mainstream hip-hop. That put things in perspective.

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Hal 9000 said:

But how can he run while holding a pair of lightsabers with his feet?

And now for something completely sexy.