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Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

When it comes down to film adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, I'm not all that concerned with faithfulness to the source material; as long as it manages to tell its own good story, I'm just peachy with the whole thing.

So, needless to say, I was liking the movie -- add Boris Karloff and gothic horror together, and it's bound to please me -- but then the ending happened -- that stupid, tooth-shatteringly painful ending. That was enough to ruin the entire experience for me.

6/10 (and only because I liked everything before the ending)

Phenomena (1985)

If anyone ever asks me why the '80s is my favourite decade of cinema, I'll just tell them to watch this movie. It encapsulates the best of '80s cinematography, music, and atmosphere -- I'm just absolutely transfixed with this film. It's my favourite Dario Argento film and my favourite Jennifer Connelly film.

8.5/10

Tenebre (1982) -- 7/10

Planet of the Vampires (1965)

I wanted to like this film, but the pacing was just too slow and the characters too uninteresting to keep my interest; I ended up thinking about Star Trek uniforms to pass the time while waiting for the plot to progress and something of interest to develop.

Oh, and I wasn't at all impressed with the ending, either; it's like something the Twilight Zone would pull, but done in such a bland way as to make a viewer ask: "What's the point?"

6/10

The Rapture (1991)

As with Frailty, this is another Christian-themed horror film that leaves me with more questions than answers. This movie, though, is far more heartbreaking -- it certainly makes me hope, more than ever, that the Fundies' version of Christianity never turns out to be true.

Oh, and David Duchovny with long hair is indeed a sight to behold.

7/10

Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) -- 7/10

Night Mayor (2009) -- 6.5/10

The bri-ish -- they're that species of sentient sponges that were conquered by the Alpha Draconians and conscripted into their slave armies, aren't they?

I'm definately adding the universe of that picture to my Star Wars Multiverse list.

Not I. But this computer I'm using is a piece of crap, anyway.

I can't go back in time to have sex with '80s/'90s Jennifer Connelly. This perturbs me greatly. 

Alderaan said:

J.K. Simmons: Vader

Ellen Page: Han

Das sind unkonventionelle entscheidungen!

Koryo Songhay said:

The spice can flow.

'Tis funny -- I have the sudden desire to hear Sean Connery say those exact words. 

Mike O said:

If they put it in a giant-ass boxed set which forces me to get the SEs and the PT, and I read that this forum that it is as it should be, I will pay almost any price for it. I won't like it, but this this is something I want badly enough to make the sacrifice.

Besides, if you're the artistic type, you could always take the discs with the PT and SEs, shatter them, and reconfigure/incorporate them into an avant-garde sculpture.

And here I was hoping it was a glorious case of serendipity. =(

Since I'm bored and have yet to progress with the screenplay, I feel now's as good a time as any for another game of "Assign a Face to the Name".

Last time, I hadn't yet assigned any particular faces to the Sith lady, Mistress Taniss, or Logan Halcyon. Needless to say, that's no longer the case.

The Sith lady and Mistress Taniss look like Ann and Nancy Wilson (respectively).

Though I hadn't intended on making the Sith look exactly like her when I came up with the character's look, Ann's appearance back in the '80s -- large, curly black hair and dark clothes -- did serve as an inspiration.

When it came time for me to think about Taniss' appearance, I remembered Ann's influence on the Sith lady. From there, I began to think if the Sith and Taniss are reversed mirror images of one another -- black and white -- then why not base Taniss' likeness off of Nancy's, since she is basically a reversed mirror image of her sister -- blond instead of brunette. Deciding it was an inspired idea, I ran with it.

I think I subconsciously based Logan Halcyon's basic physical attributes off of Courtney Gaines' from Children of the Corn and failed to recognize it at the time. ;-)

Llomon the Trandoshan and Mahttoh the wookiee are based on Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (respectively).

For some time now, I've wanted to write a SW story that featured a wookiee and Trandoshan living and working together as friends and partners, as the two species have always been depicted as blood enemies in the EU and I've always been interested in seeing a relationship between members of the two species which broke from that mold.

When I finally decided to create two such characters for this re-write, I decided to make them a homage to Matthau and Lemmon, who starred in a number of films together and were friends in real life.

As the name would imply, the character of Cmdr. Sheridan Jeffreys is a pseudo-hybrid of Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair and Capt. John Sheridan, two characters from the TV series Babylon 5.

As I didn't want my character to just be a carbon copy of either character, I decided to make her female and based her likeness off of Marjorie Monaghan, an actress who made a few guest appearances on B5.

Kurasij the Barabel is yet another character inspired by a character from Babylon 5; in this case, it's the character Londo Mollari, played by the actor Peter Jurasik.

Rustyk the Clown is an obvious knockoff of Krusty the Clown. As such, his voice would be identical to Dan Castellaneta's voice for Krusty.

As with Rustyk and Krusty, Mr. Eenyt is based off of Mr. Teeny, Krusty's rollerskating chimp. I didn't want to make Eenyt an ewok or dwarf wookiee or other simian creature, though, so I made him a nelwyn, one of those little people from Willow. By making him a little person, I couldn't then stop myself from making him look like Phil Fondacaro, an actor who I've always enjoyed even in his crappier movies.

Alice Cooper is Caryon Adder. Nuff said.

(And yes -- "Caryon Adder" is supposed to sound like "carrion eater".)

Someone's finally thinking of me.

^I am so hoping that wasn't intentionally meant to be a poem.

Either-or.

Then I can't wait to see this

under a black hood.

ray_afraid said:

Where did his eyes go?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anophthalmia 

The colars won't be fixed. (someone had to say it)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wasn't Chaplin one of Atkinson's influences? ;-P

John Cusack once told me I'd first have to shave my eyebrows and paint my hair gold before I'd be qualified to sell spookhouse bullshit. Well, fuck him! Fuck him 1408 different ways!

The Googles do nothing!*

*Well, not entirely true -- searching the forums by way of Google is, more-or-less, satisfactory. Still, it is far less than perfect.

Dumbo (1941)

Dumbo was never one of my favourite Disney films as a kid, so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it this time around. I guess the eponymous pachyderm and his mouse friend experiencing a shared hallucination of creepy pink elephants after drinking booze-tainted water had more than a little impact towards shaping my new found affection for it.

8.5/10

Song of the South (1946)

To hell with the politically correct candyasses who brand this movie racist -- they don't know jackshit. If anything, this movie's about blacks and whites opening up to one another by sharing their fokelore, tearing down the bridges that keep them apart in the process.

Should I someday evolve beyond my current antinatalism and somehow find a loving woman to make babies with, I'd definately buy this movie for our children.

8/10

Scrooge (1951)

This is still the definitive film adaptation of A Christmas Carol for me and more than certainly always will be.

8/10

Help! (1965)

It's got style and humour -- and Eleanor Bron is one captivatingly sexy Jewess pretending to be an Indian -- but the pacing is awful. At least a half hour of material could've been shaved off without sacrificing any of the story.

7/10

I Gopher You (1954) -- 7/10

Trick or Tweet (1959)

I think this is one of the very few Sylvester & Tweety shorts I actually like. That the story focuses on the conflict between Sylvester and his dopey-sounding feline rival instead of that stupid hydrocephalic yellow twerp is definately the key as to why.

7/10

Terrier-Stricken (1952) -- 7/10

A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961)

I feel the same why about Pepe Le Pew cartoons as I do about the Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner cartoons -- the characters are good, but the stories are all completely interchangeable; if you've seen one, you've seen them all, and they've all become tedious and boring.

6/10

Sheep Ahoy (1954)

Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoons are also all invariably interchangeably boring, only moreso since Ralph Wolf is just a lame Wile E. Coyote clone, just with a red nose instead of a black one.

6/10

His New Profession (1914)

Here's something I've noticed about Charlie Chaplin's early films with Keystone Studios: they rather suck. It's hard to see how the Tramp ever became a popular character watching these plotless meanderings.

6/10

Garfield on the Town (1983) -- 7/10

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) -- 7/10

Suspiria (1977)

I rated this very same film in this thread a year or so back, and I believe I gave it a 5/10. While my opinion of the movie itself hasn't changed all that much, my rating system has; whereas I used to rate a movie soley on how much it entertained me, now I also take its overall quality into consideration. Therefore, I have to give this film a new score of

8/10

Inferno (1980) 

The film spent too much time figuring out who its lead character was, and I couldn't quite figure out why the remaining two mothers were killing off the characters they'd deemed worthy of death in the first place, so I don't think its as good as Suspiria.

Still, it's an incredibly well-crafted, beautifully-filmed movie, and it's definately a worthy follow-up to Suspiria (unlike, say, the dull, dismal, boring piece of crap that was Mother of Tears). 

7.5/10

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Is that Bruce Campbell????

Yep. In one of his weakest leading roles, too, I might add.

At least it wasn't rated M for sex, like most fan fiction, those kids are all underage!

My latent heterosexuality didn't emerge until halfway through seventh grade, so I never had sex on the brain when I wrote the story.

Danfun128 said:

Ahh, an illogical crossover fic containing all sorts of franchices which have very little connection to each other,

Except for the bit with the Ferengi Klingons and the rancors, it was more a spiritual crossover than a literal one.

Of course, there was a bit I forgot to mention where the students went out in 2001-styled pods to fight a squadron of TIE-fighters which had attacked the bus ...

in addition to lots of distracting pictures.

The pictures, like, give context to the descriptions man and, like, totally bring them to psychedelic, groovy life!

Basically, TL:DR

To be fair though, you did say that you wrote it in the 6th grade. If you still write fanfiction, it is probably more professional and readable now :P

I wrote lots of fanfiction in the years between 1999 and 2005. I eventually wised up to the fact that I just wasn't very good at it and stopped writing.

I'm currently working on a PT rewrite, though, in screenplay format, and I have written one recent SW short story I felt was pretty well done, so I guess I'm getting back into it, just with more restraint than I used to have.

generalfrevious said:

This just proves he was a talentless filmmaker from the start

Jackson has not made a good film since Return of the King.