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Necromancy AKA The Witching (1972)
There was a coherent plot somewhere in this movie, but for the life of me, I just couldn't find it.
6/10
Troll 2 (1990)
I'm gonna rate this movie, then it's gonna rate me! OH MY GOOOODDDD!!!!!!!!
6/10 (2/5 for quality, 4/5 for entertainability)
The strawberry has the perfect taste, the perfect shape, and the perfect colour -- it's nature's perfect fruit.
I personally prefer the Aing-Tii perception of the Force -- that the Force isn't simply light or dark, but an entire spectrum of various colours.
Warbler said:
I have had enough of this. I am leaving the forum for now. I don't know if I will be back.
Jeez louise! If Bingowings gets under your skin so bad, just put him on permanent ignore and refuse to read through any posts which quote his comments. Leaving the forum just because you don't get along with a single poster is like amputating an arm to treat a cat scratch.
Not sure if this counts, but I feel kind of intoxicated after having seen The Room for the first (but hopefully not last) time.
Nah, that's masturbation, pure and simple.
The Room (2003)
What a horribly, horribly beautiful movie. It needs a sequel, a prequel, a sidequel, and an interquel -- all written and directed by Wiseau -- post-haste.
5.5/10
hairy_hen said:
They don't 'take their bodies with them'. They transcend the need for physical existence altogether.
It's meta, man. Deal with it.
That doesn't explain why Ben and Yoda's bodies faded away after they died but not Anakin's.
SilverWook said:
It was also a way to communicate to the audience Ben isn't just a crazy old man on a damn fool idealistic crusade. There is something to this Force stuff.
Ben's death in the Marvel comic is kind of graphic though.
Graphic? Comically stupid is more like it. =P
Tobar said:
His species is so weird and different I would have pegged you for liking him. What about him do you despise?
Let's just say that Heroes utterly ruined my ability to like characters capable of rapid cellular regeneration and leave it at that.
imperialscum said:
It is hard to understand DuracellEnergizer and darklordoftech and their double standards. :P
I utterly despise this character
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Durge
and therefore am so very happy he doesn't show up in TCW.
INT. DANIA VII - DETENTION CENTRE - DAY
A thin man in light blue coveralls stands outside a sealed cell door, a tray of food in his hands. Crouching down, he sets the tray on the floor and reaches through an open slot set in the bottom of the door, pulling out another tray of food that has gone cold from neglect.
CELL BLOCK WORKER: (sighs) If you don't eat, you'll get sick. You know that, don'tcha?
When he receives no response from the prisoner inside, the worker sighs again with disappointment, then slides the new tray of food through the slot and into the cell. Standing up, he presses a button set into a remote strapped to his wrist, closing the slot, then takes hold of the handle of his hovercart of food trays and saunters off to attend to the other prisoners.
INT. DETENTION CENTRE/ZULL'S CELL - DAY
Zull sits alone in the far corner of the small, bare, dimly-lit windowless cell, her legs uncomfortably crossed, her arms lying limp at her sides. Though she is in a meditative trance, her black-rimmed, bloodshot eyes are wide open.
CUT TO
A shot of the embryo developing within her womb.
CUT TO
A close up shot of Zull's face.
ZULL: (subtitled) I don't want you, I don't want you. I hate you, I hate you inside me. Die, Gods damn you, just die!
CUT TO
The embryo stirring within her womb.
CUT TO
Zull as her face twists with rage.
ZULL: (screaming) (subtitled) I don't want you inside me! I don't want anything from that son of whore inside me! Get out of me! Get out! I'll cut you out of me! I'll cut you out! I'll kill you, you bastard, I'll kill you!
As tears begin to run from her eyes, she falls face-forward, pounding the floor of her cell with her fists.
ZULL: (subtitled) Why have the Gods done this to me? Why ...?
DUAL-TONED VOICE: (O.C.) (subtitled) It is not what the Gods have done to you, but what you have done to yourself.
Hearing the unearthly voice, Zull immediately looks up, towards the source. Across from her, on the other end of the cell, a dull orange glow appears and -- from that glow -- a black, humanoid silhouette fades into existence; the silhouette -- feminine, tall, and sporting a pair of large, curved horns -- is an intimidating sight to behold.
ZULL: (confused) (subtitled) Great Princess?
Before Zull looms the black, featureless shape of the GREAT PRINCESS, also known as the Princess of the Power of the Air, the spirit which serves as the primary intermediary between the Meketrex and their gods.
GREAT PRINCESS (DUAL-TONED VOICE): (subtitled) I am she, Zull Uquesne, daughter of Egon and Stantz.
ZULL: (subtitled) Great Princess, please -- deliver me from this! Save me!
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) You had the means to deliver yourself, but chose not to. Why do you think I have come to do what you yourself did not?
ZULL: (subtitled) What do you mean?
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) You looked into the myriad futures available to you, and out of all the possible universes you could have chosen to enter, you chose this one. (beat) Do not ask for deliverance from a destiny you chose to accept.
ZULL: (subtitled) But the other futures I saw were so uncertain -- many would have led to my death!
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) So what if they had? You know more than any Meketrex alive that death is merely a transition, a means of escaping the prison of flesh so as to set upon the path to ascension. Would the fleeting pain, the passing fear, have been a greater burden to bear than what has transpired?
ZULL: (subtitled) I had a duty to the Meketrex, to the Sebouillia!
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) You served the Gods faithfully, and as a reward, They offered you the chance to sit with Them under the All-Seeing Eye of the Almighty Father. (beat) Your only duty then was to yourself, and you betrayed yourself.
ZULL: (yelling) (subtitled) I betrayed no one! I was the one who was betrayed!
GREAT PRINCESS: (points down at Zull) (subtitled) By yourself! You betrayed yourself. You perverted the gift of the Breath of the Gods by using it to kill, and by doing so, you betrayed yourself!
ZULL: (screaming) (subtitled) I was violated, damn you! I was beaten, and I was defiled! I was treated like an animal -- I was made into an animal!
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) And that gives you the right to murder an innocent soul?!
ZULL: (subtitled) That Mandalorian bastard was no innocent!
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) I do not speak of Dus Ubbs, Zull Uquesne, but of Tilos Metiya.
ZULL: Tilos ...?
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) Metiya's only sin was to bear a scant resemblance to your defiler, and for that you slew him -- slew him like an animal -- with no feelings of guilt, of remorse -- just to satisfy your own wrath. (beat) You have betrayed all that you were taught and all that you were -- you are the basest of heretics.
ZULL: (voice growing small) (subtitled) Please, no ...
GREAT PRINCESS: (subtitled) Seek me out no more, Zull Uquesne, daughter of Egon and Stantz, for you have been written out of the Book of Heaven and are thus shut out and cut off. You have forsaken the Truth of the Gods, and for that, you will suffer in the Hell you have created for yourself alone.
With those final words, the Great Princess begins to fade.
ZULL: (reaches out toward her) (subtitled) No! Don't leave me!
The shadowy apparition disappears and the dull orange glow that accompanied it goes out, returning the interior of the cell to its previous dim gray state.
ZULL: (crying) (subtitled) Don't leave me ...
The only response Zull receives is dead silence.
I think some fanboys get so swept up into the concept of canon that they subconsciously believe that the abstact decanonization of a beloved story will somehow seep into the real world and physically erase it from existence.
Cries in the Night AKA Funeral Home (1980)
While it's a blatant ripoff of Psycho with a completely predictable twist ending, it's a rather well done blatant ripoff of Psycho with a completely predictable twist ending (I find the lead actress cute, too, so that helps).
7.5/10
Curtains (1983)
It could have been an above average horror flick, but the lack of a central protagonist and the sloppily-executed ending really brings it down.
On the plus side, John Vernon's performance was excellent, and I'm definately interested in seeing more of his work.
6/10
My father and sister are both complete assholes. If I outlive both of them, I'll make sure they have the cheapest funerals possible.
Ach du lieber!
You think you have a bookmark for everything, don't ya?
Truth be told, FrankT, I'd love to see your edit ideas come to life (not in an official "canon" release, of course).
The Rakatans weild forcesabers, which are basically just lightsabers which can only be activated by the dark side of the Force.
Suffice it to say, I personally have mixed feelings on the idea.
^That man is a sissy.
Now we can (hopefully) leave the other threads free of this tedious bickering.
Another heads up: to give this story more of an original Star Wars vibe and bring it more in line with it being precursor to the OT, I've removed most depictions of the Jedi and other Force adepts using telekinesis; Pre Vizsla AKA the Force Hound is now the only character to display any overt telekinetic abilities.
*sigh* You think it makes sense within the context of the SW Universe, I don't. Fine, sure, whatever.
Frankly, I'm tired of this discussion. You like the modern depiction of the Sith, I hate it, we're never going to agree on anything, we'll never change each other's mind, so can we just drop it, please?
I've got an idea for a film that's basically a Lovecraftian horror story set in the Star Wars Universe.
Two Jedi archaeologists -- a master and his newly appointed apprentice -- are sent to serve as consultants on a remote backwater planet where the ruins of a long extinct civilization have been unearthed. Apparently, this civilization wiped itself millions of years ago after succumbing to some bizarre pandemic which caused them all to develop conflicting memories about themselves, their peers, and the history of their world, driving them to homicidal madness in the process.
As the archaeological team digs deeper and deeper into the ruins, they, too, begin to suffer from the madness which wiped out this lost civilization, recalling conflicting memories about themselves, their peers, and the universe around them.
Eventually, it is discovered that this plague of madness is caused by some bizarre orb buried at the heart of the ruins -- an orb which serves as a window into the multiverse. Anyone who gets too close to the orb and its emanations gains the memories of their counterparts in other timelines, driving them insane in the process.
In the end, the Jedi master sacrifices himself by merging with the orb, defeating it in the process. His apprentice, who suffered prolonged exposure to the radiations of the orb, is left insane, unable to distinguish one reality from another, existing in multiple worlds at once.
The latest DVDs I've added to my collection:
Fargo
The Graduate
Labyrinth
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Punisher (2004)
The Simpsons (seasons 4, 7, & 9)
The Terminator
THX-1138
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Madhouse (1974) - 7.5/10
Starcrash (1978) - 4/10
