Mark's Down On Your Syntax

Veracious Wampa

He’ll still eat you, but at least he’ll never lie to you.

Darth Robin said:

BTW does anybody know how meany of these he did? Did he do one for all 6 episodes?

I believe commentaries were recorded for only the original trilogy to coincide with their first release on dvd.

That’s really disappointing news Ady. I’m sure it won’t be the last time you’ll have to let go of something because it’s just not working though. You’re already a legend for even attempting this whole project and that Wampa was a work of art regardless.

Has there ever been any official word on whether a character in Doctor Who who meets an older version of themselves, interacts and affects the timeline remembers the encounter?

I’m thinking mainly of Missy and Masty here - are we to assume she always remembered what happened in this last episode before he regenerated into her? Or is it a case of time retconning memories only after the events happened to her?

Or are we just not supposed to ask?!

Has anybody ever asked Pablo himself if these can be made available again? They exist somewhere at Lucasfilm and if enough interest is shown he’s certainly got enough clout to get the official site to make them available for streaming or perhaps put on the future blu-ray releases.

I mean, I’m sure it’s not that simple but it can’t hurt to ask him.

This thread is terrifying.

I grew up watching Barry Norman - I think I started at Film '88, '89 or thenabouts. Back then, movie related telly was a rare thing and I had to stay up late to watch his programme (half past eleven!)

Rest in peace.

That’s great news! The fact that the two discs have some of the same special features seems to indicate that the unrated version was at some stage meant to be a single disc edition - bodes well for a western release.

I’m glad a physical copy of the unrated movie exists in HD somewhere in the world though!

I had to think about it before I got it but nicely done, yhwx!

Big lol at finding exactly the same posts in this thread as there were when I left a year ago!

On the subject of the Wampa - he’s a fine looking specimen. The skill it must’ve taken to create him… I hope the making of Revisited has been thoroughly documented because the world needs to see!

The Haunting (1999)

A well structured, interesting story full of twists and turns, a great set of characters you actually care about, witty dialogue and a subtle, slowly escalating air of creepyness and some genuinely inventive scares are all things this movie didn’t have.

What it did have was some great sets and good-for-the-time CGI. It also had Owen Wilson playing a character named Luke, which isn’t particularly helpful is it?

Boo out of five.

“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (1992)

That horse looked concerned standing in the bedroom. You can tell by the position of the ears.

I give this film 4 and three quarter re-cast Donnas out of 5.

“Shoot 'em Up” (2007)

A crazier, distant cousin of John Wick with just as high of a body count but the added bonus of two instances of death by vegetable. Dripping with irony and wearing its action movie (and cartoon) influences proudly on its sleeve it definitely lives up to its name.

Paul Giamatti is hamming it up something fierce as the villain and Clive Owen’s gruff, monotone delivery of every single line has never been more appropriate. Monica Bellucci plays a pregnant Italian hooker, so, enough said. Everybody’s in on the joke and from start to finish this film has so much fun. Just watch the background bad guy’s reaction when Giamatti wipes his bloody hand on his coat.

There are many memorable scenes (a gun fight DURING a sex scene!) blink and you’ll miss it visual jokes and one liners that it’s probably going to be just as good on the second viewing.

The shoot-out set to “Ace of Spades” is a standout but everything’s done with so much skill and wit there’s never a dull moment. And just when you think it has nowhere else to go we get a bonkers parachuting gun battle.

I could go on but it’s pretty obvious I liked it, and if you like action movies I’m sure you’ll like it too.

Sample dialogue:

“Find me every wet nurse, lactating hooker and mammary-on-tap in the city.”

“Looking at those dog hairs on your trousers I’d say ol’ duchess took a liking to you.”

It’s a real shame this flopped in theatres, I think it’s a genuine classic of the genre. Beautiful, violent insanity.

I give it 4 and a half carrots out of 5.

This site remembers when I last signed in and when I click on any thread it takes me backwards in time so I can resume my reading from where I left off. Just now I was in July 2016, the weather wasn’t much different and I still had this bit of coconut stuck in my teeth but it’s undeniably a clever site.

From a purely psychological and trying-not-to-sound-overly-judgy viewpoint I’d say that anybody looking to make a career for themselves in prostitution is not in a good place. I think whether it’s legal or not and regardless of the superficial intentions of all involved in the transaction there’s a lot of damage being done.

But then again, using another person’s body parts to ease tension and create pleasure for yourself is also an accurate description of having a massage.

What’s my point? Darned if I know, but I don’t think the average masseuse has as many potentially self destructive issues as the average “happy ending” masseuse.

“Blair Witch” (2016)

I missed this one last year so I thought I’d give it a look last night.

This remakequel does what many movies today seem to think is required and takes a lot of things that made the original work and just copies and pastes them in - because that’s what we audiences want, right? The story beats are the same and there are many shots which are identical (even the very last one before the credits) but it just comes off as lazy rather than an homage. Gone is the subtle paranoia of the unseen force stalking the woods, instead we have multiple UNEXPECTED JUMP SCARES OF SOMEBODY WALKING ON SCREEN and brief (scary?) appearances of… a thing with long arms?! The use of realistic sounds in the original (distant human voices, twigs snapping and babies crying) has been amped up for extra effect with ground shaking bass and some definitely supernatural shrieking. There’s no mystery to that.

The cast are fine though, doing their best with this dross they’ve been given, probably happy to be working. The inclusion of modern era technology works well enough but could’ve been used so much more creatively. How much better would it have been for that drone to give the characters a clear view of the layout of the woods, where the house was, where their cars were, where the other people in their group were, only for them to continually lose their way, lose each other and have things happen with seemingly nobody around to cause it?

Overall, and despite the nifty little bow the film ties itself into with its own timeline, the movie seems ultimately pointless as --SPOILER WARNING-- everybody dies and nobody learns anything and nobody will ever know what happened to anyone.

As someone who is mildly claustrophobic I do have to give the movie some credit for the scene in the tunnel, it was extremely effective and I actually had to look away. Why couldn’t there have been more scenes with that much inventiveness? I think I actually preferred Book of Shadows.

I give it 2 children’s handprints on the wall out of 5 (with a couple of fingers missing).

I edited the list as I’ve just discovered the “Before Trilogy” has been released by Criterion as a wonderful looking boxset in the U.S. Also, the outstanding news has dropped that “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” is coming to Blu-Ray later this year and it’ll be presented in both 16x9 and open matte. I honestly never thought I’d see the day!

Hey all, I couldn’t find an “I’ve come back after being away” thread so I thought I’d post in this one.

So I’ve come back after being away. My health is super duper again and the future looks good (no joke, they fired proton beams into my brain) and although I’ve got a year’s worth of originaltrilogydotcomming to catch up on I’m looking forward to seeing what I’ve missed.

It’s nice to see most of the old regulars are still here and congratulations on finally finding a cure for the Hansi virus!

I’ve really missed this place and I’m glad to be back.

I know I’ve not been posting here very long but I’ve got to leave already (stupid body being stupid, needs fixin’) I’ve had a lot of fun and I’ll try to stop in and catch up if I get the chance. I like this place, and you’ve all kept me company whenever I needed it long before I started writing my nonsense here. I hope in my brief time I made at least one person laugh!

Please be excellent to each other 😃

“McBain: The Movie” AKA “Eraser” (1996)

A twentieth anniversary viewing of this… production, for me. I actually went to see this in the cinema all those years ago for reasons I still can’t explain and which are even more baffling to me today.

They managed to, one assumes, bribe or threaten the families of Vanessa Williams, James Coburn and James Caan into starring in this. Arnold is as reliably naff as ever and there’s a bit with some 90’s CG alligators that had me snorting my tea out my nose.

It successfully stereotypes Russians, African-Americans, Italian-Americans, Hispanics, Homosexuals AND has a good go at white collar management (every last one of them is corrupt!) so at least it’s not discriminating!

The total disregard for the laws of physics, how computers work (was that Windows 95 in a government lab?), how firearms function and most egregiously, how aeroplanes fly is laughable in a film that plays things as straight and “realistic” as it can.

The bad guy’s name is Deguerin, and given that he’s essentially a gunrunner, that’s about as clever as this waste of everybody’s money gets.

If this had been animated with Rainier Wolfcastle starring it would have been a genuine classic.

I give it a hugely generous 1 and a half “you-survived-that-fall-and-all-you-need-is-a-walking-stick?!”'s out of 5.

^Too random, needs context.

Darth Id said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/960956

Didn’t miss the joke. I was just hoping to get something out of you other than unrelenting negativity. I continue to be disappointed in myself. Sad face emoticon.

(Did HansiG forget how to make pointless threads? This one isn’t half bad!)

Indiana Jones might’ve been put on the DVD cover art but Raiders never had the franchise name.

I’ve also recently seen the Twilight movies listed in TV guides by their sub-titles (New Moon, Eclipse etc) but the posters and DVD covers show them with the “Twilight Saga” banner. I will not subject myself to those films again to check what comes up on screen.

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