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Odds And Ends And Anything You Fancy
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jacksjg89
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I really liked this movie. No nudity, but it's really creepy and cool, and as good an adaptation as you could hope for a story about an "indescribable color" that turns people crazy. Also, the girl you see performs a witch ritual at the very beginning, dressed in black, in case you were wondering.
Btw, I saw it two weeks after it was released. I was the only one in the theater. It was awesome. I had my phone out the whole time.
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montycrusto
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Yes I remember the story talks about an indescribable colour that nobody on Earth has seen before.. but looks like the film makers were like “Meh, fuck it, magenta will do”
I’ll see if if I get the chance
but I’m not gonna risk movie-theatre-coronavirus for that shit..
jacksjg89
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Understandable. I'm rooting for the director, Richard Stanley, who was driven insane by trying to do "Island of Doctor Moreau" saw a documentary about the making of that movie and it was unbelievable. There was a few week stretch where production basically stopped because Val Kilmer wouldn't get out of his trailer until Brando did, and Brando wouldn't get out of his trailer until Kilmer did, but all the extra's still had put on "Animal human hybrid" makeup everyday and wait around all day partying, having sex doing drugs, and basically forgetting they had lives beyond this point. I'm one of my many google docs under "Story ideas" I wanted to do one where there's a big budget Hollywood film shooting in the Caribbean with a lot of extras and the hottest stars, but the extras go insane by the rough conditions they've been put in and end up mutineering and crucifying the lead actress in a sacrifice ritual the screenwriter had made up for the film. It's way down the list, but hope to get to it one day.Yes I remember the story talks about an indescribable colour that nobody on Earth has seen before.. but looks like the film makers were like “Meh, fuck it, magenta will do”
I’ll see if if I get the chance
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montycrusto
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I saw “Lost in La Mancha” which is a great documentary about Terry Gilliam’s failure to film Don Quixote ..absolutely everything was an epic disaster, as if the production was cursed. Fascinating story.. I’ve heard some of that about The Island of Doctor Moreau too. First rule of movie making, don’t work with Brando...
I bet Nicholas Cage is a handful on set, too
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montycrusto
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I hope you will bump it up the list; it sounds great!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
"What really made it catch on was when the babe offered to be the Barb-eque.Historians say....
While Eul would find it the perfect first date!
jacksjg89
PROCRASTINATOR
The documentary is called Lost Soul. Apparently Kilmer was a real jerk too. Casually tried to burn someones hair during filming.I saw “Lost in La Mancha” which is a great documentary about Terry Gilliam’s failure to film Don Quixote ..absolutely everything was an epic disaster, as if the production was cursed. Fascinating story.. I’ve heard some of that about The Island of Doctor Moreau too. First rule of movie making, don’t work with Brando...
I was really into Don Quixote when I was about 12, so when my mom saw there was a movie of it coming out she took me, which I was grateful for. Took us a solid hour to realize that the documentary we thought was being played for the movie was the movie. I need to go back and watch that. I love Gilliam, even though he's my second favorite Python named Terry.
Apparently Cage is a professional, and his craziness comes from the fact that he doesn't think that realistic portrayals of characters should be the dominant mode of acting, which is cool.
And appreciate the interest, but I am a procrastinator
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montycrusto
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malins
Stumbling Seeker
most Lovecraftian stories with all the nameless this and incomprehensible that are probably especially hard to visualize directly ... 'show the monster' and the story is pretty much dead (and anyway modern horror flicks seem to consist mostly of visual & sonic startling) ...
... a twist on the plot ... given on the one hand that Hollywood has mostly been doing remakes, sequels, and ransacking whatever intellectual property they can scavenge, and the continuing subcultural fascination that Lovecraftian stories hold ...
... at some point a really big budget Lovecraft adapation gets approved.
The director is smart enough to understand the problem of 'showing the monster' and with a half billion bucks of budget and five years of development time, he decides for a different type of casting.... "what if I spend the first hundred millon dollars on building an actual Cthulhu cult, instead of hiring a big name?" ... instead of casting for a film he recruits for a cult, instead of having actors rehearse the script he tasks them with building a dark religion (tell them it's a socio-psychological experiment, takes just a million to found a fake university)
In the moment of his death he realizes he's succeeded, far better (or worse) than he hoped for!
All of this is a bit of a problem for the studio, they hire Blackwater and the Wagner Group and together they manage to get the cult island thing under control ... but that consumes the rest of the budget.
To recoup costs, and be able to pay out hush money to all the families whose loved ones aren't coming back from their attempt to start a career in Hollywood (because their souls are screaming in R'lyeh) ... the studio cuts something together from the existing material, drone shots, and bodycam footage from the mercenaries, passing it off ironically as something like Blair Witch Project.
It becomes a viral hit, as it turns quite literally ... the filmed sequences contain just enough of the rediscovered ritual that a significant portion of the cinema audiences degenerate into minions of Cthulhu ... with an incubation time of four weeks ...
jacksjg89
PROCRASTINATOR
That is very Cosmic. The government Hush up, like shadow over Innismouth, is a nice touch.
foggybottom
Venator imaginum
Dog sez "You play with the damn cups, I'm gonna eat the goodies!"
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jacksjg89
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That’s something a cat would do. Good boy.
don't let Barb borrow it!
It is a plane, I am sure she will deliver it to the airfield safe and well. Possibly after a slight detour via the Russian front but hey
Or she’ll disappear somewhere over the Bahamas, having failed in her bid to become the first woman to cross the Pacific without complaining.. leaving everyone scratching their heads over “The Mystery of Barbara Moorehart”
(Spoiler alert: Barb landed safely on a tight little island, and spent years teaching the natives the art of tumescence. The island is still named after her to this day: Barbados. )
She'd prefer a P-51 Mustang....
(Oops...incoming demerits !!)
When the demerits come, you still can shout :
"I have a Messerschmitt on my tail!"
Better late than never.
Don’t know how I missed all of these ...
jacksjg89
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Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
As Ian Dury,once sang....Better late than never.
Don’t know how I missed all of these ...
"Hit me,with your Rhythm Stick..
Hit me,hit me,hit me slowly hit me quick !!
Nice to be a Lunatic..
C'est fantastique....
Hit me... Hit me....Hit MEEEE...."
jacksjg89
PROCRASTINATOR
Naraku
Draconarius
A real movie
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014) - IMDb
Call Girl of Cthulhu: Directed by Chris LaMartina. With David Phillip Carollo, Melissa LaMartina, Nicolette le Faye, Dave Gamble. When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from...
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