Mal ,'The Train Job'
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I've never watched Titanic--does making it 3D have much of a purpose other than adding another X onto the disaster porn rating? Make the necklace look more tangible?
I'm waiting for it to be released in holodeck format so I can feel Leo's face as I'm pushing it below the icy water.
Joss Whedon is filming near my mother's house, and is actually urging more film-makers to use NH to film movies, bless.
But it always had an awesomely gothic theremin theme. And Barnabas character was cool and the performance was interesting. But basically it was high cheese like Passions.
It WAS high cheese, but not ... look, as far as I know, there never would have been a scene of Barnabas brushing his fangs, with a cut to just the toothbrush reflected in the mirror. There's high cheese, and then there's post-modern hipster irony.
Wait! I figured it out! The trailer makes it look like it's an Austin Powers movie (which I was never a fan of) with a supernatural twist. Of course it's going to set my teeth on edge: I want my supernatural hijinks played at least semi-earnestly.
Prometheus trailer:
I'm trying to remain optimistic this isn't going to be "PRAY YEW ATHEEST FEMINASTIES WITCHER BOOK-LARNIN AN YER ROBO-MONSTERS YOU TRESPASSED ON GAWWWDS DOMAIN NOW PRAY!!!1!!11" it looks like.
It's difficult to hold onto hope, but I'm hanging on. On the plus side, John Carter wasn't nearly as dire as it was sounding. I actually had fun!
I am so late to the party, and I have no one to blame but myself. I've read a lot about This Film Is Not Yet Rated and heard a lot of the anecdotes in it, but not actually seen it. Watching it now, and it's ten times as fascinating as I'd imagined. Why do I wait on this shit?
However, I wish they'd labelled all the movies as they showed them, just in case, you know. For making up my own mine purposes, yeah.
They were all put out on VHS. Not sure about DVD.
They're newly available on DVD... as a box set of every single episode.
Rather expensive, of course, considering how many episodes there were.
as a box set of every single episode.
It had no supernatural elements for the first six months, and it was a year before Barnabas Collins showed up. So that's a long stretch of late sixties soap opera before you get to the good stuff.
For anybody that's interested, I'd recommend the movie for which I can provide the link.
Why did they add the supernational elements? Ratings ploy? Or did it fit into an already weird show?
I'm gonna hafta see this.
Has anyone seen the mistakes tapes? All bloopers that were actually aired--so many shots of crew members walking by on the set, forgotten lines, boom microphones....
Why did they add the supernational elements? Ratings ploy?
Probably. The creator, Dan Curtis, was probably the most important horror producer in television history between Rod Serling and...I don't know, Chris Carter or Joss (depending on how horrific you categorize them).
Curtis also created The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror (with Karen Black and the Zuni fetish doll), and Burnt Offerings and did tv movie versions of Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, Turn of the Screw.
Night Stalker . . . damn, such a good show.