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A list of unused titles for Dr. Strangelove, lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s notebooks. My favorites:
Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying
Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus
My Bomb, Your Bomb
The Bomb and Dr. Strangelove or: How to be Afraid 24hrs a Day
The Passion of Dr. Strangelove
I did have a couple of minor practical nits to pick with the latter part of CitW, though: there's a button for "System Purge" which releases all those horrors into the complex unharmed rather than killing them off or otherwise disposing of them? Really? How is that not expected to cause a disaster for the people running the system as shown? And the bat thing was smashing through walls like they were cardboard - I can see how there might be specific adjustments to its cage to contain it, but how would they recapture it if it were the method of doom released on the cabingoers?
Matt, you're thinking too hard: The PURGE button is there because you need it to unleash the monsters and create the insane mayhem. It's a cliche, an example of what TV Tropes call Inventional Wisdom: >[link]
Ain't It Cool News has a screencap of the white betting board with the list of monsters (scroll down a little): [link] I love that there is a department called "Internal Logic" that bet on the Giant Snake.
Ahahaha, Vonnie, I was focusing so much on the monsters that I didn't catch the Department of Internal Logic. Awesome.
Here's a pretty interesting interview with Drew Goddard where he finally delves into spoiler territory. He addresses the ending, for instance.
Nephew wanted to see The Three Stooges over the weekend. So I saw The Three Stooges.
You already know whether you'll like this one. If you're a fan, you'll like it. If you aren't, you won't. Kids will like theh slapstick, and parents will appreciate the "Kids, don't try this at home" disclaimer at the end.
I'm not a fan. I spent half the movie playing Bejeweled on my iPhone. But I was definitely in the minority.
I just came back from Cabin in the Woods because the white-font was tempting me too much. I'm totally with Vonnie, Erin and PC.
there were some funny stuff in it and I walked out of the theater chuckling.
This is me.
What made the movie enjoyable for me is that I didn't walk out of the theater freaked out. Which is also what makes me prone to underestimating the horror piece -- a friend asked me if it was gory, and I almost said no. Which would have been a total lie!
On the screencap my favorite is Angry Molesting Tree!
That was my favorite too, quester. Apparently Drew really likes the Dismemberment Goblins, who are just two dudes who really enjoy dismembering people. I will have to look out for them next time. The mechanical scorpion was fun too.
Oh, I quite liked that one, too, P-C!