Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:12:46 -0400
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Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
it.
That thing is like a little Film History 101 brush-up course.
I have been horrified to see reviews where infants describe it as an
homage to Indiana Jones, as if cliffhanger serials didn't exist before
Spielberg.
But really it goes way back to much more illustrious inspirators than
just those goofy Buck Rogers serials. The old-school montages and the
shot design involved in them harkens to the god damn Russian silent
epic historical films. Very 1920s. The art design in general pulls from
semi-classical illustrations like Dore's Bible and Dante pics (as did
the design in the 1932 King Kong, which this frequently resembles).
The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
Being a Doc Savage fan, I kept finding myself superimposing Doc over
the story. There's a LOT of Doc Savage in it.
Reminded me also of my one novella, THE THIRD FIST, which is exactly in
this vein, homage to a genre that was extremely dumb yet indescribably
cool and marvelous. An excuse to utilize every single toy in the toy
chest... the Fort Apache set AND the Dinosaur Age set, AND the Moon
Explorer set, PLUS the Erector Set.
I am so jealous I could fucking scream!! But I'm glad SOMEBODY got to
do it even if it wasn't me.
The really TELLING thing, though, is that we were the only people in
the theater. Big empty room full of treasure. I guess this movie wasn't
exactly a blockbuster, since it's... different.
No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
apparently.
--
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Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
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Correspondent:: spiffy@att.net
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 01:37:26 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:12:46 -0400, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
wrote:
>Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
>was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
>it.
>
>That thing is like a little Film History 101 brush-up course.
>
>I have been horrified to see reviews where infants describe it as an
>homage to Indiana Jones, as if cliffhanger serials didn't exist before
>Spielberg.
>
>But really it goes way back to much more illustrious inspirators than
>just those goofy Buck Rogers serials. The old-school montages and the
>shot design involved in them harkens to the god damn Russian silent
>epic historical films. Very 1920s. The art design in general pulls from
>semi-classical illustrations like Dore's Bible and Dante pics (as did
>the design in the 1932 King Kong, which this frequently resembles).
>
>The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
>after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
>INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
>cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
>end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
>
>Being a Doc Savage fan, I kept finding myself superimposing Doc over
>the story. There's a LOT of Doc Savage in it.
>
>Reminded me also of my one novella, THE THIRD FIST, which is exactly in
>this vein, homage to a genre that was extremely dumb yet indescribably
>cool and marvelous. An excuse to utilize every single toy in the toy
>chest... the Fort Apache set AND the Dinosaur Age set, AND the Moon
>Explorer set, PLUS the Erector Set.
>
>I am so jealous I could fucking scream!! But I'm glad SOMEBODY got to
>do it even if it wasn't me.
>
>The really TELLING thing, though, is that we were the only people in
>the theater. Big empty room full of treasure. I guess this movie wasn't
>exactly a blockbuster, since it's... different.
>
>No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
>over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
>apparently.
...when those giant robots landed and started marching thunderously
down the streets... i had 8 simultaneous orgasms. ...and that rocket
at the end... was I the only one in the theater hoping to see it take
off successfully and accomplish its mission? I started rooting against
sky captain at that point...
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:48:32 -0500
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in message
news:151020041412463452%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com...
> Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
> was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
> it.
>
> That thing is like a little Film History 101 brush-up course.
>
> I have been horrified to see reviews where infants describe it as an
> homage to Indiana Jones, as if cliffhanger serials didn't exist before
> Spielberg.
>
> But really it goes way back to much more illustrious inspirators than
> just those goofy Buck Rogers serials. The old-school montages and the
> shot design involved in them harkens to the god damn Russian silent
> epic historical films. Very 1920s. The art design in general pulls from
> semi-classical illustrations like Dore's Bible and Dante pics (as did
> the design in the 1932 King Kong, which this frequently resembles).
>
> The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
> after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
> INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
> cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
> end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
>
> Being a Doc Savage fan, I kept finding myself superimposing Doc over
> the story. There's a LOT of Doc Savage in it.
>
> Reminded me also of my one novella, THE THIRD FIST, which is exactly in
> this vein, homage to a genre that was extremely dumb yet indescribably
> cool and marvelous. An excuse to utilize every single toy in the toy
> chest... the Fort Apache set AND the Dinosaur Age set, AND the Moon
> Explorer set, PLUS the Erector Set.
>
> I am so jealous I could fucking scream!! But I'm glad SOMEBODY got to
> do it even if it wasn't me.
>
> The really TELLING thing, though, is that we were the only people in
> the theater. Big empty room full of treasure. I guess this movie wasn't
> exactly a blockbuster, since it's... different.
>
> No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
> over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
> apparently.
>
I saw it a week after it opened, and the theater had a fair-sized crowd.
I can see the Doc Savage-ness of this, too. Granted, we only saw the one
aide instead of five, but they would have been distracting, really. The
gadgeteering was great fun.
I may have to see about picking up the DVD for this one. If nothing else,
I'd love to hear the director's commentary. "Now I got this part from here,
and that part from there, and..."
Paul
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 15 Oct 2004 18:54:00 -0700
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in message news:<151020041412463452%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com>...
> Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
> was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
> it.
.............
> No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
> over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
> apparently.
Now, now, don't commence to complimenting the SPECIAL EFFECTS or some
uppity doofus will jump yer shit. Some folk just don't cotton to all
them purdy pitchers, feller.
I was on the fence about seeing it, but two pals wanted to go and I
was pleasantly surprised. It was one big round of "Commando Cody" in
EverythingVision. The most impressive thing is really that Kerry
Conran's opening segment of the airship docking took him a couple of
YEARS to realize at home, yet sold the producers on a full-length
feature. Its a pity that because it really IS the first film to be
produced totally in this manner, it probably won't make the big bucks,
but I suspect it will be referred to as a sort of Rosetta Stone in the
future. Despite being sepia-toned and derivatively sappy, its a fun
flick that opens one hell of a big door.
Now if you could get a CAR to offer the same gas mileage he got from
that one fighter plane, THAT would be one fuck of a world of tomorrow.
--
HellPope Huey
Worse than an Ewok with eczema
"Whaddaya got under the foil, Mr. Party Pooper?
Some party poop?"
- "King of the Hill"
In "Bob" we trust. All others pay cash --
as soon as possible and directly to me.
- Rev. AuntiKrist
Correspondent:: "NeuroManson" Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:50:31 GMT
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I loved the robots, personally, very much like in the Fleisher studio's
Superman cartoon (they later got reused by Hayo Miyazaki in a Lupin the
Third episode, and again in Laputa).
I grew up watching the old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials when they
were run on public TV (early to mid 70s), so it was very cool to see similar
concepts and designs being used with new technology.
There was a lot of ideas swiped from Jules Verne (who has retroactive yeti
status in my book) as well, with the massive airships a'la Robur the
Conqueror (later swiped in the steamerpunk series Last Exile).
A great amalgam of classical sci fi concepts, really. I downloaded a copy
and was impressed enough that, once I finish paying off that vial of Bob's
sweat, I'm going to plunk down my first born and see that movie in the
moviehouse.
"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in message
news:151020041412463452%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com...
> Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
> was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
> it.
>
> That thing is like a little Film History 101 brush-up course.
>
> I have been horrified to see reviews where infants describe it as an
> homage to Indiana Jones, as if cliffhanger serials didn't exist before
> Spielberg.
>
> But really it goes way back to much more illustrious inspirators than
> just those goofy Buck Rogers serials. The old-school montages and the
> shot design involved in them harkens to the god damn Russian silent
> epic historical films. Very 1920s. The art design in general pulls from
> semi-classical illustrations like Dore's Bible and Dante pics (as did
> the design in the 1932 King Kong, which this frequently resembles).
>
> The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
> after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
> INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
> cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
> end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
>
> Being a Doc Savage fan, I kept finding myself superimposing Doc over
> the story. There's a LOT of Doc Savage in it.
>
> Reminded me also of my one novella, THE THIRD FIST, which is exactly in
> this vein, homage to a genre that was extremely dumb yet indescribably
> cool and marvelous. An excuse to utilize every single toy in the toy
> chest... the Fort Apache set AND the Dinosaur Age set, AND the Moon
> Explorer set, PLUS the Erector Set.
>
> I am so jealous I could fucking scream!! But I'm glad SOMEBODY got to
> do it even if it wasn't me.
>
> The really TELLING thing, though, is that we were the only people in
> the theater. Big empty room full of treasure. I guess this movie wasn't
> exactly a blockbuster, since it's... different.
>
> No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
> over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
> apparently.
>
> --
> The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
> (4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
> Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
> P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
> Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the
SubGenius
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> For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
> or email: jesus@subgenius.com
> PRABOB
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:48:17 -0700
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
>
> The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
> after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
> INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
> cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
> end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
I'm waiting for someone to make a movie where they use only ideas that
DON'T come from other movies.
I was just thinking today as I completely reassembled a big
coffeetable sized Joseph Cornell book (some kind of fancy "modern"
binding technique obviously all done by machine, in which the adhesives
all degrade into a gummy mess which no longer actually holds the book
together - the Melting Slimebomb technique of bookbinding) JUST
THINKING, I say, how Fans of any medium, like art or comics or kitschy
old adventure movies, eventually make themselves unable to view things
on their own merits and can only see things in comparison to other
things in their field of interest. Like an art fan can't look at
ANYTHING, from a sunset to a box of grubby doll heads, without saying
the name of the artist it reminds them of. Like comics fans would
rather read comics which are a commentary on comics or better yet on
comics FANS, and fans of certain types of movies prefer movies which
continually refer to other movies or satirize and commentarize on
movies, or even The Cinema. I theorize that of the vast majority of
people who can't really do anything interesting or creative themselves
there is a certain proportion of them who really wish they could, and
make a point of learning all they can about the things they wish they
could create and eventually a very few manage to make a PASTICHE of all
the things they admire. Or else they just look for and admire
pastiches, so the way to get the approval and therefore the dollars of
those particular people is to MAKE THEM FEEL SMART BY SHOWING THEM
THINGS THEY RECOGNIZE. Like for example that movie The Royal
Tennenbaums which was ALL like that. Or like all that "Art" which is
just some sort of commentary on "Art" and all self referential and shit.
Thing is, with so many such pastiche lovers so active in their fields
it is hard to get away with doing anything in one of those fields
without having it instantly compared with all its predecessors, or at
least as Stang indicated, with the two predecessors the would be
authorities on the subject know of, for review purposes. In Altman's
"The Player," EVERY movie plot is described in terms of the titles of
two previous movies. And if you put ANYTHING in a box and say it's
supposed to be art, you are automatically competing with anything
Cornell ever did, which ties this paragraph into a neat little bow. The end.
Mrs. Nenslo wanted to see About Schmidt, and I stuck with it as long as
I could but had to bail when it started to look like it was going to get
UGLY - i.e. when it looked like Nicholson and Kathy Bates were going to
get "friendly." I thought "I don't know what those two are going to end
up doing but whatever it is I DO NOT want to see it." Ugly in a
Hellpope Huey kind of way. I was pretty impressed with the way the most
interesting things in the movie were things like a shot of a ditch or
someone hosing down a truck, or some telephone poles, and there was no
actual STORY. The one real baffler was the shot of Schmidt sleeping in
his bathtub, which exactly duplicated the famous painting of the death
of Jean Paul Marat. WTF?? I went downstairs and washed the dishes
instead, and immediately thought "This is LOTS more fun than watching
that movie." One line videobox blurb - "Not as much fun as washing the dishes."
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 16 Oct 2004 19:58:27 -0700
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nenslo wrote in message news:<41719720.C97FBBD1@yahoox.com>...
>>>> I theorize that of the vast majority of
> people who can't really do anything interesting or creative themselves
> there is a certain proportion of them who really wish they could, and
> make a point of learning all they can about the things they wish they
> could create and eventually a very few manage to make a PASTICHE of all
> the things they admire.
I sprained my left trapezius when I refrained from commenting on this
statement. Even BEGINNING could go all sorts of varied and awful
places. It'd be like trying to pluck the spines from a sea urchin with
one's TEETH. The pile of gouged-out eyeballs and torn-off testicles
could reach Madame Salacia's WAIST. Nope, here be dragons & stuff.
> Mrs. Nenslo wanted to see About Schmidt, and I stuck with it as long as
> I could but had to bail when it started to look like it was going to get
> UGLY - i.e. when it looked like Nicholson and Kathy Bates were going to
> get "friendly." I thought "I don't know what those two are going to end
> up doing but whatever it is I DO NOT want to see it." Ugly in a
> Hellpope Huey kind of way.
Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
--
HellPope Huey
Southeastern distributor of Weltshmertz Cola,
for those who prefer their bitterness straight-up
with no lemon twist
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble
as when it foregoes revenge
and dares to forgive an injury.
- E. H. Chapin
When the dog eats the leftover pizza you're screwed.
When there's a nuclear war you're F**KED.
- Saint Joe Cosby
The Old Guard boots Bush
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:22:16 -0700
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HellPopeHuey wrote:
>
>
> Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
> least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
>
The kind of "apron" you got can't BE taken off, only hoisted out of the
way. I'll "ugly" YOU.
Correspondent:: hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey)
Date: 17 Oct 2004 17:45:53 -0700
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nenslo wrote in message news:<4172AA47.33BF751A@yahoox.com>...
> HellPopeHuey wrote:
> > Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
> > least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
> >
> > The kind of "apron" you got can't BE taken off, only hoisted out of the
> way. I'll "ugly" YOU.
I have mice living under it. I call the white one Mitzi.
--
HellPope Huey ~ www.subgenius.com
This church is like watching a 450-pound black waitress
breakdance nude in a wading pool filled with Crisco.
"Kerry works a crowd the same way
Frankenstein's monster worked villagers."
- Nick Gillespie
GLOBULAR WARMING IS HERE. IT'S THE DAY
AFTER THE DAY AFTER! YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!
- Rev. Unclaimed Mysteries
Correspondent:: Rev DJ Epoch Date: 19 Oct 2004 12:14:47 GMT
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hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey) wrote in
news:8cc8cffc.0410171645.7e56da67@posting.google.com:
> nenslo wrote in message
> news:<4172AA47.33BF751A@yahoox.com>...
>> HellPopeHuey wrote:
>
>> > Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
>> > least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
>> >
>> > The kind of "apron" you got can't BE taken off, only hoisted out of
>> > the
>> way. I'll "ugly" YOU.
>
> I have mice living under it. I call the white one Mitzi.
>
Ahh... Huey and Nenslo, the Abbott and Costello of alt.slack
--
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Cathedral, Carwash and Dancehall- Home of the Traci Lords Memorial Brothel
Rev. DJ Epoch - proprietor and janitor
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Even Bush's home state is miffed -
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:13:56 GMT
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In article ,
Rev DJ Epoch wrote:
> hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey) wrote in
> news:8cc8cffc.0410171645.7e56da67@posting.google.com:
>
> > nenslo wrote in message
> > news:<4172AA47.33BF751A@yahoox.com>...
> >> HellPopeHuey wrote:
> >
> >> > Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
> >> > least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
> >> >
> >> > The kind of "apron" you got can't BE taken off, only hoisted out of
> >> > the way. I'll "ugly" YOU.
> >
> > I have mice living under it. I call the white one Mitzi.
> Ahh... Huey and Nenslo, the Abbott and Costello of alt.slack
I'm the taller, good-looking one; Nenslo is the hunched-over troll with
his hand in his pants alla time.
Just to stay on-topic, I like giant robots. I wish one would tromp
Nenslo's garden.
--
HellPope Huey
Pity the truly Lost, for they are the ones
who keep showing up at political rallies
and demanding scratch-&-sniff centerfolds
in Cat Fancy magazine.
To get the attention of a large animal,
be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
it helps to know what part of it feels pain.
Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
"I'm not going to be your monkey."
- Jon Stewart
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:36:44 +1000
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> Just to stay on-topic, I like giant robots. I wish one would tromp
> Nenslo's garden.
i wonder if you can get an Asimo, or maybe that sumo-wrestling robot
that was in slashdot last week. reverse-engineer it and build a replica,
ten times the original size.
and then send it FORTH.
i wonder if the police could track it back to your house. aside from the
square footprints in the ground. and aside from the fact that dozens of
people saw it leaving your garage. okay. plan B...
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:17:51 -0700
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>
> > Ahh... Huey and Nenslo, the Abbott and Costello of alt.slack
I was thinking more like Wheeler and Woolsey.
>
> I'm the taller, good-looking one; Nenslo is the hunched-over troll with
> his hand in his pants alla time.
I'm the one with big black glasses drawn on my face.
Correspondent:: "Dick Hertz (Hey, who's Dick Hertz?)" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:09:03 -0400
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x-no-archive: yes
HellPope Huey wrote:
> In article ,
> Rev DJ Epoch wrote:
>
>
>>hellpopehuey@subgenius.com (HellPopeHuey) wrote in
>>news:8cc8cffc.0410171645.7e56da67@posting.google.com:
>>
>>
>>>nenslo wrote in message
>>>news:<4172AA47.33BF751A@yahoox.com>...
>>>
>>>>HellPopeHuey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Oh, my "ugly" is way prettier than you goomers think. Besides, at
>>>>>least when *I* fuck, I take off my apron first, ya rancid old coot.
>>>>>
>>>>>The kind of "apron" you got can't BE taken off, only hoisted out of
>>>>>the way. I'll "ugly" YOU.
>>>
>>> I have mice living under it. I call the white one Mitzi.
>
>
>>Ahh... Huey and Nenslo, the Abbott and Costello of alt.slack
>
>
> I'm the taller, good-looking one; Nenslo is the hunched-over troll with
> his hand in his pants alla time.
>
> Just to stay on-topic, I like giant robots. I wish one would tromp
Ask and ye shall receive.
http://www.giantrobot.com/
> Nenslo's garden.
>
> --
>
> HellPope Huey
> Pity the truly Lost, for they are the ones
> who keep showing up at political rallies
> and demanding scratch-&-sniff centerfolds
> in Cat Fancy magazine.
>
> To get the attention of a large animal,
> be it an elephant or a bureaucracy,
> it helps to know what part of it feels pain.
> Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
> - Kelvin Throop
>
> "I'm not going to be your monkey."
> - Jon Stewart
Correspondent:: Zapanaz Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:00:00 -0700
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that movie rocked.
--
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International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
"It depends what your definition of 'uranium' is."
Correspondent:: "c-bee1" Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:06:10 GMT
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in message
news:151020041412463452%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com...
> Or Captain Tomorrow and the World of Atlantis or whatever it is. Wei
> was home "sick" from work and we went to the nearby thee-ater to see
> it.
>
> That thing is like a little Film History 101 brush-up course.
>
> I have been horrified to see reviews where infants describe it as an
> homage to Indiana Jones, as if cliffhanger serials didn't exist before
> Spielberg.
>
> But really it goes way back to much more illustrious inspirators than
> just those goofy Buck Rogers serials. The old-school montages and the
> shot design involved in them harkens to the god damn Russian silent
> epic historical films. Very 1920s. The art design in general pulls from
> semi-classical illustrations like Dore's Bible and Dante pics (as did
> the design in the 1932 King Kong, which this frequently resembles).
>
> The story however sure seems familiar. This is another movie director
> after my own heart, somebody who sat down and said, how can I work, ALL
> INTO ONE STORY, EVERYTHING COOL: dinosaurs, Nazis, lost underwater
> cities, lost Himalayan cities, war movies, ray guns, giant robots, the
> end of the world and spunky girl reporters?
>
> Being a Doc Savage fan, I kept finding myself superimposing Doc over
> the story. There's a LOT of Doc Savage in it.
>
> Reminded me also of my one novella, THE THIRD FIST, which is exactly in
> this vein, homage to a genre that was extremely dumb yet indescribably
> cool and marvelous. An excuse to utilize every single toy in the toy
> chest... the Fort Apache set AND the Dinosaur Age set, AND the Moon
> Explorer set, PLUS the Erector Set.
>
> I am so jealous I could fucking scream!! But I'm glad SOMEBODY got to
> do it even if it wasn't me.
>
> The really TELLING thing, though, is that we were the only people in
> the theater. Big empty room full of treasure. I guess this movie wasn't
> exactly a blockbuster, since it's... different.
>
> No cusswords, no titties, no blood. Just general graphic design WAY
> over the heads and eyeballs of these modern day movie audiences,
> apparently.
My dad's a WWII buff, so I took him to see it. Imagine his
consternation! rofl
You had the moon explorer set? YOU SUCK!!! Oh well, I've probably
benefitted. =)