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Ancalagon
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UPDATE with lots of potential...Necron 99 wrote: ↑March 13th, 2019, 8:11 pm Looks like one of SKs early fantasy books will be coming out as a full length film in the future. My only concern is that The Dark Tower didn't do so well and I hope this one doesn't follow the same path. I remember reading this back in middle-school, I believe. My friends and I were big into King's books along with those by Dean Koontz so it's been a long time coming to see it finally adapted to screen.
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Full article HEREOutlander and The Handmaid’s Tale director Mike Barker has been hired to tell the story of a young boy named Jack Sawyer and his sprawling quest through a monstrous alternate dimension to find the mystical object that can cure his dying mother. He might just save two worlds in the process.
Amblin and the Kennedy/Marshall Company are producing the film, and they have been involved in the project for decades. Chris Sparling (who wrote the claustrophobic Ryan Reynolds thriller Buried), will adapt the script. Jeff Sneider of Collider first broke the filmmaker news.
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Necron 99
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Hopefully so. The last two installments of King novels, doesn't do much to inspire me. From what I recall, the new series of The Stand, wasn't received very well because of changes made to characters and story. Similarly, I heard mixed reviews about The Dark Tower, though I don't recall the specifics, just that many reviews weren't favorable.
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“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Necron 99
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Someone found a use for their old VHS tapes, and it's pretty damn cool.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Necron 99
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Been watching a new show on NBC (via Hulu) called Debris, if you like sci-fi, I highly recommend checking it out. It has a semi-X-files feel. The premise is that somewhere above the Earth's atmosphere, a craft of alien origin was destroyed and the debris started raining down into various parts of the world.
Each piece of debris encountered, seems to create or cause different effects upon the area, environment, or people, in which they fall; some good, some bad. Multiple governments and shadow agencies are vying for control of the debris for their own reasons, kind of like an arms race for the alien technology. The US and UK are working together, the two protagonists of the show are a US CIA agent and a UK MI6 agent, traveling to different locations solving the problems caused by the debris at each one. The US and UK are trying to gather as much of the debris as possible to re-build the entire craft, but an unknown shadow agency has also been stealing or using pieces of debris for differing reasons. It's mentioned that other countries like Russia and China have also retrieved pieces of debris and been conducting their own experiments and testing.
Overall, I really like it, it has that 90s-era vibe of the shows from back in the day with that "mystery of the week" in each episode which still carrying that over-arching storyline of a bigger picture.
Each piece of debris encountered, seems to create or cause different effects upon the area, environment, or people, in which they fall; some good, some bad. Multiple governments and shadow agencies are vying for control of the debris for their own reasons, kind of like an arms race for the alien technology. The US and UK are working together, the two protagonists of the show are a US CIA agent and a UK MI6 agent, traveling to different locations solving the problems caused by the debris at each one. The US and UK are trying to gather as much of the debris as possible to re-build the entire craft, but an unknown shadow agency has also been stealing or using pieces of debris for differing reasons. It's mentioned that other countries like Russia and China have also retrieved pieces of debris and been conducting their own experiments and testing.
Overall, I really like it, it has that 90s-era vibe of the shows from back in the day with that "mystery of the week" in each episode which still carrying that over-arching storyline of a bigger picture.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Necron 99
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After struggling through 5 episodes of Lovecraft Country (see my comments/reviews in previous posts) and giving up on the series, I see that the show has been cancelled by HBO after the one season. I'm not surprise at all, it had a lot of potential, but instead of writing a good story involving some in-depth Lovecraft, they turned it into something nobody wanted. Oh, well, probably for the best.
Along similar lines, I ran across this video on Youtube which hits the nail on the head in every aspect, regarding Hollywood and modern movies/television. Nothing we haven't already been saying for a year or more now, films today just flat out suck, for a variety of reasons.
Along similar lines, I ran across this video on Youtube which hits the nail on the head in every aspect, regarding Hollywood and modern movies/television. Nothing we haven't already been saying for a year or more now, films today just flat out suck, for a variety of reasons.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ancalagon
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Emphasis mine.Necron 99 wrote: ↑July 18th, 2021, 7:16 pm After struggling through 5 episodes of Lovecraft Country (see my comments/reviews in previous posts) and giving up on the series, I see that the show has been cancelled by HBO after the one season. I'm not surprise at all, it had a lot of potential, but instead of writing a good story involving some in-depth Lovecraft, they turned it into something, nobody wanted. Oh, well, probably for the best.
Along similar lines, I ran across this video on Youtube which hits the nail on the head in every aspect, regarding Hollywood and modern movies/television. Nothing we haven't already been saying for a year or more now, films today just flat out suck, for a variety of reasons.
Its a special grade of stupid to put Lovecraft in the title of a show and not execute with a heaping helping of Lovecraft horror goodness.
I agree with a lot of what the guy being interviewed said. A couple of things in particular stood out.
1. Entertain me. Don't lecture to me. Amen to that!
2. The billion dollar blockbuster may not be around for a long time. I disagree. The dude is flat out wrong. Dumb audiences will continue to throw $$$ at studious to watch turds / dumb shit on the screen. And there is no shortage of dumb, or significantly less demanding, folks.
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Necron 99
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Last night I watched the new movie, The Unholy, starring Jeffery Dean Morgan. I like Morgan in pretty much everything I've seen, this one included, but unfortunately, that is the film's only saving grace. I have to say, I wasn't sure what to expect going in, but I was quickly let down within the first 15 minutes or so and the let down lasted throughout the entire film, barring one scene that I found to be pretty fun to watch.
Personally, I can say without a doubt, this movie was fairly bad. The story/plot was pretty cliche', the writing overall was bad, the directing was bad, everything was predictable and they resorted to so many "jump scares" it made me roll my eyes, the BBEV (big-bad-evil-villain) was flat and boring. Some of the deaths made me scratch my head, like, wtf is going on? The film, aside from having JDM, also starred William Sadler and Carey Elwes, and while Sadler performed well, Elwes played the local catholic bishop and spoke with a strange accent. I believe the accent was supposed to be Irish, but came of sounding wrong/bad in my ears.
I give this film a score of 1.5 out of 5 stars, due to having some well known cast members who do an ok job with their characters, but pretty much everything else is dreck. I was a bit surprised considering this was produced by Sam Raimi, still, don't waste your time/money on this unless you're just a hardcore JDM fan.
Personally, I can say without a doubt, this movie was fairly bad. The story/plot was pretty cliche', the writing overall was bad, the directing was bad, everything was predictable and they resorted to so many "jump scares" it made me roll my eyes, the BBEV (big-bad-evil-villain) was flat and boring. Some of the deaths made me scratch my head, like, wtf is going on? The film, aside from having JDM, also starred William Sadler and Carey Elwes, and while Sadler performed well, Elwes played the local catholic bishop and spoke with a strange accent. I believe the accent was supposed to be Irish, but came of sounding wrong/bad in my ears.
I give this film a score of 1.5 out of 5 stars, due to having some well known cast members who do an ok job with their characters, but pretty much everything else is dreck. I was a bit surprised considering this was produced by Sam Raimi, still, don't waste your time/money on this unless you're just a hardcore JDM fan.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Necron 99
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From the BBC, a chat with Ray Harryhausen:
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Older movies.
Over the last month, I've been working on a movie collection, focusing on digital versions, of movies from the 80s/90s up through the 2000s and early 2010s. Looking back at some of the movies I recall watching as a kid, I realized were from the 70s, 50s, and earlier. Thought it would be fun to post some of the more obscure ones that I remember.
Them! (1954)
My dad had a collection of VHS tapes in our living room, each tape had 2-3 movies on them that he had recorded in some fashion. One of them was the black and white movie, THEM! from 1954. I watched it when I was probably 10 or 11 and it quickly became one of my favorite "50s era monster flicks" after movies like King Kong, Godzilla, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Modern Times (1936)
Before we had a VCR, we had a Laser Disc Player. Coincidentally, the LDP was also the device on which I first watched the animated versions of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, our local library had a pretty good selection of movies on Laser Disc that could be checked out and one of them happened to be Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I had NO idea who Charlie Chaplin was, but the images on the back of the disc looked funny, so I took it home and watched it. To a young, pre-teen kid who enjoyed watching The Three Stooges, I found Chaplin's comedic scenes and antics to be hilarious. I loved watching this movie over and over; this was also my first and maybe my only introduction to silent films.
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
A bit more modern, dropping in 1980, was a unique film from Disney called, The Watcher in the Woods. Unique, because it's probably the only "scary" movie released by Disney that I can personally think of. I enjoyed this one a lot for the eerie atmosphere and suspense and interesting, supernatural-ish plot.
Over the last month, I've been working on a movie collection, focusing on digital versions, of movies from the 80s/90s up through the 2000s and early 2010s. Looking back at some of the movies I recall watching as a kid, I realized were from the 70s, 50s, and earlier. Thought it would be fun to post some of the more obscure ones that I remember.
Them! (1954)
My dad had a collection of VHS tapes in our living room, each tape had 2-3 movies on them that he had recorded in some fashion. One of them was the black and white movie, THEM! from 1954. I watched it when I was probably 10 or 11 and it quickly became one of my favorite "50s era monster flicks" after movies like King Kong, Godzilla, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Modern Times (1936)
Before we had a VCR, we had a Laser Disc Player. Coincidentally, the LDP was also the device on which I first watched the animated versions of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, our local library had a pretty good selection of movies on Laser Disc that could be checked out and one of them happened to be Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I had NO idea who Charlie Chaplin was, but the images on the back of the disc looked funny, so I took it home and watched it. To a young, pre-teen kid who enjoyed watching The Three Stooges, I found Chaplin's comedic scenes and antics to be hilarious. I loved watching this movie over and over; this was also my first and maybe my only introduction to silent films.
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
A bit more modern, dropping in 1980, was a unique film from Disney called, The Watcher in the Woods. Unique, because it's probably the only "scary" movie released by Disney that I can personally think of. I enjoyed this one a lot for the eerie atmosphere and suspense and interesting, supernatural-ish plot.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien