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HopperUK posted:oh goddamn that's my first name, I hate it when it's on TV. It happens rarely enough that it's wildly distracting. I wonder if people with more commonly used names just get used to it or if it's annoying. I’m hearing double. Four Siobhan’s!
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oldpainless posted:I’m hearing double. Four Siobhan’s! more like old craicless
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That Italian Guy posted:Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, episode "The Autopsy". It does say it was a larva when it crawls into Eddie, though it seems to have some sort of... weird racial memory thing going on too. So it could just be young, dumb, and full of itself. Regardless yeah that alien dumb as poo poo. Puts on an excellent monologue though.
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:Hate to tell ya, but hooking is about the only thing those dudes have in common. I'm having a Berenstein Bears moment here
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Del Toro Cabinet, ep "Dreams in the Witch House" - why even use the name if the story has nothing to do with it? As in this is a less faithful adaptation of the source material than Super Mario Bros: the Movie. E: the 1993 one. That Italian Guy has a new favorite as of 15:03 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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I think it's a script they had lying around and GdT asked for a Lovecraft adaptation so they crammed in: 1) new England 2) a witch 3) dreams 4) an attic room with witchery 5) Jenkins ... and called it a day.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think it's a script they had lying around and GdT asked for a Lovecraft adaptation so they crammed in:
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Were there at least any Italians in the episode? Any swarthy folk? That's the last square I need for Lovecraft bingo.
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Not quite everything Lovecraft is in public domain since he also did some team ups with authors who lived longer. Watching the new season of Titans and I'm kind of annoyed by how the team is completely inconsistent in costumes. Nightwing, Starfire and Beast Boy all wear costumes but Raven, Superboy (I know he wears a specific outfit but it is just a t-shirt and jeans) and Tim don't. Also dumb how everyone is so casual with secret identities even though it has caused problems for the characters like how Hawk and Dove had their house blown up in season 2 and Scarecrow taking over Bruce's mansion in season 3.
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That Italian Guy posted:Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, episode "The Autopsy". The whole point of the episode is that the alien is dumb. The doctor even mocks him about and says that "while you had this dumb monologue about how great you are I figured out a way to kill your dumb rear end".
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That Italian Guy posted:It's so weird though... everything Lovecraft wrote is public domain I think? So if they wanted to do "generic ghost story" they could have picked something a bit more fitting from the full catalog. I guess they chose this one because of the name recognition? But by now it should be evident that "pick beloved property, improve it until it becomes irrecognizable" is almost never a good idea. I assume the script that was lying around already had ol' Grinty moving into a new apartment and probably having dreams, it was probably the story with the closest things they could shoehorn in to their existing script. A reminder, this was from the director of Twilight.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Were there at least any Italians in the episode? Any swarthy folk? That's the last square I need for Lovecraft bingo.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Were there at least any Italians in the episode? Any swarthy folk? That's the last square I need for Lovecraft bingo. There's three black characters plus two indigenous characters.
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Alhazred posted:There's three black characters plus two indigenous characters. Unimaginable cosmic horrors...
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muscles like this! posted:Not quite everything Lovecraft is in public domain since he also did some team ups with authors who lived longer. There's a super hero named Tim?
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Nostradingus posted:There's a super hero named Tim? Also known as the Toolman.
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HopperUK posted:oh goddamn that's my first name, I hate it when it's on TV. It happens rarely enough that it's wildly distracting. I wonder if people with more commonly used names just get used to it or if it's annoying. I haven't gone by my full first name since, I dunno, my first day of grade school and boy howdy there was this stretch from around November 2016 to Present Day where I'm super glad of that decision.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I haven't gone by my full first name since, I dunno, my first day of grade school and boy howdy there was this stretch from around November 2016 to Present Day where I'm super glad of that decision.
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Nostradingus posted:There's a super hero named Tim? Should have said Tim Drake but didn't want to just say Robin because the two other Robins have worn costumes.
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credburn posted:I'm having a Berenstein Bears moment here You might be thinking of Creepshow 2, where a lady is tormented by a black guy she hit-and-runs on a rainy night.
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HopperUK posted:oh goddamn that's my first name, I hate it when it's on TV. It happens rarely enough that it's wildly distracting. I wonder if people with more commonly used names just get used to it or if it's annoying. One of my earliest childhood memories is of watching The Great Mouse Detective in school one day and, since I shared my first name with the little mouse girl, literally every time any character said it all of my classmates would turn around to just sort of, look at me expectantly?? Which was terrible because by age 8 my favorite thing to be in public was "Not Perceived On Any Level" I really don't know what they were hoping for. Maybe they all thought I'd rip my head off like it was a Scooby Doo-style mask and there'd be a Disney character underneath
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Oh, mine was worse, my real name is Fidget 
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Alhazred posted:There's three black characters plus two indigenous characters. Oh....the squamanity...
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Were there at least any Italians in the episode? Any swarthy folk? That's the last square I need for Lovecraft bingo. I actually don't think the dreams in the witch house has any italians, he is instead very dismissive of the superstitious poles who think he is weird for locking himself in the creepy witch room with the weird carvings everywhere for hours at a time and also he digs up a witch and the witch murders a guy but obviously he died of fright because he is so superstitious and polish. OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 20:20 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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I'm honestly kinda pissed they didn't do that sorry about the immortal wizard who cursed that dude's bloodline to all die at 30? or something like that. Big spoilers He WAS a wizard, but the only magic spell he knew was Alakablam cause he snuck in and shot em. I think. It's been literal decades since I read that story.
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OwlFancier posted:I actually don't think the dreams in the witch house has any italians, he is instead very dismissive of the superstitious poles who think he is weird for locking himself in the creepy witch room with the weird carvings everywhere for hours at a time and also he digs up a witch and the witch murders a guy but obviously he died of fright because he is so superstitious and polish. Edit: btw I've just realized what this version of Jenkins reminded me of and it's Jago from Aladdin
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Has there ever been some alien invasion movie where the humans who meet the aliens first are "gently caress it, take our planet, our leaders are poo poo!" I kinda want a Species remake. The first one. Show me Sil getting Tindr.
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It bugs me when a character reads message when the text is plainly visible onscreen. Brought on by an episode of Columbo I just watched that didn't do that, trusted the viewer to actually read the note, and was so refreshing. (It was the one with Leonard Nimoy as a surgeon.) (Somehow offscreen narration--say from the author of the note--feels different, so I don't count that.)
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Len posted:I don't care or even notice I was one of three matthews when i graduated high school. I was one of seven matthews when i graduated college
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That Italian Guy posted:It's so weird though... everything Lovecraft wrote is public domain I think? So if they wanted to do "generic ghost story" they could have picked something a bit more fitting from the full catalog. I guess they chose this one because of the name recognition? But by now it should be evident that "pick beloved property, improve it until it becomes irrecognizable" is almost never a good idea. See also the Phillip K Dick anthology series Electric Dreams where each episode was an adaptation of one of his short stories, and by adaptation I mean anything from "we needlessly and senselessly changed the ending to make it worse" to "we kept the title".
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credburn posted:I'm having a Berenstein Bears moment here Maybe you were thinking of the Hitchhiker ghost from one of the Creepshow shorts E: dammit, beaten
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Is Dreams in the Witchhouse even considered top 15 Lovecraft? I've read through his collected works a few times and I barely remember that one
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Naruto Legend of the Stone of Gelel: The worst Sand sibling, Kankuro, is in this movie, but the best Sand sibling, Temari, is not in this movie. Main antagonist loses because he can't stop being evil for five minutes.
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Breetai posted:See also the Phillip K Dick anthology series Electric Dreams where each episode was an adaptation of one of his short stories, and by adaptation I mean anything from "we needlessly and senselessly changed the ending to make it worse" to "we kept the title". What is it with sci-fi adaptations that make them do this? Especially with PKD, the ending is the justification for the entire story so much of the time. Do they think that fans will be disappointed if they know the ending already? I think one of the worst offenders of this is Minority Report. The whole point from the story is that the pre-cognition system works, and in order to prevent it from being shut down, our hero chooses to fulfill the prophecy and commit the murder but that is all stripped away for *insert generic conspiracy here*.
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Why did they bother doing a season(so far) recap after episode one of The Sandman? It feels like they don't think I was actually watching.
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It's good for someone like me who only watched the recaps.
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nesamdoom posted:Why did they bother doing a season(so far) recap after episode one of The Sandman? It feels like they don't think I was actually watching. Sometimes they do this to pad out the episode. I don't watch a lot of anime but I remember being utterly fed up with the Demon Slayer anime doing this.
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nesamdoom posted:Why did they bother doing a season(so far) recap after episode one of The Sandman? It feels like they don't think I was actually watching. I appreciated that in Sandman, as so much happened in episode one that it felt like four episodes long.
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Mamkute posted:Naruto Legend of the Stone of Gelel: Why are you wasting time on anything Naruto that doesn't include Rock Lee or Might Guy? There's really no accounting for taste.
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Also I loved Kankuro, his puppets owned. I also liked that guy who turned himself into a puppet. It's always weird with someone like that though when they end up in a hospital and all their usual uniform is taken away .Without his hoodie/one-piece and makeup while he was recovering from the poison he was almost unrecognisable.
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