Looks like a lot of you are poking your heads in to find nothing new.
Thanks, been busy running lots of errands, hanging out with friends, and doing work around the house.
Also watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Fantastic film, and for all his deep flaws, I’m amazed at the vision and directing chops held by Terry Gilliam. The performance out of B-list performers like Tom Waits, and Vern “Mini-Me” Troyler were just stunning. The film is VERY weird and existential, so if you like that, and it plays quite similarly to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen So if you liked the Baron, check it out, its VERY cool.
OK now I need to work on some handloads, Maybe some more posts tonight!
You know…I wanted to like that movie, I really did.
Just couldn’t pull it off. Too strange for me.
Maybe I just didn’t do enough hallucinogenic drugs in my youth to appreciate it.
Dude, Tom Waits as the Devil, I’m sold right there:
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Sailor,
It was, without question, F’ED UP.
I was a little nervous about renting it, because, let’s face it, Terry Gilliam is about three sheets of blotter paper over the edge… but he also did some amazing stuff with Python.
I watched it with the mindset of “Python with a large production budget” and it made a bit more sense.
I really enjoyed it overall. But that might have been the booze.
You know what’s odd. In the director commentary for “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” Gillaim admits that the acid-trip scenes he directed directly from Dr. Thompson’s texts and from accounts of others, as he has never taken hallucinogenic drugs like Acid or Mescaline!
His visions come, I suspect, 100% from Crazy…which work the same way, just not when you chose them too.
Have you seen Lost in La Mancha? I just caught it on Netflix on Friday; talk about a missed opportunity.
No, I haven’t. I should look into it. By chance is it on Instant view? This was the first physical Netflix disc I’ve watched in about six months, as I’m so overjoyed by the selection and convenience of Instant view.
Not to mention the fact that my video library rivals most independent video stores…and rivals ALL chain stores if you go by liking weird shit that people have never heard of, or few people have seen, as is my and the wife’s collection.
‘Twas indeed on instant view. I was home sick and spent the day watching documentaries on the Wii. Lost in La Mancha was the high point, and it’s a tossup whether the crazy evangelicals in An Audience of One or the LARPers in Monster Camp were more unhinged. 😉
[Nothing against LARPers in principle, mind you, but if you know any rennies you can pick out the types instantly.]
Hot Dog! It’ll be added as soon as I get home tonight!!! What were some of the other ones you watched while I’m bulking up the mammoth Queue I have?
Oh and I know a TON of LARPers and Ren-Fare types. And yep you can often pick them out very well…and they get even worse when they’re in costume!
Hell House was about another crazy religious group, and Ringers showed me that Lord of the Rings fanboys may just be worse than Trekkers. 😉
Filled it out with the Santa Claus episode of MST3k and an episode of Ripping Yarns, which is kind of like Monty Python Lite.
I’ll have you know I own a copy of the un-lampoon’d version of Santaclause Vs. The Martians! (Amoung many other of those classic Sci-Fi horror films)
No, no, no, my friend. Not Santa Claus Conquers the Martians; the 1959 Mexican production of Santa Claus, another MST3K classic in its own right. It isn’t as strong all the way through as, say, The Werewolf, or Future War, but I’ve been quoting a few of the riffs since 1993.
… and Ringers showed me that Lord of the Rings fanboys may just be worse than Trekkers.
Odd that you mention Ringers, seeing as I just picked up a copy for 75 cents. (I love Going Out Of Business sales…)
Awesome. To a certain extent it reads like a commercial for the films, and most of it’s common knowledge about the history of the books. But there’s some good stuff in there.