It even has two: Neil Gaiman's MirrorMask felt very much like a Labyrinth retread. And not a particularly good one either. It's a much better coffee-table Making Of book, or possibly a snazzy screensaver, than a film.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Japanese cinema already had 2 labyrinths! Grass Labyrinth and Labyrinth of Dreams, interestingly also made by avant-garde filmmakers with punk sensibilities.
I haven't seen either of them, but I think Labyrinth of Cinema is probably the best because of its building material. It's certainly better than grass, and I've personally never had those cool flying dreams so I'd put cinema above that too.
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There was a Python involved in Labyrinth. I think as a writer.
The only bad part about it was the farting part.
I do miss that Jim Henson style. We need more stuff like Farscape.
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance says yo.
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See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
Farscape is frelling incredible and all the practical effects means that it's aged better, too!
Gosh I loved The Siren (2019). So understated, touching, and fable-like. I was sad to see it end, but maybe more sad to see how mixed the reaction was, looking up reviews afterward. I wonder if it being labelled as a horror film was just immediately a huge marketing misstep.
It also has a hell of a hook, that being "A siren falls in love with a dude and tries to make it work even though her natural instinct is to drown him in a lake" which feels kind of like a fresh take on a lot of vampire fiction. Anyway it was really sweet and sad, so if that's your mood, give it a watch.
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See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
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See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
I love her work but when I found out the sultry-voiced Morrigan was supposed to be, like, 15 years old in DAO I made the Keenan face.
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Watched Kiki's Delivery Service on HBO Max. I've seen it before years ago, and it's a cute story, but it's still kind of a nothing film. Like nothing really happens, it's just cute things happening to this struggling witch trying to start being independent (AT AGE 13!?).
See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
I love her work but when I found out the sultry-voiced Morrigan was supposed to be, like, 15 years old in DAO I made the Keenan face.
I think Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro are my fav Miyazakis and it's not a coincidence that they're two of his simplest and most down-to-earth movies
See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
I love her work but when I found out the sultry-voiced Morrigan was supposed to be, like, 15 years old in DAO I made the Keenan face.
Whaaatt. She had to be older than that.
Given that she is a romance option, and some of the other dialogue, I’d put her at early 20s. But I don’t think it’s explicitly stated.
See I like Dark Crystal and the new one too, but Farscape? I dunno, the muppets looked to muppety and there was some fucking old guy in a bondage suit what? What is? Imma pass on this one.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
I love her work but when I found out the sultry-voiced Morrigan was supposed to be, like, 15 years old in DAO I made the Keenan face.
Whaaatt. She had to be older than that.
Given that she is a romance option, and some of the other dialogue, I’d put her at early 20s. But I don’t think it’s explicitly stated.
I did a little googling and it's not. There are several forum posts around the internet speculating about hers and everybody else's ages. According to one of them, David Gaider (who wrote Morrigan) had said she was not a teenager, but I couldn't find an actual bit from Gaider on it.
I did find this though (spoilers for stuff near the end of an 11 year old game)
In terms of the overarching plot of Dragon Age: Origins and the themes that you were trying to play with there, when did you decide that Origins would end in the way that it did and were there other options that we never knew about that are on the cutting room floor?
The ending with Morrigan, the Dark Ritual, and how that would play into the final battle against the archdemon, that was very early. I think that may even have been… there was a version of that back when the initial plot was concepted. Because, I think when I was pitching the very first plot – when we do our pitches it's like here's a large paragraph that sums up what the major beats of the story will be. And I think that ending was in that. That was kind of a twist on the Morgan Le Fay, King Arthur kind of darkness. I think I definitely wanted to do something about that and have a twist that involved the nature of being a Grey Warden and what it meant to – what the Grey Wardens actually did that made them atypical of a standard heroic trope.
So, I think that was always there. As we got along there were definitely some versions. Initially I think everyone could have a baby with Morrigan, even female players. That was on the table at one point. A lot of it, I think, boiled down to that we had so many pokers in the fire that we just couldn't fulfill all of them. And a lot of it was cut just due to space. Like, there was an entire other version of the encounter with Morrigan at the end if you were in love with her or were her friend as opposed to having one version that kind of fit all. And we just couldn't do them.
So they planned from pretty much day one to have this character proposition the player to make a baby. I feel OK assuming she's of a non-icky age.
What, 15 going on 29? Guess the writers didn't tell the art team or anyone else for that matter.
Watching Brendan Fraser's Journey to the centre of the earth. I think a modern retelling of this with a decent budget would be pretty great, but this is not it. It's not bad tho, and Fraser is always likeable. I feel like it's alright in places, but they reach a little to far and the effects budget just can't handle it.
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I’m having trouble finding the exact bit of official lore, but I’m pretty sure the game suggests Morrigan is a teenager. Maybe not 15, but definitely under twenty. Which is fine! It just doesn’t match up with her look or voice. The Final Fantasy games have always had the same problems.
Don’t get me wrong, Morrigan is still my favorite character from the series. It just always seemed weird trying to make her be a very young person in my head while on screen she looks and sounds like a MILFy seductress.
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Mission Impossible crew gets Norway coronavirus travel ban exemption
Norway’s government said on Friday that it would issue an exemption for coronavirus restrictions allowing the filming of the Hollywood action film series Mission Impossible and other foreign productions in the country.
Abid Raja, minister of culture, said the exemptions would apply for foreign productions that have received funding from the Norwegian film institute.
“This is good news for the Norwegian film industry that will not miss out on assignments,” he said in a statement.
Raja was quoted by public broadcaster NRK as saying that crew members would be tested on arrival in Norway, and then tested every 48 hours and not have contact with the general public.
More Impossible Missions please, thank you Mr. Cruise.
I am watching Invisible Man. Picked it up for $10 on iTunes. Totally worth it.
Don't click on this unless you've watched the entire movie.
I didn't think the "open mouth susprise" face was actually a legit face that people make in reality. I thought that was just a dramatized bit of exaggerated nonsense. Emojified faux-reality. But I just made that face involuntarily.
I...um...wow? I think if you have seen the film, you know what scene I am talking about. And if you haven't seen the film, you should not have clicked on this spoiler.
I don't think I've ever been as genuinely surprised by a movie scene in my entire life. Like, of course that happened at that moment, but Jesus that was unexpected and brutal.
I am not going to post this yet. I somehow have ~50 minutes left in the film. I'm going to finish it before I post this. But I wanted to get the above out of my fingers before I continue on with the film.
[50 minutes later...]
Okay, wow. That was MUCH better film than I was expecting, even despite the reviews and everything.
I kind of wish the Tom stuff had more time to marinate but it's a 2 hour film so I get that it couldn't be much longer.
Tyrannosaur. British film, british cast, not a horror film. 2 out of 3 ain't bad and you should watch it anyway. Or you could just watch A Field In England.
If you're into antiques, Hammer's library is a treasure trove of British horror. Their golden age spooled up in the 50s and tailed off by the early 70s.
Watching The Shining for the first time in years. Those two or three dozen sheets of typed paper may be the single greatest and most effective prop in all of cinema.
Watching The Shining for the first time in years. Those two or three dozen sheets of typed paper may be the single greatest and most effective prop in all of cinema.
They are very good.
But the most impressive prop along those lines I have ever seen has to be John Doe's notebooks in Seven. The video about the process of making them is probably the most memorable dvd extra I've ever watched.
Watching The Shining for the first time in years. Those two or three dozen sheets of typed paper may be the single greatest and most effective prop in all of cinema.
excuse me, I believe you are forgetting Austin powers’ Swedish penis enlarger pump
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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Watching The Shining for the first time in years. Those two or three dozen sheets of typed paper may be the single greatest and most effective prop in all of cinema.
excuse me, I believe you are forgetting Austin powers’ Swedish penis enlarger pump
I certainly did.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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I've also heard a variety of stories which indicate that Shatner is a tool as well. So my guess is that it's just a bunch of people being terrible to each other.
I would like to watch ... a British horror movie. British cast, British setting. What are my options besides 28 Days Later?
For some bleak "Folk-Horror" Blood on Satan's Claw makes a great double-bill with The Witchfinder General (Conqueror Worm for its USA cinema release). That last one does star Vincent Price, but it's about as British as it gets.
There are a load of great Hammer movies - Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Revenge of Frankenstein are early greats whose many sequels gradually drop off in quality but all have their moments. Probably my favourite output from the studio is a tie between The Hound of the Baskervilles ( one of the best Sherlock Holmes adaptations) and The Devil Rides Out (Christopher Lee vs Satanist Charles Grey! Screenplay by Richard Matheson!!).
Amicus put out a string of nifty little portmanteau films in the sixties and seventies. The best two are probably Asylum! and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
And once you've watched all of the above follow it up with Steve Coogan's six-episode TV show Dr. Terribles House of Horrible - Coogan's greatest creation :biggrin:
For more modern fare there's Alice Lowe's Prevenge, or Ben Wheatley's films Kill List, Sightseers (also written by Alice Lowe I think) and A Field in England.
Or you could do yourself a big favour and watch all five seasons of the BBC's Inside No. 9 - there's some right proper horror in there (The Devil of Christmas!).
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I would like to watch ... a British horror movie. British cast, British setting. What are my options besides 28 Days Later?
Eden Lake if you want to be miserable, Small Town Folk if you want to be baffled, The Zombie Diaries if you want zombies but also man is the real monster.
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"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
The only bad part about it was the farting part.
I do miss that Jim Henson style. We need more stuff like Farscape.
I haven't seen either of them, but I think Labyrinth of Cinema is probably the best because of its building material. It's certainly better than grass, and I've personally never had those cool flying dreams so I'd put cinema above that too.
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance says yo.
Farscape is frelling incredible and all the practical effects means that it's aged better, too!
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Yeah. I forgot about the new one.
It also has a hell of a hook, that being "A siren falls in love with a dude and tries to make it work even though her natural instinct is to drown him in a lake" which feels kind of like a fresh take on a lot of vampire fiction. Anyway it was really sweet and sad, so if that's your mood, give it a watch.
For me Farscape was all about Claudia Black's fine self and her voice that's like smoky sex.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
I love her work but when I found out the sultry-voiced Morrigan was supposed to be, like, 15 years old in DAO I made the Keenan face.
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Whaaatt. She had to be older than that.
Given that she is a romance option, and some of the other dialogue, I’d put her at early 20s. But I don’t think it’s explicitly stated.
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I did a little googling and it's not. There are several forum posts around the internet speculating about hers and everybody else's ages. According to one of them, David Gaider (who wrote Morrigan) had said she was not a teenager, but I couldn't find an actual bit from Gaider on it.
I did find this though (spoilers for stuff near the end of an 11 year old game)
So they planned from pretty much day one to have this character proposition the player to make a baby. I feel OK assuming she's of a non-icky age.
Watching Brendan Fraser's Journey to the centre of the earth. I think a modern retelling of this with a decent budget would be pretty great, but this is not it. It's not bad tho, and Fraser is always likeable. I feel like it's alright in places, but they reach a little to far and the effects budget just can't handle it.
Don’t get me wrong, Morrigan is still my favorite character from the series. It just always seemed weird trying to make her be a very young person in my head while on screen she looks and sounds like a MILFy seductress.
More Impossible Missions please, thank you Mr. Cruise.
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Don't click on this unless you've watched the entire movie.
I...um...wow? I think if you have seen the film, you know what scene I am talking about. And if you haven't seen the film, you should not have clicked on this spoiler.
I don't think I've ever been as genuinely surprised by a movie scene in my entire life. Like, of course that happened at that moment, but Jesus that was unexpected and brutal.
I am not going to post this yet. I somehow have ~50 minutes left in the film. I'm going to finish it before I post this. But I wanted to get the above out of my fingers before I continue on with the film.
[50 minutes later...]
Okay, wow. That was MUCH better film than I was expecting, even despite the reviews and everything.
I kind of wish the Tom stuff had more time to marinate but it's a 2 hour film so I get that it couldn't be much longer.
Neat!
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
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They are very good.
But the most impressive prop along those lines I have ever seen has to be John Doe's notebooks in Seven. The video about the process of making them is probably the most memorable dvd extra I've ever watched.
excuse me, I believe you are forgetting Austin powers’ Swedish penis enlarger pump
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I certainly did.
I've also heard a variety of stories which indicate that Shatner is a tool as well. So my guess is that it's just a bunch of people being terrible to each other.
For some bleak "Folk-Horror" Blood on Satan's Claw makes a great double-bill with The Witchfinder General (Conqueror Worm for its USA cinema release). That last one does star Vincent Price, but it's about as British as it gets.
There are a load of great Hammer movies - Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Revenge of Frankenstein are early greats whose many sequels gradually drop off in quality but all have their moments. Probably my favourite output from the studio is a tie between The Hound of the Baskervilles ( one of the best Sherlock Holmes adaptations) and The Devil Rides Out (Christopher Lee vs Satanist Charles Grey! Screenplay by Richard Matheson!!).
Amicus put out a string of nifty little portmanteau films in the sixties and seventies. The best two are probably Asylum! and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
And once you've watched all of the above follow it up with Steve Coogan's six-episode TV show Dr. Terribles House of Horrible - Coogan's greatest creation :biggrin:
For more modern fare there's Alice Lowe's Prevenge, or Ben Wheatley's films Kill List, Sightseers (also written by Alice Lowe I think) and A Field in England.
Or you could do yourself a big favour and watch all five seasons of the BBC's Inside No. 9 - there's some right proper horror in there (The Devil of Christmas!).
Eden Lake if you want to be miserable, Small Town Folk if you want to be baffled, The Zombie Diaries if you want zombies but also man is the real monster.