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Current Talk '02 II / Re: "universal" monsters
« on: November 01, 2002, 11:04:21 PM »
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I've never seen the recent Mummy or any of its sequels/prequels/spin-offs, but I suspect it couldn't compare to the original.  I'm afraid I haven't seen any of Christopher Lee's work as the mummy or as Dracula either, but I think I would prefer to watch the Hammer films before the newer movies.

ProfStokes

    Just in case you decide to rent "The Mummy" starring
Brendan Fraser, it is loaded with a whole lot of stomach churning, flesh crawling special effects.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: "universal" monsters
« on: November 01, 2002, 09:41:48 PM »
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I really enjoy the mummy series, even though Kharis is basically the Frankenstein creature (mindless monster on killing rampage) in Egyptian trappings.  The mythology surrounding this mummy and the progression of its story are enough to off-set the unimaginativeness of the character.  On the other hand, Karloff's mummy Im-ho-tep was much more active, cunning, and evil.  The Mummy was one of my favorite movies in the 6th grade and still ranks on my list as one of, if not the best of the monster pictures.  I recently read that The Mummy was a remake of Dracula though with an Egyptian setting, but I don't believe it.  The story was sufficiently original enough and intriguing enoguh to set it apart and (I feel) even above the earlier film.
ProfStokes  


ProfStokes,
    Being a Karlof fan, I enjoyed his version of "The Mummy" except I did not see him as the intense lover longing for the return of his Princess.  I don't want to even try to spell her name.  I think Christopher Lee captured the intensity and longing along with the malevolence.  What did you think of the first Brenden Fraser re-make?  

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: "universal" monsters
« on: November 01, 2002, 09:29:56 PM »
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Although it strictly wasn't a Universal monster, another one that creeped me was The Thing (it was an RKO monster).  Watching that pre-Matt Dillon hiding among those snow drifts, keeping dead bodies hung upside-down in the plant nursery.............eeeeeeeeech!

It was also a wonderfully written and directed movie, with the characters constantly talking over each other's lines, making it all the more realistic, fast-paced and with that right touch of humor.

Gerard

    I love that movie.  It was one of the movies I let my 10year old son watch knowing it would be full of suspense and horror but had a good out come.  My husband was always partial to "The Thing" and "The Crawling Eye".  

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: No DS for 3 weeks???!!!
« on: November 01, 2002, 09:21:42 PM »
    As much as I do not like the show pre-empted, I find it impossible to watch anything when my children are off from school.  I am too busy stopping squabbles and fixing endless snacks to be able to enjoy Dark Shadows. I am very glad for Robservations on those days when my children are home and its not an official Sci-Fi holiday.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: What is that thing?
« on: October 31, 2002, 03:05:07 AM »
Dear dom,
    The red looks like something you would find in the Sultan's harem.  Quentin would probably choose that for Collinwood.  The white looks very elegant with the tapestry pillows.  I think Liz would pick that.  It sure would brighten up the place.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: "universal" monsters
« on: October 31, 2002, 02:59:45 AM »
    I loved Boris Karlof's Frankenstein.  I am a big fan of any of Karlof's movies.  He even scares me when he is only narrating.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Quentin and Jamison
« on: October 30, 2002, 05:59:33 PM »
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HHHMMM¢â‚¬¦¢â‚¬¦Isn't there a legend that Lucifer was the most beautiful of God's angels?  I think we've got that same thing going on here.

Quentin loves Jamison?  Quentin cares for the boy?  So he makes him lie, and he makes him steal, and he makes him a pawn in his twisted little game of "who gets the money" with his siblings.

Quentin uses Jamison because he can.  The boy's a child, and unlike the grown-ups, hasn't figured out yet that  Quentin is manipulative and deceitful, callous, cruel, and even violent.  Ah, but he's also charming, and witty and very beautiful to look at¢â‚¬¦¢â‚¬¦and aren't we always surprised when evil isn't also ugly?

No one else shows Jamison any affection at all¢â‚¬¦.it doesn't take much to make an unloved, lonely little boy adore you, even if you're the devil in disguise.

    That was so well put , I'll second that.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: PASS TIME WITH CARL COLLINS
« on: October 29, 2002, 07:26:20 PM »
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How about Pin the Tail on the Jackass?

RP

    Sometimes, its difficult to find whose fanny to pin the tail on.[lghy]

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: PASS TIME WITH CARL COLLINS
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:59:41 PM »
    How about Crazy 8s or Jokers Wild.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Quentin says....
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:56:14 PM »
    Yeah!!!  I got the picture.  You had Quentin do what I have always wanted to do.:D  Thanks, Connie.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: What is that thing?
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:52:11 PM »
    I remember back in the sixties going to a fancy theater and one of those round seats was in the lobby but the color was pale gold velveteen.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Almost DS Related...
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:47:40 PM »
Castlebee,
    You are so sweet to help out our furry little friends.  You have the same kind of dog Queen Elizabeth favors.
I always get my pets at our local animal shelter. I currently have three cats.  Molly(is that a cat or a holstien), Peaches(lion trapped in a cat suit) and Penny(tiny cat, huge heart). "Cats are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life".

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Quentin says....
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:38:48 PM »
    Oh darn, I just get a little picture of an "x'.:'(

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: OT - Curious - where are you?
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:33:02 PM »
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Well, I live in New Jersey.  Whoopee
(Just a few short miles from where Washington peed in the Delaware)


    I love New Jersey.  My husband grew up there.  We drive ten hours from Maine to visit the Boardwalk, eat Taylors Pork roll, Nunzio's Pizza, and Max's hot dogs.  Max's used to be on the boardwalk but it burned down twice.  Its now located in Long Branch. Criterion(sp) had the best salt water taffy but it closed.  It was in a part of town friends called Little Beruit(Asbury Park) .

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: OT - Curious - where are you?
« on: October 29, 2002, 04:03:12 AM »
    I have lived in Maine for about 13 years.

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