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[Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau]

I just watched Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, which covers the career (and subsequent career implosion) of Richard Stanley (director of the 2000ad 'inspired' film Hardware) and his attempts to make an adaptation of HG Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando.

After seeing him in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang I want to like Kilmer but then I get reminded of episodes like this.

Courgette (home grown)

Cheers!

Jim

Our courgettes have been crap this year. We had tons of them last year; had to give them away.

As an addendum to this debate...

I was just at a casting for our local panto (I joined a drama group by mistake) and it's set in the Wild West.

I just about let them away with the names Big Chief Hoaching Face of the Whatacheek tribe but the dialogue is all " Um Pale face hurry up or me will um scalp you".

I mentioned I thought it might be a bit culturally insensitive and said I couldn't take part.

"But it's only a panto!" was the predictable response.

Anyway the main woman of our group was actually the author. She wrote it back in 1986. (I would have guessed a decade earlier). And the Director. And the casting director.

It's a while since I've seen Star Wars but if I recall, there's lots od fialogue repeated between the Greedo scene and the inserted Jabba scene. That always annoyed me.

Barely glimpsed cool looking creatures in background? Yes - that's one of the many things that makes teh original trilogy cool.

Lots of cut away shots to creatures doing prat falls and comedy routines? Less of that please.

Ok I am leaving this thread for fear of spoilers. I much prefer my gameshow related tales straight from the horses mouth down the pub (for the next 10 years).

Fingers crossed you've once again done the Squaxx proud

Yeah - I've heard Buttonman's WEAKEST LINK story five times now. I've only met him twice.

Ps: hope you did well.

I was all over the BBC coverage of Proms in the Park from Glasgow Green.  If you add up the number of times you see me in the crowd, I reckon I've got more screen time than Godzilla had in that last Godzilla movie.

I loved James Purefoy as the 'cock of the north' Mark Anthony.

[Absalom>Jaegir>>Aquila>>>Monsterology>>>Alienist>Man from the Ministry

Can't argue with that top three. Though having done a concerted re-read of Aquila recently, I'd reverse teh order.

[Alienist]

Slightly disappointed in the Alienist I had hoped for an exploration of myths and ghosts etc or indeed the Victorian obsession with them

You can't review a story because it's not what you expected!  Well, you can, but it's not really a review.

Still enjoying Alienist myself, and Grey Area (though it took me more than a couple of looks to work out the bit with Manners) and Dredd was great though, as others have mentioned, perhaps a little too "old school". Would it have hurt to show him thinking how he's sort of come full circle again (time was when he'd have pulled the plug without a second thought, then there was a bit more nuance, and now he's back to blowing away people who look kind of funny and pulling plugs akimbo). Yeah, probably.

Dreams of Deadworld?  Well, still loving the art myself but it lives or dies on whether or not you think it's still OK to use *that* pun after 38 years. I'm in the NO camp.  But equally, I can give it points for chutzpah.

[Star Trek: Renegades]

Star Trek: Renegades
Well, twenty minutes of it.

It's a recently relased crowd sourced fan film or something but has some genre names hidden away in the cast (i.e. they were original series people or had one genre hit twenty or thirty years ago and are either crap or can't escape type casting; who actually falls for that?  It's never a guarantee of quality is it?)

It seems to be the usual mix for one of these fan films; variable production standards (some really good looking stuff but some really shonky stuff right next to it), uniformally poor acting, either lacks a script or it's full of cliche and full to the brim with proper fan wank refernces.

This compounds it by having about the most un Star Trek like plot possible; "There's a bad guy. But our prime directive makes it hard to deal with him. So we'll send a dirty dozen/magnificent seven of misfits, criminals and renegades (roll credits) to assassinate him!".  It may subvert this idea later on but I just don't have the fucking patience.

"Star Trek: Renegades"? More like "Star Trek: Shite".

Enjoyed Dredd but agree with others in that it ended a bit abruptly.

When you kill the monster, your movie is over.

3/5 for me. 3 hill er didn't work for me and despite gorgeous art, I'm not connected to Dead World.  Gross images, sure but neither funny enough or scary enough for me.

[Shame]

£1200 for Michael Fassbender's helmet?

Count me in.

Wait! What...?

Shame

??? It's an awesome double entendre. (Actually, closer to a single entendre)

Think Prop Store have Dredd Movie Props Auction this month, see site for details:

http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/26/?page=2

£1200 for Michael Fassbender's helmet?

Count me in.

Wait! What...?