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That was a much better episode and when the cavalry arrive and seemingly know what to do, it makes you wonder how it still falls apart.

Due to a 'taping' blunder I missed that one  and went straight into the quarantine episode which would confuse a stupid person ... and it did.  will try and find the missing one on line

I'm not confused....

[The original Star Wars Topps trading card series - available 29th October]

Not sure if this is the right place, but talking of old SW stuff being re-issued, this caught my eye the other day..     

The original Star Wars Topps trading card series - available 29th October



Not sure if they'll include the rude C3PO one though...

The fellow who made Star-Wars-Age-Nine might appreciate those and proof that C3PO is just a actor

[Mad Max]

I mentioned this on Facebook recently: I'm still chewing over the rich old stew of metaphor and subtext that Fury Road served up in the guise of a thunderous action movie and it dawned on me: it's the Wizard of Oz.

I know that almost any 'journey' movie can be discussed in terms of Oz (which, in itself, is a sly humanist subversion of Pilgrim's Progress) but Fury Road starts with a storm (there are even tornadoes); the travellers are heading for the "green place" (an Emerald City?) and on the way discover aspects of themselves they believed absent or lost: Furiosa's hope, Nux's self-worth and Max's humanity. Finally, they discover that the green place can't give them what they want, and that there really is no place like home.

Cheers!

Jim

I have made a personal mental analogy of between the official Mad Max video game and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but I'll keep those parallels to myself for now.

[Green Place]

I mentioned this on Facebook recently: I'm still chewing over the rich old stew of metaphor and subtext that Fury Road served up in the guise of a thunderous action movie and it dawned on me: it's the Wizard of Oz.

I know that almost any 'journey' movie can be discussed in terms of Oz (which, in itself, is a sly humanist subversion of Pilgrim's Progress) but Fury Road starts with a storm (there are even tornadoes); the travellers are heading for the "green place" (an Emerald City?) and on the way discover aspects of themselves they believed absent or lost: Furiosa's hope, Nux's self-worth and Max's humanity. Finally, they discover that the green place can't give them what they want, and that there really is no place like home.

Cheers!

Jim

I thought the Green Place is kind of like a person who you think is gullible, but now not.

[Box-Office]

Have rented it again on the Box-Office channel and will watch it again soon.

[Jimmy Fallon Show]

Was watching the Jimmy Fallon Show the other morning when he interviewed Keith Richards who seemed more coherent than I would have beleived him to be and after seeing this cover picture a excellent choice to be Judge Death.

It kind of validates who's really playing while also making it obvious this could be doctored. If your techy enough.

Anyway, at the start of one of these videos, You can see a the monitor showing a exact duplicate of what's happening on the main screen. Before I realised what it was doing and turned it to face me....

In only the last video, you see my face in the others, it just blank squared that has been darkened.   

[Shadowplay]

Tried the game without Shadowplay and it did the same thing to me after only 10 minutes of game.

I was careful not to do anything significant in my game until I can record it again.

[nVidia - Shadowplay]

Happened to me again this morning about six hours ago and then I verified the files following your instructions there. Yet it didn't seem like such big thing when I did this and I still wondered if it's not just developed a conflict with nVidia - Shadowplay. Which has just started doing this thing using my Life- Cam. I appear in my game videos if I point it at my head while playing. Never did this before, but it's what I wanted.

Sorry if that last part was hard to understand. What I wanted was......to see my face or entire head in a little box in any one corner of the screen while playing any game and while using Shadowplay to record the game.

Unfortunitely, as it comes out.......I only see a darkened box during my videos replays.

Mad Max still shuts it's self down at random times and only did this before as I only got as far as the loading screen before the title.

It may be a conflict with Shadowplay like I said before, or something lese. Will try stating the game without just o see and yes, I have verified files this time. Makes no difference.

[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.

What quickly emerges is the story of an affable young director with a genuine love of the source material and an intriguing - if slightly half-baked - vision for what could have been a terrific little cult indie movie, left hopelessly out of his depth when events beyond his control lead to the film ballooning in size and budget and the production spinning wildly out of control, thanks in no small part due to the cataclysmic egos of Kilmer and Brando, permanently tarnishing the careers of pretty much every single person involved (Stanley never directed another feature film). Bad behaviour, insanity, drug-fuelled meltdowns and a general sense of the lunatics taking over the asylum ensue.

And that's not even half of the story. I found this particularly interesting in light of the recent Fantastic Four movie, and the apparent similarity to the situation of Josh Trank - that of the promising young talent - apparently - out of their depth and screwed by the studio system. Let's hope we get a making of of that movie as good as this one day.

It's on Netflix - at least US Netflix anyway - and I strongly recommend you to check it out.

5/5

I was going to comment here about seeing the actual film and not the making of behind the scenes movie you speak of over a month, possibly two months ago and have always found it adequate adaption and never relied two much on the modern CGI techniques that have crept into more and more usage over the past decade.

Yes, I remember the scene with the small-monkey-like-rats at the jetty, but I think this film was largely animatronics and lots of padding covered by latex or silicone with fake hair authentically added in the right places. I applaud these special effects and how the rest of the film panned out.

Read the story when this film was in it's first circulation and it was much shorter than I thought it would be and inspiration for  Pat Mill's idea about Eugenics that was brought into light in the latest episodes of Slaine. Those animal/human hybrids may be what the Fomorians were really like.

I'll be looking out of this other film and seeing what it might have otherwise been. Not that I was dis-appointed with the result. I also like the Michael York version as well and his stubborn success in remembering that he was still human and his identity after escaping being used as a Guenie-Pig and a source for humanity. t be shared with the animals that were being experimented and not so disimilar ways.

[nVidia - Shadowplay]

Happened to me again this morning about six hours ago and then I verified the files following your instructions there. Yet it didn't seem like such big thing when I did this and I still wondered if it's not just developed a conflict with nVidia - Shadowplay. Which has just started doing this thing using my Life- Cam. I appear in my game videos if I point it at my head while playing. Never did this before, but it's what I wanted.

[Vacation]

Quite fancy Everest, not least due to a load of Facebook postings of photos of the dead bodies left up there. Gruesomely fascinating.

I agree Battle Royale fell apart at the end - decent idea but didn't hold onto it and a feeble outcome was the result.

Saw the remake/reboot Vacation and although it was shite I stayed to the end. I nearly shut it off as I thought the wife would be hating it but she was chortling away. Darryl out of 'The Walking Dead' should hang his head in shame though!

You remember how I sat all the way through a session of what ever was the last X-men film when I thought it should have been Godzilla. Not really, because I walked out half way through to ask the attendant what I should do about my dilemma and they just go back in and we'll sort out the rest out later or words tot he effect. I'm still not sure wether I had to buy extra tickets to see that one, because I think I got kind hooked on the X-men film and wasn't completely sure it was that film until a good five minutes into it I guess and before the opening titles.

Anyway, I did walk in on the start of Everest when I really meant to see Maze Runner Two - The Scorch Trials which turned out to be much less interesting than the first film and with eventual inclusion of Barry Pepper as one of the out-doorsey freedom fighters and I think the leader of them or at least somebody important. 

I was expecting John Travolta's one armed alien and former overseer escaped from him jail cell make a appearance  of some importance or brief cameo and then ....Foiled Again!

I lost track of what the lot after returning from call of nature and almost need had bothered since it was that close to finish and a bit of a anti-climax.

[Blender]

(Face-Palms).....Apts I couldn't remember the name of.

Missed the start of the film when I was just ending my previous comment there. Not sure it's worth watching again, it's all sad teenage angst internet trolling of the worse kind.

The most interesting thing about this film is that is entirely shot from the POV of the victim-antagonist or Pro-Antagonist sitting in front of their computer screen.

This is should be a spoiler and then there is a bit which reminded me of the free-to-use movie/modelling apt called Blender how boasted that never lost any my own fingers while I started something on it.

Have to the film to find about abut that one, but I wasn't sure why boy did that to himself and then realise maybe it wasn't him.

[Un-Friended]

Un-Friended

A film cast with Facebook, Skype and You-Tube, and few other Apts I could remember. I think there was online Chat-room called Chatroulette....

Puts me off the idea of talking to friends using those BTW and the way the film turned out was not what I expected and right now it's on again.

Just not getting into this series. Last few episode I have watched don't register in my memory....