Musings on the byways of popular culture
FYI A self-published book about editing Star Wars seems to be free to download at the moment. You may or may not find it mildly interesting. I read it a few months ago (as part of Kindle Unlimited so it was semi-‘free’) and thought it harmless if a little pointless.
The Editing of Star Wars: How Cutting Created a Classic by Linton Davies
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Editing-Star-Wars-Cutting-Created-ebook/dp/B007WRHXDQ/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
I read a book of questions and answers about horror films called What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? by Killian H. Gore.
The questions (with my modifications) were:
Favourite horror film? Favourite horror director? Favourite horror sub-genre? Favourite ‘bad’ horror movie? Favourite horror killer? Favourite horror monster/creature? Favourite horror franchise? Favourite horror sequel? Favourite horror remake? Favourite zombie movie? Recommend an obscure horror film for a hardcore genre fan. Favourite non-horror film with a strong horror flavour? What’s the film that made you the most consistently fearful, and what age were you at the time? What’s the single biggest jump scare you’ve experienced? Any horror film that went too far in a bad way? What’s the weirdest horror film you’ve ever seen?
You want to answer them? This might be an old internet meme that I’m unaware of so sorry if this sort of thing has been done before.
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My answers are what come to me at this moment in time. I’m bound to have forgotten a bunch of great films.
Favourite horror film?
The Thing (1982) is a very strong candidate.
Favourite horror director?
John Carpenter.
Favourite horror sub-genre?
I want to say slasher even though I only » Continue Reading.
They made Chuck Norris films and Superman 4 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. A very interesting company whose films dispensed with logic.
They made terrible movie but the story behind them should be fascinating.
You can stream it to your PC or games console etc. I’ve streamed a paid for rental from them before and had no issues.
I’ve not seen it but the writer-director’s previous work has been very good.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791682/
An astronaut is stranded alone on Mars with limited supplies, and it will be four years before the next mission to Mars when he might be rescued. I read the book two and half years ago and loved it. I haven’t read a better work of fiction since. To me it was a remarkable novel, and it was obvious ready-made material for a summer Hollywood blockbuster with a massive star in the lead role. So I’ve waited two and a half years for the movie version. I went in with middling expectations. It was pretty much the perfect adaptation. They added nothing new and made no stupid additions or alterations (the short opening and closing scenes might be new but they were good). They kept closely to the novel and removed the right stuff. As far as I can tell it’s the same characters, dialogue, scenes and situations from the novel. It’s an accurate, faithful adaption. I didn’t notice anything significant missing. At least I personally didn’t miss anything. If I wanted it in the movie version then it made it into the movie. The stuff they did remove was non-essential and made logical sense. The long journey at the » Continue Reading.
I’m reading a book called Projections 10 from 1999. Mike Figgis (film director) asks Robert Downey Jr a question on page 205.
‘Do you like watching films?’ ‘Sure. Well, not The Avengers, but every other one.’
Great Whit Stillman film (it’s also on Netflix)
The tagline: ‘For these girls… it’s not what you learn, it’s whom you educate.’
Film4
Tonight
11.10pm
It’s better than Sorcerer (1977), but then most things are.
Are you aware that if you click on the white Windows logo in the bottom right of your screen beside the clock you can order a free advance copy of Windows 10 (worth £100)? It’s for a limited time only.
If someone hadn’t told me I wouldn’t know about it as I ignored the thing when it popped up about three weeks ago.
The book was discussed about a year ago on this website. The link is to a 55 minute interview.
I understand the concept that vinyl has become quite popular. I get that. I’m not confused. I was in a music shop early in the morning and I saw a queue of middle aged people buying one or three albums on the format. It reminded me of an Open All Hours joke when Ronnie Barker lined up ten sets of cigarettes on the counter for his regulars who would be in as soon as the door opened.
Is vinyl proper big now? The shop had devoted a lot more prime real-estate to the format recently. Is it no longer a niche and a music shop can actual make real money selling the format?
NOTE: I do not, and have never, used vinyl so it’s a pointless, dated format to me.
‘The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir’
I’m not a fan (I don’t own any of their music) but I watched it and found it very interesting. He’s a very articulate man.
I recommended this book (great for film buffs) to someone and went online to get the web address to email to them. The band at the top of the screen tells me I bought it three years ago to the day. Spooky.
