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To me voice acting is a tool in the toolshed. Its neither good nor bad in itself (nor is lengthy descriptive text), its all about what the game is and how its implemented.

Yeah, I enjoy LoT a lot, but its a terrible show in most respects. And yet they keep coming up with funny instances that make it worth watching. Stein's fear of zombies last episode, Heatwave's reaction to pretty much everything in the 80s this episode...the line about Ray being able to science anything was lol funny.

DeHaan is 30; however I think people these days tend to look younger in their 30s than they did in the 60s-70s.

The general complaints I've heard are - *National standards take away states rights and states control *One size fits all standards don't allow room for adjustments to classroom demographics *National standards places even more standardized testing in the path of over-tested students. *Does nothing to address the incentives to move students on regardless of achtievement *Common core standards weren't tested in the classroom before implementation. *Common core relies on rote learning methods and doesn't allow room for creativity. *emphasis on certain subjects leaves little room for the arts or computer science in the curriiculum *textbooks will most likely be aimed at two largest school markets (texas, California) leaving no room for inclusion of local history or authors

She recovers from the phone booth pretty well and I think defends herself in the diner well. Always bugged me that Annie got killed off screen, to be honest, given that she seemed pretty savvy and aware of what's going on. Her dearh seemed to warrant a better justification. As for kid actors, Veronica Cartwright was one of the better ones (and ~15 years later would do well in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and ALIEN...)

I've done it everytime I've done ME1 on console, which was quite a few. Then again, I'm one of those guys who tried to completely mow the fog of war in the IE games, and the copy-pasting content in DA2 didn't bother me, so I may just have a high tolerance level for the flaws in the MAKO implementation.

It was the best thing in Lionheart too...

I've never got the hate the Mako explorations got. Then again, everytime I played ME1 and was in the MAKO I kept humming the Moon Patrol theme to myself...so maybe that's it?

I think it is fair to point out, it'd be impossible to prove the emails were fake.

Arguably its a product of its time (or perhaps, more simply, a product of the time that Hitch**** was from; he was born at the tail end of the Victorian era after all). That said I'm not sure how "strong" Melanie is supposed to be - she starts the movie as an irresponsible, prank-loving socialite who hasn't really dealt with any serious problems. That said, she does pretty well for herself (getting through the attack at the school and the attack at the diner). Its only after she gets attacked at the home (where she's left with the birds for an unknown amount of time) that she goes into shock (as an aside, Hedren, under the strain of an overworked shooting schedule and Hitch**** using (and having crew throw) live birds at her for the final attack, collapsed and was wisely given a week off to rest and recover; I've always wondered if it effected the end scene at all). While they all have moments of fear, I'd argue that Melanie, Lydia, Cathy and Annie all deal with the situation about as well as Mitch does.

Maybe she's being nice so she can axe-murder him? Still, I'm mostly curious what the euphamistic "cooking my dog" is. The imagination boggles.

And they still did a second movie and short lived TV show after that... But I imagine that they'd be happy with 4-5 seasons, to be honest.

Ah, somehow the Criterion Blu ray passed me by....

Curious as to which version you watched, Bartimaeus? There's a 142 minute, a 132 minute, and a 94 minute cut of the film. Notoriously meddled with back in the day by Embassy International and Universal (I think the 132 min version is the only one out on Blu).

I'll watch it eventually when I'm able. Its been on my "want to watch" list since it was announced (huge fan of the original movie).

There are 4 current zombie TV shows I can think of off the top of my head (and excluding Ash vs The Evil Dead since Deadites are really their own thing) - Walking Dead Fear the Walking Dead iZombie ZNation There were, I think, 14 zombie movies released last year; this year TRAIN TO BUSAN has almost made $100 million worldwide. Besides the last RE installment, there's still plans to do World War Z 2. Doesn't seem dead to me...

InXile (Hunted: The Demon Forge), Behaviour Interactive aka Artificial Mind & Movement (WET), Mad Doc Software (Star Trek, bought by Rockstar), Headfirst (Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, went bankrupt)? InXile's already on the list after Obsid. Couldn't forget Brian, after all, especially in a thread started by his arch nemesis. If I only missed three I'm pretty pleased, though I should have had remembered Mad Doc since I knew a couple of people who worked there from Looking Glass/ Irrational. Can't see how I missed that you had InXile there since it was the first one I looked for.

InXile (Hunted: The Demon Forge), Behaviour Interactive aka Artificial Mind & Movement (WET), Mad Doc Software (Star Trek, bought by Rockstar), Headfirst (Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, went bankrupt)?

In other news, Romero tell kids to "get off my lawn". I kid, I kid; Romero's entitled to his opinion, and its got to be a bitter pill to swallow to see the obvious descendants of your work transcend same. But if all the really lousy zombie pictures (and good ones) that plagued the drive-in and multiplex in the wake of NotLD didn't kill zombies, its highly doubtful any new iteration will. The sub-genre might take a sabbatical, but it won't be dead-dead.

Lets see... THE NIGHT STALKER (1972) - First TV film to feature Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak, newspaper writer. In this one he's attempting to rehabilitate his career after being drummed out of the major newspaper cities in Las Vegas when he's assigned to cover a series of murders. The more facts he gets, the more convinced he is that a vampire is killing people - but no one will believe him. He's proven right but kicked out of town by the government who refuses to admit what happened. This is a fun 70s horror tv movie, with all the hallmarks of the classic Dan Curtis productions. Skorzeny's rampage escape through a hospital after he's caught stealing blood is an exciting highlight. THE NIGHT STRANGLER (1973) - Kolchak returns, this time in Seattle, trying to get a new job as a super strong murderer starts killing women. Kolchak manages to get a job (thanks to horror vet John Carridine in a small role) and once assigned to the case begins finding connections to other murders that happen every 21 years. Seatle is a big star (and its underground). Jo Ann Pflug is a good foil to McGavin's always working the angles Kolchak (better, IMO, than Carol Lynley in the first film). Richard Anderson, as the killer, gets more acting time than Barry Atwater did as Skorzeny. VOODOO MAN (1944) - Bela Lugosi is a doctor experimenting with black magic to bring his wife back from a "living dead" state. To do so he tries to transfer the life force of kidnapped young women to his wife, but each failure leaves both the wife and young women in zombified states. Wanda McKay and Tod Andrew's characters investigate when McKay's characters cousin goes missing. Typical programmer from Monogram it moves fast and the cast (McKay, Andrews, Lugosi, John Carridine and George Zucco) enliven the proceedings. THE LOST CONTINENT (1968) - Hammer went on a spree adapting Dennis Wheatley novels. This one, adapted from a 1934 novel, involves a ship that runs afoul of an area of monsters and entrapped ships ruled over by the descendants of the survivors of a ship from the Spanish Inquisition. It starts a bit like a disaster film, spending a lot of the time with the characters and their mini dramas, then everything goes to pot in a bit hurricane which acts like the climax of a disaster film. When the survivors end up stranded in their mysterious, monster filled Sargasso Sea-like area the film jumps into hyperdrive, making it feel like the move realized it had 20 minute to adapt the last half of a book. Its not bad, but the ending is abrupt and a lot of questions are left unanswered by the end,

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The whole movie "Stalker" on youtube? While i certainly don't mind it, but how did that happen? Did the copyright end? Or does the distributor just don't care? As near as I can tell (not being Russian and having to rely on translators) that link is to Mosfilms' official youtube site. So it appears the production company/copyright owner posted it.

I forgot what the last thing I posted here was so a few recent ones - THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961) - Nice doomsday scenario where the US and USSR manage to throw the earth out of orbit with simultaneous nuclear blasts. A paen to the old days of newspaper journalism as we see what happens through the prisim of a newsroom and one of its key reporters. QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) - Professor Quatermass sends a rocket to space. Things do go well and the ship crashes. Then things go worse. The start of Hammer pursuing horror titles is still effective at being creepy (helped by the source material, I'm sure). THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1964) A handful of people meet at a small town. Everyone seems to have died mysteriously. Then strange creatures show up and the dead begin to walk. Better than its reputation (IMO), it has a small scope and tells its story well. The movie predicts, in a way as it most likely draws from the same sources, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with their survivalist storytelling, walking dead, and arguments over what will keep them surviving - keeping running or taking up a defensible position.

The vehicles used in THE THING were two Bombardier Skidozers, a Catepillar D3 B, Thiokol IMP. a Thiokol Spryte and an LMC Imp. There's two likely scenarios for their use - they were either procured from a company that leases vehicles to films or from the company themselves. If from the company itself, it was done for consideration that the items would get screen time to show what they do (IIRC the Bombardier's would be the most likely in this case, I think they actually get much of the screen time, but I may be misremembering).

Strange Brew should be out - besides the movie its also the name of a home brew supply company. Beertopia is the name of a couple of local festivals and a store Hop Common is a beer made by Peekskill Brewery I'd go with Hop History as well. Maybe even brand it with a latin subtitle, Humulus Lupulus Historiarum or something to seem extra historic.