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I've been enjoying this series and I'm looking forward to the last episode, you should watch American Horror Story if you enjoy Sleepy Hollow. Its got its horror\fantasy appeal as well I dunno, I was iffy on AHS based on its premise, but people I know who are huge horrorfans watched it and was dissapointed by it so I've never checked it out.

I liked MU better than MI simply because it didn't get stuck with a certain degree of over-sentimentality (the one flaw I've always had with MI). And while Cars 2 isn't as good as Cars I thought it did good in being fun for what it was doing. Now I hate-hate-hated Wall-E (the second half is terrible and illogical) and Up (one of the most blatantly emotionally manipulative movies I've ever seen) but I loved Brave a whole lot. While I can understand the comparison to BROTHER BEAR, I think it does its own thing and I'm quite fond of it. For my movie watching - The Last Wagon (1956) Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Nick Adams, Susan Kohner. A bit of a typical and atypical western at the same time. A lot of tired tropes (Widmark plays a "white man" raised by Comanches wanted for murder that he did to revenge the murder of his full Comanche wife; captured by a lawman who is the last brother who murdered his wife). Its turned on its head when only the "kids" - older teens and one boy - survive an attack and have to look to Widmark to help them get out. Nice trial bit at the end. Okay if you like 50s era westerns War of the Gargantuas (1966) - the weird sequel to Frankenstein Conquers the World (aka Frankenstein versus Subterranean Monster Baragon) that - in the US version at least - cuts any connection to Frankenstein. Somewhat plodding for a kaiju film, and Russ Tamblyn looks perpetually bemused at the proceedings. Some nice effect work but the mostly human monsters are weirdly less emotive than other Toho suitmation work. Okay but doesn't distinguish itself much. But at least Brad Pitt liked it. The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Tom Conway again stumbles upon murder, this time reunited with pal and ex-criminal Goldie Locke. Together they encounter young heiresses, a criminal smuggling conspiracy and murder. A bit too much going on, really, and the mystery is muddle by presenting a confusing narrative not explaining who people are until the last minute. Still Conway manages a breezy attitude typical of the series and has fun with the material. Also amusing is Goldie's attempt to improve his tax bracket by getting married. Doesn't make me forget The Falcon in Hollywood, a series highmark. The Burrowers (2008) Low budget western horror; people are kidnapped and a group (led by Clancy Brown) go after them, thinking that it was a raid by Native Americans. Only it wasn't, it was locust like monsters that used to feed on Buffalo, but they're not there and have switched to human feed. Its actually a pretty good film excepting a few moments of character dumbness, but I felt the end really ruined it - one of those "oh humans are monsters too!" kind of things that was unnecessary to the story being told (but typical of films where someone feels the horror should have some kind of commentary on humanity buried (not so deeply) in it).

Well the season finale for SLEEPY HOLLOW was a bit of a humdinger. Figured out part of it, but hadn't yet connected all the pieces. Glad its already renewed, hate it when shows go for the cliffhanger season end and then don't get renewed...

Kang the Conqueror is always the most important. Indeed. Take that Immortus! If the celeb in question is sexy, upwards of 75%. Are 90% of results still photoshop fakes though...?

Finally beat normal mode for Dragon's Crown...kinda of got side tracked. Now completing quests and heading to Hard mode.

You'd also have to consider, if I googled a celb, am I trying to find out information about the celebrity or their latest product or even a past product? If I see the trailer for Wolf of Wall Street and can't remember its name but remember that DiCaprio is in it or that Scorsese directed it...well I'm going to search their name. If I see a movie in passing that has Lon Chaney, Jr in it, I might search for Lon Chaney Jr so I can open IMDB, Wikipdedia, and any fan sites in various tabs. Also how many searches are made in a day? If I search for Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Miley Cyrus and Kang the Conqueror, how do you know which one is actually important to me? Also if I search for Rhianna and accidentally close the search and search again and the browser crashes and I open it again and search again for Rhianna, and then link to site but its not a good site, so I hit google again and search again...well that's a lot of searches that might be something simple like trying to find the name of a song I heard on the radio and not an obsessive search for news on Rhianna or pictures of her on vacation falling out of her bikini top. Or something.

Oh yeah, there's more out there than just the 1880-1890 period (although a game during the Klondike Gold rush could be interesting now that I think about it). There's some good story material to mine possibilities from in that western history. The Mexican war for independence followed by the Texas Revolution followed by the US Mexican-War period would make a good lengthy backdrop period too (1810-1846) Actually makes me wonder...1800s-1830s in South America could be interesting as well (Brazil becoming an independent kingdom, then Portugal trying to regain control, Argentina civil war, Peru initially as a staunch colonist and then the Bolivar revolution, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador all fought for independence during this time, IIRC). Throw in the ancient cultures, contemporary ethnic cultures, the descendants of the Conquistadors and you have a pretty interesting period to work with.

Would love an Arabian Nights setting (the stories are quite diverse so a lot to play with). And Wild West or Weird West would be cool I'd also take a 1930s era pulp style game too (some of the pulp villains are just as crazy as anything High Fantasy or Sci-Fi - for example THE OCTOPUS by Norvell Page - throw in late Lovecraft, Dashiell Hammet, a little Shadow, Doc Savage, Spider and Avenger, some of the historical period - prohibition, gangsters, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, etc and you have a whole lot of things to design from) That said, what I really want is for Obsidian to make a game they're passionate about making more than anything else.

You right, that's more of an enigma. Unless the teahouse is more modern than what they are saying ? There's actually more than one path up the mountain; the government has closed off some paths because they're dangerous and created safer paths which may not correspond to the original paths the makers of the temple took. There are settlements all up the mountain and a Taoist/Daoist shrine was located at the base, so more than likely they shifted supplies through the settlements in stages. I'd guess - I don't know for sure... That's interesting about the alternative routes, how do you know this if you don't mind me asking ? Read about the mountain after the pictures were posted.

Personally I think those Obsidian concepts that cropped up some time back about a time travel science fiction game were actually early stages of Avellone's time machine, which he's clearly successfully made with the help of funding from Obsidian's other founders. When the concepts got leaked, Obsidian created the "game" concept to explain the artwork so people wouldn't realize they're now in control of all time and space.

You right, that's more of an enigma. Unless the teahouse is more modern than what they are saying ? There's actually more than one path up the mountain; the government has closed off some paths because they're dangerous and created safer paths which may not correspond to the original paths the makers of the temple took. There are settlements all up the mountain and a Taoist/Daoist shrine was located at the base, so more than likely they shifted supplies through the settlements in stages. I'd guess - I don't know for sure...

Illusion of change, I guess. The fans know the owner/management have done SOMETHING, even if it means nothing.

Dracula wore a cape, or is he exempt because everyone was wearing cloaks and capes? Started reading Dark Horse's Brain Boy. So far so good. I'm liking how DH is putting together its heroric characters, a bit of the old (Ghost, X), a bit of refurbished old (GA Captain Midnight, SA Brain Boy, SA Skyman) and some totally new (Occultist). Also digging Hickman's Manhatten Projects and East of West (the latest issue of the latter waiting for me when I catch up with Brain Boy).

agression and frustration rise when people have unequal access to/experience of hedonism - and when you start deciding when, where and how much hedonism people are going to have...you're back where you started with regulating fun stuff.

Reed discovered that their powers are slowly killing them convinces the other to take their kids on a tour of the universe under the guise of letting their kids experience the vastness of reality but in truth so he can search for a cure. So the magic bus trip was motivated, I think. Turns out, their powers were killing them because of an alternate universe Fantastic Four that sent their powers to 616 in order to bring the FF there to defeate their Dr. Doom (who having taken the kingdoms and powers of Annihlus and Kang is now known as Doom the Annihilating Conqueror, in control of time, space AND the Negative Zone). Anyhow he invented a device that allowed him to return for Illuminati meetings (they're currently fighting the collapse of the multi-verse by destroying alternate earths that incur onto the 616 earth). Meanwhile in the 616 Universe Scott "Ant-Man" Lang, Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters, Medusalith "Medusa" Amaquelin Boltagon and Darla "Ms. Thing" Deering are running the Future Foundation when the 616 Doom teams up with...Annihlus and young Kang (fresh off his stint as Iron Lad from Young Avengers). So the two stories kind of tie into one another. Anyhow Hickman's Fantastic Four was awesome (and I believe post-dates WWH) and I'm looking forward to James "JSA" Robinson's take in a few months. RE: GOG - I don't think the current title is a shadow of the previous title personally. Dropped it, then some friend insisted it gotten better, I picked it up and found it to be the same and dropped it again.

While drinking in a graveyard. She was a punk and her group was going to party in the graveyard. Didn't seem odd in context (or it didn't in the 80s, at least).

Duck Season!

On my current rotation of shows I watch, Batman: Brave and the Bold, Thundaar the Barbarian and Dragons: Riders of Berk are all there. I recently finished Monsters vs Aliens first set of episodes and need to go back to watching the Perils of Penelope Pitstop. What can I say, I never really stopped watching kids cartoons...

Define "weird time" for boob flashing? Besides, IIRC Trash was doing a strip tease anyhow - or am I forgetting something. Still sounds inheritly bad. Well I imagine anyone looking for something hewing closer to the source story will be put off, that's for sure. I treated it as a fantasy movie loosely based on the 47 Ronin story, so probably am more forgiving.

I've read that Keanu isn't meant to be the major player in the movie and now won't watch this. Maybe when it eventually hits Channel BT if I have nothing else to do. It was reshot / edited so that Keanu became the main character. Previously it was supposed to be the Japanese actor as the main protaganist. Supposedly, now the movie sucks hard. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/47_ronin/ 11% used to be 0% A guy on reddit said he worked on the film, and said he saw the old cut of the movie by the producer or director. However, as mentioned above, the studio wanted Keanu as the main guy. The producer or director was fired, and the movie reshot. In doing that, the reddit guy said it became a shell of a movie. IMO, whether it was originally intended or not I can understand why the production thought it necessary - Keanu's part - a love story - seems designed to give a hook for audiences who don't give a flip about Samurai honor and to mitigate negativity felt by the death of the protagonists. For my part they should have let audiences judge it on its own as it was intended (assuming it wasn't intended this way) but I can understand the producer's fears.

The issue is not retelling the story. It's how stupidly Hollywood does it. That's why i used equally profoundly stupid scenarios like a movie about Julius Caesar, set in ancient Rome, but starred by an all-japanese cast. While Throne of Blood and Ran were based on Shakespeare, they completely changed the setting and threw out everything except the basic plot-points. See the difference? But...47 Ronin is set in Japan with what I believe is a mostly Japanese except Keanu (explained in story) and the westerners on the outer islands (Dutch?) that appear in the single sequence when the lead Ronin goes there (to recruit Keanu - explained in the story) Which is a bit more like if Japan had done a movie about Julius Ceasar, set in Ancient Rome, filmed in Budapest and staring a mostly european cast except for one of the two male leads who is a period explained Japanese national or something.

York is a good actor; I can't think of a film I thought he was bad in (even if the surrounding film wasn't so hot). Logan's Run is, IMO, a pretty good film. On an unrelated note, to clarify, I didn't think Keanu was moronic but the romance was in 47 Ronin (a missed apostrophe there). He actually does pretty decent in the role, I just think the romance itself doesn't work.

Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (2013) - Pretty good. A bit more lively since they got the explanations out of the way. People upset about stuff being added or subtracted will find more here to dislike, but I can divorce myself from the books. The Curse of the Black Parrot (1941) - interesting who-dunnit (and a bit how'd they do it) involving an art forger and a fake (or is it?) cabinet, and some international intrigue. Good use of makeup to hide the villain and an interesting central mystery. A bit stage-bound feeling (which isn't surprising, given that its based on a stage play) Logan's Run (1976) - An interesting 70s sci-fi film that stuffs up the ending (the logic of it falls to pieces, alas) but is otherwise pretty darn good. Also made back in the day when non sexual nudity was still allowed in a PG film (although there was more shot in the "love shop" which got hacked to bits to keep the PG rating and it shows as the sequence doesn't make a lot of sense). Whispering Ghosts (1942) - Milton Berle is miscast as a radio star/mystery solver forced to go to the scene of an old crime to solve a long unsolved murder. And while often in watching old movies you have to be able to accept that there were some unpleasant/repugnant attitudes of the time, here Berle's acerbic delivery combined with the period's treatment of minorities leads to a pretty unfortunate and unwatchable relationship between Berle and his assistant, played by Willie Best. 47 Ronin (2013) - A weird mixed up story; part historical story and part utter fantasy version of the tale of the 47 Ronin. You can tell that Keanu Reeves (somewhat moronic) romance plot exists primarily to try and make the film appeal to western audiences where the tale of samurai remaining true to their duty to their master despite his death (and the likelihood of their own death). It wasn't a bad film - the villains are quite hiss-able, but I can't help but feel there was a better film in here. The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) - A woman who has been "friendly" with several business men decides its time to "retire" from the life of entertaining; to do so she decides to blackmail three men - including banker Priam Andes - at a gathering at a ritzy ranch home of the Andes family. Also there are Priam's sister, his son and his son's fiance - who happens to be the blackmailer's sister. Also there are the blackmailer's maid, the blackmailed men's wives and a mysterious guest who seems to have an interest in the blackmailer. Pretty good who dunnit that plays pretty fair with the clues and manages to be interesting throughout.

I think Tom Laughlin had a response you could have considered