On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:19:51 +0100, "john smith"
Post by john smithPost by Ignis FatuusOn Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:49:24 +0100, "john smith"
Post by john smithPost by Ignis FatuusOn Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:49:00 +0100, "Ian B"
Post by Ian BPost by The DoctorPost by Ignis FatuusPost by The DoctorPost by Ignis FatuusPost by The DoctorOn Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:54:06 +0000 (UTC),
Post by The DoctorOn Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:23:08 +0000 (UTC),
Post by The DoctorOn Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:02:25 +0000 (UTC),
Post by The DoctorOn Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:19:49 +0000 (UTC),
Post by The DoctorPost by Ian BNow he's not been a "silly old buffer" for a very long
time, isn't it about time The Doctor went back for
Susan? It's not as if there's a casting problem; she
could have regenerated due to the sheer misery of being
stuck on Earth playing housewife with dreary David.
I hate that scene where The Doctor dumped her on Earth.
It plays to me as phenomenally cruel. It's time he made
amends, isn't it?
Ian
And T5D?
Nothing could Ever make amends for That.
Thank you Monty.
Monty! Monty Who? Touch of the Hartnells there...
Monty as in Monty Python.
Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking to me.
I was calling you Monty Python.
That's OK. Hartnell was always forgetting people's names.
:-)
We must be the Troughton / Pertwee of the group.
Speak for yourself... er... Dobson.
Dobson?? rec.sport.soccer is around the corner.
Or the Bend?
As you like it.
Much ado about nothing!
A Comedy of Terrors.
Haven't seen it since I was a youngun - probably on BBC2 or "Appointment
with Fear" - but I remember this as being a great film! Peter Lorre is a
squamously batrachian (H.P.L. words!) as ever...
I thought you didn't like horror films, Iggy? (I know... it's not very
horrifying...) Or do you draw the line at 1963?
I just threw in the title as a Shakespearian pastiche (the Movie's The
Comedy Of Terrors).
I know. Isn't that what you said? Or are you so fernickety you make a
distinction between "A" and "The"? (IMDB reminds you of both!)
On the other hand, I don't like horror as a genre,
Post by Ignis Fatuusbut it can be effective as comedy.
Odd POV, considering it's called "horror" and not "comedy". Although - like
a laugh and a scream - the two have similarities. Didn't Freud write about
this shit?
Vincent and Peter are Always worth
Post by Ignis Fatuusthe Price of admission.
Oh, so true! VP in particular, I suppose, is a fantastic comedic actor.
("Theatre of Blood" and the Phibes films being stand-outs for him!) As for
his horror stuff, he's always very campy, but have you seen him in
"Witchfinder General"? That has to be to Vincent Price
what Lord Summerisle ("The Wicker Man") is to Christopher Lee and those
rather drippy Dracula Hammer films... (Although I love them all!)
Post by Ignis FatuusRathbone and Karloff make this one a 'must'.
Both great actors: especially as I grew up watching Rathbone's Sherlock
Holmes films - avidly glued to the TV every week (day, in some instances)!
Same when they showed the Johnny Weissmuller (sp?) Tarzan films...
Never cared for his Holmes films - but I grew up on Douglas Wilmer and
Nigel Stock (mostly destroyed by the Beeb). Wilder's Private Life...
is my favourite Holmes Movie.
Post by john smithKarloff is superb in all his films, too! (Have you seen "Gods and
Monsters"? A brilliant "biographical" look at James Whales life - and last
days - as a gay director in early Hollywood traumatised by war...) And
particularly his last film... Remember that one? ;-)
If you mean 'Hello Out There', I've never seen it. Whale is criminally
neglected by the DVD community. But his Frankensteins, Psycho, and
Baby Jane, are the only 'horror' movies I've enjoyed; and like early
Who, they were far more than just 'monster' flics.
Gods and Monsters is another favourite, and much more than a simple
biog. Whale tries creating a 'real life' monster, as a means of
committing suicide - but the 'monster' has too much humanity. It's
chilling and quite brilliant (Richard Curtis please note).