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As a matter of fact, we're almost certain ghouls and werewolves occupy high positions at city hall.

Zikten posted...

Ancient Celtic people thought that the dead visited earth today

I love Halloween, but it'd be pretty depressing if every day a year had past and it was always fall. If you stop to watch a movie, that's the only movie you see that year.

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No restriction on content beyond ToS and local law enforcement.

happy spooky day to you as well

Wait your turn, Christmas. It's still Halloween time.

HylianFox posted...

This. Sadly, the line was changed to "Hey genius"in the 3DS version. lame

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Werewolves of London again~

CEOs: "Almost there. Soon it'll be 90%."

Happy Halloween.

Many great pics in the past couple of days. ^_^b

I'm sorry that I missed this poll. I would say Yay.

I really appreciate how the movie goes the extra mile by including a talking cat and a zombie.

I have to get my national certification as a pharmacy technician. I said that I would do it after I got back from vacation in September, but I've sent the entirety of October watching scary movies and playing creepy video games instead.

<_<

Also, I need to finish doing the dishes.

Fenriswolf posted...

There were plenty of humanoid aliens in the 60s/70s Godzilla and Gamera movies and Ultraman series.

Gotta love that time super-intelligent cockroaches wanted to take over the world using a theme park as their base of operations.

A ton of Japanese media has aliens. It became a bit cliche in the Godzilla series.

Maybe if I had a Japanese wife, but I'd rather stay in the US to be honest.

indica posted...

I used to live by that hospital. I was also an extra in 5, or which ever one starred Paul Rudd.

Neat.

It's weird how Halloween became a Choose Your Own Adventure story. In one continuity, Lori Strode dies and Dr. Loomis carries on the fight. In another continuity, Lori battles her brother 20 years later and is eventually killed by him. In yet another continuity, Lori battles Michael 40 years later, eventually killing him, and they're not related. Plus, there's the Rob Zombie continuity and the one where Halloween is a movie in-universe.

Anyway, I only had time for one film in the franchise. Since I started working at a hospital this year, I chose the one with the hospital setting: Halloween 2. I must say, the nurses are highly unprofessional. I can't believe Jimmy stroking a sleeping Lori's hand was supposed to be endearing. If I'm in a sleeping patient's room, I try and wake them or else leave as quickly and quietly as I can. Plus, you have the two personnel that are willing to leave babies unattended so that they can go and have sex in the hot tub. Excuse me, water therapy pool or whatever they call it. (Why did that thing have a "scald to death" setting, anyway?)

It's kind of a shame that Halloween Ends is terribad. If it had been as good as the 2017 movie, it would have been an ideal movie to close out a 31 day horror movie marathon. "Halloween Ends."

Also, I had no idea that the George W. Bush-lookin' dude from the recent trilogy was the same guy that got burned to death by the police in Halloween 2. At least members of one profession act in the movie the way that they do in real life.

<_<

Not unless I get trapped in another dimension Super Mario Bros. Super Show style.

If I had known, I would have watched a Halloween movie related to calls. Cat People, Sleepwalkers, Pet Cemetery, etc. Even Hocus Pocus would've been appropriate.

I've only played the SNES version.

I was surprised to find out the Genesis version had an entire level that was missing from the SNES port.

If I remember correctly, the original G'nG was released to arcades within a week or two of Super Mario Bros. hitting the Famicom. It's interesting to think that they were under production at the same time.

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Both have a short, fur-faced hero rescuing a beautiful princess from a fire-spitting monster. And when you get to Ghouls 'n Ghosts, tell me this rock turtle isn't a Koopa:

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It's interesting to think that Super Mario Bros. receives credit for essentially inventing the side scroller. (Even though the first two Pitfall games came first.) It makes me wonder how the history books might have been different had Ghosts 'n Goblins been released first. Super Mario Bros. would have always overtaken it for popularity. But it's interesting how close Capcom were to having the "first" major side scroller.

legendary_zell posted...

He definitely is, you're right. If Batman is, he is.

For characters with super powers, the formula for being a superhero seems to be as follows:

Mask + Gadgets = Superhero

Zorro and the Lone Ranger wear masks, but lack gadgets. Therefore, they are not typically regarded as superheroes. James Bond has gadgets, but does not wear a mask. He is never regarded as a superhero. Characters like Batman, Iron Man, and the Green Hornet are normal action heroes who wear masks and use gadgets. Therefore, they are superheroes.

It's kinda funny to think that the thing that keeps Zorro from being a superhero is the lack of a magnetic pocket watch or a fountain pen that shoots a grappling hook. I'm curious if giving a Captain America shield to a masked character without a super soldier serum would constitute a superhero.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Mario

Oh, come on. Caped Mario totally counts as a superhero.

That's awful.

On a side note, Cousins is the worst surname for anyone who isn't an only child. "We're the Cousins Brothers."

"Zorro. Does Zorro count as a superhero? If so, Dracula."

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Godzilla foe Gigan...

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I know that a plumber was once sucked down a drain where he ended up in another kingdom and rescued a princess from a dragon-turtle monster.

I now want a red-nosed Logan leading Santa's sleigh.

<_<

Even if you believe that some confederates were fighting for reasons other than racism, it's still odd to name army bases after your enemies.

Wolves were saved from extinction.

Elon is only opposing Israel because they're Jewish.

No, not that's not why everyone who opposes Israel's government's action does so. That's why he's doing it.

black jelly beans

Barbenheimer aside, it was the summer from hell for Hollywood executives,

Hmm...

The only successful summer movies were new content? Oh, man. I think I just gave a producer a heart attack.

Fluttershy posted...

I don't have that same problem when I read your posts.

lol. for what it's worth, this burn gave me faith in your writing.

Thank you.

RISEofCHRISTIAN posted...

I can't tell if this is real or satire lmao

I don't have that same problem when I read your posts.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Its crazy how one of the most memorable scenes in the movie that was loved by most of the critics you seem unnecessary. The coen brothers seemed it necessary. Crazy how you know better than them

It's a good movie, but it wouldn't hurt the film at all to leave that scene out.

Doe posted...

This scene is important to the Coens' take on their Minnesota home and how Marge fits into it. A big element of the film is how a culture of pleasantness can lead people to retreat inwards in how they handle their problems ironically leading to the breakdown of communication between people. Yanagita is on like two layers of facades in this scene and Marge herself has hid her meeting from her husband and isn't even sure what she wants out of it.

I can respect that, but I'm still going to fall back on what I said to Cole. It wouldn't hurt the film at all to cut that scene out.

This is something for which there is no set rule.

If you have an all-White cast, you really need to diversify it. Sometimes, that means a race change. Other times, it means writing a character out, or demoting them to a cameo, so that a new character can have their spot. What I don't care for is when it gets in the way of a character's signature look or when a character is completely recharacterized to fit their new identity. To me, that's not being the same character. But, again. You can't make every character's look their iconic signature look. It just can't work that way.

I'm a fledgling writer and my casts are diverse. I would not like someone making changes to them even though I realize that is a possibility. (I'd much rather have an adaptation and receive royalties though than not have it adapted at all. Let me make that point clear.) When it comes to adapting an older story in which everyone is White -- Dracula, Robin Hood, King Kong, etc. -- I would not hesitate to change a character's ethnicity or introduce new characters to fill out a cast list. If that's hypocritical, that's hypocritical. But the needs of diversity and inclusion are more important than making sure that every character keeps their arbitrarily assigned looks.

I've never seen any of the Exorcist movies, but I found it funny that Halloween Horror Nights had a haunted house based on Believer a month before the movie was even out. Like, they were name-dropping characters and everything.

Fargo is a great movie, btw.

I'm not trying to knock it as a film. I just don't feel that the scene/subplot was altogether necessary. Then again, the Coen Brothers are kind of anti-filmmakers when it comes to convention. If they want a five minute scene of someone sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons, they will take every second of that five minutes to show that person feeding pigeons.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Ive never given a second thought to Mike being Asian, or a racist stereotype. Didnt know anybody else had either. Just read an article from the guy who played him, heres what he said

He says in the interview that you quoted that he got a pushback for the character being stereotyped. I'm glad that he found the character refreshing.

Either way, the scene is still unnecessary. Marge is a cop. It's kind of her job to consider the possibility that an individual with a financial stake in the matter might not be entirely honest.

Gremlynn posted...

Hearing an Asian name and predicting a character archetype says more of the audience than it does the content.

Fuck that noise. I've been watching Asian cinema since I was 6 years old.

I wanted Yanagita to be a character who was treated decently, but I knew from the phone call that he wouldn't be. There's nothing off about the initial call. It's just one friend contacting another to congratulate them. But I had a suspicion where they were going with the character and they confirmed it quickly.

Ask yourself this, why did the creepy friend need to be Japanese? The cast is 95% White. Why did the one character of Asian descent have to be the creepy friend from school who lived with his parents and lied about a sob story to try and steal another man's wife? I'm not saying that the Coen Brothers are prejudiced. But that doesn't mean that they can't still play into stereotypes. A lot of the time, what feels right for a character can be playing into a stereotype. And it can be done without even knowing it. That film was more of a symptom of a greater problem at the time.

MICHALECOLE posted...

I think youre reading too much into it. Hes not a weirdo because hes an Asian man, hes just a weirdo who happens to be Asian. Theres no line thats like classic Asian men, always being weirdos! Or anything like that.

Movies typically only call attention to a stereotype when they're lampooning the stereotype.

"I've seen this movie, the Black dude dies first."

DrizztLink posted...

You do?

In a 90s movie, yes. Stereotypes can die out in time. But his portrayal in that film was pretty much par the course for how Hollywood of the 80s and 90s portrayed Japanese men or Japanese-American men.

luigi33 posted...

They desire hedonism

I desire hedonism.

Everything you described in that first post sounds awful though.

<_<

MICHALECOLE posted...

Wait what is the racist stereotype here?

As soon as you hear the name Yanagita spoken over the phone, you know that he's going to perv over Marge. Sure enough, he wastes no time in being a creep.

The Mike Yanagita scene from Fargo (1996).

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Yes, he lied. Marge could've suspected Jerry of lying without her friend from college turning out to be a creep. It felt needless and racially stereotypical.