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| ParanoidObsessive 09/07/19 12:04:58 AM #206: | WhiskeyDisk posted... While we're on YA...was anybody into (or does anybody even remember) The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper? About 12 years ago, there was a psychic shockwave that rippled across the entire world. Animals howled in terror, crops withered and died, children were born with cold, dead, soulless eyes. Suicide rates around the world rose to unprecedented levels. In Europe, a Gypsy fortuneteller was startled to discover that all of the cards in her Tarot deck had somehow turned into identical copies of The Fallen Tower, and the statue of Jesus in Brazil wept blood. Also, there was a rumor that a man in India ate his own head, though this was sadly unsubstantiated. That was the echoing, thunderous result of the seething boiling rage I felt when I saw "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" in the movie theater. The scream of primal rage torn from my soul battered the very walls of reality itself, and shattered the thin strands of causality that bind the universe together. In the future, when arcane scholars attempt to trace the root causes of the Fall of Man, they will eventually pinpoint that precise moment as the point when humanity forfeited its right to exist, and set itself upon the unavoidable path towards its inevitable Doom. I got in for free, and I still nearly left the theater three times to demand my money back. It is the reason why, to this day, I categorically refuse to see any movie Alexander Ludwig appears in (and to this point, I've missed absolutely nothing of value thereby). If we lived in a just and fair universe, literally everyone connected to the writing side of that movie would have developed aggressively malignant tumors by now, that consumed them from the inside out, turning them into shambling husks that know nothing but torment, and weep salty black tears. The fact that there have never been news stories acknowledging this to have occurred is how I know for absolute fact that no kind and loving God could possibly exist. I didn't like it, is what I'm saying here. But yes, the movie exists. It was made by the same people who made the Narnia movies (and was actually their attempt to start up a new franchise in the wake of losing the rights to make future Narnia movies), who are unfortunately still in business, and not bankrupt and destitute as they deserve to be for their crimes against humanity. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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