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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Sunday, November 26, 2006

I'll give it a 5/10

The film was Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. What do you mean, you've never heard of it? Count yourself lucky. 254 people have voted for it, here. I started watching by accident and got interested when I saw the command centre, run by 'Marsha'. Marsha and her beehive had an impressive array of buttons and lights in front of her. Some of the dials were just painted on, but she didn't let that get in her way. It was shaping up to be a great film, perfect for the 2.30am connoisseur. Even the metal robot was not the most wooden actor. The hopping lizard creatures, brontosauruses, man-eating plants, and flying reptiles all deserve an honourable mention. I was loving the hover car, which was slower than walking and only just cleared the jagged rocks by this much.
The volcano erupting was wonderful/woeful. Stock footage of volcano, lava, the usual stuff, but the scientist guy is collected a sample and his friend points out that the lava level is rising so they need to get to higher ground. Good idea, as it's running past their feet. So they step back, I kid you not, 2 feet.
My favourite quote? when they think something else has gone wrong (I won't spoil it for you) and one of them says "This is a mess now".
The only bad thing about this fine entertainment was it was being shown as part of something called Off Beat Cinema and this pretentious bunch would sit around in their berets and sunglasses and discuss NOTHING for 9 minutes at a time, (yes I timed it) interupting the film with their excessive use of the words- far out, dig it and man and reading Allen Ginsberg poetry.
I almost lost my temper at the glove puppet doing a poetry reading. Then another 25 minutes of film followed by the beatniks reading mail. A whole email was read and discussed from someone who used to intern for them and had broken his mug.
Give me patience.

That's why they put 'mute' buttons on remote controls.

4 Comments:

At Mon Nov 27, 02:34:00 a.m., Blogger MMannis said...

Well, those pecan pies you have below are always in season. They look great. Nice reading! A Trip of Clicks. Thanks again, mike

 
At Mon Nov 27, 10:03:00 a.m., Blogger Steve said...

Yes, Off Beat Cinema is like those PBS pledge drives... but duller and nonsensical.

 
At Mon Nov 27, 11:13:00 p.m., Blogger Scooter Deb said...

That film sounds like it was MADE to be in Mystery Science Theater 3000. Tom Servo could read beatnik poetry and it would be funny.

 
At Tue Nov 28, 08:57:00 a.m., Blogger Amanda said...

ah, I see you have experienced Off Beat Cinema, Steve. I can tell by your use of the words duller and nonsensical.
scooterdeb- it was a classic if only for the gadgets.

 

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