Cinematic Titanic's latest: RATTLERS! [message #186512] |
Sat, 28 July 2012 12:40 |
Doug Elrod
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I really enjoyed this one. Maybe it's just me, but I thought the last one, "War of the Insects", was a bit "thin". However, I was smiling throughout this one, when I wasn't laughing out loud.
Maybe it's the incessant "70's-ness". If you weren't sure what decade it was made in, you could probably tell from the extreme 70's way it treats women, for instance ;-)
Here's a couple of lines I enjoyed (I could cite many more!):
"Have no fear. Bland, affable, 70's guy is here!" -Trace
"Nice expositioning with you!" -Joel
Note: Beware of getting too fond of any of the characters, like those kids at the beginning, or that other guy*, or that partly-nude woman (see, it IS the 70's!), or those other guys.
-Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
*Spoiler: He's not *actually* killed by a snake.
P.S. I'm hoping that toupee went on to a long career in 70's movies!
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Re: Cinematic Titanic's latest: RATTLERS! [message #186621 is a reply to message #186615] |
Wed, 01 August 2012 01:19 |
nebusj-
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In <XnsA09ED41819416freezer88hotmailcom@94.75.214.90> Freezer <freezer88@hotSPAMTHISmail.com> writes:
> They were sold out when I checked the site. :(
I'm looking forward to getting it. I was sadly out of the
country, happily on my honeymoon, the day they premiered this episode
in Ann Arbor. If we'd honeymooned a different week we could have made
it, but, ah, well.
Instead, though, I spent that day trying to find Utrecht's
Grocery Shop Museum (I failed), *did* find the Speelklok Museum of
music boxes, band organs, and other automata --- which is among the
coolest places you will ever find; and on Friday got to the Utrecht
Railway Museum. The Railway Museum's motto is ``You Will Believe'',
implying that Dutch children are stubbornly skeptical of the
existence of railroads, considering they have rather good inter-city
rail service.
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http://nebusresearch.wordpress.com/ Joseph Nebus
Current Entry: Reading the Comics, July 28, 2012 http://wp.me/p1RYhY-hO
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Re: Cinematic Titanic's latest: RATTLERS! [message #186734 is a reply to message #186621] |
Wed, 01 August 2012 16:32 |
Judith
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In article <jvae9s$dso$3@reader1.panix.com>,
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> In <XnsA09ED41819416freezer88hotmailcom@94.75.214.90> Freezer
> <freezer88@hotSPAMTHISmail.com> writes:
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>> They were sold out when I checked the site. :(
>
> I'm looking forward to getting it. I was sadly out of the
> country, happily on my honeymoon, the day they premiered this episode
> in Ann Arbor. If we'd honeymooned a different week we could have made
> it, but, ah, well.
>
> Instead, though, I spent that day trying to find Utrecht's
> Grocery Shop Museum (I failed), *did* find the Speelklok Museum of
> music boxes, band organs, and other automata --- which is among the
> coolest places you will ever find; and on Friday got to the Utrecht
> Railway Museum. The Railway Museum's motto is ``You Will Believe'',
> implying that Dutch children are stubbornly skeptical of the
> existence of railroads, considering they have rather good inter-city
> rail service.
You honeymooned in Utrecht? Good idea! I lived near there and spent a
lot of time there. Nice place, isn't it? Did you go on a tour of all
the little museums? In the Netherlands there's a museum for
*everything*. Good reason to be skeptical of Dutch trains:
they're...*yellow.*
Tot ziens,
Judith
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Come in an' warm yourself by this roarin' candle.
-McUncle
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