Year: 2013

Second verse*, same as the first. *This week, anyway.

So...haven't done the '80s for a bit. UPDATE: I think people were being thrown by what I suspect was just a lighting effect. Here's the same (I think) beastie with a less severe gel.

Never saw this, but what kind of movie cuts out a giant octopus?!

Fun movie, if a bit of a piffle. Fay Wray again goes on an exotic adventure, again rousing the oft-expressed disdain but eventual love of a tough, he-man sailor (Ralph Bellamy)! When Wray's diving bell is threatened by this ENTIRELY LOVABLE beastie, Bellamy goes below in Ye Olde Diving Suit to save the day.…

SNL's Land Octopus sketches never proved as popular.

Same beastie as yesterday, under circumstances I doubt I must explicate for any visitor here.

Ah, that's more like it.

If I'd been smarter, I'd have saved the Altitude shot from earlier in the week for today's MoD. Oh, well, story of my life. Anyway, those zany Japanese and their game shows, huh?

I got nothing.

I've often thought all the texturing and such CGI allows is one reason kids don't love monsters as much. There's a lot to be said for how simplicity of form captures the imagination. Oh, please those movies such, and rare good monster movie these days are often gorefest that aren't appropriate for kids to…