T-Fest Open Thread….

Updated on November 4, 2021 By Ken Begg 20 Comments

Off to Rockwall this afternoon. Back Wednesday next week. Consider this an open thread. I’ll try to stop by and fill in on T-Fest shenanigans, maybe some others will too. Feel free to explore the space, and if you see something bad this weekend (or even something good) let us know.

Have a terrific weekend everyone, in any case.

Pin It

  • Gamera977

    I watched ‘The Awakening’ 1980- it’s a mummy movie with Charlton Heston based on a Bram Stoker novel!

    Unfortunately though the YouTube comments were very favorable I felt it was kinda so-so,.

    The mummy is the real-life non-animate variety. The story is about an Egyptian curse (thankfully no Egyptian Feast). It’s on YouTube so it’s not going to cost you anything if you want to take a look.

  • Gamera977

    And I finally got a chance to see the Denis Villeneave ‘Dune’. I liked it. Good movie but not perfect by any means. Funny both it and the Lynch movie have big faults but in generally different ways.

    I did like it had much more a spiritual religious side to it than the Lynch film which ignored that side of novel to go with a more straight forward SF theme. And some beautiful shots of the desert. But like ‘Bladerunner 2049’ it moves at a snail’s pace. Which I kinda liked and kinda didn’t. I like the dreamlike quality but at times I wanted the movie to get on with it. I’m still processing it.

    And frankly I think Timothnee Chalamet was miscast as Paul Atreides. He was no Kyle MacLachlan for sure. To be honest I think pretty much all the parts in the Lynch movie were better cast.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I watched “Psycho Goreman” which was funny, very gory in spots, and really imaginative. If you hate bratty little kids, though, this one has one of the brattiest. It’s tied into the story, but wow…

    I also watched the late 80’s “The Brain” which is very, very 80’s. A lot of fun in a kind of stupid way.

  • Eric Hinkle

    ‘The Brain’? Is that the movie with the giant brain monster that eats women?

  • As I recall, the novel was excellent, easily up there with Dracula.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    That is indeed the one. Stars David Gale from Re-Animator, with George Buza (voice of the Beast from the 90’s X-Men cartoons) as his assistant.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, I really have little interest in seeing the new one. Very flawed as it is, the Lynch one is a personal fave. And yes, of the Villeneave films I’ve seen, all could have used an editor. Bladerunner 2049 needed to have about an hour chopped out of it.

  • The Rev.

    I remembered liking it in high school, and seeing it a few years ago it held up as cheesy fun. MST3K did a live riff of it a couple years back and that was good fun.

    (Also, did my last post comment get deleted? I don’t see it.)

  • Gamera977

    Thanks! Will give it a look. I read his ‘Mystery of the Sea’ a few years ago and didn’t really like it so I’ve been a little leery of his other works.

  • Gamera977

    I’d say it’s well worth watching, it’s just the endless trashing of the Lynch film and praising of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
    BR2049 is a beautiful film – it could have used a much stronger plot though. I compare it to going to a beautiful restaurant with amazing ambience but finding out the food is only so-so.

  • Gamera977

    Amazon had it on Prime a year or so ago and I watched it. Pretty fun flick!

  • KeithB

    Kinda off topic, but I had a “Pirate Weekend”.
    Watched the Norwegian “Shipwrecked”, the Disney “Treasure Island” – Arggh! – and the “Muppet Treasure Island” All three were good movies in their own way, but TI was best!

  • KeithB

    In other news Dean Stockwell has passed away.

    Would he be considered a friend of Jabootu?

  • KeithB

    Actually, Couldn’t Wilber Whately be considered a MOTD?

  • Gamera977

    He’d make a better one than his brother. Being invisible I guess Ken could just put a photo of an empty field up.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I seem to recall that in the 70’s movie they very briefly showed Wilbur’s little brother right before he was defeated.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Watching “Cast a Deadly Spell” which Ken has praised here on a number of occasions. Turns out, he was right, this is a really fun movie. Might make a cool double-feature with “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” as they’re kind of both cut from the same cloth–1940’s film noir with a huge major difference that drives the plot.

    I’m only about a third in, but whoever put out this release really went all out. The picture and sound are terrific.

  • Gamera977

    I just watched Sandy’s ‘Scream Queens Quiz on his YouTube channel.

    And I am mortified that I only got five of them…

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ll have to take a look at this myself.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, that was a bit scary.