So, after Horror of the Monster Blood or whatever, it was time for shorts (Sandy likes music videos). We also watched a Chargeman Ken episode, these crazy five-minute old animes. They are all on Crunchyroll, but a bunch are on YouTube too. They are a hoot, check ’em out. They are good to throw on if you have like ten minutes before you need to leave for work.
On to Chad R’s traditional quiz. This time it was 26 stills of films A-Z. To my surprise, I won handily, only blowing the last one, because I thought the movie Zodiac, which I barely remembered (it was the ‘Z’ movie, that was the clue) was Zodiac Killer. So that was a tiny bit annoying, but still, 25 out of 26. I was well ahead of the Rev’s second place finish, but since I have enough stuff–to say the least–I forwent choosing something from Chad’s fab array of prizes. I am right now looking at the awful El Santo figure I won for a previous quiz, though.
I think my favorite still was Urban Cowboy for ‘U’, because it didn’t feature John Travolta (the picture featured Scott Glenn), which might have made it too obvious. Or maybe not, as I think I was the only one who got The Year of Living Dangerously and that still had Mel Gibson in it so who knows.
Then it was off for a Texas BBQ dinner, which obviously was pretty great. I got brisket, which is my standard choice, and was well pleased.
Back for the night shift. We started with Mario Bava’s lovely Hercules in the Haunted World, which features Christopher Lee as the bad guy. Sadly, he didn’t provide his voice to any of the three (!) versions found on the neato Kino two-disc set for the movie. Italian films were generally recorded MOS, and Lee famously thought (I’m not arguing) that if he was providing two performances, he should be paid for two performances. That’s why so many of his Euro films don’t feature Lee in the English dub. Even so, as you’d expect, that was a disappointment. I’d even Lee act in German (last year’s Krimi; apparently cheap German films–surprise–were more technically competent and thus could record dialog during filming) and French, so it would have been fun to hear him thesp in Italian. Oh, well, great movie nonetheless.
Happy Friday, everyone. Looks of theater action this week. (And I hadn’t even realized Crossroads (!!!!!) played in theaters last week, because Britney Spears has a new book out.) Nightmare Before Christmas is back in theaters, and always worth a look. Miyazaki’s masterpiece Spirited Away, arguably the greatest animated film ever, is playing in both dubbed and subtitled versions. I STRONGLY recommend this to any movie fan. Check out Fathom Events for details. Nov 1 (next Wednesday, I believe) Godzilla 2000 will be back in theaters for a day. And for people interested in a more recent anime film, Suzume is back in theaters for a week.
Halloween is nearly upon us! The Weekend is here! Watch something stupid–or just a classic old horror movie!
