In a forum somewhere, when someone asked about the influence of movies and TV on early D&D, they followed up with this comment:
I'd assume that because this was pre-Star Wars that the visual mediums would have had much less of an impact than they do today in gaming culture.
Now, I didn't want to comment in that thread because the person wasn't saying ( Read more... )

I was posting some idle speculation to a forum about what Doctor Who would have looked like if it had been made by an American company, but back in the '60s or thereabouts. And it might not have looked too bad:
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka would have made a great Doctor. Or, going earlier, maybe Rex Reason or Michael Rennie. Vincent Price would have ( Read more... )

So, quite by accident, I watched another M. Night Shyamalan movie, "The Village". I'd heard rumors about this movie, but thought at first that maybe they were exaggerated; the opening of the movie had a bunch of quick scene changes, which might seem jumpy to some (a couple people told me it felt really disjointed.) But I kind of liked it, even if ( Read more... )

I think I said something once a long while ago about wishing I could see some Jerry Lewis movies; I hadn't seen any for maybe 25 to 30 years. There were a couple Jerry Lewis movies available on demand, so I watched 'em. Two I'd seen when I was a kid: "The Geisha Boy" and "The Nutty Professor". Two others are frequently cited as works of genius: " ( Read more... )

I haven't seen The Triplets of Belleville, although I've seen maybe a 1-minute clip that makes me *want* to see it. But so far, I haven't had the chance.

The people who made that made another animated film called The Illusionist, which is available via On Demand, so I started watching that. The first thing I noticed that the screenplay is by ( Read more... )

A couple nights ago, I watched a couple random movies, stuff that just happened to be on. One was a New Zealand horror-fantasy movie I'd never heard of (Under the Mountain,) which wasn't exactly "bad" -- they were technically competent -- but it was pretty disjointed and had a plot from a thousand other movies. The other was Kull the Conqueror, ( Read more... )

I should have posted a week or so ago about finally watching Starship Troopers, but couldn't think of anything to say about it beyond "Eh." Not sure if that's because it's mediocre or because I don't dig military sci-fi. I do know that (a) many people complained about how terrible it was, but (b) I couldn't even muster up much hatred. I did kind ( Read more... )

Saw two more movies that weren't very good. I watched the third installment in the Twilight saga: Eclipse. Not much to say about it, other than I had confirmation from one other person that the romantic leads definitely act their way through an entire movie without looking anyone in the eye.

Movie #2 was worse though: 2012. This was actually ( Read more... )

I mentioned on Facebook not too long ago that I was trying to decide whether to watch A Scanner Darkly or A Serious Man via On Demand, and I didn't feel more strongly about one than about the other. So, I made a decision based on one movie being about to "expire". Except that since that had nothing to do with the movie's content, I didn't pay ( Read more... )

Watched The Social Network last night. Not only did I enjoy it, but I was surprised at how funny it was. Although I wonder if the forced cannibalism incident really happened ( Read more... )