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Post by loverofbeers on May 22, 2012 1:09:09 GMT -5
Thank you Brother Jake. Felt better after puking. I think the fleas won last night over yours truly. I bombed them in my house with dog-friendly (supposedly) poison with my door open and a window open. Almost immediately a headache came. Might have been the burgers, but I think I fumigated my own ass. Fleas-1, LOB-0.... For now, Apocalypse is fuckin' nigh you bastiches! And I hope you have gained some of those pounds back, sir.
Just watched a wondrous, wondrous, wondrous, and dark fantasy filled with light that I last saw on the big-screen with my mom thirty years ago. Wow, she was a cool lady. Whenever I re-watch movies I saw as a little kid, I can't believe what my mom sat through in a theater without shielding my eyes. Like Fatal Attraction at the age of ten, and letting me rent A Texas Chainsaw Massacre at that same tender age. I am glad.
The Dark Crystal. An American/British production directed by Jim Henson and Yoda/Fozzie Bear himself, Frank Oz! Drank two beers concurrently during this movie to celebrate the two countries credited, first a Bad king John, "A Very English Black Ale", and from San Antonio, Texas, a Ranger Creek Mesquite Smoked Porter, a marriage of a German Rauch (smoked) Beir, and an English Robust Porter, American-style. Both were great, but Texas was more complex, just like a true rauchbier. Cheers!
Take it away Wikipedia and Youtube.
The film was shot at Elstree Studios, and exterior scenes were shot in the Scottish Highlands; Gordale Scar, North Yorkshire, England; and Twycross, Leicestershire, England.
The characters in the film are elaborate puppets, and none are based on humans or any other specific Earth creature. Before its release, The Dark Crystal was billed as the first live-action film without any human beings on screen, and "a showcase for cutting-edge animatronics."
Oh, yeah, this was the highest grossing film in Japan until Titanic premiered, it was Big in Japan.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 22, 2012 1:27:56 GMT -5
Oh, no offense Brother Jake, but to quote Cheech Marin, "Second Gear....". Dog, my friend, will hunt.
Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 22, 2012 1:36:31 GMT -5
I am striking myself a point. I counted Star Wars as a three-pointer. It was worth two points.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 22, 2012 20:34:21 GMT -5
Paused a long movie. Two plus hours. First, my second viewing, the first time on the silver screen of Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Thoughts on Kong. His war with three T-rexes was epic, and you know I dislike CGI. Well done. Kong is well done, period. CGI issues the first time and again, the brontosaurus scene looks like poo. Kong truly is King after killing the last T-rex. I love how he taunts the dieing brute by play-opening and closing its shattered jaws. Good freaking stuff! Last, early in the movie in the ship's cabin, you see a crate labeled "Sumatran Rat-Monkey". That made me happy. A Cheers! to Peter Jackson for paying homage to himself! Drank a Mad Meg from Jester King which specializes in farmhouse Belgian beers. Good stuff! jesterkingbrewery.com/introducing-mad-meg-farmhouse-provision-aleBack to the film on hand....
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Post by loverofbeers on May 22, 2012 22:44:05 GMT -5
So, best performance in a horror film candidates are John Barrymore in the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Ellen Burstyn in The Exorcist, and Kong in Peter Jackson's King Kong. The sadness in his eyes moved me. So Peter Jackson decided to remake, for kicks, a lost scene from Cooper's original masterpiece, The Spider Pit Scene. No CGI, all metal exoskeletons and puppets. Can't paste it, but here is the link, which I highly recommend to ya'll. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2Tu87Vx9wDrinking a Austin Beerworks Black Thunder Shwarz Beer, a German Black Lager. To the Beasts of the world and to us humans learning to shoulder the burden of living with them, and not wiping them out. Except for fleas. And roaches, the crawling type. Cheers! LOB-19 Edit. There is a scene with Kong going to the bone yard of his kin, skulls and skeletons of giant apes littering the grounds of a cave, alluding to his loneliness as the last of his kind. I wonder if this is how primates first constructed the first religions, establishing locations to mourn and dwell on the lives of ancestors and "reconnect" with lost ones.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 23, 2012 1:29:33 GMT -5
What do you get when you mix Wilie E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, four seconds of the bleeding elevator scene from The Shining, the 1930s Hollywood gangster genre, and masterful Kung-Fu? The best Kung-Fu movie I have ever seen. Kung-Fu Hustle!
Possibly the funnest movie in my eperience, and the last scene even made my crabby ass smile. Finishing up my last Real Ale Sisyphus Barleywine, about 11.2-11.4% ABV. Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 23, 2012 1:54:46 GMT -5
I liked Peter Jackson's King Kong and loved Kung Fu Hustle especially the toe stomping scene.
Anyway, I watched Killer Elite a British-Australian thriller starring Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, and Clive Owen. Overall this was a pretty good film there were some awesome scenes ,but some dumb ones.
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Edit: I accidentally put 21 when it is actually 20. Hey LOB I was wondering how the 36th Chamber of Shaolin was?
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Post by loverofbeers on May 24, 2012 12:03:03 GMT -5
Just watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A must watch. There is so much more going on in a good Western than you might think. The scenes shot in Northern Spain looked so much like the deserts I explored by bicycle as fourteen and fifteen year old. Beautiful country, if you wiiiiiiiiiill. Hey, Dusty did go to West Texas University, wherever that once was....
And I love the song "The Passion of the Gold". Hit it Eddie Kingston!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 24, 2012 14:09:51 GMT -5
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin was great and it is considered by some as the greatest kung-fu movie. I don't think so, I give that To Once Upon a time in China, but you would dig it. A really great watch.
I want to bring back the usage of "dig it". Gonna start using it everyday in conversation.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 24, 2012 21:52:39 GMT -5
Watched Erik the Viking a British comedy about viking adventure tales. I have to say that overall this was a pretty funny movie and being made by some of the Monty Python guys, has the same sort of feel.
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Post by luditesupreme on May 25, 2012 2:46:48 GMT -5
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin was great and it is considered by some as the greatest kung-fu movie. I don't think so, I give that To Once Upon a time in China, but you would dig it. A really great watch. I want to bring back the usage of "dig it". Gonna start using it everyday in conversation. groovie
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 25, 2012 19:13:46 GMT -5
Tight
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Post by loverofbeers on May 25, 2012 21:57:15 GMT -5
Nice. I love you guys. Describing and successfully selling (up-selling beer) today, I said "I dig it" or "I dig this beer" so many times.... Now I have to start using "Can you dig it"? May a higher being bless The Warriors! Thinking of you guys, and I dedicate the beer I'm drinking to JAS, Jester King's Farmhouse Wytchmaker Ale. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 26, 2012 0:56:26 GMT -5
Whether anybody cares, I'm going to start off by listing my favorite beer styles: American IPA's, American Imperial India Pale Ales, (aka as Double IPAs, Imperial IPAs, and I 2PAs), anybody's interpretation of a British Russian Imperial Stout, Barley Wines, many styles of Belgian Ales, Canadian and American interpretations of classic Belgian brews (thank you Unibroue out of Chambly, Quebec, CANADA. Thank you The Hart family and RIP Owen, a day late), and German Weizboks, Weizen-Dubbleboks, and Weizen-Eisboks. To name a few. Add to the tippy-top, as of now, American Rye India Pale Ales (RIPAs), Rye Double IPAs, and Rye Barley Wines. All American creations. Europe, you are destined to be in my rear view mirror. Bah-bah, Mofo, to quote my illustrious Governor "Pointy Boots" Perry. Back to the matter at hand. Peter Cushing is one of the greatest film villains EVER. Dr. Victor Frankestein in this movie is a rapist, murderer, evil genius/mad scientist, despoiler of loving couples, and general "hive of scum and villainy" upon himself. Truly a Tarkian character and a harbringer of what premeired 35 years ago yesterday. Frankestein Must Die from Hammer, a great sequel. Period. Credit Wookiepedia.com. Emperor Palpatine was very impressed with the ideas, so much that all the suggestions were implemented, with Tarkin promoted to the new rank of Grand Moff, making him the first of the Grand Moffs, and placed in charge of Oversector Outer, which was most of the Outer Rim Territories. In addition, he was given command of four Sector Groups. However, Palpatine increasingly changed Tarkin's original words to his own meaning, "Rule through fear instead of through idealistic government agencies". LOB-23
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Post by loverofbeers on May 26, 2012 1:11:53 GMT -5
Double edit. "Ecstacy of Gold" and "Frankestein Must be Destroyed". Beer is a Hell of a drug. Cheers!
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