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bk1e

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Everything is going wrong / All my songs are coming true
Software engineer - Austin, TX - he/him

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Another four dimensions, and we'll be all ready for Buckaroo Banzai

A movie poster for "Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension."
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@ottaross I’ve been thinking Scott looks like Temu Peter Weller

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Tonight's Episode: The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls or Jazz Powers Activate.

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@athena_rising The Hepcat Who Could Walk Through Walls

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“Well if you must know, it’s a self portrait.”

Screenshot from Event Horizon (1997) of Sam Neill pushing a pen through a folded piece of paper as a metaphor for a wormhole.
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Missed marketing opportunity: a tie-in between cargonite and the 1959 reintroduction of red Fiestaware, now made using depleted uranium.

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Extremely relatable. Who among us has not gotten their hand stuck in a block of solid cargonite?

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Hey, isn't a "4D Movie" what they call it when you watch a movie at an amusement park, and the seat in front of you sprays water at you, or blows streamers past your feet or something like that?

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@apLundell Does that mean “The Tingler” and “House on Haunted Hill” (as shown “in Emergo!”) are 3D movies?

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This movie has a talking dummy, a mesmerist, a woman in a semicolon… but let’s just follow around a boring middle-aged man named “Mark” because he’s the MAIN character?!

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@diazona @ohiofi You’re tearing me apart, Marianne!

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VORELLI: DON’T TALK BACK by D.A. Pennebaker

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t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶t̶u̶s̶i̶
the twist
e̶l̶ ̶d̶o̶r̶a̶d̶o̶

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“Marianne… it’s time… that we began… to laugh and cry… and cry and laugh… about it all over again”

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A hypnotist, Mr. English, in this economy?

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Wait, there was a 1945 horror anthology called Dead of Night with a segment about a ventriloquist’s dummy named Hugo?

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Cool building tho

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“Whoever you were, you are a Dink now”

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Frosty Marg and skillet queso

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Going to have to listen to some Dink as a palate cleanser after this dinking pile of dink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1RmZmQ3bOI

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Time to dink off into the sea

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“A thousand Monsterdons. This has been one of them.”

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For tonight’s Monsterdon of The Quatermass Xperiment I’m going with physical media.

A hand holding a bluray case of The Quatermass Xperiment
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Such speedy response, getting those trucks slooooooooowly through the gate in the fence.

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For the first time a rocket has taken three men to space. You can’t expect a smol little experiment like that to be perfect.

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“I’m afraid the camera won’t tell us anything.” It doesn’t look like the film is hanging out, exposed to light, so what’s the problem?

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“A space rocket”

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But first, shaving time!

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This version of Lomax reminds me of the police chief in Hot Fuzz, but I looked it up, it’s a different actor.

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Quatermass spewing FUD about hospitals

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“We know that. But would a hospital know it?”

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“It was badly damaged but I managed to get the film out.” In the dark, I hope!

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Always make sure to leave a note to the film lab about any unusual requirements, like developing film from a space rocket.

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I love the comic timing of the film cutting away to the shot of the gauges. A split screen would be so much less funny.

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The shot of the astronaut walking up the wall in zero G is no Jamiroquai but it’ll do.

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Is that a cactus in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

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I suspect the shot of the dead private eye’s face is one of a few reasons this film was rated X (in the UK). I read that the ‘X’ in “Xperiment” is for X-rated.

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“An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles.” —Scotty, The Thing from Another World (1951)

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Lucozade, cotton wool, paracetamol—do pharmacies in the UK have a different name for everything?

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It’s shaving time again!

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The special features on the Blu-ray include a comparison of the UK and American versions of the movie. They made an alternate title sequence with “Experiment” spelled correctly and “United Artist (sic)” incorrectly, before they decided to change the title to “The Creeping Unknown”. They also cut the closeup of the dead pharmacist’s face, among other things.

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Inspector Lomax has a bit of a 5 o’clock shadow in this scene before the zoo. Not enough shaving?

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Rosie reminds me of Monty Python’s “Pepperpots”

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You can see the wire holding up the monster’s pseudopod when it reaches out.

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In the days before tape delay, live TV production was subject to the occasional dead body.

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The matte shot of everyone leaving the abbey could stand to be a bit… steadier.

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I like how Quatermass walks away without responding to anyone*, like he’s a pod person.

  • except Marsh

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Shinji, get your mouse! It’s under the robot.

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“Ah, we can make a box out of this and put the girls in it to cut their communication with Mothra!”
“Exactly. A fairie-day cage.”

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“If you want to, come back one day!”
Next year: Mothra returns, carrying the fairies

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Current status: listening to The Peanuts albums (there are a lot!)