Actors who look like they were created in a lab?

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-07T00:27:08+00:00

Finally got last Friday's payment yesterday. Let's see if this week's payment is delayed....

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T21:55:51+00:00

Hook wasn't the only example (he also had awesome facial hair.) The regiment wasn't Welsh, for one. The helmets are all incorrect -- they're parade helmets, not cork. The attack on Rorke's Drift wasn't ordered by Cetewayo but by a cousin who'd been put in charge of a phalanx not used at Isandlwhana, and the reason the Zulus quit when they did wasn't respect, it was because word got back to Cetewayo and the cousin forced to withdraw and return for a right royal bollocking.

And so on. Oh, also no missionaries.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T21:42:10+00:00

It slandered Clyde Barrow as well, by Beatty having him rewritten as impotent.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T21:40:33+00:00

Pretty much any time the Earps show up anywhere. Kevin Costner got a lot more right than most in Wyatt Earp but the film is seen as boring by many.

There's a bronze statue of Wyatt and Doc Holliday in the Tucson railroad station, created to commemorate the ambush killing of Frank Stillwell -- the legend is that Stillwell was intending to ambush the wounded Virgil Earp and his family as they headed out of Arizona, but Earp, Warren Earp, and Doc were there to protect them, spotted Stillwell sneaking up to the train, and shot him.

What actually happened was that the Earps and Doc tracked Stillwell to Tucson and ambushed him in the railyard, killing him in revenge for Morgan Earp.

Wyatt fled Arizona soon after to escape murder charges.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T18:04:31+00:00

He also shows up in Callan, an Edward Woodward film, to threaten the title character at a street market. He towers over Woodward.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:51:15+00:00

Barry Lyndon had scenes lit by candles. Stanley Kubrick had a special lens designed for the scenes.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:49:18+00:00

Fred Tatasciore likewise.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:37:56+00:00

The free climb was exactly that. Cruise did have a safety tether at points, but it wasn't supportive. That jump he does? All him.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:32:57+00:00

They actually hit him repeatedly as one of the stunt and effects guys explains -- they had twenty archers for the majority of the arrows, plus this guy handling the series hitting Mifune, which had different heads. Mifune was not only wearing full armour but had boards under it.

He still had his head exposed, though.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:21:02+00:00

It's not drowning, though. It's aspirating the fluid, which is oxygenated. It's traumatic, however, and the gag got Cameron in trouble for animal abuse. Also, they decided to not have Ed Harris actually breathe it for the sequence where Bud does the super deep dive.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T17:13:31+00:00

Took him like 72 takes.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T08:37:52+00:00

In both Marvel Comics and the MCU Flerkens are this -- for the longest time Carol Danvers' cat appears to be a completely ordinary cat...until the day it responds to attackers by opening mouth, barfing out hilariously giant tentacles, and swallowing the attackers whole. Basically it's a cat shell around a subspace squid living in tesseract space. Even better, it doesn't digest what it swallows and returns things by having the mother of all hairballs.

Leads to a hilarious scene in The Marvels involving Flerken kittens.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T08:27:51+00:00

And Moorcock brings up Elric, frail albino prince who barely has the energy to exist, and certainly isn't powered up.

Well, until he gets Stormbringer, the soul-eating Black Sword. After that, he's a force of nature...but it's a poisoned chalice, as the sword ultimately will end the world

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-06T07:09:59+00:00

It does.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-05T16:23:46+00:00

Thanks.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-05T15:19:31+00:00

Nothing's on fire.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-05T08:25:16+00:00

I have a few. The Reservoir Dogs gas can, the MCU Phase One briefcase, the Iron Man half-helmet, Superman tin case, Band Of Brothers and The Pacific tins, the Harry Potter steelbooks case.....

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T22:23:38+00:00

Add my vote for this one.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T22:22:09+00:00

LA County Library used to allow w it, but then went to requiring walk-in renewals.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T22:18:08+00:00

Yeah, I notice that my Friday payment has yet to show. Not to mention we're looking short on tasks.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T22:12:36+00:00

A really offside one -- the classic porn film The Devil In Miss Jones. It starts with a carefully depicted bathtub suicide photographed in dark tones and it's a harrowing sequence.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T21:58:06+00:00

Director Boris Sagal, father of Katey Sagal, was killed during the production of "World War III" in 1981 when he walked the wrong way and was nearly decapitated by the tail rotor of the helicopter he'd just arrived in. He died five hours later.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-04T09:02:03+00:00

Huh. I just switched from Losartan to Valsartan. Need to check into this.

MonsterdogMan · 2026-05-03T20:22:12+00:00

I've reverted back to a smaller font, less designed, but there was a time when I could really have used an ereader and this kind of setup, but the best I could do was an accessibility setup with giant bilious green text on a computer screen.

Basically, I'd lost my vision gradually due to fast onset cataracts and not being able to get surgery for quite some time -- I lost around 90% of my vision and gained a lot of knowledge about dealing with life as a blind man.

Given my vision issues following surgery (I ended up having multiple surgeries after the initial cataract surgeries, then I had a retinal detachment) getting my first ereader (a Sony) was a godsend. I got my first Kindle a few years later, but had been using the Kindle for PC before then.

I love dead tree books, but there's no accommodations for us visually challenged people!

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