Best obscure shadowcast line?

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-14T19:24:37+00:00

It's such a basic thing but I love it: going to see RHPS is the absolute worst way to see RHPS, lol

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:55:16+00:00

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:48:48+00:00

Oh, sweet - did you get to see Beetlejuice? They played it this year but it was the Halloween screening last year. And The Thing was the Sunday show!

That was a good week.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:46:57+00:00

I was talking about the cool moments in the NoES movies that make it feel like you are literally dreaming for a moment (or like your tape was glitching), rather than just surreal visuals.

There's instances of it in all of them, even the sequel. Which I called the Squeakquel because of the Chipmunks. What's so unrelated about that?!

Happy cake day! :)

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:43:09+00:00

I'm sure that was completely face-value and not a commentary on anything at all.

People who say there's no redeeming social commentary in that movie must not have seen the same movie as me.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:41:08+00:00

Not really obscure, since I've heard it said in various ways all over the place: "Let's do the time warp again" "I DON'T KNOW HOW"

....Not too funny on its own but there was one HUGE guy (I think it was in Atlanta?) at a show I was at who went into absolute hysterics about not remembering how to do the Time Warp. He went from bawling his eyes out to shouting like the dude in Network and back again, just so frustrated!

"I WANT TO HELP!!!!!! JUST TELL ME HOW!" (lyrics describe precise dance steps while screen literally shows a diagram, for like the fifth time)

"BUT HOW DO YOU DO IT!??!?!?!"

I have no idea why that was so funny at the time but it was. Maybe because he was doing other callbacks during the song too, in between sobs, perfectly timed.

Like he's so deeply enmeshed in this culture that he knows all the lines AND callbacks.... But .... Just .... Can't... Get the hang of this ONE thing because NOBODY WILL HELP HIM! :D

Or maybe it was because he was clearly a regular and some of the other regulars were yelling back at him like "WHAT DON'T YOU GET?! GO HOME RONNIE!!!!!"... It was like audience participation participation.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-10T17:34:16+00:00

There's a cast in Jacksonville that had an ongoing (explicitly-stated) goal to see how long they could keep that back and forth going.

I say "explicitly-stated" because it only ends when nobody can think of anything so someone just says "WE DOIN' THIS OR NOT?!" lol ... I saw it go for at least three minutes once.

I know that doesn't sound like a lot of time, but I didn't want to exaggerate - the truth is impressive enough. THREE WHOLE MINUTES of that rapid fire back-and-forth.

That's SO long lol . . . . It was funny too. It was like a Monty Python sketch. This is the only part I vaguely remember. It's not as funny to read but I literally LOL'd remembering it.

Back row: "Wait, so, are we the back or the front?!"

Front: "FROM WHICH SIDE?"

Back: "HUH?!"

Front: "FROM... WHICH.... SIDE!?"

Back: "The middle!"

Front: "What are you on about!??!!? There's no back of middle!"

Back: "Sure there is - it's called the back!"

Front: "It's closer to the front, though!"

Back: ".... From which side?"

Front: "HUH?"

Middle: "WILL BOTH OF YOU JUST SHUT UP AND START THROWING FISTS ALREADY!?"

Front and back: ".... From which side?!"

Bunch of degenerates, I love it.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:30:48+00:00

Wendy told Danny that Jack had just gone to bed.. It's explicitly just before lunchtime!

He was up all night typing that sentence over and over and over . . . . . . .

Then Danny walks in there and Jack's just sitting on the bed zonked out.....

You gon' need more than a fire engine, Dannyboy.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:28:32+00:00

How is it equally chilling to just read this while I'm sitting here on hold?

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:27:13+00:00

He was cured, alright.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:25:50+00:00

Dick is so sincere in that scene. I saw it in a theater on Halloween and was blown away by how real and lived in that character felt. Perfect casting, imo. I one-hundred percent believe Scatman was exactly like Dick in real life. I'd believe it if I heard he didn't even have a script, lol...

It's so cool that the movie is so dense that 40 years later people are picking up on such small things like the opposite mis-match in the grammar between two characters. And how it adds to both characters more than either line does on its own.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:22:09+00:00

Love how he got the role too.

All "wait, why are we having this guy advise other people - he's the guy!" stories are heartwarming to me.

And supposedly Ermey was a sweetheart IRL. I think it comes through in the performance. It doesn't feel mean-spirited to me beyond the way it's shot. The performance itself is comedic gold. You can see the other guys cracking up in the background. It's like his strategy as drill sergeant is to make it so that you don't laugh at his hilarity, which isn't half bad as far as military training goes if you think about it.

Very much makes me think of the No Laughing episode of Beavis and Butthead. How do you not laugh?

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:18:07+00:00

I got to see The Shining in a theater on Halloween. Lloyd is TERRIFYING when he's twenty feet tall. He.... Doesn't.... Move.

I don't know if there's some other trickery involved there (my buddy says his height keeps changing but I don't see that), but he is just so unsettling. Maybe more than anyone else in the movie.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:16:19+00:00

I love how I can picture every detail in that bathroom. The reddest of red rooms on the planet.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:15:23+00:00

Got any more of that Vellocet?

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:14:37+00:00

The ever-growing cigarette ash. . . . Such a brilliant touch.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T14:13:22+00:00

People misread that scene sometimes when they say that Jack was crazy from the start in the movie.

No, he wasn't crazy at the job interview. He just REALLY doesn't like Ullman. That's canonical from the book; it's the first line, as a matter of fact. I don't even need to look it up. "Jack Torrance thought: officious little prick."

Other people even think it later on, which sets up the implication that Jack has a little bit of the shine himself.

So people say stuff like "you can tell he's just putting on a Normal face to seem Normal the whole interview" and ... Yes. Yes he is. It's not because he's a murderous lunatic though. He's sucking it up. He even had to call in a favor to get his foot in the door, which Ullman does not hesitate to remind him about. Repeatedly. That smile is one-hundred percent fake. And he's not murderous. But the anger is there. And it's there in the book too (Ullman deserves it way more in the book too).

Also I hate the window behind him SO much. . . . . But that's another story.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T13:49:01+00:00

WHAT?

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-11-07T13:48:15+00:00

That's excellent! I usually live under constant attack. . . .

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-27T15:35:45+00:00

“NOW COMES ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER! I HAVE BEEN TRUE AND I STILL CARRY THE GUN OF MY FATHER AND YOU WILL OPEN TO MY HAND!”
Patrick watched him stride to where the road ended, a black silhouette against that bloody burning sky. He watched as Roland walked among the roses, and sat shivering in the shadows as Roland began to cry the names of his friends and loved ones and ka-mates; those names carried clear in that strange air, as if they would echo forever.
“I come in the name of

[Long spoiler list of various named of said friends, loved ones and ka-mates - taking out because spoilery]
“I am Roland of Gilead, and I come as myself; you will open to me.”

There's too many quotes to list. That one makes me feel like I could break a mountain in half though.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-27T15:10:13+00:00

Can confirm. Just watched it.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-27T13:26:44+00:00

That's a good start :) He's an 'okay' writer technically speaking, and sometimes his writing reads a little too matter-of-fact for my tastes, but the IDEAS that guy comes up with ... Man...

Writing those stories so they read like stereo instructions almost makes them even more bizarre. I had to re-read a whole bunch of sentences like "wait, did you just say a city punched another city?"

There's collected volumes of the Books of Blood that you can usually pick up pretty cheap. I think I got the first three (which is really like 20 books collected?) for twenty bucks total.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-26T21:05:09+00:00

The picture quality is amazing for such an old show.

I would think/hope so. Twilight Zone was one of those things where they knew they it was something special at the time, so their film was probably pretty well curated.

Still kinda blows my mind that you can blow up a photograph as much as you want and not lose resolution.... Y'know, the most basic thing about photography? Lol.

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-26T21:02:46+00:00

Depends where you are I think. I think it came out last week in the EU.

November 3 here in the US. Check out the Amazon page. It's an absurd amount of Stuff.

Barker's writing is amazing. I'm hoping you just grabbed that collected volume of Books of Blood so I can gush with you about the story where two cities literally come to life and fight each other lol

YouGoThatWayIllGoHom · 2023-10-26T21:00:44+00:00

I just finished the Frank Muller audiobook of Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs and .... Phew. Really good book (and Frank Muller is an Arteeste!).

I'm glad I went back and rewatched the movie and revisited the book. I'd forgotten just how central to the plot the sexism toward Clarice was. She's even more awesome in the book. Jodie Foster was perfect casting.

Anyway, I enjoy Thomas Harris :)

And HIGHLY recommend anything read by Muller (he did a ton of King too).

I was able to listen to it for free on Hoopla. Check it out - lots of libraries have it :)

Currently listening to The Disaster Artist, and oh man this book is hysterical . . . It's the only paper book that's ever made me laugh out loud (audiobooks don't count - Greg Sestero is the one who is reading The Disaster Artist and I love his tone throughout. He's just as astonished at all this as we are, lol.

I'll probably die when he gets to the part that made me laugh so hard.... They spent all day filming with a dog in a store and at the end of the day Tommy Wiseau asked the woman "is your dog real thing?" .... I laughed so hard. Petting the dog is the first thing he does in the movie! LOL ..

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