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Astroman posted:Ah yes, the Vervoids, surprisingly not the winner of Most Genitalia-Like Monster in Doctor Who. Really? I would've pegged them as #1. Who do you put there?
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 They had to add the cape to make Alpha Centauri look less like a penis, but it had, uh, limited effectiveness.
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Jun 3, 2015 16:31
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The cape adds class! You can’t teach that.
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Jun 3, 2015 16:48
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I like to think of some costume designer coming into Lennie Mayne's office, smiling at their accomplishments, holding up the dicksuit and Lennie just opens a drawer containing his aspirin.
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My first exposure to Watership Down was through the 1984 Australian Broadcasting Company's radio plays distributed in the US through The Mind's Eye (got started on this audio thing early.) The actor playing Hazel sounded a LOT like Colin Baker, and since I can't find a castlist to save my life, I will maintain hope until proven otherwise.
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Jun 3, 2015 17:34
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Farthing Wood was a terrible idea for a Saturday morning show. Especially the shrike and the bit where the hedgehogs get run over.
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Jun 3, 2015 17:45
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2house2fly posted:The Farthing Wood cartoon got painfully neutered as it went on. When it got to adapting the final novel where the park gets attacked by an army of rats the rat characters were all cute buffoons They probably had to do that to stop carving deep emotional scars in the children of at least two nations every Saturday morning.
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The_Doctor posted:Maybe they just looked at the cover? "Oh, something like Animals of Farthing Wood? U certificate for that. Time for the pub." It seemed like for the whole of the 90s, ITV would run this in the family movie slot every Bank Holiday. Unedited. I don't think anyone in charge had a clue what they were putting out. I still have an off-air recording where the announcer describes it as "delightful" with no trace of irony. Still, it was nothing compared to The Plague Dogs, a film that starts off with one of the lead characters being forcibly drowned and resuscitated by animal experimenters. And then gets worse from there.
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Jun 3, 2015 18:24
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Is there a bit in Watership Down where one of the rabbits gets run over by a train? I know there's a bit where the rabbit played by John Hurt gets shot, but I've not seen it since I was little myself. At that age, like most  , I was mainly into Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.*My mum likes the Art Garfunkel song (which was written by Mike Batt, I was surprised to learn recently). * Does anyone else think David Cameron looks sort of like Henry the Green Engine?
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El-Ahrairah and the Doctor would probably be good buddies.
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Bicyclops posted:El-Ahrairah and the Doctor would probably be good buddies. I hate trickster gods in fairy tales. They always turn out to be him.
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Jun 3, 2015 20:55
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CobiWann posted:The cape adds class! You can’t teach that. Bada-boom, realest hermaphroditic hexapod in the room.
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saucerman posted:Is this on the level of Watership Down? I saw that one as a kid... This is one you can have either way. Either Watership Down is worse because it blindsides you by pretending to be about cute fluffy bunny-wunnies, or When The Wind Blows is worse because it ends with the horrible and gruesome death of your slightly batty but still lovable old grandparents. Depends on the kid. Tim Burns Effect posted:@5:05 into the first episode of "The War Machines" has my favorite Hartnell moment of all time in it. Can I just mention that this story has absolutely the bossest way of putting up the story title/writer/part credits this side of The Ambassadors...  OF DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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whatsabattle posted:Bada-boom, realest hermaphroditic hexapod in the room. It's a certified G(reen alien) and a bona fide stud. Jury's out on if it's 7 foot tall.
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I've never seen the Watership Down cartoon, but I've read the book which is EXCELLENT. Based on my knowledge of the book alone, I'm horrified at the thought of this being screened for kids.
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Jerusalem posted:I've never seen the Watership Down cartoon, but I've read the book which is EXCELLENT. Based on my knowledge of the book alone, I'm horrified at the thought of this being screened for kids. "Hey, boss, we somehow optioned the rights to a novel loosely based on The Odyssey in which rabbits face the actual survival horror of their everyday lives and it is reflected through troubling mythology about their origins, two dystopian rabbit cultures, psychic predictions of doom which turn out to be true, a war over a shortage of female rabbits, with a bunch of Tolkienesque made up language." "I heard you say rabbits, make a drat children's cartoon out of it."
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Jerusalem posted:I've never seen the Watership Down cartoon, but I've read the book which is EXCELLENT. Based on my knowledge of the book alone, I'm horrified at the thought of this being screened for kids. It was pretty horrific (forgive the music, it was the only video I could find). Never read the book, but my memories of watching the cartoon involve non-stylised rabbits clawing, scratching and biting the everloving poo poo out of each other, blood everywhere. And death. Lots of rabbit death. I was only four 
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Pesky Splinter posted:It was pretty horrific (forgive the music, it was the only video I could find). Never read the book, but my memories of watching the cartoon involve non-stylised rabbits clawing, scratching and biting the everloving poo poo out of each other, blood everywhere. And death. Lots of rabbit death. yeah my dad did the same thing, only he followed it up with the wall. my dad wasn't a good judge of age appropriateness
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plus side, first movie i ever remember watching with him was terminator 2
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Pesky Splinter posted:It was pretty horrific (forgive the music, it was the only video I could find). Never read the book, but my memories of watching the cartoon involve non-stylised rabbits clawing, scratching and biting the everloving poo poo out of each other, blood everywhere. And death. Lots of rabbit death. Jesus Christ that is pretty horrifying, I can imagine that traumatizing a lot of kids (you included). I must say though, the book really is superb and the ending really is upliftingly beautiful - it's easy to overlook that due to the well noted violent themes of the book.
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Fungah! posted:yeah my dad did the same thing, only he followed it up with the wall. my dad wasn't a good judge of age appropriateness The Wall is a traumatizing experience for most adults, really.
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Bicyclops posted:The Wall is a traumatizing experience for most adults, really. yeah but i was like eight
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Fungah! posted:yeah my dad did the same thing, only he followed it up with the wall. my dad wasn't a good judge of age appropriateness Fungah! posted:plus side, first movie i ever remember watching with him was terminator 2 Nearly the same with me - the Wall a few years later, and Terminator 1 as the first movie I remember watching with him. Jerusalem posted:Jesus Christ that is pretty horrifying, I can imagine that traumatizing a lot of kids (you included). Here's the cartoon ending. It's a very beautifully animated film, but holy hell was it mismarketed.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Nearly the same with me - the Wall a few years later, and Terminator 1 as the first movie I remember watching with him. huh, drat. that's a hell of a coincidence
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Fungah! posted:huh, drat. that's a hell of a coincidence Late 80's, early 90's parenting must have been pretty similar. Unless our dad is pulling a Troughton. 
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Pesky Splinter posted:Here's the cartoon ending. It's a very beautifully animated film, but holy hell was it mismarketed. "And when they catch you, they will kill you.... but first they must catch you." 
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Watership Down is a classic film that is amazing and beautiful and, actually, very appropriate for older children.
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Red.
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CobiWann posted:Red. It's so..... red! So Red. RED! RRRRRRRRRRRED! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED! It's actually a pretty poor story in a lot of ways, but it SOUNDS so good and McCoy gives such a strong performance that I come down on remembering it as a much better story than it actually was.
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Yup, the execution elevates it. It's pretty run-of-the-mill (with pacing and believability issues) otherwise.
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Jerusalem posted:It's so..... red! So Red. RED! RRRRRRRRRRRED! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED! That's exactly it. Eh story, amazing acting from McCoy and Stahl at White House, DROP DEAD HOLY MOTHER OF IF I COULD WALK THAT WAY JENKINS work from the sound and post-production crew. Edit - I meant "Stahl as White Noise." CobiWann fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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I give Stahl a lot of the credit too. It sounds like what he's doing is easy, but the voice modulation only does half of the heavy lifting. But yeah, the sound crew did their job and they did it "is there an award for this?" well.
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I'm listening to Sword of Orion right now and I think a Cyberman remake of Alien would be cool (even if it's "against the original depiction " or whatever).
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Thankfully, I seemed to dodge Watership Down. I was never a kid that would've appealed to anyway. My traumatizing childhood experience was the ruins of the Market in Ocarina of Time. I had a major fear of zombies at the time. My family like telling a story I don't remember, though, about when we were watching an Australian film that had a scene of a kid my age at the time getting hit by a car. They were really prepared that I'd be shaken up about it and not want to keep watching, but they still let me watch. And when the moment came, I laughed my rear end off, because you can't film someone getting hit by a car in a way that isn't hilarious.
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Cleretic posted:I laughed my rear end off, because you can't film someone getting hit by a car in a way that isn't hilarious. Oh yeah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikj8eDKxMQ Oh...yeah...
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computer parts posted:I'm listening to Sword of Orion right now and I think a Cyberman remake of Alien would be cool (even if it's "against the original depiction " or whatever). Cybermen getting picked off by a xenomorph? Go on...
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marktheando posted:
What the picture doesn't convey is how hilarious the voice they chose was.
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marktheando posted:
Still not the most phallic Who monster.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:What the picture doesn't convey is how hilarious the voice they chose was. One of the Companion Chronicles is David Troughton as King Peladon, so besides getting to play an older version of the character he played years ago, he also gets to read for the Third Doctor and for Alpha Centauri. Needless to say, his deep, Troughton voice never quite gets it, but it's pretty funny to hear him try.
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Cleretic posted:Thankfully, I seemed to dodge Watership Down. I was never a kid that would've appealed to anyway. My traumatizing childhood experience was the ruins of the Market in Ocarina of Time. I had a major fear of zombies at the time. I had the same thing. Put me off playing the game as a kid.
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