Posts by Jake Pollock
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Is it just me, or has the Forever video gone from youtube?
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Or The Godfather Part 2 vs. The Godfather Part 3.
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Plus the "cannot and must" speech. One of the comments declares it the greatest movie of all time.
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Robot Monster was a robot, he was just a robot dressed in a gorilla suit wearing a silver fishbowl on his head.
Its dialogue is more compelling.
From Robot Monster:
I cannot yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do 'must' and 'cannot' meet? Yet I must... But I cannot!
Compelling enough for you?
I saw Robot Monster at one of the very early Incredibly Strange Film Festivals, back when they had it at the Capitol on Dominion Road. Ant Timpson and a whole bunch of his mates dressed up in silver, occupied the first two rows of the theatre, shouted at the screen and fired toy laser guns and things. About halfway through someone dressed as Robot Monster came into the theatre and carried off the woman who was sitting next to me. It was the most riotously funny experience of movie-going I have ever had. And I'm not normally one for the 'so bad it's good' genre of film.
I can't say that Citizen Kane had the same effect, but I agree it's a much better film on every level, right down to the punchline.
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There was a lengthy discussion about SETI on Radio 4 this morning. They didn't mention Lockwood Smith, or camels.
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Caleb, it looks like you've read Belich's Reforging Paradise - I really liked his reference to NZ playing the Shire to the wider world's Middle Earth.
I think he's probably read Kavka and Turner's work on the New Zealand gothic.
The same treatment of the indigenous is also in Braindead, in the first ten minutes.
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Peter, I believe you just described Sam Vimes' Theory of Economic Injustice.
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I put almost exactly that proposition to Richard Prebble in the University of Auckland quad in 2002, Stephen. He told me I shouldn't listen to my lecturers, and that it was all Muldoon's fault.
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I know a guy who makes pies.
I'm afraid to say that I went all the way to Redhook when I was in NYC last the summer before last, and the pies had gone from pretty good to extremely disappointing. And there was no one there to make me a flat white! WAAAAAAH!