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Scholarly-Cimmerian


A guy who loves movies, comic books, video games, as well as stories with colorful talking ponies in them.

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  • Friday
    My First Convention

    I'd been meaning to put this up earlier, but well, better late than never.

    Tomorrow and through Sunday, I'll be out of town - my dad and I are going to a convention over in Beckley. Dad's going to be vending a table there to try and sell some books.

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  • 1 week
    Thoughts on Harakiri (1962)

    Wow. This was a masterclass in buildup and tension. I knew about Masaki Kobayashi's movie before - a scathing indictment of the samurai and the honor code that they profess to live by - but all the same, watching the movie had me hooked from start to finish. :scootangel:

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  • 1 week
    Some More Thoughts on Godzilla x Kong

    This is more of a full-fledged review with some extra observations that sprang to mind, thinking about the movie. For anyone who's interested.

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  • 1 week
    Thoughts on Galaxy Quest

    Finally getting around to writing up my thoughts on this one. I had heard plenty of good things about it from my parents, though I had yet to see it. Finally, we rung in the new year by watching "Galaxy Quest" with dinner.

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  • 2 weeks
    I watched Godzilla x Kong yesterday

    And all in all?

    It was fun. Good mindless monster mash of a film. Funny how much some of the stuff with Kong in the movie made me think, just a little, of Primal. If only for the lack of dialogue and the importance of character through action and expression.

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Oct
15th
2019

Movie Review: Godzilla (1954) · 10:05pm Oct 15th, 2019

Been a loooong while since I did a movie review, huh?

Well, I finally got off my butt and managed to write one up. And it proved to be a big enough piece of text that I ended up posting it on my DeviantArt account, since I thought it'd be too long to post as a normal blog.

Appropriate, I suppose, given just *who* we're talking about here...

Anyway, if you guys are curious, you can follow this link here and read up my full thoughts on the original story of a giant radioactive dinosaur levelling Tokyo.

It's really quite the show, I'm very glad to have finally seen it.

Comments ( 9 )

DAMN.

Very well done sir, very well done! :raritywink::twilightsmile:

5140432
Indeed. The original Godzilla pulls no punches whatsoever.

Thanks so much for reading it!

Did you ever get to see King Of The Monsters?

5140530
Yes, I saw it back in June. It's coming up real soon on my "to-review" list.

5140752
Yep. This October I'll be doing a set of monster movie reviews. Godzilla 1954, then King of the Monsters (2019), The Host (this 2002 Korean monster movie I saw with my dad earlier)... and if I'm ambitious enough to get it in I might do some others too. A friend mentioned The Creature from the Black Lagoon and that made me remember how much fun I had seeing it the first time.

5140754

Why not John Carpenter's The Thing?

5140755
I don't have that one. I could ask if my dad has a copy but I don't know if he has one, he's not a big John Carpenter fan. (He likes that movie up until the very end and then he thinks it completely falls apart.)

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