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Post by everso on Jan 7, 2012 20:12:53 GMT
Did anyone watch it this evening? I watch it every time it's on t.v. I first saw it when I was about 13 at the Gaumont cinema in South Street, Romford (demolished in the late 60s/early 70s) and the scene where the statue of Talos comes alive, complete with sounds of creaking metal, still has the power to make me shiver.
Corny as hell, with dire acting, but, as Alph would probably say, "***king marvellous"
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Post by Weyland on Jan 7, 2012 20:46:28 GMT
Did anyone watch it this evening? I watch it every time it's on t.v. I first saw it when I was about 13 at the Gaumont cinema in South Street, Romford (demolished in the late 60s/early 70s) and the scene where the statue of Talos comes alive, complete with sounds of creaking metal, still has the power to make me shiver. Corny as hell, with dire acting, but, as Alph would probably say, "***king marvellous" My favourite bit is the skeleton soldiers. I real life Talos was a robot. It was Medea what done him in, not that Greek bloke. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 8, 2012 15:43:07 GMT
That bit where Talos turns his head is great.
I think it's an almost perfect film - it really has the feel of being at the beginning of things, when the sea and the air were clean, and any future was possible.
I've seen criticisms saying that Talos is comically stiff and unsteady; but his awkward movements are scientifically correct, since a figure of metal that size would have difficulty standing, let alone walking and fighting.
The film seems over when the skellingtons appear; I always saw them as a bonus.
I might watch it this week (naturally, I have a dvd copy).
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2012 16:34:31 GMT
That bit where Talos turns his head is great. I think it's an almost perfect film - it really has the feel of being at the beginning of things, when the sea and the air were clean, and any future was possible. I've seen criticisms saying that Talos is comically stiff and unsteady; but his awkward movements are scientifically correct, since a figure of metal that size would have difficulty standing, let alone walking and fighting. The film seems over when the skellingtons appear; I always saw them as a bonus. I might watch it this week (naturally, I have a dvd copy). I agree about Talos, and the future thing. The 60s Time Machine sequences just after the Traveller arrives in the far future give me a similar frisson. I was -- sort of -- among the eastern Greek islands a few months ago. From a distance, in the blazing sun, the imagination can run away. Sublime. Years ago, in Crete, I was always on the lookout for Talos, guarding the coast. Same with Aphrodite on a Cyprus beach. Delicious shivers. Spice of life. ~ You should be a professional film critic, Aub. You have the gift. Call Brian Sewell on the Standard. He has pull. Tell him Jean sent you. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 8, 2012 18:05:35 GMT
Aye, I've heard that as well.
Did you know that he is the son of Peter Warlock (The Curlew, Capriol Suite etc). Isn't that amazing?
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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2012 21:05:43 GMT
That bit where Talos turns his head is great. I think it's an almost perfect film - it really has the feel of being at the beginning of things, when the sea and the air were clean, and any future was possible. I've seen criticisms saying that Talos is comically stiff and unsteady; but his awkward movements are scientifically correct, since a figure of metal that size would have difficulty standing, let alone walking and fighting. The film seems over when the skellingtons appear; I always saw them as a bonus. I might watch it this week (naturally, I have a dvd copy). I call them skellingtons too!  |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 9, 2012 16:55:09 GMT
Well, it is the correct pronunciation.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 9, 2012 18:01:11 GMT
Well, it is the correct pronunciation. As luck would have it, I am currently reading Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I detested intensely at school. (Got Complete Works of TH for Kindle, on Amazon, free.) As it turns out, it's a greeaaaatttt read. Last night this popped up . . . Turning, he saw a circular disc reticulated with creases, and recognized the smiling countenance of the fat woman who had asked for another song at the Three Mariners. "Well, Mother Cuxsom," he said, "how's this? Here's Mrs. Newson, a mere skellinton, has got another husband to keep her, while a woman of your tonnage have not."
"I have not. Nor another to beat me....Ah, yes, Cuxsom's gone, and so shall leather breeches!"
"Yes; with the blessing of God leather breeches shall go."
"'Tisn't worth my old while to think of another husband," continued Mrs. Cuxsom. "And yet I'll lay my life I'm as respectable born as she."Must say, I'm now having fantasies about a woman of her tonnage. 'Twas ever thus. ~ Apart from the broadcast media, the only time I ever heard anyone say skellington, or even skellinton, was in a pub in Pontefract (when I was building Ferrybridge-C with my bare hands single-handed). Cue Jean . . . . . |
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Post by everso on Jan 10, 2012 0:09:07 GMT
I enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge too. I borrowed it from the library in audio version to listen to while I did my ironing. I don't like to waste time reading a book in case Mr. E. catches me and decides to sell me.  Re skellingtons: I'm sure I remember Margaret O'Brien referring to them in "Meet Me In St. Louis". In fact, I'm sure that's why I call them skellingtons. |
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Post by Weyland on Jan 10, 2012 8:00:49 GMT
I enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge too. I borrowed it from the library in audio version to listen to while I did my ironing. I don't like to waste time reading a book in case Mr. E. catches me and decides to sell me. Five guineas! Three guineas! Seven guineas eight and ninepence ha'penny the pair! . . . I'll get me leather breeches. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 10, 2012 9:45:38 GMT
I can't remember where I got skellingtons from. Richard Herring uses it, but I'm pretty sure that I was using it, off and on, before I heard him doing it.
I used to be terrified of skeletons (Skellington might have defused that): there was a scene in Adam Adamant where he's hung up between two of them: and it had to be the episode that my parents let me stay up to watch. Then there was a sketch in Crackerjack than used one, and I was in the room in my own and couldn't go to the kitchen because there was a big hallway with no lights, so I had to hide around the corner, away from the TV until the sketch was over.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 10, 2012 15:18:02 GMT
Did anyone watch it this evening? I watch it every time it's on t.v. I first saw it when I was about 13 at the Gaumont cinema in South Street, Romford (demolished in the late 60s/early 70s) and the scene where the statue of Talos comes alive, complete with sounds of creaking metal, still has the power to make me shiver. Corny as hell, with dire acting, but, as Alph would probably say, "***king marvellous" I probably would say that. ;D Brilliant film. AH |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 10, 2012 15:29:08 GMT
That bit where Talos turns his head is great.I think it's an almost perfect film - it really has the feel of being at the beginning of things, when the sea and the air were clean, and any future was possible. I've seen criticisms saying that Talos is comically stiff and unsteady; but his awkward movements are scientifically correct, since a figure of metal that size would have difficulty standing, let alone walking and fighting. The film seems over when the skellingtons appear; I always saw them as a bonus. I might watch it this week (naturally, I have a dvd copy). Very awesome moment indeed...I also love "Minoton" from the Sinbad film, I particularly liked it when he fished that poor bastard out of the water by skewering him.  The fusion of witchcraft and science with his mechanical heart was also boss. I was very upset when he died removing that giant block from the temple wall though.  I thought the "Kali" statue was pretty damn good as well. Ray Harryhausen created real magic. AH |
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Post by everso on Jan 11, 2012 10:25:17 GMT
*Off topic alert*
Aubs, did you watch "Black Narcissus" yesterday? I thought of you.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 11, 2012 19:40:00 GMT
I didn't: but I do have it on dvd, and will watch it like that soon.
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