Topic: The Movie Thread

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@DrVenture69 Sorry, it’s a BBC comedy from around 2004, Steve (the guy who played Solomon) played a locksmith who could be summoned from the ether by a whistle in one episode. It’s a really mad imaginative comedy (the first series is a bit flat, I love the second).

• I've seen Father Ted, that series also had a whistle. Someone stole a mans whistle and there was a big investigation to find it, very funny show. I liked the one with the song about horse and it's fetlocks blowing in the wind. I sang it to my own horses.

Shame about Ireland’s general response to the film since they’ve got such a deep history of folklore. The Lyonesse books shaped a lot of my love for it too btw

• It's the Catholic church, and why every Occult store they had has been shutdown. It's less of the young generation and more about people with nothing better to do than to campaign against such things. Just like saucy gamers review-bomb games, religious groups review-bomb movies.

Yeah, I used to love a UK magazine called The Unexplained as a kid, that covered all kinds of things including aports (which I usually get mixed up with periapts).

• You strike me as an X-Factor kind of guy, I have both magazines. I preserve a little of everything, when I get back to London I'll have a look and see where they are. One that comes to mind was special they did with the famous photo (sepia) of The Spectre of Newby Church. Actually it's kind of funny because I was recently talking to an author who did a piece for that magazine and asking him for clarification on the piece. It was so long that even he didn't remember writing it.

I had the opposite thing, I had an iron magnet disappear after I’d stuck it to the inside of the bath (a little version of the horse shoe shaped ones). I was about 7 and I still have no idea where it when. My Nan was looking after me and didn’t come upstairs. I left the room, went back and it had gone. I could be a “kid memory”, but it’s always felt weird to me.

• Mary Rose Barrington (barrister and parapsychologist for the society for psychical research) coined that term for that as Just One of Those Things 'JOTT'. She wrote a whole book on the topic, it's more common than you think. You seem to have an interest in certain topics, I just posted an eight-page 'something' to Metonymy, it's over in ChatChat if you're curious. It involves an NDE, I'm only using the abbreviation because I think you might by default know what that means. I had one when I was six and all of these spooky topics and strangeness we've discussed here ties right back to it. Either way it's there if you are curious, topics like this are something very close to home, but I'm trying to stay on topic, hence movies.

I watched Return to Silent Hill after A Dark Song, I liked the fan-service-y-ness of it, there were a lot of scenes close to the game, but some of the CGI was very rough and I thought the lead casting was way off. It was a good “beer film”.

• I wrote a whole post on how awful I thought the movie was, the CGI was rough because they got scammed. I wrote about that too, dropped a lot of insider details about how it happened. In a nutshell the effects company was just one guy, not a whole team like they thought. That's the danger of outsourcing, studios are getting burned by wanting to pay less. I don't feel sorry for them because their insistence to go cheaper is costing people their jobs.

Everyone on here has been walking about Project Hail Mary (which I had no idea was a comedy), so I’m watching that now. It’s got a little hint of Dark Star about it. I also love the scene with the duct tape. There’s no problem that can’t be solved with duct tape

• I've yet to watch it. I rarely watch new movies, but it has been on my list for a while now. Hearing it has a hint of Dark Star makes me even more likely to do it. I think I'll be watching The Cars That Ate Paris next.

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@DrVenture69 (same with The IT Crowd, I was in IT for 35 years, and I lived in one of those nerd dungeons for about 7 of them , Silicon Valley too, I was never a web developer, more BI/MI/Database Development but that is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen about the growth of IT companies).

• Some of my DeepWeb friends work in I.T. they seem to enjoy it, they take bounties to break networks and test security for Fortune Five Hundreds, it sounds more fun than it probably is. I haven't seen those shows either. I only watched television shows for the first time just before last Halloween. I've seen some: I Love Lucy, Friends, Simpsons, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (my favorite) Black Books, Fawlty Towers, Mr Bean, Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, Men Behaving Badly, that might be all.

When I was tiny I saw some of The Raccoons, Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds, The Dreamstone, and I think that's it. They were much much older than I was, dubbed in Russian. I wasn't allowed to watch those current/newer things like The Simpsons, I saw South Park for the first time in August, it was good but Dogtanian is better. With movies I did catch up by watching six to eight each day, collected thousands and now I might have seen more than most people, maybe. The problem with television is like it's the ocean, I have no idea what's really down there, it's vast, overwhelming. I have watched some documentary shows like Ice Road Truckers, Axe Men, BIG Timber, I like watching men chopping wood and hauling things. I'm sure I watched Buffy and the X-Files at some point too and tried The Outer Limits but there were so many episodes. I have Netflix and all of these things but always go back to something else, I have no idea how people do it. I suppose it's been a life-long thing for them.