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magdalena thiriet wrote:

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Meet the Feebles: Google or Wiki the title. I dare you. Read a synopsis. Then remember this, it was directed by Kevin Jackson, the man who made Lord of the Rings. I'm just thankful someone put him on meds.

Yeah, not one of Peter Jackson's best.

Though I wonder if Eric has seen other early Peter Jackson films...while watching Bad Taste or Braindead it would have been difficult to believe that guy would at some point make LotR films (at least ones which wouldn't be more Bored of the Rings)

Hey! Brain Dead was AWESOME! Especially the Evil Dead parody scene (the scene in which Lionel bursts through the main door and proceeds to hack apart a horde of zombies with a lawnmower).

Cannot argue with that, but his ouevre to that point did not suggest that he would be directing LotR trilogy any time soon. Or that the trilogy would have an actual, and high, budget. And that there would be Oscars coming.

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Meet the Feebles: Google or Wiki the title. I dare you. Read a synopsis. Then remember this, it was directed by Kevin Jackson, the man who made Lord of the Rings. I'm just thankful someone put him on meds.

Yeah, not one of Peter Jackson's best.

Though I wonder if Eric has seen other early Peter Jackson films...while watching Bad Taste or Braindead it would have been difficult to believe that guy would at some point make LotR films (at least ones which wouldn't be more Bored of the Rings)

Chris Mortika wrote:

But you haven't seen bad till you've seen Sean Connery's worst movie.

I knew that was Zardoz before I clicked it.

I didn't even bother clicking, it was an immediate "oh, Zardoz was mentioned, next we see the pic of The Costume".

This thread makes me sad... So many movies I considered classics, hated and disparaged.

Well, one person's trash is other one's gold.

A friend of mine hates Liquid Sky. I love it. We both agree that it is movie of unpleasant people in garish costumes and makeup doing nothing but looking for drugs and sex.

The Once and Future King felt like the Disney movie but not in a bad way. Very very enjoyable.

I don't cry easily, especially over a book or movie, but that book got me sobbing.

Pride and Prejudice by Austen

Calvino, Borges, Eco (espcially Invisible Cities by Calvino)

Hamlet by Shakespeare

Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde (Dorian Gray was pretty good too, though it's been a long time I read that).

Except in the most iconic of Greyhawk personages: Mordenkainen himself (is that "Little Mordenka"?). In any event, his name is a blatant rip-off from the heroes in Elias Lonnrot's The Kalevala: Vainamoinen, Lemminkainen, et al. (Forgive the lack of umlauts, or whatever they're called in Finnish.) Amusingly, the Icelandic sagas always portray Lapps as the best wizards.

Hmm, funny, I never actually thought about Mordenkainen but now that you mention it...

Suffix -nen has two meanings, it can be diminutive ("Little Mordenka") but in names it usually means connection or relation ("person connected to Mordenka") and is very common ending in Finnish surnames For example people living on an island, "saari", might be called Saarinen (yes, architects and designers Eliel and Eero Saarinen were Finnish). Similarly, it has been suggested that name Lemminkäinen might come from word "fliminga", meaning that he was of Flamish origin...and while powerful and brave, he was also rather stupid and poorly-mannered as befits a foreigner :)

Now, does GH lore ever tell what is Mordenka?

Finns did enjoy reputation of being powerful wizards, but Lapps were known to be the most powerful. And indeed, when you look at myths like those collected in Kalevala, pretty much everyone knew at least some spells, all the characters were single- or multiclassed bards.
It might also be influence to magic system based on spell memorization, as Finnish magic was word magic, knowing the powerful words and names gave you magic...and indeed there are passages in Kalevala which read like "hunt for long-lost spellbook" adventures...

Estonians also share good number of our myths though from what I have read they have good amount of stories about giants and werewolves too (which don't feature that strongly in Finnish mythology).

Ooh, I love hydric acid, I practically bathe in it. Though not in purest form, of course...and I try not to inhale.

magdalena thiriet wrote:

Dunno...somehow some people apparently don't like to be naked with strangers.

Am I to infer from this, that you do....?

And that you have proof?

This message board gets better by the day! ;P

Well, in nudist areas among other naked people. Little proof and not in circulation :) (most nudist areas, beaches, public saunas frown on cameras, understandably).

How can anyone dislike nudism? :)

Dunno...somehow some people apparently don't like to be naked with strangers. I guess upbringing plays a role, and psychology (some people have problems with bad body image...)