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About that life capsule thing:

Let's do some math. There are three dudes piloting the ship, there's Vickers, there's nongeologist and unbiologist that get killed, there's Shaw and Halloway. There's David. I think there's some asian chick or something? I can't remember. That makes, what... ten? What happens to asian chick? Does she get killed? What about the medical staff? The four or five guys that are helping the old man puppet put his slippers on. Did they all go into the alien ship at the end? Did the engineer kill them all? I only recall the engineer killing like three people.

Were those other people still on the ship when they drove it into the other ship?

It doesn't really matter much, just...  if they weren't on the ship or were in a buggy, like...  waiting outside for the old dude to finish having his body replaced or whatever the fuck he thought was gonna happen in there...  I dunno...

And, avatar, I really don't get how the critics out there can let this movie get off. This fucking movie may as well be called Transformers 2. It's so broken. All it has going for it are the camera work and effects and ... some of the acting, but the acting really doesn't matter. The characters are ALL either stupid or hopelessly broken themselves. Their motivations are all screwed up, their actions often make no sense at all... It doesn't even matter that they're performed well. I almost can't tell if they're well performed or not, cause I can't figure out what they're supposed to be doing / feeling / wanting / etc.

It's like instead of pandering down to people with fart jokes, racist humor and pointless scenes of cool over-the-top action, this movie is pandering UP to snobby arthouse critics by giving them pointless metaphor, bullshit philosophy and confusingly bizarre sequences that OBVIOUSLY have to mean SOMETHING...  right?

Seriously, it's hilarious that now that we have the ability to FINALLY watch older movies on awesome TVs in HD, now the god damn TVs don't fit THEM anymore, either.

TV aspect ratios are now totally different than any film ratio ever used.

Also, all of Pixar's films that I've seen have done the full frame widescreen thing in HD. There's no way those movies are screened like that in theaters. It kinda bugs me. I think most animated films have been that way.

I have just watched a "Fullscreen / Widescreen" movie...  Dirty Harry on Netflix instant. It plays at 16:9, but the actual aspect of the film is more like 2.33:1. They made it fit my HD monitor. Technically, this can still be labeled as "widescreen".

I am now fucking terrified that this will start happening on bluray.

The only down side to these type of cross-pollinated mythologies that go on for decades through different writers is that certain people/stories/things get referenced so often that fifty years later, you've heard them mentioned a thousand times in a variety of media and people can't figure out that it's not real. I'm sure there are people out there who think the necronomicon is a real thing, because it's easily the most referenced thing Lovecraft ever came up with. I'm not entirely certain that he's the one who came up with it, given that he and his buddies did so much referencing of each others' work.

I always thought that would be a cool thing to do with your movies too. Kinda like how QT and RR sometimes toss one of the others' characters into their films.

Saw two more movies tonight:

1) They Saved Hitler's Brain: The cinema snob made me do it. The movie looked pretty funny, and it is. He spoiled most of the funny parts, but the scene where the dude slaps the girl is so god damn funny. That chick literally does nothing but scream and make hilarious surprised / horrified facial expressions throughout the entire film, save for the beginning where she acts like a prostitute. There's a lot of funny in there.

2) The Werewolf Of Washington - Starring Dean Stockwell circa 1974. Starts out really slow and boring for the first 15 or 20 minutes. I was about to turn it off, but some old lady with a shopping cart found the first victim behind a car and did this amazing, ten second "I'm about to scream!" face, and then screamed three times. Then it got a little boring for a couple more minutes until a guy picked up a phone, said "uh-huh?" hung up and told the guy he was with that the first victim - who was the wife of the secretary of state or something - was dead...  and "had her guts ripped out". And then the movie basically became a comedy. Literally. And it's really not half bad, aside from the fact that half the jokes are Nixon references and the other half are slapstick that goes on for WAY too long, then keep going in a very un-funny way, and then KEEP GOING until they manage to become funny purely because they've gone on for so long.

I mean...  I got this thing in one of those collections of crap horror movies of 50 movies for ten bucks, but this isn't a horror film. It's completely comedy by the end... not very good comedy, but comedy. There are four or five bits, tho, that are fucking hysterical, and I would actually recommend watching it. It's on Youtube all over the place, given that it's probably public domain.

Both are definitely good movies to get some buddies, get some alcohol and laugh you ass off.

I want to see that version of the movie now. Only thing I'd change is the little cube. Instead of floating around, how about it rolls and bounces along the ground? You could have a scene where the kids have to sneak around a group of soldiers while the cube just bounces through them. Soldiers don't notice cause it's on the ground and they're preoccupied with trying to find the alien, but the kids have to get around them without being spotted and then have to find the cube again on the other side.

Movies like that tended to be about how kids can see something while adults will overlook it. A scene like that would be reinforcing that general theme, which the movie kinda has now, and which your version definitely has going for it.

Whose decision was it to have Lindelhof go over the script? Also, what are the odds of being able to find Spaiht's script floating around on the interwebs somewhere?

Wait... was he successful?

Yeah, the Moon Hoax video is a joke, and it gets more and more obvious as it goes. "That ship in that movie looked just like ours! It had a point at the top... it had... rockets... It was exactly the same!"

A while back I was in one of the bigger book stores and saw a giant hardcover collection of Lovecraft stuff that included pretty much all of his shorts, Mountains of madness and Shadow over Innsmouth, along with a couple of draft versions of Innsmouth that were... interesting.

Cost me about $10. Worth every penny.

As for where to start with the cthulu mythos, Call of Cthulu is the place to start. Lovecraft's books aren't really in any sort of sequential order or anything. There are things mentioned in the various stories that tie them together, but the name "Cthulu Mythos" is kindof a misnomer, as Call of Cthulu is really the only book that deals directly with Cthulu. Lovecraft just liked to sprinkle little bits of things here and there. Re-referencing things in various stories that none of them ever fully go into. Probably gave it all the name "Cthulu Mythos" cause Cthulu is one of the few beings or creatures or whatever that actually HAS a name. Most of his stuff is written in the first person, so if the dude writing it doesn't know what to call something, it's just refered to as "that horrifyingly ancient creature that scares the ever loving shit out of me". To paraphrase.

I've never done a star wars prequel review.

Unless you count posting "It sucked" on a forum. In that case, never mind.

If Kubrik was known for anything, it was for taking liberties with adaptations

Well, that and tripping balls.