The one thing you need to remember:

Compared to the others, he's really only just a kid.

A flash of drums.

A crash of light.

:D

Maybe I missed something at the beginning.

On Saturday I managed to catch the end of Frankenstein, and when I say the end, I mean that I missed the creation of the monster, little Maria, and anything leading up to the big chase at the end. Yup, I basically turned it on right as the torch wielding mob was chasing the monster through the night to the windmill where it met its eventual end. So maybe I missed something, but the ending didn't really seem to go with what I had seen, the movie suddenly taking a rather light-hearted turn, which caused me begin expecting to hear the ending music from a Three Stooges short after everyone laughed. I don't know. It just makes me want to see the entire movie now, just to see if the ending makes any more sense, though I'm not sure it will.

After that movie ended, the next in the classic monster movie genre came on and I have to say that my viewing of Dracula didn't fare much better as I was only able to get the Count to England and kill a girl selling flowers before I had to leave for work. Oh well. At least I'd seen that one all the way through, so I knew what was going to happen, though it had been a while and I would have liked to have stayed to watch the entire thing, but someone had to get yelled at by that old woman.

Someone call a tailor!

Accepting the fact that vampires have no reflections, how come in many instances, when they show the obligatory mirror scene, we aren't treated to something akin to the invisible man, where we only see the clothes hovering in the air, filled by an unseen being? Why, instead, are we shown the inevitable blank mirror reflecting only the empty room and/or living person about to be bitten? Do vampires wear special clothes, or are their clothes made from vampires (which is really kind of a morbid thought, but we are dealing with vampires here)? What's the deal?

(It's probably just due to the limitations of special effects, but still, it's been kind of bothering me for some reason.)

Movie Moments XXV: No really, where is it?

I'll admit, it's been a while since I've done this, but it hasn't been for lack of trying. Several moments have tried to step up only to slink away when proved to be inadequate. Anyhoo, today's movie moment comes to you courtesy of the Coen brothers. What movie is it, you ask? Fargo? No, my friends, not Fargo, though that one certainly would warrant its own moment (or moments), and perhaps someday it will. Nope. Today I would like to draw your attention to the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?, one of those movies where, if it's on, and even if it's somewhere in the middle, I'll probably end up watching it unless there was something else I wanted to see.

Now, there are more than a few parts of the movie that I like. There are more than a few characters that I like, one being George "Baby Face" Nelson, but this isn't about him or any of those other characters or scenes. No my friends, the moment I'm talking about happens right near the end, after our three heroes (or, at least I'm going to call them heroes) have been pardoned and Everett has been reunited with his wife Penny (or, ex-wife after that nasty train accident that didn't really happen, but well, you know...) and all that's left is for those two crazy kids to get married...and for Everett to get the ring. This new task sends Everett, Delmar, and Pete to the little home Everett and Penny shared with their daughters and right into the clutches of Sheriff Cooley, who's been chasing the three men ever since they escaped from the farm.

It is here, at the little house, just before the three are briefly recaptured (and before the flood), that Everett is telling his companions all about the happy life he shared there with his wife and daughters and how they would soon be able to see the "mighty oak tree out front and a happy little tire swing..." that one of my favorite lines of the movie appears as the trio arrives to find three nooses now hanging from the mighty oak, at which point Delmar asks, "Where's the happy little tire swing?" What can I say? It makes me smile every time I see it, and I hope that it always will. In fact, I'm probably going to have to repeat the line several times today for no apparent reason. (I just hope I'm not in public when I do, but if I am, oh well.)

Look, there it is!

I thought the butterflies were going to be tough.

But those verbenas are going to be the death of me.

Hail Mary, mother of Pilgrims.

Scouring the shelves for some decent Pilgrims (don't ask), I was struck by something: most, if not all, look as though all you need to do is change their clothes a little (or perhaps cobble together some robes out of felt) and you'd have the beginnings of a nativity set.

(On a related note, I did finally find two that didn't make me think this, but they have so far been the only ones apart from the two foot tall Pilgrims that were just a wee bit too tall for my needs.)

That's why you should never stage the final battle over a bottomless pit.

I just noticed that Emperor Palpatine and Skeletor both died in very similar ways.

Huh.

Really makes you think.

(Or not.)

They kind of even look alike.

(Or not.)

(just in case you were wondering, Emperor Palpatine was the first to take the dive.

He did it in 1983. Skeletor took his in 1987.)

Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, if they make a new Masters of the Universe movie, could they please put in more characters from the actual show. I myself would like to see Trap Jaw and Tri-Clops, not some made up characters because they couldn't use the real ones. (I'm looking at you Gwildor, Saurod, Blade, and Karg)

Swath

I never thought I'd use it in a sentence.

I was wrong.

But it fits, so it stays.

For now.

Bob painted some dark water today.

But he neglected to include any pirates.

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It's amazing how the world can change during the life span of a fruitcake.

-George Stout