Yay! Someone else remembers those little factiods following episodes of Batman on TV Land! I think the only scab was the flower gangster who dressed in all pink.Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:Puzzler, of course, being the Batman villian hastily created when Frank Gorshin wasn't available to play The Riddler for one episode. A scab, as it were.
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Worm
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Good point Bobby!
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The flower gangster was Uncle Miltie (Milton Berle) as Louie the Lilac - and, technically, he dressed in Lilac, not pink.
I usually cut the factoids out before burning to DVD. There are 120 episodes total, so far I have the first 108 on DVD. The next ten would be done already but one had a problem when authoring - might have to re-cut it (frickin' DTivo extraction is still not an exact science), but I'll probably do that tonight. Then, the last two will have share space with something else - maybe some Ernie Kovacs or The PJs or something.
Technically, I didn't get that factoid from them, I got it from independant research. (While researching "Jervis Tetch", trying to figure out what the deal was with his astoudingly odd accent.) Also, dunno why they had to create the Puzzler at all, as they didn't mind having John "crazy Dad from Night Count/Gomez from Adams Family" Astin play the Riddler in episode 79-80 - he did a pretty decent job, too. Check the Batman episode guide for tons of interesting info.
I usually cut the factoids out before burning to DVD. There are 120 episodes total, so far I have the first 108 on DVD. The next ten would be done already but one had a problem when authoring - might have to re-cut it (frickin' DTivo extraction is still not an exact science), but I'll probably do that tonight. Then, the last two will have share space with something else - maybe some Ernie Kovacs or The PJs or something.
Technically, I didn't get that factoid from them, I got it from independant research. (While researching "Jervis Tetch", trying to figure out what the deal was with his astoudingly odd accent.) Also, dunno why they had to create the Puzzler at all, as they didn't mind having John "crazy Dad from Night Count/Gomez from Adams Family" Astin play the Riddler in episode 79-80 - he did a pretty decent job, too. Check the Batman episode guide for tons of interesting info.
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Ladis and gentlemen, I present to you--Lysander's impromptoo review of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie he saw only one time more than three months ago! Can you think of anything that could possibly be a better use of your time? (yes.)
Well, speaking as a "vetrain" movie watcher and complainer, I found the picture itself to be quite enjoyable; good actors, good direction, good group of characters, good (if slightly boring) plot, nice action...
However, its when we get to the characters that the movie splinters and blows away without calling like Jessica Cambel. Y'see, here's the thing: the characters all had *personalities* in the books they were taken from, and now that they've been inserted into this movie they either have different ones or none at all. The Invisible Man is the only one of the group who has anything close to an actual, omg, personality of his own. Nemo--let's face it, Nemo does not have a fucking personality, he's only there because he controls the Nautilous. Yes, that's right, Captain *fucking Nemo*, arguably the deepest character in 20000 Leagues, has been turned into a cardboard cuttout with an omg k00l boat. Mina--wait, before I can bitch out Mina's personality, I have to go over her "powers." See, I've read Bram Stoker's Dracula. In it, Mina is one of the Vampire *huntresses*, you goddamn giant cheesy poof. She *never* becomes a Vampire, EVER, and in fact at the end of the book all of the vampires become very, very dead, making it impossible for her to *become* a vampire. Okay, at one point she gets *bitten* and is in the process of *becoming* a vampire, but she gets *cured*. Errrgh. So, ah, her character. Her character in the movie is nothing short of stereotypical look at me i am a kool vampyre chick i am soooooo sexay don`t i turn u on?.<M/></../.,?/?:/ Disgusting. Jeckyl /Mr. Hyde suffers from a similar stereotype problem, only instead of the stereotypical dangerous lady in leather he is the stereotypical ongsty i have teribal demonns, i laRP Vampire: the Masquerade. Also, Mr. Hyde can't talk to Jeckel, they're too completely different people. Jeckle (watch me spell it differently each time! Bwahaha!) becomes Hyde after drinking the syrum, Hyde isn't a part of the doctor's mind; they can't *talk* to each other. Of course, I could also bring up the fact that Jeqel ends up becoming immune to the syrum and becomes Hyde all the time, at which point he locks himself up in his lab and shoots himself, but that would be just nitpicking.
Well, speaking as a "vetrain" movie watcher and complainer, I found the picture itself to be quite enjoyable; good actors, good direction, good group of characters, good (if slightly boring) plot, nice action...
However, its when we get to the characters that the movie splinters and blows away without calling like Jessica Cambel. Y'see, here's the thing: the characters all had *personalities* in the books they were taken from, and now that they've been inserted into this movie they either have different ones or none at all. The Invisible Man is the only one of the group who has anything close to an actual, omg, personality of his own. Nemo--let's face it, Nemo does not have a fucking personality, he's only there because he controls the Nautilous. Yes, that's right, Captain *fucking Nemo*, arguably the deepest character in 20000 Leagues, has been turned into a cardboard cuttout with an omg k00l boat. Mina--wait, before I can bitch out Mina's personality, I have to go over her "powers." See, I've read Bram Stoker's Dracula. In it, Mina is one of the Vampire *huntresses*, you goddamn giant cheesy poof. She *never* becomes a Vampire, EVER, and in fact at the end of the book all of the vampires become very, very dead, making it impossible for her to *become* a vampire. Okay, at one point she gets *bitten* and is in the process of *becoming* a vampire, but she gets *cured*. Errrgh. So, ah, her character. Her character in the movie is nothing short of stereotypical look at me i am a kool vampyre chick i am soooooo sexay don`t i turn u on?.<M/></../.,?/?:/ Disgusting. Jeckyl /Mr. Hyde suffers from a similar stereotype problem, only instead of the stereotypical dangerous lady in leather he is the stereotypical ongsty i have teribal demonns, i laRP Vampire: the Masquerade. Also, Mr. Hyde can't talk to Jeckel, they're too completely different people. Jeckle (watch me spell it differently each time! Bwahaha!) becomes Hyde after drinking the syrum, Hyde isn't a part of the doctor's mind; they can't *talk* to each other. Of course, I could also bring up the fact that Jeqel ends up becoming immune to the syrum and becomes Hyde all the time, at which point he locks himself up in his lab and shoots himself, but that would be just nitpicking.
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Jethro Q. Walrustitty
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Thank God someone reviewed that steaming turd.
(Well, reported to be a steaming turd by most who saw it.)
I thought that I'd be a pile of glistening white bones by the time Jonsey posted a review of it that was more in-depth than a three-word review.
I'll probably see it, but geez, I don't think I'll pay for it. Gotta get me some DVD-RWs for such purposes. I have to say, it does sound like a live-action comic book in the worst sense of the word, that is, lots of impossible stuff done only because it'd look cool. (The Nautilus - a huge submarine - somehow fitting in the canals of Venice... a Nemomobile... dudes standing on top of buildings ready to shoot as a car that they had no idea even existed, oh and those buildings are about to be demolished so why would they get on top of them, etc, etc... Really, it sounds more like Wild Wild West than anything else.)
(Well, reported to be a steaming turd by most who saw it.)
I thought that I'd be a pile of glistening white bones by the time Jonsey posted a review of it that was more in-depth than a three-word review.
I'll probably see it, but geez, I don't think I'll pay for it. Gotta get me some DVD-RWs for such purposes. I have to say, it does sound like a live-action comic book in the worst sense of the word, that is, lots of impossible stuff done only because it'd look cool. (The Nautilus - a huge submarine - somehow fitting in the canals of Venice... a Nemomobile... dudes standing on top of buildings ready to shoot as a car that they had no idea even existed, oh and those buildings are about to be demolished so why would they get on top of them, etc, etc... Really, it sounds more like Wild Wild West than anything else.)