Recent content by Simian Jack

Understandable. There's a lot that could put anyone off his work. His stuff is depressing, his aesthetic can be grungy or icky, his psychological landscapes are uncomfortable to say the least and his approach is sometimes no warmer than observational. He's one of my favorite directors but I...

I see a few up there from Bob Peake! :emoji_clap: He's one of my favorite artists. A ton of great movie posters and magazine covers as well. A few of these below aren't Peake but you can easily tell those apart from the style. https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bob peake movie...

Partway through a review and hoping to meet ep 9 by the same time the rest of you do, so I'll just type out random thoughts... "People are too unreliable to be successfully replaced by computers". And then you see the guy who said it talking to Box like a confidant about deeply personal...

Watching. Was digging part 1 well enough until Wesley made his own robot. Part 2. On John Robinson's behalf, ouch. That's a cold rebuke. Teaching the kid to play catch plays like a cliche but it may be a real thing. My father tried to get me into baseball several times, but it wasn't me...

The first time I tried Farscape I tailed off about 4 or 5 eps in despite being generally impressed, liking the characters, actors, premise...dunno, something didn't click. Maybe the puppets were to Jim Henson (cuz, y'know, they were Jim Henson's company). But I caught some of the S1 final eps...

Sounds like growing mental illness. I feel bad for her and her neighbors alike. I hated Voyager in the day and gave up on it partway into S2, kept sampling it randomly after that. I tried to like it, was sure I would love it up til the debut after and was way surprised how much I didn't...

Been in New York a week now, getting settled in, net access figured out this past weekend and trying to catch up! Seen the first three eps, very much enjoying it. Another long review though I tried to stick to the talking points. Conversations With the Dead The introductory ep of Star...

I try but have had to battle a severe block. The last few years haven't been conducive to the effort. testing... Ah, success! Ballpoint pen sketch of Carole Ann Ford (Susan on Doctor Who). I forget the dimensions, but that's a but larger than legal pad size, done in mechanical pencil...

(edit) And my epitaph will read 'Wait, I think I get it now -"

One thing I did think was rubbish was Whedon's explanation of vampires as being 'without inhibition'. So, they act on their desires and impulses but without the filters that would make them weight their actions. Doesn't add up. That would suggest that humans are only decent to each other...

The only thing getting in the way of me saying the same thing is I grew up on TOS, so it's harder to see that one objectively. It has to get a ton of credit for going there first and being so watchable. But DS9 was brilliant. Loved the cast, the characters, the writing and production...

Buffy is a show that makes me wonder at the whole concept of 'target audience'. I sure didn't think I was, what with the "teenybopper" premise, the title itself, and coming in the mist of a whole wave of shows aimed square;y at teenage girls. I was certain it was gonna be populate with snarky...

It's not x-rated and on last rewatch I realized it doesn't even have as much nudity as it gives a first impression of. It is, though, the most erotic non-porn movie I've ever seen. Shinya Tsukamoto has said that he started out wanting to make a typical sex thriller in the mold of the usual...

Cultural appropriation. I dunno, I get the affront in some cases...having one's culture misrepresented can be infuriating, not that I've ever known what that feels like personally. Thing is, most of it is human nature. Experimentation with cuisine, with fashion, etc...it's how cultures...

I thought about writing a semi-fictionalized story where my proxy would be named Norman, family name Lindt having been simplified to Lint at Ellis Island. Title of the book, 'The Exciting World of Lint'. edit - and my epitaph will read "Wait, I think I get it now-"