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Tolerance Project extra I’ll be back and he certainly was Every Terminator film ranked from worst to best

Overview

The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah. The screenplay is credited to Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd.

Defying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The film's success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

To watch a video short detailing some of the background story behind The Terminator click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kjFRBq2Ic&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=325

The Screen rant film website recently published a list of what they thought were the best films in the Terminator film franchise.

to read the screen rant list click here https://screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/

When it was released in 1984 it made Arnold Schwarzenegger  a star Collider the entertainment website recently revealed how he got the role when the director wanted him in the film to play a differant part all togather you can read about it here https://collider.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-the-terminator-james-cameron/

Me and The Terminator Franchise

There have been 6 films in The Terminator franchise I must admit I have not seen them all so I won’t comment on those but  I think the first 2 films in the series are the best ones in the franchise as a whole.  

The Collider entertainment website published an article recently where they   showed the first 2 two Terminator films to first time viewer to read his thoughts click here https://collider.com/terminator-review-james-cameron-arnold-schwarzenegger-small-story/

I would have stopped the series after Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines after all it would have made a nice little trilogy. I actually saw the 2nd Terminator film Judgement day first. 

I only saw that because I was intriged by a spoof pop single in the british charts by Arnie and the Terminators which you can listen to by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JewSFEb4D6Y 

Did you know Terminator 2 Judgement orignally had a differant ending which would have ended of the Terminator series after 2 films.

The epic saga of the "Terminator" films nearly had a far more conclusive ending in its second installment. James Cameron initially planned for a future-set epilogue in which an older Sarah Connor watches her son John, now a senator, playing with his daughter in a peaceful, Skynet-free world.

This would have sealed the fate of our beloved characters, leaving no room for a sequel, let alone the multiple that followed. As apocalyptic as the "Terminator" franchise tends to be, it's amusing to imagine it wrapping up with a peaceful picnic scene.

Screenrant again published an article on their website called 10 Movies that should have ended the Franchise and Terminator 2 Judgement Day was on their list at number at number 7 this is what they had to say 

There are several reasons why Terminator 2: Judgment Day still holds up today. Apart from the impressive effects and performance that brought the T-1000 to life, Terminator 2 compellingly raised the stakes and further explored the plot's ethical implications. It also pulled off the impossible by turning the first movie's villain, the T-800, into a hero and father figure to John Connor. With Skynet's defeat, Sarah and John finally had a reason to be optimistic in the ending, which brings the story to a full circle. The disappointing events of Terminator 3 and the succeeding reboot sequels only strengthen Judgment Day's place among movies that should have ended the franchise. 

Reading those comments myself its very hard to disagree with them also this article from the CBR.com website explains why the Terminator film series should have perharps stopped at Terminator 2 Judgement Day https://www.cbr.com/t2-perfect-end-terminator-series/

Also the yard Barker website included it in a list of films in article called Sequels that could have worked as standalone films this is what they had to say:

James Cameron’s original Terminator is a hallmark of sci-fi and action cinema, and, if anything, its sequel is even better. In this case, the story focuses on Sarah Connor, her son John, and their unlikely ally, the T-800. The entire cast is at the top of their game, though, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a highlight as the Terminator. Throughout the film, Cameron showcases his skills as a director, and it’s a film that only grows in importance and relevance as AI becomes a more pronounced and undeniable part of everyone’s daily life, for better and for worse.

This article from the CBR website also lists 10 reasons why Terminator 2 Judgement Day is the best film of the Franchise https://www.cbr.com/terminator-2-best-movie-franchise/

This article from the screenrant website details the 10 best things found in the other Terminator sequels after Terminator 2 Judgement day you can read it by clicking here https://screenrant.com/terminator-movie-sequels-good-things-after-t2-judgment-day/

Tolerance and the Terminator

Why am I talking about Terminator well we almost had a Terminator spoof in the Tolerance film as you can see below first published in the 2nd Part of my Producers comentary blog 

Deleted scene

Tolerance deals with five major issues, one of which is transport. The second deleted scene is one I rather miss, and I wish we had kept it as it would have been funny. In the finished film, we see Robert trying to get to his interview; his taxi has not turned up and he just misses the bus; it is just not his day. The deleted scene would have been a Terminator spoof. Perhaps the scene was excluded because the director felt a bus company would not let us borrow a bus for a few hours! It is a shame as Railtrack let us borrow a train for half a day for the Huddersfield Station sequences later in the film.

Terminator!

Robert falls into one of his day dreams and lifts himself out of the chair and onto the bus. He is now wearing full bike leathers, sun glasses and motorbike boots; the passengers on the bus look terrified!

ROBERT: Town.

Robert hands the driver a ten pound note.

BUS DRIVER (pointing to a sign which says correct change only): Correct change only mate.

Robert leans into the perspex.

ROBERT: 'I’ll be back'

Robert the Terminator steps off the bus; the bus pulls away leaving him standing next to the wheelchair in his normal clothes. According to the shooting schedule if this scene was shot it would have been recorded on the 17th August the same day as the Huddersfield Train station scenes making a long day even longer perhaps another reason why it was cut

The props listed for this deleted scene include full leather gear motorbike boots sunglasses and rather strangely a red eye was Richard planning to have a prosthetic eye made just for this scene ?

Bonus content

Documentories

To watch a video called WTF Happened to The Terminator from from the JO Blos orignal you tube page Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1QwVogN-yA&t=46s

To watch a a retrospective review of the orignal Terminator film from the Oliver Harper You Tube page click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYFDGDBdG8&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=301&t=16s

To watch a retrospective review of Terminator 2 Judgement Day from the Oliver Harper Youtube page click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6Ydsahf08&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=298&t=25s

To watch a retrospective review of Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DLnrkBDZE&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=297&t=2s

To watch a review of Terminator Dark Fate click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB6Cc5F1pCQ&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=300&t=40s

Ten things you didnt know about the Terminator Video Series from Minty Comedic arts

The Orignal Terminator film click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tprB2tQ4Q&t=117s

Terminator 2 Judgement Day Click Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNaEUzo5DFw&t=88s

Terminator 3 Rise of The Machines click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_klwA4A0O0&t=44s

To watch a video about some of the computer games the franchise has inspired click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZO2L1HVdUI&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=317

Borrowing Blockbusters: The Best Worst Terminator Knock Offs, Rip-Offs and Clones

An interesting video about the knock off and Clones of the Terminator series you can watch it by clicking herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulV81PZXx4I&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=341&t=32s

Trailers

A collection of Trailers from all 6 films click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrcUanZ2dM

Further reading

The movieweb website published a list called the 18 greatest Scifi film Franchises of all time the Terminator series landed at number at number 7 you can read the full list by clicking here https://movieweb.com/best-sci-fi-film-franchises/#pacific-rim

This article from the Screenrant website lists 12 greatest up and downs in the Terminator Franchise to read it click here https://screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ups-downs-franchise/

This article by the slash film website gives a good history of the orignal film but also explains why Orion Pictures backed the film in the first place with only one condition to read it click here https://www.slashfilm.com/1515271/orion-pictures-agreed-finance-the-terminator-one-condition/

Thank you to Minty Comedic arts youtube channel for his 10 things you didn’t know about Terminator for the first 3 films in the Terminator series. Also Thank you Oliver Harper youtube Channel for his retrospective review series again on the first Terminator films and also his review Dark Fate. and lastly thank you to Jo blo orignals for his wtf happened to the Terminator  and other Terminator related videos

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“Hello Dave, We’ve not met before. I’m an ad creative too. I felt compelled to write and tell you how much I’m enjoying your blog. I’ve learnt loads. (Now I’ve started writing this email I feel a bit silly!) Anyway, keep pumping your stuff from the loft out into the ether. It’s wonderful. Thanks, Oli.” I got that email in 2013. I wondered where this charming young man went to college or was on…

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The first time we ever got a look at Apocalypse, in X-Factor #5, the mysterious leader of the Alliance of Evil who mutated the Beast from his furry self into his more human appearance. 

However, it was not originally going to be Apocalypse at all. It was going to be the lesser known Daredevil enemy, the Owl!

But as this was Bob Layton’s last issue, Louise Simonson was taking over, one half of the power couple of creatives at Marvel along with her husband, Thor and FF artist Walt Simonson...and Louise felt that making X-Factor’s enemy a Daredevil baddie was a terrible idea. A new team deserved a new villain of a grandiose and terrible variety. So she asked Guice to redraw the last panel, which featured the Owl, into Apocalypse, a new villain. The decision to add Apocalypse to the book made X-Factor go from a nostalgia centered reunion of the original 5 X-Men, to a book with an identity in its own right. 

My favorite part of Simonson’s run on X-Factor was Cameron Hodge and the Right, robot suits with creepy, creepy smiles painted on (very reminiscent of the more disturbing Doctor Who monsters), a spoof of Reagan-era consumerist society and it’s sinister underpinnings: 

A history of the Simonsons and X-Factor can be seen here: 

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In Touch, March 30

Cover: Hollywood Battles Coronavirus 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: Who Wore It Better? Kris Jenner vs. Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson vs. Zendaya, Cara Delevingne vs. Solange Knowles 

Page 4: The most dramatic finale of The Bachelor ever

Page 5: Howie Mandel and Naomi Campbell wear full hazmat suits to protect against coronavirus, Memory of the Week -- Selena Gomez’s first kiss on an on-screen kiss with Dylan Sprouse and it was one of the worst days of her life 

Page 6: Crib of the Week -- Pharrell’s Beverly Hills mansion 

Page 8: Greed of the Week -- what the Kardashians are selling online 

Page 9: Makeover of the Week -- Teresa Giudice returned to her darker roots, Hoax of the Week -- Prince Harry falls for a prank call, Man Candy of the Week -- Ben Elliott, Winner of the Week -- Kate Middleton surpasses Meghan Markle as the biggest fashion influencer of 2020, Loser of the Week -- Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted on rape and criminal sexual act charges 

Page 12: Up Close -- Mark Wahlberg and Mario Lopez and The Ellen DeGeneres Show producer Andy Lassner work out 

Page 14: Daniel Craig shows off his pecs while posing for GQ 

Page 18: Sofia Vergara arrives on the set of America’s Got Talent, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd kiss in Times Square

Page 19: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Garfield on the set of the musical Tick, Tick...Boom 

Page 20: Duchess Kate Middleton goes glam in a Jenny Packham gown during the 25th anniversary dinner for Place2Be at Buckingham Palace 

Page 21: Emily Blunt shushed a crying baby for a spoof sketch A Quiet Plane with Jimmy Kimmel 

Page 22: Christina Aguilera 

Page 23: David Beckham plays soccer with his sons Brooklyn and Romeo and Cruz in Miami, James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini whacks a rival while playing the young Tony Soprano in the prequel The Many Saints of Newark 

Page 28: Ben Affleck looked smitten with new girlfriend Ana de Armas in Cuba but friends are worried that he’s acting like a teenager in love and he needs to slow down or he’s going to end up with a broken heart

Page 30: Coronavirus attacks Hollywood -- dozens of stars infected, countless shows shut down, summer blockbusters sent straight to streaming, celebs band together as COVID-19 costs the industry more than $20 billion 

Page 34: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s coronavirus nightmare 

Page 36: Michael Strahan’s custody battle explodes -- in shocking court papers Michael accuses his ex-wife of abusing their twin daughters 

Page 38: Inside Khloe Kardashian’s crazy workouts 

Page 40: Pregnant Katy Perry collapses on the set of American Idol due to fumes from a gas leak 

Page 41: Now that Meghan Markle has left the royal family she wants to be a movie star and Tom Cruise wants to help her out, Jennifer Lawrence’s year off acting is coming to an end which means one thing: no more carbs and she’s been enjoying exploring all the great restaurants in NYC with new husband Cooke Maroney, Star Sightings -- Chloe Sevigny (pictured), Jennifer Lopez, Emily Ratajkowski (pictured), Sophia Bush (pictured), Shawn Johnson (pictured) 

Page 42: Chip and Joanna Gaines -- new baby and new show, Bachelorette Hannah Brown reunites with Tyler Cameron 

Page 46: The Big Interview -- Hilaria Baldwin admits she can be as big of a handful as husband Alec Baldwin 

Page 52: Did I Really Do That? Harry Styles aped Ellen DeGeneres, Gigi Hadid wore a badminton birdie, Celine Dion stole from Sherlock Holmes 

Page 54: Animal Overload -- My cat looks like Princess Leia 

Page 56: Entertainment -- Making the Cut 

Page 58: My Night at Home -- Paige DeSorbo, Guess Whose Book -- Match the star to the book they’ve been spotted reading -- Sarah Jessica Parker, Sterling K. Brown, Reese Witherspoon, Brie Larson, Kerry Washington, Emma Roberts 

Page 60: Double Take -- Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy play cards in Chicago 

Page 62: Horoscope -- Aries Sarah Jessica Parker 

Page 64: Last Laughs 

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Frankenstein Adaptions

1823: Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin at the English Opera House.

1826: Henry M. Milner's adaptation, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein opened on 3 July at the Royal Coburg Theatre, London.

1887: Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim was a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).

1910: Edison Studios produced the first Frankenstein film, directed by J. Searle Dawley.

1915: Life Without Soul, the second film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, was released. No known print of the film has survived.

1920: The Monster of Frankenstein, directed by Eugenio Testa, starring Luciano Albertini and Umberto Guarracino.

1931: Universal Studios' Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, and Boris Karloff as the monster.

1935: James Whale directed the sequel to the 1931 film, Bride of Frankenstein, starring Colin Clive as Frankenstein, and Boris Karloff as the monster once more. This incorporated the novel's plot motif of Frankenstein creating a bride for the monster omitted from Whale's earlier film. There were two more sequels, prior to the Universal "monster rally" films combining multiple monsters from various movie series or film franchises.

1939: Son of Frankenstein was another Universal monster movie with Boris Karloff as the Creature. Also in the film were Basil Rathbone as the title character and Bela Lugosi as the sinister assistant Ygor. Karloff ended playing the Frankenstein monster with this film.

1942: The Ghost of Frankenstein featured brain transplanting and a new monster, played by Lon Chaney Jr. The film also starred Evelyn Ankers and Bela Lugosi.

1942–1948: Universal did "monster rally" films featuring Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Included would be Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The last three films introduced Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster.

1957–1974: Hammer Films in England did a string of Frankenstein films starring Peter Cushing, including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. Co-starring in these films were Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. Another Hammer film, The Horror of Frankenstein, starred Ralph Bates as the main character, Victor Frankenstein.

1965: Toho Studios created the film Frankenstein Conquers the World or Frankenstein vs. Baragon, followed by The War of the Gargantuas.

1972: A comedic stage adaptation, Frankenstein's Monster, was written by Sally Netzel and produced by the Dallas Theater Center.

1973: The TV film Frankenstein: The True Story appeared on NBC. The movie starred Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, and Jane Seymour.

1981: A Broadway adaptation by Victor Gialanella played for one performance (after 29 previews) and was considered the most expensive flop ever produced to that date.

1984: The flop Broadway production yielded a TV film starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, and John Gielgud.

1992: Frankenstein became a Turner Network Television film directed by David Wickes, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. John Mills played the blind man.

1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein appeared in theatres, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter. Its all-star cast also included John Cleese, Ian Holm, and Tom Hulce.

2004: Frankenstein, a two-episode mini-series starring Alec Newman, with Luke Goss and Donald Sutherland.

2006: Frankenstein, A New Musical, composed by Mark Baron, book by Jeffrey Jackson, and based on an adaptation by Gary P. Cohen.

2007: Frankenstein, an award-winning musical adaptation by Jonathan Christenson with set, lighting, and costume design by Bretta Gerecke for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.

2011: In March, BBC3 broadcast Colin Teague's live production from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, billed as Frankenstein's Wedding, Live in Leeds. About the same time, the National Theatre, London presented a stage version of Frankenstein, which ran until 2 May 2011. The play was written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature. The National Theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide on 17 March.

2012: An interactive ebook app created by Inkle and Profile Books that retells the story with added interactive elements.

2014: Penny Dreadful is a horror TV series that airs on Showtime, that features Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature.

2015: Frankenstein, a modern-day adaptation written and directed by Bernard Rose.

2015: Victor Frankenstein is an American film directed by Paul McGuigan.

2016: Frankenstein, a full length ballet production by Liam Scarlett. Some performances were also live simulcasts worldwide.

Loose adaptations: 

1967: I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical), are a pair of musical comedies written by Bobby Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The casts of both feature several classic horror characters including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster.

1971: Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by Edward di Lorenzo. The strory begins when Dr. Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue with his experiments.

1973: The Rocky Horror Show, is a British horror comedy stage musical written by Richard O'Brian in which Dr. Frank N. Furter has created a creature (Rocky), to satisfy his (pro)creative drives. Elements are similar to I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night.

1973: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Usually, Frankenstein is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far, but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding.

1974: Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks, this sequel-spoof has been listed as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made, even prompting an American film preservation program to include it on its listings. It reuses many props from James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and is shot in black-and-white with 1930s-style credits. Gene Wilder portrayed the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein (who insists on pronouncing it "Fronkonsteen"), with Peter Boyle as the Monster.

1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show (1973), written by Richard O'Brien.

1984: Frankenweenie is a parody short film directed by Tim Burton, starring Barrett Oliver, Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern.

1985: The Bride starring Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster.

1986: Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, is the story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson.

1988: Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a manga adaptation of Shelley's novel by Junji Ito.

1989: Frankenstein the Panto. A pantomime script by David Swan, combining elements of Frankenstein, Dracula, and traditional British panto.

1990: Frankenstein Unbound.Combines a time-travel story with the story of Shelley's novel. Scientist Joe Buchanan accidentally creates a time-rift which takes him back to the events of the novel. Filmed as a low-budget independent film by Roger Corman in 1990, based on a novel published in 1973 by Brian Aldiss. This novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above.

1991: Khatra (film) is a Hindi movie of Bollywood made by director H. N. Singh loosely based on the story, Frankenstein.

1995: Monster Mash is a film adaptation of I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night starring Bobby Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. The film also features Candace Cameron Bure, Anthony Crivello and Mink Stole.

1998: Billy Frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the Frankenstein monster to life. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray.

2004: Frankensteinmade-for-TV film based on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.

2005: Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, a 90-minute feature film homage of classic monsters and Atomic Age creature features, shot in black and white, and directed by William Winckler. The Frankenstein Monster design and make-up was based on the character descriptions in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel.

2009: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a short film from Chillerrama.

2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book.

2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time, a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in the real world.

2012: Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name.

2012: In the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King removes body parts from all the princesses that rejected him and creates a jigsaw wife to love him.

2012: A Nightmare on Lime Street, Fred Lawless's comedy play starring David Gest staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

2014: I, Frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film. The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein and Bill Nighy. The film is based on the graphic novel.

2014: Frankenstein, MD, A web show by Pemberly Digital starring Victoria, a female adaptation of Victor.

2015: The Supernatural season 10 episodes Book of the Damned, Dark Dynasty and The Prisonerfeature the Styne Family which member Eldon Styne identifies as the descendants of the house of Frankenstein. According to Eldon, Mary Shelley had learned their secrets while on a visit to Castle Frankenstein and wrote a book based on her experiences, forcing the Frankensteins underground as the Stynes. The Stynes, through bioengineering and surgical enhancements, feature many of the superhuman features of Frankenstein's monster.

2015: The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series, starring Sean Bean as John Marlott and Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley.

2016: Second Chance, a TV series known at one point as Frankenstein, was inspired by the classic.

[justforbooks]

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L. Travers' book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in the role of Mary Poppins who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California using painted London background scenes.

Mary Poppins was released on August 27, 1964, to universal acclaim, receiving a total of thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture – an unsurpassed record for any other film released by Walt Disney Studios – and won five; Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee". In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Mary Poppins is widely considered to be Walt Disney's "crowning achievement", being his only film to garner a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars in his lifetime.

Mary Poppins is widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time and Walt Disney's "crowning achievement". It was the only film of Disney's to garner a "Best Picture" nomination at the Oscars in his lifetime.

The film also inspired the eighth-season episode of The Simpsons entitled "[ Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", featuring a parody of Mary called "Shary Bobbins" who helps out the Simpson family after Marge loses her hair due to stress, and spoofs of the songs "The Perfect Nanny", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Feed The Birds" and "The Life I Lead".

Never at ease with the handling of her property by Disney or the way she felt she had been treated, Travers would never again agree to another Poppins/Disney adaptation. So fervent was Travers' dislike of the Disney adaptation and of the way she felt she had been treated during the production, that when producer Cameron Mackintosh approached her about the stage musical in the 1990s, she acquiesced on the condition that only English-born writers and no one from the film production were to be directly involved with creating the stage musical.

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After the launch of version 0.9, the software package was relabelled Bitcoin Core to distinguish itself from the underlying network. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the creators of the Gemini Trust fund Co. exchange, reported that they had actually reduced their paper wallets into items as well as stored them in envelopes dispersed to safe down payment boxes across the USA. With this system, the theft of one envelope would certainly neither permit the thief to steal any kind of bitcoins neither rob the rightful owners of their access to them. Both the exclusive trick and also the address are visible in message form and also as 2D barcodes. Third-party web services called on-line purses offer similar performance however might be easier to make use of.

from https://dentalsleepmasters0.blogspot.com/2021/02/beginners-school-for-crypto.html

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By 2018, bitcoin was estimated by Joule to utilize 2.55 GW, while Environmental Scientific research & Technology estimated bitcoin to eat 3.572 GW (31.29 TWh for the year). In July 2019 BBC reported bitcoin eats about 7 gigawatts, 0.2% of the worldwide overall, or comparable to that of Switzerland. Academic study released in the Journal of Monetary Economics wrapped up that rate manipulation happened during the Mt Gox bitcoin theft and that the market remains at risk to control. The history of hacks, fraud and also burglary entailing bitcoin go back to a minimum of 2011. The U.S. Asset Futures Trading Commission has actually provided four “Customer Advisories” for bitcoin and also related financial investments. A July 2018 warning highlighted that trading in any cryptocurrency is frequently speculative, and there is a risk of burglary from hacking, and fraud. Securities as well as Exchange Payment alerted that financial investments including bitcoin may have high prices of fraud, which investors may be obtained on social networks sites.

The UNITED STATE Senate held a hearing on virtual money in November 2013. The UNITED STATE federal government claimed that bitcoin was made use of to promote settlements connected to Russian interference in the 2016 United States political elections. An official investigation right into bitcoin investors was reported in May 2018. The U.S. Justice Division launched an examination right into possible rate adjustment, including the techniques of spoofing and wash professions. In 2014, Bloomberg called bitcoin one of its worst financial investments of the year. In 2013, The Washington Message reported a claim that they had 1% of all the bitcoins out there at the time. In September 2019 the Central Bank of Venezuela, at the demand of PDVSA, ran tests to establish if bitcoin as well as ether could be held in reserve bank’s books.

After the release of variation 0.9, the software program bundle was renamed Bitcoin Core to identify itself from the underlying network. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the owners of the Gemini Depend on Co. exchange, reported that they had actually reduced their paper budgets into items and also kept them in envelopes distributed to safe down payment boxes throughout the USA. With this system, the theft of one envelope would certainly neither allow the thief to steal any type of bitcoins neither rob the rightful proprietors of their accessibility to them. Both the exclusive trick and the address are visible in text kind and also as 2D barcodes. Third-party internet solutions called online pocketbooks provide similar functionality however might be less complicated to use.

from John Brunner https://johnbrunner.blogspot.com/2021/02/beginners-training-for-crypto.html

from Richmond Dales https://richmonddales.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/beginners-training-for-crypto/

[kentuckertv]

The Best New TV Shows of 2017

Godless

Here’s my list of the 10 best new shows to premiere in 2017. It was easy to come up with a very wide-ranging selection, from a gaudy look at pro wrestling to a traditional network sitcom. If it seems as though there are a lot of Netflix entries, well, Netflix is really churning out the product, and some of it is very good.

American Vandal (Netflix) At first it seemed like a one-joke show: Someone vandalized a number of cars in a high school parking lot; whodunnit? Early on, we think we know—a nitwit who likes to draw an obscenity that’s sorta his calling-card. But what starts out as a spoof of true-crime TV shows and podcasts quickly became a funny but also sharp and finely-detailed look at high-school life.

Big Mouth

Big Mouth (Netflix) A very funny cartoon about seventh-grade wiseguys Nick (Nick Kroll) and Andrew (John Mulaney), Big Mouth is brash and vulgar, but it has good jokes, a good heart, and gratifyingly vivid female characters—Jessi Klein’s Jessi and Jenny Slate’s Missy foremost among them.

The Deuce (HBO) David Simon and George Pelecanos’s deep dive into the Times Square porn industry in the 1970s was a tough challenge for a lot of viewers, some of whom found the subject matter too icky and inherently sexist. But as the year went on, it seemed that more and more people were actually giving the show a chance, and were able to appreciate the fine performances by Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco, and the excellent writing and direction.

GLOW

GLOW (Netflix) I rolled my eyes when I heard Community’s Alison Brie was setting herself up as a pro wrestler from the 1980s. Shame on me: Brie and her collaborators—co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch; co-star Betty Gilpin—managed to make the campy spectacle of TV’s “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” the site of a complex sisterhood.

Godless (Netflix) This Western from writer-director Scott Frank has a premise that sounds like a gimmick—an Old West mining town run by women—but that just skims the surface of what goes on here. Featuring a hard-bitten star-turn by Merritt Wever as a deadly shot, with Jeff Daniels as a delightfully sadistic villain, Godless is no revisionist Western: it’s just the real thing.

A Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) As 2017 wore on, this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel about oppressed women finding ways to take back their power came to seem less and less like a mere allegory. More uneven than any of the other shows on this list, the series started out very strong, wobbled with a few loosely-focused episodes, and then cranked up the tension again, leaving me interested in a new season.

Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus (Cinemax) You don’t have to be a country-music fan to enjoy these raucous profiles of country hellions such as George Jones and Johnny Paycheck. In fact, Mike Judge (Office Space, King of the Hill) kinda assumes you’re not: He lays out all the biographical details with clarity and hilarity.

Mindhunter

Mindhunter (Netflix) The early days of serial-killer profiling were made vividly unpleasant in this moody production from creator-writer Joe Penhall and director David Fincher. It stars Jonathan Groff as a blank-slate FBI rookie, and it was robbed of the Golden Globe nomination that should have gone to Cameron Britton as the languidly eloquent killer Edmund Kemper.

Mr. Mercedes (Audience) The best Stephen King TV adaptation of 2017 was actually a tie: yes, Netflix’s Gerald’s Game, starring Carla Gugino, was terrific, but so was this 10-episode rendering of King’s thriller about a psychotic mama’s boy. Brendan Gleeson was excellently ornery as retired cop Bill Hodges, and the series has two more books in King’s Hodges trilogy to turn into more good TV.

Young Sheldon

Young Sheldon (CBS) The only network show on this list is a conventional sitcom, a spin-off from The Big Bang Theory. But it’s an uncommonly well-acted and cleverly conceived network sitcom, with the casting coup of the year: Iain Armitage’s performance as a nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper is exceptional. You believe that this fastidious child grew up to be Jim Parsons (who narrates the show), and—even better—you believe this kid is super-intelligent and hyper-articulate. Let’s hear it for a show that prizes book-reading and good grades.

[hyaenagallery]

Lana Jean Clarkson (1962 – 2003) was born in Long Beach, California to Donna and James M. Clarkson and was raised in the hills of Sonoma County, California. She had a brother, Jessee J. Clarkson, and a sister, Fawn. While living in Northern California, she attended Cloverdale High School and Pacific Union College Preparatory School. During the Christmas season of 1978 and after her father’s death, Clarkson’s family returned to Southern California and settled in the Los Angeles region of San Fernando Valley. After Clarkson’s family moved back to Los Angeles County, she pursued a career in entertainment industry as a performer and fashion model. In the early 1980s, Clarkson landed bit parts in film and television. In 1982, she made her screen debut as a minor character in director Amy Heckerling’s coming-of-age comedy, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, based on the Cameron Crowe book. She played the wife of science teacher Mr. Vargas (Vincent Schiavelli). The film was her first speaking role. In 1983, she also peeks into the frame in Scarface behind Michelle Pfeiffer dancing on the floor of the Babylon Club. As an actress, Clarkson became best known for her five feature films for producer Roger Corman, beginning with his fantasy film Deathstalker, as a female warrior and love interest to the title character played by Richard Hill. Corman oriented his films towards young male viewers, using a mix of action and female nudity. Clarkson’s work in Deathstalker led to her being offered the title role in Corman’s next film, Barbarian Queen, a role Corman referred to as “the original Xena” because of the parallel in featuring a strong female leading character in an action-oriented sword-swinging role. The film gained cult status, in part due to an infamous scene where Clarkson is bound topless to a torture rack, interrogated, and raped. In 1987, Clarkson appeared in the John Landis spoof Amazon Women on the Moon. Following that, Clarkson starred in Roger Corman's Barbarian Queen sequel, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back, though the plots and characters bore no resemblance to the other film. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CCtZKiOhVaY/?igshid=lk284dvxyu99

[scruffyplayssonic]

And the best movies of all the years I’ve been alive are... (updated for 2017!)

Hey folks, I’ve got of a bit of a tradition that I’ve started. It wasn’t a New Year’s tradition previously, but this feels like the best time to be updating

Back in August 2015, I watched a Youtube video by Jeremy of @cinema-sins, where he was answering fan questions. One question that he addressed was, “What is the best movie of every year that you’ve been alive?” While Jeremy thought this was a great question, he didn’t think one video would be long enough to explore it fully, and he wanted to find another way to answer it. This eventually was done through the Cinema Sins podcast, SinCast. Each week, the cast would discuss the movies of a certain year and then vote on which one they thought was the best, starting with 1975 in episode 14, and then working their way through another year each episode right up until episode 54, where they voted on the best movie for 2015. They then took a break for a few weeks to get caught up on some of last year’s movies that they hadn’t seen yet before finally tackling 2016 in this week’s podcast, episode 58.

I did my own picks for my favourite movie of each year back in August 2015, when I first saw Jeremy’s Q and A video. I really liked that question and was inspired to try and name my own favourites from each year. I reuploaded the updated version of this when the SinCast finished going through it last year, and I’ve been waiting for New Year’s Eve to update it again for this year. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to comment and/or argue about my choices. And thanks again to @cinema-sins, for providing me with laughs every week in the podcasts and videos they release. :)

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1982: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial This might be a bit of a cheat, since the film came out in June and I wasn’t born until October, but oh well. It’s still the same year.

1983: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi The first Star Wars movie I was around to see the cinematic release of, although I wouldn’t see it in cinemas (or at all, shamefully) for another 14 years.

1984: The Terminator The original was pretty chilling. This still gets me every time. “Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with! It can’t be reasoned with! It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”

1985: Back to the Future The beginning of what I still believe is the greatest movie trilogy of all time.

1986: Aliens More awesome from James Cameron.

1987: Spaceballs Well, it’s pretty funny. Plus I haven’t seen much else from this year, other than Lethal Weapon.

1988: Die Hard The original and quite possibly the best. More on that later.

1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade This was a tough one to pick, as Michael Keaton’s first Batman film, Licence to Kill, AND Back to the Future: Part II all came out this year. But it really has to be the onscreen chemistry of Harrison Ford and Sean Connery!

1990: Back to the Future: Part III At the time, I probably would have picked DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Ahhh, nostalgia.

1991: Terminator 2: Judgement Day I’m sure most of you who know me and know my favourite movies saw this one coming. This was my very favourite movie of all time for almost twenty years, but recently something has surpassed it. Silence of the Lambs would probably get second place for this year.

1992: Batman Returns It was a hard choice between this and Aladdin, which was my favourite Disney cartoon for a very long time. But since it’s not in my dvd collection and Batman is… Honourable mention goes to A Muppet Christmas Carol, my favourite of the Muppet movies.

1993: The Fugitive Another tough choice, considering that Jurassic Park also came out in 1993. But I just love the battle of wits between Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.

1994: The Lion King Another of Disney’s finest. No contest, although True Lies, Speed, and The Mask were all excellent films too.

1995: Goldeneye (007) This was another tough choice, and Die Hard with a Vengeance came very, VERY close. It’s hard to live up to the awesomeness of that first film, but the partnership with Samuel L. Jackson definitely pays off here. But Goldeneye was the first Bond film I saw in the cinema, and I remember that experience vividly. Pierce Brosnan remains my favourite Bond, even though the next three films he starred in didn’t quite live up to this one.

1996: Scream The Rock and Independence Day were my other main picks from this year, but Wes Craven made an instant classic with Scream, which inspired so many other movies and spoofs. If only they’d stopped after the first Scary Movie…

1997: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Special Edition) It’s a bit of a cheat, but technically the original Star Wars trilogy was re-released in cinemas that year with new “special edition” footage, which is when I first fell in love with the series. From original movies that came out in ‘97, it’s a toss up between Men in Black, Air Force One, and The Fifth Element.

1998: Rush Hour Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker were hilarious in this one. The Mask of Zorro was another great movie, and Deep Impact, which was waaaaaay better than Armageddon. Of course, a Michael Bay film will be obsessed with making things go ka-boom. :P Yes, yes, I know The Rock was a Bay film too. So sue me.

1999: The Matrix Another of my very favourite movies. The effects, the plot, the action… it was just sensational. The Sixth Sense was another very clever movie, and Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me was hilarious! But… c'mon, The Matrix, man!

2000: The Whole Nine Yards I was still a big Friends fan at the time, so I loved Matthew Perry starring alongside Bruce Willis. There was also Gone in 60 Seconds, which is one of my favourite Nick Cage films, The Emperor’s New Groove, and of course, X-Men. And then there’s Mission: Impossible 2… hey, be nice. I watched this a lot when I was in Virginia and homesick for Australia :P

2001: Ocean’s Eleven Such a clever film with a great cast!

2002: The Bourne Identity Spider-Man came pretty close, but Matt Damon was amazing as Jason Bourne. …well, that most recent movie was kind of hit or miss…

2003: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Who would have ever guessed that a movie based on a Disneyland ride could be so good?

2004: The Incredibles It was a good year for animation - there was this one, Shrek 2, and Team America: World Police. National Treasure came out too, which I quite like.

2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire There was also The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (a huge improvement on the previous two movies), Batman Begins, and of course, Serenity; the movie that had Firefly fans screaming, “NOOOOOOOOO!!!” near the climax. :P

2006: V for Vendetta I just LOVE this film. Top performances from Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman and John Hurt. The Da Vinci Code was my second choice. Controversial it may be, and people tend to poo-poo Dan Brown a lot, but I loved this movie too. Tom Hanks was the perfect choice for Robert Langdon, and Ian McKellan was brilliant as always. Casino Royale also came out this year, which brought the 007 franchise back from oblivion.

2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix I had to find a cinema playing this in English in Nanjing - no easy feat! But at least they didn’t butcher it like they did with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (my second pick, after I saw the uncut movie on DVD). Ocean’s Thirteen was pretty good too, if not as good as the original. And of course, The Bourne Ultimatum. I was on the edge of my seat for that one.

2008: The Dark Knight A no-brainer. One of the best films of the decade, let alone the year. Iron Man was a surprise hit too. Little did we know of what was to follow - and in fact, you’ll be seeing a few MCU movies coming up on the list. Taken was great. Oh, and I quite liked Steve Carrell’s take on Get Smart, even if he didn’t quite capture the original magic of Don Adams.

2009: Up One of my very favourite Pixar movies. Angels & Demons was pretty good too, although not as good as the first movie. Plus Tom Hanks cut his hair - I thought his shaggy do in the first movie suited Robert Langdon better. :P Strange that I liked Angels & Demons better of the books but The Da Vinci Code better of the movies. Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes was great too.

2010: Kick-Ass This one was a surprise, but I loved the deconstruction of the traditional superhero movie they did here. And when I read the original comic, I loved the film even more for the improvements they made. Nicolas Cage was hilariously hammy, but the major star of this one was undoubtedly Chloe Grace Moretz as the tiny killing machine, Hit-Girl. After that, there was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and Toy Story 3.

2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 A fantastic end to a fantastic series. There was also Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which really surprised me. Excellent stuff there. The Adventures of Tintin - an amazing film that tricked me into forgetting it was animated and not live-action several times. Finally, The Muppets, which was such a fantastic return for some of my favourite childhood icons.

2012: The Avengers No surprise there. Honourable mentions go to The Cabin in the Woods, which is a delightfully insane deconstruction of horror movies, Looper, a film I still occasionally stay up late at night scratching my head in confusion over, and Skyfall, which is probably Daniel Craig’s best Bond film so far. I also loved Wreck-It Ralph.

2013: White House Down This one was definitely the film I liked best from 2013What can I say? I love Die Hard, and this was basically Die Hard in the White House, yet it felt original enough to not just be a knock-off. The other ones I liked best would be the Marvels (Iron Man 3, the Wolverine and Thor: The Dark World), Kick-Ass 2, and Gravity, which was absolutely terrifying.

2014: Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel sure knows how to get my bum into the cinema - X-Men: Days of Future Past and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are up there, but Guardians wins out for pure fun (and the delightful company I had in the cinema <3). There was also The LEGO Movie, which I thought was very clever, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

2015: The Martian When I first made this list in August 2015, my prediction was that Jurassic World would be my favourite of the year. Nope, not by a long shot. The Martian was absolutely amazing - Matt Damon’s ability to keep the audience on the edge of their seats when he’s completely alone on the screen (and on the planet) is a major credit to him as an actor. In fact, I think this film has now actually surpassed Terminator 2 to become my favourite movie of all time. Then of course we have Avengers: Age of Ultron, Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, and Terminator: Genisys. …no, really. Stop laughing, I really enjoyed it. :P And then there was Ex Machina, which was a really intriguing film that kept me guessing the entire time.

2016: Captain America: Civil War It’s no secret that I love my comic book movies, and this was definitely my favourite of last year. Civil War (the comic) was the first instance that got me intrigued enough to actually pick up and read a Marvel comic. It really raised an interesting question for me - just how accountable should superheroes be for what they do when fighting crime? Granted, the comic really went too far and made both Cap AND Iron Man look like total dicks, and I was relieved when the film managed to not use some of the more ridiculous ideas, such as a homocidal Robo-Thor-clone or a prison for superheroes in an alternate dimension that literally saps your will to live. On top of that, the film also introduced a fantastic Black Panther, and Tom Holland really nailed what Spider-Man should be. And that airport scene was worth the price of admission all by itself.

2017: Wonder Woman Ohhhhh man, it has been a really good year for superhero movies. We’ve had Tom Holland really prove he is Spider-Man in Homecoming, and the most ridiculous-and-yet-accurate portrayal of Batman ever in the LEGO Batman Movie. Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart’s swansongs in Logan were heartwrenching. Ragnarok and Justice League were a lot of fun (yes, I liked Justice League. Fight me). The Guardians managed to surpass their first movie in Volume 2 with really great character development and humour, and that would probably have been my pick for the year if there wasn’t one other superhero movie I loved even more. But I found Wonder Woman to be truly inspirational. Patty Jenkins,Gal Gadot, Chris Pine and everyone else involved with this movie created something that took my breath away. I cheer every time I see her walk out onto no man’s land, and I scream, “FUCK YEAH!!!” every time that iconic butt-kicking theme music plays. In non-superhero movies... Coco was simply amazing, and is another of Pixar’s very best movies. Star Wars Episode VII: The Last Jedi was fantastic, and I can’t wait to go see it again. And I went into Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with pretty low expectations, but I really enjoyed it and laughed a lot.

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I challenge any of my friends out there who are avid movie lovers to give this challenge a try - it’s not as easy as you’d think. Wikipedia is your friend though - just browse by “(insert year here) in film.” Comments telling me, “Yes, I love that film!” or, “Are you nuts? How could you forget THIS film?” are quite welcome. :)

[tillyvis-com]

EVALUATION: 1

WHAT INFORMED AND MOTIVATED MY DESIGN DECISIONS?

At first, my research was very broad - I stated by looking at things such as supporting political movement and maybe looking at how celebrities are formed through these (e.g. Greta Thunberg). But, once I delved into the weird aspects of politics, (like David Cameron’s pig head moment) I found spoof political parties. From here, I researched until I found Monster Raving Loony Party. This then became my theme which led to my book reflecting their funny, wacky and ‘loony’ aspects of politics. 

To reflect this theme, I looked at a few artists - David Shrigley motivated me to look more into how I could make my illustrations humorous while still maintaining a sense of realness. Also, Banksy’s ‘Devolved Parliament’ motivated my imagery to be a bit more detailed than I first tried out - to show how although this is humorous, its still based on a serious topic. 

Furthermore, book layouts like, the mini PRINT magazine I found in the library, informed me that I could put smaller pages within my book - almost like a flyer (which ended up working well with some imagery if found). Furthermore, the book allowed me to find a wacky alternative to a page spread over using all normal sized pages - without this aspect I don't think my book would communicate my theme as it does with it in. 

WHAT CHANGES AND DEVELOPMENTS HAS MY PROJECT GONE THROUGH?

My project has gone through quite a few changes along the way; in the beginning I thought I was going to do it about a serious topic communicating my support for a political movement but in the end, my book was about a spoof party. Furthermore, when I created my first mock up pages, I had lots of colour with two main colours - read and yellow. This quickly changed because it started to look like a MacDonald’s theme. So, I ended up choosing one colour (yellow) and put less of it in the book - so that it was a pop of colour over full colour. This was because of book layouts I looked at - I really like the small pops of colour, as well as, it looked more political when it was black and white with hints of colour - it looked more matter of fact (even though the text/theme isn't very fact...)

Also, originally, my illustrations were very loose and too simple - until I looked at how Shrigley managed to still add detail yet had simple illustrations - done through use of smaller and thinner lines. Furthermore, looking at Banksy let me see how political art should be somewhat detailed - so that it reflects the seriousness of politics - even when some politics are less important than others. 

DID I MANAGE MY TIME WELL THROUGHOUT THE UNIT?

Overall, I think I didn't really mage my time well - especially at the beginning. When I picked out political, I was very hesitant to start researching because it was the only one I didn't want as I am not much for serious topics 24/7. But, once I got the hang of it and found my area of interest (spoof parties), I then stated to enjoy it more, so did more work towards it. 

But, I was very slow to create my imagery which, did impact my mock up spreads/books. Once I got them done, it was much easier to put the text into place and be able to hone in on little details; like spacing/leading and typos. 

[supercultshow]

Howdy all you Supercultists out there on the interwebz! I’m Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Scene by Scene Remakes” with a minor in “Cooter Snakes”) and I’ll be posting my hype-tacular speeches every week along with some long lost speeches from past Supercult Shows!

This week Supercult resolves to check all their future girlfriends for evil sorcerer snakes before making sweet deadly love to a Lady Terminator!

There are homages, there are parodies, there are rip-offs, and then there’s Lady Terminator a film that takes Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic of sci-fi and action action and added all the things that it rightly needed to be a true masterpiece: sex goddesses, mystic daggers, disgruntled anthropologists, non-temporal editing, and vagina snakes! Honestly I should just stop here. That sentence along should convince you that this is the best film in the world, but I’m just such a great guy that I’m going to give you a little bit more just to run up the score.

So, how many Lady Terminators are there in the film again, five? Or perhaps there’s a fight in a funhouse mirror maze?

Nasty Hunter is too bad of a name even for an Indonesian rip-off of a movie. Maybe a Chinese rip-off, but certainly not an Indonesian rip-off!

I…I think there may actually be 5 Lady Terminators in this film now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2AE4BACwU

“She had one purpose in life – GET EVEN. She had all the equipment necessary!”

“She Slays Anyone in Her Way!”

“The Most Thunderous Seductress Coming to Your City on Friday, 8th.”

This guy’s name is Snake and he’s probably my favorite character.

No! I changed my mind! My actual favorite has got to be this mystic Asian stereotype ripped right out of a scene in Big Trouble in Little China!

NO! WAIT! This randy mustachioed Indonesian policeman is my actual favorite! You can’t beat his little dance after seeing three guys with their dicks bitten off!

Once again the best posters are the ones that look like they’re made by someone who didn’t actually see the movie but instead had the movie described to them by a four year old.

I’d watch and A-Team remake with these knuckleheads any day.

“She Mates… Then She Terminates”

Pew! Pew! Pew!

Do you think this screen grab looks similar to a previous screen grab? Welcome to this little visual teaser of how the actual edit of the film feels.

Released in Indonesia in 1988, four years after the release of James Cameron’s Terminator, Lady Terminator is directed by H. Tjut Djalil who basically devoted his entire career to creating films that Supercult could enjoy. His directorial debut, Benyamin Spion 025 is basically a low-budget Indonesian 007 spoof about a guy who reads too many James Bond books and decides to buy a gun and a hat and bust some drug lords. Many of his later titles such as Dangerous Seductress, The White Alligator, Satan’s Bed, and Mystics in Bali get to the heart of what classic Indonesian B-movies are all about: magic, mahem, monsters, ‘Merican remakes and hot mammas! Lady Terminator is possibly Djahil’s best and most famous work (at least here in the states), and not just because it becomes an almost shot for shot remake of Terminator in the later half. It’s also because the movie apparently paid the guy from Memento to edit the final cut.

Action scenes from the second act are tacked onto the front of the film for no other reason than to perhaps signal to the audience not to leave the theatre too early. The film shows a woman with 80s hair brutally gunning down dozens of people before cutting abruptly to literally 100 years prior. The film is shouting, “HEY! If you just get past all the ridiculous Rita Repulsa witch curses and the equally ridiculous scenes of a huffy lady (sorry, not a lady, an anthropologist) looking around for the plot of the film, then you eventually be treated to a terminator…who is a lady!”

Lady Terminator is bonkers from opening credits featuring what feels like minutes slow motion waves to the climactic zombie-eye-lazer finale. Once again, I shouldn’t have to say more, but I will anyway: Crotch shots, spontaneous tanks, nudity, a guy names Snake, and the line, “We’ve seen more dead bodies than you’ve eaten hot dogs, so shut up and eat.”

Neff said.

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The fake stories hitting the headlines – BBC News

Image copyright Suffolk Gazette

Image caption Suffolk Gazette’s story about David Bowie was published three days before his death was announced

On the day of David Bowie’s death, a national broadcaster reported the rock star had performed at a Suffolk curry house just days earlier. For some, the fine line between spoof and reality is increasingly hard to detect – so what are the key components of a successful send-up?

During the hours after Bowie’s death, journalists scrambled to gather details of the music icon’s last days.

When a story emerged about the singer “giving curry house diners a treat” in Bungay, Suffolk, a media frenzy briefly ensued.

“I was watching the news, and people started picking up on the curry house story and tweeting it,” said Simon Young, a former Sun journalist based in Suffolk.

“As I was watching Sky News, Eamonn Holmes read out about how the Suffolk Gazette was reporting Bowie had performed in a curry house.

“My jaw dropped into my cornflakes. You don’t get much bigger than Sky News on breaking coverage of a high profile person’s death – and they mentioned my site.”

Sadly for Holmes, the Suffolk Gazette is not a genuine newspaper. It is, instead, a spoof created by Mr Young to “satisfy creative desires” and “raise a bit of beer money”.

He had written the Bowie article on the singer’s 69th birthday, three days before his death was announced, and later put a note on the story to explain.

The episode highlighted the prevalence of one of the internet’s growth industries – spoof news – and the pitfalls it can create for its more sober cousin; the actual news media.

Image copyright Southend News Network

Image caption Southend News Network was created in October 2015 and has attracted thousands of social media followers

“Morris dancers and blind footballers in mass brawl” cries one headline. “Dartford tunnel closed due to thousands of Kent residents trying to enter Essex illegally” screams another.

These stories might seem ludicrous or plausible, depending on your point of view. Each treads carefully the fine line between reality and ridiculousness, relying on the reader’s moment of uncertainty for its satirical punch.

Broadcaster Fraser McAlpine, who wrote a book called Stuff Brits Like, said in recent times it had become increasingly difficult to tell which stories were fake.

“You’ve got David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn having their spats in Parliament, making awful jokes. You’ve got Donald Trump – he’s beyond parody – saying the worst possible things.

“News outlets are behaving like spoof sites, and they’re making spoof sites look like sensible news.”

In the world of spoof news, there are a few big-name players. There is US site The Onion, of course, the granddaddy of all spoof sites, which began publishing online in 1996.

In the UK, websites such as The Poke, The Daily Mash and NewsThump have been offering up spoof news across the nation for more than a decade.

Mr McAlpine theorised that news parodies were about “banding together and cocking a snook at people in power”.

“Sometimes spoof news feels like a righteous sword in the side of something you’re bothered about, and sometimes it feels like flicking Vs at a policeman – it’s a release and a relief.”

Image copyright Tim Telling

Image caption Editor of The Daily Mash Tim Telling said the internet had changed the game for spoof news

Tim Telling, editor of The Daily Mash, said the internet had played a huge role in what was being published, and who was publishing it.

“The Daily Mash is a kind of DIY thing done by a small group of people,” he said.

“As a kid, I was into Viz comics, and there was a spirit in Viz that’s also relevant to The Daily Mash – it felt like it was just some guys doing it in a shed, rather than coming through the existing comedy establishment.

“It’s a kind of punk ethos – I think Viz used to sell their copies at punk gigs – and that’s the kind of thing the internet has allowed to proliferate.”

Image caption Satire legend Armando Iannucci reads another legend of the form – Viz

Fifteen years ago, a group of friends from Chelmsford, Essex, decided they would harness the power of the internet after seeing the success of The Onion and satirist Charlie Brooker’s spoof television listings site TVGoHome.

The Framley Examiner took the form of a newspaper, but was displayed as though each edition had been scanned and uploaded to its website.

The brainchild of Joel Morris, Alex Morris, Jason Hazeley and Robin Halstead, the site was set up in 2001 at a cost of 25.

Headlines included “Local museum to be put in a museum”, “New library: the dream is over”, “Fluff misery” and “Cycle lane ‘not even as long as small cycle’”.

Image copyright Framley Examiner

Image caption “It wasn’t a joke about news – it was a joke about the way news was reported”

Image caption Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley honed their spoof news craft on The Framley Examiner

For the Framley Examiner, the joke was as much about the stories as it was about how local news media worked.

The site had the look and feel of a real newspaper, but was never intended to be mistaken for one, Mr Morris said – it was pure parody.

“In the beginning, we wrote about stuff that was quite close to reality. As it went on it got much sillier,” Mr Morris said.

“It wasn’t a joke about news – it was a joke about the way news was reported.”

The Framley Examiner’s popularity led to a book and launched the comedy-writing careers of Mr Morris and Mr Hazeley, whose credits include That Mitchell and Webb Look, Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, and a series of spoof Ladybird books.

To make a site seem as authentic as possible, spoof news creators agree the style of writing is key.

The creator of Southend News Network, a site recently officially recognised by Southend Council, said his stories were often compared to those printed by local media.

The Chief Reporter, as he is known, reckons about half of the people who read his stories realise they are fake, with the other half indignantly commenting and sharing his stories on social media.

Spoof success

A Suffolk Gazette story about an old lady getting trapped in a council toilet in Felixstowe for four days was picked up by several national newspapers and publications, including The Express, The Daily Mirror and The Debrief

Former Fifa vice president Jack Warner appeared to be taken in by an article from The Onion about the World Cup being held in the USA in May 2015

The Onion’s story on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un being the sexiest man alive was picked up by a Chinese newspaper, which reprinted satirical comments and a photo gallery

In 1957, an April Fool’s Day report by the BBC on Swiss spaghetti crops prompted viewers to try to find out where they could purchase their very own spaghetti bush

Suffolk Gazette’s creator said his intention was never to trick people into falling for his stories – people believing them was a “happy side effect” which generates hits, rather than the main aim.

“You do get people commenting, saying ‘haha, that’s hilarious’, but then there’ll be that one person who says ‘I think it’s disgusting’.

“Those who are in on the joke get a double kick out of it – you enjoy the moment other people are taken in.”

Source: http://allofbeer.com/the-fake-stories-hitting-the-headlines-bbc-news/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/the-fake-stories-hitting-the-headlines-bbc-news/

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OTR Links 01/26/2019

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Problematic Movies of the ’80s | Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

By Don Hall

Recently, on a night when I simply couldn’t sleep, I turned my iPad on to Netflix and searched for something to watch. You know, something to just play until my eyes finally weighed like lead and I crashed. I landed upon the 1998 Samuel L. Jackson vehicle The Negotiator. In addition to being a fun potboiler, I was reminded how goddamned good Kevin Spacey is as an actor. I realized that in this particular case, I was not bothered by his real life sexual proclivities and simply enjoyed the movie.

I’m frequently stuck in mental overload trying to weigh the artist’s real life from his or her art. Say what you will but Altas Shrugged has it’s merits. Ayn Rand doesn’t, and if you, like me, read the book before knowing anything about her awful politics, you might’ve been able to separate the two. I still love Woody Allen’s earlier films, although Manhattan now gives me a bit of the skeeves. I also recently got sucked into a conversation about the dark toxicity in play in the (apparently) no longer funny, twisted morality tale known as Caddyshack.

Then Kavanaugh referenced some classic comedies of the ’80s in his bizarre, angry, hyper-partisan defense. He claimed his yearbook was attempting to emulate “Animal House, Caddyshack and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Again, it got me thinking: are these touchstones of my (and his) youth to be discarded on a pile of old VHS copies to be set ablaze? Are they really that problematic? And wouldn’t it be fun (and maybe a little depressing) to rewatch them as much through the lens of 2018?

I set up some rules for myself: they had to be comedies, they had to be made in the ’80s (my coming of age) and they had to be movies I could recall loving at the time.

Here we go.

First up:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Written by Cameron Crowe; directed by Amy Heckerling Released in 1982.

I was 16 years old when this hit the theaters. What I remember of this movie was that I liked it, thought it was funny and mostly loved the character of Brad (played by a young Judge Reinhold.) The Spicoli character, played with stoner perfection by Sean Penn loomed large, and the fact that I got to see Phoebe Cates’ tits was a big plus. I saw it in the theater only once but it left a good impression upon my teenage brain. It felt authentic in many ways to my own high school experience as it was unfolding.

Upon rewatching it to see how potentially problematic the thing was, here are some takeaways:

Problematic Moments & Themes

In the first two minutes of the film, we see a high school guy tape a sign on the back of another guy that says “I Am A Homo” and later, Spicoli, in a dream sequence as he has won the big surfing competition calls his competitors “Fags.”

There are only two black characters in this thing: Charles Jefferson (Forest Whittaker) and his brother (known only in the credits as “Jefferson’s Brother”) This film is overwhelmingly white.

In the first 20 minutes, Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a 15 year old mall worker, has sex in an abandoned baseball dugout with a 26-year-old dude. She subsequently has sex with Damone in her parents’ pool room, gets pregnant, has an abortion by herself and hides it all from her parents.

Does It Hold Up?

For me, yes.

While the film contains two instances of anti-gay language, there is no malice contained in the Spicoli comment. The first (the sign) is an example of simple assholery and is in no way central to the plot of characters in the intwining stories. No question that it gives pause (if it were the n-word, the discomfort would be worse, which says more about our acceptance of gay slurs than our apathy toward them) but the reality is that the movie taken as a whole, is not in the least homophobic.

The fact that there are no black characters is troubling, but there were and are high schools with few POC students. In the ’80s my high school had exactly four black students in the entire student body. This was a result more of geography (middle of nowhere, Kansas) than anything else. The fact is that the only high schools in America with more diverse populations are urban rather than suburban. Perhaps, because I am white and I went to a mostly all-white high school, it simply didn’t seem out of the ordinary in this case. Again, no racial animus is present in the film and Jefferson’s brother (unfortunate that the character was not given a name) is a stoner friend of Spicoli’s in several scenes.

If there is a difficult theme present, it is the pursuit of sex and the fact that most conversations in the film are about it. A 15-year-old girl having sex with a 26-year-old dude is troubling until you see that, in every case, it is the women in the film who are calling the shots, who have the most agency in the interactions. Stacy make decisions to have sex without coercion in every case. The boys are all fumbling idiots when it comes to the women and, in the case of the Faux Alpha Make that is Damone, his skill at sex with Stacy is so inept and premature that he seems flummoxed at the very idea of sex. Unlike, say, Sixteen Candles and its obvious date rape themes with the Geek, these are just American kids doing what we did in the ’80s — hanging out at the mall, trying to get laid (without having any concept what that might mean) and working shitty minimum wage jobs.

I understand that the idea of young people having sex makes you uncomfortable but the facts on the ground is that young people think about and get busy constantly. This isn’t new or unusual — high school is the pit of hormones, the very circle of hell when hair sprouts and boobs suddenly appear. Get over it.

Fast Times began as a Rolling Stone story by Cameron Crowe. He spent a year secretly embedded at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California under an assumed name (and in cooperation with the school’s administration) to gather stories for a non-fiction book with the same title. It feels like it, too. Unlike the spoofs of teens in high school and despite that fact that Nicholas Cage (credited as Nicholas Coppola in his first on-screen appearance) was the youngest actor on set at age 18, Fast Times isn’t a case of a bunch of adults making fun of the high school experience. It has an authenticity lacking in so many films about high school (in the ’80s or otherwise) that feels grounded in the real.

Watching this 36 years later cemented its charm and enduring quality. Like American Graffiti was a touchstone film about (some) high school kids in the ’50s, this is a pretty accurate snapshot of (some) kids in the ’80s. Additional plusses go to a woman director, a ton of the stars of the future in relatively unseen roles and the reminder that one could once get tickets to Van Halen for $15.

Overall

Scale of 1 to 10 1 = Classic 10 = Burn all VHS copies of it

Fast Times at Ridgemont High gets a 3.

Next Up

The Cannonball Run (1981)