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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
In 1994, I had a story published in the acclaimed 'Starry Wisdom' anthology - a story entitled MELTDOWN. Here it is to read - on the post dated 28 June 2005: http://guestbooks.pathfinder.gr/read/Weirdmonger Prophetic? Or pathetic? Is the current financial meltdown Lovecraftian or Ligottian? Any other Meltdowns in Fiction? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.61 |
As to literar meltdowns, I see Mr. Can as a sort of walking meltdown. Lovecraft? Azathoth bubbling at the centre of infinity...? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
"Any other Meltdowns in Fiction?" In film there's Alan J. Pakula's Rollover. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.204 |
I'll have to Netflix that film, Ramsey... I admit to never having heard of it, but now I'm intrigued.... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - Told ya. You know nowt about film. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - gonna throw a movie at ya and see what you think. WAY OF THE GUN - Christopher McQuarrie (Dir/Writer). My erudite critique - It rocks. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.4.122 |
Um... I don't think I've seen this one, Frank. You want me to? But THE USUAL SUSPECTS...? One of my faves. More of those, please! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - The Usual Suspects is simply one of the finest crime films ever made. This film follows the traditional archetype, yet manages to make you think it's the first time you've seen it. Way Of The Gun is simply humbling. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
KAYSER SOZAY! GCW | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
WAY OF THE GUN was written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote THE USUAL SUSPECTS. It's a brilliant, brilliant film. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.236.82 |
THE USUAL SUSPECTS is part neo-noir, is part heist, is part TEN LITTLE INDIANS-ish murder mystery, is part horror with its evocation of the demonic Kayser Sozay... a wonderful bit of film.... There is something swirling in my brain about THE WAY OF THE GUN... I think I might have actually seen it... I think I might not have liked it... but more data is needed.... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
THE USUAL SUSPECTS doesn't fit your template theory at all. (Ducks for cover, giggling) ;-) | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.157 |
Yes it does. It secures all the right elements, and THEN adds to them, stirs the pot, presents things slightly askew, newly tailored, etc. [kerthwack!]  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Ah, is this your latest hastily altered version of the (say it quietly now) template? Come on, admit it - even you don't know what you mean. I suspect Weber does, though.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.157 |
I am thoroughly consistent. My theory is not hastily altered at all. If you include all the elements, you get a proper template. If you fail to include an element, or "fuck it up" let's say, then you have produced a poor work of art. It's as simple as that.... Weber has a squishy part on his head - I think his mother dropped him when he was young or something (I'm not saying deliberately... I'm not...) - because it's over the part of his brain that fails to understand anything I say.  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
The part of my brain that fails to understand anything you say works perfectly in it's chosen rule to misunderstand you. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.157 |
Welber, all I'll say is... thank you, for uttering not the word that hath been forbidden you.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.76.157 |
And you too, Weber. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Check other threads... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Send me the severed nipples of a thousand chickens and I'll agree with your template theory. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.84.74 |
What's your address? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - Way Of The Gun (Ryan Phillippe Del Torro, James Caan, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Ryan Phillipe)...what a cast! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.140 |
You do like your Ryan Phillipe, don't you, Frank....? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Freudian slip I suppose. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.250.177 |
Slippery something. |