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     Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.225.42 |
The short film based on Ligotti's 'The Frolic', is available here - http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0JdptVVAW6U Free, for this weekend only! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
And unfortunately its rubbish.  | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.180.225.42 |
I had a bad feeling - too good to be true! I'll still have a look though. Is the story worth reading? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
The story is great, mate - one of Ligotti's best, IMHO. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.187.171 |
I ordered this a while ago from Ligotti's website, and then heard how crap it was. Haven't watched it yet. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.28.166 |
I also didn't work up the energy to view my dvd just yet, because of all the bad comments... | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.28.166 |
Anyway, with this link you can save a somewhat better quality version: http://tinyurl.com/65cu62 (this uses the website KeepVid that lets you easily save youtube movies in mp4 format) | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
That's funny: all the Ligotti drones on the TLO love it. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
It's probably better if you've read the tale and can fill in the gaps. Having done neither, I thought it was pants. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
No, it doesn't help. The film was shite, plain and simple. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Worthy of Jonathan Ross, that review was. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.242.13.248 |
> That's funny: all the Ligotti drones on the TLO love it. This is why I only check TLO to grab any TL news, as most of the forum posts show only blind adoration, and the site also features a terrible kind of Ligottian pastiche short stories, as they're all mind-numbingly boring and often pretentious: worse than most amateur cthulhu pastiches in fact. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
It was rubbish. And we flew all the way to Toronto to see it. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.188.88.188 |
Ah, yes, it was rather uninspired, wasn't it? I recall the group of us standing around in the little foyer after wards, staring at each with puzzled expressions. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
It couldn't have been more boring if they'd adapted a McMahon piece! (shiver) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
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| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
My main complaint with the film version of 'The Frolic' is that its script omits the daughter's note that her parents discover amidst the deer stuffing; a portion of the story that contains what I feel is some of Ligotti's finest prose. Beyond that, the film was what pretty much what I was expecting...but then it's based upon my least favourite Thomas Ligotti story, so my expectations were not terribly high to begin with. Had the filmmakers massacred, say, 'The Shadow at the Bottom of the World' or 'Gas Station Carnivals' I would have been fighting back the bile. But 'The Frolic' is at best a lukewarm tale. Besides, even if the film adaptation isn't to one's liking, it's only, what, fifteen minutes long? Some might say that is fourteen-and-a-half minutes too long, but I really don't think 'The Frolic' was *that* bad. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
At least Brad Dourif wasn't in it. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
what's wrong with Brad Dourif - excellent underrated actor - Exorcist 3, One flew over the cuckoos nest, wise blood, grim prairie tales. He's great | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
He would have been TOO obvious. And hammy, like Hammy the Hamster. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
What's wrong with Hammy the hamster? He's a great understated actor. just check out his cameos in Alvin and the chipmunks and Rocky and Bulwinkle - they're masterclasses in subtlety. He just suffers because of his name - people feel they need to make the obvious jokes. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Hammy was a coke fiend. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
That was his greatest tragedy. a career strck short by the cruelkties of a life of addiction. excuse me, I need to go and cry quietly in a corner for a while. you've woken some painful memories. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
He lured you into his cage, didn't he? He got you on the wheel? Another poor man falls to that tiny paw of evil. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
How did you know about the wheel? Please hammy, don't make me do it, please. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I've been there, man. I've licked the drippy bottle thing dry, man. I've played in the tube. He said he'd get me a part on the show. They all laughed when I sank the boat with my foot. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Is there a support group, or do we just disintegrate slowly on a street corner, dependant on prescription medication and alcohol? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
We used to meet in a converted warehouse. But Hammy bought the building and demolished it so it looked like a penis screaming. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
It was a scale model of my penis. He promised me he'd put it on display somewhere. I didn't realise he'd do it there. he really was an evil bastard. And he was a ham actor. there I've said it. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I got a cosy cage with water to drink And a wheel to run in that helps me think I got so much food stored up in my cheeks I don't get hungry for weeks and weeks The cats and dogs are out in the storm But I got my blanket to keep me warm Some people say I'm an overfed rat But I'm a rodent who knows where it's at I keep spending most of life Living in a hamster's paradise | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
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| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
You cruel bastard Joel, there's nothing funny about the wheel... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
Good poem. Is it called 'The Inherited Wealth of Vermin'? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
No, that's the National Trust guide to stately homes. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
Lifetime membership at £3,000 - FREE entry to all venues. Not bad until you realise that most people who fall for it are almost dead. |