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Good eye, Finkbug. Or should I say, good pair of eyes in the dark.
Jarrod: if you've never done, you should read the novel The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende. That dragon is not a fuzzy dog in it, I assure you. 🙂
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It's a magical novel. Undebased gut level woooOOOSH magical. The movie makes me sad. Read Beagle's The Last Unicorn too.
There are so few of those novels. They're treasures.
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I have one of the original editions, with the green and red ink. It holds a place of honor on my bookshelf. The movie is not worth watching.
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I never thought of actually reading The Never Ending Story - was it a book first? I read somewhere that The Princess Bride book came out after the movie, and was kind of a tie in/spoof rather than a novel in its own right. Incidentally, I watched The Never Ending Story just last month, on one of my retro binges - it wasn't too bad.
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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The novel was first published in German in the 70s. Early 80s English translation. I don't have one as early as Jen's, but close to.
The Last Unicorn, such a great novel. It too was filmed and not well. The Red Bull scenes are memorable but skip the rest. Dire soundtrack, star studded voice work. Bridges, Lee, Farrow, and more I've forgotten.
For a children's book that got a great film version, watch The Brave Little Toaster. Forgotten treasure. It runs dark: there's a long musical number titled Worthless. (http://tinyurl.com/3b4g2w) 'Course the book was written by a guy who was excommunicated for his play The Cardinal Detoxes so happy happy sunny time may've been a bit much to expect. It all comes right in the end. I've shown it to one of my nephews; the others, some older, didn't seem like they'd survive the ride.
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My brother actually got me a German first edition Neverending Story for Christmas some years ago. The originals are beautiful - printed in two colors, with big woodcut art on the chapter pages. Jarrod, if all you know of it is the movie, you owe it to yourself to find a copy of the book. Get the Ralph Manheim translation. Two-color English editions are available but not strictly necessary (when printed in one color they use italics to signify setting change). Anyway, it's the defining book of my childhood and even now I read it at least once a year.
Michael Ende's "Momo" is also brilliant.
The Neverending Story is simply not the kind of thing they can make into a movie. It's too fanciful and too internalized. Wolfgang Petersen's film was bearable, but once you read the book you'll see that it's not even the same story.
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I had no idea it was, beforehand, a well respected novel, either. Colour me ignorant.
This was the book of my childhood.
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Ok, I'll file a mental note to myself to check it out! At the moment I'm reading a Robert E Howard compilation of original Conan stories - I had no idea of the wealth of narrative there as well, and how shallow the Conan movies come up by comparison (and I loved the Conan movies!).
It's a tortuous existance when there are so many great games, books and movies to check out, and so little spare time to dedicate to one, let alone all three, of these leisure activities!
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. – The Teachings of Don Juan
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The Whole Wide World is a decent bio pic of Howard's life. It also works as a chic flick, making it a valuable date rental option. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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I read the Neverending Story book thanks to the movie. I loved the movie until I read the book (english translation with red and green text.) Hard to watch the movie again afterwards. It only covers about the first 3rd of the book, and things really get interesting after all that happens.
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Ecstatica ..... damn I knew I recognized that picture! Voxel type graphics very similar to the Twinsen games. I played that game years ago, heh.
So, onto the new pics now ........
is #2 from the game 'Tass Times in Tonetown'?
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Lakerz, for some reason I missed your post - yes! #2 is Tass Times in Tonetown. Apologies for the delayed response!
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#1 Max Payne?
#4 Zork? The nest with the jewel encrusted egg outside the house?
I had two copies of The Princess Bride floating around once. It is copywrite 1973, movie 1987. And I'd like to share a little (ISBN 0-345-34803-6 Ballantine Books) The following is a little bit of worry that Buttercup has when it dawns on her that the farm boy (Westley) is something special.
The Countess would not stop staring at Westley!
Why? Why in the world would the woman in all the history of Florin who was in all ways perfect be interested in the farm boy? Buttercup rolled around in bed. And there simply was no other way of explaining that look - she was interested. Buttercup shut her eyes tight and studied the memory of the Countess. Clearly, something about the farm boy interested her. Facts were facts. But what? The farm boy had eyes like the sea before a storm, but who cared about eyes? And he had pale blond hair, if you liked that sort of thing. And he was broad enough in the shoulders, but not all that much broader than the Count. And certainly he was muscular, but anybody would be muscular who slaved all day. And his skin was perfect and tan, but that came again from slaving; in the sun all day, who wouldn't be tan? And he wasn't that much taller than the Count either, although his stomach was flatter, but that was because the farm boy was younger.
Buttercup sat up in bed. It must be his teeth. The farm boy did have good teeth, give credit where credit was due. White and perfect, particularly set against the sun-tanned face.
Gad that kills me every time. I thought they did an ok job on the movie, but there's just so much goodness that never made it.
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I think you got me with these Steerpike.
1) It looks like Bruce Willis or that dude from Wedding Crashers
2) I'm tempted to say The Day the Earth Caught Fire
3) At first it reminded me of Hoggle from Labyrinth but it's not him
4) ?
5) Something by Square Enix or Blizzard?
6) Jaws (yay!)
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This week we're doing faces!
Helmut's right with (1) – Max Payne, and (4) – Zork. Gregg's got (6) – Jaws and is on the right track with (5).
Last month's:
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- World in Conflict
- Tass Times in Tonetown
- Metro 2033
- Interstate '76
- Haunted House
- Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker
Next month: genitals!
just kidding.
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#5 looks like Final Fantasy
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The character looks female, is it Sephiroth?
Seen as you've been playing it recently: FFXIII?
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The character looks female, is it Sephiroth?
That's why I love you Gregg. In a rugged manly way, not a gay way. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You followed the track excellently! It is in fact FFXIII.
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Oh, so I don't get the "nod" cause I didn't include which of the many FF games it was?! I see how this works now. The Togerator never forgets. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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