jasonw1239 wrote:I first heard about them around 1981 in a record store in Montreal when I picked up their album called Sonic Attack that has 3 or 4 songs written or co-written by Moorcock.
Kingofpain89 wrote:Whaddya know....I learn something new every day. I had no idea that Lemmy (of Motorhead fame obviously) was once a member of Hawkwind.
JohnGaunt wrote:Hawkwind had a b-side that was entitled Motorhead. One version of the song has Lemmy singing instead of Dave Brock.
Xaxaxe wrote:Yeah, that "review" is just a little too breathless. You'd think the book cured cancer or something.I've still never read a word of the Potter series, which I'm sort of proud of in a perverse sort of way. I never saw Titanic, either ... man, I'm a rebel.
FormCritic wrote:Never saw Titanic.Skipped portions of text in the later Potter books...which badly needed editing for style and content.In the last book, the author has run out of things to do and starts repeating her former plots...her characters mainly wander around for a year....apparently too kind and gentle to kill the wizards who are killing the good guys right and left....taking the least logical course of action in almost every situation.In the final scene, Rowling describes everything except the most dramatic moment...sort of like, "...and...oh yeah...Voldemort dies, or something."Other than the clever use of folklore (possible for anyone with a dictionary of folk tale and faerie lore), some pig Latin and the announcement that Dumbledore was gay....it's pretty much the old tale:Boy slays the slayer of his father and marries the princess.Toss in a few shocking twists that aren't particularly twisty or shocking, a load of illogical behavior, some really inattentive and lazy heroes...and you got all the Harry Potter books wrapped up.My Harry Potter anecdote comes from the first movie:Dumbledore (on the screen): "I enchanted the stone so that the only person who could find it was someone who didn't want to use it. One of my better ideas."Me (sitting in the back row): "Or, you could have enchanted the stone so that NO ONE could find it. I mean, just as an alternative plan."The guy in front of me turned around and glared....
Badmike wrote: leery of completely unprofessionally trained writers
Badmike wrote: no ear for dialogue...none, zero, nada. Everyone of his characters in any of his books are interchangable with any character in any other book when it comes to their speaking parts.
sauromatian wrote:Badmike wrote: leery of completely unprofessionally trained writers Of course the same can be said for Gygax' nonfiction- it's not a professional style, but engaging nevertheless. The best dialogue ever is in Zelazny's original Amber series, often written without narration. The shadow walks are some of the best stream-of-consciousness writing I've ever read.
Badmike wrote:Ever since I was introduced to Tom Clancy. Great plot lines, lots of technical details, interesting characters...and absolutely zero sense of any sort of coherent writing style.
The movie could be done if we took a smaller budget, but I really think the way to approach it is to give it the epic, sort of Shackleton exploration feel
jasonw1239 wrote:There had been some discussion about the Mountains of Madness movie on Yog-Sothoth.com but the last I had heard the project was still not confirmed.
jasonw1239 wrote:Thanks Al,There had been some discussion about the Mountains of Madness movie on Yog-Sothoth.com but the last I had heard the project was still not confirmed.From the following quote in the interview it sounds like it is still not 100%. It sounds like he is not going to start the movie until he can land a bigger budget.