Tagliarchy Island Part 2

[Bichon Barb]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
Is it Them?

DING DING DING We have a winner!

(Rob's really impressed -- you show-off! )

What was the movie with the hand crawling around in the back seat of the car?

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
DING DING DING We have a winner!

(Rob's really impressed -- you show-off! )

What was the movie with the hand crawling around in the back seat of the car?

The Hand with Michael Caine

 

[iluvtink]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
I'm sticking wtih Black Sabbath. I think that might've been it. Am I totally wrong?

Yep, totally. But since I can't remember the exact name, and I may even be mixing up the title with a different movie ... I'll give you partial points if you can correct me...

"The Secret of the Wax Museum?" "The Scary Wax Museum Movie Where a Guy Chops Off a Girl's Head from the Top of a Canopy Bed?"

 

[Bichon Barb]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
The Hand with Michael Caine

Well duh, Barb. That's a real unique title.

Michael Caine was in that? He must have been young.

Let's play "Which Was Better..."

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers or the one with Donald Sutherland?

I can't remember the original very much, so I'll go with the second version.

 

[RickinNYC]

iluvtink,

Well there was Horrors of the Black Museum. Came out early 60's, late 50's. Don't remember the scene you describe though it was one of the first movies made with "creative" death scenes so it might be it. I remember one scene where a woman is killed when she looks through a set of binoculars. As she's looking, nails come out and slam into her eyeballs.

There's also a decapitation scene but I don't remember the details.

I think this is it.

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
Well duh, Barb. That's a real unique title.

Michael Caine was in that? He must have been young.

Let's play "Which Was Better..."

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers or the one with Donald Sutherland?

I can't remember the original very much, so I'll go with the second version.

I thought the original was great but the remake was pretty decent too.

The original story was written by one of my all time favorite authors, Jack Finney.

 

[ohanafamily]

OK, Rick, I saw 25+ years ago a late science fiction movie that I have yet to find again, on the off chance that it was a horror crossover... It had a scientist, a girl, and aliens. they picked the most intelligent scientist to help the with a war on their planet. They took him with her to their planet that was being blown apart. It ended happily with them two back to Earth and the aliens being blowd up good.

 

[ohanafamily]

Oh, heres another one I liked.... Dr. GoldFoot and the Bikini Machine.....

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by ohanafamily
OK, Rick, I saw 25+ years ago a late science fiction movie that I have yet to find again, on the off chance that it was a horror crossover... It had a scientist, a girl, and aliens. they picked the most intelligent scientist to help the with a war on their planet. They took him with her to their planet that was being blown apart. It ended happily with them two back to Earth and the aliens being blowd up good.

Dude, you just described every saucerman/scientist/cute girl movie made in the 50's, 60's and 70's! The only thing missing is a giant bug or a mutant henchman.

 

[s&k'smom]

Oh I have scary for you. I can't believe I'm confessing this but I've seen more than one Pauly Shore movie!

 

[Bichon Barb]

I'm running out to grab some lunch. Here is one to mull over:

Which is better...

The Shining -- the book or the movie?

I'm going with the movie and will say that this was the only Stephen King story where the movie beat the book.

 

[Bichon Barb]

Originally posted by s&k'smom
Oh I have scary for you. I can't believe I'm confessing this but I've seen more than one Pauly Shore movie!

Bwhaaaaaaaa! I think Pauly Shore is kind of cute! Was he in Encino Man? (I can't believe the name of that movie came to me.)

 

[ohanafamily]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
Dude, you just described every saucerman/scientist/cute girl movie made in the 50's, 60's and 70's! The only thing missing is a giant bug or a mutant henchman.

I just remember the scenes in the Flying Saucer and on the Planet.....

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
I'm running out to grab some lunch. Here is one to mull over:

Which is better...

The Shining -- the book or the movie?

I'm going with the movie and will say that this was the only Stephen King story where the movie beat the book.

You be smokin' da crack pipe woman. The book is hands down superior to the movie!

Which reminds me, here's a question of the day:

What are your top favorite novels of all time? Whether one or two, five or ten, from childhood or currently, class or otherwise. What are they?

 

[ohanafamily]

Originally posted by RickinNYC
Which reminds me, here's a question of the day:

What are your top favorite novels of all time? Whether one or two, five or ten, from childhood or currently, class or otherwise. What are they?

Green Eggs and Ham, Go Dog Go, Hop on Pop...
Just kidding, I like the Hobbit, Dune, True Names, The Sixth Column, and many others...

 

[billysotherdad]

Hi Rick! It's me..from the Flatiron! Haha.

I wanted to add about scary movies how RACE WITH THE DEVIL scared me and Linda (my sister) to DEATH when we were kids, so I bought it to watch it again as an adult and it was horrible, not scary, and tame by all standards. I only have Rick to blame for that. After all these years of watching horror movies with him, a movie that scared the be-jesus out of me as a boy felt like a Bugs Bunny cartoon as an adult! THANKS, RICK!

Favorite novels you ask. I know you know at least one of mine is A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving. My second favorite is really hard...there are so many books I loved...A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES; MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; CATCHER IN THE RYE; THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY....

Geez, I can't think of others, but I know there's lots. We're both really big readers.



What is everyone currently reading?? I'm a now reading LAKE WOBEGON: SUMMER 1956 by Garrison Keillor. It's terrific. Very funny.

 

[ohanafamily]

Hi Joe, Why not pick a color and stay a while.....
http://www.tagliarchy.com/color.htm

Currently my reading time is mostly taken up by the Dis, but otherwise technical manuals.....

 

[s&k'smom]

Ha ha Bichon what would I do without you.

Oh novels, well besides Harlequin when I was in high school I read alot. I would sometimes see the movie first and then read the book and always liked the book better. One of the best on screen and off was to To Kill a Mocking Bird. God it was so good. The Thorn Birds was my most disappointing. The book was so awesome then the movie yuck, though it would have been nice to have Richard Chamberlin as my parish priest.

The only thing I read now on a regular basis is TV Guide.

 

[RickinNYC]

My #1 favorite book is The Stand by Stephen King.

There there's Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, Lucifer's Hammer by Niven & Pournelle, Memoirs of a Geisha, and so many more I can't even think of!

OHANAFAMILY! Joe just told me to ask you, since you're a Dune fan, have you read any of the sequel or prequel books? He works for St. Martin's Press and their subsidiary Tor/Orb. He can get you those books free for nuthin'! Want them????

And by the way to everyone in the Tag. Joe told me to put that offer out there to you guys as well. If you come across a book, whether paperback or hardcover, and they are printed by St. Martin's let me or him know. He'd be MORE than happy to dig up a copy and send it out. No charge. Free!!!

And by the way, he really means that. He's always sending out freebies to friends and family.

 

[iluvtink]

Originally posted by Bichon Barb
Bwhaaaaaaaa! I think Pauly Shore is kind of cute! Was he in Encino Man? (I can't believe the name of that movie came to me.)

I LOVED Encino Man... one of my favorite movies ... because I think Pauly Shore is absolutely so hilarious and Brendan Frasier ( in that and in Tarzan) looked and acted a lot like my DS when he had long gorgeous hair (maybe not as many muscles). Same goofy personality though.

Novels... as a kid I loved reading the Danny Dunn series about some brilliant kid who invented things or time traveled or something, and I read every single one of the L.Frank Baum Oz books ... Tik-Tok in Oz, Ozma of Oz, etc etc. As an adult, there are too many to decide one, two, or ten. I love true historical novels ... especially of France because it ties in to what I learned in my major.

The one novel that comes to mind because I can never find anyone else who has read it to marvel with me over the author's cleverness is one called "The Eight." Have any of you read it? Please do so we can talk about it!