ALL HAIL TRUMPUS MAXIMUS!

ALL HAIL TRUMPUS MAXIMUS!


Saw a couple quibcags (quote introduced by cute anime girl) on the Ex-Army blog 'n thought I'd add my two cents.

Of course we know how the presidential election itself went and the above "cag" pretty much says it all. The hive mind that calls itself the Democratic Party and has a jackasshole as it's symbol, worked very hard to get that haridan elected.

For the last eight years, it had been building up to what they thought was a sure thing.

You may recall it starting out as "eight years Obama, eight years Hillary" (These jerks were so DAMN confident the second four would go to her as well!). Then it was "I'm ready for Hillary!" They had all but crowned that she-orc as the Empress of the Universe.

There was NO WAY she could lose. We might as well have just skipped the election and made it official by coronating her.

Why?

Because the pundits SAID SO, that's why!

Happy for us all, what they thought to be the joker in the deck turned out not to be a jack but the ace of diamonds.

I laughed my posterior off over this one!

As I'm a Lovecraft fan and actually work at a university (There's all these safe space/zone, rainbow crap stickers/signs all over the place.), I thought I'd throw in the above quibcag as well.

This is my last blog post for this year. Hope you had a GREAT Christmas. I know I did. The election was more than just "gravy on the rice".

Have a safe, happy and prosperous new year ...


The strange place from where I copped the above graphics here.

A couple of my Star Trek articles here 'n here.

Some of my Lovecraft movie reviews here, here and ... here.


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The Whisperer In Darkness: One NOT Worth Watching

Pass this one by.

                            The Whisperer In Darkness: One NOT Worth Watching

                                                              by

                                                                  Jay Agan


     Words cannot describe my disappointment on viewing this film. In light of the fact this film came from the same outfit that made Call of Cthulhu, I had such high hopes for this. Call of was 100% faithful to Mr. Lovecrafts' story, & though I knew there would be at least a little embellishment with Whisperer (The trailers seemed to indicate as much.) I was hoping it would adhere 90%. Perhaps ...

     I guess you could say 100% of the original story is there ... which makes up 66% of the film. Right after the protagonist realizes that things aren't as they seem, the film goes from Lovecraft to Lucas, ie. it turns into an Indiana Jones movie complete with a "temple of doom" scene! I should have known something was up when early in the film a character mentions the protagonists' lack of expertise in flying a plane. Yup, there's not only a chase on the ground but also a chase in the air as the hero & a little girl try to outfly the Mi-Go. The girl ends up falling to her death, body spinning to earth.  Guess they took the "kill off the little girl" cue from the The Walking Deads' first episode. Just came across as mean to me.

     You also get a "What the heck!?" conclusion as, when you think the Wilmarth character ended it all in a plane crash, he's now in a "dream state" describing how happy & wonderful it is to be under the Mi-Gos' sway. Yeah, I "spoiled" it for ya. Maybe I saved you some time. You'll thank me later.

Pretty much how I felt after watching.

     The best part of the film was when my dvd player encountered a smudge or something & the picture pixilated, skipped, hopped, & jumped for a minute. My copy came with a second disc of extras about the making of the film. I have not bothered to view it. It's enough that I know they ruined the story. I don't need or care to know how.


Copyright © 8-17-2012 Jay Agan


Call of Cthulhu: One Really Worth Watching here.

H. P. Lovecrafts' Dark Heritage here.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft Historical Society here.

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Can Someone Tell Me What's Going On?

      When I started this blog I was hoping for a lot of hits as anyone would. It started slow & things began to "pick up" in February (380 hits.). Some were starting to notice. March started out at the same rate until Japans' crisis took precedence & peoples' attention diverted to that. When after it took a back seat to the fracas in Libya, the blogs' hit rate started to climb again though I doubted the last week and a half of March would get past 250 let alone the 380 of February.

      Then a strange thing happened & is still going on. I get home from work in the AM on the 28th of March & go online to check my stats. At the right end of the chart I see this flurry of activity. 43 hits for that day! (That was a  lot at that point. In February I got 25 one day & thought that was a big deal at the time.)

      Seems one of my articles got popular. I wrote Call of Cthulhu: One Really Worth Watching back on February 20 over a month ago. I'd like to think it's because it's a great article (Of course it is. I wrote it! My being humble prevents me from telling you how GREAT this GREAT article is. That's me, humble & proud of it!) about a great movie, but as just about all of the hits are coming from Google Image Search, I think it's because a lot of people want to snag that image, a demotivational poster I snagged from elsewhere. I hope some of these folks actually read the article (It's now over 500 hits on it!).
     
      The only connection I can see for such interest is the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is putting the finishing touches on their latest film The Whisperer In Darkness & taking it to some film fests in Europe, thus the attention. I haven't found anything on a major studio releasing anything Lovecraft related.

      Anyone know what's going on?

You Tube link to Call of Cthulhu trailer here.

You Tube link to The Whisperer In Darkness trailer here.

You Tube link to The Whisperer In Darkness trailer 1 here.

You Tube link to The Whisperer In Darkness trailer 2 here.

Link to H.P. Lovecrafts' Dark Heritage article here.

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Call of Cthulhu: One Really Worth Watching

                             The Call of Cthulhu: One Really Worth Watching

                                                              by

                                                                 Jay Agan

      Never before have I seen a more complete & faithful rendition of a Lovecraft story to film. After literally decades of crappy, altered, & sexploited knock offs (Some really only using H. P. Lovecrafts' name for publicity.), a 100% "true to the word" movie actually hit the theaters a few short years ago. Because of its' limited "arthouse" run, few people got to see it. (I don't remember it being shown in central Ohio.) I would have loved to have seen it on the big screen. As it is, I've had to settle on getting the disc & "that ain't bad".

      The original story is the "flaghip" of H.P. Loverafts' "Cthulhu Mythos" set of tales: In the deep dark past of pre-prehistory, non-human beings worshipped a pantheon of less than ethical, trans cosmic "gods". These ethereal beings, indifferent or hostile, manipulated/consumed various sentient species from all over the universe including mankind. Over the eons they fell out of power & the knowledge of man. Wether they were "driven away" or left for their own capricious reasons is unclear. But ..... when the stars are "right" ..... they will return.

      One of these entities is Cthulhu: A behemoth lying "not dead but dreaming" in the sunken city of R'Lyeh somewhere in the southwest Pacific (Anywhere near Kong Island?).

      An investigator, picking up where an uncle left off, tries to find a correlation between various natural catastorphies & mysterious events & succeeds. The story relates three of the incidents: A professors' research in Greenland. A police inspectors' encounter with members of a fantastic cult. And a ship crews' battle with the ultimate horror.

Got this at stevencreech.com/images/posters.

      Then there's the other kool part: This is a silent movie.

      Call of Cthulhu was published in Wierd Tales in 1928. Members of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) decided to make the film as if it was made the same year, pre-talkies (Talkin' pitchers r' only a fad. It ain't gonna last!). Except for a music score, it's silent with title cards, & in glorious black & white. The actors have the silent movies "histrionics" down right & the atmosphere really has the look & feel of an old flick (Without all the burns, streaks, spots, splices & background hiss.).

      The film is literally a "back yard" production (The R'Lyeh scenes were done in someones' back yard!). Costing about a quarter million to make with the sets cobbled together with plywood, glue, & nailgun. In spite of its ultra low production values, the result looks like a multi-million endeavor. Looking at the accompanying documentary on the disc, I marvelled at what one can do with very little money.

      Lovecraft fans owe it to themselves to get the disc. I got mine a few years back at Barnes & Noble for about 20 bucks. Info can be obtained from the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

      By the way. The HPLHS is in the process of finishing another film: The Whisperer In Darkness. As this story was published in 1931, it's a talkie. Black & white with minimal music (Musical scores weren't a big thing til about the mid 1930s.).

Trailers for The Call of Cthulhu here.

HPLHS ad for The Call of Cthulhu here.

Trailers for The Whisperer In Darkness here.

Previous article to a Loveraft film (Dark Heritage/The Lurking Fear) here.

                                    Article copyright © 2-19-2011 Jay Agan

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