Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

Kind of, but not really. I always thought it was highly “inspired” by the book The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Or possibly inspired by the silent movie of the same name.

Also, King Kong (1933 B&W) is my all-time favorite movie.

Wait…. There is a silent movie version of The Lost World?! Holy Catnip!

*dashes off to google*


*dashes back*

I love King Kong, but I can never watch the end. It makes me cry.

Ooh! What did you think of the 2005 version, with Naomi Watts and Jack Black and Adrien Brody?

*dashes back to google*


I want it noted that is all ironic dashing.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Ooh! What did you think of the 2005 version, with Naomi Watts and Jack Black and Adrien Brody?

I think I wanted to jump off the Empire State Building after seeing it.

 

[Endless_Night]

I think I wanted to jump off the Empire State Building after seeing it.

Well, now! Tell me how you really feel!


(I am afraid to say I rather liked it, but then I'm a fan of the 3 principals.)

< I always thought it was highly “inspired” by the book The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Or possibly inspired by the silent movie of the same name. >

Welp. This little film has quite the pedigree. I am thoroughly enamored by my reading. And charmed by the fact that the female lead is played by an actress name Bessie Love!

I am searching for a way to view.

Right now.

As I type.




Seriously, though, it's on my *must see* list.

 

[Endless_Night]

Llamageddon (2015)

Oh, man. The things I put myself through in the name of relaxation! I made it about thirteen minutes. And that was one due to my epic self control.

On the whole, it was…just plain painful. However, there were a few amusing points:

-the cartoon beginning was worth the ticket
-alien llamas use modified horse trailers as spaceships
-alien llamas have glowing red eyes!
-glowing red eyes that are LASERS
-alien baby llamas are adorable
-alien llamas spit green goo that that turns humans into human/llama hybrids that lay baby alien llama eggs.

 

[hotwords229_A]

^^^I swear some of these movies are made because the title sounds good.
I also have no idea how you keep finding them.

Llamageddon reminds me of watching the movie Rubber
About a homicidal tire rolling through the desert murdering people.
They sound so bad that you have to watch them!

 

[JennyNo1]

Llamageddon (2015)

Oh, man. The things I put myself through in the name of relaxation! I made it about thirteen minutes. And that was one due to my epic self control.

On the whole, it was…just plain painful. However, there were a few amusing points:

-the cartoon beginning was worth the ticket
-alien llamas use modified horse trailers as spaceships
-alien llamas have glowing red eyes!
-glowing red eyes that are LASERS
-alien baby llamas are adorable
-alien llamas spit green goo that that turns humans into human/llama hybrids that lay baby alien llama eggs.

Are you sure you're not high when you're watching these things?

 

[Endless_Night]

< Rubber About a homicidal tire rolling through the desert murdering people. >

Oh. My. Goodness.

After watching the trailer it is imperative I see this movie. Soon. I mean, completely disregarding the shower scene, the bed scene, and what appears to be a tire gang with tricycle scene, there is the classic monster-obsesses-over-human-hottie theme. Plus, inanimate anthropomorphization.

I mean, what more could a girl want?

 

[Endless_Night]

Are you sure you're not high when you're watching these things?

Jenny! I do not partake of the, ahem, *high* experience. However, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I see it now. These things are probably supposed to be watched while high! I’m not entirely sure what it says about me that I watch them without benefit of mind altering substances.

Also, I am on the prowl for a Thomas B. Costain novel. It is surprisingly difficult to find any trade paperback editions of his novels.

Prepare for an opinion.

You know, after it’s found, packed, shipped, delivered, and read.

 

[Endless_Night]

< I also have no idea how you keep finding them. >

It's a gift.

 

[JennyNo1]

Jenny! I do not partake of the, ahem, *high* experience. However, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I see it now. These things are probably supposed to be watched while high! I’m not entirely sure what it says about me that I watch them without benefit of mind altering substances.

Also, I am on the prowl for a Thomas B. Costain novel. It is surprisingly difficult to find any trade paperback editions of his novels.

Prepare for an opinion.

You know, after it’s found, packed, shipped, delivered, and read.

You may be onto something there. Either that, or everyone was high while making the films.

I checked Amazon, eBay, Half-Price Books, and my library for Thomas Costain novels. There are quite a few out there, but I would advise against getting a paperback. The ones I have are yellow and brittle and falling apart, they're so old. The hardbacks have held up better. Amazon even has several you can get on Kindle for 99 cents! Like I said before, don't get the historical stuff he did, about the Plantagenets and various rulers. The novels I'm seeing out there are The Silver Chalice, the Black Rose, The Darkness and the Dawn, Ride With Me, Below the Salt, The Money Man, For My Great Folly and High Towers. Let me know what you get, and maybe I'll read along with you!

 

[Endless_Night]

You may be onto something there. Either that, or everyone was high while making the films.

I checked Amazon, eBay, Half-Price Books, and my library for Thomas Costain novels. There are quite a few out there, but I would advise against getting a paperback. The ones I have are yellow and brittle and falling apart, they're so old. The hardbacks have held up better. Amazon even has several you can get on Kindle for 99 cents! Like I said before, don't get the historical stuff he did, about the Plantagenets and various rulers. The novels I'm seeing out there are The Silver Chalice, the Black Rose, The Darkness and the Dawn, Ride With Me, Below the Salt, The Money Man, For My Great Folly and High Towers. Let me know what you get, and maybe I'll read along with you!

I was hoping for a trade paperback rather than a mass-market. The print is bigger and the lines are less likely to be crammed into the inner edge of the binding - so often the case in the lengthier historical or fantasy tombs. Considering my inability to find any I’m wondering if trades are a more recent invention.

I’ll probably settle for a hardback. E-reading tends to kick up my inattentive ADHD. I need that prop in my hand for some reason.

Ooh! A reading club. Of two.

I like it!

Should we have a name?

I kinda feel like we should have a name.

 

[JennyNo1]

I was hoping for a trade paperback rather than a mass-market. The print is bigger and the lines are less likely to be crammed into the inner edge of the binding - so often the case in the lengthier historical or fantasy tombs. Considering my inability to find any I’m wondering if trades are a more recent invention.

I’ll probably settle for a hardback. E-reading tends to kick up my inattentive ADHD. I need that prop in my hand for some reason.

Ooh! A reading club. Of two.

I like it!

Should we have a name?

I kinda feel like we should have a name.

There are 2 copies of the Silver Chalice listed on eBay as trade paperbacks. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...8&rt=nc&Format=Trade%20Paperback&_dcat=171228
Amazon has listings for "paperback" and "mass market paperback" - wonder if that means the 'paperbacks' are trade?

umm....the EnnyJenny Club?

 

[Endless_Night]

There are 2 copies of the Silver Chalice listed on eBay as trade paperbacks. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...8&rt=nc&Format=Trade%20Paperback&_dcat=171228
Amazon has listings for "paperback" and "mass market paperback" - wonder if that means the 'paperbacks' are trade?

umm....the EnnyJenny Club?

I don't do Ebay. I thought all the Amazon "paperback" options measured in the mass market parameters, but I'll check again. I'll probably just grab a hardback.

Do you have two or three preferred titles? I'll place an order today.


Howzabout JennyEnny?

 

[JennyNo1]

I don't do Ebay. I thought all the Amazon "paperback" options measured in the mass market parameters, but I'll check again. I'll probably just grab a hardback.

Do you have two or three preferred titles? I'll place an order today.


Howzabout JennyEnny?

It's been so long since I read them I couldn't say what my favorites were. I think the Black Rose and The Darkness and the Dawn stick out in my memory.

I'm really going to be ticked off if I reread these and it turns out they're really awful.

 

[Endless_Night]

It's been so long since I read them I couldn't say what my favorites were. I think the Black Rose and The Darkness and the Dawn stick out in my memory.

I'm really going to be ticked off if I reread these and it turns out they're really awful.

How about The Darkness and the Dawn? Seems to be plenty of copies about and I do not believe I've ever read anything in the historical frame of Attila the Hun.

LOL, I'm sure they will be fabulous. He gets great reviews on his time-frame research.


Besides, I am so down for a little distraction. I just made a big, scary decision.

A group read will keep me on task.

Temper my internal freakout.


You know, maybe.

 

[JennyNo1]

How about The Darkness and the Dawn? Seems to be plenty of copies about and I do not believe I've ever read anything in the historical frame of Attila the Hun.

LOL, I'm sure they will be fabulous. He gets great reviews on his time-frame research.


Besides, I am so down for a little distraction. I just made a big, scary decision.

A group read will keep me on task.

Temper my internal freakout.


You know, maybe.

Let me know when you order whatever you get. That one is on Kindle, so that's good for me.

Skeery decisions, huh? *hands you a paper bag to breathe into*

 

[Endless_Night]

Let me know when you order whatever you get. That one is on Kindle, so that's good for me.>

Ordered.

< Skeery decisions, huh? *hands you a paper bag to breathe into*

I have officially moved through the paper-bag, the deer-in-the-headlights, and the curled-in-a-ball-in-the-corner stages.

I am now in the onward-ho stage.

 

[Endless_Night]

So many things on my plate these days. Honestly, my focus is so scattered it feels like I get nothing done. Tonight, I am relaxing. The She-Creature (1956). The blurb for this baby: A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

I mean, how could I resist?


I feel like I should send up the bat signal for Hotwords or something.

 

[Endless_Night]

My. That was…unique. At least in my experience.

The story was a tad slow. The leading man was…eh, but it may be that I was put off by his mild case of the *crazy eyes*. The villain looked more like a stock gangsta than a hypnotist! Funnily enough I recognized him from The Bat Whispers (1930), an early film version of the Mary Roberts Rhinehart play, The Bat. He looked even more like an old-timey hood in that, including speaking out of the side of his mouth.

The heroine was a peach, and not someone I’d seen before.

The creature costume was pretty cool! Vaguely Creature From the Black Lagoon, with a couple of de rigueur (apparently) gender additions.

Like, long hair.

And, you know, breasts.




Oh! Edited to add: The heroine wandered about in long, white, diaphanous gowns. Very gothic horror. *nods*

 

[investor2020]

Enny, you need this list to work from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films_of_the_1950s

Just a teaser:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...=4031ce2dce8b9f23275010358f9f98fe&action=view

 

[Endless_Night]

That^^^ is quite the teaser!

-Untamed women
-Prehistoric monsters
-Lizards as dinosaurs
-EXOTIC LOVE RITUALS

Oh, man. I am dying.


Thank you for the list! Such jewels as Fire Maidens From Outer Space (1956) - dubbed by many critics as the "worst movie every made" - simply must not be missed.

*adds it to my ever burgeoning list*

 

[hotwords229_A]

So many things on my plate these days. Honestly, my focus is so scattered it feels like I get nothing done. Tonight, I am relaxing. The She-Creature (1956). The blurb for this baby: A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

I mean, how could I resist?


I feel like I should send up the bat signal for Hotwords or something.

I’m late, but here to answer the signal.

I kind of think I saw this movie. It sounds very familiar. A lot of times these movies all start to blend into each other and I have a hard time remembering which one is which.

*** okay I looked it up—never saw it. ***

The She Creature has a huge rack! Surprising for those days.

 

[JennyNo1]

FYI for lovers of old movies, I ran across another FREE streaming service, https://classiccinemaonline.com/index.php . Just right off the bat, I see categories including film noir and horror. There's also one for classic tv. Not sure how comprehensive it is; at first glance, I didn't find The She-Creaure or even Creature from the Black Lagoon, or my favorite camp-horror flick, the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors. But, you may find something you like. And who can pass up free?

Edit: This actually looks pretty useless; very little actual content and lots of it is to buy or rent. Still you may find something.

 

[Endless_Night]

I’m late, but here to answer the signal.

I kind of think I saw this movie. It sounds very familiar. A lot of times these movies all start to blend into each other and I have a hard time remembering which one is which.

*** okay I looked it up—never saw it. ***

The She Creature has a huge rack! Surprising for those days.

I need a stronger signal. Clearly.


Really? You weren't sure if you'd seen it? The kicker for me was the whole past-life regression. Plenty of those, but the whole *former life as a prehistoric sea monster* was unique.

I mean…unique.

Well, that and the extra-large monster mammaries….

 

[Endless_Night]

FYI for lovers of old movies, I ran across another FREE streaming service, https://classiccinemaonline.com/index.php . Just right off the bat, I see categories including film noir and horror. There's also one for classic tv. Not sure how comprehensive it is; at first glance, I didn't find The She-Creaure or even Creature from the Black Lagoon, or my favorite camp-horror flick, the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors. But, you may find something you like. And who can pass up free?

*boom*

And there ya go, people. Free.


Aaaaaaaaand, my book came in this evening. I will meet you in 5 chapters, Missy.