Yikes!

[BiscuitHammer]

Pan's Labyrinth is my favorite, beautifully done dark fairy tale.

I'm a mecha and kaiju nerk, so until he does Mountains, Pacific Rim is my fave.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think my favorites are either Pan's Labyrinth or Devil's Backbone. He is one of my favorite writers and directors.

His version of Hellboy(the only one to me as the recent one was awful) was excellent he had a great HPL vibe in that one.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And I think we totally derailed Zeb's post. Sorry, dude. My fault for mentioning the Martense family...

No problem. I think it was finished anyway. So continue on.

 

[SimonDoom]

Pacific Rim was fun.

Pacific Rim was one of those rare pleasant surprises. It looked like it HAD to be stupid. And it WAS preposterous. But it was a lot of fun. The score was written by the guy who did the score for Game of Thrones, and it's very good and one of the strengths of the movie. You can see the difference between a movie about giant robots directed by Del Toro as opposed to, say, Transformers by Michael Bay.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Pacific Rim was one of those rare pleasant surprises. It looked like it HAD to be stupid. And it WAS preposterous. But it was a lot of fun. The score was written by the guy who did the score for Game of Thrones, and it's very good and one of the strengths of the movie. You can see the difference between a movie about giant robots directed by Del Toro as opposed to, say, Transformers by Michael Bay.

With Michael Bay, I'm watching a movie set up around large explosions. With JJ Abrams, I'm trying to not go blind from lens flare...

 

[SimonDoom]

I finally read "The Cult of Cthulhu." Still not sure how to pronounce it, though.

It's an interesting story, but a bit of a tease, as far as revealing the monster. I gather there are more stories on the subject, but I don't think they're in my HPL short story collection, which I'm in the process of reading.

I assume he was a big influence on Stephen King. I see a lot of similarities. They're similarly twisted, despite not seeming to have had any obvious traumatic events in their upbringing that would make you expect them to be twisted.

 

[lovecraft68]

I finally read "The Cult of Cthulhu." Still not sure how to pronounce it, though.

It's an interesting story, but a bit of a tease, as far as revealing the monster. I gather there are more stories on the subject, but I don't think they're in my HPL short story collection, which I'm in the process of reading.

I assume he was a big influence on Stephen King. I see a lot of similarities. They're similarly twisted, despite not seeming to have had any obvious traumatic events in their upbringing that would make you expect them to be twisted.

Most HPL stories are a tease. He wrote back in the day where imagination was still a thing as opposed to now where Hollywood and most authors just go in your face on every detail. HPL used terms like "a visage that would drive you to madness' which some see as a cop out, but to others it drives home the point of how horrible this thing is.

He created the infamous Necronimicon and did such a good job he had people looking for it in book shops, and eventually people played at writing it the "John Dee translation". He was once asked why he never treied to write the book and his response was that he'd built it up to be so evil-another 'reading it could shatter the mind of a sane person" how the hell do you deliver?

Simply put sometimes less is more and his style was more of a foreboding dread filled build ups. His stories became a formula others followed and his mythos grew as he gave permission to other authors to use his mythos, but only if they could add something, so Bloch, Howard, Carter and others created their own sinister tomes and deities. What I like about him is his work was just about always nihilistic with no hope for the MC or mankind in general. Pretty much what today's news is.