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Title: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-08, 13:42:26

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=166054

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Brian on 2011-03-08, 14:16:35

ok legos is getting a little scary!  :o  :D

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-03-08, 14:43:56

Yeah, people do some really cool stuff with Lego. :)

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir William on 2011-03-10, 15:20:50

The Cthulhu mythos...y'know, it took me the better part of a year to work through one of Lovecraft's anthologies...it was a collection of short stories, freaked me out to the point where I'd read one and put it down for a while.  A long while.

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Edward on 2011-03-10, 15:47:13

Lovecraft was an expert at manipulating your imagination. So much of the creepy-factor comes from what he hints at, rather than explaining directly. I'd love to see some movies done on this. Supposedly one just got canceled because the studio wanted the movie to be PG-13, so the director walked.

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-10, 17:24:11

ya they had THEE DIRECTOR who could do it justice and they wanted teenagers to see the film. what the heck man hehehe

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir William on 2011-03-10, 18:02:47

I find that with subject matter such as what Lovecraft and Stephen King put out, it really depends on who's telling the story.  King is so intricate that most of what I've seen is really lost in translation, or poorly realized.

With technology as it is today, I think a lot of what we've previously read can finally be realized...in fact, I'm quite certain that Samayel's final form in Hellboy can be traced directly to representations of Cthulhu himself...either way, I can't say for sure that I'd watch a Lovecraft movie.  His short stories were disturbing enough!

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-10, 19:19:17

totally agree with you there! i was like oo look!!!!!!!!!! hehehe my wife was like wha?

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir William on 2011-03-10, 21:53:09

Yea, mine too...she wouldn't touch Lovecraft for anything.  She loves gore, but not the unknown...that truly frightens her.

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Ancelyn on 2011-03-18, 12:28:23

Oddly enough I have managed to move through 3 decades without reading a single lovecraftian work.  I know the references though as they keep poping up all throughout pop culture; especially cartoons for some reason. I suspect that little kids and teens would no longer be impressed with Lovecraft in a movie unless it was extremely well done.

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir William on 2011-03-18, 14:31:07

If it were done extremely well, it'd spook just about anyone.  All of these popcorn thrillers like Paranormal Activities and their ilk are basically rooting around in Lovecraft's neck of the woods and not doing a good job of it either.  lol

Title: Re: your soul is mine says he
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2011-03-18, 17:10:57

ya i havent read anything either. but i know enough "lore" to know who i'm supposed to be looking at