I enlarged it and had a look, it looks like a photo to me. It’s a picture from the UK, the printing on the green Co-operative ‘Bag for life’ is the clincher for me. Could’ve been taken in a Northern town judging by the cap and clothes the man is wearing.
It’s been an argument for years as to which one was worse. Plan-9 or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
I’m in the Planet-9 camp.
As bad as Tomatoes was, it was made bad. On purpose. Plan-9 was just a genuinely bad movie by an amazingly bad filmmaker.
You can’t say that a parody created to be funny is bad because it succeeded.
If it were poorly made and didn’t make anybody laugh, so nobody wanted to show it or see it… THEN you could call it a bad movie.
…
Of course, some people do want to see Plan 9 because it’s so bad it’s unintentionally humorous.
But that didn’t happen during its first run, when it was a dismal failure, as a film and at the box office.
…
It drew a lot more interest, along with Wood’s other work, after the 1994 Tim Burton film “Ed Wood”, which starred Johnny Depp as the beleaguered director.
yet somehow the director talked Bela Lugosi into making his final appearance in his movie,
although he didn’t know it at the time. He died before the movie finished shooting
Wood actually made friends with Lugosi, his favorite movie star from childhood, when the actor was totally down and out, ill and addicted, and hadn’t been offered a part in years, and they hung out together.
He told Lugosi he was a director, and was going to make him a star again…. and filmed those few minutes as a supposed test shot.
After numerous failures to sell his ideas to studios, he finally hooked a producer by promising Bela Lugosi would star in it for almost nothing.
But Lugosi died, so he had to use the test footage in the movie, and get a stand-in to play him, shot from the back, in a couple of other scenes.
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Am I going to be the one to point out that this would have been a great picture to post next month on the 20th of July?
oops!…consider this a …..a preview!…
yeah, that’s it. a preview.
I have a fondness for modern dinosaurs.
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No hidden elk or bear?
Didn’t stop ME from lookin’…
Is that shadow altered?
not that I know of–why would it be altered?
I dunno… Maybe for dramatic effect?
It just looks like an impossible shape.
I was trying to imagine the light falling past him and making that triangle out of his body.
But I guess it did.
I was having trouble deciding if it was a painting or a photo.
I’m still not sure sure.
I’m pretty sure it’s a painting; it doesn’t look real to me.
I enlarged it and had a look, it looks like a photo to me. It’s a picture from the UK, the printing on the green Co-operative ‘Bag for life’ is the clincher for me. Could’ve been taken in a Northern town judging by the cap and clothes the man is wearing.
It looks like a photo to me too.
The bag, also his shoes, the textures on the various walls… and even on the old chair in the window… don’t look reproducible in paint.
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Boo! 🙂
Well, I’m working on getting there! Just have a few to go, but I’m trying to get to all of them. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it!
I’ll gladly donate any I get to your great cause.
I don’t want to be selfish, when you want them so much more than I do.
Go Arfside!
One of my several answers to “How are you?” is “Sleepy and Grumpy and about three other dwarves.”
I have the first three, but i must protest Farty being a dwarf.
Male members of my family start getting gassy early. Real early.
Where’s Deaf? My wife is bugging me to get a hearing aid.
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Animator Ken Harris, who worked under director Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers.
Shown here in the late 1930’s, he created this famous expression for Bugs, whose design was apparently a long-time collaborative effort.
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It’s our instinct to like animals.
And for animals to like us (or in the case of cats), tolerate us.
Some like us affectionately, a few like us for dinner.
Buddy got you beat girl. He ate the inside of my car.
Must have tasted like a mix of carrots and bacon! Impossible to resist!
At least one, or the question wouldn’t have been asked. Yes, I saw at least one. {^¿^}
I found the same number(s) as Tigressy.
Now… how many have no tail?
there’s just no tailing
Boo! 😀
ALL of them!
Most have four legs.
It’s been an argument for years as to which one was worse. Plan-9 or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
I’m in the Planet-9 camp.
As bad as Tomatoes was, it was made bad. On purpose. Plan-9 was just a genuinely bad movie by an amazingly bad filmmaker.
I agree… two totally in different categories.
You can’t say that a parody created to be funny is bad because it succeeded.
If it were poorly made and didn’t make anybody laugh, so nobody wanted to show it or see it… THEN you could call it a bad movie.
…
Of course, some people do want to see Plan 9 because it’s so bad it’s unintentionally humorous.
But that didn’t happen during its first run, when it was a dismal failure, as a film and at the box office.
…
It drew a lot more interest, along with Wood’s other work, after the 1994 Tim Burton film “Ed Wood”, which starred Johnny Depp as the beleaguered director.
yet somehow the director talked Bela Lugosi into making his final appearance in his movie,
although he didn’t know it at the time. He died before the movie finished shooting
Wood actually made friends with Lugosi, his favorite movie star from childhood, when the actor was totally down and out, ill and addicted, and hadn’t been offered a part in years, and they hung out together.
He told Lugosi he was a director, and was going to make him a star again…. and filmed those few minutes as a supposed test shot.
After numerous failures to sell his ideas to studios, he finally hooked a producer by promising Bela Lugosi would star in it for almost nothing.
But Lugosi died, so he had to use the test footage in the movie, and get a stand-in to play him, shot from the back, in a couple of other scenes.
That was interesting.
I like his stuff. There are so many wordy people here that i figured someone might like it. 🙂
Wordy people?
Have you been reading my comments or something?
You know! People that like words.
Punsters being notable , but I’ve seen a few malaprops from time to time too.
There is simply no comparison to Ella. Heaven gained the voice of an angel.
BTW, you might contrast her to Lizz Wright’s beautiful contralto voice.
She’ll be at the Hollywood Bowl soon.
Ella already told us.