The first is that I get an extra seventeen hours at the end of every Roundtable – mwoo-ha-ha! The second is that I get the privilege of wishing all contributors and visitors to the B-Masters Blog a very happy New Year. Thanks to all those who dropped by (hey, lurkers! – resolve to de-lurk!), and especially to those who shared their thoughts with us. Here’s to another year of the living dead, killer dolls, murderers in skull masks, nature in revolt, zombie gorillas and manskirts.
(P.S. I don’t know who got “The Theme From ‘Shaft'” onto the NY playlist here, but thumbs up.)
#1 by Anrkist on December 31, 2008 - 5:37 pm
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Happy New Year =]
#2 by JessicaR on December 31, 2008 - 7:53 pm
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Happy New Year! Thanks for 365 days worth of great material.
#3 by The Rev. D.D. on December 31, 2008 - 8:23 pm
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What a simply gorgeous shot. Wow. I would’ve killed to see it live and in person.
I echo Jessica’s thanks for a great year of reviews, to all of the B-Masters, and anxiously await the next year’s worth. (Mostly because I hope there’s more giant monster movie reviews; especially from Ms. Kingsley, in light of her killer Gojira review.)
Happy 2009 to all!
#4 by Bryan on December 31, 2008 - 8:26 pm
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Hiya guys and gals- keep up the good work and have a happy new year. May all your movies be freaky and fun.
#5 by Dave Causey on December 31, 2008 - 8:28 pm
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Happy New Year,everyone! 😀 B-Masters,and B-Mistress Lyz, thank you for many laughs and a lot of interesting reading in 2008,and I’m sure much more in ’09!
#6 by Ed on January 1, 2009 - 2:51 am
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Happy New Year, everyone! 🙂
#7 by Alaric on January 1, 2009 - 3:31 am
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Do I HAVE to de-lurk? Maybe for just a moment…
Happy New Year!
(re-lurks)
#8 by David lee Ingersoll on January 1, 2009 - 10:10 am
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(Rises up from the swamp)
Happy New Year!
(Sinks back into the murk.)
#9 by Baron Scarpia on January 1, 2009 - 3:15 pm
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Happy New Year! I really must watch more films this year.
(But not Full Moon films. No, no and no.)
#10 by jaws090 on January 1, 2009 - 7:58 pm
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Happy New Year! Keep the good work, B- Masters. Liz, your reviews are always fantastic to read, a real pleasure. I can´t wait for more great material in 2009. Thanks to all of you.
(And now I, too, re-lurks)
#11 by Cullen on January 2, 2009 - 8:06 am
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No one will ever get me to de-lurk. No one.
#12 by supersonic on January 4, 2009 - 5:19 am
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God no, they’re exploding the opry house! Is that really the only way to stop the creature?
(Actually, I bet if a kaiju came ashore near Sydney, it would probably just die of 109 box-jelly stings.)
#13 by supersonic on January 4, 2009 - 5:20 am
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(That was supposed to be ten to the ninth. Apparently <sup> tags don’t work here.)
#14 by The Rev. D.D. on January 4, 2009 - 12:04 pm
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That explains why the Xilians teleported the American Godzilla into Australia!
Although, frankly, dying of numerous jellyfish stings would have been a more noble death than the one he got from Godzilla…
#15 by lyzard on January 4, 2009 - 3:15 pm
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Our box jellyfish are found in northern tropical waters; Sydney is in comparison sadly unprotected from kaiju attack. Still, as long as Godzilla tries swimming from Japan to Sydney, we should be okay.
#16 by The Rev. D.D. on January 5, 2009 - 10:07 am
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Unless the box jellies are packing Oxygen Destroyers they’re not going to be much help against most kaiju I should think.
On the other hand, those saltwater crocs are damn near kaiju size themselves…unless the movies have lied to me.
But since movies would never lie, that means you have an army of giant crocodiles to guard your continent from kaiju attack. (Even the flying ones, considering how high the crocodiles in movies can jump.)
#17 by lyzard on January 5, 2009 - 5:11 pm
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I wouldn’t say “lied”. More like “exaggerated just a tad”.
#18 by MatthewF on January 7, 2009 - 10:19 am
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Movies never lie, therefore Australia is part the most suburban place on earth (Neighbours. Home and Away), part an irradiated post nuclear wasteland (you know what I’m talking about) and part a place where airy-fairy teenage girls in long white dresses moon around and then inexplicably dissapear.
Where the Transvesties and Crocodile Dundee fit into this I just don’t know.
#19 by El Santo on January 7, 2009 - 2:13 pm
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“Where the Transvesties and Crocodile Dundee fit into this I just don’t know.”
It’s a complicated matter, but the upshot is that the disappearances of all those airy-fairyteenage girls aren’t nearly as inexplicable as they might seem on the surface.
#20 by supersonic on January 7, 2009 - 2:34 pm
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So the food chain in the Australian ecology operates something like this: airy teenage girls -> transvestites -> crocodiles -> crocodile dundee -> kaiju -> box jellies.