Just some house-keeping this time, folks. I have:
• added screenshots to Anaconda
• added screenshots to Red Water
• re-formatted and added screenshots to Venom
• somewhat revised, re-formatted and added screenshots to Silent Predators
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That was one helluva week’s viewing…
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#1 by The Rev. D.D. on November 13, 2009 - 8:48 am
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“(Insert genus name) horribilus inflammabilis” is fast becoming one of my favorite running jokes. If I didn’t enjoy the joke you already put below it, I’d suggest using it on that picture of Guthrie the Loony going up in flames.
“Amazonian ham-eating snake”….hee hee!
That first shot of the black mamba got an “Awwwww!” from me, by the way.
Which reminds me…I need to watch that episode of “Nature” on my DVR about a couple that catches black mambas in people’s homes…
#2 by The Rev. D.D. on November 13, 2009 - 8:49 am
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OH MY GOD. I did it again. Please fix my tags, someone.
I just need to stop trying.
At least this time I can blame the cold medicine…
#3 by lyzard on November 13, 2009 - 3:35 pm
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< >, not [ ]. I shan’t tell you again! 🙂
If nothing else, the inflammabilis thing is an indication of the lack of imagination attending big killer something films. Just as well you like the joke, because I doubt I’ll ever lack opportunities to pull it out.
Awww, snakey, indeed. When I was in Nairobi the black mamba at the snake park there (the only one I’ve had the privilege of seeing in the flesh) had just shed, and it was spectacularly beautiful.
My own favourite mamba story is the one about the researcher who had a theory that if you were put on life support fast enough after being bitten, you could “ride out” a mamba bite. Sure enough, he got bitten, and proved his theory – in the course of which, 100% paralysed and 100% conscious, he got to listen to his sceptical doctors debating over whether to switch off the life support…
#4 by The Rev. D.D. on November 13, 2009 - 11:55 pm
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Now that’s a hell of a story. Man, that’s pretty nightmarish, listening to people talking about pulling your plug like that. I wonder if that story inspired Stephen King’s short story “Autopsy Room Four”?
I didn’t use “Awww, snakey,” ’cause I was afraid you might sue for copyright infringement. 😉
I like that that’s the first picture in the review; it adds a nice contrast to the frankly scary pics of its gaping pitch-black mouth later on.
Nairobi? Business trip, or just a vacation? Either way I’m spectacularly jealous…I’ve never been out of my hemisphere. (Hell, I’ve barely been out of my country…not by choice, mind.)
#5 by Cullen on November 14, 2009 - 6:49 am
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There’s something about the looks of a mamba that just appeals to me, more than any other snake. I can’t say why that it, exactly. Something about the shape of the head. Ignoring when it has its mouth open, it looks almost innocent. Like it wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Mouth open, the mamba looks like every other venomous snake I’ve ever seen with its mouth open, only more so. That is to say SCARY.
#6 by Blake on November 14, 2009 - 10:01 am
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Random snake comment: I think one of my greatest herpetological disappointments was when I discovered that the water moccasin/cottonmouth wasn’t as crazy aggressive as people had told me it was.
#7 by lyzard on November 14, 2009 - 2:44 pm
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The black mamba is about the only snake that *does* live up to its crazy aggressive reputation. And that’s why Venom: is the only snake film out there that succeeds in getting *me* to jump and squeak and flinch just where it wants me to.
Yes, the mamba looks innocuous and almost friendly in that first screenshot, doesn’t it? – which is just before it does terrible things to Klaus Kinski. 🙂
It’s okay, Rev – I would never try to stop anyone saying something nice about a snake, even in a way that infringes copyright! It was just a holiday that saw me in Nairobi; I did Kenya and Tanzania, and have been trying to get back there ever since, only Reality seems to have far different ideas on the subject.
Stupid Reality.
#8 by B. Wood on November 14, 2009 - 7:01 pm
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The Puff Adder is the badass biker looking of snakes. The Anaconda is the 800 pound Gorilla looking of Snakes. The Black mamba is the unassuming little guy who used to be in special forces and can kill you six ways with his bare hands.
I need to visit a snakehouse again one of these days.
#9 by El Santo on November 14, 2009 - 10:45 pm
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“Stupid Reality.”
That would be the same reality, no doubt, that seems hell-bent on keeping me from returning to Japan– or from heading out your way to begin with, for that matter.
#10 by Blake on November 15, 2009 - 8:37 am
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“The Puff Adder is the badass biker looking of snakes. The Anaconda is the 800 pound Gorilla looking of Snakes. The Black mamba is the unassuming little guy who used to be in special forces and can kill you six ways with his bare hands.”
And thus the Green Mamba and the Emerald Tree Boa would be like the…hm…(I have an analogy that is certainly going to be misinterpreted): the Raquel Welch in the lime green bikini of snakes. Those are some gorgeous-looking snakes.
#11 by The Rev. D.D. on November 15, 2009 - 10:23 pm
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Damn, El Santo’s travel itinerary looks like mine, except I’ve had no first trip to Japan, the lucky bastard.
Stupid Reality, indeed.
#12 by lyzard on November 15, 2009 - 10:48 pm
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It bites like a mamba: repeatedly.
#13 by The Rev. D.D. on November 16, 2009 - 7:36 pm
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And is tall enough to bite you in the face.
#14 by Mystok on November 17, 2009 - 3:09 pm
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Thank you for the wonderful dream I had last night about snakes due to reading the reviews. Tiny rattlesnakes… everywhere. Though I am not one to fear snakes, neither do I like them so their appearance in my dreams were oh so welcome. Thank you again.
At least it wasn’t dreams of Klaus Kinski leering at me from a air vent and Oliver Reed sweating on me.
Waiting patiently for you to really stick it to the movie “2012” and its magical-whatzit-apocalyptic-thingy that causes the destruction of Earth (sorta).
#15 by El Santo on November 17, 2009 - 5:58 pm
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“At least it wasn’t dreams of Klaus Kinski leering at me from a air vent”
No, for that you need a review of Crawlspace.