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# I watched The Others last night
mainly because I'd seen 'The Otters' photoshop on this board. But jeez - it's a really disturbing and frightening film.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 16 Feb 2003, 23:59, archived)
# Thanks ..
.. for that just totally brillo film review .. :-)
(Snoop, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:00, archived)
# i liked it - better than sixth sense, which i thought was a bit rubbish.
I liked the fact that I saw it at the pictures with someone - when it got to the main scary bit, she asked me what had happened as she had her hands over her face the whole time.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:02, archived)
# I shrieked and clung to Lucy ...
.. but mostly I felt disturbed that the film offered no redemption for the characters. It was really dark.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:04, archived)
# have you seen
The Ring yet? (either version). Talk about new pants time
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:05, archived)
# It's good?
Tell me something about it.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:09, archived)
# Apart from what you've already heard?
briefly, it's a good old ghost story at heart, in the Edgar Allen Poe mode, with a nice hefty twist at the end. The American version is a remake of a Japanese classic, but both of them stand up as good films, because although they have the same beginning and end, they take very different routes along the way. And, it's pants-wettingly scary, and films don't normally do that to me.

Oh, and I suppose there's not alot of point asking where you got your username is there?
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:18, archived)
# just looking on amazon as I type
I can find the Japanese version. Maybe I'll get it.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:19, archived)
# I recommend it
there is also a prequel, and a sequel, you can probably get a DVD set, but they might not be subbed, in which case useless, unless you speak Japanese
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:24, archived)
# japanese version
is supposed to be better than the american one.
(martian, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:24, archived)
# Most originals
are better than the hollywood remake.

el Mariachi and la Femme Nikita are two recent ones that come to mind.

I still find it hard to look favourably on a people who cheer the explosions in a film...
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:43, archived)
# particularly when said explosions
(and the scenery around them) is obviously fake and probably done just outside London. I went off films years ago, and accidentally catching bits of Sleepy Hollow a while back confirmed that I'd made a good choice.
Even TV dramas went the same way a long time ago (probably round the 2nd or 3rd Prime Suspect); that new Amanda Burton shite that was on tonight.....wtf? Particularly when they showed what was going to happen tomorrow night....good job actually, saves us watching more Lynda LaPlante bollocks. Good job we have control over the OFF button :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:50, archived)
# saw the new version today
thought it was all right, but not a patch on the original which, frankly, scared seven shades of shite out of me ...
(I helped save b3ta! coco, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:15, archived)
# I've had it for ages
but never watched it. Mental note made.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:02, archived)
# but
is it worth watching?
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:04, archived)
# yes
it's stayed with me most of the day. Although I really want to know if the "book of the dead" idea is real. It's freaky.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:06, archived)
# Well
in that case, I'll rent it soon
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:07, archived)
# the book of the dead idea
was actually the spookiest thing. I'd like to know if it's real too. I'm actually too scared of horror films, so that's about the scariest I'll watch in the cinema. I am a big wuss.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:15, archived)
# I've googled it a bit
and I found some very nasty pics of victorians in coffins - but no "book of the dead"

www.gravesights.org/postmortem.htm

Don't go there unless you want nightmares.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:18, archived)
# ooooh arses.
only just read te last line of your post. That is really spooky, specially the children. Actually, some one I know (Emma of the Terms and conditions) used to work in a photo place, she had to develop pics of a dead person once. Lovely.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:24, archived)
# When my gran died there was a viewing thing
at the funeral parlour. Her sunken face has stayed in my dreams forever. A bad way to remember someone. Don't do it kids.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:29, archived)
# it is a bit of a sad thing to do
sad as in sad, not as in crap. I never saw either of my grans - my mum wouldn't let me. Best to have the good memories of them alive and all that.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:32, archived)
# I saw my gran the week
before she died, and that was bad enough 'cos she didn't recognise anyone. When my Nan was laid out in 'state' I didn't go in to see purely for reasons Rob says up there ^^^^^^^. Then I found out we'd got her name wrong all my life.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:40, archived)
# my nan used to change her name -
sometimes - like some entire years- she'd use her middle name. Apparantly, my great aunt was actually born on a totally different day to the one everyone thought, They found that out when they found her birth certificate after she died!
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:44, archived)
# Yep; we found some old pictures
that had another name on the back (she was actually Jane whereas we knew her as Jean). That was 15 years ago and I still haven't asked me dad why she used another name.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:52, archived)
# hehe
My nan has had several medical problems over the years what with an ongoing thyroid complaint and a stroke a few years ago. What got the family riled was when she lied about her age to the doctor! She cut about 5 years off. My mum set that straight as soon as she found out :) Holy shit nan, you're 83, what's the point in telling the doctor you're only 78?
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 1:10, archived)
# simple answer:
pride. You've spent most of yer life trying to be older than you really are, when you get to that age you wish to fuck you were younger than you really are. I'm guessing here, but judging by the way I feel right now I think that's got to be right.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 1:13, archived)
# that's me up all night then
anyone for coffee?
(martian, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:29, archived)
# watch the evil dead then;
spooky but most funny at the same time.....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:19, archived)
# there is a "book of the dead"
it's a Tibetan religious work, I think I have a copy here somewhere, although this may be something entirely different, like the book of the dead in "Evil Dead II".
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:19, archived)
# "book of dead" in the film
is a collection of photos of dead people propped up in their beds. It's utterly chilling.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:21, archived)
# you don't (or didn't) buy
Bizarre magazine, did you?
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:26, archived)
# that's a weird mag
porn + dead people. How can a man have an honest wank to that?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:30, archived)
# does open necrophilia
not count as honest?
(martian, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:33, archived)
# also, it never occurred to
me that some people might find it as a wank mag....<shudder>
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:43, archived)
# i nearly worked on the launch of that
but was desperate for a job and something else came up sooner. Has it closed now? i guess it must've...
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:30, archived)
# really?
Surely you'd have been about 18?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:31, archived)
# nope, I was umm,
fuck knows. Hold on, left college about 94, worked for a while in blah blah, left, freelanced.. maybe about 1996? Something like that. mate of mine works for the other one, the Fortean times. (my memory is crap)

edit - I'm older than you don't forget. Rememeber how wrinkly my face is?
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:34, archived)
# Bizarre started in 97
with Fiona Jerome at the helm, so Pep'd have been mid 20s :) I'm only assuming it doesn't exist any more 'cos I ain't seen it on the shelves at me local newsies; last issue I got was early 2002 back when I had a job.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:42, archived)
# ahh - only a year out!
I remember them talking about it, saying it would be like the fortean times, but more sexy etc etc. I think I went of and did some exhibition stuff instead or something. Lord knows.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:47, archived)
# Pity, then I could tell people
that I knew someone involved with it..hehe....pity I'm not a namedropper :)
Just stuck me entire Bizarre collection on ebay tonight so we'll see if there are any collectors out there....
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:55, archived)
# I'm probably wrong
I vaguely remember buying it in 92 - but I'm probably mixing it up with something else. Anyway - goodnight.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:43, archived)
# Fortean times
probably, like Pep says. Night mate.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:53, archived)
# yay, i saw that last night too
and yep it was bleedin scary, i knew the ending though cos someone told me, but it was still pretty good
(I helped save b3ta! Mr Fancyteeth, Mon 17 Feb 2003, 0:51, archived)