TechnoLust's Journal: Homosexuals == inbred fish monsters that worship Dagon?

Well, that's what Wired says in a story about a Cthulhu movie starring Tori Spelling.

I really thought Tori

[rk]

Would get cast as Hastur, not Cthulhu, but perhaps she's trying to avoid getting typecast.

That whole thing is odd...

[Otter]

Truth is, there's not much more to Lovecraft than his throwing overwrought adjective after overwrought adjective, so it's hard to make much of a movie of his work. But when the result is so unrelated to the original, why bother? The way the trailer uses "cargo cult" with no idea what the term means also grates.

Dagon

[GeckoFood]

There was a movie about that Lovecraft story a while back (2000-2002 timeframe), but there were a few differences from the main story. Instead of Innsmouth, the town was Imboca, Spain. There were some elements to the story that made it absolutely unbelievable (as if it is believable now), and some of the worst acting you could imagine. Dagon was shown at the end, though, and the effects for that were good. Oh, and I don't recall any gays in there...

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[SolemnDragon]

Oh, DAGON. *sigh* For a moment, i thought: this must be my lucky day!

Yeah, i saw the dagon movie the other night, actually. Pretty funny stuff; i love the way dagon supposedly bred with the locals to produce followers- but this all happened during the lifespan of one person (the old guy who was a kid when the whole thing started in the town.)

Actually, the whole movie is a lot funnier once you realise it stars a lookalike for the 'can you hear me now' guy.

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[GeckoFood]

Oh, DAGON. *sigh* For a moment, i thought: this must be my lucky day!

They might not *worship* Dragon, but I bet they VOTE for Dragon. ;-)

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[TechnoLust]

Which will then ensure that they are REQUIRED to worship Dragon. :-)

Um, yeah. That checks with the memo.

[Shadow Wrought]

Any other questions? ;-)

I never read Lovecraft as a kid, but after seeing all the Cthulu related sigs and jokes, I figured I'd give him a read. Maybe it was just the collection of short stories I got, but they all seem to be pretty much the same story. I'll give it a try again, but probably not anytime soon.

They probably cast Tori Spelling because the the sum total of all her plastic surgeries mean that they can dispense with makeup.

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[TechnoLust]

You obviously didn't watch the trailer... As a former stage actor, they used to cake makeup on us because the lights wash out the colors. For her to LOOK that made up, she must have spray painted that shit on.