Areala

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Login magazine with Tomb Raider 3 cover feature MUST BE PRESERVED!! You have done well, my friend. *huggles* Areala

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"That's right, Tom, I'm here at Retromags currently awaiting an update on how @kitsunebi77's alley is taking this furious pounding. With magazines pouring in, none of them lubed, it appears as though Kitsunebi's alley might be clogged and out of commission for quite some time. Back to you until we know more." *huggles* Areala

If you listen to the commentary for Robocop on the Criterion edition, one of the people involved in the production tells a rather funny story about having to wire the poor kid up with the squibs multiple times, because after every take, Verhoeven didn't like it because it wasn't bloody enough, and he kept telling the FX guys to use more blood. Finally, after several takes that displeased the director, the FX team decided, "Screw it," and wired the actor up with blood squibs on every part of his body they could stick them. When Verhoeven called 'Action!', the kid flung himself back on the table, the FX guys started setting off squibs, and they kept going for an absurd length of time as the actor kept bouncing and twitching and shuddering, covering himself and half the set with fake blood. The scene ended, Verhoeven called 'Cut!', and the FX guys just stood there, staring at him, daring him to say something about it not being bloody enough. Verhoeven waited a little bit, shrugged his shoulders, then said something like, "I guess that was OK." *huggles* Areala

*shudder* Robocop is one of my favorite movies of all time (that remake never happened, do you hear me?), but DAMN is Murphy's death in the NC-17 cut hard to watch. The only analogues I can come up with are the scourging scene in Passion of the Christ and what happens to Anna at the end of Pascal Laugier's Martyrs. Usually after one initial viewing, and getting all of the surprise out of the way, I can watch even the most ridiculously violent scenes without reacting, but Murphy's execution at the hands of Clarence & Co. still gives me chills. As far as I know it only exists in storyboard form, but the Transformers animated movie from 1986 cut/reworked the scene of Ultra Magnus's death. Originally when Galvatron gave the order for the Sweeps to kill Ultra Magnus, the four Sweeps each fired out a 'laser rope' to ensnare all four of his limbs, raised him into the air, then flew off in different directions, 'quartering' him. Before the entire scene was animated, somebody made the decision that such a death was far too violent and the scene was re-worked so that the Sweeps simply strafed him with shots until he fell over and exploded apart. You can still see the remnants of the original idea in the final film though, as they had animated up to the point where the Sweeps all shoot out the laser ropes, which is why they have the drawn-out purple beams before the scene transitions to show the scattering laser shots that eventually kill him. Man, kids films in the 80's were hardcore! *huggles* Areala

Never understood why they cut the scenes with the Sentry guns from Aliens. I know they slowed the pacing of the movie, but they technically advanced the story by showing the xenomorphs could understand overwhelming firepower, and it ratcheted up the tension watching those ammo counters drain down to zero... *huggles* Areala

That's a shame. I loved reading the IMDB message boards. Often the people there were just as good, if not better, at critiquing and pointing out/explaining confusing premises than the professional reviewers were. Even if they were just opinions, there's more than one non-American film I've watched that had me running to the boards afterwards in curiosity to see what others thought/felt. Frequently this improved my understanding, and thus enjoyment, of the film in question. :( *huggles* Areala