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Featuring poor old Aayliah of the name that I have probably spelt wrong. Has anyone seen this yet? It looks a FANTASTICK piece of shlock horror. "Ph34r m3" well yes Aayliah we would if it wasn't for the fact that we've already seen the end of the world on Buffy several times and you quite frankly aint as scary as The Gentlemen. You? The ultimate evil? Sheeyah.

― Sarah, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And if you've not seen it, does anyone fancy coming along?

― Sarah, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

While I have not seen it I feel as if I had from the number of times I've seen the bloody advert on the side of buses. I might be interested in going this weekend if we go to a Very Cheap Cinema.

― Emma, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i may be able to rustle up some fans of complete rub

― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, cheap cinema = U&K, the Ritzy is £6.50 I believe, I dunno about any round your way. And the Ritzy is very nice. I am not even entirely sure about the plot of the movie apart from that Aayliah is Very Evil and there are some wampires too who she is better than, and all sorts of evil stuff... happens. GRATE!

― Sarah, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lestat wants to ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!

― a-33, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will go and see if Isabel wants to go too, but if we do then it will have to be in Sarf London my nu spiritual home.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What it is about a wampire who wants to be in a band and summons up the Queen of Ultimate Evil to make him the BLACKEST OF BLACK METAL!?!?!!? Wowsers!

― Crucifer, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ritzy is cheaper during the daytime and for wink-wink concessions. However it is not on at the Ritzy. (Doh!) Odeon Holloway (come, come to Norf London Sarah) is cheaperish during the day.

As a lover of rub movies a rub vampire/goth metal movie is right up my street.

― Pete, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No no ssssssstarrry come to SOUTH LONDON and see the fillum of dooom.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for a variety of obvious reasons gollum surely never says the word "doom"

― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"my precious of doom"

― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He doesnt say fillum either Mark which should have tipped you off that I was not Gollumn but some other snakey gothey beast.

UPDATE if we're going on Saturday (Ssssssssaturday) Isabel can't come anyway so I can go to North London anyhow.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can probably cope with North London as well then.

― Sarah, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But the Scorpion King is out this weekend! The Rock laying the Smack Down!

― jel --, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's great to be back here in Cairo"

― Jonnie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but the difference between the two is that Queen of the Dammed is EEEEEEEEEEVIL and you should ph34r h3r etc etc etc but the ROCK (which may also be a larff) is all about the GOOD GUY and quite frankly I want to see Aayliah being snooker loopy much more than something set in a flipping desert with rippling MANFLESH woarrrr.

― Sarah, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Scorpion King was bad in The Mummy Returns. In every sense of the word.

Here's hope Aaliyah is alsobad in every sense of the word.

― Pete, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to be seeing "The Scorpion King" this weekend. I fear that at some point I'm going to have to pull my insensibly drooling wife from the theater as she shouts "DWAYNE BABY, MAMA'S HERE FOR YOU! GIMME SOME HOT SCORPION LOVIN'!!!"

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mrs Perry is a Very Bad Woman! ;)

― katie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And think of how inadequate Mr. Perry must feel! Can he give scorpion love? Or is it a mere gnat?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(There's pretty much no way I can use the sentence "FEEL MY FURY, RAGGETT!" without it being taken as a euphemism, is there?)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, you could say "FEEL MY FURRY, RAGGETT," but that would result in further inconsiderate japes and coarse jests.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As bad as that sentence is, all I can say is "Thank GOD for the comma."

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, did really nobody see this? I liked it more than Interview With the Vampire, although everyone else I went with liked that movie better. All I can say is I am oh-so-grateful Tom Cruise passed on the lead role in this.

― Vinnie, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This movie wasn't nearly as bad as all those brutal reviews made it out to be, in fact I thought it was quite solid and fun. I could have done without the nu-metal I suppose.

Bonus points for having two actors from the Farscape cast (however briefly)!

― Jordan, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank GOD for the comma.

I was tempted to remove it, for your viewing satisfaction. But I refrained.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vinnie and Jordan should be aware that the original poster and friends are in the UK, and we've only just got ET The Extra Terrestrial over here so by our standards this release is fast work!

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are people going to see this rub-fest then, after all that?

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, are we then? I'm up for it!

― Sarah, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so am i (if sat): i shall ring round my rub-mob

― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay - rub film outing. Can we double bill with wrestling flick?

― Pete, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How much will that come to as I am really on tight horrible budget of DEATH until house move is sorted - and still probably even then heh heh.

― Sarah, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Excellent, a veritable rubfest. A double bill might be pushing it a bit for me patience wise but I can always have a snooze.

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i shall ring round my rub-mob

No film outing is complete without the post-movie frottagefest.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How come Pete can sit through a double bill of films without being troubled by his bladder but not a footie match eh? (obviously there is the beer to factor in though remember that many people have a cup of fizzy pop in the cinema too).

― Emma, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is indeed the beer. If you note I never sup on the fizzy pop in the cinema and usually empty bladder earlier to be careful.

During the average football match I will drink 3 pints. Call to the lavvy follows like.

― Pete, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So why blame the footie? Blokes = weirdos.

― Emma, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You've only discovered this *now*, Emma? I'm disappointed.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, this is just yet another thing to add to the Emma Compendium of Why Men Are Weird (not related in ANY WAY to men are from mars etc.)

― Emma, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(I am sulking because everyone ignored my frottage joke, even though it was the right thing to do. *sulk*)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The inital context came up the other day when I was watching the footie and one of the players was walking a bit funny and went to talk to the ref. At which point my bladder was also conker hard and I thought wouldn't it be funny if he asked to nipoff for a slash like. Hence my initial question since I had never seen it done and statistically it has to happen (I have had to nip out for a piss in a film. Last time was Toy Story I think).

Explaination suffice? Mind you this isn't getting us nearer Aaliyah.

― Pete, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frottage joke = fine. Timing = poor. Some of us had just finished breakfast.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma Compendium of Why Men Are Weird

I would buy this book in a second and make Emma rich. Then she could swan off around the world and have all worship her.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what is the story on this? (my rub-mob btw seems to be out of town)

― mark s, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do not read if you hate us but we are going to HOLLOWAY RD ODEON at FOUR PM to see this fillum

love Carsmile, Starry, Tom and Ptee
PS starry says "Dress Code: GOff" (like wot she is)

― CarsmileSteve, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the best movie evah made: there is no level on which i will not fiercely nay angrily defend it => "We do not SETTLE scores, we HARBOUR them..."

― mark s, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's probably all about the Farscape for Mark S. (no I haf not seen it: I am too poor to go to any movies right now, let alone daft ones).

― Nicole, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how was the FILLUM then chapses??

― katie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It was blimming marvellous and all the better for my goth costume. I knew I was right to keep my purple lipstick.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

COR! what did this outfit consist of Emma (apart from the lippie)???

― katie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No the lippie is important, because i think it may have contained MIND ALTERING SUBSTANCES. chances of this film being even 1% good are v low. i refuse to listen to reason.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gothiness inhibited by a) the fact that it was too hot out to wear black PVC kecks and b) the fact that I RACED back from Sarf London with but minutes to transform myself into a goff. Outfit = black lace vest, black fingerless lace gloves (long), purple lippie. The rest of it just wasn't goth therefore not interesting. And Alang is wrong the film ROCKED.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i refuse to listen to reason OR emma. film is rubbish because a)it contains vampires b)that's covered everything. vampires are rubbish. hence the expression.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The film was AMAZING and I dressed as a goth too! Okay whilst rummaging through Emmas cast offs I found a lacy flimsy gothy frock smock MUMU maternity dress type thing which I proceeded to wear ovah the top of a stripey top oh well you can't fight the Stripes. It's the best film in the world ever and I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN!!!!

― "the vampire" sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whaddya mean 'reason or Emma'? I AM reason! If I had a tabloid column it would be called EMMA THE VOICE OF REASON.

Please note my cast off maternity dress is not in fact a maternity dress.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yes and I now have increased Goth Empathy as Holloway Road on a sunny Saturday afternoon is no place to be wearing black lace & purple lippie. I felt like a freak! More than usual! It is a lot harder being a gothette than I had imagined. Also could not bring myself to drink SNAKEBITE + BLACK. We didn't know what goths eat so had to have curry instead.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A sa entertainment The Queen Of The Damned is flawed in many places. There is no suspense at all - the vampires have no predators and yet still hide. They only get pished off when one gets uppity. The begining is no begining (flashbacks ahoy!) and the ending is likewise no ending.

However as a critique and metaphor for the pop industry is works on almost every level.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pay attention Pete their predators were EACH OTHER just like humans! (And goths).

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you not notice the BIG PREDATOR Aayliah!?

― Sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YEah, but Aaliyah is a rubbidge Predator. She and her king ate most of the Egyptian world and then got bored and turned into statues. The other vampires didn't eat or kill each other until LEstat started his rubbidge goth metal band. None of the apparently important plot points from the first half of the film were even vaguely resolved. It was "Kill Queen Ov The Damned and everyone lives (or dies) happily ever after". Fights were terrible coreographed as well.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh speaking of Vampires I watched Buffy on Saturday and actually enjoyed it for like the first time ever. Dracula was in it. Since I miss it every thursday I might idly glance at it on Saturdays. But there is the danger that it was only could because of the sheer madness of putting Dracula into an episode. He did look quite cool though.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm rubbidge goff metal. Have come to the conclusion that I fancy "the vampire" Lestat in a really REALLY rubbidge pervertalist way rowr. Doh. B-b-but Aayliah was the total predator, wamps don't kill their own but she rocked the I WANNA DESTROY thing a lot more convincingly than the wamps who has RESPECK for mortals 'no really'. CF corpses on the beaches and that.

― Sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"only could". what? eh "only good" obviously. I blame it being Monday.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vampires mummies and now i see we have werewolves in an upcoming film. is this some retro horror trend? come to think of it there was the invisible man (hollow man) not too long ago.

p.s. Jeepers Creepers is one of the worst films i have ever rented.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah is right. Pete is wrong. Also note that Sarah went as a goth whereas Pete didn't so cannot possibly be expected to understand our goth ways.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wait I rented Battlefield Earth too, for larfs (there weren't any). So second worst.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want an excuse to do goth tourism, as I too kept my purple lipstick for no real reason. However, my desire to walk as a goth for one day only probably wouldn't lead me to see Queen of the Damned given Pete's review.

― Anna, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but Anna: PETE IS WRONG.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, okay. I will listen to both sides of arguement. But Q of the D is after 24 Hour Party People in importance stakes. Why is it good, apart from the Day of Goth fun?

― Anna, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Is this my chance to reverse Emma's argument about why I shouldn't be listened to in a debate about TV?)

Queen Ov Damned is good fun, especially if you go see it with Goffs- but I was deriving much of my fun from its sketchy plot, camp goth vampires and the rubbish ginger haired romantic (hah!) lead.

Worth it for the press conference alone with the man with NME on his camera. "Dave : Uncut magazine - are you really a vampire?" Typical dim Uncut question anyhoo.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU FILISTINE. Queen of the Dammed is so much better than the HIPPY RUB-FEST that is 24 Hour Party People.

― Sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Frankly Alang if you rent that JOhn Travolta/L Ron Hubbard VANITY PROJECT WITH CRAP MAKEUP you deserve all you get. blimey i couldn't even find anything decent to say about it and it is my JOB!

― katie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you go see 24 Hour Party People at Holloway Odeon you can then sneak into Queen Ov Damned - certainly a plus point. 24 Hour Party People is a film about pop. Queen Ov Damned = Pop (where is Mark S when we need him). Certainly you should see 24HPP first. But it is probably best to balance your mindset and decide on importance of dressing as goth first.

I'm a bit bored of Vampires though.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete the difference is you were slagging off a TV programme without even having seen it. I have actually seen Queen of the Damned. Do you see?

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna do not sell your youth down the river by going to see indie nostalgia-fest 24HPP, it's a good larf for a 'rock biopic' I suppose but made me feel a bit clapped-out whereas the AWESOME Queen of the Damned made me feel as if I had woken from a 15000 year sleep to bite some neXoR.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Has someone put a goth virus in the water round here. If you like Korn and very pale people the Queen Of The Damned. If you like well written, well directed funny British movies go and see Michael Winterbottoms much more superior efforts.

The films do have an awful lot in common actually. Both have unreliable twats as their primary narrators, both don't have any proper narrative closure, and both have really stupid haircuts in them. But visually and as a story one has imagination and scope, and the other one is a hoary old vampire movie with a goth metal soundtrack.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it made me feel a bit clapped out

In what sense do you mean? It's just as I said somewhere else after we saw 24 Hour Party people, my friend and I were desperate to go out somewhere. We only abandoned the idea because it was Monday. I still want to bring another friend to it on a Saturday evening before David Holmes or Dave Angel in the next few weeks.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think my problem with 24HPP is just that I grew up on all that stuff through reading the NME religiously - so the film for me just became spot the band/tune/anecdote, though Coogan is excellent in it. It was like reading a really funny and well-written Mojo feature - good but you get nothing new from it. Isabel however had never read a single think about any of the people involved and loved the film.

Meanwhile I have spent my whole lifetime avoiding goths so the seen- it-all-before tropes in QOTD were all new to me and I loved the ridiculous exaggeration of it all. I think 24HPP presents a sweeter and possibly truer and certainly more inspiring vision of pop but QOTD gave me a very very entertaining one.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HA HA HA we said in the pub last night "I bet Ronan would love it"!

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe. Yes it's true. What a night it will be when I see it before whatever DJ is at the Tivoli.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Youth sold down river with New Order fixation anyway. I went to see Waking Life on Saturday instead as this was top priority (and only realised coming out of the cinema I was dressed as early-mid nineties reject in flowery dress over jeans with holes in and tatty plimsoles - there's something in this dressing up for films thing). I know there was a whole Waking Like thread, but I couldn't find it.

― Anna, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Priorities right there I think (unless of course you hated Waking Life - which is a strong possibility). Anyway you can talk about that here.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's very little New Order in 24HPP anyway - the one scene they get (the making of Blue Monday) is one of the oddest in the film, as there's no sense of why on earth this rub dirge might become the best- selling 12" of all time. I kept expecting Stephen Morris to get some corny "Hey! Let's use...a drum machine!" line, but thankfully he didn't.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think that scene is genius for that very reason. Blue Monday without the beat is a rubbish dirge - ha ha.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahem you seem to be talking about the WRONG FILM here chaps.

Next must-see film for all ILx-ers = DAVE Q (or whatever it's called).

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I refuse to see Denzel Washington films. Even if they are about Ilx- ers. Or their Dads.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave Q is GREAT - it's about a man who moves to a third-world country and finally his patience snaps when the Caledonian Road STD clinic's waiting list gets to over 3 years long (thanks to Momus touring london) and he takes a whole message board hostage!

At least that's what the trailer implied.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"None of the apparently important plot points from the first half of the [insert discip[line here] were even vaguely resolved" = it is art (the gratestart evah made)

― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a play about three blokes arguing about a blank canvas being sold as an important painting = it is Art.

Aaliyah not being able to talk properly because her plastic vampire teeth are too big for her gob =it is Queen Ov The Damned.

― Pete, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

posthumous turner prize for lifetime's contribution to film arts AND sciences for aaliyah, in that case

i am having SPAM problems (sarah to thread!) no no the other less bettah kind of spam: 750 messages today so far, so sadly i cannot contribute much to winning this "debate" against pete yet

i haf possibly seen every vampire movie evah made (top lie!!) so know wherov i speaXoR

― mark s, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh now come on you mentalists, 24 Hour Party People was a load of hippy rub. A few funny offsides and Tony Wilson getting beaten up a lot was as far as the humour evah got. Sick inducing cinematography and a regression to the same old fucking boring 'oh yeah and then we went to the hacienda we were on drooogs the rave woz GRATE' thing was banged on about for hours. And there were no Stockholm Monstahs. Although the actor playing Ian Curtis woz the dead spit. Yeah RIGHT.

― and whot of crispy ambulance, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you are all wrong. i am putting it down to drugs, dirty dancing and pounding pounding techno music. :-)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And their 'rave' music was crap I feel sorry for you indie dance hordes of the early nineties. "they were applauding the DJ" oh like wow. Smug hippy rub fest and no biting neXoR = poop.

― Sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So a schema for 24HPP liking is developing:

Into the music, remembers those glorious old days = OK-XOR

Into the music, does not remember those glorious old days = SUXOR

Hates the music and all involved but likes Alan Partridge = ROXOR

Ronan = yeah man rave on feel the vibe.

― Tom, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was quite superb and the naysayers have totally missed the point but I can't tell you what the point was cause I am not very good with words. I couldn't find the original 24HPP thread in 'Uncategorised' or 'Films'. Where is

― N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At last! New goth people! Now you must all like the Smashing Pumpkins. *flees with unholy cackle*

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment Ned it is just a fashion thing not a music thing. But give us time. I am enjoying it as normally when I go round scowling at people it confuses them cos I am wearing pink and being blonde. However when I am a goth they expect the scowling thus making my life a lot more straightforward.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned is a rubbidge goth.

― Sarah, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whereas I am leading a whole new age of Goth: PH34R THE BLINGGOTH.

― Emma, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned is a rubbidge goth.

*weeps bitter tears and begs for forgiveness*

Whereas I am leading a whole new age of Goth: PH34R THE BLINGGOTH.

Goddamn! Not only is that brilliant, but it has the salutory effect of sounding like a lesser H. P. Lovecraft demon.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Butbutbut I'm already a blinggoth! I'm a blackblinggoth BOYEEEE!

(Rainy Mondays at work = DUD)

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm happy you're happy. And I *SUPPOSE* you can be one as well, but only when wearing your dragon shirt.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As for rainy Mondays -- HELLO, I leave where I live for a reason. Did I mention it's already sunny and quite warm out?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And I *SUPPOSE* you can be one as well, but only when wearing your dragon shirt.

*bling*

― Dan Perry, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the idea of Dan and Ned as bling goth boyeees has made me far, far happier than it should :)

― katie, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah! Then goodness has been had. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan=Yeah man rave on feel the vibe

There will be NO teasing of me.

It wasn't very rave on man feel the vibe anyway. And you know well I hate that kind of thing. I mean jesus, that's what made Human Traffic so TERRIBLE and cringey. If they want a bloody "e-culture" (shudder) movie then 24HPP is the best I've seen and the one that captured the mood of a good club in a less pretentious type of way.

Also I thought Sarah was a bit harsh when she said it was the "same old boring" approach to clubbing as, presumably, Human Traffic or all those books about ecstacy culcha. In 24HPP there weren't the same type of ecstacy references as you usually come across.

I don't remember the part about clapping the DJ. So I don't know what to say about it.

The film was primarily about the club, and the e parts are pretty periphery. And my (and presumably other people here or elsewheres) liking of is fuck all to do with the (few, go on admit it) ecstacy references. It's actually to do with the way it paints such a clear picture of what (to some people at least yadda yadda) must have been a fantastic club. I also related to the way it documented the sort of connection or attachment to a particular club that people can build up. And I think THAT was way way way more important than the pills or whatever. And that's why it's way better than Human Traffic or suchlike.

In fact it's pretty much nothing to do with ecstacy, except in the sense that in talking about the Hacienda you had to discuss it a certain amount.

I think any suggestion that it slipped into the usual pitfalls of ANYTHING TO DO WITH ECSTACY EVER MADE (apparently) is completely unfair.

― Ronan, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Queen of the Damned = k-Roxor.

Aaliyah + dust explosions + strings + BLACK BLACK BLACK = Kew-el.

Unresolved plot points ect = Beyond "art"

QotD discussion + "plot points" = pff Ptee.

― Graham, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i barfed and barfed and so did FAC52

― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That should go on the poster.

― Nicole, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To heck with that, that should be the title.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

24HPP = good
Queen Of The Damned = worst film I've EVER seen, even beating Blair Witch 2...

― DG, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DG is clearly the Paul Ross of ILE.

― Emma, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just bought the book of QoD for £2: Aaliyah = white on the cover, which is a bad start

― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DG is clearly the Paul Ross of ILE.

You know what that makes FatNick?

― N., Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Ross?

― Pete, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't see how saying QoD is worst film means you can be so gratuitously insulted. it is obv rub.

― Alan T, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's WAY better, for example, than THE MUMMY: i was mainly incredibly grindingly *bored* by 24hrPP (ian curtis was abt the only thing i liked)

it employs keith allen = it is meretricious garbage (discuss)

― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's alright Alan, I'm not surprised.

― DG, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it took late to suggest that I thought this thread was about Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands?

― N., Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nick da stoor in hobbit faux pas

― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wot?

― N., Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

does anyone remember barfter? (scroll down past posada)

― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

QOTD was a great movie because of the music. I mean Stuart Townsend (LeStet) looked really really really HOTT in the movie. The best part was when Akashata(sp) took out the vampires heart and ate it. That part was the best and a huge turn on... Anywayz I would prefer to see the movie again and again and again!!!!!

― Lexi, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

This thread should not have stopped. It should have continued on forever, like Jay-Z vs Nas. Volunteers are needed to commit to posting at least once a day.

Blue Monday without the beat is a rubbish dirge - ha ha.

Blue Monday with the beat is also a rubbish dirge.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 26 December 2002 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

I clipped this from last Thursday's edition of the Metro:

"A man obsessed with vampires, who murdered his best friend because he thought it would make him immortal, was jailed for life yesterday.

Allan Menzies claimed he had been told to kill Thomas McKendrick, 21, by a character in horror film Queen of the Damned, which he had watched 100 times.

Menzies, 22, said a female vampire, called Akasha in the movie, visited his bedroom and struck a deal in which he would achieve immortality if he killed.

But the former security guard snapped when his friend insulted the vampire - played by the late US singer Aaliyah.

Menzies claimed to have drunk some of his victim's blood and eaten part of his head. He then dumped the corpse in a bin outside his home and later buried it in a shallow grave in nearby woodland. Menzies told the High Court in Edinburgh that, after slaying Mr McKendrick, he became a vampire and was immortal."

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the only solution is to ban all films

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

''However as a critique and metaphor for the pop industry is works on almost every level.''

Pete is usually wrong on vampire movies (his assessment of underworld for instance) but he's right here and Queen of the dammed was prob the precursor for the video for the current evanescence (sp?) single too.

saw this round a friend's house (he's a big fan of vampier movies, buffy and has read all the anne rice books i think) and he really liked it. so did I.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem OTM, I already killed 6 of my coworkers today with a kitana thanks to Quentin Tarantino :/

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume a kitana is a kitten wielding a katana sword?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Kitana:

http://movieweb.com/movie/mortalkombat2/co5.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY DON'T YOU ALL JUST MURDER ME FOR MY GODDAMNED MISSPELLING COS NONE OF YOU HAVE EVER DONE THIS HUH? ARE YOU ALL NOT CLEVER? ARE YOU?

you're both next to die.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn. I thought at least you'd giggle at the costume.

(Also, Thomas must have caught Allan on one of his heavy-flow days.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd totally wear that outfit, it's not funny.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

oh it is

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

sixteen years pass...

*Damned

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 March 2020 03:05 (five years ago)

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