Comments on: Two minds with but a single silly thought

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:06:48 +0000

Man, all of this makes me want to go back and dust off and touch up my old “Valley of the Dragons” review. Too bad I couldn’t contribute it to the Roundtable.

By: supersonic

supersonic — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:24:46 +0000

The screen caps don’t look to me like the same bird from one shot to another. The first one looks rather like a pelican and the others look ducklike.

Cormorants (at least the double-crested cormorants that live in my area) have moderately sized straight beaks with a raptorlike hook at the tip. Their coloration is quite dark. And I believe they fly with their necks straight like a duck or goose, rather than folding them like a pelican or stork or crane or heron or egret.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:54:42 +0000

To be fair, I didn’t anticipate the movie being reviewed by one of the Cabal; it just came up.

OR DID IT!?!

You’re not the only one who feels like they need to go look at it again and figure out the mystery of the bird. Which means this stupid movie’s getting more attention than it deserves, really.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:13:57 +0000

I’ll just tell myself that I chose When Women Lost Their Tails in order to preserve peace among the B-Masters.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:50:24 +0000

It was mostly a case of me thinking something like, “Hmm…what cavemen films do I have? Ooh, Prehistoric Women! And it’s really obscure, so no-one will anticipate— Oh.”

I think the last shot of Korax is faked, but during the “attack” it certainly looks like they’re waving that torch horribly close to a real bird – as they do to a real boa, earlier.

In those first and last shots (which honestly you can’t see live with a good pause button and a little luck), it does look like a cormorant or something similar, but its movements in the middle sequence (the second and third shots) do seem very duck-like.

And no, I don’t have anything better to do with my time.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:27:19 +0000

First my comments on Murders in the Zoo and now this…I’m not sure if I should be sad that I’m disturbing/creeping out Ms. Kingsley…or maybe just a teensy bit proud.

MUWHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!

I recall the fire effect looking like Luke said…an overlay on the bird.

I always figured the bird was a duck or goose…cormorants tend to be dark in color and their bills are pretty long and thin. I lean toward duck just because a duck’d be a lot easier to dress up than a goose, although its wing and neck size make it seem more like the latter.

Either way…MADE OF AWESOME.

By: Luke Blanchard

Luke Blanchard — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:43:23 +0000

I had a look at an online version, so these comments are based on an image that’s likely even worse. I can’t tell if the wing towards which the hero strikes is real – it might be a model – but after the cut, when Korax catches fire, she has the look of an inserted image. There’s then a cut to a context-less image of Korax on fire. I think the fire is just a special effect laid over an image of a flying bird.

By: El Santo

El Santo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:02:24 +0000

I’m inclined to say the big, silly bird is a cormorant of some kind. Ducks generally hold their necks out straight in flight, rather than in the s-shape posture seen in those screencaps, and I’ve never seen a duck with such a proportionately huge wingspan. Pelicans, meanwhile, normally have much larger beaks than that, and their bodies tend not to be so tubby.

By: lyzard

lyzard — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:01:44 +0000

What’s that quote from William Beaudine, when he was reprimanded for falling behind schedule on a shoot? “You mean someone’s waiting to see this!?”

By: Blake

Blake — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:51:49 +0000

I’d pay good money to see the looks on the filmmakers’ faces if they could see (probably from heaven…or maybe hell) you guys fighting over who gets to watch and review “Prehistoric Women”.