Probably, not many people remember James Cameron's summer blockbuster The Abyss, which was released to critical acclaim in August of 1989. While it received high praise for its special effects, close-quarters tension among the hapless crew of protagonists, and enrapturing plot, my own personal experience with it left me much less charmed and much more disappointed.
Also legendary are the stories of the principle cast, which involve months of grueling filming conditions working with and around numerous very dangerous sets and effects. The shot-callers also are described as being uncaring or neglectful of the basic needs of their employees. Reportedly, many of the cast and crew collapsed into sobbing fits or resorted to destroying furniture as a result of their deteriorating mental states. Personally, in experiencing the Abyss I can truly say that I've never felt colder or more alone, while simultaneously shouldering an indescribable amount of pressure pushing on all sides. The final minutes of the film stand out as some of its most criticised. In the words of numerous reviewers, Cameron dives recklessly into the fantastic aspect of the story. By introducing some downright unearthly sentience in the deep dark, he apparently bends his audience's suspension of disbelief too far and breaks the spell. Instead of some mysterious aliens driving the story, in my own experience with the Abyss there were only some docile, albeit ghoulish seafloor dwellers. While the 1989 public may have felt let down by the distasteful handling of the ending, The Abyss left me in the dark, utterly crushed.
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Feeling down in life? Feel a sort of reckless abandon? Want to maybe be cursed to hell? Try summoning one of these demons, taken directly from the Ars Goetia itself. I'll give you the sigils, but I'll leave it to you to look up how to summon them exactly.
Some animals have cool names, like the dinosaur Dracorex Hogwartsia (literally dragon-king of Hogwarts) or the trilobite Solo, from the genus Han. There was even a scientist who named new species of a kind of beetle Gelae fish, Gelae belae, Gelae baen, Gelae donut, and Gelae rol. But some animals were less-lucky in the name department, whose names make wonderful insults to bestow on your down-upons.
A fact is thrown around a lot which states that France has never won a war. (Or similarly that it has never won a war without help) This is demonstrably untrue, both specifically and in a general sense. How about we revisit every war France or its predecessors has won? An asterisk denotes a war France won without allies.
#10: Wooden Armor (Terraria)In Terraria any armor is good, and the earlier you can get some, the better. However, the easiest armor to get, wooden armor, gives you negligible defense. In addition, the first proper set of armor, Copper (or Tin) is very easy to obtain quickly making wooden armor an easily-skipped set of items.
This past June, King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Felipe. Some say that the event, the fourth abdication of a European monarch in around a year (after those of Beatrix of the Netherlands, Albert II of Belgium, and Pope Benedict XVI, of, Popeland), represents a new, younger generation of monarchs that are expected to rejuvenate faltering economies and improve the public's faith in a single hereditary leader for a nation. The reality, unfortunately, proves much more sinister.
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