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Saturday, April 25, 2015

V Is How You Scare A Little Kid Spitless


I remember watching V in reruns as a little kid ...

and when that scene came with the good-looking alien woman

stretching her open mouth wide enough to swallow that squirming hamster ...

Gulp!

Sure the special effects seem comical now. 

But it whalloped me as a small boy!!

When the survivor of the death camps explained to the kids spray-painting a V on the Visitors Poster, it impacted me ...

much more than any scene in the reboot of V a few years ago.

 
Sometimes Story trumps Special Effects, right?
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8 comments:

  1. Hilary Melton-ButcherApril 25, 2015 at 1:44 AM

    Hi Roland - I don't remember the hamster storyline - though must have seen similar .. just left the room. The V for Victory - interesting clip, especially at the moment and the faces express the horror, the admonition and the remembrances of those days ...

    Dreadful days ... and we still need to learn - Hilary

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  2. Roland D. YeomansApril 25, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    Hilary:
    Yes, we forget the true horror that Man does to his brothers ... sadly, it is still happening today. :-(

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  3. Stephen TrempApril 25, 2015 at 9:16 AM

    I remember that show. And we eat hamsters all the time on my planet.

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  4. Alex J. CavanaughApril 25, 2015 at 9:41 AM

    Stephen, I'm sending you a whole box of hamsters.
    The original was cheesy, but it was far better than the reboot.

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  5. RobinApril 25, 2015 at 10:28 AM

    I remember watching the original. I also had high hopes for the reboot. I guess the world isn't ready for V.

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  6. Roland D. YeomansApril 25, 2015 at 11:33 AM

    Stephen:
    Yes, that show tends to stick in the mind! You do? The furballs must fly at times!!

    Alex:
    LOL. Considering the state of special effects back then -- they tried. The reboot just was anemic.

    Robin:
    Ah, but the Visitors are ready for our world ... at least our water! Cue the spooky music. :-)

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  7. T. Powell ColtrinApril 25, 2015 at 3:18 PM

    I really liked V. If we open our eyes we will learn all kinds of things in the strangest places. :)

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  8. Roland D. YeomansApril 25, 2015 at 4:03 PM

    Teresa:
    I think that might be the tagline to my THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS! :-)

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