KEEP OPPO DAGON

"PanchoVilleneuve ST" (PanchoVilleneuve) 04/29/2016 at 10:52 • Filed to: None

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vondon302 > PanchoVilleneuve ST 04/29/2016 at 11:02

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Blup blup?

PanchoVilleneuve ST > vondon302 04/29/2016 at 11:04

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If I was a girl I’d totally marry a fishman.

Dusty Ventures > PanchoVilleneuve ST 04/29/2016 at 12:15

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Cthulhu is not a dragon

Cthulhu would kill you for calling him a dragon

Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Dusty Ventures 04/29/2016 at 13:01

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Do you even Shadow Over Innsmouth, bro? Y’all need some Obed Marsh.

The Deep Ones are servants of Father Dagon (or maybe Mother Hydra, it’s not clear).

Although, I will admit, the best part of the story (and the best thing Lovecraft ever wrote besides The Cats of Ulthar) is where Zadok is telling the story of Obed Marsh and the Esoteric Order and it’s this long boring story that goes on and on and on and then he just goes “IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAG’N!” mid-sentence and all hell breaks loose.

Sorry, I’m a huge Lovecraft nerd. I mean the thing that has me most excited about the Dr. Strange movie is how one of the most important members of his rogue’s gallery is Shuma-Gorath, one of the names of Shub-Niggurath, that was added to the Marvel universe when they bought the comic book rights to Conan from the estate of Robert E. Howard, who was a big fan and later close friend of Lovecraft, and featured multiple Great Old Ones in his Kull the Conqueror and Conan stories.

REGULAR NON COSMIC HORROR OPPO WILL RESUME IMMEDIATELY.

Dusty Ventures > PanchoVilleneuve ST 04/29/2016 at 13:53

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You are nerding in good company, my friend. Personally I love The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At The Mountains Of Madness

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Dusty Ventures 04/29/2016 at 14:16

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I want to slap the shit out of James Cameron, since he is the producer on Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness film, and he said that production of AtMoM would start as soon as filming wrapped on the Avatar sequels, freeing up the 3D cameras. Since the first two sequels to movie people only went to see so they could go “whoa this movie has more D than we’re used to” are currently filming, it seemed like we’d finally get a proper Lovecraft movie, and we’d be getting it soon. AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE CAMERON GOES AND ANNOUNCES ANOTHER TWO BULLSHIT AVATAR SEQUELS THAT NOBODY WILL GO SEE AND THAT HE’S SHOOTING THEM CONCURRENTLY WITH THE REST OF THE “HEY I’M SPENDING A TON OF MONEY ON MOVIES TO CONTINUE A STORY NOBODY CARES ABOUT BECAUSE AVATAR WAS JUST A TECH DEMO” SEQUELS CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION. And that makes me real sad. Guillermo del Toro is a genius, he really is, and he’s been trying to get At the Mountains of Madness made for YEARS now, but unfortunately, he’s also the mirror universe Ridley Scott. Where Ridley Scott’s movies get fucked over and ruined AFTER they finish getting made, del Toro has a long history of his movies getting fucked over before he even starts making it.

I mean, a few years back, when the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were making all the money in the world for Disney, they signed him on to do the whole “take the framework of a Disney ride and make an actual good movie out of it” thing with The Haunted Mansion, which he planned on making as a combination traditional ghost story and vintage Hammer Horror homage, basically creating the most awesome thing in the world. That movie, along with a planned Jungle Cruise movie starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, died when Disney failed to understand that there was more that people liked about Pirates besides Jack Sparrow.

Seriously, though, my dream Lovecraft movie is an adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, made as a mockumentary assembled from footage and photographs taken during the Secret Service’s investigation of Obed Marsh and the Esoteric Order of Dagon.