Comments on: Holy shaken and stirred!

By: jeg

jeg — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:44:29 +0000

In a Batman movie I saw on TV when I was yea high (starring Jun Aristorenas), the kontra bida was a gal called Katrina, who was a copy of Catwoman. She had several henchmen, one of whom had a speech impediment that made him unable to pronounce the letter S, which he pronounces T instead (‘sakay’ is pronounced ‘takay’ for example). Katrina has a line there where she introduces herself “Ako si Katrina” and her henchman would interject, “The cat woman!” in Tagalog and with his speech impediment. Looking back I wonder how that got through the censors.

By: banzai cat

banzai cat — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:27:38 +0000

as a backgrounder to the review, kim newman is also a pretty good writer and has always been interested in film history and horror fiction, which he combines in his fiction to good effect. for example, “anno dracula” is an alternative history novel wherein dracula married the british queen during the victorian era, jack the ripper was killing prostitute vampires, and helsing and the great detective were put out of action early on. (the bloodsucker later shows up as the bloody red baron in ww1 in another book.) he actually kinda beat out alan moore in using/combining historical and fictional characters in fiction, i.e. anno dracula was published in 1992 while league was published in 1999.

think quentin tarrantino’s hodge-podge of interests but instead of filming it, newman decided to write about it.

(yes, am semi-out of topic but am gleeful that newman actually had to learn a bit of Filipino to watch the movies.)

By: ruth

ruth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:23:45 +0000

The “Chairman” in the James Batman movie reminds me of the Joker in Dark Knight:

“The Chairman himself turns out to be behind the Organisation’s nuclear plot, which allows for a poignant moment as Shirley pleads with him not to pull the lever that sets off the big bomb but begs the question of why he bothers to order the two comical but surprisingly efficient superheroes to defeat his own plan.”