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| Jurassic Park (1993) chasing Batman (Adam West), Robin (Burt Ward) |
This week we’re going to do something different.
We’re having the usual biweekly caption contest and a bloghop hosted by
Tony Laplume.
Do you think you’re funny? Why not add a title or caption to this
picture?
This week’s caption image comes from BuzzFeed.
Here’s mine: “It figures the ‘Bat-Dinosaur-Repellent’ would be in my other pants!”
Have a better caption for this picture? Head down to the comments section below to throw it out there. The
owner of the funniest and most original caption will be given praise
and adulation, here and on our Twitter and Facebook page.
The contest concludes
next Wednesday at midnight, so please have your ideas in before then.
The captions two weeks ago for “Batman, Superman and Joker Playing Poker” were the best ever, but the one
you voted for was by David Walston:
“Batman to Joker: ‘Are you sure these cards are lead lined’
Joker to Batman: ‘You oughta know, you bought them.’
Superman to all: ‘Guys you should know I would never cheat’
Joker to Superman:’ Thats not what I heard from Lois after that Wonder Woman fling.’
Batman:’Ooo, Burn!'”
Congratulations David!
Now it’s your turn. How would you describe this scene? What do you
think they’re saying?
If you don’t feel like making up a caption you can still join in. Just
use the voting buttons to vote up your favorite caption. Let’s vote to
see who can come up with the best caption! Click the little arrow next
to the comment. Don’t forget you can vote up your own.
Now for the bloghop: Best and Worst Michael Crichton Novels Adapted into Films
Michael Crichton was an amazing author and sold over 200 million books
worldwide. Many of his books have been adapted into films. 1994 was a
big year for Crichton since he was the only artist to have works
charting at No. 1 in television (ER), film (Jurassic Park), and book sales (Disclosure).
Crichton is an accomplished writer, but he also is the creator of some
insanely popular science fiction movies. Unfortunately, he’s the
creator of some pretty lame science fiction movies too.
BEST
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
This
film about a group of specialists trying to solve the mystery of an
alien virus is brilliant in it’s simplicity. They made 1970s computer
graphics terrifying.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
This sequel was a worthy, but flawed, follow up to the original film. At least Jeff Goldblum came back.
Jurassic Park (1993)
Crichton’s novel
about a genetically engineered dinosaur theme park was so brilliant that he
sold the movie rights before he finished the book. Crichton’s greatest
book and the best movie ever.
WORST
Congo (1995)
A
1980 book movie about an expedition into the jungles of the Amazon
inspired a 1995 movie directed by Frank Marshall and starring Dylan
Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, and Ernie Hudson. The movie is
the first to make hippos as dangerous as they are in real life. The
mutant gorilla movie was panned, but grossed $152 million worldwide.
Timeline (2003)
This movie was based on a novel about archaeologists who travel back in
time to save their friend from 1357 France. It starred Paul Walker,
Frances O’Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis and Anna
Friel . Unfortunately, it was more of a historical drama than a sci-fi
film.
Sphere (1998)
The
book about a deep sea expedition encountering an alien sphere has good
twists but confusing plot points and a weak ending left it flat.
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
After
the success of the movie, they made a mini-series around the story as a
possible lead-in to a series. It’s a pointless effort. You can’t polish
a diamond.
This post is part of the Tony Laplume’s Ode-A-Thon blogfest
The Ode-athon is a call to write about
your favorite writers. Here I’m thinking specifically of authors,
although I’m already planning to cheat myself with a cartoonist in my
writers dozen (somewhere around fourteen). You can choose one or
you can go with as many as you can hit without exhausting
yourself. The idea is to tell us about the writers you read most
passionately, the ones who have affected you the most, and perhaps even
inspired you.
| 1. | Scouring Monk | 2. | Tony Laplume |
| 3. | PT Dilloway | 4. | Blah Blah Blah Yackity Smackity |
| 5. | The Armchair Squid | 6. | The geek twins |
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"Holy [something, something] Batman!" Maybe I'll think of something something later.
I would disagree on Jurassic Park 2 and Sphere. I'm not sure why they had Crichton write a second Jurassic Park and then they ignored most of it for the movie. Sphere on the other hand I think stayed much closer to the source material, which is a little bit of a problem since Crichton wasn't always the best at endings.
The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead) I'd add to the Good side.
BTW, didn't Tim Allen have the #1 TV show (Home Improvement), #1 movie (Santa Clause), and #1 Book (Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man) in 1995ish? Or is it different because he only starred in the TV show? Either way it seems no one's had that trifecta since the mid-90s.
I'm going to have to swing by later to check out the captions, and hopefully come up with something 🙂 I love the one from last week.
Great Crichton picks! I'll admit I was looking forward to Timeline a lot when it came out, but wow was it bad.
Unfortunately, I've seen Congo and fully agree with your analysis.
Happy Ode-athon, gentlemen!
Congo was not good. I wonder how close the original Andromeda Strain, the one from the early 70's, stuck to the source material?
And yes, The 13th Warrior was good. Very underrated film.
Will have to think on the caption…
"I don't think those were the Penguin's eggs Batman!"
The Andromeda Strain (1971) was a good film.
Congo…For the love of pete why did they make that movie!
Thanks for last weeks win!
Robin: "Holy flocking dinosaurs, Batman!"
Batman: "Shut up, Tim – I mean, Robin!"
Congo was good in the first 3 mins, only because those were the scenes with Bruce Campbell.
Take my upvote for the Bruce Campbell reference!
=D
Holy dino dung, Batman! I thought Jurassic II was one of the worst movies. I was so disappointed by it. But it just may be because the original was so great, II could do nothing but fail IMO.
I told Grant Morrison this never happened, God damn it!!!!
"Run. Run. Pretend we're one of them."
I agree with the bests, but haven't seen all the worsts.