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You shall all fear James Mason!

What? Is he inveding the board?
Cool nonetheless. It's the first good book adaptation I ever saw.

I can't actually *see* James Mason.

Vympel wrote:I can't actually *see* James Mason.

You know who I'm talking about Besides, my copy of 20K Leagues
DVD has been lent out to a friend until next week....so this is what
you'll have to put up with

I can see the last two but no the first one They look good though, even though I don't know what all of this is about...

Precious explosives ingredients....The fool, dynamite will make war impossible if we have enough of it.

Sea Skimmer wrote:Precious explosives ingredients....The fool, dynamite will make war impossible if we have enough of it.

Ah but you forget he nuked an entire island just for the spite of it

MKSheppard wrote:
Ah but you forget he nuked an entire island just for the spite of it

But that was to destroy his technology and keep it out of the supposedly evil nitrate and phosphate mining slavers. Anyway, while I only read the book once long ago I dont recall him doing any such thing in the book or even having a base.

Sea Skimmer wrote: But that was to destroy his technology and keep it out of the supposedly evil nitrate and phosphate mining slavers.

Actually, it was the British Empire

Khaki uniforms and pith helmets?

MKSheppard wrote:
Actually, it was the British Empire

Khaki uniforms and pith helmets?

I suppose so. I had always thought of them as an East India Trading Company Redux.

Sea Skimmer wrote: I suppose so. I had always thought of them as an East India Trading Company Redux.

Please, join me in a 10 minute hate of the Trektards...Nemo mentions
"Rura Penthe" in the movie, but every google reference is for
that goddamned place in ST:VI

That is...annoying.

Thats because everyone is trying to find Nemo.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

20K leagues is one of my favorite books of all time.

Vertigo1 wrote:Thats because everyone is trying to find Nemo.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Cute.

Does anyone remember the old Willy Fog cartoons? They were funny, Captain Nemo as a James Mason-esque fox with a big moustache and an enormous organ (oooh, sorry, couldnt resist... ), a completely made-up host of characters including a Russian circus critter, ( I think, it's been a while), and Willy Fog - an enormous lion with a top hat. It was good stuff - most of the big events were there although there was plenty that wasnt supposed to be there.

Although now I think about it, the Persian Cat Princess was doing nothing for female stereotypes at the time, IIRC, she spent most of her time saying things like 'Oh, Willy, I'm frightened...' etc.

Still, the Captain Nemo fox was great, like all the best evil bad guys, with an english accent and fantastic manners.

The_Lumberjack wrote:Does anyone remember the old Willy Fog cartoons? They were funny, Captain Nemo as a James Mason-esque fox with a big moustache and an enormous organ (oooh, sorry, couldnt resist... ), a completely made-up host of characters including a Russian circus critter, ( I think, it's been a while), and Willy Fog - an enormous lion with a top hat. It was good stuff - most of the big events were there although there was plenty that wasnt supposed to be there.

Although now I think about it, the Persian Cat Princess was doing nothing for female stereotypes at the time, IIRC, she spent most of her time saying things like 'Oh, Willy, I'm frightened...' etc.

Still, the Captain Nemo fox was great, like all the best evil bad guys, with an english accent and fantastic manners.

Yes I remember that stupid cartoon.

The worst was Tycho the mouse and Rigodon the cat.

Ps: The most annoying was the indian cat who represented the princess.