Is it Worth Buying?

[Justin101]

I fancy this set because the individual titles are £12-15 each, I'll probably buy it for myself after I've got everyone's Christmas presents this year

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

When you say Phantom of the Opera do you mean Hammer's version? If you do i class that as one of their lesser films. Quite dull in fact.

I used to have a book about horror film, written by either Alan Frank or Denis Gifford maybe.

It has a full page picture of the Phantom in the mask



which scared the hell out of me as a child, and I had to turn over two pages at once so that I didn't see it!

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I used to have a book about horror film, written by either Alan Frank or Denis Gifford maybe.

It has a full page picture of the Phantom in the mask



which scared the hell out of me as a child, and I had to turn over two pages at once so that I didn't see it!

Wasn't this one by any chance was it? I have this book, but seeing as I'm not at home, I can't check?



Incidentally, this is the book Mark Gatiss talks about in the first part of A History of Horror

[Susan Foreman]

I did have that book, so it could be the one

[BAKA]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's young people terminology.

Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary

Feels

A wave of emotions that sometimes cannot be adequately explained.

Watching Back To The Future gives me all sorts of nostalgic feels.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

In reply to the above post.

Older person terminology.

'A right load of bollocks'


1 - An immediate thought when you read what the youth of today class as language.

2 - The youth of today using one word when they are too lazy and/or inarticulate to convey their feelings properly.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by BAKA

It's young people terminology.

It must be terminology used by people unable/unwilling to use the extra syllable and say 'feelings', which would probably mean the same thing.

[BAKA]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

It must be terminology used by people unable/unwilling to use the extra syllable and say 'feelings', which would probably mean the same thing.

Not at all, feelings doesn't do it justice. As the definition I quoted mentioned, 'cannot be adequately explained'. I've yet to read any kind of writing on Bava's Black Sunday, for example, that can perfectly convey how I feel watching it. And I quite like that, Dem might find it lazy, you might see it as an inability or unwillingness, to me it's something very special. I'd almost be disappointed if someone could articulate it. I actually feel a little sad if that's something neither of you have experienced, which sounds like the case from your reactions.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by BAKA

Not at all, feelings doesn't do it justice. As the definition I quoted mentioned, 'cannot be adequately explained'. I've yet to read any kind of writing on Bava's Black Sunday, for example, that can perfectly convey how I feel watching it. And I quite like that, Dem might find it lazy, you might see it as an inability or unwillingness, to me it's something very special. I'd almost be disappointed if someone could articulate it. I actually feel a little sad if that's something neither of you have experienced, which sounds like the case from your reactions.

I have always been able to articulate what has happened to me when watching, hearing, or otherwise 'experiencing' things from concerts to films, music albums to TV shows. I have been tearful, aghast, pained with laughter, infuriated, frustrated, insulted, sickened, and various other reactions have been elicited, but I have never been unable to describe them using free existing words.

In my experience, the need to invent new words is something which a dictionary and thesaurus can easily solve. For instance, I have used the word 'meh' (a relatively new word invented – I think – by The Simpsons) on here to describe films, but that is only shorthand for impassive, ambivalent, mediocre, disinterested or completely lacking in emotional/intellectual engagement.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I'd just like to point out that my post was merely in jest and not meant to cause any sort of disturbance in the force.