empath: "I really want to like this, but god that voice"
Yeah couldn't agree more, it's too cheesy. The music/visuals/premise are all appealing but the voice is just so lame. posted by Perplexity at 4:47 PM on April 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
How much did all that chalk cost the taxpayers? posted by Iron Rat at 5:05 PM on April 28, 2011
Actually - that voice was perfect, it you imagined the narrator as Lovecraft himself, sitting through a sex-ed class... (Wasn't he a bit, well, "asexual"?) posted by jkaczor at 5:09 PM on April 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
OMG lady, if you're going to reduce a woman's entire reproductive system down to the word "vagina," at least point to the correct area when you say it.
Previously -- I believe "the unknown" referred at least in part to women. So yeah, I think the film was pretty rad.
Now that you brought up the voice, I can't get past it. posted by cazoo at 5:12 PM on April 28, 2011
OMG lady, if you're going to reduce a woman's entire reproductive system down to the word "vagina," at least point to the correct area when you say it.
At least she was equally incorrect in regard to both sexes--referring to the entire male repro system as a one-eyed god penis. posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 5:14 PM on April 28, 2011
Yeah, I think she's an equal opportunity pointing failure. posted by giraffe at 5:18 PM on April 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski? posted by mccarty.tim at 5:23 PM on April 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Also, I've been meaning to check out Lovecraft. My library doesn't have any Lovecraft books, and I'm too lazy to ask for an inter-library loan or just drive to the bigger library in the system, so I'm thinking I might check out a public domain audiobook/reading.
However, if this is how people narrate Lovecraft, I might pass. posted by mccarty.tim at 5:26 PM on April 28, 2011
I liked it, I liked it a lot. Tho the teachers name being Lovecraft seemed a bit heavy handed. Tho I can't think of something more brilliant myself. posted by MrBobaFett at 6:05 PM on April 28, 2011
ElliotH: Getting to the end is worth it for the punchline (if you didn't see it coming).
That was pretty awful, unless you like the idea of sitting through a fifteen-minute film of an actor playing Sigmund Freud lasciviously smoking a cigar. Sexual imagery in Lovecraft's fiction is pretty blatant, and countless term papers have discussed it, always with the biographical note about his minimal contact with women (save for the spinster aunts that he lived with). I think that I might pay cash money not to have to sit through this thing again. posted by Halloween Jack at 6:19 PM on April 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Loved it, voice and all. Another voice actor might be able to improve on the effort, but I wouldn't want to hear it in any other style. posted by jsturgill at 6:20 PM on April 28, 2011
Narrated by Mz. Dubcek? posted by cmoj at 6:25 PM on April 28, 2011
That's the sound of a voice actor who is ravenously hungry for scenery.
It's Lovecraft. If your mouth isn't half full of chewy soft scenery chunks you're doing it wrong. The man's prose is past purple and into infrared. posted by The Whelk at 6:35 PM on April 28, 2011 [4 favorites]
Actually - that voice was perfect, it you imagined the narrator as Lovecraft himself, sitting through a sex-ed class...
I have to agree . . . I think the voice is perfect.
And this is exactly what junior high school felt like. I could have never made its similarity to a Lovecraftian tale before? posted by fignewton at 8:59 PM on April 28, 2011
I'm not sure I needed a reminder of the raw, yes Lovecraftian, horror of junior high school... Man that shit was awkward and terrible. posted by Blasdelb at 10:40 PM on April 28, 2011
Yeah, the voice was a bit much for me, too... Though the look in the Innsmouth girl's eyes was pretty great.
The man's prose is past purple and into infrared.
At the risk of outing myself as a huge nerd, 'past purple' would be ultraviolet. Infrared's at the whole other end of the spectrum. posted by kaibutsu at 10:42 PM on April 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
not sure i liked the film so much, but I will definitely be referring to my penis from this point on as "the one-eyed goat with a thousand young". posted by jadayne at 3:25 AM on April 29, 2011 [1 favorite]
But that wasn't a vagina.
Has the modern trend for linguistic reductionism extended even into the sex education class? I weep for the younger generation. No wait... I don't give a shit about them. posted by Decani at 3:28 AM on April 29, 2011 [2 favorites]
Needs more dramatic voiceover posted by AndrewKemendo at 4:51 AM on April 29, 2011
"Vagina" --- if that's your sex ed classes no wonder so many teens are confused. posted by dabitch at 5:29 AM on April 29, 2011
Kinda disappointed... expected/hoping for a funnier ending. Yecch. posted by kinnakeet at 6:24 AM on April 29, 2011
My best friend sent this to me last night and said that if I didn't think it was funny, we should reconsider being friends.
And now I'm trying to think of a very polite way to say goodbye. posted by jph at 9:20 AM on April 29, 2011
Luckily years of This American Life has inoculated me against such voices, so I was able to enjoy this. posted by odinsdream at 11:47 AM on April 29, 2011 [3 favorites]
MrBobaFett: "I liked it, I liked it a lot. Tho the teachers name being Lovecraft seemed a bit heavy handed. Tho I can't think of something more brilliant myself"
Mrs. ichibun got hung up on the fact that he says he's a moth, and then says he's a butterfly. But it was totally worth it to listen to it the second time just to watch her faces. posted by theichibun at 5:26 PM on April 29, 2011
Stumbled across this on another website. Not perfect, but yeah, if you're gonna do lovecraft, you kinda have to dial the voice up to 11, break the knob off, and then subject it to mind-shatteringly ancient profane defilement. posted by dvorak_beats_qwerty at 6:56 AM on April 30, 2011
I want to like this -- it's very well-made, and the kids are hilarious to watch -- but man does it seem like a loooooooooooooooong walk to get to that punchline. I mean, seriously, does this really need to be a quarter of an hour? I think this could benefit a lot from being cut down to five minutes. posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:11 AM on April 30, 2011
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