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...um.

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 14, 2007 12:09 PM
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This calls for another series...Mediocre Bits in Mediocre Movies.

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair | August 14, 2007 12:19 PM
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Why is it I can never play YouTube videos on SLOG with sound? I'm running the latest Firefox on a Mac. Anyone else have this problem?

Easily remedied by just clicking the link and watching it at Youtube, but annoying none the less.

Posted by Save us Webgeeks! | August 14, 2007 12:41 PM
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I love the way the camera RUSHES at everything. I'm gonna try to make sure there's some of that in Cthulhu II.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | August 14, 2007 12:47 PM
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I'm convinced that Wild Palms would have been a cult classic if James Belushi wasn't in the movie. Awful bit of miscasting in an otherwise deliciously weird movie... Belushi was playing the whole thing far too straight, and couldn't approach the level of camp that was coming from Robert Loggia, Angie Dickinson and David Warner...

Posted by bma | August 14, 2007 1:19 PM
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Wild Palms came out at the same time I was first experimenting with LSD. That made it so, so much better, but the movie really increased my paranoia.

Posted by Gitai | August 14, 2007 1:28 PM
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You mean he didn't devour all life at the end of Cthulhu I ?

Posted by NapoleonXIV | August 14, 2007 2:17 PM
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The most bizarre thing about this post is that I was just thinking about Wild Palms the other day. I was pretty young, and it was the most illicit thing network tv had to offer. I don't know what made me think of it - but it clearly had an impact on my formative years.

The camera work is pretty great. Belushi's performance (even in that 10 seconds) is awful, though. A grim presentiment of According to Jim.

Posted by brie | August 15, 2007 5:52 AM

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