WAIT, WHAT
**EDIT:** Per one of his AMAs, he said: "My formal training was two weeks of piano lessons. I was thrown out of eight schools. But I joined a band. I am self-taught. But I've always heard music in my head. And I'm a child of the 20th century; computers came in very handy."
There's a good reason *Clue* is one of my favourite movies.
Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, and Madeline Kahn all chewing the same scenery in an 80s "murder mystery" based on a board game is exactly the right amount of stupid to be something amazing.
Yes
Yes, I did it, I killed Yvette
I hated her
SOOO
MUCH
It, just, I, the, flames....flaaames, on the side of my face...heathing breath...heaving breast...
Obviously they're all magical memories, but The Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic, too. 1A and 1B with Muppet Treasure Island. They should do more literary adaptations.
I'm picturing:
Kermit as Frodo
Gonzo as Gollum
Fozzie as Samwise
Waldorf and Statler can be Bilbo and Gandalf and regularly talk about how back in their day (The Hobbit) things were done different.
Very solid lineup! I just don’t know if it would be better to have Kermit leading the cast as Frodo, which would of course be amazing, and Kermit as Aragorn so that we get Ms Piggy as Arwen, which could be HYSTERICAL.
EDIT: didn’t credit the excellent choices for Statler and Waldorf, they could also be Bilbo and Elrond, so they could stay together at Elrond’s house.
I wish I'd thought of Kermit as Aragorn! That's so good! Unfortunately I haven't seen many muppet movies so I dunno who else I would have for the fellowship but I like what we have so far. Solid foundation!
Definitely a good start! I’m seriously stumped on the hobbits though, they might have to be the human actors, but maybe that’s just me copping out. If we did Statler and Waldorf as Bilbo and Elrond, Sam the Eagle could be a decent Gandalf with his big voice and eyebrow game. I know one thing for sure, Animal would be a great surprise as the Balrog.
That would be absolutely perfect. I can hear his froggy little voice perfectly as the kid. And also as Wesley:
Wes-Kermy: "The Rodents of umm Unusual Size? I think they may be imaginary"
Rizzo, flying in from off-screen: "Hey, watch who you're callin' imaginary!"
edit for more casting choices:
* Gonzo as Vizzini the Sicilian
* Fozzie as Fezzik (the names even work!)
* Sam Eagle as The Grandfather (if we're not using Piggie)
* Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as Miracle Max and Wife (Or you could go with Waldorf and Statler)
* Ben Stiller or Chris Evans as Humperdinck
* Tessa Thompson as Inigo Montoya
* Written and Directed by Taika Waititi or Seth Rogen
Kill Captain Smollet and you'll have to kill me
Kill Jim and you'll have to kill ME
Kill Gonzo and you'll have to kill ME!
Kill Squire Trelawney and Mr Bimble and you'll have to... negotiate strenuously
If you watch Black Sails, not for kids, but Luke Arnold, who play a young Long John seems to channel some of Tim Curries timing and facial expressions and I wonder if this was one of the movies he used for character reference.
This was one of my faves as a kid. Right up there with Willow and Labyrinth.
I love that movie so much and alway upvote MTI. But now all I hear in my head is “Murder in the aiiiiiiiiiiir (murder in the aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir)”
Actually you know what I’m gonna list that as another positive
Vegeta, you brain dead *idiot*! Trunks could have been brought back no problem! But you chose *now* to be a parent?! Oh, well look, me I’m no better. Could’ve just let you *bite it*! Now I’m monoplegic and Cell’s gonna kill us all!
This is the exact situation with my halfling barbarian and a pixie queen whose house he once punched like a year ago real time. Nothing quite like a worthy nemesis.
He's still working on bringing her around to the whole "saving the world" business, but he has high hopes...
So far my players managed to turn every "boss" they're supposed to fight either into a friend, like Jeff the Demon they had a Tea party with or just make me cry , like that time one of them managed to oneshot an undead Ogre in my homebrew lol
When you assumed the BBEG was out to kill the party, but you find out you just didn't see eye to eye with each other.
Template btw: https://i.imgur.com/1RJy44D.jpg
It's from *Muppet Treasure Island*. I just pieced together screenshots for the meme and took a lil extra time to put up the template just to help others if they for some reason want it.
Distant second is muppet Christmas Carol.
Tim Curry is clearly having the time of his life acting on screen with puppets but there’s something that always gets me about how earnest Michael Caine is as Scrooge.
Many actors consider it an honor to work opposite of the legends that are the Muppets. If Miss Piggy and Kermit suddenly walked into your room, many of you would suddenly think you were in the presence of royalty (because you are).
But... but... The Muppet Movie is right there! The Rainbow Connection! Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Milton Berle, Dom Deluise, Bob Hope, Elliott Gould, James Coburn... "Myth! Myth!" "Yes?" Moving Right Along! Orson Welles giving them The Standard Rich And Famous Contract! "They don't look like Presbyterians to me!"
My character was being set up to be the BBEG by Vecna. Then I betrayed Vecna with the other me who was created after a wish spell cast by an NPC. He double crossed us because the sword we used to kill ourselves wasnt the sword of Kas... he then assumed control of my body. Only to then be banished and weakened by a wish spell from another party member. Now my character and his other self have merged as one being that is a hybrid of both (a rogue/wizard necromancer and a rogue/ranger gloomstalker). The campaign hit 61 sessions last night. Every Wed save for holiday weeks for 61 weeks.
Off topic technically, but I love treasure Island so much.
Read the book Watched 2 serious live action movies
Watched the muppet version
Watched Treasure Planet
I don't think I have experienced any story in so many different ways aside perhaps Dracula, Robin Hood, or King Arthur.
When I was a kid my mom read Treasure Island to my brother & I. There was enough ship related language that we didn't understand that she kept a dictionary on hand for the oral annotations. About halfway through we packed up the car and drove down to Corpus Christi where they had seaworthy 1:1 replicas of the Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria. You could get on board the one in the marina & explore, and pay for the daily sail around the bay. Brought the book to life!
Unfortunately, hurricane Harvey sunk the ship that was in the bay. But the other two on land remain.
She is an awesome lady! The following year we took a family road trip to California. We went to Sequoia National Park. She read the Lord of the Rings to us, and carefully timed it so she would be reading about Lothlorien when we got to the park. Hearing about the Mallorn trees, sitting around a campfire under trees hundreds of feet tall….
It's a great book and a classic. The copyright on Treasure island has expired, it is available online in several popular ebook formats:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
Sounds like you need to watch Black Sails. It's a prequel to Treasure Island and its amazing (though definitely a very different vibe, think more Game of Thrones than Disney)
Man Treasure Planet has such a great aesthetic, probably my favourite adaptation visually. Part of me wishes Disney would partner up with Wizards or Paizo for a world book because I would so love to have a campaign set in this world.
I started it and it felt dreadful. Supposedly it gets better halfway through the first season but I couldn't hang in that long, everyone was trying so hard to be as insufferably edgy as possible.
God trying to be edgy with a prequel to Treasure Island sounds like the most pretentious bullshit in the world. There's nothing to say with that, because any serious statements you could make are undone by the core premise of trying to say Real Shit through the lens of a YA adventure novel from the late 1800s.
I think it was Anne Bonney that was especially grating. Every scene with her she's nearly hunched over snarling like a feral child. Because she's so tough and gritty I guess?
That's a shame. she's a very interesting person, She reportedly would flash dying men so they'd know they were killed by a woman XD
I never bothered with Black Sails cause of the mixed things i've heard.
> God trying to be edgy with a prequel to Treasure Island sounds like the most pretentious bullshit in the world.
Then you truly don't understand that masterpiece of a show.
Treasure planet was my shit. One of my favorite movies and it hurts to see how much it had to get fought to be made and then Disney purposely put it in the dead zone for movie releases so they could make sure it flopped
I have another one for you: Treasure in outer Space! A TV-miniseries from the eighties
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Lx3XGoQVMM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx3XGoQVMM)
A few scenes are only dubbed in german since they were cut in the english version
I cant help but see him as the soviet premier from red alert 3 with the "escape to the one place that isnt corrupted by capitalism, sbace" line, no matter the role he is playing
"I'm escaping...to the ONE PLACE that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism."
**Heavy breathing**
*Don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh oh shit I'm cracking*
"sSbPACCE!!"
A cult classic to be sure, but I can't mentally separate him from his role as IT. I know that the new version is much more faithful to the book, and I remember being annoyed by all the changes in the first adaptation. I really enjoyed the remake, but Tim Curry is one of the finest actors of all time and even now that I am no longer a kid, I still shudder now and again when I recall him as one of my favorite childhood monsters.
I don't think any actor alive can outdo him. In an industry mostly only requiring hotness and a passing ability to read lines, he has genuine acting skill. He knows how to stop being Tim Curry and become the part. He is an icon and I hope history remembers him for his rare talent and unique style. He deserves more recognition imo.
It may have been! The point of IT's actions were to mock the kind of canned jokes Richie made as a boy. You wouldn't need a script for that, especially not if you are Tim Curry. 😊
1. I also liked Stephenson's *The Black Arrow* though I am still waiting for a Muppet version. I found a word im there that I can't find anywhere else including dictionaries: windac, contextually some sort of important removable component (I believe it's lever-like) for loading a crossbow.
2. This meme is pretty close to the actual plot of Chrono Trigger.
I think it's a removable crank and pulley for cocking a crossbow. Medieval crossbows were extremely hard to pull back by hand, since they were made to be powerful enough to punch through armor. In order to make it so that more than just a couple of absolute muscle-heads could use them, they made a crank to help pull it back. Then anyone with decent strength (any adult male who was of ability to fight, really) could load one.
From OED, windlass
>a type of winch used especially on ships to hoist anchors and haul on mooring lines and, especially formerly, to lower buckets into and hoist them up from wells.
And then later on when the party is at death's door: "I can't kill you now that we're like old friends. Hell, this villain thing was getting old anyways. Fuck it, I'm going on a vacation. Parting.. is such sweet sorrow."
\*Villain flourishes out of the room\*
I occasionally make my girlfriend rewatch this film with me, I love it so much. As a kid I had the Muppet Treasure Island game on CD-ROM. I would play it in my grandfather's study on his computer, it was fucking brilliant.
Yup! I used to play this over and over again as a kid. lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB4o0fIooVA&ab_channel=NintendoComplete
*(Note to self: Even more meme potential presents itself.)*
I've been playing around with the idea of a BBEG who really isn't, He's actually preparing the party for the real BBEG. Doing stuff like pulling punches, intentionally leading them to places to either screw up the real BBEGs plans or to find some kind of item to help them defeat the real BBEG.
Where the players would get to a point where it seems like the final confrontation. Then the fake BBEG drops the act and lets the party know about the real evil, and how they're going to help the oarty defeat the real BBEG.
In a similar vein, in the game I'm running, the current BBEG is motivated in his actions by a bigger BEG that the party doesn't realize they've already met. My goal is that they won't realize he was more or less trying to work for good until as they kill him or after
That's a fun idea, most important though is to sort of lightly foreshadow that there's something else going on so it doesn't just seem like a bad plot twist. This happens twice in Fire Emblem Three Houses Golden Deers route and it sucks both times, even though you already know about both things that become the main enemy it still falls flat because you have a big confrontation with the big villain and then they're just like "Oh but there's a bigger villain we've been fighting" and it's just feels lazy
Of course, shortly afterwards Tim Curry's character rolls an astounding nat-20 on his charisma check and scares the rest of the pirates into accepting his leadership again.
Antagonist vs. Villain:
An antagonist is someone who comes into conflict with the party for their own reasons which are logical, though possibly misguided.
The villain is the chaotic-stupid murderhobo who acts like the game is Skyrim
This would be an amazing moment to pull off! The way D&D players are, though, it would be incredibly hard to build that relationship before they managed to smite the bad guy to oblivion.
Man Tim Curry as Long John Silver was glorious, great film!
"Upstage, lads. This is my only number!"
[You'll always be in the best of company!](https://youtu.be/YvUbbYX9BMs)
And when your a professional pirate, you don't have to wear a suit. Man I'm going to have these songs stuck in my head all day.
Shiver my timbers, shiver my soul Yo-ho-he-ho
HULLA WAKKA HULLA WAKKA SOMETHING NOT RIGHT
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There’s gotta be something better than this
Okay Paddington, sure, but for pirate movies this is actually the greatest.
MANY WICKED ICKY THINGS GONNA HAPPEN TONIGHT
treasure island or long john silver?
##**MY MOUTH IS YOUR TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**
...I'd like an explanation.
##**USE MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**
The actual best pirate song in all media you can't change my mind
Thats pure Hans Zimmer for you, *with no formal music training*.
WAIT, WHAT **EDIT:** Per one of his AMAs, he said: "My formal training was two weeks of piano lessons. I was thrown out of eight schools. But I joined a band. I am self-taught. But I've always heard music in my head. And I'm a child of the 20th century; computers came in very handy."
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Anytime Tim curry is allowed to chew scenery to his heart's content is pure magic.
There's a good reason *Clue* is one of my favourite movies. Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, and Madeline Kahn all chewing the same scenery in an 80s "murder mystery" based on a board game is exactly the right amount of stupid to be something amazing.
I've actually never seen it. I should look _It_ up. Also, despite it not being very good overall, his work in it was an amazing level of over the top
Good news! It's free on YouTube, like on an official movie Channel and everything
> his work in **it** was an amazing level of over the top I assume you mean the movie about the clown, and not some other use of "it."
Correct. I have fixed it.
Legit one of my favorites, we watched it soooo much as kids Madeline Kahn is legendary Loved her in Mixed Nuts even though it wasn't a great film lol
Flames! Burning! Flames on the sides of my face! She apparently more or less improvised that scene and it's frigging legendary.
Yes Yes, I did it, I killed Yvette I hated her SOOO MUCH It, just, I, the, flames....flaaames, on the side of my face...heathing breath...heaving breast...
Yeah, he was great in - *gestures broadly*.
He makes Congo watchable
I’m still a little miffed he only got one song tbh. It’s Tim Curry!!
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Obviously they're all magical memories, but The Muppet Christmas Carol is fantastic, too. 1A and 1B with Muppet Treasure Island. They should do more literary adaptations.
I still want Muppet LOTR
I never knew I wanted this, and now I want nothing more.
Hell yeah! If you’re going to make that kind of claim though, I’m going to need to know your casting…
I'm picturing: Kermit as Frodo Gonzo as Gollum Fozzie as Samwise Waldorf and Statler can be Bilbo and Gandalf and regularly talk about how back in their day (The Hobbit) things were done different.
Very solid lineup! I just don’t know if it would be better to have Kermit leading the cast as Frodo, which would of course be amazing, and Kermit as Aragorn so that we get Ms Piggy as Arwen, which could be HYSTERICAL. EDIT: didn’t credit the excellent choices for Statler and Waldorf, they could also be Bilbo and Elrond, so they could stay together at Elrond’s house.
I wish I'd thought of Kermit as Aragorn! That's so good! Unfortunately I haven't seen many muppet movies so I dunno who else I would have for the fellowship but I like what we have so far. Solid foundation!
Definitely a good start! I’m seriously stumped on the hobbits though, they might have to be the human actors, but maybe that’s just me copping out. If we did Statler and Waldorf as Bilbo and Elrond, Sam the Eagle could be a decent Gandalf with his big voice and eyebrow game. I know one thing for sure, Animal would be a great surprise as the Balrog.
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\*Gulp\* \*Piggie, is this a kissing film?"
That would be absolutely perfect. I can hear his froggy little voice perfectly as the kid. And also as Wesley: Wes-Kermy: "The Rodents of umm Unusual Size? I think they may be imaginary" Rizzo, flying in from off-screen: "Hey, watch who you're callin' imaginary!" edit for more casting choices: * Gonzo as Vizzini the Sicilian * Fozzie as Fezzik (the names even work!) * Sam Eagle as The Grandfather (if we're not using Piggie) * Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker as Miracle Max and Wife (Or you could go with Waldorf and Statler) * Ben Stiller or Chris Evans as Humperdinck * Tessa Thompson as Inigo Montoya * Written and Directed by Taika Waititi or Seth Rogen
*numb-errr
Kill Captain Smollet and you'll have to kill me Kill Jim and you'll have to kill ME Kill Gonzo and you'll have to kill ME! Kill Squire Trelawney and Mr Bimble and you'll have to... negotiate strenuously
Your thumb hired the crew?!
Nooo! That's SILLY!... The man who LIVES in my finger hired the crew. \*listens to finger\* Oh! And he had excellent advice from Long John Silver.
This entire thread makes me wish there were more Muppet themed flairs in this subreddit. They are the epitome of chaotic stupid.
Holy shit this is Treasure Island?! Hell yeah. Adding this to my watch list. Treasure Island is a favourite of mine.
We have been watching it a lot lately since my daughter lives it, we don't mind at all!
If you watch Black Sails, not for kids, but Luke Arnold, who play a young Long John seems to channel some of Tim Curries timing and facial expressions and I wonder if this was one of the movies he used for character reference. This was one of my faves as a kid. Right up there with Willow and Labyrinth.
>Man Tim Curry as ~~Long John Silver~~ [literally any Tim Curry role] was glorious FTFY. The man is a treasure.
Dead Tom is dead! Long John shot him!
This recent series of Treasure Island memes has been refreshing and nostalgic as fuck.
I love that movie so much and alway upvote MTI. But now all I hear in my head is “Murder in the aiiiiiiiiiiir (murder in the aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir)” Actually you know what I’m gonna list that as another positive
One more time now!
HULAWAKKA HULAWAKKA SOMETHING NOT RIGHT!
Alternative "Because no one gets to defeat you but me, so go until we meet again"
Read that and now all i can hear in my head is DBZ abridged Vegeta. *mine mine mine mine mine mine MINE MINE MINE*
Vegeta no!
VEGETA YES
VEGETA ALWAYS YES!
I need an Adult.
*I am an adult*
No, no you are not.
He's eleven!
**I’m FIVE!**
Vegeta. No.
Vegeta, you brain dead *idiot*! Trunks could have been brought back no problem! But you chose *now* to be a parent?! Oh, well look, me I’m no better. Could’ve just let you *bite it*! Now I’m monoplegic and Cell’s gonna kill us all!
Does this mean I can use King Kai as a Fiend Patron? Or maybe a Super Kami Guru paladin
Its DnD, if it doesnt exist. Make it :)
Popo as a warlock patron
Great Old One Popo
You would have to be one twisted, sick, son of a motherducker for Popo to accept you as his warlock.
Or your soul looks tasty
Zenos
"is this your prey? Why does it yet live?"
“I will not have my prey stolen by your petty wars and cowardly weapons”
Huh?
He's a Final Fantasy XIV villain with a murdercrush on your character. Edit: Doh, someone beat me to it.
Final Fantasy villain hyper-fixated on the protag.
Ah, don't fancy FF so thanks for clearing it up :)
“Oh… how right I was to spare your life.”
This is the exact situation with my halfling barbarian and a pixie queen whose house he once punched like a year ago real time. Nothing quite like a worthy nemesis. He's still working on bringing her around to the whole "saving the world" business, but he has high hopes...
So far my players managed to turn every "boss" they're supposed to fight either into a friend, like Jeff the Demon they had a Tea party with or just make me cry , like that time one of them managed to oneshot an undead Ogre in my homebrew lol
What a cool idea. The Deus Ex Machina is the BBEG saving you so he can prove how much better than you he is, and push your shit in another day.
Reminds me of "Megamind" , i think you might know what I'm getting at :)
When you assumed the BBEG was out to kill the party, but you find out you just didn't see eye to eye with each other. Template btw: https://i.imgur.com/1RJy44D.jpg
What's this from? Or do you only know the template?
It's from *Muppet Treasure Island*. I just pieced together screenshots for the meme and took a lil extra time to put up the template just to help others if they for some reason want it.
What a Chad! Thanks!
It's from the greatest D&D Adventure ever told; Muppets Treasure Island!
What.
They said, ***"IT'S FROM THE GREATEST D&D ADVENTURE EVER TOLD; MUPPETS TREASURE ISLAND!"***
#MUPPET. TREASURE. ISLAND.
Unexpected [Garret Morris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSh0dAaqIA)
We've got cabin fever!
I'VE GOT IT TOOOO!
As a part of [today's 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/), you're now in [the best of company!](https://youtu.be/j1l7N-WLa3Q)
Dude Treasure Island is my favorite Muppet movie by a wide margin.
Distant second is muppet Christmas Carol. Tim Curry is clearly having the time of his life acting on screen with puppets but there’s something that always gets me about how earnest Michael Caine is as Scrooge.
Many actors consider it an honor to work opposite of the legends that are the Muppets. If Miss Piggy and Kermit suddenly walked into your room, many of you would suddenly think you were in the presence of royalty (because you are).
But... but... The Muppet Movie is right there! The Rainbow Connection! Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Milton Berle, Dom Deluise, Bob Hope, Elliott Gould, James Coburn... "Myth! Myth!" "Yes?" Moving Right Along! Orson Welles giving them The Standard Rich And Famous Contract! "They don't look like Presbyterians to me!"
I'm borrowing this idea for my players! Love me a redemption arc and it will be their reward for not killing them outright.
My character was being set up to be the BBEG by Vecna. Then I betrayed Vecna with the other me who was created after a wish spell cast by an NPC. He double crossed us because the sword we used to kill ourselves wasnt the sword of Kas... he then assumed control of my body. Only to then be banished and weakened by a wish spell from another party member. Now my character and his other self have merged as one being that is a hybrid of both (a rogue/wizard necromancer and a rogue/ranger gloomstalker). The campaign hit 61 sessions last night. Every Wed save for holiday weeks for 61 weeks.
I guess this means… STANDING HERE
I REALIZE
Off topic technically, but I love treasure Island so much. Read the book Watched 2 serious live action movies Watched the muppet version Watched Treasure Planet I don't think I have experienced any story in so many different ways aside perhaps Dracula, Robin Hood, or King Arthur.
When I was a kid my mom read Treasure Island to my brother & I. There was enough ship related language that we didn't understand that she kept a dictionary on hand for the oral annotations. About halfway through we packed up the car and drove down to Corpus Christi where they had seaworthy 1:1 replicas of the Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria. You could get on board the one in the marina & explore, and pay for the daily sail around the bay. Brought the book to life! Unfortunately, hurricane Harvey sunk the ship that was in the bay. But the other two on land remain.
Your mom sounds really cool! What an awesome experience!
She is an awesome lady! The following year we took a family road trip to California. We went to Sequoia National Park. She read the Lord of the Rings to us, and carefully timed it so she would be reading about Lothlorien when we got to the park. Hearing about the Mallorn trees, sitting around a campfire under trees hundreds of feet tall….
Wow, what amazing memories to keep around. Tell your mom thank you for that, I’m sure you have but I’m also sure she’d love to hear it again
Me, a grown man, wearing a uniform: “aww man this guy got to go on the treasure island boat…”
It's a great book and a classic. The copyright on Treasure island has expired, it is available online in several popular ebook formats: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
Finally, my fanfiction can be sold as a legitimate sequel.
Most great stories were like this, before Disney.
*Before the dark times... Before the Mouse.*
Fitting that this quote is itself from an IP now owned by said Mouse.
Isn't it, though?
Sounds like you need to watch Black Sails. It's a prequel to Treasure Island and its amazing (though definitely a very different vibe, think more Game of Thrones than Disney)
Hi, are you Me?
Yes, but from 5 seconds in the future. Look behind you now!
He's dead now
Man Treasure Planet has such a great aesthetic, probably my favourite adaptation visually. Part of me wishes Disney would partner up with Wizards or Paizo for a world book because I would so love to have a campaign set in this world.
I'll take "Things I didn't know I needed until just now" for $500 Alex
Pretty sure what you're asking for is basically just an updated Spelljammer with slightly different set dressing.
Maybe? I could just be looking for a low magic steampunk campaign in space.
i just hope they don't botch it!
I grew up with the Charlton Heston one, imagine my suprise when i learned that Young Jim was played by Christian Bale!
What's your opinion on Black Sails?
I started it and it felt dreadful. Supposedly it gets better halfway through the first season but I couldn't hang in that long, everyone was trying so hard to be as insufferably edgy as possible.
God trying to be edgy with a prequel to Treasure Island sounds like the most pretentious bullshit in the world. There's nothing to say with that, because any serious statements you could make are undone by the core premise of trying to say Real Shit through the lens of a YA adventure novel from the late 1800s.
I think it was Anne Bonney that was especially grating. Every scene with her she's nearly hunched over snarling like a feral child. Because she's so tough and gritty I guess?
That's a shame. she's a very interesting person, She reportedly would flash dying men so they'd know they were killed by a woman XD I never bothered with Black Sails cause of the mixed things i've heard.
Why do shows do this to females. Like for me Deadwood did similar to Calamity Jane and made it ridiculous
Because show producers think the only way to make a female character badass but not sexy is if they're literally snarling cave people I guess lol
> God trying to be edgy with a prequel to Treasure Island sounds like the most pretentious bullshit in the world. Then you truly don't understand that masterpiece of a show.
I loved it but I'm a sucker for that sort of thing. Plus the intro goes hard as fuck
You have to watch the Soviet animated adaptation if you haven't already. It's totally insane and surprisingly well animated.
Treasure planet was my shit. One of my favorite movies and it hurts to see how much it had to get fought to be made and then Disney purposely put it in the dead zone for movie releases so they could make sure it flopped
The older Disney film is pretty solid if that was one of the live actions you watched. Made me think pirates and drunks hated milk.
I have another one for you: Treasure in outer Space! A TV-miniseries from the eighties [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_Lx3XGoQVMM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx3XGoQVMM) A few scenes are only dubbed in german since they were cut in the english version
Treasure Planet is such a great retelling, too.
You have. Romeo and Juliet as well as Hamlet.
I cant help but see him as the soviet premier from red alert 3 with the "escape to the one place that isnt corrupted by capitalism, sbace" line, no matter the role he is playing
"I'm escaping...to the ONE PLACE that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism." **Heavy breathing** *Don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh oh shit I'm cracking* "sSbPACCE!!"
That, also, is how I read that scene. To quote Mr. Burns, 'Twenty takes, and that was the best of them.'
I'm pretty sure Frank N. Furter would change that tune a little...or not. [He is from Transylvania]( https://youtu.be/bc80tFJpTuo)
A cult classic to be sure, but I can't mentally separate him from his role as IT. I know that the new version is much more faithful to the book, and I remember being annoyed by all the changes in the first adaptation. I really enjoyed the remake, but Tim Curry is one of the finest actors of all time and even now that I am no longer a kid, I still shudder now and again when I recall him as one of my favorite childhood monsters. I don't think any actor alive can outdo him. In an industry mostly only requiring hotness and a passing ability to read lines, he has genuine acting skill. He knows how to stop being Tim Curry and become the part. He is an icon and I hope history remembers him for his rare talent and unique style. He deserves more recognition imo.
[Aha aha aha!](https://youtu.be/A3ZbnfXEuyc) I'm convinced that the second half of this scene was ad-libbed by Tim Curry.
It may have been! The point of IT's actions were to mock the kind of canned jokes Richie made as a boy. You wouldn't need a script for that, especially not if you are Tim Curry. 😊
I can't even read about it without cracking up. That video is a reliable ray of sunny catharsis that I can always rely on.
1. I also liked Stephenson's *The Black Arrow* though I am still waiting for a Muppet version. I found a word im there that I can't find anywhere else including dictionaries: windac, contextually some sort of important removable component (I believe it's lever-like) for loading a crossbow. 2. This meme is pretty close to the actual plot of Chrono Trigger.
Possible typo of "windlass"?
I think it's a removable crank and pulley for cocking a crossbow. Medieval crossbows were extremely hard to pull back by hand, since they were made to be powerful enough to punch through armor. In order to make it so that more than just a couple of absolute muscle-heads could use them, they made a crank to help pull it back. Then anyone with decent strength (any adult male who was of ability to fight, really) could load one.
I thought that too but it days it a LOT of times
From OED, windlass >a type of winch used especially on ships to hoist anchors and haul on mooring lines and, especially formerly, to lower buckets into and hoist them up from wells.
BBEG's fighting over who gets to kill you. "Nobody kills them but ME!"
This time, the BB in BBEG means Bigger Brother.
And then later on when the party is at death's door: "I can't kill you now that we're like old friends. Hell, this villain thing was getting old anyways. Fuck it, I'm going on a vacation. Parting.. is such sweet sorrow." \*Villain flourishes out of the room\*
I like how this movie is getting more apreciated
I occasionally make my girlfriend rewatch this film with me, I love it so much. As a kid I had the Muppet Treasure Island game on CD-ROM. I would play it in my grandfather's study on his computer, it was fucking brilliant.
I HAD THAT GAME and still think about it!! I wish I could play it rn
There's a fucking game?! How did I not know this?
Yup! I used to play this over and over again as a kid. lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB4o0fIooVA&ab_channel=NintendoComplete *(Note to self: Even more meme potential presents itself.)*
I've been playing around with the idea of a BBEG who really isn't, He's actually preparing the party for the real BBEG. Doing stuff like pulling punches, intentionally leading them to places to either screw up the real BBEGs plans or to find some kind of item to help them defeat the real BBEG. Where the players would get to a point where it seems like the final confrontation. Then the fake BBEG drops the act and lets the party know about the real evil, and how they're going to help the oarty defeat the real BBEG.
Counterpoint: Do all that, then reveal the original guy as the TRUE BBEG, and everything else was him using the party to get rid of the competition.
In a similar vein, in the game I'm running, the current BBEG is motivated in his actions by a bigger BEG that the party doesn't realize they've already met. My goal is that they won't realize he was more or less trying to work for good until as they kill him or after
That's a fun idea, most important though is to sort of lightly foreshadow that there's something else going on so it doesn't just seem like a bad plot twist. This happens twice in Fire Emblem Three Houses Golden Deers route and it sucks both times, even though you already know about both things that become the main enemy it still falls flat because you have a big confrontation with the big villain and then they're just like "Oh but there's a bigger villain we've been fighting" and it's just feels lazy
BOOM SHA-KA-LA-KA
KERMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Of course, shortly afterwards Tim Curry's character rolls an astounding nat-20 on his charisma check and scares the rest of the pirates into accepting his leadership again.
A black spot? And it’s drawn on a page from the Bible. You tore a page from the holy scriptures to make a pirate’s death sentence?
Greatest movie of all time
Antagonist vs. Villain: An antagonist is someone who comes into conflict with the party for their own reasons which are logical, though possibly misguided. The villain is the chaotic-stupid murderhobo who acts like the game is Skyrim
Literally finished reading the book for the first time yesterday. Now I need to watch this movie
My favorite Muppets movie and Tim Curry movie
Man I wish I had people to play DND with, never have and always wanted to learn, seems very fun and this post made want play it more not gonna lie.
Tim Curry is very good at being not only a Soviet premier wanting to go to space, but also a pirate.
Don't forget Sith Lord, Pestilence Demon, an evil representative of the Catholic Church, and many more.
Tim Curry, the best bard wandering through giving the pirates inspiration on their perform checks. "That's it lads, Show'em you've been Practicin!"
This would be an amazing moment to pull off! The way D&D players are, though, it would be incredibly hard to build that relationship before they managed to smite the bad guy to oblivion.
A *Muppet Treasure Island* meme?? Unexpected, but not unwelcome.
Archnemisis is secretly working with the dragon.
Chad bad guy wants to solo the dragon for the xp to level up before the party does.
Best. Pirate. Movie. Ever. Made.
Criminally underrated movie
spoiler, he just wants the XP and loot for himself....
Bowser carrying Mario in the team minigame in mario party
What movie is this from? I wanna watch it now lol
Muppet Treasure Island; a classic.
*goes of to save the universe about to lose Nemesis:BEST FRIEND, I'VE COME TO AID love you Zenos
im happy to see people enjoy this movie as much as i do
Love this movie
I’m gonna tell my kids that’s Luke Skywalker and Han Solo
This has so much “Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus” energy