Interested in the guns that Jack uses. In particular the 'Semmerling LM4' have found one for sale on-line and wondered if anyone (including Mr. Wilson) has used one and if so what do you think of it's performance?
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Having not read the Adversary Cycle books, except The Tomb, I'm looking for them on amazon since I know they're being re-printed to be brought up to date for the re-print of Nightworld.

I found The Touch (7/7/09) and Reborn (10/27/09) on amazon, but I can't find The Keep and The Tomb that have the matching covers that the Repairman Jack books come in.



The latest print of The Keep I can find is from 9/30/08 and has this cover:



I ordered Conspiracies on ebay and got sent the wrong cover, which annoys me slightly, but I'd like to get the Adversary Cycle to match at least.

So, were The Keep and The Tomb printed with the same cover style as The Touch and Reborn are shown above?

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Also, just finished Ground Zero. Nice to have some answers on things. But still, so many more questions! And I hate cliffhangers...

...it goes on sale. We're up against Dan Brown's 5-million-copy print run. Jack needs your help against the flood.

I'm not his big fan, but some of his movies were good, especially I liked Red Dawn and Point Break.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/0...index.html

RIP.

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2007/03/25/invi...echnology/

Not sure if this is the real deal. I saw a news article about something like this a few years ago. had something to do with running a current through copper wafer. If you find anything more accurate post it. You can decide whether this is real or not for yourself. I just thought it was kinda neat eitherway.

Stuntmen is a mockumentary in the Christopher Guest style, albeit considerably cruder, that I found quite entertaining and even poignant at times. If you like Guest's movies then you'll probably like this. Here's a test, if you think "Fred Savage told me to go f*** myself! How many people can say that." is funny then this is a movie for you.

I've always loved films where older people find a spark to reinvigorate themselves and I recently watched a couple that deserve a mention: The Visitor and How About You.

Richard Jenkins, one of my favorite 27%ers, got a starring role and was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Walter Vale in The Visitor. Walter is going through the motions of life when he discovers a couple of illegal immigrants living in his New York apartment and they help him get back into the rhythm of living. I thought the movie was outstanding.

How About You is about 4 crotchety old folks' residents who get stuck with an untested new employee over the holidays. It is fairly predictable but the journey is pretty fun. The incredibly abrupt ending prevents me from giving it my whole-hearted endorsement, but if you enjoy these types of films it is certainly worth watching.

Weird question. Somebody dear to me is moving to the upper easy side at 82nd. This setn off bells in my mind insisting there was a Jack connection. In the RJ universe is there something or somebody at 82nd in the upper east side or am I wrong?

It doesn't get any better than this, it gets really good at the 2:00 minute mark.

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This weekend past I took in a double feature of Halloween II and The Final Destination.

The latter I expected to be crap simply because it is a Final destination film. I expected a lot of gore and creative deaths and I got what I expected. I did not expect a riveting story and sharp dialogue and acting. FD4 did not disappoint in this sense. It was what it was, an enjoyable 3D gimmick.

Halloween II was the biggest disappointment since Halloween I was remade by Rob Zombie. I will say this, RZ knows how to market a film, unfortunately that is all there is to this grim and brutal follow-up to the 2007 reimaging that took the horror out of The Shape.

Zombie spent the first hour of the original remake crafting an intricate back-story explaining why Michael Meyers is what he is. That alone stripped the terror out of the original screenplay from the 70's where Michael was just plain evil...no rhyme or reason for it.

In Halloween II Zombie takes the character into a whole new direction. The shape is now a lone drifter walking his way across IL back to Haddonfield, a trip that takes 1 year as he is guided by vision of his departed mother a'la Ms. Voorhees. For some reason his mom's specter totes around a white horse and we get some psycho-babble script before the titles explaining what White Horse syndrome is.

The surviving cast, Laurie Strode, Annie Brackett and her sheriff father have all been changed for the worse. Where they were once All-American folk the events of the first film have had a tremendous impact on their psyche. Laurie is a wreck who is haunted by nightmares as the titular holiday approaches as does the one year anniversary of the terror she survived leaving her an orphan. She now attends psychiatric sessions regularly as she tries to cope with her loss and resume some sort of normal existence.

Annie, her best friend is now an agoraphobic, never leaving the house throughout the film and Sheriff Brackett is just getting by haunted by the murders that rocked the small town just one year prior.

The opening scene, which takes place in a hospital on the same night of the attack from the first film builds tension that the rest of the film fails to capitalize on. Instead of remaking John Carpenter's Halloween II which took place entirely in the hospital, Zombie thumbs his nose at the source material making the entire opening segment a dream and then proceeds to make his own film and the franchise takes a terrible nose-dive from here.

Halloween II is filled with brutal rage induced violence that is disgusting and vile for the sake of being disgusting and vile. The worst part of the film though is that Zombie took these characters, horror Icons in and of themselves and turned them on their ear.

The dialogue tries to be cutting edge and controversial as two paramedics discuss the joy of screwing dead bodies while they are still fresh. It comes across cheap and pathetic rather than shocking. The rest of the cast curses up a storm simply because that is the way RZ and his regular entourage speak.

Laurie Strode is now a mental basket-case who is frail, weak and downright filthy. She is tattooed and the house she shares with her friend Annie and the Sheriff is in disrepair, vandalized and poorly lit. Satanic imagery like pentagrams and 666's are spray painted on the walls of the house and everything is outdated from the stove to the fixtures. All I kept thinking about when the characters were eating was "I bet it stinks in there." Then out of the blue Laurie runs from the table and throws up for no reason and i suspect that it was because of the odor in the house.

Doctor Loomis, the hero from the original franchise as well as Zombie's remake is now an attention seeking media whore pimping his new book and no longer cares about the lives touched by the monster he tried to cure. It was a disservice to the character and the story and it was just lame. His superhero revelation at the end of the film was flimsy and ridiculous and served no purpose whatsoever.

Halloween II is an abomination of film making and does not deserve to be called a Halloween film. I never thought I would suggest Halloween III: Season of the witch over any other Halloween film, but alas...rent that instead of seeing Rob Zombie's abortion of a film franchise.

Zombie tricked us, this film is no treat.