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Ghibli vs Disney concerning "evil doers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DpniToXq4 my comment One missed on thing about Zeniba. While many consider her good because she welcomes chihero and company, has her guide , lantern, help them through the dark forest about her home. Is hugging and gentle and kind. What is missed to the parallel between Zeniba side Yubaba is the negativities, maybe not evil, in Zeniba. Yubaba lives close to the gates to the living world, so she can actually interact with those who may become lost. Yubaba is like a community organizer of various spirits who have become lost or need a balanced life. Zeniba lives very far so much so even leaving at the early morning by train she can only be reached at night. She doesn't offer any assistance even though she can reach Yubaba's lands as she proved with the paper airplane creatures. Zeniba has never had a child meaning she has never opened herself up to certain kinds of relationship. Zeniba may not have what people can an evil aspect, but she has her own negativity, which i think is missed in ghibli's "good" characters at times. in amendment so @Miguelmunuera2601 are you saying the best writing strategy is to do the nippon 4 act in the jeudeo christian three act.

dark skin women are liked when they are physically exceptional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVcDaKJVww my comment you made me laugh "excuse me white woman, would you please ..." ahh she is a DOS interesting so many assumed she is from the continent. If you ever go to the southern states and see black towns you will see very dark skin black people. good point on lizzo, the idea that black women whose faces are never deemed more beautiful than white women's in white owned media, has to have a body that no male can deny they want to screw is the allusion. And black entertainers especially musicians don't make it better when in their videos talking about the best women to screw, they have so many women who are not black or yella black women. DO YOU KNIT?

so that’s why this scene made Denzel a star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEjh41DCLo my comment the problem with glory is the film while a work of fiction speaks true on a lot of things. But the most important thing it says is, the union won but it wasn't that the union or the confederacy were heroes. but a few of the seeds in that time will start to modulate the usa into the functional multiracial populace it is today, over three hundred million, more racial variance than any other populace under any other government. As Speilberg suggested using O fortuna [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nthojvLZoNY&list=RDnthojvLZoNY&start_radio=1 ] about the inevitability of fate. Most well known in film audiences concerning King Arthur which is a call back to a fantasy past. In Glory, O Fortuna , refers to the "glorious" fate of the usa going forward where blacks and non blacks will fight together moreover in the coming years and moreso beyond the time of the war between the states. So even as the 54 mostly fall , what they begin will be something unseen. A time unseen before. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3sZiVAO0k ; NOTE: charging fort wagner - https://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/glory-an-analysis-of-the-complete-score/ ] The Most Terrifying Trope in Modern Horror (That No One Will Touch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyiNgAXEKg my comment Never heard of Swallow Barn from John Kennedy [ https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/swallow-barn-1832/ , under pen name Mark Littleton] , thanks. Aunt Phillis's Cabin [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Phillis%27s_Cabin ] thanks again. I knew of Dixon but I didn't know he was a pastor, hilarious. The Leopard's spots[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots ] / The Clansman [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman:_A_Historical_Romance_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan ] / The Traitor [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Traitor_(Dixon_novel) ] You may enjoy KLAN IS DENOUNCED BY 'THE CLANSMAN'; Thomas Dixon Blames It for Riots and Bloodshed and Demands It Be Throttled. Jan. 23, 1923 [ https://www.nytimes.com/1923/01/23/archives/klan-is-denounced-by-the-clansman-thomas-dixon-blames-it-for-riots.html ] Within Our Gates from Micheaux is lovely [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Gates ] Charles Chesnutt If anyone ever finds the Conjure Woman I wonder. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman_(film) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman ; ] before passing by nella larsen [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(novel) ] and devil in a blue dress by walter mosley [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_a_Blue_Dress ] there was the house behind the cedars [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_(book) ] The Foxes of HArrow - odd the book doesn't have a wiki page. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foxes_of_Harrow ] Computers can be coded to not make connections, though people may not realize it. Good point on comedy being the way to attack the southern plantation. Yeah, comedy is a tool looking at Get Out, I am not a comedic writer. Sons of Ingagi - first science fiction film to have an all black cast [ https://archive.org/details/SonOfIngagi1940 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Ingagi ] Consider watching the Blood of Jesus, written and directed by spencer williams [ https://archive.org/details/blood_of_jesus ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Jesus ] Nice shout for the innocents, true horror classic [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFEXmmiAt0 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_(1961_film) ] John P Kennedy mentored Poe, wow. Funny how it took to the 1990s for lake Lanier to be revealed to still have graves. Good point on slave narratives. A unique DOS genre , like Negro Spirituals. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl ; https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030 ] Good point on how Victorian mansions and antebellum homes were made at the same time, while the European Victorian broke down and haunted while antebellum became wedding spaces. Never heard of the Changeling [ https://youtu.be/WA-taJ2Ui30?si=HtwWlEGrRer5YrBw ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(film) ] CLOTEL https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/ ANd To see more work https://aalbc.com/tc/clubs/7-dos-earliest-literature/

medieval fantasy is or not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jtEbn2s-w my comment Interesting points. well done. I like ivanhoe. Good point, gawain and the green knight has more in common with narnia not lord of the rings when it comes to a real setting that interacts with the fantastic. I get your point. Folklorism needs to be stated more often. Good points, dragons/elves/magic women with items are not confined to european medeival. You convinced me, fantasy is the genre, not medieval fantasy. 18:56 good point the problem is the way in which history books assess history. 19:57 good quote, people didn't go to sleep ancient and wake up medieval. As i say, the roman empire didn't die when most think it did. 22:55 funny 23:14 great point, technology doesn't arrive at the same time everywhere. 24:31 good point on using communication methods as a determinent. 26:52 good point inhow in east asia, they are talking about who is running things, in that case, 28:47 good point, most people in europe durin the time called the middle ages had a greater religiosity than most fantasy novel labeled medieval have. 32:04 funny how he went from constantine to the ottomans. 35:54 what about european fantasy as a label for lord of the rings/song of ice and fire or similar. 39:23 yes more finesse is needed in how people construct history 43:17 great point , thousand of years and now tech change 45:58 thank you, some wars are inevitable 46:04 great point cause george rr martin once said, what about the orcs how are orc children. so Song of ice and fire is historical fantasy while lord of the rings is fantasy based on multiheritage folklore 53:03 hmm good points, using time or who is in charge is a better label IN AMENDMENT Excalibur silent film edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjyYEQtr3A

Wayne Lewis of Atlantic Starr born April 13th, In 1957 Wayne Lewis- of Atlantic Starr who cowrote Always https://www.al.com/news/2025/06/pop-singer-in-iconic-rb-group-who-co-wrote-popular-wedding-song-dead-at-68.html song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM-CiPKZF4g LYRIC [Verse 1: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Girl, you are to me All that a woman should be And I dedicate my life To you, always The love like yours is rare It must have been Sent from up above And I know you'll stay this way For always [Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers] And we both know That our love will grow And forever It will be You and me, hey [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasin' all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Verse 2: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Come with me, my sweet Let's go make a family And they will bring us joy For always Oh, boy I love you so I can't find enough ways To let you know But you can be sure I'm yours For always [Pre-Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers, Barbara Weathers] And we both know That our love will grow And forever It will be You and me, hey yeah [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasing all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Bridge: Barbara Weathers] Hey, yeah [Chorus: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, you're like the sun Chasing all of the rain away When you come around You bring brighter days You're the perfect one For me and you Forever will be And I will love you so For always [Outro: Wayne Lewis and Barbara Weathers] Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always Ooh, ooh I will love you so For always lyrics from David Lewis Wayne Lewis Funny how they wrote one of the most well known romantic songs of the late 1970s early 1980s while also one of the best if not most well known cheating couple song song SECRET LOVERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwQ-PNJtPg song with stage intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe2UXqFo0DY LYRICS [stage intro] - San Bernardino! (crowd cheering) can we talk? [laughter] Okay. Right now I'd like to tell you a story, okay? But in order for me to tell you the story, you must, you just must use your imagination. Okay, ladies. (gentle music) Okay, first, imagine that this is the finest man you have ever seen in your life! (crowd cheering) Whoo! Is he fine or what? (crowd cheering) But he's mine. And I love him. But on my way to rehearsal, I saw this man. Whoo-whee! And girlfriend, let me tell you, he was finer than my man was! So I wanted to mess around with him a little bit. You know what I'm saying? But I couldn't leave my man, could I? - No. - So in order to have my cake and eat it too, I had to keep him a secret. Do we have any secret lovers out here in the house tonight? (crowd cheering) This is for you. [official song] Here we are, the two of us together Takin' this crazy chance to be all alone We both know that we should not be together 'Cause if we're found out, it could mess up both our happy homes I hate to think about us all meetin' up together 'Cause as soon as I look at you, it will show on my face, yeah Then they'll know that we've been loving each other We can't let 'em know, no, no, no, we can't leave a trace Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are We shouldn't be together But we can't let go, no, no 'Cause we love each other so (ooh) Sittin' at home, I do nothin' all day But think about you and hope that you're okay Hopin' you'll call before anyone gets home I wait anxiously alone by the phone How could something so wrong be so right? I wish we didn't have to keep our love out of sight, yeah Livin' two lives just ain't easy at all But we gotta hang on in there or fall Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel 'Cause we both belong to someone else But we can't let it go 'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real So real, so real You and me, are we fair? Is this cruel? Or do we care? Can they tell what's in our minds? Maybe they've had secret love all of the time In the middle of makin' love we notice the time We both get nervous 'cause it's way after nine Even though we hate it, we know it's time that we go We gotta be careful so that no one will know Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are Tryin' so hard to hide the way we feel 'Cause we both belong to someone else But we can't let it go 'Cause what we feel is, oh, so real So real, so real So real, so real Songwriters: Wayne I. Lewis, David E. Lewis

Robert redford for me is underrated as someone who performed all the roles you can in film making. Thespian- the one who acts/Director- the manager of the collective artwork that is film making/Producer- the financier all films need as a collective work in an unfree medium list of his film activities: actor/director/producer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford_filmography FILMS AS THESPIAN I NOTE 1972 the candidate - a film so poignant it is devastating. My advice is to see "A Face In The Crowd" 1957 with Patricia Neal with this and be amazed. Ever since this film Redford never left the theme of the hidden or not publicly acknowledged government in various ways. I will note the following Candidate films CFers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Candidate_(1972_film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N97UYGGzNU 1973 the sting - I must admit here, I think of me and my father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAIb_J9T5M A note to film making https://youtube.com/shorts/m4xM8lmKEp4?si=tX2nzOyx4hgboqGV SCOTT JOPLIN's Ragtime music was the soundtrack. Marvin Hamlisch said so much himself, when he received an award for the score. And I will add, Hamlisch placement of Joplin's songs, was excellent. Solace https://youtu.be/Pod_Rwrx_q0?si=CRMmkW9AMnngT8d- The Album https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kM5FA8Zvu40Aqvw1dtsHKBxMJDjbsqhW0 1974 the great Gatsby - my father always loved the cinematography of this one, he said that DiCaprio film is... not the same level https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(1974_film) https://youtu.be/deg7g3Z5AHI?si=Ov4_mfG1z7BKtHQt 1975 three days of the condor -CFers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor 1976 all the president's men -CFers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film) excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLNzZsEgA4 1980 Brubaker -CFers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brubaker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scA0vHUcmLM 1984 the natural https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_(film) Final at bat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i94ldGNNSQ0 1985 out of Africa - my parents love the cinematography of this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_(film) The Flight Scene https://youtu.be/KDogVwHqixQ?si=tiD7zdvu7D6F8ivW 1993 the classe americaine - I am going to have to look at this film and see how it dubs. It is an interesting concept. I quote the wiki La Classe américaine (French pronunciation: [la klas ameʁikɛn]; lit. 'American Class'), also known as Le Grand Détournement (The Great Détournement), is a 1993 French television film, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette. It consists exclusively of extracts of old Warner Bros. films, put together and dubbed with new lines so as to create an entirely new film that is a parody of Citizen Kane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Classe_am%C3%A9ricaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8sop56DBUs The director is making his first animated https://youtu.be/Lm7DyvJHxRE?si=EzY9sWrWUG379lg7 2001 the last castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Castle clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yyQMt8Glo 2015 truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(2015_film) FILMS AS DIRECTOR I NOTE 1980 ordinary people donal Sutherland was brilliant to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjlLq1tqmU 1988 the Milagro beanfield war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Milagro_Beanfield_War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuaKVk4hNAY 1992 a river runs through it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_River_Runs_Through_It_(film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIolBViUmc 2007 lions for lambs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_for_Lambs One of the many good dialogs https://youtu.be/V1hQuzJPRDA?si=WrgI1IBRpxrNfkcP 2010 the conspirator - this is my favorite film of his as a director https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conspirator https://youtu.be/wXjFAN73Zmg?si=JE7dtwB-AZdL5794 2012 the company you keep - laboeuf was good in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_You_Keep_(film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ4CTyDwoPM films as producer 2002 skinwalkers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalkers_(2002_film) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqQycRMpMMo Series on PBS incomplete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYk6Q8lybo8&list=PL9PyRItII8cuOh1ohYJtq2OPSe1Ytmtak 2013 the march can't find this anywhere online, not even a trailer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_March_(2013_film) television Nothing in the dark twilight zone episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_the_Dark Redford on Nothing In The Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuuAEEj1fq0 Redford on Butch Cassidy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP8yZi8UsM4

viking aiming early attempts Shadversity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGORk9z5zQ Lars Anderson Viking Archery video short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rii-oWSsU4s long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM my comment shadversity I think you two had good fun with this one. I did learn something. What is clear is, as the common technique changed over time, the media interpretation of the past simply ignored the common technique used in the past. I think that is very interesting. I wonder how many techniques were done differently in various martial arts in the past, that most people today don't recognize. I do think the run test is the one that really makes the case for this style. You can't run with your arms level to your shoulders faster than you can with your arms parallel to the side of the torso. I argue, Viking archery wasn't weird. It was styled for people who shot while running and close chaotic combat, which you guys didn't test. The standing style is best for the large armies, the lines of archers in the roman empire/Kemet empire/Chinese empire. But, the Rus/Varangians/Vikings/northmen were raiding peoples. The Varangians and Rus and Danes and Normands eventually became kingdoms or empires, but the raiding by Northmen occurred from testament to the muslim governments before during and after the formation of kingdoms by Northmen. My point being, the Northmen liked to raid, more than have a huge standing army and I think it reflects how the structure of organizations like the holy roman empire born from a hybrid roman/northman culture was a set of principalities fighting themselves raiding, and the dissolution of the Carolingian empire after Charlemagne died between his sons who raided each other. Raiding culture allows for an army to be the raiding force but I bet alot of raids not all from northmen were far fewer people, and not as absolutely devastating to the raided. So that an army was usually more an alliance of raiders/Vikings/pirates than a regimented army under one crown. Anyway, I wish you guys would had made the following test, on your first attempts with the Viking style. Take a thirty pound bow on the run and try to hit a target middle of the run while running, perpendicular to the path of the run, and after release keep running. And take a hundred pound bow on the run and try to hit a target middle of the run while running, perpendicular to the path of the run, and after release keep running. Then try the same two run's above but have an option of three targets and randomly select one. I bet the advantage of the lower pound bow or the Viking style will occur. What I think it will prove is, while the standing arms up style is better for more poundage standing still in a line of bowfolk or aiming from safe distances to targets, the running style is better suited for a mobility demanded random obstacle environment where one may be alone at times or using a random arrow and unable to stand and shoot. Raiding is war, but it is another form of war. Raiding isn't campaigns of one big army against another big army, raiding can be a group, attacking a town in another country. In that environment mobility is key. you can't stay and set up camp cause the town will get reinforcements that the group can't handle. comment url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGORk9z5zQ&lc=Ugz1DcSkrkdKLciwUdl4AaABAg my comment lars Anderson long version very informative thank you. The question I have is about European media. The paintings show the truth, but later on the styles changed. Were people in europe ashamed cause when I think on the northman method, I realize , anyone can see it suits a raiding culture. not really large lines of bowfolk. Maybe people in europe descended from vikings were ashamed of the raiding culture of the vikings? any thoughts. I can make a modern example. In the USA many white people speak of the earliest and early white european settlers as farmers who just happened to have muskets. Colonial Williamsburg erases all violent actions to indigenous people of the americas from european settlers and their descendents. It is shame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM&lc=UgyFbqqi8q-Vw3Cy3sV4AaABAg&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi good one, but also add, the people telling them they were wrong, never tried to bow while running their fastest in a gauntlet with random targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_UOfqXL3SM&lc=UgxIPp_NaiJSfa0eO294AaABAg.AMiV_GmzeTwAN7li5gdfT-&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi

Sonny Rollins born and raised in harlem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins St. Thomas Tenor Sax : Sonny Rollins Piano : Kenny Drew Bass : Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen Drums : Albert "Tootie" Heath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4DTR0I7xhA Oleo with Miles Davis + Bags' Groove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflCJy8NY1c Doxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWreJOSbIQQ Airegin https://youtu.be/v7PU7e6ZJe4?si=aM41zR-SbaQqwnvW Sony Rolins on being a jazz musician https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fnw9ddw6Lk 0:00 the life of a jazz musician is a 0:02 difficult life because you want to play 0:05 you want to be you want to get to the 0:08 inner spirit and sometimes you drink or 0:10 you use drugs or you smoke a lot you do 0:13 all these things to try to get this 0:16 Spirit out so uh a jazz musician it's 0:21 it's it's a difficult it's a difficult 0:24 existence and a lot of the great 0:27 people that I've known and that in 0:31 history they kind of overindulge and 0:34 they never sort of able to 0:38 balance their their musical life with 0:41 their personal 0:42 life 0:43 [Music] 0:45 um maybe it's NE maybe it's not 0:48 necessary to do that that's another 0:51 question I don't know but I'd like to 0:54 see young musicians coming up that don't 0:59 smoke and that don't drink to excess and 1:02 don't use drugs and don't sort of 1:05 debilitate themselves I think that's 1:10 where we should go I think that's what 1:13 guys should be doing I don't think you 1:15 have to drink and use drugs to play good 1:19 jazz but that's been the model for so 1:23 long that a lot of guys get uh caught up 1:27 in that you know Rollins is the only one alive who is an adult musician in this photo, fitting he is a Harlemite A Great Day In Harlem from Art Kane 1958 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem Musicians in the photograph Red Allen Buster Bailey Count Basie Emmett Berry Art Blakey Lawrence Brown Scoville Browne Buck Clayton Bill Crump[17] Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge Art Farmer Bud Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn Benny Golson Sonny Greer Johnny Griffin Gigi Gryce Coleman Hawkins J. C. Heard Jay C. Higginbotham Milt Hinton Chubby Jackson Hilton Jefferson Osie Johnson Hank Jones Jo Jones Jimmy Jones Taft Jordan Max Kaminsky Gene Krupa Eddie Locke Marian McPartland Charles Mingus Miff Mole Thelonious Monk Gerry Mulligan Oscar Pettiford Rudy Powell Luckey Roberts Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing Pee Wee Russell Sahib Shihab Horace Silver Zutty Singleton Stuff Smith Rex Stewart Maxine Sullivan Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dicky Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins Mary Lou Williams Lester Young Interactive http://www.seewah.com/a-great-day-in-harlem/

My Review of Invisible Raptor Invisible Raptor 2023 directed by Mikey Hermosa and written by Mike Capes and Johnny Wickham sets the tone for any viewer with its opening scene. That tone is one of fun. Any ticket holder or streamer who demands a science fiction film with a serious tone from beginning to end, ala sphere 1998, or a comedic film with high budget special effects, ala hitchikers guide to the galaxy 2005, will be upset. But if a viewer is content for a fun science fiction comedy with a tight story and unashamed while functional ensemble cast, ala Tremors 1990 or Sharknado 2013, this will be one they visibly giggle and laugh with. The ensemble cast all delivers what is needed. David Shackleford's Denny binds the majority of the film. He is sometimes a hero you cheer for, sometimes a clown you laugh at, sometimes a fool you chastise, sometimes a wildman needing imprisonment, but his heart is always in a positive place. The appearances of most in the cast, are short but purposeful, not mere cameos to say they wanted to be in the movie. JJ Nolan,Luke Speakman , Richard Riehle, Larry Hankin, Vanessa Chester,Dave Theune,Bunny Levine, and others all serve a function as a person in the town we need to know about to defeat the raptor or someone we need to see the raptor kill on its path of town domination. Sean Astin character is the Scheherazade, framing the film. Sandy Martin takes over the last act with heroic hilarity to be remembered. Capes and Caitlin McHugh have hard jobs playing the straight characters who also fill all the tropes that warrant audiences amusement, but they succeed. Couples may be frustrated at their teasing at times. Ciolca's score is appropriate. Supports small changes in tone while allows the sound of the environments to do their work. He didn't hear that unique theme that one remembers, but it wasn't needed. Koss keeps the camera level, the images crisp, and allows the unrealness of night light. Too many films today, from all ranges of budget like to make dark scenes really hard to see and that is uncomfortable. I am glad he didn't. Grady Holder, Dorian Cleavenger and the effects squad, had a challenge with the invisible raptor but they made it work. I can only recall one time the beast didn't convince me of its danger in that accidental serial killer sort of way. Now I admit, I personally prefer a more serious tone in general. Yes, I am one of those who will choose to watch Solaris 1972 over Battle Beyond The Stars 1980. But, I don't demand it. Battle Beyond The Stars is fun and the Invisible Raptor is equal to the task with a smaller budget and a smart premise and a professional cast. There is no shame in wanting to see a film to get you to laugh and relax. https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1418802814582521967/1418943622107365406 https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1418802814582521967/1418943658560065578 https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1418802814582521967/1418943671293710466 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22090684/ ALL REVIEWS https://discord.com/channels/1238281346833715283/1418802814582521967