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Originally Posted by swiss tony
this is by far the best and funniest thread yet. i have to tell you that i have touched on this subject before. i tried to start a thread on who would win between the titans of puppetry: chuckie v's E.T.
mostly i got slagged off for starting a crap thread but i did conclude that E.T.'s chances would be hampered by his crazy hands and that furthermore there would be no way of constructing a vessel capable of space travel with said hands; an obvious lack of dexterity bordering on a severe physical handicap would deter me from allowing him to attempt a tree house nevermind a fucking spaceship.
what about jabba the hutt's jazz band? don't tell me they weren't miming. but then again, they do say a mime is a terrible thing to waste! nice one ash.
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Good point about ET (no pun intended!). Those fingers were about good enough to stick in a termite hill and pull out termites to eat. Not too far up the evolutionary scale, there!
I assume Chucky won, by the way.
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Originally Posted by crabapple
Congratulations! You have created one of the funniest, and truest, threads I have ever seen. This is a pretty amusing topic.
For those of us that enjoy close-ups of hands, but from another zone of entertainment, check out Gerry Anderson's THUNDERBIRDS TV show, which had puppets as its "actors" for the most part.........but cut to close-ups of real human hands because the puppets' hands were not mechanical or detailed enough to pull off most close-up actions. This intercutting has a weird mind-stretching effect.
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Now that I'll have to check out. I must admit, I never gave Thunderbirds a fair chance really.
Oh, just thought of another monster with crap fingers. Not horror related, but one of the Babylon 5 episodes called 'Grey 17 is missing' (oh I'm such an anorak) - horror connection is, this episode has Robert Englund as a guest star. Anyway, a few people are trapped in part of the space station, trying to escape, and they find out that there's this creature there that's one of the most dangerous living things in the galaxy.
Crap, crap fingers. It's about as scary as milk. And they end up shooting it - just normal bullets. Terrifying, eh? (Though I am a big fan of B5, that episode was terrible.)