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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8557734" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 92: February 1994part 4/5Contest: The contest this month is another character statting one. An exceedingly large-footed ogre guarding a door, and a rogueish looking sort who's trying to negotiate or trick his way through. Come up with statistics, history & motivations for them both in 1000 words or less. Will anyone come up with a particularly inventive twist on the idea?Into The Dark: More animated toys? Resilient little things, aren't they. Let's see if this trio are any fun to play with.Pinocchio is of course the 1940 Disney one. On a technical level, it's an absolute marvel, still beating most modern animation despite the advances in technology with raw frame by frame attention to detail. Storywise, ehh, it's a disney film. You know they're going to sanitise it compared to the source material. The episodic nature of it will also seem odd to people who expect movies to be one big story rather than a bunch of vignettes and the tone is all over the place. Still, not using the formulas later films would stick more strictly to keeps it interesting to watch. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5 takes the Pinocchio story and turns both puppet and his creator into horror movie antagonists. Highly derivative schlock horror that has no relation to the previous films in the series and only got that position as a desperate attempt to recoup a little money from dumb video store browsers. Not worth the rental fee.Puppetmaster is yet another toy based horror that falls on the low end of the spectrum. The special effects are decent, but the story is boring, and made moreso by slow repetitive editing to stretch it up to theatrical length. No wonder the writer didn't want his real name attached to the final result.</blockquote>

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