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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: paul on December 22, 2009, 09:42:26 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_Meadowlands
holy crap. how have i never heard of this before tonight?
this is becoming the "Pleasure Island: A Rock Fantasy" of retail and entertainment complexes.
also, Tom skipped over the part about Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill
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A similar fiasco in China:
http://gizmodo.com/5432221/an-eerie-video-tour-of-the-worlds-largest-deadest-shopping-mall
check out the first comment!
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I live about a half-mile from the almost-dead Rhode Island Mall. This was THE place during my childhood/teens, but has since declined steadily. With the exception of Sears, a Kohls & a WalMart (all of which are physically connected, but for the most part separate from the Mall proper) it seems to only retain a DMV satellite location & The Silver Dragon, an outlet for all your magickal needs. I was just informed last week that The Silver Dragon is gone.
more here: http://www.deadmalls.com/ (http://www.deadmalls.com/)
Walking through the RI Mall is so eerie because I can remember when it teemed with activity. There is the Warwick Mall, about a 1/4 mile down the road which has survived and seems to be doing well.
sorry for the nostalgia trip, but the point is that at least that place had life at SOME point. I can't imagine walking around such a behemoth of capitalist hubris that never got the chance to see healthy foot traffic.
in short, the gub'ment should just bail these jerks out, and turn Xanadu into some weirdo art-space/museum/time capsule where you drive around on a Hummer-tram and witness all the excesses of late 20th cent/early 21st cent consumerism.
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Someone needs to make a ghost mall horror movie. Or has it already been done? (Neither Dawn of the Dead counts.)
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I was sad to learn of the passing of B. Dalton, which was an oasis of culture and sophistication in the Ocean County mall.
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What Xanadu needs is a dose of the good ol' concentrated evil that's inflated Dubai's bubble.
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Someone needs to make a ghost mall horror movie. Or has it already been done? (Neither Dawn of the Dead counts.)
Night of the Comet?
"This place is an absolute monument to consumerism!"
That's a strange line for a horror movie.
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But that movie isn't set in an empty mall, right? There's just a scene or two? I'm thinking of something that takes place in haunted mall from start to finish.
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But that movie isn't set in an empty mall, right? There's just a scene or two? I'm thinking of something that takes place in haunted mall from start to finish.
There's also Chopping Mall, which does take place in a mall, but the mall isn't technically haunted. It is instead infested with killer security robots. Killbots.
I'm gonna go pitch Rob Zombie on a Rob Zombie's Maul of America script.
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But that movie isn't set in an empty mall, right? There's just a scene or two? I'm thinking of something that takes place in haunted mall from start to finish.
Several scenes. Not the whole thing, but a good bit of it.
"ISN'T THAT A SCARY NOISE? ... Let's do it again."
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But that movie isn't set in an empty mall, right? There's just a scene or two? I'm thinking of something that takes place in haunted mall from start to finish.
There's also Chopping Mall, which does take place in a mall, but the mall isn't technically haunted. It is instead infested with killer security robots. Killbots.
I'm gonna go pitch Rob Zombie on a Rob Zombie's Maul of America script.
Let's not forget "Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge"
Which is surprisingly not a Trent L. Strauss production.
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I want something eerie and creepy, not gory. I don't know if Rob Zombie can capture that.
Isn't there a good department store scene in the original Carnival of Souls? Something along those lines, perhaps.
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I want something eerie and creepy, not gory.
I suggest Mannequin.
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Ho ho.
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I want something eerie and creepy, not gory. I don't know if Rob Zombie can capture that.
Isn't there a good department store scene in the original Carnival of Souls? Something along those lines, perhaps.
There is scene in which she is in a department store and is unnable to communicate with anyone, but when she is wandering around the abandoned complex that is a kind of old timey amusement park.
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I want something eerie and creepy, not gory. I don't know if Rob Zombie can capture that.
Isn't there a good department store scene in the original Carnival of Souls? Something along those lines, perhaps.
There is scene in which she is in a department store and is unnable to communicate with anyone, but when she is wandering around the abandoned complex that is a kind of old timey amusement park.
That was a Twilight Zone, right?
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A similar fiasco in China:
http://gizmodo.com/5432221/an-eerie-video-tour-of-the-worlds-largest-deadest-shopping-mall
check out the first comment!
I bet there are at least 200 of these girls living all throughout the place:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06X9qXTvKNQ&feature=player_embedded
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I hate that movie!
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The original or the remake?
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Their problem is that they aren't thinking big enough. They need to put the whole thing in orbit and use a space elevator to get to and from it. It sounds like the best place ever (except the Toby Keith thing).