Logan's Run
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Hey, nothing wrong with being short! It's the "moronic" part that's a deal-breaker. V for Vendetta isn't particularly amazing in any one way... I honestly don't why I love it so much, but I do... It's just so well-done... Avatar, I haven't seen... I actually REFUSE to watch it. Back when it was "coming soon," they were advertising it so much that I actually remember seeing four commercials for it in a row... First one for the movie, then one for the video game, then one for some kind of sponsorship deal (McDonalds, I think), and then another one for the movie as if I'd forgotten. That moment, I decided I just wasn't going anywhere near the amusingly-nicknamed "Dances with Smurfs"...
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Hey, nothing wrong with being short!
Anyone under 5'10" is short! :-)
Ian Shlasko wrote:
Dances with Smurfs
Very good: think 'smurf sex' :laugh:
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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peterchen wrote:
David Lynchs "Dune" from 1984
Not a bad movie, but the constant internal monologues were annoying. I liked the book better, though I never read the rest of the series.
peterchen wrote:
If you arrive at Charlie Chaplins great movies, Langs Metropolis or at Eisensteins Potemkin
Ugh... Had to watch some of those in this film class I took in college... *shudder*... The slapstick bored me out of my mind too... And there was one other... Something about Paris... "A night in Paris" or something like that... So boring... Not a fan of "classic" movies...
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Not the Last Tango in Paris was it? They should have had Fanta instead.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Hey, nothing wrong with being short!
Anyone under 5'10" is short! :-)
Ian Shlasko wrote:
Dances with Smurfs
Very good: think 'smurf sex' :laugh:
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
digital man wrote:
Anyone under 5'10" is short!
Bah, I'm about 5'8", and I'm only a little below average... My last girlfriend was 5'1"... THAT's short. :)
digital man wrote:
Very good: think 'smurf sex'
Man, now I'm gonna have nightmares...
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Not the Last Tango in Paris was it? They should have had Fanta instead.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
I dunno... Tried to block out most of that course... Just remember something about Paris... Might have been an old silent film. They even made us watch Apocalypse Now... Another one that everyone thinks is so amazing, but I thought was incredibly dull.... Except for the airborne cavalry... The attack choppers blasting Flight of the Valkyries... That was just awesome.
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With or without the holo-projection? Because that was neat :)
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I dunno... Tried to block out most of that course... Just remember something about Paris... Might have been an old silent film. They even made us watch Apocalypse Now... Another one that everyone thinks is so amazing, but I thought was incredibly dull.... Except for the airborne cavalry... The attack choppers blasting Flight of the Valkyries... That was just awesome.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
They even made us watch Apocalypse Now... Another one that everyone thinks is so amazing, but I thought was incredibly dull
That's because you were a student then. I've never known a student who was awake enough in the morning to enjoy the smell of anything, let alone fresh napalm.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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The Sean Connery thing? Man, you just gotta wonder how much he was paying his agent back then to get stuck with such incredibly bad gigs (like the whole Green Man thing).
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Copywriting ServicesThat's the one. *shudders* I can only imagine that everyone involved in that film was on huge amounts of cocaine. There's simply no other explanation! :)
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digital man wrote:
Anyone under 5'10" is short!
Bah, I'm about 5'8", and I'm only a little below average... My last girlfriend was 5'1"... THAT's short. :)
digital man wrote:
Very good: think 'smurf sex'
Man, now I'm gonna have nightmares...
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
My last girlfriend was 5'1"
I once went out with a girl who was 4'11". That was weird. I'm 6'. If she wore blue it was like going out with a smurf. :-)
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
Hey, nothing wrong with being short!
Anyone under 5'10" is short! :-)
Ian Shlasko wrote:
Dances with Smurfs
Very good: think 'smurf sex' :laugh:
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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Only a matter of time. I love how scfi-fi comes up with advanced things and then real life seems to catch up with it about 3-4 years later. Mind you even that gap is closing.
What about when they're not "advanced" things? Demolition Man: "Yes, the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library--" "Wait, he was PRESIDENT!?" Ten years later, we have the Governator...
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
My last girlfriend was 5'1"
I once went out with a girl who was 4'11". That was weird. I'm 6'. If she wore blue it was like going out with a smurf. :-)
Tychotics "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
See, you need to hook up with the tall ones, because they wouldn't be caught dead with a shorter guy.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
They even made us watch Apocalypse Now... Another one that everyone thinks is so amazing, but I thought was incredibly dull
That's because you were a student then. I've never known a student who was awake enough in the morning to enjoy the smell of anything, let alone fresh napalm.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Hey, I said the airborne cavalry was cool... It's just the rest of the movie that put me to sleep... The professor even spent almost an entire class talking about the scene where they used the cow being slaughtered to parallel what was happening to the man...
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What about when they're not "advanced" things? Demolition Man: "Yes, the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library--" "Wait, he was PRESIDENT!?" Ten years later, we have the Governator...
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Just watched this old movie for the first time yesterday... I know it's supposed to be required viewing for all self-proclaimed geeks (Along with Blade Runner, which was much better), so I dutifully put in the two hours to subject my neurons to this incredibly dull film... Now I realize this movie was made several years before I was born... But come on... Were all movies that SLOW? More than a few times, when the characters were escaping from the city and seeing all of those "new" (old) things, and going on and on about how strange they were, I found myself saying out loud... "Ok, we get it, let's move on..." Sure, the different perspective is kind of interesting for a couple minutes, and I assume that it was new and revolutionary when it first came out... But it was just so painfully slow and drawn-out... Not as bad as "2001," but still... Ugh... Oh, and on a side note... First time I saw the main character, the first thing that went through my mind was, "Hello, Austin. I'm Basil Exposition, from British Intelligence." Fun little laugh...
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Were all movies that SLOW?
I like slow movies. Life is too fast, I could use some break at least when watching a movie. Of course, it does not mean I like baseball - that would be a step too far :)
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There was a Woody Allen film (clearly some years ago) where they had a TV imbedded in the wall (WOW!) to indicate that they were part fo a futuristic society. It was still clearly a CRT but at the time, incredible!
Hey, I don't have a TV embedded in my wall! Now where's my flying car!?
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Hey, I don't have a TV embedded in my wall! Now where's my flying car!?
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You got £50k?[^] :)
Well, I don't want it NOW... I could have used it before I moved into the city... Heh Anyway... George Jetson folded his flying car into a briefcase... I want that.
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Well, I don't want it NOW... I could have used it before I moved into the city... Heh Anyway... George Jetson folded his flying car into a briefcase... I want that.
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Oh they're working on that... ... *conference call* ... ..wait, what do you mean the Iron Man 2 trailer doesn't depict real events? :sigh:
Still gotta watch that trailer...
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Just watched this old movie for the first time yesterday... I know it's supposed to be required viewing for all self-proclaimed geeks (Along with Blade Runner, which was much better), so I dutifully put in the two hours to subject my neurons to this incredibly dull film... Now I realize this movie was made several years before I was born... But come on... Were all movies that SLOW? More than a few times, when the characters were escaping from the city and seeing all of those "new" (old) things, and going on and on about how strange they were, I found myself saying out loud... "Ok, we get it, let's move on..." Sure, the different perspective is kind of interesting for a couple minutes, and I assume that it was new and revolutionary when it first came out... But it was just so painfully slow and drawn-out... Not as bad as "2001," but still... Ugh... Oh, and on a side note... First time I saw the main character, the first thing that went through my mind was, "Hello, Austin. I'm Basil Exposition, from British Intelligence." Fun little laugh...
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)I was a teenager when Logan's Run came out and it was considered dull and extremely stupid then. Star Wars came out a year later and blew everyone socks off. (Star Wars played on more than one screen a multiplex theater near me in upstate New York for well over a year.) I forced myself to watch "2001" a few years ago on TCM. I'd forgotten how long the LSD scenes took and just how lame they were. A lot of really dull movies came out in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I never took drugs, but once commented to a friend who's about ten years older that you must have had to have been high to enjoy many of these borefests. He said that he was high and still didn't enjoy them.