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So cool... I love the dimensional collapsing tech, or whatever they called it... Reduce physical objects to two dimensions and just stack them... Brilliant :)
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Forbidden Planet... eh... I actually remember seeing an off-Broadway show of that... Vague memories, but it was eh... Serenity rocks, of course, though isn't my favorite. My all-time favorite sci-fi USED to be Minority Report, but I just can't deal with Tom Cruise anymore, due to a certain cult that might remain nameless... My #1 favorite is V for Vendetta, but I don't know if you can call that sci-fi.
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Tom Cruise
The moronic dwarf. (He's probably quite clever, really, just terribly misguided. And short).
Ian Shlasko wrote:
V for Vendetta
Not seen it: will give it a go. Saw Avatar for the first time over the weekend. Cowboys and blue Indians but not bad if a little long.
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:
Were all movies that SLOW?
Yes. Compare, for example, David Lynchs "Dune" from 1984, maketed as "action movie" at that time. Today, it's "suspense" at best. (Still, Lynch is excellent in setting the atmosphere, the tone.) If you go back in time further, there's more and more "slow explanation". If you arrive at Charlie Chaplins great movies, Langs Metropolis or at Eisensteins Potemkin, you are so slow the MTV generation already falls asleep by looking at the download progress bar. :rolleyes: (though these are the movies that survived the tides of times. The early slapstick strips certainly were faster - not as fast as today, though).
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.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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Come on, man... The plot... Ignore the nudity for a moment :)
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Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)Ian Shlasko wrote:
The plot... Ignore the nudity for a moment
There was a plot?!?
"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:
Tom Cruise
The moronic dwarf. (He's probably quite clever, really, just terribly misguided. And short).
Ian Shlasko wrote:
V for Vendetta
Not seen it: will give it a go. Saw Avatar for the first time over the weekend. Cowboys and blue Indians but not bad if a little long.
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
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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There is a remake being made as we speak!
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I know Jenny Agutter has aged well, but...
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
The plot... Ignore the nudity for a moment
There was a plot?!?
"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.
Kinda... Here's the summary: 1) I kill people when they turn 30, but it's not really killing. 2) Oh no, it's my turn to die! Well, now it's different! RUN AWAY! 3) Oh look, there's an "outside"... Let's get naked and swim. 4) (45 minutes of them figuring out what "old" means) 5) Let's go back and tell everyone! 6) Boom. The End.
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Good old Tesseract tech. Making anime hammerspace a reality :) On a related note, I did notice that the paper mobile phone she used actually had a prototype shown last year in Tokyo.
With or without the holo-projection? Because that was neat :)
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Oh dear God, you've just reminded me of that interminable sh1te-fest, Zardoz. :(
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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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).
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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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