'V' first look
POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Friday, May 22, 2009 19:58
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Originally posted by zzetta13:
Why are the people clapping?
They're thinking "Oh, good, friendly people from the stars to be friendly with - and hot, too!"
Like all people in movies they've apparently never seen a movie or read a book in their life.
In this case, they've never seen (the original) V, Independence Day, Mars Attacks, heard The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or read "Childhood's End" and don't, therefore no that "giant flying saucers appear over all the Earth's cities" rarely turns out well, even if they come in peace.
Well, OK, the outcome of "Childhood's End" has a silver lining if you're open minded, but...
The sad thing is, if they ever get round to making a film of "Childhood's End" the opening will look soooooo derivative.
Meanwhile, somewhere out there, a small, innocent furry creature is destined to be the most perversely envied living thing
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since Kaylee ate the strawberry
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I prefer her w/ longer hair.
Also, how cool would it be to play XBox on a screen THAT big ???
Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
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Originally posted by Zeek:
I don't think I could put up with them remaking the series. There are always changes in a remake and I don't think I could put up with "we decided to make Mal and Kaylee merge into the new Maylee character".
Could be worse. They could merge Jayne and Kaylee into one character....
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Quote:Meanwhile, somewhere out there, a small, innocent furry creature is destined to be the most perversely envied living thing
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
In a word ImNotHere…..Tribbles.
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Originally posted by Dewrastler:
I've also never heard of the original, but this looks pretty interesting. I also love the cast. Besides Morena and Alan, I saw Joel Gretsch from The 4400 in there. Good to see him on TV again
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He was good in "Taken", too - hated his character, but loved the way he played it!
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As pleasant as Morena is to look at, having a massive ship hover over our biggest cities showing us a video on the biggest damn t.v. screen ever as our FIRST contact w/ intelligent alien life would really suck.
I'm more of a SETI kind of guy, so having zero advance warning would really be a kick in the pants.
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Michael Ironside in the original miniseries was one of my favorite characters too. I loved when they were doing the raid on the Visitor's embassy, he pulls out the bag of the red powder and right before he dumps it on the face of the one Visitor who killed this old lady he connected with, he goes "Say goodnight, hotshot."
A lot of people are saying that the original show was cheesy, but I think it's actually a great bit of legitimate science fiction that dealt with fascism and tyrrany and how easy it can form. If the guys in charge of the remake pull their cards right, this could be a remake akin to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
Two things I want to see.
1. A Willy equivalent character (Visitor who ends up joining the resistance).
2. That infamous reveal of Diana's mouth extending to an unGodly size and swallowing a guinea pig whole. If Morena want's people to forget about Inara, this HAS to happen.
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Originally posted by RIPWash:
In the words of the Martians from "Mars Attacks!"
Ack ack ACKACK!!!
(translation: Don't run! We are your friends!)
Knowing what's coming next . . . . it's kinda morbid and creepifying.
What's coming next...you mean the sudden but inevitable betrayal?
I was fairly young when the original aired and the main thing I remember from it was Willy.
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just found this over on Slate. For those of you who don't like to work a bit, here's a link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2218759/
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V. A remake of the extremely awesome '80s hit about alien visitors. (It was kind of like Alf as a parable about fascism.) If you were not a fan of Firefly or Stargate SG-1, then you'll want to be
introduced to star Morena Baccarin, who might well be in contention for the coveted title of "hottest woman on TV," even after exposing her space-lizard face. Can't wait for the blog posts likening her
character to Sarah Palin.
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
A lot of people are saying that the original show was cheesy
Cheesy doesn't have to be bad - especially if it has been matured for 25 years.
Also (I've just discovered from another forum) that the "original" we saw here in the UK was actually the US original and the cheesier sequel welded together.
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, but I think it's actually a great bit of legitimate science fiction that dealt with fascism and tyrrany and how easy it can form.
Just not very subtly, that's all... I know humanity is pretty poor at remembering past mistakes, but if our new best friends turned up with that flag and those uniforms and immediately started a youth movement, then surely even modern Homo Ignoramus might just twig.
To be fair, though - Babylon 5 also laid on the fascist allegories with a trowel, and Trek used various plot devices to have actual Nazis turn up. Clearly, Hollywood thinks we won't recognize fascism unless it turns up wearing red and black leather with silver lightning bolts. I do hope they're wrong.
Oh, and if you'd previously read the classic Arthur C Clarke novel "Childhood's End" then "V"'s rather obvious appropriation of the opening scenes did rather get it off on the wrong foot.
Of course, then Independence Day nicked the same idea, and that film is cheese, covered with cheese sauce with extra parmesan and cream cheese piping. With extra cheese*.
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2. That infamous reveal of Diana's mouth extending to an unGodly size and swallowing a guinea pig whole.
True. I cannot conceive what combination of misconceptions would lead to them leaving out that scene (or subverting it somehow).
* with blue cheese** dressing
** full fat***
*** in a bagel**** with cheese on it
**** May contain cheese*****
***** ...but still not as bad as Armageddon
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