Two SF movies I ain't never seen, but I ordered 'em to correct that mistake...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, November 13, 2010 07:39
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Quote:Haven't seen the remake, but I'm pretty sure Keanu was Klaatu (the ridiculously-human alien) --the robot was called Gort.
Originally posted by optimus1998:
have never seen either version of "the day the earth stood still"(replace a robot with keanu reeves? perfect casting!)(actually the robot probably had better emotional range)
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Haven't seen it myself. I haven't seen Rollerball since I was a kid, but I didn't much care for it. Probably should give it another shot, see if it plays better as an adult.
Story, yer killin' me here!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
Keep in mind, I'm a whole generation off from ya. That stuff was already dated as hell when I was a child.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I remember as a kid there was this tv show i think it was called ARK the ship was large with 50 bio domes and 3 people would move around the ship having adventures.
Around the same time as SPACE 1999
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I love it. It's like wiping your as with silk.
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Quote:Starlost. Not so good.
Originally posted by meatpuppet42:
I remember as a kid there was this tv show i think it was called ARK the ship was large with 50 bio domes and 3 people would move around the ship having adventures.
Around the same time as SPACE 1999
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:When I was in my teens I had already seen the Flash Gordon serials, King Kong, Incredible Shrinking Man, Day The Earth Stood Still, et al.
Originally posted by Storymark:
Keep in mind, I'm a whole generation off from ya. That stuff was already dated as hell when I was a child.
Don't be pullin' that "But I was just a babe lost in the woods" mess.
The laughing Chrisisall
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So? You were drawing from a smaller pool of films (as the medium was younger and less prolific) during a time when there were far fewer options in terms of media.
By the time I was a teen, I had nearly 2 more decades worth of stuff to catch up on than you, right as the industry was kicking into high gear and making more films, AND as TV drama was hitting it's golden age, AND other technologies were competing for time.
Times change my friend, and with them, context.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Quote:Hahahahahahaah! Boyeeee, I had no internet, no DVD, no VHS! And with the meager resources of the Cinema re-running old movies, late-night & Saturday afternoon TELEVISION, I was able to glean four decades worth of SF in its NEAR ENTIRETY!!!
Originally posted by Storymark:
So? You were drawing from a smaller pool of films (as the medium was younger and less prolific) during a time when there were far fewer options in terms of media.
By the time I was a teen, I had nearly 2 more decades worth of stuff to catch up on than you, right as the industry was kicking into high gear and making more films, AND as TV drama was hitting it's golden age, AND other technologies were competing for time.
Times change my friend, and with them, context.
LOL, if I had had even VHS rental as an assist, I could have cleaved through those 40 years of fantastical footage in HALF the time!
Times change, my friend, and with them, availability.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Hahahahahahaah! Boyeeee, I had no internet, no DVD, no VHS! And with the meager resources of the Cinema re-running old movies, late-night & Saturday afternoon TELEVISION, I was able to glean four decades worth of SF in its NEAR ENTIRETY!!!
Originally posted by Storymark:
So? You were drawing from a smaller pool of films (as the medium was younger and less prolific) during a time when there were far fewer options in terms of media.
By the time I was a teen, I had nearly 2 more decades worth of stuff to catch up on than you, right as the industry was kicking into high gear and making more films, AND as TV drama was hitting it's golden age, AND other technologies were competing for time.
Times change my friend, and with them, context.
LOL, if I had had even VHS rental as an assist, I could have cleaved through those 40 years of fantastical footage in HALF the time!
Times change, my friend, and with them, availability.
The laughing Chrisisall
Sure, availability is easier, which kinda exasperates the problem. Now, if the days were longer you might have a point. There has been more sci-fi made in the last 2 decades than the first 4. And I watch a hell of a lot more than just sci-fi. A LOT more.
And yet, there are still the same number of hours in a day, and I don't just watch movies.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Quote:So if I was in my teens in the mid-seventies, and you were in your teens in the mid nineties, exactly HOW did you have LESS time to catch up on all the SF ever made with all the advanced help? I mean, if you weren't working... a kid & all, how did you NOT do what I could have gladly done?
Originally posted by Storymark:
There has been more sci-fi made in the last 2 decades than the first 4.
Oh wait- did you have a girlfriend? Crap- that could change my whole argument... My first date was when I was 17.
Quote:Oh, like I didn't watch That Girl! & The Odd Couple & Kung Fu & Harry-O & The Fugitive & I Dream Of Genie & Gilligan's Island & Marcus Welby, M.D. & Roots & Rich Man Poor Man & the ABC Movie Of The Week & Dallas & The Electric Company (just for the Spider-man parts- I swear), etc. etc.
And I watch a hell of a lot more than just sci-fi. A LOT more.
No playing a player, Story.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:So if I was in my teens in the mid-seventies, and you were in your teens in the mid nineties, exactly HOW did you have LESS time to catch up on all the SF ever made with all the advanced help? I mean, if you weren't working... a kid & all, how did you NOT do what I could have gladly done?
Originally posted by Storymark:
There has been more sci-fi made in the last 2 decades than the first 4.
Uh, I already answered that. In the 70's, you had 40 odd years of films to catch up on. Sure, fewer venues to watch on, but by dint of that, the seminal films were the ones shown a lot, so you had access.
In the 90's I had 60 odd years of films to catch up on, and while I had more ways to do it, I also had more other things to do.
And sure, we both had TV shows to watch. But TV started with a couple of channels of programming, and still was at what, less than a dozen when you were a kid? There were 50+ when I was a teen, and obviously lots since. Which also means more opportunity, but also a lot more content (since many of those extra channels produced their own).
Far more volume.
And like I said, that's just sci-fi, and that's not all I watch. For example, since I got NetFlix, sure, Ive caught up on some classic scifi I had missed (2001 as mentioned for example), but Ive also gone back and watched (or am working through) every film from Spielberg, Scorcese, Coppola, Kurosawa, Stone, Orson Wells, David Lean, and others while catching some old Billy Wilder and John Ford flicks. Plus foreign films and documentaries, and catching up on several TV shows I had never watched. And I surf online, play videogames, draw, paint and make films. And I have a girlfriend (now, not as a teen....).
Sorry I haven't gotten to Soylent Green yet.
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