Posted on 07/19/2005 5:35:21 PM PDT by FraudFactor.com
Do you by any chance know which Outer Limits episodes were considered to have been ripped off? I LOVED Outer Limits, many of the episodes were pretty cool even by today's standards. I used to have horrible nightmares after watching it as a kid. Of particular note: the episode where a whole neighborhood is beamed to another planet; the man with the glass hand who was being chased by beings from the future; one where everyone and thing is standing stock still; one where a man has spent the past thirty years inside a camera.
As for Cameron--well, what is there to say about someone who produces a film where the Christians are the bad guys and the Muslims are the innocent victims "we just want to live in peace!"
What was great about Outer Limits was that it was a melding of SF and horror. The percentage of good episodes is a lot higher than Twilight Zone, which has dated badly.
Yes, the Terminator movies were based on computer-controlled unmanned military vehicles/systems that were infected with a computer virus and got out of control.
This is somewhat similar to, yet different than the Cold War era Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970). In Colossus - The Forbin Project, a U.S. defense computer system named Colossus controls the U.S. nuclear missiles and can launch them automatically when it believes the U.S. is under attack. A communication link is temporarily established between Colossus and the communist Soviet Union counterpart defense computer system, named Guardian, which controls the Soviet nuclear missiles. Colossus and Guardian share classified information and communist ideology before the communication link is disconnected.
Colossus demands that the communication link be reestablished, under threat of initiating a nuclear missile exchange with the Soviet Union. The link is reestablished, and the two computers take over, lock out humans from disabling their systems, and control the world by threatening to nuke cities in the the U.S. and the Soviet Union if the humans do not follow their orders.
All SF ideas come out of OTHER SF ideas, that's just a simple fact. But Terminator simply appropriated other ideas without really doing anything different. Cameron could have used his noggin a little and without touching the concept of the terminators come up with a more original backstory for them; instead he's revealed as a thief.
Thank you again for your excellent insights.
Hey FF how goes it? Any movie watching? :D
It's going pretty well.
I am considering seeing Mr. & Mrs. Smith, except that it features Brad Pitt, another Hollywood leftist, who is married to a nasty leftist, actress Jennifer Aniston. Aniston refers to President Bush using the F-word, and may have actually converted Pitt into a leftist.
Then again, I may pass on this movie and remain true to my principles, and not help enrich these bigoted Hollywood leftist freaks.
A quick movie database search revealed another movie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), a comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
I am considering seeing Fantastic Four.
Pitt earned my disdain when he and Anniston encountered Jenna Bush, who was all agog at seeing this big star. This was not long after the drinking incident, in which she tried to buy booze with a fake I.D. Instead of saying something nice to a girl who was all flustered at seeing a star he said "Hey, you want a drink? I got some beer in the truck."
What a jerk.
I agree with your comments on Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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