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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/21/12)
10/21/2012 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 10/21/2012 4:05:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis

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To: CincyRichieRich

Cloverfield surprised me by how good it was. As a kid watching Godzilla movies, my heart always went out to the little people getting squished. The original Godzilla was the only one that tried to portray the human suffering with any genuine pathos. Cloverfield built an entire motion picture around the concept.

BTW — I think this video is a great recap of Cloverfield... set to appropriately jarring music.

Cloverfield music video- Deftones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okyVSvYeu8


21 posted on 10/21/2012 5:20:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: yarddog

I like Forbidden Planet, but just think what a waste it would have been if Leslie Nielsen had stayed in “serious” roles.


22 posted on 10/21/2012 5:23:18 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: hattend

Thanks for the info.


23 posted on 10/21/2012 5:23:18 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

You are welcome.

Now you have me thinking about it, I’m going to have to dig out the DVD when I get home. :-)


24 posted on 10/21/2012 5:28:58 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yeah, just about when he should have been retiring, Nielsen started a whole new career in comedy.

Forbidden Planet also had Robby the Robot who has been around ever since.


25 posted on 10/21/2012 5:32:56 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog; KevinDavis; All

STAR TREK UNAIRED VERSION 2ND PILOT INTRO from 16mm film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFtc2Ypwzl0

(with Sally Kellerman?)


26 posted on 10/21/2012 5:47:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: yarddog

Remember “Honey West?”


27 posted on 10/21/2012 6:38:51 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

I knew “Honey West” was a series starring Anne Francis but I don’t think I ever saw it.

She was also in a couple of episodes of “Twilight Zone”.

She was an unusually pretty girl.


28 posted on 10/21/2012 6:46:29 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: KevinDavis

They are missing my favorite AC author (combination sci-fi/romance) Gini Koch with her Alien series staring Katherine (Kitty) Katt.

Wicked sense of humor, and totally something the this geek girl loves! :-)


29 posted on 10/21/2012 6:47:43 PM PDT by RikaStrom ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: KevinDavis

I seem to remember seeing something that the Alpha Centauri system has an unstable star periodically throwing off the bad kind of radiation that makes it unsuitable for humans anywhere near the system, let alone on any planets in the system.


30 posted on 10/21/2012 7:04:03 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: KevinDavis

Singapore time-lapse video.
http://vimeo.com/49753231


31 posted on 10/21/2012 7:17:24 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Sybeck1

Revolution is like writing a series around the ds9 episode “paradise” I keep expecting them to run into cindy sheehan with a duonetic energy dampening field and they use a piece of lodestone to find it and destroy it......


32 posted on 10/21/2012 8:02:25 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Calvin Locke

That would be proxima centari and it is too far away from A or B to have any effect of the planets circling them.


33 posted on 10/21/2012 8:08:56 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

If someone wanted to turn off the power to depopulate the planet, one year is enough - why wait 15? If you have the ability to turn it back on, why hide with your family and wait 15 years, knowing so many would die and your quality of life will suffer? The whole premise is unreal.


34 posted on 10/21/2012 8:54:04 PM PDT by tbw2
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(the attack of) THE EYE CREATURE; seems to be, the you remember..
lots of day driving in circles w/dark filters...poor acting, but nice cars.

35 posted on 10/22/2012 5:30:05 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass
(the attack of) THE EYE CREATURE;

I have to correct you. The real title of that movie is Attack of the the Eye Creatures. They just didn't care. (notice the double "the"s) One of the best MST3Ks ever.

36 posted on 10/22/2012 8:56:46 AM PDT by America_Right (I am no longer the 53%. Unemployment sucks!)
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To: KevinDavis
I always wondered if the Centauri from B5 came from there. It would make sense since they were the first aliens we encountered. But, why would they call themselves Centauri? That is the Human word for them. Bah, another sci-fi language discrepancy.

I think they are going to start using the Gliese 581 system for sci-fi aliens. They used it in Battleship first, and I am using it in my new book as the home of the first aliens we encounter. It's only 5 LY away, and it has a very Earth-like planet (maybe).

37 posted on 10/22/2012 9:04:48 AM PDT by America_Right (I am no longer the 53%. Unemployment sucks! Time to write a book...)
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To: America_Right
LOL!
saw that!..didn't want the grammar police on my @$$.

38 posted on 10/22/2012 9:27:14 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I looked up that movie and discovered it was a remake of “Invasion of the Saucer Men”. After reading both descriptions, I am certain the film I saw was the original from 1957.

It was in black and white.


39 posted on 10/22/2012 9:30:04 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: America_Right
I have to correct you. The real title of that movie is Attack of the the Eye Creatures. They just didn't care. (notice the double "the"s) One of the best MST3Ks ever

My personal MST3K favorite was Hobgoblins.

40 posted on 10/22/2012 12:53:04 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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