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Lol I have often found that my understanding of foreign languages mysteriously improves when I am drunk. That was hilarious TikTok.
Hmm a common link here with everyone seems to be Philip K Dick! I have liked everything I have read and watched based on his books. Other authors here and there. I am still new to all this so it is mostly films , through the influence of my University friend. He is also a miniatures gamer, he trusts me enough now to let me help him paint his metal Sci Fi miniatures. I find that quite relaxing sitting quietly with him doing that. I went with him recently to a wargames show that was quite interesting I was one of only about 4 females there though.
In house Geek support sounds good thefrey. My brother is a geek but in a different direction, he was always wiring up electronic stuff. When he was younger he wired sensors under the stair carpet so he knew when mum or dad were coming up the stairs.
Girlfriend is not into it at all but she is happy to watch whatever I want to watch.
This is a great thread !! Some REALLY weird ideas though I wish Lexxlurker was still here so I could ask why would anyone want to introduce circumcision to cavemen…?
I would like to leap into Ada Lovelace . I like anything Victorian anyway and she was a very interesting woman, the first computer programmer.
you can read about her here:
I took time out and watched the whole of Daywatch the other night (without falling asleep this time!) I liked it just as much as the first film. The ending was neat, (in the sense of tidy) so neat that I don’t really know how they are going to get a third film out of that (I read it was always planned as a trilogy) unless thay are going to use a diferent set of characters….the character of Anton Gorodetsky is quite interesting, he should be a minor player really, he is a fool who drinks too much but everything happens around/because of him, he is a catalyst.
I looked up Burst City on Imdb but the reviews were not so good…not that that means anything some of my favourite films are hated by everyone else…wasn’t clear whether the dvds have English subtitles? I will look on Amazon
Hi fisk0 your tips have been good so far so I will look out for those others you mentioned, none of which I have heard of!
Yes Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future is brilliant, even has a similar soundtrack in places, it has a real anarchic feel that everything is falling apart, slightly mad. I have started to recognise this in British films.
I got hold of Daywatch and started watching it last night , but I was so tired I fell asleep before the end. That is not to say it was boring or anything, the bit I saw was very good, honest.
I have to stay away from hats..they flatten my hair down and I look odd for the rest of the day..never been able to be a hat person
If you remember the name of it fisk0 let me know (the animated one). I found out there was a sequel to Nightwatch, I found it last night on Amazon for 1p + postage, all the reviews I read were good so I had to have that.
Solaris…..should I watch the original or the George Clooney version?
Has nobody else seen this film then? It is Russian. I liked the surreal elements, that behind humanity there was an eternal battle between the forces of light and darkness going on.
I will see it this week also thefrey. I like the look of it, the best thing they could have done was get rid of the Kiera Knightley/ Orlando Bloom love storyline.
purposely not looked at any reviews.
I liked Brion james as Leon in Blade Runner the best. I just looked him up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_James
John Pertwee was the third Doctor Who wasn’t he? So was that a Dr Who episode TikTok? Not heard of that one.
Phew. OK, chocolate rabbit. All good. Yes I suppose you are right ! We usually have hollow chocolate eggs here with sweets inside them. But you can get the foil covered rabbits too.
I am so sick of chocolate already having eaten a whole egg yesterday .
Please ignore my earlier misunderstanding….
Hi fisk0, I think the humour is OK, but I can understand why you might not. The weakest part for me is where Leeloo beats up the aliens in the spaceship/hotel suite. Her martial arts skills are rubbish here and she looks weak. Can’t understand why more effort wasn’t made , she was much better in Resident Evil.
Well I guess nobody wants to talk about Sucker Punch….but I have been reading reviews and they all seem to say pretty much what I did but in better words…lol.
Run Lola Run was fantastic, superb, I have watched it twice already, I have never seen a film like it.
Company of Wolves was atmospheric and quite interesting, liked it OK but I think it was unlucky I saw it after Run Lola Run so my head was still full of that film.
I liked David Tennant. Believe it or not I haven’t seen the new Doctor at all, as we don’t have a television in our student house. I watched Avatar a couple of weeks back, but I had seen it before at the cinema when it came out so didn’t bother talking about it here.
I splashed out and bought a 2 disc dvd Genesis Of The Daleks. I chose this for two reasons: 1 because all the amazon reviews said it was a classic; and 2 because of Tom Baker, (who I am too young to remember ) who a friend of mine actually met some years back at a theatre pub in Stratford and who said he was a really nice guy.
I watched 1 episode a day to make it last, and I tried to not compare with the modern Doctor Who I am familiar with.
I did like Tom Baker. The plot was pretty simple but the acting at times was like pantomime acting. If they had a whole planet to fight over I didn’t understand why the Thal and Kaled domes were so close together but that was neccessary for the plot I suppose. Sara Jane was like a mumsy bossy children’s TV presenter type. I suppose that was what passed for an independent woman back then. She fell over a lot. I didn’t know what Harry was supposed to be.
The Davros character and Nyder the security chief were brilliant nasty characters. I actually dreamed about Davros one night after watching episode 3 ! Making Davros half a Dalek was a fantastic idea.
I cannot knock the special effects really because of the decade. But some things were awfully silly, like Harry putting his foot in the giant clam and Tom Baker with the polyfoam rock.
Yes no doubt you are right…..my friend (who is a mine of trivial scifi information) told me that in the original idea that was supposed to be chewbacca’s home planet but the studio people didn’t like that idea so the teddy bears were substituted instead..
Yes I think it is a film I could watch over and over. . I like the beginning part and also that moment when Leloo is standing on the ledge and sees the city for the first time. The music and everything, and the scared expression on her face-that’s a great moment for me. And the sleep buttons on the space ship is a great idea.
I think you would enjoy the original film thefrey. I have watched it (complete with breaks for adverts) and it is pretty hilarious. Subliminal TV messages causing viewers to explode and suchlike. Lots of clunky 80’s computer hardware.
What was the TV series about?
What’s a VCR ? Haha OK just kidding. Are you still watching Being Human thefrey? Is it the Brit version or has it been remade with US actors? What do you like about it? What I saw of the Brit version was deadly dull.
I don’t generally like Disney and positively dislike anything with talking animals in it. Should I risk this one or leave it alone?
Hi Sadgeezer thanks for replying.
Yes I know what you mean about the apartheid thing. I did that at school but I was too young to know about it when it was actually happening, so the reference was a bit lost on me. I think the thing that frightened me was how nobody cared about Vikus as an individual (except his wife) and how people will just believe whatever they are told if it is made official.
By the way my girlfriend has since seen the film and did not like it. She thought too many things were left unanswered, like what the aliens were going to do when they came back in 3 years.
I use Chrome but it was there for me too. But it has gone now. (thanks Sadgeezer) The code image copy thing comes and goes; sometimes it is there, sometimes it is not.
Thanks Sadgeezer!
I have seen Beetlejuice and Men in Black but didn’t really think of them as scifi before. I will look for Stalker on Amazon. If no-one else likes it that is just the sort of film my friend likes to check out.
It’s all moved on to Vampires and Werewolves i suppose. Here in England we have Dr Who, I never really looked at that before but I might cycle back nd watch some repeats.
I get the translucent box thingy too thefrey. The "Image Copy" thing is that code I have to put in before I can enter (to stop spammers I suppose). I ws hoping it would go away once the admin knew I am a real person
Thanks thefrey. I hardly ever watch TV myself so all these old shows are a revelation to me. Not seen True Blood, but read a couple of the books.
Mercenaries….
Been thinking more about it , OP was asking about poor man’s war, I don’t think a small colony planet could afford a war basically, not have the industrial base to produce weapons. They would have to engage Mercenaries maybe?
