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- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
I confess, I enjoy MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE even if I concede that King was probably correct in calling it a 'moron movie'. So I'm probably not the right person to ask. 😄 I've liked a lot of King adaptions to various degrees. Firestarter is big disappointment as I recall. I think the written versions are generally superior.- The New Cinema and Movie Thread
- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
Okay... would you believe it was a good Richard Dawson film?- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
Or is it...? (That was more or less the thought that inspired King's The Dark Half) Yeah it was, but The Running Man movie was a good Schwarzenegger film. So even if it wasn't as good as the book, I still enjoyed it.- ranDom vIdeO game news
- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
- Funny Stuff Cantina
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
I can confirm its not the original tv series or the original movie; animation isn't right for either (since the original movie was re-edited from the tv series). My guess is that it is footage from 2005's Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken / Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior (3 films, 2 OVAs). I've never seen these films (not sure if it got released in the US), so can't be 100% sure, but the animation in the posted video looks like the footage I've seen.- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
They do, but the future tachyon beam is done by the Pasteur, not the Enterprise. The Pasteur is still using their tachyon beam to 'find' the anomaly when the Klingons attack and disable it. The Enterprise comes and rescues them just at the Pasteur is destroyed, then disables the Klingon ships and leaves the the area. Picard has to convince Admiral Riker to go back to the system to investigate the beginning of the anti-time anomaly after Q makes him understand that the anomaly is moving backwards in time and that leads to the future Enterprise being back in the system and able to join its shields with the other two Enterprises to split the time/anti-time reaction and stop the anomaly.- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
TNG "All Good Things..." A pretty fun episode, excepting the weird Riker-Worf thing. Didn't they settle that earlier (or implied it was settled)? But it also didn't seem very Riker anyhow. Also goof about the tachyon beam coming from three Enterprises when one was from the medical ship. Also interesting line from Q about Picard's future being exploring the nature of humanity since that seems like what they're trying to do with the Picard series in a way. Watched episode 4 & 5 of season 1 of Picard. Some interesting stuff, but some poorly staged drama. Picard goes to Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine to pick up Romulan Space Ninja, then to Coruscant to try to get synth maker guy from the Hutts or something. Seven goes vengeance on the lady who killed Icheb and Raffi has one of the stupidest interactions with her long lost son I've ever seen. Who just tracks someone down and goes to meet them instead of...like....calling?- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
There's examples in TOS of Starfleet helping planets that don't appear to be warp capable* because they need the help (or initiating contact because the planet has something they need, so they want to create an mutually beneficial relationship, or to mitigate the damage of an earlier contact). The problem is you then have something like Homeward where Picard goes on about the planet that has a 'destiny to die' that is just stupid. I don't think that we ever are given the sense that Stafleet from TOS just leaves planets to their fate if they knew about it and had the resources to help. So I put the out-of-whack Prime Directive stuff*** on TNG (unless I'm not remembering a TAS episode correctly). TNG's Homeward is even stupider than most of their Prime Directive stuff since doing what Rozhinko does in it is exactly what Picard does in INSURECTION later without batting an eye, as I recall, so they're not even internally consistent with their 'argument'. *Off the top of my head**: Miri (prewarp society on the verge of collapse due to virus) The Return of the Archons (planet with no self-determination due to control by extraterrestrial being) A Taste of Armageddon (two planets fighting a war by computer - I believe they are pre-warp but capable of space flight) Friday's Child (negotiating a treaty with a pre-warp planet w/Klingon interference) A Piece of the Action (a mission to mitigate the effect of a pre-Federation, pre-Prime Directive contact) A Private Little War (countering the Klingon's interference in a pre-warp society) Patterns of Force (mitigating the effect of a Starfleet historian on a pre-warp society) The Omega Glory (mitigating the effect of a Stranded Starfleet officer in a tribal war) The Paradise Syndrome (trying to save a pre-warp planet from an asteroid) For the World is Hollow and I've Touched the Sky (saving a pre-warp society traveling in a space-ship asteroid that they don't know is a spaceship anymore) Bread and Circuses (mitigating the effect of a Stranded Starfleet officer on a planet - dammit, Starfleet stop stranding people on planets! You're screwing up Alpha Quadrant!) **Don't @ me I've forgotten the details of an ep, been awhile since I've seen TOS ***Excepting of course, every single ****ing time some ****ing Stafleet officer or Federation historian gets stranded on a ****ing planet. What the hell, Starfleet?- Obituary thread
Fred Ward was great in TREMORS, and he made a fun noir-style detective in Supernatural Noir cable film CAST A DEADLY SPELL. Other films he was in inclued The Right Stuff, Escape from Alcatraz, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Miami Blues, Henry and June, The Player, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Southern Comfort and Timerider. EDIT Vlasta Pospíšilová, animator- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
i don't think the Prime Directive is the problem there, though, but the writing. It makes sense to me that an organization like Starfleet would basically say "if a new species warps into your space, deal with them since they're of a technological level we'll have to deal with them eventually anyhow, but don't go to a planet and give your favorite caveman a phaser". Particularly considering the Vulcans are there and it sounds very much like how they'd approach things. To me the problem in Homeward isn't the Prime Directive, for example, but the moronic use of it to make Picard the villain of the story.- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
Having watched SNW's first episode (because P+ put the first ep on YouTube), I wanted to say re: your spoiler...- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
I don't know, the only people I know who committed crimes and had Catcher on them weren't serial killers but stalker/killers - Mark David Chapman, John Hinkley, Jr. and Robert John Bardo.- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
4 school shooters are reported tied to Rage. One had done a book report on Rage before his rampage, and one had read it repeatedly. 2 shooters had copies of the book but not on them (closest was one had it in his locker). After the last one, King let it and the collection with it in it to go out of print.- The TV and Streaming Thread: Pilot Week
Proving I'm not Nostradamus, Magnum's been cancelled. Mind you, Jay Hernandez kind of telegraphed it saying he didn't think Magnum and Higgins would hook up until the last episode of the last season, and that happened, so guess we can't be too surprised.- The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
I think the last director assigned to The Long Walk film was André Øvredal (Trollhunter, Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Not sure if he's still on it, though, as he's working on The Last Voyage of the Demeter and, theoretically, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2. Only Bachman books I ever read was The Running Man and Thinner, as I recall. Although something in the back of my mind makes me think I might have read Desperation /The Regulators as well to compare the King vs Bachman versions of the story.- The New Cinema and Movie Thread
I'm really looking forward to seeing Everything Everywhere All at Once.- Obituary thread
Earnest Scared Stupid is an 80s masterpiece. Even if it came out in 1991. 😄- Obituary thread
John Cherry, advertising executive who, with the late Jim Varney, created the character Earnest P. Worrell. He directed the 11 Earnest films, many (if not all) of the ads and 13 of the 26 episodes of the "Hey Vern, It's Earnest" tv series. He did a few other movies sans Varney/Earnest, including Pirates of the Plains (w/Tim Curry): and an attempt to revive Laurel and Hardy with Bronson Pinchot (as Laurel) and longtime collaborator Gailard Sartain (as Hardy): He sold his advertising agency in the late 1990s, but continued to direct in regional film-making, directing a number of short video films.- There is a serious problem with this game update
Google Translate gives: "Very serious issue after update. Open the game on Steam, it will say "Loading...", then the game will automatically quit. Reinstalling Windows 10 didn't help either. Please help me"- The All Things Political Topic - Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Problem is Mad Max convinced everyone to invest in assless chaps. - The What Are You Reading thread (now with a simpler name)
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