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Himachil

I don't have TeeVee .... I didn't see it .... http://torrentfreak.com/images/olympic-bay.jpg :)= (They probably even have the International Uncut version with the 7/7 dance) I thought it was pretty good - except for the history of music section: a lot of great songs but 2 seconds of each was very q...

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Dredd and Looper look great (although the Dredd trailer is really awkwardly edited)

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I like the way they dug up a load of old nuclear waste, mixed it around a bit, then quietly reburied under a plastic sheet. The development of the Olympic site in east London after the Games have finished could be in jeopardy because of radioactive waste buried beneath the site, experts have warned....

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lotek wrote:
Himachil wrote:Fuck fruit - too much work.
I say fruits deserve love too

There's just something about unprocessed oranges that gives me instant major debilitating apathy.

Which is why Mr. Innocent's Olympic smoothies are so great.

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Most of it's probably the whole "YOU WILL BE EXCITED!" media machine thing. I'm sure it'll be great for the people going and I know a lot of people worldwide will enjoy it on TV... but is it really the defining event of my life? The only good thing to come of this is 2 for 1 on leading bra...

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All the foreigners I know love the Olympics, all the Londoners I know hate them, and all the northerners I know (including myself) are indifferent.

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Omphalos wrote: Most all have the Easton Press information cards as well as unlaid book plates

Forgive my ignorance, but what is an unlaid bookplate and why do I want one?

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This film was shot in 2d and then converted into 3d at a later stage - which I think always looks crap. And it was so dark! Until they find a way to make the glasses more transparent/the film brighter 3d is pointless, it just kills colour, and in a fantasy nonsense setting like this was, colour is m...

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Well it was a good Action Flick. I think they could have done a better job at translating the book; however, I will give them credit for doing an amazing job with Woola. :clap: Here is a link to a story about some fans' viewpoints: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/john-carter-fans-revolt#....

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A clever interactive game of a Google logo from 23 November celebrating the 60th anniversary of Stanisław Lem’s first publication. http://www.google.com/logos/2011/stanislaw_lem-2011-hp.jpg http://www.google.com/logos/lem/ A spiky-haired, bespectacled animation of the Polish science fiction author S...

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Hmm. Sounded good, but wasn't 100% sold... until now. Will give it a gander

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psst! over here!

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It's pretty decent - definitely worth a listen. I think the BBC version was better... but they only made the first two parts! WTF?! (I posted a linky to that one (and this one :P) ages ago http://tau.solahpmo.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1148&p=17341&hilit=leibowitz#p17341 still up by the lo...

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I'll see it. I seriously lower my expectations when I go to see SF films, so I'm sure I'll just enjoy all the apes smashing shit. That's a good philosophy - and relief that the horrible trailer (that probably showed too much) was not an accurate reflection of the film itself might have enhanced my ...

Himachil

If it's made after 1989, it's shite.

Do like this one though - nice old-school Space/Futron vibe about it.

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Just seen this one:

Four thumbs up.

It were brilliant. Highly recommended - my film of the year (so far)

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Wonder why the dropped the "Of Mars"

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Nice one :) You've triggered me to do a few searches for my next FH signature - they all seem rather expensive, but I did chance across this: Immaculate, unread uncorrected proof of the final volume in the set of six 'Dune' novels penned by Frank Herbert and the second to be first published in the U...

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Timecrimes was a film I enjoyed at lot.

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But the orginal movie took place on Earth right? So the Burton one makes zero sense because it takes place on some other planet. It is unclear in the book (hey, it's French, ya know?) but I always thought it took place on another planet where parallel evolution was ongoing. Yeah - it was a planet o...

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The end of the Burton one is actually closer to the original novel (unlike the entire rest of the film) - going home and finding apes.

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IIRC they are selling this as a reboot of the original series, not the shit 2001 remake (although it did have gorgeous armour design

) and they are on about doing sequels. It's all about the franchise!

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I was really properly looking forward to this one... not quite so certain now.

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All Science Fiction is bollocks really when you think about it - I just like it when it's done well.

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Just curious.... do you all actually use earbuds? Can't stand the things myself. Aside from the poor sound quality, and that they're more damaging to your hearing (or so I've read), I just hate the way they feel in my ear. They're very uncomfortable, for me at least. I think the young people these ...

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Wasn't familiar with Muse, but after a little investigation, I'm really digging this song . Muse is brilliant - I heartily recommend their earlier stuff (and their later stuff for that matter :P ) Love this song. Reminds me a little bit of one of my favouritest bands ever which I recently discovere...

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Robspierre wrote:Listening to Footstompin.com Scottish Music podcast

Rob

Subscribed! I quite enjoyed that

A nice change from The Psychobilly Garden Party which has been my podcast of choice recently.

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If a piece of music has low production values, I usually stay away even if it's otherwise good, or has something interesting to say. Really? I know we have different tastes but some of the best records in my collection have less than stellar production. Raw production sometimes works very well with...

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I don't think mixed up radio is driven by political correctness, I'd guess they'd market it as "we don't just play the same old shit" - go beyond a restrictive genre/company playlist. TBH, if you're forcing me to listen to your shit radio, something that doesn't repeat the same songs every...

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Nice... That's rather cool. :)= (And that quote at the bottom sums up what I've been trying to say for years... just much better, more neatly and with half the wordcount :P) "Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities." --Miriam Allen deFord

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This has been on for a few weeks but I'm just getting round to watching a bit it. Still not entirely sure what to make of it - mainly due to it's stubborn refusal to tell you anything , but the last ep I watched was actually getting pretty decent. It's definitely got a hint of BSG about it - post ca...

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Edited to add: after reading all that, I'm actually intrigued enough to read the novel (haven't read any Rand, nor planned to, but now I'm intrigued. Particularly if it means I can be the One Guy on Fox News. Or maybe I misunderstood that bit). Reading it does make you evil for a few months afterwa...

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I like how this film started out with Angelina Jolie and Dagny, Russel Crowe as Rearden, Brad Pitt as Galt and an absolutely nenormous budget... and now it's a $5M straight-to-dvd job with a few TV actors...

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I finally got around to buying a proper bookcase for my increasingly unstable pile of art and gaming books today. Red Planet has been at the bottom of said pile since May 2009 and it has made precisely bugger all difference. :shock=: I might thief some distilled water from work and try lightly dampe...

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I thought it was good, but then they had a quick mid season break.. and now I can't remember any of it and I have no idea when-or-if it will ever return... because it was ages ago

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Glad I wasn't the only one a bit confuddled

I did like the style though - even though it was mostly black...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQz9hhKiDqg Anyone else seen this one? It follows a man who wakes up in a muddy cave deep below great big power-generating tree. He makes his way up to the surface, on the run from security enforcers and mutants. I quite liked most of it.. although I think I must have...

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The BSG soundtracks are fantastic - well worth a gander.

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I'm waiting for Battleship vs. Kerplunk

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Saw that one coming

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He looks a lot like my boss...

..come to think of it...

(Did I mention I used to work for Batman)

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Enjoyed it ...except for when he created the element.

"It's impossible."

...

"Congratulations sir"

that's hardly even deserves to be called pseudo-science

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Bad...Ass.

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Nekhrun wrote:I'll bet if you stuck it under Hyppo's ass that it would be flatter than the day it was pressed.

Good god man! I want to read it afterwards!

Himachil

OH GOD GOD GOD!!! THE HORROR! THE HORROR!!! THE APOSTROPHIZED PLURAL!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :lol: Happens to the best of us. :lol=: Since I picked up a cheep tablet Poor ebony-Hun been using hand-itsy recognition. the only poplin is -it's 2005 era Widows tp handwriting recognition... and my handwriti...

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It's still under my art book's

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I didn't think it could live up to the trailer... but it did, and sustained it throughout the entire film.

It was also refreshing to see a ~100% upbeat zombie movie, it was quite an achievement that the saddest moment in the film also got a big laugh

Himachil

Definitely enjoyable... haven't got a sodding clue how to interpret the subtext though.

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NEW !!

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Trang wrote:planning to see avatar this Saturday (first day off in three weeks thank god). but on that list the hurt locker should win hands down.

Hurt Locker all the way.

Avatar will clean up in all the technical categories though.

Himachil

Saw it yesterday at the Bradistan Imax. Story-wise... enjoyable pulp - but it's not a 'dumb' movie, which is good. It's pretty well put together and seems to draw on lots of sources that'll be familiar to the SF crowd. I liked it, even if it didn't break the mould. It is however, definitely a cinema...

Himachil

Youtube res trailer looked shite.
HD Quicktime trailer looked mediocre at best.
On a small crappy old cinema screen it looked alright.
On a big digital cinema screen it looked quite good.

I think I've worked out the pattern here.

Booked an Imax ticket.

Himachil

It was out back in July already.

Aye would imagine it's release would have been pretty limited - but the R2 dvd is out in Nov apparently.... can't see owt about anywhere else.

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Saw this last night.

Surprisingly low key. Liked it, but after District 9 and Moon etc it seemed a bit ordinary. It was also a tad predictable.

Not bad by any stretch though.

(and better than Gamer)

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Tried to tube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PItZ-qr9jG8

Simples.

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Read something about this one ages and ages ago and it sounded quite good. Turns out they made it and they have a trailer:

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Not loving that site - couldn't see anything.

Assume this is the trailer there?

Was quite looking forward to this one... now my fancy isn't feeling all that tickled.

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Ever since I discovered the local arty cinema lets you take beer into a film... I've been going to the cinema a lot more often.

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Bloody hell - don't read that Nancy Kress shit: it's just a list of spoilers for a film that's barely out! :? I don't know who she is and I despise her already. :evil: Yeah - change of plan, I've just seen Moon... and it's a good 'un! I suppose there are a couple of conceptual jumps, but nothing out...

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The local cinema started showing it on Friday - hoping to go and see it on Wednesday

Quite looking forward to this one - and a chap who works there said the first audience loved it... which is good

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Robspierre wrote:Fallen is probably the worse movie I've seen in the last two years

Go and see Blood: The Last Vampire. I went on wednesday

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Trek was bollocks, utter bollocks... BUT I didn't get bored once. I honestly can't remember the last time that happened - and that has to count for something. It was enjoyable in a way that Transformers, for all it's eye candy, just wasn't. If I still had a watch I would have looked at it quite a fe...

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I thought it was a lot like Star Trek... but without the quality that make Trek inexplicably enjoyable.

It was very very pretty (Megan Fox and improved CG) but total bollocks (clanging robot gonads).

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Here is a link to an interview of Herbert I recently uncovered in an Australian SF zine. Although it is not as deep and thorough as some of the others here, I have been thinking that this may one of the best ones that I have ever read. I hope you all enjoy it too. I added this to the list above, in...

Himachil

Will let you know -

He's still at the bottom of a very heavy pile of oversize art books .. and will be there for some time

Not too hopeful though tbh - reckon the damage is water damage so the pages might have physically changed shape

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I re-watched the film last night and I enjoyed it more than I did the first time around (pre-book). The book does things the film can't do - while the film stays true to the surface of the book, it misses all the explanation. eg: coming home after the surveillance system has been covertly fitted, in...

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Just finished listening to A Scanner Darkly audiobook.

Much more better than the film.

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Looks cheap as hell... but I actually quite like the look of this one though.

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The other week I picked up a few more 1940s tools, which are now at work in my 1950s toolbox.

And I've been using them

How did you guess

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:puke-huge: What a fucking awful trailer. However - bear in mind that trailers must contain action, romance and more more action. The fact they used Trajan for the title shows that the trailer was made by bleeding idiot. (Trajan is a quality font, but that's just bloody lazy!). Fingers crossed the f...

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Very British

It is a bit rare, but nowhere near enough to justify going to a professional or anything.

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Yes it is glued - it's not bad atm, but I reckon if I actually read it the pages will start to fall out.

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Yeah - it definitely looks like it's been a bit damp at some point. Hmm - Might be worth bringing my clamps home from work and popping it between a couple of bits of wood for a few months then. (Reading slowly has benefits

)

Cheers!

Himachil

It is a bit of a dramatic leap - but if it gets two interesting characters to interact it can;t be all bad. And if anyone can wring something interesting out of Billy Adams becoming William Adama I reckon BSG people. What's the betting they'll flash forward to Husker's basic training when ratings be...

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/DuneFishUK/bentbook.jpg I got this one a few weeks ago - I'm planning on reading at some point, but it's hard work to turn the pages and it makes painful noises when I do - I don't think it does the distorted 50-year-old binding any good at all. He's been unde...

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Allo allo!

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This can become a series, but I don't know for how long. They will really have to keep up the intensity and keep the main story arcs moving with as much momentum as possible, or this whole thing falls into just another prime time soap opera. I can see them doing an HBO-like two season run, maybe 12...

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I started working on Sluaghterhouse 5 (sorry spelling, drin,k) a couple weeks ago, got t page 51 and put it down. Didn't really consciously decide to stop, I just lost interest. I'm sure it'll bea good book,not really SF yet though. Slaughterhouse is a fantastic book: stick with it - but I'm not en...

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Finished watching it last night.

Liked it a lot.... not sure about a full series though

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Nice! (love that vid too)

No issues at all.

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Nice

Thief some brackets from that Victorian D font Drunken found. - It's usually a good proxy.

(You might need to push them up though - iirc they're a bit low)

... I fucking love fonts.

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inhuien wrote:Is there any chance that we could get that 610nm theme installed over, please. It's soooooocooooool

That;d just be confusing

I'm not usually a fan of blue forums, but eTech is bloody well designed!

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8====D Fucking massive. Film weren't bad either :D Admittedly not perfect, it is cliche and the original is an unfilmable classic etc etc..., but I thought it was a pretty decent and faithful adaptation and a very watchable film - it flew by. The casting was cock on too. It's way better than 3/5 - ...

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Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdyPngBH6mM

Blatant cash-in... Might work as a stand-alone time-travel brain-blag - it's a hope.

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Watchmen. Tomorrow. London. IMAX

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Looks good.

You're right... that is a shit-load of smilies. I'm sure they'll come in handy.

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I;ve got an anti-recommendation: ;) I've been listening to an audiobook of Terry Brooks The Sword of Shannara at work recently - partly because Frank Herbert seemed to say it was ok ... but it's grinding me down. - I've gotten to the point where not-Gandalf (yes it is a little bit like LOTR) falls t...

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SandChigger wrote: That'd make a great sig quote.

I think I did have it as a sig quote somewhere for about a week before I switched to my Darko Suvin quote.

A Thing of Eternity wrote:Super weird, I know I've seen a picture of that worm definition on the interwebs before...

Spooky...

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lol - no it's definitely Oxford University Press - says it's 1500 Headword level - possibly be for foreigners learning English then? But it's not made in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary or anything. Also it's 1980 so FH himself must have agreed to it... surely? Maybe he really was all about the money (A ...

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...Get Children of Men, Soylent Green, 2001... Yes, yes and yes. Also: The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Incredibly well written 1961 SF based around reporters London. The Man from Earth - More well written non-action SF about a 14,000 year old man. Slaughterhouse Five - The book is better... but tha...

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I've had this for ages... but I have a Dune book I can't see on your list. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/DuneFishUK/rosemarydune.jpg It's the first book.. but adapted down to 144 pages (presumably for schools etc) by Rosemary Border (c) 1980 Oxford University Press. I've not read it properl...

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Welcome

"My uncle was a police frogman... no, sorry, that's wrong... My uncle was a french policeman..."

(well... if we're cutting (and pasting) corners

)

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1. Reasonably often. 2. Mostly visual. Colour, but 9 times/10, dark and muted - like just after the sun sets but it's not dark yet. Never "colourful" 3. Not crazy abstract wierd... But some bizarre concepts. Dreams alternate between totally fantastical places and SF scenarios and a sort of...

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Gutted! - bidding has ended. Ah well...

History: 0 bids

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I have no idea what to listen to next at work.

Just finished Breakfast of Champions - not as good as Slaughterhouse Five... but still firmly cementing Vonnegut as one of my new favourite authors

Aww - just seen a link for Ender's Game Unabridged.. and I've just had a brilliant idea

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Freakzilla wrote:You know, I'm not against hats. I don't like to wear them but it pisses me of when people don't know or show hat ettiquete...

I feel educated. All I need now is a proper hat.

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I have it on dvd (R2)... no idea if it was ever released in Region 1.

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I heard they were gearing up for this at Shepperton a while back but nothing beyond that - it's great to hear more

I like the sound of this - it should be good. But I reckon the 1980s series will still be the definitive version afterwards.

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I put movies because I visualise books and audio/radioplays pretty much as if they were films... even if many of them are pretty un-filmable. Even though it is the concepts and ideas that hold my attention and keep me coming back for more, I approach the genre as a primarily visual medium. If that m...

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I re-watched the Fountain last night and it makes a lot more sense. It is very very good too and the visuals in the "future" scenes are something else :) [edit: It's not the film I thought I was watching first time around - which was a bit unsatisfying. Now I grok what's going on more it's...

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They've been talking about doing a proper Judge Dredd film for years - At one point they were getting all excited over a Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death movie. I reckon they could make a proper job of it... As long as he doesn't take his helmet off I'll be a bit happy :) (The Fountain is decent. People ...

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There is an un-produced script for Moon is a Harsh Mistress online here: http://socalbrowncoats.com/images/moonfriday.pdf As far as I've read, there area few changes, but I think it would have worked. I would like to see Harsh Mistress as a film. Stranger in a Strange land would SUCK!!!! Yes it woul...

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I think you could include the fuzzy-wuzzies and the daffodils in the word "our" - Terran lifeforms of the world unite an all

How else would you put it.

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Omphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?

Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shit

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Awful?! This film is a defining example of one of the most ubiquitous motifs used in British science fiction films of a certain vintage - it's set in a pub . (IIRC there is actually quite a good essay about British science fiction films set in pubs in one of the books I read for my dissertation :)) ...

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Aronofsky's Robocop could be interesting, but the original was a fantastic ode to cinematic violence and the tragic Frankenstein myth served with a side of brilliant political/social satire. Verhoven's masterpiece will be tough to beat, but at least with Darren at the helm they have the right idea....

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I think they should just make voting manditory (with a small fine or something) and put an option for "don't like any of them/don't give a shit" on the cards. That way if people were forced to at least make the effort to go physically vote they might also make the effort to learn what the...

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I just started The God Delusion yesterday. Is it any good? I was looking at that book, and another one call God is not Great but I decided to skip them. I don't really stand to benefit from someone explaining to me why atheism is better than theism (or is the author arguing Agnosticism vs Religion?...

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I've only read Triffids so far, but do have a stack of Wyndham books I'm meaning to read at some point. I really though Nortonstowe did exist - it's the sort of place that could so easily exist, and it might. But I've had a bit of a search and I don't think it does. Which is a shame - I like visitin...

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Great review - pretty much hits the nail on the head.

Just finished it - and it's definitely worth a gander. Thanks for the shuffle advice

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Genius!

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Lost footage of "Metropolis" surfaces in Argentina

Apparently they've found 25mins worth. Can't wait to see it restored!

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The effects in Metropolis are incredible. And the film ain't bad either

I've got one of the restorations on DVD, but it's annoying that some of the scenes are still missing - they're just replaced by cards explaining what's meant to be happening.

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Cheers - glad you like it

Just did a quick one in 20 mins - I wanted to do milking, but it was too difficult

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Thanks!

A worm bursting out of the sand and swallowing someone.

It's a bit rushed (read slapdash), but I finally got round to it...

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Wanted looks crap, but it is directed by Timur Bekmambetov - which hopefully counts for something after Nightwatch.

Good SF wise - I just saw a preview for a film called Moon coming in 2009 which is apparently SF of the Silent Running variety and about a man who spends 3 years on the moon...

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Picked up a really nice old copy of this a couple of months back - Consider it shuffled to the top of the pile.

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A great bit of SF from 1909, full of modern inventions

http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=tms

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Dune ; Frank Herbert (Similar or same reasons as everyone else...) Day of the Triffids ; John Wyndham (I'm surprised I haven't seen more Wyndham titles posted about the internet... He has got to be a favourite author of mine. Fantastically believable cosy catastrophes ) Time Enough For Love ; Rober...

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GEoD is now my favorite, ... Dune used to be my favorite, but now its a close second. I used to agree with you - GEOD is brilliant, along with all the other FH sequels. But the original Dune is simply in a different league - it is 605 pages of genius sandwiched between two bits of card with picture...

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Just thought I'd contribute a couple of smilies I worked up in Photoshop and ImageReady a few months back. Enjoy, and feel free to use (and abuse...) Shield http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/DuneFishUK/woa/shield.gif Harvester: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/DuneFishUK/woa/harvester.gif...

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Hey up people!

I've posted a couple of times on DN and a fair few other places over the years as DuneFishUK. But a link from a SandChigger's blog (semi-regular lurker

) lead me here... and I'm intrigued...

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