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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    08:00 PM

    In reply to Does V Mean We Love The '80s Too Much?
    It takes about 20 years for the kids who lived their formative years in one decade to grow up to a point where they can influence and create shows reliving their nostalgia for that time.

    I'm waiting for Buck Rogers: the Movie.
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    07:53 PM

    In reply to Bird Arm Babies, Nic Cage's Mighty Sword And El Eternauta Footage
    I wont be happy till we've had a Nic Cage movie in every genre.

    I think we could even start inventing new ones.
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    07:11 PM

    In reply to Batman's Cannonball Run To Awesome
    I dunno, I thought this was one of the weaker episodes. It just all felt a little too... standard; nowhere near the imaginative thrills we got in Season 1. The only things that really stuck out in my mind in this ep was the Bat-Mech and Batman's plan to get all the heroes teleported onto Warmoon.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    05:43 PM

    In reply to Bird Arm Babies, Nic Cage's Mighty Sword And El Eternauta Footage
    El Eternauta: Looks like someone didnt get the toy they wanted in their happy meal.

    Eep: You know they actually said "KFC will not harm you" with straight faces.

    SUCK: The music leaves a little to be desired but the movie looks like it has potential to become a cult classic like a Whopper.

    Season of The Witch: Looks like it might be ... ummm ... a Nick Cage movie. Which means i will see it as he has the potential to be so good or so bad. Like a 3am gas station hot dog.

    Has he now just gone into playing all his characters as Nick Cage coz Nick Cage is the coolest character that this character could be ?

    (Yeah thats right, i went fast food on all those clips)
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    04:33 PM

    In reply to Bird Arm Babies, Nic Cage's Mighty Sword And El Eternauta Footage
    "I know it's not really in our wheelhouse"

    It's okay by me that you cover anything that could be described as "fannish". I trust your judgement. Even though none of us really know what "fannish" encompasses. The best we've been able to do is "I know it when I see it".

    Personally, I've been described by two former managers as "a renaissance man" and by one as "unfocused". They're all probably right. So I know how hard it is to decide what your purview really is. It's a challenge to define your market, when SF and fantasy fans are known for having interests all over the map.

    (Why is GLEE fannish? Damned if I know. But it is.)
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    04:28 PM

    In reply to Bird Arm Babies, Nic Cage's Mighty Sword And El Eternauta Footage
    Cage doesn't even try to use an English accent. Lame.
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    Image of GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid
    04:32 PM

    @FrankenPC: No actor has ever walked in the line between insanely awesome and insanely lame more then Nic Cage.
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    Image of OakRidge OakRidge
    04:36 PM

    @FrankenPC: It's better that he not try.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    06:36 PM

    @GrossmanDavid: That is soooo true.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    04:20 PM

    In reply to On Supernatural, We Take Family Snapshots Before the Apocalypse
    At some point last season I thought it was said that only an angel could kill another angel. Since Lucifer is technically an angel and not a demon, shouldn't they have known the Colt would not work? Or is my brain completely making things up...

    Edit: Wouldn't that also fit with the idea that only Michael can dispatch Lucifer?
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    Edited by EdificeComplex at 11/22/09 4:22 PM EdificeComplex was starred EdificeComplex was unstarred
    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    04:19 PM

    In reply to Bird Arm Babies, Nic Cage's Mighty Sword And El Eternauta Footage
    looks like humanity's in for a close shave.

    #@!
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    Meredith Woerner promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    04:09 PM

    In reply to Does V Mean We Love The '80s Too Much?
    YARM is easy to explain.
    NO IDEAS + GREED = YARM
    i don't watch remakes !!!
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    04:08 PM

    In reply to Does V Mean We Love The '80s Too Much?

    If they remake any 80s movies, they should remake this one. I'm totally serious.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    07:57 PM

    @Wookie1972: Yeah, no snake man for me either thanks.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    04:07 PM

    In reply to Cinema Is Doomed: New Moon Most Successful Opening Ever
    Hey listen, say what you will about the quality of "New Moon", but I went to go see 2012 this weekend (review: LOVED IT) and it was refreshing to see a multiplex packed with cute sexed-up ladies (and no Chris Hansen, it wasn't all teens) rather than... well... guys like me.
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    Image of JimBonJovi JimBonJovi
    04:49 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Wow, I just went to the theatre and had a totally different experience.

    My niece wanted to see Death Note, a Japanese movie based off of some colossally popular manga that was playing for one weekend only.
    I love cultivating her love of the geekly arts so I and my gf agreed to take her. When we got to the theatre it had been taken hostage by 30+ year old men dressed like naruto and high school seniors somersaulting around with fake ninja swords. I asked my niece if maybe she wouldn't be happier as a Twi-Hard.

    We wound up leaving her in the theater and sneaking into 2012 and I must say, the SFX were super-neat but not much else.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment JimBonJovi was starred JimBonJovi was unstarred
    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    04:58 PM

    @JimBonJovi: This is way off topic, but yeah, the effects were amazing. So good and effective that those scenes were occasionally almost hard to watch because they captured the terror of destruction so well. (it didn't help that I have regular nightmares about being in buildings that rapidly sink into the earth, should look into that) I honestly think that if the movie had a more believable plot with characters that you actually cared about then the film wouldn't have been any fun and probably really hard to watch. It could be worth it to do a mash-up film with 2012 and The Road and make the MOST BRUTAL MOVIE EVER.
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    Image of JimBonJovi JimBonJovi
    05:07 PM

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Yeah and why not overdub the entire movie with the sound of pigs being slaughtered in reverse running subtly in the background? Step 4: PROFIT

    #calendar
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    Edited by JimBonJovi at 11/22/09 5:10 PM JimBonJovi was starred JimBonJovi was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    03:59 PM

    In reply to Classics Meet SF: The Next Literary Trend?
    Howard's End..droid.

    Okay, that one doesn't work.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    03:57 PM

    In reply to Classics Meet SF: The Next Literary Trend?
    I can't think of a title, but have Jeeves become the Doctor's newest companion. It would write itself.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    04:03 PM

    @Wookie1972: Sounds like a lot of fun. I guess as the last surviving Time Lord the Doctor doesn't have aunts, but he manages somehow to get into trouble without them.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    04:11 PM

    @Mathmos: Part of me just likes the idea of having a Doctor who, instead of being utterly brilliant and always having a solution, is a bit of a twit who needs his butler to get him out of things.

    Hell, maybe Jeeves is a Time Lord.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    04:17 PM

    @Wookie1972: Part of me is a pedantic twit who can't help pointing out that Jeeves is a "gentleman's personal gentleman" or valet, not a butler, though his uncle Charlie is a butler. Btw, Charles Stross called his Jeeves a butler too, in Saturn's Children.

    But you're right, he has some Time Lord - like qualities, though he doesn't seem to need a tardis.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    04:43 PM

    @Mathmos: yes, I stand corrected.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    04:51 PM

    @Wookie1972: Sorry if I detracted from the fun of your topic, which I think was a great idea.
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    04:58 PM

    @Mathmos: Well, I think Jeeves would approve of your correction. And, of course, it's "Valet" rhyming with "pallet".
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    Wookie1972 was starred Wookie1972 was unstarred
    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    03:56 PM

    In reply to Classics Meet SF: The Next Literary Trend?
    The Brothers Karamazov From Another Planet
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    Image of WLDaywalker WLDaywalker
    03:50 PM

    In reply to Does V Mean We Love The '80s Too Much?
    Leave the electronica out of this. If the bassline of the music playing in my car drops below 120bpm, it...will...explode!

    Seriously though, while I'm no fan of the autotune, I've got no problem with today's country sounding more pop-y and the hip hop sounding more trip hop. Much more tolerable.
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