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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    11/19/09

    In reply to Zombies Invade Turkey!
    I misread the title as "Zombies Invade This Turkey!"
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/18/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    I love the Gorn. I'd like to make his slithery growl into a ringtone, along with the words, "I'll make your death quick and merciful."
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/18/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    I think I like the original Salt Vampire better. Abrams version looks like it's melting.. #startrek
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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    They should have dropped Kirk off on Cestus III and had him fight the Gorn instead of that ice planet and weird Cloverfield monster. #startrek
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    Is he going to come up with anything new, or just keep recycling elements of TOS? #startrek
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed

    Yeah, I'm here to audition for the new Scotty. What? Oh, man, Simon Pegg got that? Damn. What about Spock's Dad? No??? Costume, what do you mean? What costume? Gorn? Yeah, uh, I can do that. What's the character's motivation? How big a part is this?
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    Edited by twophrasebark at 11/17/09 4:21 PM twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/17/09

    @twophrasebark: JJ Abrams: Your f'ing motivation is getting paid for today's shoot but not a very big check. I didn't get to be JJ Abrams by writing a lot of big checks. #startrek
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    Image of Communist Pope Communist Pope
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    Been a long time since I thought of the Salt Vampires. The old one's kind of turning me on with that blowup doll mouth. Assuming the teeth are soft rubber, of course. #startrek
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/17/09

    @Communist Pope:
    Think of all of the possible pick up lines for salt vampires: "Come on baby and suck my salt." Man, I'm very easily amused. #startrek
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    Image of josecanUC josecanUC
    11/18/09

    @Post-Nuked: Have you never heard of a salt lick?
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    11/18/09

    @Post-Nuked: And I am easily wooed. I'm all yours buddy.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    It looks like Io9ers are willing to take the Salt vampire but Gorn is no approved. Send the designers back to their cave and tell them to come back with a Gorn with disco eyes and more teeth. Think love child of Sobek and a praying mantis. #startrek
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    @LittleDragon: I think you meant to say we're happy to take this with a grin of Salt but are still utterly Gornless.
    #punfail
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 11/17/09 4:20 PM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of Corvus-Corax Corvus-Corax
    11/17/09

    @LittleDragon: HEY, I like the Gorn. #startrek
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/17/09

    @LittleDragon: well, to feed into your snark, i'm cool with Salty but that Gorn needs to go back to Cestus III and take a little more inspiration from the original. i like what enterprise did with the Gorn actually, despite that shows other faults. #startrek
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    The Gorn looks like a Predator without dreadlocks. #startrek
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/17/09

    @cletar: The one thing that travels faster than light: The heartbreak of male pattern baldness. #startrek
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    It needs more bad silver wigs. #startrek
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    No Disco-Ball Eyes, No Gorn.
    I'm sorry, but it's The Rules.

    LOVE the Salt Vampire though. #startrek
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    Was JJ also going to recreate the a.m.a.z.i.n.g fight scene between Kirk and Gorn, you know, the one where you think you're watching some terrible movie in slow-motion? #startrek
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    11/17/09

    @Roklimber: It's like Frazier-Ali if they were wearing lame disco lizard costumes and throwing punches slower than Canadian syrup. #startrek
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    Image of cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    11/17/09

    @Roklimber: Seems like they would have sped up the film in the remastered version.

    The only justification I can find is that if you saw one of these aliens in real life, you would be so freaked out that you'd be frozen like a deer in headlights, thus giving the Gorn the advantage. There's a good chance you'd be so in shock that your movements would mimic Kirk's.

    But, Kirk is used to aliens so he has no excuse.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    In reply to J.J. Abrams' Version Of Star Trek's Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed
    I kinda like the new Salty there on the right but Gorn 3.0?
    It looks like the top of his head would flip open like a Pez dispenser. Not that that wouldn't be interesting to see... #startrek
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    11/17/09

    @Grey_Area:
    Agreed. #startrek
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    Image of dnwilliams dnwilliams
    11/17/09

    @Grey_Area: But the mouth goes just as far back on the 60s one! #startrek
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    @dnwilliams: Good point. I don't think either of these designs can actually open their mouths.
    Big Sharp Teeth+Jaws Wired Shut=ScaryFail #startrek
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    Image of AshThePirate AshThePirate
    11/16/09

    In reply to The Original Monsters Inc. Pitch Dealt with More Adult Fears
    I love hearing original Pixar pitches because the end product is never anywhere close to it (they literally scrapped Wall-e twice). #monstersinc
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/17/09

    @AshThePirate:
    They only scrapped the second half. The first half was developed with the budget that's normally used to research the setting and culture involved. Ironically, the first half turned out really well, while the part that they actually put some thought into feels like it was tacked on. #monstersinc
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/16/09

    In reply to The Original Monsters Inc. Pitch Dealt with More Adult Fears
    This pitch sounds a lot closer to Where the Wilds Things Are than the final version of Monsters Inc, where the monsters represent the anxieties and fears of the main character.

    I've always found it fascinating to see the evolution of a movie from start to finish. Sometimes the movies end up a lot better than their original pitches, sometimes they end up much worse through poor executive meddling, and sometimes they are entirely different movies. #monstersinc
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