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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
11/24/08

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this is going to be really tragic. i want to love the sci fi channel.... i really do. but they make it so hard.

here's a tip: stop casting billy idol-alikes in your silly genre mashups that are guaranteed to have effects that look like they were generated in MS Paint.
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NikJ15
11/24/08

@BeccaThePromoMami: he doesn't look like Billy Idol anymore.
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Agent355
11/24/08

@BeccaThePromoMami: Billy Idol got that look from him.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
11/24/08

@Agent355: i don't know if that makes the predicament better or worse.
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Alexis
11/24/08

In reply to James Marsters Saddles Up For Alien Western
Oh Mr. Marsters, when will you stop being genre fic's butt monkey?
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Kishi
11/24/08

@Evlsushi: Speaking of which, have you seen some of the films Nicholas Brendan does? Yikes.
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Alexis
11/24/08

@Kishi:

no No NO!

...and I never will.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

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I have a number of questions here.

1) How do I get to be involved in these pictures? I promise you I could make "Alien Western" work.

2) Why would you shoot a cowboy movie in Romania? I mean, it's cheap, obviously, but aren't there cheap places to shoot that actually resemble the American Southwest? Like Mexico, or somewhere?

3) I don't really have a three. I saw a movie yesterday on SciFi about a man that got wolf powers because he was in an accident and scientists gave him WOLF EYES.

Presumably, no one had informed the scientists that wolves don't really see that well.
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konakazi
11/24/08

@braak:

1) Get a SAG card.

2) It's super cheap.

3) Wolf eyes work better in humans.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@konakazi:

1) I don't want to be an actor in the SciFi movies, I want to write them. Also, I'd be willing to bet they hire scabs whenever they can, anyway.

2) Lots of places are super-cheap! What about Argentina or Chile? DID THEY EVEN CHECK!??

3) And humans, apparently, work better with wolf eyes.
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tetracycloide
11/24/08

@braak: "I saw a movie yesterday on SciFi"

that's impossible, no one can survive a screening of any of the movies aired on SciFi.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@tetracycloide: Heh. I actually was only able to sit through the first two-thirds of it. I don't know what happened to the man with WOLF EYES; he was having some kind of Native American ritual to...help him acclimate to his WOLF EYES, I guess, I don't know.

Maybe he turns into a wolf? Maybe he eats the paramilitary guys that were (inexplicably) chasing him? WHO CAN SAY?
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tetracycloide
11/24/08

@braak: i'm sure he delt with the paramilitary guys in an extreamly WOLFISH way and will go on to star in 'WOLF EYES VS. SHARK EYES: WHO WOULD WIN?'
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@tetracycloide: You don't want to mess with a man that has SHARK EYES. They would probably give him the power to sense your electrical activity and then electrocute you with it.

MAN WITH SHARK EYES versus SNAKE is going to be the next SciFi Original Picture. It will be followed by its sequel, MAN WITH SHARK EYES versus TWO SNAKES.
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Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
11/24/08

@braak:

My money is on the two snakes. Did you see Anaconda? Snakes are freaking terrifying.

Also, I'm going to start calling you Shark Eyes instead of braak. That cool?
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@Belabras: Yeah, that's fine. It's kind of appropriate, too, given my use of my nictating membranes to protect me from INTERNET RADIATION.

(I am writing a movie right now about a man with SHARK EYES who has to fight the internet. SciFi will pay me fifty dollars for it.)
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Harrison_Bergeron
11/24/08

@braak: Why wouldn't you make a cowboy movie in Romania? Only thing better than the wild west is the wild west in eastern Europe. Cowboys, shootouts, saloons, AND rusting Soviet super weapons -- Brilliant!
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@Harrison_Bergeron: Well, look, I'm all in favor of mutant shark-eyed cowboys fighting giant snake aliens in ruined Chernobyl ghost towns, but if you're going to say that it takes place in "The Old West," I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the setting will in some way resemble "The Old West."
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Little Time Bomb
11/24/08

@braak: I almost hate to breakup the comedy with a serious answer. Romania has been the European film and TV industry's Vancouver for a few years now. With the Canadian dollar getting stronger, Romania looks better and better even with the cost of flying people in. Romania has a film production infrastructure in place, locations like Mexico while cheap don't.

Also Sci-fi is tricky... did they every say the old west of where or what?? It's really a movie about the old west of Romania... so it's really authentic to film there.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
11/24/08

@Little Time Bomb: Yeah...I'll bet if you were enterprising, though, you could get the government of Argentina to foot the bill for building a film infrastructure in exchange for promising to shoot a bunch of movies there. It's probably too much of a long-term plan for any of these individual companies to work on, but the SciFi studio itself could set something up, I'll bet.
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