BafflingBeerMan
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I liked Cloverfield for that reason. To me, it felt like I was running away from the Clovie.
Plus, as I have said before, I think it can serve as meta-commentary on the ridiculousness of monster movies in general (being forced to care for characters you barely have a chance to connect to before disaster strikes, really only caring about the monster and its destruction, a nice, tidy answer as to why it is happening). -
What did Lionel Richie do to get arrested?
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Oh I hope it wasn't his underwear from when the Smoke Monster found him this season. Soiled Sawyer, Say It Ain't So!
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Woo, my pick made it to the final round!
And it is facing off against Brisco, a show I am just watching now for the first time and is pretty awesome! -
The Prisoner
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I so want to bid on some items, but since it seems like most items will go for 200 bucks at least, I don't want to spend that money
Now, if a few items were set up for 50 bucks, so there.
But there are so many items I want! The failsafe key! Faraday's journal! -
That trailer is so busy, so beautiful.
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1. The Prisoner
2. The Honeymooners
3. Brisco County
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They won't do a "Gotham" show for Bruce Wayne. They wanted to do it a few years ago, but WB nixed that idea, thinking it is better to keep Batman to the big screen.
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Quote:Despite the fact they are obviously grilled?Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Dagnabbit, now I want some steamed hams. -
1. Brisco County
2. Dollhouse
3. Eerie, Indiana
4. The Prisoner
5. Firefly
6. TSCC
7. Happy Town
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Quote:Yup, the current plan for a spinoff is Blue Beetle (which may or may not include Ted Kord in a mentor role).Originally Posted by Hundred_Nations
Did anyone actually read the article?
It's not about a Supergirl spinoff show. It says the most likely candidate for a "Smallville" spinoff is The Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes version) following his appearance, with Booster Gold, in a future episode.
Laura Vandervort is currently on V, so unless The CW thinks that is going to be cancelled this season (which it may), any spinoff will be at least two years in the future. Which wouldn't exactly be riding on the heels of Smallville then. -
Quote:Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW Missile!Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
Oh much like Santa, I am making a list and checking it twice!
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Quote:IIRC, they did change the ending on The Two Tower by moving the confrontation between Frodo/Samwise and Shelob to the beginning of Return of the King because "8 Legged Freaks" was being released the same year and Peter Jackson didn't want those giant spiders to overshadow his giant spider.Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
In the DVD for Lord of the Rings "Return of the King" Peter Jackson mentions that one of the first effects they created was the skeleton ghosts for the Dead Army. Then a few months later Pirates of the Caribbean came out and there was talk about changing the effect because of the similarity to the skeleton pirates. But they didn't change it.
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As Ob said, money plays a large factor in choosing locations.
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Lukewarm on the change.
On the one hand we had a lot of bullet time in other movies after the first Matrix. Some were ripoffs, some actually used it in new and fun ways. Would like to have seen the X-Men take on the spinning rooms.
On the other, if the sequence gets repalced by something as fun and even more creative, it will be the right choice. -
Pinkies out.
I cannot teach you anything about tea, but my ex loved Chinese tea, being from China and all. And let me tell you, nothing worked as good on my sore throat than some of those varieties! -
I need to start to declare myself fake positions in real company for profit and goodies.
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1. Pirates of Dark Water
2. Freakazoid
3. Spider-Man
4. Afro Samurai
5. Freaks and Geeks
6. Police Squad!
7. Archer
8. Clerks: TAS -
It was a shame that Woody could not get over Bo Peep and she haunted him.
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Quote:That's quite an X-cellent point you make.Originally Posted by catsi563
all I have to say is
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Quote:I think a good way to picture this and the world that the movie is portraying the humans and Prawns coexisting in is this: when the humans realized the only way to get anything from the mothership was to do it themselves and cut into the spacecraft, that "we" had to do all the work just to get to them, the aliens stopped being this source of "wonderment" and "ZOMG" to a nuisance.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I think you have to consider the perspective people had on the aliens. It was years and years after they had arrived and they saw the aliens as both something to be exploited and a drain on their society. They had internalized the notion that they were second-class beings for a while by the time we got to our story. Humanity might have expected these wise and approachable Vulcan-like aliens to come out of the heavens and solve all their problems, but instead they got these squid-looking things that set **** on fire and hogged all their toys. The humans at that point generally looked at them with resentment, disappointment, and frustration.
From that point on (and reinforced when they found the aliens malnourished and sickly. "They didn't come here to help us. In fact, we need to help them!") any romanticism of extraterrestials vanished and in the world of District 9, as you said, resentment and disappointment grew. -
Regarding the whole world watching the dropship drop, I don't know if that is entirely true. For one, the whole world might have been watching the mothership and not the particular section the dropship was located in. Two, I forget when they said the dropship appeared, but if it was during evacuation of the mothership, again, the attention would be else where. And three, we saw only one, grainily shot footage of the dropship descending. It is entirely possible that a small group of people saw that event and recorded it but from the footage alone it was hard to gauge what was happening (much like real life UFO sightings). I don't think it was the military recording it, so any response to the dropship would be at least a few hours later (line of communication and mobilization), plenty of time for it to hide underground.
And looking for a spacecraft underground would be like looking for a sea ship on land (The Black Rock notwithstanding). Probably not high on the likelyhood of being thought of. Do an aerial search, do an on foot search, but probably not anything that would penetrate the surface. It would also be hard to use a metal detector, though not impossible, because I would imagine a lot of that scrap metal is lying around and some is probably buried as well. Plus, we saw human rights activists protesting the reassignment of District 9, I would imagine crew on the ground, going through each shanty with a metal detector (because remember, the dropship was buried under CJ's shanty) wouldn't be politically advisable. Also, because the ship hiding underground probably wouldn't register, I can see them searching for it in the usual, common ways, then deciding to give up and concentrate on what they can easily find: the weapons.