Hey, where's Blade Runner?

Post #19,705 by mhuber 11/29/01 11:39:33 AM Reply	Hey, where's Blade Runner? Or, for that matter, Dark Star? ---- "You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.
Post #19,750 by Ashton 11/29/01 8:28:59 PM Reply	Heh.. 'Let there be light'! (also.. Klaatu barada nikkto) Great Minds. OK - a second on most any Tati and anything by Philip K. Dick whatsoever. Besides: LA people need to get a glimpse of their future with The Corporation. The female replicant had more humanity than most plastic meeja icons of Today: wonder what That means (?) Didja ever read Dick's superbly prescient short story about News Clowns ?? All he had to do was extrapolate HV Kaltenborn through Drew Pearson to Tom Brokaw, and on through a near-monopoly meeja like right now - and, he did! Dark Star - well.. I guess the acting, plot and production would achieve Roger Corman grade, and beat out Plan 9 From Outer Space but.. never mind - agreed the existential argument with the Smart-alecky Interstellar Bomb alone makes it a keeper. I gots my off-air copy on Super-Beta. Somewhere. What have we done to see SNL persist week after week with toilet jokes and unfunny drivel / while trashing Laugh-In, Smothers - with no replacements? (Hint - George Carlin Knows) Thank Gawd the past IS prologue, and can be rerun to fill the void. Ashton Crank Day the Earth Stood Still !!! too. One of top 50. Patricia Neal's insufferabl wimp (ex-) boyfriend shall Live in infamy.. Hugh Marlowe IIRC. Klaatu barada nikkto y'all...
Post #19,755 by CRConrad 11/29/01 8:41:58 PM Reply	I hope you realize that... and anything by Philip K. Dick whatsoever. ...that puts Ah-nulled right back in the running? Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #19,760 by Ashton 11/29/01 10:07:53 PM Reply	Rock//hard place. [link\|http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Philip_K._Dick\|One take] Which says: The movie [Total Recall]? was based on one of his short stories (We can remember it for you wholesale), as was the movie Screamers (based on Second Variety). Some scenes in The Terminator, of the future war landscape with killer androids trying to sneak into the shelters disguised as humans, are very reminiscent of Second Variety, though no mention was made in that movie's credits. Yeah.. forgot they lifted Second Variety wholesale. Guess we gotta live with -nulled; PKD got no vote :[ I expect we'll see further plagiarism, as it's evident that modrin folk have mainly lost it. Ever catch an episode of Space Island - some fairly recent Scottish series? (shown on SciFi night on a local PBS station). The biologist character has all the warmth and charm of a Billy, with brogue; none can act. And WTF Can you do - 'taking data for some &^#$^# Mega-Corporation's Profit$' - that could be remotely interesting ??? Nada. And it shows. Empty minds, bad enough. Empty Corporate Minds = worse. They appear to have made no progress since an earlier 'space station' thingie, so Awful I seem to have erased name ..maybe had 'Galactica' (Battlestar G. ??) in it and Barbara Bain* - all time contender for having been whittled out of same wood, by Gepetto, as Pinocchio. But without animation. 2001 invented the genre - can't think of anything which overall, comes close to that originality, but we're now going backwards. Latest Star Wars (shown w/ads and more/ads and ..) I checked out: rehash, trite, boring. Shoot-em up 3-D motorcycles. Yawn. The Farce be with you - an insult to the more useful myths; the usual effect of Disneyizing. Give a shout if you should spot anything Good. It could happen. Ashton
Post #19,763 by altmann 11/29/01 10:45:01 PM Reply	Barbara Bain = Space: 1999 -- Chris Altmann
Post #19,764 by Meerkat 11/29/01 10:56:06 PM Reply	Space: 1999 = Funkiest TV theme music ever On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #19,850 by pwhysall 12/1/01 12:16:32 AM Reply	Erm... ...wouldn't the funkiest TV theme ever be "Starsky & Hutch"? Sheesh. Kids these days, throwing the word "funky" around like they've never heard of Parliament or George Clinton. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #19,873 by CRConrad 12/1/01 10:52:03 AM Reply	Wha-Does Bill have a British cousin in the House of commons? :-)
Post #20,128 by Meerkat 12/3/01 5:11:07 PM Reply	George who? Parliawhat? :) OK, ok, pardon my wilful adjective abuse. Grooviest. Perhaps not. Erm, well, I like it, at least :) Wonderful bassline. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #19,825 by CRConrad 11/30/01 6:51:04 PM Reply	STILL think "Capt Koenig!" whenever I C (now oold) M Landau!

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