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2008-06-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Cowboys, Indians, Aliens, but no Dinosaurs

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-16 10:57|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I've got to clean the blinds the day this is showing. And clean them for however many days it ~~blows~~ shows.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2008-06-16 11:39|| 2008-06-16 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Laaaaaaame.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-16 11:44|| 2008-06-16 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 There was a WWII USA vs Germans alien movie. Can't think of what the name was but I clearly remember seeing it in a rental store.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-06-16 11:57|| 2008-06-16 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Or you can wait a couple a weeks, until I'll be taking pre-orders for the Adelsverein Trilogy - a gripping and dramatic saga about the German settlements on the 19th century Texas frontier.

It has operatic levels of practically everything - true love, war, sudden murder, revenge, stolen children... and cattle drives.

It will be officially launched December 10, all three volumes, but pre-orders will be delivered just before that date.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-06-16 12:05|| http://celiahayes.com]">[http://celiahayes.com] 2008-06-16 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Wasn't there also a cowboys and dinosaurs movie, with a stop-motion T-rex eating ranch-hands right out of the saddle?

[races off to IMDB]

The Valley of Gwangi. IIRC, it wasn't half bad. Ray Harryhausen animated the dinosaur.

Posted by Mike 2008-06-16 12:14|| 2008-06-16 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Icerigger: You are probably thinking of Zone Troopers.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092298/

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-16 12:49|| 2008-06-16 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Harry Turtledove did it better.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-06-16 13:09|| 2008-06-16 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 How's about a movie about a political ideology that's killed 100 million?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-16 14:55|| 2008-06-16 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 BP, are you talking about Communism or Islam?

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-16 16:14|| 2008-06-16 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Must be communism, R-C - Islam has killed a whole lot more than that.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-16 16:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-16 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Barbara, I figured he meant communism. Actually, Hollywood will never attack either communism or Islam. Islam, because they are afraid of getting their heads cut off. Communism, for the same reason that I would never make a film attacking Catholicism: you don't make a film attacking the religion you practice.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-16 18:08|| 2008-06-16 18:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually I mean the state worshipping religion and it's prophet Marx.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-06-16 18:21|| 2008-06-16 18:21|| Front Page Top

#13 One should try to find "NIGHT OF THE COOTERS" H.G. Wells' Martians make the mistake of landing in Texas. Due to the action taking place in Texas it is a SHORT story.

Posted by bruce 2008-06-16 18:48|| 2008-06-16 18:48|| Front Page Top

#14 The Valley of Gwangi is an excellent movie, available on DVD.

One should try to find "NIGHT OF THE COOTERS" H.G. Wells' Martians make the mistake of landing in Texas. Due to the action taking place in Texas it is a SHORT story.

"Night of the Cooters" by Howard Waldrop is in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (Kevin J. Anderson, ed.). I have this book but haven't read it yet. (I thought you were kidding with the title, Bruce, but looked through the book to see if there was an equivalent, and -- har!)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-06-16 19:47|| 2008-06-16 19:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Gaaawd, almost 20 years later and PENN STATE INTEL-PYWAR - you know, the Mafia - is still going thru wid this flick???

SHARON STONE > YOU'RE A BAD BAD GERMAN...AND A NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NASTY BOY [Monty's Python LIFE OF BRIAN].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-16 20:34|| 2008-06-16 20:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Nothing beats "Invaders from Mars"....or "Them"...for that matter...

Posted by crazyhorse">crazyhorse 2008-06-16 23:38|| 2008-06-16 23:38|| Front Page Top

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