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2007-04-04 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-04 12:09|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think Larry Nivens Fallen Angels would make a better film (than the book).

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-04 12:18|| 2007-04-04 12:18|| Front Page Top

#2 It was a fantastic concept book to film back in 76. If I recall it was filmed in a Texas shopping mall. Would be interesting to see how it could be done now a days.

On an up note. The 1976 film didn't have any Muslims in it.

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Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-04 12:33|| 2007-04-04 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I was 15 at the time and I remember having developing a crush on the female cast member Jenny Agutter Jenny.
She was easy on the eyes as at the time when I was a teenager.
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I though Michael York and Peter Ustinov was great.
The special effects worked at the time, but nothing compared to what can be done today with CGI.

Later on when the series came out, I watched it as religiously as Space 1999 which came out at the around the same time. I was a nice break from the after school homework.

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Posted by Delphi2005 2007-04-04 13:28|| 2007-04-04 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, output matters, too. Maybe they should wait until age 45 or 50, when earnings peak. And the 30-year-olds have learned how not to soil their diapers.

Posted by Perfesser 2007-04-04 14:10|| 2007-04-04 14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Logans Run is one of the main reason Sci-Fi was virtually dead pre-Star Wars and why real SCIENCE-Fiction has been replaced by Space Opera.

Dull and silly and unlikely.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-04 15:35|| 2007-04-04 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I know how to spice it up - USA has national health care and everyone over 65 must be sacrificed for the greater good - oh, wait, that was a ST:TNG ep w/ David Ogden S.....

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-04-04 16:29|| 2007-04-04 16:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Larry Nivens Fallen Angels would make a better film (than the book).

A Hollywood version of "Fallen Angels" would hack the book to pieces. The villains would only be the religious conservatives; the feminists, ecologists, et. al. would be excluded. The SCA would be excluded -- those people celebrate violence! And the world's only private ballistic missile would be gone.

And, finally, the spacers would be replaced by ecologists trying to reverse the Ice and the SF fans would be replaced by the local vegan collective.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-04-04 17:36|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-04 17:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and a couple of other books I hope are never subjected to Hollywood:

o Footfall
o Lucifer's Hammer
o Starship Troopers
o any of the War Against the Posleen books
o Anything of David Drake's

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-04-04 17:38|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-04 17:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Starship Troopers
too late.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-04 18:01|| 2007-04-04 18:01|| Front Page Top

#10 "War Against the Posleen"

Nah - I'd love to see Gust Front done by the guys that did 300

Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-04 19:26|| 2007-04-04 19:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Ima still sorry Firefly went off air. Loved Serenity too...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-04 19:27|| 2007-04-04 19:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Firefly, fantastic show! Went out and got the DVD set.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-04 19:45|| 2007-04-04 19:45|| Front Page Top

#13 got the set too...watched it twice through already :-)

If you don't have it - get the Serenity DVD

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-04 19:51|| 2007-04-04 19:51|| Front Page Top

#14 I will have to hang around several lifetimes before they do a really good SciFi

Larry Niven's Known Space stuff and RINGWORLD!

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-04 20:26|| 2007-04-04 20:26|| Front Page Top

#15 The movie Starship Troopers sucked.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-04-04 21:22|| 2007-04-04 21:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Has anyone seen Hyperdrive on BBC America???

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-04-04 22:05|| 2007-04-04 22:05|| Front Page Top

#17 "MATRIX films" > Will the female lead continue to be in love wid a dead Man??? Does Radical Islam realize that its 12th Imam will not rise until GABRIEL'S SWORD cuts the earth into sections, turning earth from planet into planetoid struggling to try to prove to God its worthy of becoming a full planet again.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-04 23:17|| 2007-04-04 23:17|| Front Page Top

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