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Message started by Metaluna on Oct 10th, 2011 at 7:52pm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Oct 10th, 2011 at 7:52pm
No word if they found any evidence of robotic owls.

Lair of Ancient 'Kraken' Sea Monster Possibly Discovered


Quote:
A giant sea monster, the likes of the mythological kraken, may have swum Earth's ancient oceans, snagging what was thought to be the sea's top predators — school bus-size ichthyosaurs with fearsome teeth.

The kraken, which would've been nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long, or twice the size of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis, likely drowned or broke the necks of the ichthyosaurs before dragging the corpses to its lair, akin to an octopus's midden, according to study researcher Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/10/lair-ancient-kraken-sea-monster-possibly-discovered/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Oct 10th, 2011 at 10:36pm
a kid named joon from sommerville is kicking butt on jeopardy. 7:30 channel 4.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 12th, 2011 at 3:32pm
BOSTON (AP)—Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein is likely to join the Chicago Cubs within the next 48 hours, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.

The Cubs fired general manager Jim Hendry on Aug. 19 and finished 71-91. They have been pursuing Epstein, who just finished his ninth season with Boston. The Red Sox missed the playoffs following a record collapse, going 7-20 in September and finishing at 90-72.

General manager Theo Epstein just finished his ninth season with Boston.
Epstein would be going to a Cubs franchise that hasn’t won the World Series since 1908...



http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-redsox-epstein

I predict that in the not-to-distant-future space travelers will be able to look down on Chicago, see Wrigley Field and declare in the words of Mike Nelson and his Robot Pals:

"Look: you can see the Cubs lose from here!" :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbmNuuX18u8

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 18th, 2011 at 11:27am
Apple's Siri is getting lots of attention for being the App with attitiude. She also seems to have seen the same movies that we have!

Not all of her advice should be taken...


but she is wise in the ways of sparrows.


Just don't ask her to sing....

:D

For much too much more:

http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/

I just hope the link makes it through our filters.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Oct 18th, 2011 at 1:10pm
"tell me all the good things that come to mind when you think about your mother?"

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 18th, 2011 at 3:34pm

Quote:
"tell me all the good things that come to mind when you think about your mother?"


"They're only questions Leon."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 18th, 2011 at 4:54pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Oct 18th, 2011 at 3:34pm:
"tell me all the good things that come to mind when you think about your mother?"



Quote:
"They're only questions Leon."


"Let me tell you about my mother...."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Oct 18th, 2011 at 6:23pm
Wonder what would happen if you taught it phenomenology.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 18th, 2011 at 6:42pm

Quote:
Wonder what would happen if you taught it phenomenology.


This...

It's nice to know she wouldn't explode.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 19th, 2011 at 7:54am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Oct 18th, 2011 at 6:42pm:
It's nice to know she wouldn't explode.


     Yes, it's odd.
     Look, I can see youre really upset about all this.  Why dont you sit down, take a stress pill, & think things over.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 19th, 2011 at 8:38am

Quote:
Look, I can see youre really upset about all this.  Why dont you sit down, take a stress pill, & think things over.


:)

:D

;D

:o

Siri doesen't miss a thing! At first I was amused, now I'm a little frightened!
Again, these are real quotes, not a product of my imagination.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 19th, 2011 at 9:01am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Oct 19th, 2011 at 8:38am:
Siri doesn't miss a thing!
Again, these are real quotes, not a product of my imagination.


     This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:02pm
siri would not pass the turing test. i could easily phrase a question that would confound siri. such as "in what location would you likely find evidence that a large brown carnivore has gone to the bathroom?"

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:06pm
"how do you serve man?"

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:12pm

kirok wrote on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:02pm:
siri would not pass the turing test. i could easily phrase a question that would confound siri. such as "in what location would you likely find evidence that a large brown carnivore has gone to the bathroom?"


     Things like this have cropped up before, and they have always been due to human error.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:43pm

kirok wrote on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:02pm:
siri would not pass the turing test. i could easily phrase a question that would confound siri. such as "in what location would you likely find evidence that a large brown carnivore has gone to the bathroom?"

"I found three dog parks. One of them is near you."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 19th, 2011 at 5:52pm

Metaluna wrote on Oct 19th, 2011 at 12:43pm:
"I found three dog parks. One of them is near you."


     Yes.  It's puzzling.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 20th, 2011 at 7:35am
Maybe we need to restart the "Signs of The Apocalypse" theme thread. This news story does it for me:


Quote:
...it was announced who would be squaring off against Tom Cruise in his potential franchise-starter "One Shot": Werner Herzog. As in, Werner Herzog, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. As in, holy crap, Werner Herzog is gonna be the bad guy in a Tom Cruise movie
:o

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/the-projector/werner-herzog-tom-cruise-screen-nemesis-193049832.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Oct 20th, 2011 at 10:40am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Oct 20th, 2011 at 7:35am:
...it was announced who would be squaring off against Tom Cruise in his potential franchise-starter "One Shot": Werner Herzog. As in, Werner Herzog, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. As in, holy crap, Werner Herzog is gonna be the bad guy in a Tom Cruise movie


     Maybe he'll make Tommy pull a ferryboat up a mountain with his teeth.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 26th, 2011 at 4:20pm

First the Sci-fi Message Board now hackers have done it again!

http://www.theonion.com/video/hackers-shut-down-january-jones,26460/

They couldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't true! ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Nov 13th, 2011 at 8:10am
Scientists have discovered prostate cancer in a 2000 year old mummy. Let's hope larry king makes a full recovery.

http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-prostate-cancer-111101.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Nov 14th, 2011 at 12:26pm
oh come on. photoshop. obviosly.
http://www.slashgear.com/massive-networks-of-stripes-appear-in-chinese-desert-14194983/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 14th, 2011 at 5:15pm
Kirok:

Quote:
oh come on. photoshop. obviosly.
Nope, its legit
Go to these news sources...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/china-desert-structures_n_1092392.html


http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert

You can check it out yourself.

At first I thought it was a planned community under construction, perhaps near a new strip-mining location (as indicated by the circles) . Then I thought of our own Nevada A-bomb tests in 56' where US scientists built a mockup city near the blast zone. I don't know whether or not China signed on to the above ground atomic test-ban treaty. Scary stuff :o


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Nov 15th, 2011 at 8:57am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Nov 14th, 2011 at 5:15pm:
Kirok:

Quote:
oh come on. photoshop. obviosly.
Nope, its legit
Go to these news sources...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/china-desert-structures_n_1092392.html


http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert

You can check it out yourself.

At first I thought it was a planned community under construction, perhaps near a new strip-mining location (as indicated by the circles) . Then I thought of our own Nevada A-bomb tests in 56' where US scientists built a mockup city near the blast zone. I don't know whether or not China signed on to the above ground atomic test-ban treaty. Scary stuff :o

Simply building living quarters for all those darned prawns and Newcomers that keep landing here.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Nov 17th, 2011 at 4:52pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/europa-water-jupiter-moon-photo-video_n_1099463.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C113705

Hold on a minute.  Let's not forget......... "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE." 

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 18th, 2011 at 9:25am
Natalie Wood case reopened after 30 years...

http://news.yahoo.com/la-detectives-open-natalie-wood-death-inquiry-014714964.html

Her death occured after the wrap party to "Brainstorm" which has not played since SF-9.

The tragedy overshadowed what I recall was a good SF movie, with a good cast: she costarred with Christopher Walken and the underrated Cliff Robertson. It had a good premise, a memory recording/playback device, which would be retreaded in "Strange Days" (and probably some other titles if we were to put our minds to it.) I have not seen it since anywhere, and a whole generation of moviegoers have no idea that Walken was not always the professional creepy guy or that Natalie Wood actually had a career after the 1960's.

We'll probably have to put "Brainstorm" down among the titles never to be seen on the big screen again for lack of a print. :-[

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Nov 18th, 2011 at 12:58pm
what kind of wood doesn't float?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Jon on Nov 18th, 2011 at 1:41pm
Lignum Vitae, for one...  Among the densest woods in the world....  There are others - I just don't know their names.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Jon on Nov 18th, 2011 at 1:43pm
Oops - just read the rest of the stream.  I guess I can add myself to that list of densest woods..
:-/
Sorry.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 19th, 2011 at 3:48pm
Remember all of those SF movies from the fifties and sixties where they reversed the old V-2 rocket launch footage to show what they thought a spacecraft landing might look like? For me it joins "we don't need no stinkin' helmets on mars!" and "aliens we just met speak english" as halmarks of an underachieving SF film.  That is until now...


Quote:
There hasn't been much coming from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, one of the companies NASA selected to develop future manned space vehicles. But this new video provides a glimpse of their New Shepard vehicle taking off and landing vertically


http://gizmodo.com/5861097/watch-bezos-new-shepard-launch-vehicle-take-one-small-step-for-future-space-travel :o


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 24th, 2011 at 2:20pm


Happy Thanksgiving, Earthlings

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Lile on Nov 28th, 2011 at 7:12pm

Frank wrote on Nov 17th, 2011 at 4:52pm:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/europa-water-jupiter-moon-photo-video_n_1099463.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C113705

Hold on a minute.  Let's not forget......... "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE." 




"My God,it's full of stars."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 28th, 2011 at 9:09pm
Looking for more signs of the Apocalypse?

Look no further:


Theater to Allow Cell Phones During Live Performances
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/omg-theater-allow-cell-phones-during-live-performances-221000475.html


Quote:
"I am convinced we can control the experience, but we can't forbid the experience." He added, "We are creating a new etiquette for a younger audience."



>:([size=12][/size]

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Nov 29th, 2011 at 12:03pm
save the chapel.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11332/1193048-54.stm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Lile on Dec 1st, 2011 at 5:07am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Nov 28th, 2011 at 9:09pm:
Looking for more signs of the Apocalypse?

Look no further:


Theater to Allow Cell Phones During Live Performances
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/omg-theater-allow-cell-phones-during-live-performances-221000475.html


Quote:
"I am convinced we can control the experience, but we can't forbid the experience." He added, "We are creating a new etiquette for a younger audience."



>:([size=12][/size]





This is happening in my backyard,I'm note sure I want to support this place.

Title: What goes on behind the scenes?: Today's News Stor
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 8th, 2011 at 8:58pm
No actual story, just a couple of amusing Behind The Scenes photos from a couple of old favorites:



PLANET OF THE APES (1968, natch!)



STAR TREK tv series

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Dec 9th, 2011 at 7:37pm
Those of you on the west coast have a chance to see a total lunar eclipse tonight. Won't be another until 2014.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/09/us-lunar-eclipse-idUSTRE7B826D20111209

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Dec 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm
Took this tonight...1001 Mass Ave:


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:00pm
Are there theaters up those stairs?

A group of us did meet up at that site this past May to visit the old haunt (on the hottest day of the year!!).

As you can see it's a restaurant. The google earth photo was several years old last time I checked.



Metaluna wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm:
Took this tonight...1001 Mass Ave:



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:04pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:00pm:
Are there theaters up those stairs?

A group of us did meet up at that site this past May to visit the old haunt (on the hottest day of the year!!).

As you can see it's a restaurant. The google earth photo was several years old last time I checked.



Metaluna wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm:
Took this tonight...1001 Mass Ave:


I think a nearby futon store might be relocating there. Not sure though. It's a nice futon store. I got my futon there.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:57pm

Metaluna wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:04pm:

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:00pm:
Are there theaters up those stairs?

A group of us did meet up at that site this past May to visit the old haunt (on the hottest day of the year!!).

As you can see it's a restaurant. The google earth photo was several years old last time I checked.



Metaluna wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 6:44pm:
Took this tonight...1001 Mass Ave:


I think a nearby futon store might be relocating there. Not sure though. It's a nice futon store. I got my futon there.



Now if we could mix a futon store with the marathon, a nap would be invigorating especially when one of those "special" picks starts rolling. 

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Dec 10th, 2011 at 8:11pm

Frank wrote on Dec 10th, 2011 at 7:57pm:
Now if we could mix a futon store with the marathon, a nap would be invigorating especially when one of those "special" picks starts rolling. 


:D


Quote:
[Dr Blockhead breaks free, pushes Mulder down and goes out the door. Mulder falls onto bed of nails]
Scully: "Mulder, are you okay?"
Mulder: "It's more comfortable than a futon."



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 10th, 2011 at 8:32pm
One of my favorite non-movie related marathon moments goes back a few years.  I was going to lie down on the floor and take a nap.  As I got comfortable, a woman brought her blanket and pillow and set up camp next to me.  Her words to me were "will your wife mind that you are sleeping with another woman?".  Fran and I both lost it.  It was a great line...

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 14th, 2011 at 5:55pm
First US Army Cyber Brigade announced:
http://gizmodo.com/5868171/the-first-us-army-cyber-brigade-are-not-your-typical-hackers

I can just imagine their boot camp!

CARPAL TUNNEL...Not in MY outfit!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 15th, 2011 at 9:08am
Before the board went down I posted the discovery of Gilese 581-D, the first known extrasolar earth-like planet. Now it seems that there is an ever-increasing catalogue which ranks it twelfth in livability. If you rushed to buy a condo there the property values are way down!

Amazingly KOI-76.81 ranks .98 on the earth-like scale! (By comparison Mars scores .66) Maybe all of those planets that looked like Vasquez Rocks in the sci-fi movies weren't that far off after all! :)

http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/list_esi

Ranked by surface temperature:
http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/list_hab

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 17th, 2011 at 8:41am
New Decoy Website Launched To Lure Away All Moronic Internet Commenters

SAN JOSE, CA—With funding from dozens of news outlets and media companies, the groundbreaking Outkube.com launched this week, providing an online destination where pandering and incendiary content is used to lure moronic Internet commenters away from all other websites... sources confirmed that each day Outkube's software produces dozens of new pop-culture rankings, such as "The 10 Most Underrated Bands" or "The 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time," which have been shown to occupy some of the Internet's most obnoxious commenters indefinitely, freeing the remainder of the web for actual rational discourse.



http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-decoy-website-launched-to-lure-away-all-moroni,26393/
They couldn't put it on the internet if it wasn't TRUE! -RF ;)

Title: 100 Top Cult Films: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 18th, 2011 at 10:57pm
Here's a list of 100 top Cult films apparently based on an upcoming book. Two of them - LADY TERMINATOR and VIDEODROME were shown at the Marathon this February alone.

Can u name all the others that have screened at our event?

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143296617/what-s-on-your-cult-film-list

2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988

Angel of Vengeance, Abel Ferrara, 1981

Bad Taste, Peter Jackson, 1987

Baise-moi, Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000

Begotten, E. Elias Merhige, 1991

Behind the Green Door, Artie Mitchell, Jim Mitchell, 1972

La belle et la bête, Jean Cocteau, 1946

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer, 1970

The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1998

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982

Blue Sunshine, Jeff Lieberman, 1978

Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985

Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935

The Brood, David Cronenberg, 1979

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920

Café Flesh, Stephen Sayadian, 1982

Cannibal Holocaust, Ruggero Deodato, 1979

Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942

Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí,1928

Coffy, Jack Hill, 1973

Daughters of Darkness, Harry Kümel, 1971

Dawn of the Dead, George A. Romero, 1978

Deadly Weapons, Doris Wishman, 1974

Debbie Does Dallas, Jim Clark, 1978

Deep Red, Dario Argento, 1975

Dirty Dancing, Emile Ardolino, 1987

Django, Sergio Corbucci, 1966

Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, 2001

Don't Torture a Duckling, Lucio Fulci, 1972

Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, 1990

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals, Aristide Massaccesi, 1977

Emmanuelle, Just Jaeckin, 1974

Enter the Dragon, Robert Clouse, 1973

Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977

The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, 1981

Fight Club, David Fincher, 1999

Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, 1963

Freak Orlando, Ulrike Ottinger, 1981

Freaks, Tod Browning, 1932

Ginger Snaps, John Fawcett, 2000

The Gods Must Be Crazy, Jamie Uys, 1981

Godzilla, Ishirô Honda, 1954

The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972

Harold and Maude, Hal Ashby, 1971

Häxan, Benjamin Christensen, 1922

Hellraiser, Clive Barker, 1987

The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973

The House with the Laughing Windows, Pupi Avati, 1976

I Walked with a Zombie, Jacques Tourneur, 1943

Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike, 2001

In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, 2008

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956

Invocation of My Demon Brother, Kenneth Anger, 1969

It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, 1946

The Killer, John Woo, 1989

Lady Terminator, H. Tjut Djalil, 1988

The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, 2001–3

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, George Miller, 1981

Man Bites Dog, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992

Manos, the Hands of Fate, Harold P. Warren, 1966

The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, 1975

Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987

Nekromantik, Jörg Buttgereit, 1987

Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero, 1968

Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972

Piranha, Joe Dante, 1978

Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr, 1959

Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon, 1985

Reefer Madness, Louis Gasnier, 1936

Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984

Ringu, Hideo Nakata, 1998

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975

Rome Armed to the Teeth, Umberto Lenzi, 1976

The Room, Tommy Wiseau, 2003

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975

She Killed in Ecstasy, Jesús Franco, 1971

Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven, 1995

Soul Vengeance, Jamaa Fanaka, 1975

The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965

Star Wars, George Lucas, 1977–2005

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Todd Haynes, 1988

Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977

Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay, 1995

Tetsuo, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974

This Is Spınal Tap, Rob Reiner, 1984

Thriller: A Cruel Picture, Bo Arne Vibenius, 1974

Thundercrack!, Curt McDowell, 1975

El Topo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970

The Toxic Avenger, Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, 1984

Two-Lane Blacktop, Monte Hellman, 1971

Two Thousand Maniacs!, Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964

The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988

Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983

The Warriors, Walter Hill, 1979

Witchfinder General, Michael Reeves, 1968

Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson, 1987

The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 19th, 2011 at 7:42pm
What no "Apple"? Unless "Flaming Creatures" is an alternate title. (a reference to the actor who played the Devil).

Here's what I came up with without looking. (In the words of former President Nixon: "That would be wrong!")

2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
Godzilla, Ishirô Honda, 1954
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
Lady Terminator, H. Tjut Djalil, 1988
Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr, 1959
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay, 1995
Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983

(I'm guessing we might have seen "Bride of Re-Animator" and not the original)

Twelve is pretty good given it's an NPR list and not a list of Science Fiction/Horror films. Good job adding "Lady Terminator" last year! To tell the truth you've pretty much got the list covered, as nothing else that I'm familiar with would really fit. "Army of Darkness" played well, but "Evil Dead" really isn't a fit. Some pretty good zombie films have played over the years, but the "cult classics" listed here are more horror-gore than sci-fi. :)

Title: 100 Top Cult Films: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 19th, 2011 at 8:00pm
I have 17 films, so you're getting there.

An even higher percent of the whole list!

P.S. FLAMING CREATURES is an underground micro-budget indie, not the red ripe delicious hoot we showed.


R_F_Fineman wrote on Dec 19th, 2011 at 7:42pm:
What no "Apple"? Unless "Flaming Creatures" is an alternate title. (a reference to the actor who played the Devil).

Here's what I came up with without looking. (In the words of former President Nixon: "That would be wrong!")

2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985
Godzilla, Ishirô Honda, 1954
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956
Lady Terminator, H. Tjut Djalil, 1988
Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr, 1959
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay, 1995
Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983

(I'm guessing we might have seen "Bride of Re-Animator" and not the original)

Twelve is pretty good given it's an NPR list and not a list of Science Fiction/Horror films. Good job adding "Lady Terminator" last year! To tell the truth you've pretty much got the list covered, as nothing else that I'm familiar with would really fit. "Army of Darkness" played well, but "Evil Dead" really isn't a fit. Some pretty good zombie films have played over the years, but the "cult classics" listed here are more horror-gore than sci-fi. :)


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 19th, 2011 at 9:09pm
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982

Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985

Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale, 1935
 
Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, 2001

Godzilla, Ishirô Honda, 1954

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Don Siegel, 1956

Lady Terminator, H. Tjut Djalil, 1988

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, George Miller, 1981

Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero, 1968

Plan 9 from Outer Space, Ed Wood, Jr, 1959

Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon, 1985

Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984

Star Wars, George Lucas, 1977–2005

Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay, 1995

Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983


Title: 100 Top Cult Films: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 19th, 2011 at 9:51pm
and, the original post lists multiple STAR WARS films, so you could add EMPIRE STRIKES BACK to the list.

I guess we be pretty Cult-y.........

;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 19th, 2011 at 10:20pm
I have seen about 75 of the movies listed here...... I guess I am a cultist.

Title: War of the Worlds - Saved! : Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 28th, 2011 at 1:36pm
Every year the Library of Congress' National Film Registry puts out a list of 25 films that will be guaranteed preservation.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/national-film-registry-forrest-gump-silence-of-the-lambs-276426

This year, WAR OF THE WORLDS has been added to the list. No, not the Spielberg-Cruise mediocrity, but the George Pal 1953 original
(and a 4-time Marathon film, the last being about 4 years ago: http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1319772249/0#0)

It's a hodgepodge list of shorts, obscurities and FORREST GUMP? Sure GUMP was a Best Picture winner and pretty entertaining film - but, is this big budget big studio pic in any real danger of not being "saved" by the studio?

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is also on the list along with Film Noir fave THE BIG HEAT and the first computer animated bit from 1972. Which you can see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5seU-5U0ms




Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 28th, 2011 at 5:00pm
Sorry but seeing Gump on the same list as War of the Worlds, Silence of the Lambs and The Big Heat sickens me.  As far as Gump is concerned, I think that it is a silly, schmaltzy movie at best.    


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:40am
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h,26132/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 29th, 2011 at 12:02pm
the top 10 most pirated movies of 2011.
http://perezhilton.com/2011-12-28-most-pirated-movies-of-2011-list-has-been-released

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 29th, 2011 at 1:48pm
Elon Musk.  The name sounds as if it came out of an Asimov novel.   Sounds crazy but sometimes crazy gets things started.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2011/12/27/elon_musk_spacex_will_bring_man_to_mars_in_less_than_20_years_video_.html

Title: WHORES OF THE YEAR: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 29th, 2011 at 2:28pm
Quote whores, that is. Movie critics in name only. The studios love these folks, because even the biggest turkeys can always rely on one of these whores to provide them with a positive quote to use in their adds. No Boston based critics that I know of.

I love the number one whore (Shawn Edwards). In May he proclaims BRIDESMAIDS "the funniest movie ever!". 6 weeks later, HORRIBLE BOSSES is "the funniest comedy of the year!" Poor BRIDESMAIDS, it's "funniest" title only lasted for such a short time.............. :D

http://www.efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=3343


P.S. Still, perhaps the best recent example is Ben Lyons who proclaimed Will Smith's I AM LEGEND "One of the greatest movies ever made" and then didn't even name it to his Top 10 list that year!



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 29th, 2011 at 4:01pm
i get suckered by these quote whores all the time. most recently "horrible bosses"
but i think book of eli was very good and it had some staying power.

Title: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 29th, 2011 at 5:07pm

kirok wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 4:01pm:
i get suckered by these quote whores all the time. most recently "horrible bosses"....


Finally, Kirok admits to getting taken in by Whores!

I don't understand how folks will spend hours, if not days, going over consumer reports before buying a toaster, but don't spend the time to scout out Film Reviewers. Over the course of a single year - not to mention, many years - most of us spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on movie tickets. With sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, it is easier than ever to see over time those critics who's taste most closely mirrors your own.

Quote Whores feed the studios these dummy quotes, because so many filmgoers are dummies themselves who don't distinguish between a Ben Lyons or a Shawn Edwards and someone consistently brilliant in his reviews like that guy from L.A.!  :-X ::)

Title: Re: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:14pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 5:07pm:

kirok wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 4:01pm:
i get suckered by these quote whores all the time. most recently "horrible bosses"....


Finally, Kirok admits to getting taken in by Whores!

I don't understand how folks will spend hours, if not days, going over consumer reports before buying a toaster, but don't spend the time to scout out Film Reviewers. Over the course of a single year - not to mention, many years - most of us spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on movie tickets. With sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, it is easier than ever to see over time those critics who's taste most closely mirrors your own.

Quote Whores feed the studios these dummy quotes, because so many filmgoers are dummies themselves who don't distinguish between a Ben Lyons or a Shawn Edwards and someone consistently brilliant in his reviews like that guy from L.A.!  :-X ::)


Because critics are for the most part just some guys and gals with modest writing skills, an opinion and an axe to grind.  Nothing special there.  Also, most of us don't pour over consumer reports and when we do it's hopefully to learn something objective about an item, HP, gas mileage, etc.  Movie critique is subjective.  You can help me out with a brief synopsis, or cast and production notes but that is about all.  The opinion of a critic means precious little to me.  I hit way more often than miss without the help of croitics.  Our experiences should teach us as we walk through life.  Sorry, don't see the need for movie critics.  Way too many of them and with the internet, more and more evey day.  Is that how you determine what you are going to see?  You let someone else decide for you? 

Title: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 29th, 2011 at 11:31pm

Frank wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:14pm:
Because critics are for the most part just some guys and gals with modest writing skills, an opinion and an axe to grind.  Nothing special there.  Also, most of us don't pour over consumer reports and when we do it's hopefully to learn something objective about an item, HP, gas mileage, etc.  Movie critique is subjective.  You can help me out with a brief synopsis, or cast and production notes but that is about all.  The opinion of a critic means precious little to me.  I hit way more often than miss without the help of croitics.  Our experiences should teach us as we walk through life. 


By that standard, we don't need Teachers or Historians either. To each his own. Sure, we all need to make our own way at a certain point, but Teachers, Historians and Critics serve a function. They can point out aspects of a subject one might not have seen. A learnered practitioner of those crafts has seen, read and experienced things that we may not have.


Frank wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:14pm:
Sorry, don't see the need for movie critics.  Way too many of them and with the internet, more and more evey day.  Is that how you determine what you are going to see?  You let someone else decide for you? 


Of course, I don't slavishly follow a certain critic (or group of them for that matter). But, if I see that a film gets an unusually high amount of praise from folks I respect, I will delve deeper into whether I should check it out. Ed's mention of LA QUATTRO VOLTE is a good example. Although I didn't read Ed's review at the time, I did hear some interesting things about it from writers I admire. It's not a GREEN LANTERN or TRANSFORMERS Part Trois, so reviews do matter in a case like that.

As to there being "way too many" critics on the internets, you are actually making my point: You have to do your homework a bit in order to separate the genuine critics and the Shawn Edwards and Ben Lyons.



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Dec 30th, 2011 at 2:16pm
     These people arent critics, theyre reviewers.  A true critic is a very rare bird these days.  I doubt a real one would even be able to get published.
     Dwight Macdonald was a critic.  James Agee was a critic.  John Simon -- whatever else you might think of him -- is a critic.  The now all-but-forgotten Charles Thomas Samuels & William Pechter were critics.  These people were cultured, they spoke other languages, they were interested in the other arts, & they brought a true critical mentality to bear when they wrote, and they all wrote well.
     Just about everyone else you can name is a reviewer, of the "I like this but not that" variety.  As Truman Capote once quipped (not about reviewers), "Thats not writing, thats typewriting."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 30th, 2011 at 3:01pm

David the Projectionist wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 2:16pm:
          Dwight Macdonald was a critic.  James Agee was a critic.  John Simon -- whatever else you might think of him -- is a critic.  The now all-but-forgotten Charles Thomas Samuels & William Pechter were critics. 

never hoid of em.

Title: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 30th, 2011 at 3:45pm

kirok wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 3:01pm:

David the Projectionist wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 2:16pm:
          Dwight Macdonald was a critic.  James Agee was a critic.  John Simon -- whatever else you might think of him -- is a critic.  The now all-but-forgotten Charles Thomas Samuels & William Pechter were critics. 

never hoid of em.


Because they ain't whores, Kirok!  :D

Seriously, there are still a few bonafide critics out there (along with a good number of solid reviewers).

Some I read include: Stanley Kauffmann & David Thompson at the New Republic. Anthony Lane of the New Yorker. A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Richard Corliss of Time Magazine. Dana Stevens of Slate. There are others, but these are a few to consider....

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 30th, 2011 at 4:22pm
if not for pickpockets and the occasional screwing by quote whores, l.a. would have no sex life at all. >:(

Title: Re: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 30th, 2011 at 7:39pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 11:31pm:

Frank wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:14pm:
Because critics are for the most part just some guys and gals with modest writing skills, an opinion and an axe to grind.  Nothing special there.  Also, most of us don't pour over consumer reports and when we do it's hopefully to learn something objective about an item, HP, gas mileage, etc.  Movie critique is subjective.  You can help me out with a brief synopsis, or cast and production notes but that is about all.  The opinion of a critic means precious little to me.  I hit way more often than miss without the help of croitics.  Our experiences should teach us as we walk through life. 


By that standard, we don't need Teachers or Historians either. To each his own. Sure, we all need to make our own way at a certain point, but Teachers, Historians and Critics serve a function. They can point out aspects of a subject one might not have seen. A learnered practitioner of those crafts has seen, read and experienced things that we may not have.


Frank wrote on Dec 29th, 2011 at 9:14pm:
Sorry, don't see the need for movie critics.  Way too many of them and with the internet, more and more evey day.  Is that how you determine what you are going to see?  You let someone else decide for you? 


Of course, I don't slavishly follow a certain critic (or group of them for that matter). But, if I see that a film gets an unusually high amount of praise from folks I respect, I will delve deeper into whether I should check it out. Ed's mention of LA QUATTRO VOLTE is a good example. Although I didn't read Ed's review at the time, I did hear some interesting things about it from writers I admire. It's not a GREEN LANTERN or TRANSFORMERS Part Trois, so reviews do matter in a case like that.

As to there being "way too many" critics on the internets, you are actually making my point: You have to do your homework a bit in order to separate the genuine critics and the Shawn Edwards and Ben Lyons.


Many teachers and historians are indeed hacks.  You should avoid them like the plague.  Also, watching film is not learning science.  Teach me film theory if you like but don't tell me to avoid directors or actors because you have no tolerance for them or maybe it's that you don't like a certain genre.
   
Also, by that reasooning I we should have our kids study reviewers.  Puh-Leese.

See you are telling me that I have to do my homework shopping for something I DON'T NEED! 

David makes my point there are way too many hacks calling themselves critics.  These people are not objective.  If I have to find a critic I like then I really don't need him or her because all they are doing is confirming my opinion.  Don't need em, don't want em, don;t wate my time on them.   

Title: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 30th, 2011 at 10:23pm

kirok wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 4:22pm:
if not for pickpockets and the occasional screwing by quote whores, l.a. would have no sex life at all. >:(


Whoa, whoa, whoa. I would NEVER sanction that Whores be banned from Kirok's life!

;)


Here, are some more for ya............









Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Dec 31st, 2011 at 8:25am
which one is your mom and which one is your sister?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 31st, 2011 at 1:00pm
I try to be helpful and I get that..........tsk tsk.................

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Dec 31st, 2011 at 1:31pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 31st, 2011 at 1:00pm:
I try to be helpful and I get that..........tsk tsk.................



You are NOT being helpful, get over it.  Critics aren't helpful they just want to be heard.....

Title: Re: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Jan 1st, 2012 at 2:56pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 3:45pm:
Stanley Kauffmann & David Thompson at the New Republic. Anthony Lane of the New Yorker. A.O. Scott of the New York Times. Richard Corliss of Time Magazine. Dana Stevens of Slate.


     I will grant you that Kaufmann is a critic, albeit one with whom I am never in agreement: I think his judgement is unsound, so I stopped reading him.
     David Thompson is a bloviating idiot: besides writing books filled with misinformation, wasnt he the dope that said The Truman Show was the best movie of the 90s?  Dont have room in my life for dummies like that!
     Lane is intermittently amusing, but I think calling him a true critic would be an upgrade from what he actually is.
     Scott is a hack; as if the NYT would ever hire someone who wasnt.
     Corliss is a pretentious, drooling fanboy.
     Never read Stevens, so nothing to say.

Title: Re: Whores of the Year: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Jan 1st, 2012 at 3:09pm

Frank wrote on Dec 30th, 2011 at 7:39pm:
David makes my point there are way too many hacks calling themselves critics.  These people are not objective.  If I have to find a critic I like then I really don't need him or her because all they are doing is confirming my opinion.  Don't need em, don't want em, don't waste my time on them.


     Well, you cant be a critic & be "objective."  The whole idea of a critic is to bring your personal understanding & cultural acumen to the work at hand!
     But the other point David would like to make is that a true critic can open doors of understanding which reviewers dont even know are there.  A true critic can give you insight & perspective, not only on what a film is doing right, but also on what it's doing wrong.  A true critic can get you to see things in a way you never thought of before.
     As an example, the critic I mentioned above, William Pechter, wrote a review of The Wild Bunch, & he pointed out something that never occurred to me, even though I'd seen the movie well over a hundred times.
     John Simon wrote major essays on Godard & his admirers, Fellini & his later films, and Kael & Sarris & the auteur theory, & these essays are brilliantly written, wonderfully reasoned, & none too kind.  Wonderful stuff!
     Reviewers, on the other hand (if I may paraphrase Fellini), leave you in the same darkness with which you entered.  You learn nothing about the movie, but plenty about the reviewer.  Thats the difference.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Jan 1st, 2012 at 4:07pm
dave. do you consider yourself to be a critic of critics?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Jan 3rd, 2012 at 1:19pm

kirok wrote on Jan 1st, 2012 at 4:07pm:
dave. do you consider yourself to be a critic of critics?


     Nope.  Just spent waaaaaay too much time watching & reading about movies!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jan 3rd, 2012 at 5:26pm
I was wondering why here it is January and not a single title has been announced. What's Garen been up to? Then I saw this:


http://www.lvrj.com/news/alien-cathouse-brothel-to-feature-girls-from-another-world-136131043.html
and..
http://io9.com/5870980/inevitably-depressing-alien+themed-brothel-to-open-in-nevada

Oh yeah, that must be it. ;)

Title: Triple: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jan 3rd, 2012 at 8:58pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Jan 3rd, 2012 at 5:26pm:
I was wondering why here it is January and not a single title has been announced. What's Garen been up to? Then I saw this:


http://www.lvrj.com/news/alien-cathouse-brothel-to-feature-girls-from-another-world-136131043.html


Oh yeah, that must be it. ;)


Hey, I worked with that triple breasted babe (Lycia Naff)! Sorry, to burst people's bubbles though - that third one ain't real.... ;)



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jan 4th, 2012 at 12:16am

Quote:
that third one ain't real....


FAKE Breasts in Hollywood! Who'd have thought it! :)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jan 12th, 2012 at 11:42am
Happy Birthday, HAL 9000 1/12/92 Urbana, Illinois   

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Jan 12th, 2012 at 1:55pm
i believe he is 20.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jan 12th, 2012 at 2:03pm

kirok wrote on Jan 12th, 2012 at 1:55pm:
i believe he is 20.


I believe that he "died" or was absorbed about 2 years ago. Who knows what happens when alien super intelligences are involved?   

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Jan 12th, 2012 at 5:29pm
hal's higher brain functions were de activated from 2001 to 2010. so he only lived 9 years.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jan 13th, 2012 at 10:56pm
Another movie theater will be opening near Boston...on the site of a former movie theater.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2012/01/13/theater-first-tenant-somerville-development/Rpztv2XNIqhCKJmYXnkG2H/story.html


Quote:
AMC Theatres will open a 12-screen movie complex at Assembly Square in Somerville, becoming the first major retail tenant to commit to opening at the $1.5 billion development on the former industrial property.


The bad news is it's going to be all digital but the good news is they are also considering including a bar. All movies look better in 3B. Or at least you don't mind so much that they are murky.


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Jan 15th, 2012 at 2:38pm

Metaluna wrote on Jan 13th, 2012 at 10:56pm:
Another movie theater will be opening near Boston...on the site of a former movie theater.


     Yeah, the one I used to work!


Quote:
The bad news is it's going to be all digital but the good news is they are also considering including a bar.


     It will suck, the way all AMC scummyplexes suck.  They dont give a sh!t about presentation: they only care that you buy their popcorn.  And the LieMax, if they install it, will be 2K video.
     If your idea of going to the movies is to watch an oversized TV screen, AMC is for you.
     You should give the Somerville your business.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 7:37am
http://www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com/2012/02/hitchcock-in-outer-space.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 7:57am
In honor of Franky's monster.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110927095614.htm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 10:18am
Celebrate James Bridges birthday. Among his many accomplishments, he wrote the screenplay based on the D.F. Jones novel for Colossus: The Forbin Project

From Alfred Hitchcock Geek:

The director of such movies as THE PAPER CHASE, THE CHINA SYNDROME and URBAN COWBOY, was an actor when Norman Lloyd tapped him to write an episode for ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. He then wrote 15 more, among them the most lauded and memorable in the series, including "The Jar," "An Unlocked Window," and "Where the Woodbine Twineth." Bridges died in 1993 at the age of 57, survived by his longtime companion, Jack Larson who is familiar to many as Superman's Jimmy Olsen.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 12:37pm
what are people's predictions for the superbowl? specifically;will madonna have a wardrobe malfunction? will madonna sleep with the winning team?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 3rd, 2012 at 1:22pm

Quote:
Quote   what are people's predictions for the superbowl? specifically;will madonna have a wardrobe malfunction?....


"Is there any man in america who hasn't already see your busooms?" Rosie O'Donnell to Madonna in "A League of Their Own"

"I predict PAIN." Mr. T in "Rocky II"

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 6th, 2012 at 10:44pm
My hoetown won't ever be the same.  I have met these guys.  They are super nice and I wish them well on this new project.  They are the team that brought Hatchet and Hatchet 2 and Frozen to the big screen.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2011/11/05/adam-green-sets-sitcom-holliston-old-hometown/TTMtW8t6a65nqZWuPpZLKM/story.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:14pm
I always figured that the Norwegians would get there first


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/world/europe/russian-scientists-bore-into-ancient-antarctic-lake.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

MacReady: I dunno, it's like this: thousands of years ago this spaceship crashes, and this thing, whatever it is... gets thrown out or crawls out and it ends up freezing in the ice.
Garry: So, the Norwegians find it, and they dig it out of the ice...
MacReady: That's right, Garry. They dig it up. They cart it back to their base. It gets thawed out, it wakes up, probaly not the best of moods, and... I don't know, I wasn't there!
Childs: How could this motherfutter wake up after thousands of years frozen in the ice?
George Bennings: And how can it make itself look like a dog?
MacReady: I don't know. Because it's different then us. Because it's from outer space. What more do you want from me? Ask Blair!



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by pogo on Feb 9th, 2012 at 8:51pm
Recent occurrences of madness in Arkham MA and the discovery of horribly mutilated library books at the library of Miskatonic University have followed the news of the Russians tapping an enormous lake under the Antarctic ice cap.
Those aware of the Cthulu Mythos or the recent movie The Call of Cthulu should check out the news of the Russians tapping a "Gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for millions of years"(AP)http://universe.byu.edu/index.php/2012/02/09/ap-in-scientific-coup-russians-reach-antarctic-lake/
Looking at the Wikipedia article on H.P. Lovecraft you will find that, "Eventually, as Antarctica became uninhabitable even for the Elder Things, they migrated into a large, subterranean ocean."
Be afraid

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by ed symkus on Feb 13th, 2012 at 8:44pm
I just interviewed Garen for a piece about the Marathon scheduled for this week's Somerville Journal (I think it's published on Thursday). He was erudite, or something like that. It'll also be somewhere on this site: http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Joe Neff on Feb 13th, 2012 at 8:51pm
"He was erudite, or something like that" would make one hell of a gravestone epitaph.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 13th, 2012 at 9:44pm

Joe Neff wrote on Feb 13th, 2012 at 8:51pm:
"He was erudite, or something like that" would make one hell of a gravestone epitaph.



Geez, you guys are all wicked smaht....

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 16th, 2012 at 8:30pm
The Truth is Out There!

Eisenhower Met With ETs Says Ex-Government Consultant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy-good_n_1277133.html


Quote:
Whether you believe this story or not, an interesting related side-story reared its head in 2010. A retired New Hampshire state representative, Henry McElroy Jr., taped an intriguing video announcement in which he revealed seeing a secret briefing document intended for Eisenhower.

This document, according to McElroy, contained information that aliens were in America and that Eisenhower could meet with them


I also know for a fact that Chief NASA Rocket Scientist Werhner von Braun was an alien*. -RF :)



*Alien n. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
source: American Heritage Dictionary

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 16th, 2012 at 9:58pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Feb 16th, 2012 at 8:30pm:
The Truth is Out There!

Eisenhower Met With ETs Says Ex-Government Consultant
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/eisenhower-met-aliens-says-timothy-good_n_1277133.html


Quote:
Whether you believe this story or not, an interesting related side-story reared its head in 2010. A retired New Hampshire state representative, Henry McElroy Jr., taped an intriguing video announcement in which he revealed seeing a secret briefing document intended for Eisenhower.

This document, according to McElroy, contained information that aliens were in America and that Eisenhower could meet with them


I also know for a fact that Chief NASA Rocket Scientist Werhner von Braun was an alien*. -RF :)



*Alien n. An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country. Also called noncitizen.
source: American Heritage Dictionary


I Aim At The Stars, But I Often Hit England.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 17th, 2012 at 7:25am

Quote:
Me:
I also know for a fact that Chief NASA Rocket Scientist Werhner von Braun was an alien*. -RF

[quote]Frank:
I Aim At The Stars, But I Often Hit England.
[/quote]

Tom Lehrer sings of Wernher von Braun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7me25aNtI&feature=player_embedded

I've been saving this one for the right movie.


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by ed symkus on Feb 18th, 2012 at 4:45pm

Here's that interview with Garen. See you all soon!!!

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x1676724218/Science-fiction-movie-madness-to-take-over-Somerville-Theatre#axzz1mlu8QtnK

Title: BAD News
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 26th, 2012 at 7:23am
Bad news:

The Razzies are yet to be announced but critics are busy compiling the year's worst; eager, in Roger Ebert's words, to take one more crack at films that robbed precious hours from their lives:


From Time:
And the Worst Film of the Year Is Officially...


Quote:
http://news.yahoo.com/worst-film-officially-140500460.html


Yes, it wouldn't be a proper worst-list without the usual suspects: "Twilight", Michael Bay, Nicole Kidman, Adam Sandler.. ;).

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Feb 27th, 2012 at 12:07pm
I think there might be a movie in this...

Goat Accents


Quote:
The scientists believe the goats are displaying the first stage in the evolutionary development of language. The next stage would be imitation, which some birds (hummingbirds, parrots and songbirds), bats, whales and dolphin have exhibited.

The study concludes that animals could one develop complex language like humans:

“This suggests an early step in the evolution of vocal communication, leading to the advanced and unique vocal-learning abilities found in humans, which allow us to speak.”


GET YOUR HOOVES OFF ME YOU DAMNED, DIRTY GOAT!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 27th, 2012 at 4:03pm

Metaluna wrote on Feb 27th, 2012 at 12:07pm:
I think there might be a movie in this...

Goat Accents


Quote:
The scientists believe the goats are displaying the first stage in the evolutionary development of language. The next stage would be imitation, which some birds (hummingbirds, parrots and songbirds), bats, whales and dolphin have exhibited.

The study concludes that animals could one develop complex language like humans:

“This suggests an early step in the evolution of vocal communication, leading to the advanced and unique vocal-learning abilities found in humans, which allow us to speak.”


GET YOUR HOOVES OFF ME YOU DAMNED, DIRTY GOAT!


YOUR SPECIES PRODUCES MILK TOO, YA HOOFLESS BASTIDS.  MAKE YOUR OWN DAMNED CHEESE.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 6th, 2012 at 5:57pm


Where's Kurt Russel when you need him?


Quote:
Alien Invasion Threatens Antarctic Ecosystem

SYDNEY (REUTERS) - In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion -- not from outer space, but carried in people's pockets and bags

http://news.yahoo.com/alien-invasion-threat-antarctic-ecosystem-030858080.html



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 8th, 2012 at 4:18am
Today's news story quiz: identify the source of this headline:


Quote:
Huge solar storm races toward Earth
Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in years.


a) The Snow Globe That Ate Peoria
b) Solar Stormtroopers
c) Day of the Magnets
d) yesterday's Boston Globe

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by ed symkus on Mar 14th, 2012 at 7:42pm

I really enjoyed "Zippy" today.

http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Zippy_the_Pinhead/

Title: Zippy, Lio & Grimmy: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Mar 14th, 2012 at 9:14pm
Never could get into the whole Zippy thing, myself.

These are my 2 go to comics each day:

http://www.gocomics.com/lio

www.mania.com/content_pics/000003/35/31/06f4de144062907c_thumb.jpg" name="post_img_resize_28" alt="" border="0" id="imagecount28" style="display:none" />

and


http://www.grimmy.com/comics.php



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Mar 17th, 2012 at 11:43pm
Please note:  Soylent Green is in short supply, so remember—Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 18th, 2012 at 1:56pm

Frank wrote on Mar 17th, 2012 at 11:43pm:
Please note:  Soylent Green is in short supply, so remember—Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

Warning: May contain nuts.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Mar 18th, 2012 at 2:00pm

Metaluna wrote on Mar 18th, 2012 at 1:56pm:

Frank wrote on Mar 17th, 2012 at 11:43pm:
Please note:  Soylent Green is in short supply, so remember—Tuesday is Soylent Green day.

Warning: May contain nuts.


Muse of comedy - I fall at your feet and weep tears of laughter............ ;D

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Mar 18th, 2012 at 5:24pm
soylent green is leprechauns. soylent green is leprechauns.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 21st, 2012 at 6:19am
Metaluna Relinquishes Title:



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Mar 21st, 2012 at 9:39am




Stuff and nonsense sir!  I served Metaluna, I knew Metaluna, I am a thrall of Metaluna, and that teen is no Metaluna.  Besides, you don't relinquish that title you have to take it.  Trial by combat sir, trial by combat.  To which I say, 10,000 quatloos on Metaluna.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Mar 21st, 2012 at 10:33am

Frank wrote on Mar 21st, 2012 at 9:39am:




Stuff and nonsense sir!  I served Metaluna, I knew Metaluna, I am a thrall of Metaluna, and that teen is no Metaluna.  Besides, you don't relinquish that title you have to take it.  Trial by combat sir, trial by combat.  To which I say, 10,000 quatloos on Metaluna.

right. and this teen probably slept with far fewer than the 500 or so that meta luna sleeps with every year.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 21st, 2012 at 10:03pm

Frank wrote on Mar 21st, 2012 at 9:39am:


Stuff and nonsense sir!  I served Metaluna, I knew Metaluna, I am a thrall of Metaluna, and that teen is no Metaluna.  Besides, you don't relinquish that title you have to take it.  Trial by combat sir, trial by combat.  To which I say, 10,000 quatloos on Metaluna.

You shall be rewarded for your loyalty.


Quote:
right. and this teen probably slept with far fewer than the 500 or so that meta luna sleeps with every year.

Yeah, I'll bet she doesn't even spend $3000 a year on birth control. I know law students who are "friendlier" than that.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 8:46am
For anyone who didn't get enough steampunk at the marathon:

Boston crafts show spotlights steampunk designers

http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-22/arts/31218743_1_steampunk-arts-and-crafts-traditional-art

I didn't mind steampunk until it got trendy.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 10:59am
Oh Captain, my Captain, happy birthday..........

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 12:09pm

Frank wrote on Mar 22nd, 2012 at 10:59am:
Oh Captain, my Captain, happy birthday..........

yes. captain kirk will be born in riverside iowa on this date, march 22, in 221 years. which incites me to revisit the 2010 reboot and point out that the aternate timeline had to be created at some point prior to the arrival of Nero. how did i miss that during our exhaustive star trek 2010 discussion? (which has since been lost in cyberspace due to the great board crash of 2011.)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Mar 23rd, 2012 at 7:11am
today is the 100 birthday of werner von brown. sure he was a nazi and he used some slave labor and his rocket killed civilians in london but hey, the v2 was a really cool rocket and it appears in many 50's sci-fi films. do we still use the v2 wrist stamp apon admittance to the marathon? his role in the early space program was pivotal. the saturn 5 was his design.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 24th, 2012 at 7:11pm
AFAIK, our L.A. Connection does not have any nominations this year but, you can still vote in the Rondo Awards! Maybe we can give him a write-in somewhere. ;)

http://rondoaward.com/rondo/rondos.html

Ballots must be sent via email by Sunday night at midnight, April 1, 2012.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Mar 31st, 2012 at 4:53pm
Mars Attacks! Will Be Made Into a Broadway Musical

Sorry, L.A. but it looks like they aren't getting Danny Elfman to do the music.

Personally I love the movie.

Title: Rotten: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Mar 31st, 2012 at 5:39pm

Metaluna wrote on Mar 31st, 2012 at 4:53pm:
Mars Attacks! Will Be Made Into a Broadway Musical

Sorry, L.A. but it looks like they aren't getting Danny Elfman to do the music.

Personally I love the movie.



BOTH the movie and Danny Elfman's music.......




Title: Re: Rotten: Today's News Stories
Post by da_Bunnyman on Mar 31st, 2012 at 9:27pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Mar 31st, 2012 at 5:39pm:

Metaluna wrote on Mar 31st, 2012 at 4:53pm:
Mars Attacks! Will Be Made Into a Broadway Musical

Sorry, L.A. but it looks like they aren't getting Danny Elfman to do the music.

Personally I love the movie.



BOTH the movie and Danny Elfman's music.......




In other Mars Attacks news the first issue of the new Mars Attacks comics, due in June, will have FIFTY FIVE different covers. That's a complete set of the original gum cards.
You can order a complete set of the covers for only $199 in a special collectible box.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the original card sets so look for a lot of toys & stuff including a plush martian that I hope to be cuddling at SF 38.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Apr 5th, 2012 at 11:23am
he wants to be flexible....with THESE GUYS???
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/russia-working-on-electromagnetic-radiation-guns/story-fn5iztw3-1226317396841

Title: Studio Exec tells truth!!: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 7th, 2012 at 6:45pm
Wow! A Studio exec actually tells the truth for once!

:o :o :o :o :o

Get a gander at this quote:

"One of the worst movies we ever made was Wolfman. Wolfman and Babe 2 are two of the shittiest movies we put out. … Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. … Land of the Lost was just crap. I mean, there was no excuse for it. The best intentions all went wrong."

Full piece: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ron-meyer-universal-president-309173

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 7th, 2012 at 9:57pm

Quote:
Wow! A Studio exec actually tells the truth for once!
[quote]"One of the worst movies we ever made was Wolfman… Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t good enough
[/quote]

Nah...he's still lying! Mrs F and I saw both Wolfman and Cowboys and Aliens and they put out movies way crappier than those two! ;)

The related link on your above link is unintentionally telling of the problem:

How to Save the Movies: A 2012 Box-Office Game Plan
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-box-office-hollywood-278813


Quote:
In 2011, for the first time ever, all of the 10 top-grossing films domestically were franchise titles and spinoffs, including Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. There are even more franchise titles in 2012 than in 2011 -- 28 vs. 25 -- including the final Batman and Twilight films


Just because they were the top ten grossing films in a dismal year doesen't mean the public wants MORE of them! >:(

Title: Re: Studio Exec tells truth!!: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Apr 7th, 2012 at 11:04pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 7th, 2012 at 6:45pm:
Wow! A Studio exec actually tells the truth for once!

:o :o :o :o :o

Get a gander at this quote:

"One of the worst movies we ever made was Wolfman. Wolfman and Babe 2 are two of the shittiest movies we put out. … Cowboys & Aliens wasn’t good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. … Land of the Lost was just crap. I mean, there was no excuse for it. The best intentions all went wrong."

Full piece: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ron-meyer-universal-president-309173

 
A complete liar..............  Wolfman was a terrific nod to Universal and Hammer and thoroughly enjoyable.   A studio exec.  He is not lying if his lips aren't moving and even then he is thinking up lies. 

Title: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 8th, 2012 at 11:12am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Apr 7th, 2012 at 9:57pm:
...The related link on your above link is unintentionally telling of the problem:How to Save the Movies: A 2012 Box-Office Game Plan
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-box-office-hollywood-278813


Quote:
In 2011, for the first time ever, all of the 10 top-grossing films domestically were franchise titles and spinoffs, including Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. There are even more franchise titles in 2012 than in 2011 -- 28 vs. 25 -- including the final Batman and Twilight films


Just because they were the top ten grossing films in a dismal year doesen't mean the public wants MORE of them! >:(


Were that the truth! Unfortunately, Hollywood only gives a damn about $$$$$$$$$$. Sure, there are a couple of Harvey Weinstein types who care about awards and prestige films, but the majors don't as a whole.

THE AUDIENCE is the problem. It's pretty damning that WRATH OF THE TITANS has already made more than THE ARTIST in 2 weeks than the Best Picture winner has in 20! And, some middling piece of pure product like JOURNEY 2: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND will earn $100M!

Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen.

Title: Re: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by Frank on Apr 8th, 2012 at 2:53pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 11:12am:

R_F_Fineman wrote on Apr 7th, 2012 at 9:57pm:
...The related link on your above link is unintentionally telling of the problem:How to Save the Movies: A 2012 Box-Office Game Plan
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mission-impossible-tom-cruise-box-office-hollywood-278813


Quote:
In 2011, for the first time ever, all of the 10 top-grossing films domestically were franchise titles and spinoffs, including Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. There are even more franchise titles in 2012 than in 2011 -- 28 vs. 25 -- including the final Batman and Twilight films


Just because they were the top ten grossing films in a dismal year doesen't mean the public wants MORE of them! >:(


Were that the truth! Unfortunately, Hollywood only gives a damn about $$$$$$$$$$. Sure, there are a couple of Harvey Weinstein types who care about awards and prestige films, but the majors don't as a whole.

THE AUDIENCE is the problem. It's pretty damning that WRATH OF THE TITANS has already made more than THE ARTIST in 2 weeks than the Best Picture winner has in 20! And, some middling piece of pure product like JOURNEY 2: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND will earn $100M!

Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen.



You miss the point dear boy.  That is exactly what the public wants and well and why not........ If it's what they want then give it to them......... I don;t have to go see Transformers but if it sells go for it...... I see no problem in that.....

Title: Re: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 8th, 2012 at 3:44pm

Frank wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 2:53pm:
You miss the point dear boy.  That is exactly what the public wants and well and why not........ If it's what they want then give it to them......... I don;t have to go see Transformers but if it sells go for it...... I see no problem in that.....


uh, that's actually what I said (about the audience getting what they go out and see).......... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by Frank on Apr 8th, 2012 at 4:26pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 3:44pm:

Frank wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 2:53pm:
You miss the point dear boy.  That is exactly what the public wants and well and why not........ If it's what they want then give it to them......... I don;t have to go see Transformers but if it sells go for it...... I see no problem in that.....


uh, that's actually what I said (about the audience getting what they go out and see).......... ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)



And as always you only report the part that helps your point.  You also added and conveniently omitted..........
"Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen".  So it is you telling people not to go see that they want to see.   :D :o ::) Please report all of the facts Michael Moore.....not just the ones that help you...

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 8th, 2012 at 5:57pm
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen...today is Easter: a time when people gather together and share hope and joy. Families everywhere are enjoying the season's lamb and joining in Easter Egg hunts.

In the spirit of the holiday, I submit:

http://hiddendvdeastereggs.com/films/2594.html


Quote:
Black Sheep (2006)
(Region: 1)
Visit the Official Site

Bonus Clip:
In the main menu, highlight the "Play Movie" sheep. Then, press left. None of the sheep should be highlighted. Then press enter. You should see an outake with Henry, Experience, Tuker and a surprise in bed.


"I ate a bunny!!!!!" :'( -Grant in "Black Sheep"

Title: Re: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 8th, 2012 at 6:08pm

Frank wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 4:26pm:



And as always you only report the part that helps your point.  You also added and conveniently omitted..........
"Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen".  So it is you telling people not to go see that they want to see....[/quote]

Well, if you read all the entries in that thread in a row, my prior post makes sense. I agreed that people are getting what they want. I was ALSO replying R.F.'s post. Gotta read em all in context.........

Title: Re: Hollywood Exec Tells The Truth!!: Today's News Sto
Post by Frank on Apr 8th, 2012 at 8:58pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 6:08pm:

Frank wrote on Apr 8th, 2012 at 4:26pm:



And as always you only report the part that helps your point.  You also added and conveniently omitted..........
"Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen".  So it is you telling people not to go see that they want to see....


Well, if you read all the entries in that thread in a row, my prior post makes sense. I agreed that people are getting what they want. I was ALSO replying R.F.'s post. Gotta read em all in context.........
[/quote]

Sorry... that dog won't hunt....
saying this ""Don't #$#$ing go to these pieces of #$#$, and then, and only then, will Hollywood listen"  pretty much negates your point.  But I get it now..... We will have to remember that you speak out of both sides of your mouth. 

I was not saying that people are getting what they want.  I am saying that people SHOULD get what they want and you sir are not saying THAT at all.  People WANT to see what YOU are calling pieces of sh!t... THey don;t see these movies that way and therefore Because it what is putting asses in the seats......

Title: 20 Biggest SF Disappointments: Today's News Storie
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 12th, 2012 at 7:06pm
Den Of Geek's 20 biggest SF film disappointments of the last 20 years.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1317071/20_of_the_biggest_scifi_cinema_disappointments_of_the_last_20_years.html

PHANTOM MENACE should clearly be number one. Not the worst film on the list, but, the hopes and expectations were sky high. Tim Burton/Marky Mark's PLANET OF THE APES would be close behind along with the MATRIX sequels. Not sure why BATTLEFIELD EARTH or not one, but two, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR films are listed - did anyone really have high expectations for them?

Title: Re: 20 Biggest SF Disappointments: Today's News Storie
Post by IamJacksUserID on Apr 12th, 2012 at 9:12pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 12th, 2012 at 7:06pm:
Den Of Geek's 20 biggest SF film disappointments of the last 20 years.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1317071/20_of_the_biggest_scifi_cinema_disappointments_of_the_last_20_years.html

PHANTOM MENACE should clearly be number one. Not the worst film on the list, but, the hopes and expectations were sky high. Tim Burton/Marky Mark's PLANET OF THE APES would be close behind along with the MATRIX sequels. Not sure why BATTLEFIELD EARTH or not one, but two, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR films are listed - did anyone really have high expectations for them?


You're right about BATTLEFIELD EARTH, but I think people did have high expectations for the AVP films, especially after the first one tanked and they tried the old "yeah, we know it sucked but we learned our lesson" trick.  And, as it turns out, no they didn't, kind of like what happened with OCEAN'S 13.

Also, it doesn't appear as if they were ranking them numerically in the article, which is always up for debate.  But PHANTOM MENACE would probably be number 1 if they chose to go that route.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 14th, 2012 at 9:56am
In a blatant act of hijacking this "Planet of the Apes" sequel thread, I'd like to mention a "Today's News Story"

News to some:


Quote:
North Korean Rocket Breaks Up on Liftoff
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/12/11168783-north-korea-rocket-breaks-up-after-much-touted-launch?lite

North Korea faces rocket reality: Failure is an option

Space experts say making things go boom is easy; controlling the blast is hard
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47043711


Not to others:

Quote:
It seems the North Koreans are always the last to know...

Rocket Launch? What Rocket Launch? :o
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/13/11185972-failed-rocket-launch-what-rocket-launch?lite

Title: Moving of the APES: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 14th, 2012 at 10:54am
All discussion of PLANET OF THE APES, sequels, remakes, timelines etc should go here:

http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1334418641/0#0

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Apr 25th, 2012 at 8:15am

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 25th, 2012 at 2:04pm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 25th, 2012 at 7:31pm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 30th, 2012 at 12:05pm
Great news for our sister Thon'.


Quote:
NASA Announces Plans To Put Man On Bus To Cleveland
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—Hailing the dawn of a new era in long-distance highway travel, NASA officials unveiled Monday the agency’s ambitious plans to put a man on a bus to Cleveland, OH by early 2013.

The complex and dangerous three-day mission, dubbed “Chariot I,” is expected to pass through six states and include two brief transfers in Atlanta and Louisville in both directions, at a reported total cost of $360 dollars plus taxes and fees.

“For almost as long as our nation has existed, man has gazed upon a map of the eastern United States and dreamed of traveling to Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio,” NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. said at a press conference announcing the agency’s first major initiative since the discontinuation of the space shuttle program. “Until now, the immense physical and psychological risks involved in any manned mission had put that dream sadly out of reach.”

“But not anymore,” he added. “Next year we are going to Cleveland and back.”

Standing next to a scale model of the vehicle that will make the difficult 1,215-mile voyage—a Motor Coach Industries 102DL3 equipped with...
:o

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plans-to-put-man-on-bus-to-clevelan,28024/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 3rd, 2012 at 2:18pm


Quote:
John Edwards Mistress Wanted to Say She Was 'Abducted By Aliens'

When the National Enquirer broke a story that presidential candidate John Edwards was having an affair, Edwards' campaign was worried by mistress Rielle Hunter's initial reluctance to issue a denial. Instead, she wanted to put out a flip statement that she was "abducted by aliens."

http://gma.yahoo.com/john-edwards-mistress-wanted-she-abducted-aliens-132445737--abc-news-topstories.html


Hey it had to work better than the truth. Still, this could have been a great tie-in for the release of "Paul"! :D

ps. Your narrator just got back from a colonoscopy performed by a foreign-born doctor...so yes, being probed by an alien: been there, done that! ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 4th, 2012 at 6:26pm
One of you guys could have written this.

Buyer beware: Your local theater will make 'Avengers' look like dung


Quote:
Greg Vellante, an excellent young movie critic for the North Andover Eagle Tribune, is up in arms about how lousy "The Avengers" looks at the Regal Fenway -- and let's be honest, how almost every movie looks at almost every multiplex across the land. His piece, drolly titled "Critic Smash," describes the experience of watching the superhero extravaganza at a press screening with projection that rendered the movie a depressing monochromatic washout.


http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/blog/2012/05/buyer_beware_yo.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed6_HP

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on May 5th, 2012 at 11:11am

Metaluna wrote on May 4th, 2012 at 6:26pm:
One of you guys could have written this.

Buyer beware: Your local theater will make 'Avengers' look like dung


Quote:
Greg Vellante, an excellent young movie critic for the North Andover Eagle Tribune, is up in arms about how lousy "The Avengers" looks at the Regal Fenway -- and let's be honest, how almost every movie looks at almost every multiplex across the land. His piece, drolly titled "Critic Smash," describes the experience of watching the superhero extravaganza at a press screening with projection that rendered the movie a depressing monochromatic washout.


http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/blog/2012/05/buyer_beware_yo.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed6_HP


i heard that seeing it in imax 3d is like avenger cake and eating it too.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on May 5th, 2012 at 5:45pm
I have to agree.  I loved the movie but not the projection.....

Title: Oh, Mr.Rogers!: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on May 8th, 2012 at 6:12pm





Just couldn't resist............ :D


(apparently, it was part of an 'innocent' counting lesson on the show)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 18th, 2012 at 2:25pm
RIDLEY SCOTT’S NEW BLADE RUNNER IS OFFICIALLY A SEQUEL & WILL STAR A WOMAN IN THE LEAD ROLE!

http://www.themarysue.com/blade-runner-woman-star/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 18th, 2012 at 3:35pm

Quote:
RIDLEY SCOTT’S NEW BLADE RUNNER IS OFFICIALLY A SEQUEL & WILL STAR A WOMAN IN THE LEAD ROLE!...http://www.themarysue.com/blade-runner-woman-star/


"They're only questons Ridley."

"Ridley: describe the good things that come into your mind about...your mother."


Quote:
Ridley Scott: "I’m used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo"


Whew, Ridley passed the Voight Kampf test! ;)

Leon didn't do so well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiuAI-GuOOc

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 18th, 2012 at 7:06pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on May 18th, 2012 at 3:35pm:
Whew, Ridley passed the Voight Kampf test! ;)

Leon didn't do so well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiuAI-GuOOc

He did better than Holden.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 22nd, 2012 at 8:56am
Falcon 9 launches into orbit, delivering supplies to the ISS
http://www.q13fox.com/news/nationworld/os-spacex-launch-falcon-2nd-attempt-20120522,0,3871210.story

Famous departed supporters of space exploration have hitched a ride.
http://news.yahoo.com/scotty-trip-final-frontier-spacex-rocket-174001331.html



Quote:
Falcon 9 carries a secondary payload as well - a container holding lipstick-tube-sized canisters filled with cremated remains.

The deceased include Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who died in 2004, and actor James Doohan, who portrayed chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original Star Trek television series. Doohan died in 2005.


James Doohan needs no introduction to this audience. Gordon Cooper (accurately portrayed by Dennis Quaid in "The Right Stuff") was a veteran of Merury 7 and Gemini 5. He's slept in space before. He will sleep there forever more.




Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on May 22nd, 2012 at 10:47am

Metaluna wrote on May 18th, 2012 at 7:06pm:

R_F_Fineman wrote on May 18th, 2012 at 3:35pm:
Whew, Ridley passed the Voight Kampf test! ;)

Leon didn't do so well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiuAI-GuOOc

He did better than Holden.


Holden will be fine. as long as nobody unplugs his heart lung machine.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 23rd, 2012 at 9:50pm

kirok wrote on May 22nd, 2012 at 10:47am:

Holden will be fine. as long as nobody unplugs his heart lung machine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWREQyGZsEw

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 28th, 2012 at 10:17am
The SF board has been quiet...too quiet! What has everybody been up to?

Then I read this:


Quote:
Witness in Kenya blast blames bearded man

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A witness wounded in a blast in downtown Nairobi says that the explosion occurred soon after a bearded man left a bag near her stall.
http://news.yahoo.com/witness-kenya-blast-blames-bearded-man-134709337.html

The police lineup is going to look a lot like the line to get into the Somerville on Presidents' Day Weekend! ;)


Let's not forget Metaluna:


Quote:
Thousands take part in 'Slut Walks' in Brazil
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-part-slut-walks-brazil-235843355.html


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 28th, 2012 at 2:28pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on May 28th, 2012 at 10:17am:
Let's not forget Metaluna:


Quote:
Thousands take part in 'Slut Walks' in Brazil
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-part-slut-walks-brazil-235843355.html

I'm gonna have to check out the Somerville Theater mens room to see what people are writing on the walls about me. It sounds like it's a lot more interesting than my real life.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 28th, 2012 at 3:52pm
Metaluna:

Quote:
I'm gonna have to check out the Somerville Theater mens room to see what people are writing on the walls about me.


'Twas just a reference to a pervious er, previous "Today's News Story" post and all of those guys you've slept with on Presidents' Day Weekend. ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 29th, 2012 at 7:58pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on May 28th, 2012 at 3:52pm:
Metaluna:

Quote:
I'm gonna have to check out the Somerville Theater mens room to see what people are writing on the walls about me.


'Twas just a reference to a pervious er, previous "Today's News Story" post and all of those guys you've slept with on Presidents' Day Weekend. ;)

You can't expect me to remember something like that with all the guys I sleep with.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on May 30th, 2012 at 7:29pm
"Damnit Jim I'm a doctor, not a..."

MIT Scientists Develop a Device for Needle-less Injections


Quote:
MIT scientists are developing a needle-less injection that could make getting a flu shot as painless as a mosquito bite.

The device shoots a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin as fast as the speed of sound.


http://mashable.com/2012/05/25/mit-needle-less-injections/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 5th, 2012 at 5:31am
Where's Ken Tobey when you need him!

Monday, June 4, 2012 4:35pm PDT

Anglers' extraordinary find is no sea monster, but a giant squid

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/33793/anglers+extraordinary+find+is+no+sea+monster+but+a+giant+squid/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jun 5th, 2012 at 6:52am
Sorry but Ken Tobey is for giant octopi who are shy of eight legs.  Kirk Douglas and James Mason would be better suited for fighting off giant squid.   

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 5th, 2012 at 6:11pm

Quote:
Frank:
Kirk Douglas and James Mason would be better suited for fighting off giant squid.


When dealing with surly cephelapods you can go with the dashing tar armed with a harpoon...



but I'm going for the guy with the torpedoes!


"One jumbo order of sashimi coming right up!"  :)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jun 5th, 2012 at 6:22pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Jun 5th, 2012 at 6:11pm:

Quote:
Frank:
Kirk Douglas and James Mason would be better suited for fighting off giant squid.


When dealing with surly cephelapods you can go with the dashing tar armed with a harpoon...



but I'm going for the guy with the torpedoes!


"One jumbo order of sashimi coming right up!"  :)


Sorry Tobey is strictly a squid, super carrot, rhedosaurus type of hero and the odd lost missle, werewolf and sech.  Oh yea helicopter rides too.

Title: The Best Trailer out there now- Banned in 'Bama: N
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 7th, 2012 at 12:04pm
The Best Trailer in theaters right now. It's for a Norwegian film called TURN ME ON, DAMMIT!. It's already come and gone in L.A. - but, for some reason, a theater in Santa Monica is still showing the trailer. It's terrific, possibly NSFW, and has Orson Welles singing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tfu99WkSrs



Unfortunately, the movie's been Banned in 'Bama (big shock - in the SOUTH! No, way!). Article: http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/06/tuscaloosa_arts_council_pulls.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jun 8th, 2012 at 10:44am
Gotta tell ya the movie does look promising but that trailer with the voiceover and that piece of music comes aross as some pretentious piece fof drivel.....

Title: The Best Trailer out there now- Banned in 'Bama: N
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 8th, 2012 at 10:47am

Frank wrote on Jun 8th, 2012 at 10:44am:
Gotta tell ya the movie does look promising but that trailer with the voiceover and that piece of music comes aross as some pretentious piece fof drivel.....


Orson Welles, man. Orson #@#$ing Welles!!!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jun 8th, 2012 at 6:19pm
Site of the Du Jour:

Instant Wilhelm Scream!
http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=wilhelmscream

You needed this, you just never realized it.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 11th, 2012 at 5:05pm
March of the Penguins II NC-17



Quote:
Penguins' Explicit Sex Acts Shocked Polar Explorer

Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition has been uncovered and interpreted.

The naughty notes were rediscovered recently at the Natural History Museum in Tring, in England, and published in the recent issue of the journal Polar Record..."As it was boldly headed 'Not for Publication' it immediately caught my eye," Douglas Russell, who discovered the pamphlet, told LiveScience....penguins' autoerotic tendencies, and the seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males...necrophilia...non-procreative sex...homosexuality
:-?

http://news.yahoo.com/penguins-explicit-sex-acts-shocked-polar-explorer-125137476.html

Try posting that on Facebook - ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Caleb451 on Jun 12th, 2012 at 5:40pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Jun 11th, 2012 at 5:05pm:
March of the Penguins II NC-17



Quote:
Penguins' Explicit Sex Acts Shocked Polar Explorer

Hidden for nearly 100 years for being too "graphic," a report of "hooligan" behaviors, including sexual coercion, by Adelie penguins observed during Captain Scott's 1910 polar expedition has been uncovered and interpreted.

The naughty notes were rediscovered recently at the Natural History Museum in Tring, in England, and published in the recent issue of the journal Polar Record..."As it was boldly headed 'Not for Publication' it immediately caught my eye," Douglas Russell, who discovered the pamphlet, told LiveScience....penguins' autoerotic tendencies, and the seemingly aberrant behavior of young unpaired males...necrophilia...non-procreative sex...homosexuality
:-?

http://news.yahoo.com/penguins-explicit-sex-acts-shocked-polar-explorer-125137476.html

Try posting that on Facebook - ;)


FB is where I first read this.

Title: Re: The Best Trailer out there now- Banned in 'Bama: N
Post by Frank on Jun 12th, 2012 at 8:18pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Jun 8th, 2012 at 10:47am:

Frank wrote on Jun 8th, 2012 at 10:44am:
Gotta tell ya the movie does look promising but that trailer with the voiceover and that piece of music comes aross as some pretentious piece fof drivel.....


Orson Welles, man. Orson #@#$ing Welles!!!

  The wine guy?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 13th, 2012 at 4:29am

Quote:
Me: "March of the Penguins II"  NC-17
[quote]Journal of Polar Records:
Penguins' Explicit Sex Acts Shocked Polar Explorer...aberant behavior...necrophelia...etc.
[/quote]

Quote:
Caleb: Facebook is where I first read this.


I'm sorry to hear that Caleb. Once you've clicked on the link, Mark Zuckerberg makes your interest in Penguin Necrophelia part of your permanent record...soon you'll be getting repulsive spam ads from the N.A.A.N.: the National Association of Avian Necrophiles. ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jun 13th, 2012 at 8:32am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Jun 13th, 2012 at 4:29am:
...soon you'll be getting repulsive spam ads from the N.A.A.N.: the National Association of Avian Necrophiles. ;)

Adblock Plus takes care of that pesky problem.

Mmmmmm...naan. Now I want Indian food.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 20th, 2012 at 8:52am
Darth Vader: Your ride is here.


The UK's Skylon space plane currently under development with the European Space Agency.
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/skylon.html


Check out the size of the Skylon in comparison to other spacecraft! The design looks very much like the spaceplanes of 1950's and 60's science fiction, so much so that on this blog by serious aerospace engineers, one even suggests that the sled and parobolic track launching method used in "When Worlds Collide" would be a more efficient method of launching it.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/skylon-spaceplane.html

Scroll down the comment by "Silverthorn" It is supported by others and serves as a great response to people who think science fiction is silly. :)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jun 21st, 2012 at 12:14pm
Another one bites the dust:

AMC to close theater in Harvard Square in July

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2012/06/amc_to_close_theater_in_harvar.html?p1=Well_Local_YourTownlinks

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Jun 21st, 2012 at 1:28pm

Metaluna wrote on Jun 21st, 2012 at 12:14pm:
Another one bites the dust:

AMC to close theater in Harvard Square in July

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2012/06/amc_to_close_theater_in_harvar.html?p1=Well_Local_YourTownlinks

my god! the last rocky horror picture show! get advanced tickets on line. scalp them at the theater and make a fortune.

Title: Harvard Sq Theatre RIP: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 21st, 2012 at 2:06pm
Ah, the good old Harvard Square Theater. Double features, rock films like MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR & THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, midnight shows....

Surprised it lasted this long under the Loew's and AMC banners. These chains only care about maximizing profits - not historical preservation or the movie-going pleasures of their neighbors.

Cinema Treasures page: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/484 ; (Somerville's Ian Judge has some choice words for AMC there)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jun 22nd, 2012 at 9:06pm
Blade Runner: Which predictions have come true?


Quote:
It's been 30 years since the release of Blade Runner and 10 years since Minority Report. Both are rich sources of predictions about the future. But what has actually come to pass?


Holy Crap! Minority Report is ten years old.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18026277

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Jun 27th, 2012 at 10:35pm
Americans favour Obama to defend against aliens


Quote:
NEARLY two in three Americans think President Barack Obama is better suited than Republican rival Mitt Romney to deal with an alien invasion, according to a survey released today.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/americans-favour-obama-to-defend-against-aliens/story-e6frf7lf-1226410853567

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 30th, 2012 at 7:29pm
Soon to be Already has been a Roger Corman Film:


Quote:
Bizarre fish with scary-looking teeth throw scare into lake community

The discovery of an alien fish species in a small lake in Illinois has put locals and tourists on edge because the fish posses dangerous-looking teeth and bear a striking resemblance to ravenous piranha...Lake superintendent Jim Caldwell, sounding a bit like the Amity Island mayor in Jaws, assured that everything's OK, adding that he has a small swim in the lake regularly.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/34025/bizarre+fish+with+scary-looking+teeth+throw+scare+into+lake+community/[/url]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=7HhOeuPUO74&NR=1


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jul 12th, 2012 at 1:40pm
Are you ready for a video called...

"Seven Minutes of Terror!"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mars-rover-landing-seven-minutes-terror-194446094.html :o

Once you sit through the irritating ad, the seven minute video really is worth watching. Just think: it takes 14 minutes for a signal from Mars to reach Earth, so by the time we receive the Rover's "entering Mars' atmosphere" message next month it's already the largest and most sophisticated landing craft ever to reach another planet or a hunk of junk smoldering in a crater far far away. :o


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jul 13th, 2012 at 3:29pm
Somewhere William Castle is smiling.....

4-D Movies: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!

What is a 4-D movie?


Quote:
"It refers to physical effects that are coordinated with the images on the screen that involve your other senses," says media analyst and entertainment lawyer James Hirsen. "It is things like moving seats during a chase scene, the smell of gun powder when there is an explosion on the screen and during a spooky foggy scene you are surrounded by real fog."...seats equipped with back, neck and leg ticklers...


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/4-d-movies-coming-soon-theater-near-172042434.html

Didn't they try this at the West Newton Marathon one year? I'm sure I felt real pain during one of the torture scenes in "Demonlover". ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jul 13th, 2012 at 4:13pm
Demonlover played in Dedham...............

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jul 14th, 2012 at 10:15am

Quote:
Posted by: Frank
Posted on: Yesterday at 5:13pm
Demonlover played in Dedham...............


Frank: you have fallen into my cunning trap! I knew you couldn't resist pointing out the error. I knew I could lure you back to the board!

In the words of the late great Vincent Price:

"BwooHaaaaHaaaaHaaaa!" ;D

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jul 14th, 2012 at 10:24am
Riggggggggght............................ I prefer a different explanation for the mistake. 

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 2nd, 2012 at 12:24pm
"Citizen Kane" no longer a top film according to the BFI poll.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/vertigo-tops-citizen-kane-greatest-film-time-poll-174039158.html

One science fiction film made both top ten lists. ...I'm betting we'll all get this one right. ;)


The critics list, not surprisingly, is filled with films that are more respected than actually liked and more talked about in film books than screened...

The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

STORY: Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' Oscar Sells for $861,542

The director's list is a lot more fun:

The Directors’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)

Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)

Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)


Interesting how a list from a UK publication has only one british director (Hitchcock) for work after he left the UK, plus Kubrick who left the US for the UK.

Title: TOP FILMS EVER: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Aug 2nd, 2012 at 2:10pm
The two top 10s are pretty similar. I suppose TAXI DRIVER, THE GODFATHER and APOCALYPSE NOW are more "fun" than somthing like SUNRISE that is left off the other list - but SUNRISE is better than all 3 of those films.

But, any list that has 8 1/2 on it, is all right by me (my Number 1, even if Ed Symkus doesn't understand it!  :P  Heck, on second thought, it's even greater because of that!  :D ).

I love VERTIGO. It has the greatest film score ever - Bernard Herrmann (you know, the one THE ARTIST paid "homage" to). For the record, my favorite Hitchcock films: SHADOW OF A DOUBT, 39 STEPS, PSYCHO and THE YOUNG AND THE INNOCENT - VERTIGO would be in the running.



R_F_Fineman wrote on Aug 2nd, 2012 at 12:24pm:
"Citizen Kane" no longer a top film according to the BFI poll.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/vertigo-tops-citizen-kane-greatest-film-time-poll-174039158.html

One science fiction film made both top ten lists. ...I'm betting we'll all get this one right. ;)


The critics list, not surprisingly, is filled with films that are more respected than actually liked and more talked about in film books than screened...

The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

STORY: Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' Oscar Sells for $861,542

The director's list is a lot more fun:

The Directors’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time

Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980)

Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)

Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)


Interesting how a list from a UK publication has only one british director (Hitchcock) for work after he left the UK, plus Kubrick who left the US for the UK.


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 5th, 2012 at 10:54am
The 1-Ton Mars Lander is going in tonight and watch parties logging in to www.nasa.gov can see it as it happens, minus the time delay, anxious to find out whether it becomes the greatest achievement to date in planetary exploration or if it follows the Beagle, and 60% of other landing efforts, in becoming a smoldering mass in a big crater on the planet's surface.

Will it send back amazing images?

Will Marvin blow it into 1,000,000,000 micro-bits?

Tune in and find out!  :o



Quote:
NASA said it will find out whether its Mars Science Laboratory and rover, Curiosity -- designed to hunt for soil-based signatures of life and send back data to prepare for a future human mission -- landed safely at 1:31 am Eastern time (0531 GMT) on Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/alone-nasas-mars-rover-aims-190238257.html

http://gizmodo.com/5931635/nasa-will-attempt-to-photograph-the-curiosity-landing-from-an-entirely-different-spacecraft?tag=space
http://gizmodo.com/5931650/mars-curiosity-makes-first-discovery++and-its-crucial-for-human-interplanetary-travel?tag=space
http://gizmodo.com/5931861/find-your-local-mars-rover-landing-party?tag=space


Quote:
Are you ready for a video called...

"Seven Minutes of Terror!"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mars-rover-landing-seven-minutes-terror-194...

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Aug 5th, 2012 at 7:54pm
i plan to be watching and going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" live on Facebook.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:05pm
Noooooooo! :o

Robert Pattinson set to play Lawrence of Arabia

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/robert-pattinson-set-play-lawrence-arabia-222452694.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Aug 14th, 2012 at 9:15pm
mot oo roy ah
mot oo roy ah

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/fukushima-caused-mutant-butterflies-scientists-071343446.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Aug 14th, 2012 at 11:01pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Aug 14th, 2012 at 7:05pm:
Robert Pattinson set to play Lawrence of Arabia


     Idiots.
     "Then you would be a thief."
     -----or-----
     "The trick is not to mind that it hurts."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 15th, 2012 at 3:41pm

Quote:
Robert Pattinson set to play Lawrence of Arabia





Quote:
"The trick is not to mind that it hurts." -T.E. Lawrence (thanks Dave!)


"Yeah, but it still hurts." -Dick Rude in "Repo Man"


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Aug 15th, 2012 at 9:22pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Aug 15th, 2012 at 3:41pm:

Quote:
Robert Pattinson set to play Lawrence of Arabia




[quote]
"The trick is not to mind that it hurts." -T.E. Lawrence (thanks Dave!)


"Yeah, but it still hurts." -Dick Rude in "Repo Man"

[/quote]
actually this is roy before he gets clocked in the head with a pipe. he get's hit, pulls his head out and the confronts dekard and says "that hurt"

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 20th, 2012 at 5:01pm

Me wants! :o



New Hover Vehicle Recalls 'Star Wars' Bike
http://news.yahoo.com/hover-vehicle-recalls-star-wars-bike-171401941.html

The aerial vehicle resembles a science fiction flying bike with two ducted rotors instead of wheels, but originates from a design abandoned in the 1960s because of stability and rollover problems. Aerofex, a California-based firm, fixed the stability issue by creating a mechanical system — controlled by two control bars at knee-level — that allows the vehicle to respond to a human pilot's leaning movements and natural sense of balance.

"Think of it as lowering the threshold of flight, down to the domain of ATV's (all-terrain vehicles)," said Mark De Roche, an aerospace engineer and founder of Aerofex.

Title: VIDEODROME an action movie?: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Aug 23rd, 2012 at 2:13pm
Talk about fool's gold. Trying to remake a Cronenberg film WITHOUT Cronenberg.

VIDEODROME has a LOT of problems, but, the essence of the film is Cronenberg. There's even talk of opening it up and making it more "action" oriented. Here is the new filmmakers' pitch: "...modernize the concept, infusing it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller."

http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/08/23/out-with-the-new-flesh-in-with-the-lame-why-a-videodrome-remake-is-a-lousy-idea/

A tad misguided, no?

Trailer for the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGszmU1egQ






Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 23rd, 2012 at 6:50pm

Quote:
VIDEODROME... Here is the new filmmakers' pitch: "...modernize the concept, infusing it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller."


I clicked the link. I read the article. I was dismayed. When I saw that Ehren Kruger of "Transformers II" er, uh, fame was writing the script, I had to check that the article wasn't from "The Onion". ::)
http://www.theonion.com/

Title: VIDEODROME the retread: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Aug 23rd, 2012 at 7:43pm
No, not The Onion: It's Hollywood, Jake...




Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Aug 25th, 2012 at 2:13am
Martians, flying saucers discovered on Mars, report extremely unreliable sources (+video)

But I want to believe.


Quote:
According to the fringe sector of the Internet, Mars is practically teeming with aliens.

Since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet two weeks ago and powered up its cameras, it has already managed to photograph several alleged UFOs and other "anomalies" in the surrounding landscape.

From classic flying saucers to an absurdly out-of-place fossilized human finger, here's a rundown of what UFO believers claim to have found in Curiosity photos so far.


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0824/Martians-flying-saucers-discovered-on-Mars-report-extremely-unreliable-sources-video

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 25th, 2012 at 12:18pm
Metaluna:
Quote:
I want to believe.


Yes, according to theories supported by NASA scientists, those things that are the color of rocks, the shape of rocks, and sit around in the same place all day are probably rocks...probably.



In space no one can hear you photoshop.
- ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Metaluna on Sep 5th, 2012 at 5:59pm


No, you go to hell!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 11th, 2012 at 8:03pm
According to documents filed by a chinese manufacturer, Apple stole their design. Never mind that the new i-Phone greatly resembles the old i-Phone; the plaintiffs maintain that the Goo-phone (yep, that's really the name), which just hit the shelves, has been knocked off by the yet to be released i-Phone 5.

How would they know that their Goo-phone was copied by a yet to be released product? Are we to believe that Apple, having no track record whatsoever in producing such phones, resorted to breaking into Goo-phone's Hong Kong headquarters in order to catch up to the cutting edge design that an infamous knockoff manufacturer produces?


After all, the Chinese would never resort to piracy themselves.


In this DVD offering, Philip Seymore Hoffman gives Truman Capote like you've NEVER seen him before! ;)


I, for one, can't wait to hear what Goo-Siri says! :D

Read this surreal story here:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/25726/chinese_company_could_sue_apple_over_patents_of_their_new_iphone_design/index.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 16th, 2012 at 10:53am
Strange Mystery Spheres on Mars Baffle Scientists


Quote:
A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they're looking at.

The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain. At first blush, the formations appear similar to so-called Martian "blueberries" — iron-rich spherical formations first seen by Opportunity in 2004 — but they actually differ in several key ways, scientist said.


http://news.yahoo.com/strange-mystery-spheres-mars-baffle-scientists-123054357.html



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Sep 16th, 2012 at 11:36am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Sep 16th, 2012 at 10:53am:
Strange Mystery Spheres on Mars Baffle Scientists


Quote:
A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they're looking at.

The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain. At first blush, the formations appear similar to so-called Martian "blueberries" — iron-rich spherical formations first seen by Opportunity in 2004 — but they actually differ in several key ways, scientist said.


http://news.yahoo.com/strange-mystery-spheres-mars-baffle-scientists-123054357.html



a little known fact about "devil in the dark" is that shatner received news of his fathers death during the taping of the episode. he refers to it as his favorite episode. hardcore trekkies will debate him and say "okay. it's your 'sentimental' favorite. but don't you think "the ultimate computer" or "errand of mercy" is a better episode?" Shatner never alters his opinion.


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 12th, 2012 at 5:37pm
In Sports News





http://sports.yahoo.com/news/giants-beat-reds-6-4-083804092--mlb.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Oct 16th, 2012 at 2:18pm
this is a colossal error!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TphFUYRAx_c

Title: THE SHINING: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Oct 20th, 2012 at 1:32pm
Was that really Jack Nicholson in the Hotel Photo in THE SHINING?:


http://www.movies.com/movie-news/photo-at-end-of-shining/9988?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 20th, 2012 at 3:21pm
Looks like Joel Grey.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001297/
He hasn't changed a bit. ;)

Title: Marky Mark in TRANSFORMERS 4: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 9th, 2012 at 12:43pm
Either Michael Bay has strange powers of persuasion or Marky Mark's career isn't going as well as perceived (or he owes a $hitload of money to someone), but he has agreed to be in TRANSFORMERS 4.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/nov/09/mark-wahlberg-transformers-4

Title: Happy T-Day: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 22nd, 2012 at 3:02pm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 12th, 2012 at 6:08pm

Kim Jong-Un's Wife Escapes North Korea In Long-Range Missile

PYONGYANG—Following North Korea’s sudden and controversial launch of a long-range rocket Wednesday morning, reports have confirmed that Ri Sol-ju, the wife of leader Kim Jong-un, successfully jumped inside the missile just in time to escape the communist country.

“At this time, we are able to confirm that Ri Sol-ju did, in fact, manage to board the Unha-3 mere seconds before it propelled off the ground,” said Defense Department spokesman John Kirby, noting that Ri “quickly evaded her handlers to jump aboard the 100-kilogram missile” in a frantic, yet successful, attempt to abandon her life in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “When we found Ri this morning, she was floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean clinging to the remnants of the missile.”...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/kim-jonguns-wife-escapes-north-korea-in-longrange,30698/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jan 5th, 2013 at 12:43am
In August, 1966 Stanley Kubrick contacted IBM and gave them a heads-up on a science-fiction film he was making. The letters have surfaced, showing that the computer giant had no problem: so long as the killer computer wasn't an IBM it could kill as many people as it wanted. People were much cooler then.

http://gizmodo.com/5973247/dear-ibm-your-computers-psychoticjust-letting-you-know

Today they would probably say "I'm sorry Stanley, I can't do that." ;)

Both Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick maintained that HAL, one letter removed from IBM, was just a coincidence. That's their story and they stuck to it.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Jan 5th, 2013 at 7:16am

R_F_Fineman wrote on Jan 5th, 2013 at 12:43am:
In August, 1966 Stanley Kubrick contacted IBM and gave them a heads-up on a science-fiction film he was making. The letters have surfaced, showing that the computer giant had no problem: so long as the killer computer wasn't an IBM it could kill as many people as it wanted. People were much cooler then.

http://gizmodo.com/5973247/dear-ibm-your-computers-psychoticjust-letting-you-know

Today they would probably say "I'm sorry Stanley, I can't do that." ;)

Both Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick maintained that HAL, one letter removed from IBM, was just a coincidence. That's their story and they stuck to it.

it astounded me to see the typos in the ibm response. in 1966 they were using a mechanical typewriter?? what is up with this? also the grammar and unclarity of the wording is atrocious. you have to read the thing three times to comprehend the intent of the author.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 9th, 2013 at 11:15am
Firefighters sworn in on iPad Bible app after no one brought a Bible to the ceremony
Read more at http://www.tweaktown.com/news/28422/firefighters-sworn-in-on-ipad-bible-app-after-no-one-brought-a-bible-to-the-ceremony/index.html#jglSsM6kI6B4KM6L.99
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/28422/firefighters-sworn-in-on-ipad-bible-app-after-no-one-brought-a-bible-to-the-ceremony/index.html


I hope Siri behaved during the ceremony. :)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by pogo on Feb 9th, 2013 at 1:40pm
Time lapse photos from near my daughter's apartment.

The snow hit at about the time that I would have been coming in for some fest and the Marathon.
Hence I won't be there.
Have fun.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Feb 9th, 2013 at 8:41pm

pogo wrote on Feb 9th, 2013 at 1:40pm:
The snow hit at about the time that I would have been coming in for some fest and the Marathon.
Hence I won't be there.


     Aw, Gary: itll be mostly cleared up by next weekend!  No chance to reschedule?  :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 13th, 2013 at 8:24pm
William Shatner says J.J. Abrams ‘has gone too far’ in taking over both ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’

"A certain "Star Trek" veteran feels that J.J. Abrams has indeed boldly gone where no man has gone before ... and not in a good way...."Star Trek Into Darkness" opens May 17. "Star Wars: Episode VII" will open some day."

Read the article and watch the teaser trailer for 'Star Trek Into Darkness':

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/william-shatner-says-j-j-abrams-gone-too-181738978.html



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Feb 13th, 2013 at 8:37pm

R_F_Fineman wrote on Feb 13th, 2013 at 8:24pm:
William Shatner says J.J. Abrams ‘has gone too far’ in taking over both ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’

"A certain "Star Trek" veteran feels that J.J. Abrams has indeed boldly gone where no man has gone before ... and not in a good way...."Star Trek Into Darkness" opens May 17. "Star Wars: Episode VII" will open some day."

Read the article and watch the teaser trailer for 'Star Trek Into Darkness':

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/william-shatner-says-j-j-abrams-gone-too-181738978.html


One of the funniest quotes has to be Shatner accusing Abrams of being a pig.  This coming from a guy who will do anything for money with a reputation for upstaging everyone.  I love the Captain and the various personas but Shatner the man, the jury is still out but I see movement in the jury room.  A dude who cannot believe that the franchise can go on without him or that there can be a second Kirk because after all...... 



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 19th, 2013 at 2:04pm
Congress to discuss asteroids as a threat to Earth, won't involve Bruce Willis
Read more at

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/28587/congress-to-discuss-asteroids-as-a-threat-to-earth-won-t-involve-bruce-willis/index.html

No Bruce? Too right wing? How about Steve Buscemi? ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 27th, 2013 at 1:46pm
An i-o9 article: "Movies as barcodes"  links to a Tumblr page that displays famous films on a frame by frame color bar. A lot of our favorite sci-fi films are there.

http://io9.com/5986516/classic-sci+fi-films-represented-as-multicolored-barcodes

Dark City is, not surprisingly, dark:
http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/35418812599/dark-city-1998

GATTACA, a personal favorite:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/7010534683/gattaca-1997-prints
Note the occasional bright blue bands that break up the sepia and dark tones.

The complete list:
http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/movie-index

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 9th, 2013 at 10:33am
5 real robots that outperform humans

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/5-real-robots-outperform-humans-224656793.html

Or, as the man said, " Are you freaking out!" :o

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 19th, 2013 at 6:21pm
Now You Can Watch this Lost Space Movie from the Dawn of World War II in Germany

Rocket Flight to the Moon, a film also known as Spaceship Number I Starts (Weltraumschiff I Startet), was made in 1938 by the Bavaria Film-Kunst. Since the Germans cancelled most of their science fiction films once the war began, the film that remains is only a short, 23-minute remnant, edited from scenes already filmed.


http://io9.com/now-you-can-watch-this-lost-space-movie-from-the-dawn-o-452605972


-The earthrise over the moon shot was a groundbreaker. One of my fondest childhood memories was seeing Apollo-8 live broadcast the same scene. -RF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpWalYduU4

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 21st, 2013 at 8:06am

.
Apollo Moon Rocket Engines Raised from Seafloor by Amazon CEO
By Robert Z. Pearlman | SPACE.com – 16 hrs ago.

"Long thought to be lost forever on the ocean floor, massive engines that launched astronauts to the moon more than 40 years ago have been recovered by a private expedition led by the founder of Amazon.com.

"We found so much," said Jeff Bezos, the online retailer's CEO, in an update posted Wednesday (March 20) on the Bezos Expeditions website. "We have seen an underwater wonderland – an incredible sculpture garden of twisted F-1 engines that tells the story of a fiery and violent end, one that serves testament to the Apollo program...."


Complete story:
http://news.yahoo.com/apollo-moon-rocket-engines-raised-seafloor-amazon-ceo-190956909.html

That'll look great on his coffee table. -RF ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 23rd, 2013 at 4:40pm
How many science-fiction films start out just like this...

NASA: Flash in East Coast sky likely a meteor

NEW YORK (AP) — East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky —in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down.

Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environmental Office said the flash appears to be "a single meteor event." He said it "looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports."

"Judging from the brightness, we're dealing with something as bright as the full moon," Cooke said. "The thing is probably a yard across. We basically have (had) a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast."

He noted that the meteor was widely seen, with more than 350 reports on the website of the American Meteor Society alone.

"If you have something this bright carry over that heavily populated area, a lot of people are going to see it," he said. "It occurred around 8 tonight, there were a lot of people out, and you've got all those big cities out there."

Matt Moore, a news editor with The Associated Press, said he was standing in line for a concert in downtown Philadelphia around dusk when he saw "a brilliant flash moving across the sky at a very brisk pace... and utterly silent."

"It was clearly high up in the atmosphere," he said. "But from the way it appeared, it looked like a plane preparing to land at the airport."

Moore said the flash was visible to him for about two to three seconds — and then it was gone. He described it as having a "spherical shape and yellowish and you could tell it was burning, with the trail that it left behind."...more

http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-flash-east-coast-sky-likely-meteor-041939030.html

That gives me an idea for the next quiz. -RF

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 28th, 2013 at 4:51pm
Maybe the Truth Really is Out There!


Quote:
FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has broken its silence on the most popular file in its digital vault.

The one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. It relayed some information from an informant.

The subject:


FLYING SAUCERS
INFORMATION CONCERNING

"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel writes. "They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.”

No further evaluation was attempted, Hottel reports.

The file, released in April 2011 under the Freedom of Information Act, has been viewed nearly a million times, the FBI said, in part because media outlets "erroneously reported that the FBI had posted proof of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico [in 1947] and the recovery of wreckage and alien corpses."

"A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI," the Daily Mail declared in 2011.

"The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs," the bureau said in a blog post on its website this week. "It is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated."

Besides, the FBI notes, the Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947.

"There is no reason to believe the two are connected," the bureau said:

The FBI has only occasionally been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrials. For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents—the request of the Air Force—verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it.


The memo goes on to state: "According to mr. XXXXXXX informant, the Saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the government has a very high powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers."

http://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/Guy%20Hottel%20Part%201%20of%201/view

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fbi-ufo-memo-guy-hottel-151647542.html

Title: Happy Sci-Fi Easter: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Mar 31st, 2013 at 11:31am

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Apr 1st, 2013 at 9:41am
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151547440756737&set=a.10150176291871737.310028.69027951736&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 1st, 2013 at 12:40pm

Quote:
Kirok:
William Shatner to appear in New Star Wars Movie
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151547440756737&set=a.1015017629187173...


You ARE AWARE of today's date aren't you! :D :D :D

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Apr 1st, 2013 at 11:23pm


national examiner reports that james woods is the father of jodie foster's test tube son charlie. they were costars of "contact".

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 9th, 2013 at 9:32am
This test of the Navy's new laser looks a whole lot more devastating than the red streaks that don't do much damage in "Star Wars".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmoldX1wKYQ&feature=player_embedded

I hope that Kim-Yong-Un is paying attention!

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/8/4197316/navy-laser-weapon-deploying-2014-shoots-down-drone

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Jon on Apr 11th, 2013 at 9:01am
just saw this and thought, "'Dark Lightning,' what a great movie title!" :D 
http://weather.yahoo.com/dark-lightning-zaps-airline-passengers-radiation-120727432.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 12th, 2013 at 6:55pm

Quote:
The Atlantic
North Korea Says Tokyo Is Target No. 1

Don't look now, but the birthday of Kim Jong-un's grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, is right around the corner, on Monday, with absurd celebrations and marathons and magic horses all weekend. But nothing would do more poetic justice to North Korea's warped version of history and its "unacceptable" war-mongering rhetoric than to drown one of its oldest enemies in a sea of nuclear flames. Which absurdity will win out?

"North Korea warned Japan Friday that Tokyo would be the first target in the event of a war...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/04/north-korea-targets-tokyo/64163/


This reminds me of a movie. It didn't end well.


Title: Marathon: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 15th, 2013 at 8:03pm
Big sad day in Boston. Hard to believe. I'm sure many of us have been at or near the finish line at past races. Just be thankful it was at the other Marathon.


Title: Re: Marathon: Today's News Stories
Post by da_Bunnyman on Apr 15th, 2013 at 9:49pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Apr 15th, 2013 at 8:03pm:
Big sad day in Boston. Hard to believe. I'm sure many of us have been at or near the finish line at past races. Just be thankful it was at the other Marathon.

Odd coincidence that we were talking about the old Paris Cinema a few days ago. It was just down the street from where the explosion happened. The marathon used to end almost across the street from it years ago when I worked there.
Truly an insane evil act of terror.

Just noticed the post before yours mentioning what the date represents to North Korea. That really scares me.   

Title: Re: Marathon: Today's News Stories
Post by David the Projectionist on Apr 15th, 2013 at 11:18pm

da_Bunnyman wrote on Apr 15th, 2013 at 9:49pm:
Truly an insane evil act of terror.


     You mean like dropping hellfire missiles from drones almost every week & killing innocent people?  Innocent children?  At funerals?  In restaurants?  You mean like that?
     Or maybe you mean kidnapping innocent Muslims & torturing them to death in black sites?  Maybe you mean that?
     You cant complain.  I cant complain.  None of us can complain if any of the violence we commit every day across the globe comes home.
     I mean, you can, but youll sound like a hypocrite when you do.



Quote:
Just noticed the post before yours mentioning what the date represents to North Korea. That really scares me.


     Oh, grow the hell up.  This will turn out to be another domestic attack, you wait & see.
     You might recall that all the idiots were shouting about the "terrorists" when the Murrah Building went up.  And how accurate were they again?
     This was a horrible thing.  I'm very familiar with that street.  I saw a lot of the videos & it's just hideous.
     But we all better get used to it, because you can bet theres more coming.  And seeing as the bozos in Congress cant even pass a few simple gun laws, you can wait till hell freezes over for something intelligent to be done.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Apr 16th, 2013 at 3:43pm
clarify.which is it dave? payback from al qaeda for drone attacks or a domestic terror attack.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 23rd, 2013 at 1:08pm
Suspected Ricin Bomber and Elvis Impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis has been released.


Quote:
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge was released from jail on Tuesday, federal official said, though the reason for the release wasn't immediately clear.

Jeff Woodfin, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Oxford, Miss., said Paul Kevin Curtis has been released from custody. Woodfin said he doesn't know if there were any conditions on the release.

The development comes hours after officials canceled a detention and preliminary hearing without explaining the reason for the change.


He's a free-bird!

Title: Meanwhile, in Ohio: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on May 4th, 2013 at 11:06am



http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/30th-annuarl-24-hr-sci-fi-marathon-may-4-5-2013-at-drexel

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on May 4th, 2013 at 4:47pm
how about some live tweets? did i say that right? live reactions to "safety not guaranteed" would be nice.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Jon on May 15th, 2013 at 10:27am
Today's News:  :)
http://news.yahoo.com/warp-speed-scotty-star-treks-ftl-drive-may-161638125.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 19th, 2013 at 8:14am
"Phase IV" for real? :o


'Crazy' Ants Driving Out Fire Ants in Southeast

"When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants back," ...Crazy ants, on the other hand, "go everywhere," invading homes and nesting in walls and crawlspaces, even damaging electrical equipment by swarming inside appliances...In areas with crazy ants, the researchers also found greatly diminished numbers of native ant species, according to the study.
Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/crazy-ants-driving-fire-ants-southeast-235504911.html


Are you freaking out? :o How about "Zombie Ants":

How Zombie Ants Lose Their Minds.

"New gruesome details have emerged explaining how a parasitic fungus manipulates an unfortunate ant, filling its head with fungal cells and changing its muscles so the ant can grab a leaf in a death grip just when and where the fungus wants it. "

http://www.livescience.com/14064-zombie-ant-fungus-parasite.html

Gallery of infected Zombie Ants:
http://www.livescience.com/13045-zombie-ants-fungi-photo-gallery.html

Scenes are graphic and shocking if you're an ant! ;)


Title: 1975's DUNE: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on May 19th, 2013 at 2:21pm
There's a documentary which just debuted at Cannes about Alejandro Jodorowsky's (El Topo) failed attempt in 1975 to make DUNE. Interesting tidbits in this review about how some of the stuff developed for that film directly influenced the look of ALIEN, and, maybe, THE FIFTH ELEMENT:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/jodorowskys-dune-cannes-review-525204

http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-jodorowskys-dune-1200483641/


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 28th, 2013 at 3:08pm


Massachusetts auditor finds more than 1,000 dead people on welfare
The state Department of Transitional Assistance, which is charged with administering the benefits, told the state auditor almost a year ago that it was already in the process of addressing the issues, including comparing its list of welfare recipients to the Social Security Administration’s master list of dead people in July 2012 so it could end benefits to people who have died.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/05/28/massachusetts-auditor-finds-more-than-dead-people-welfare/UAjCYtau24hrU4ZKFYHLpI/story.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Jon on May 31st, 2013 at 11:21am
And this just in...
http://weather.yahoo.com/doomsday-9-real-ways-earth-could-end-134549020.html

Paraphrase:  "...Not with a bang, but a..." duck?!
;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 1st, 2013 at 1:12pm

Quote:
Man Describes Life With 'Walking Corpse Syndrome'
By Katie Moisse | ABC News Blogs – Fri, May 31, 2013 11:32 AM EDT

A man's account of living with Cotard's syndrome offers a chilling look at a rare condition that has patients convinced they're zombies....
"I've been analyzing PET scans for 15 years, and I've never seen anyone who was on his feet, who was interacting with people, with such an abnormal scan result," Dr. Steven Laureys of the University of Liège in Belgium, who consulted on (the patient) Graham's case, told New Scientist. "Graham's brain function resembles that of someone during anesthesia or sleep. Seeing this pattern in someone who is awake is quite unique to my knowledge."*

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/man-describes-life-walking-corpse-syndrome-160429791.html


*Perhaps Dr. Laureys should attend a sci-fi marathon. -RF ;)

Title: SWEEP: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 8th, 2013 at 7:27pm


http://bostonherald.com/sports/bruins_nhl/boston_bruins/2013/06/sweep_surprise_as_b_s_dismantle_pens

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 24th, 2013 at 12:37pm
A new Robo-ape is being developed by DFKI-Deutschland. German scientists wouldn't do anything creepy would they? :-? -RF


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There'll Be Nowhere to Hide When These Robot Apes Take to the Trees

If you thought the prospect of being chased down by one of DARPA's terminator-wannabes was horrifying, there's a whole new flavor of terror for you to consider: the iStruct robo-ape. It's just barely limping along for now, but it's easy to imagine it galloping out of your nightmares someday soon.

The robo-ape—developed by DFKI (the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)—is still in its early testing phases, as is plenty apparent by its slowly, careful gait. But the form factor has already proven itself pretty versatile in nature, and it seems plenty possible that this thing will be lurching and climbing around in no time.

What exactly DFKI is attempting to accomplish with its robo-ape isn't totally clear, but the center's admittedly vague description suggests it's all about melding robots' locomotive structures with sensors and internal wiring. The result are "intelligent structures," robotic analogs for biological structures like legs that move and feel, or a full-on artificial spines. It's a step closer to building robots like they are real living creatures that just happen to be made out of metal and plastic.

Clearly this can only mean one thing: there's an army in the making, and a Planet of the Apes and Terminator crossover will be real life. Better get to work on developing some robot bananas in the meantime. [DFKI via IEEE Spectrum]


http://gizmodo.com/therell-be-nowhere-to-hide-when-these-robot-apes-take-512187351
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9xMoXywKyOs#at=68

Title: Happy 4th: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jul 4th, 2013 at 5:02pm

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jul 9th, 2013 at 7:31pm

Quote:
A-Rod and 19 other MLB players to be suspended!
Linked to Biogenesis* Clinic :o

..The question is the length of the suspensions. Sources said the commissioner's office was considering 100-game bans for Braun and Rodriguez, the punishment for a second offense, even though neither player was previously suspended for violating MLB's drug policy...

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/report-ryan-braun-refuses-answer-mlb-biogenesis-questions-230540570.html




*The name "Biogenesis Clinic" just has to have been used in sci-fi movie at some point. ;)

In a related note: "Coma" has never played the 'thon. -RF

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jul 10th, 2013 at 11:26am
Rimshot!


R_F_Fineman wrote on Jul 9th, 2013 at 7:31pm:

Quote:
A-Rod and 19 other MLB players to be suspended!
Linked to Biogenesis* Clinic :o

..The question is the length of the suspensions. Sources said the commissioner's office was considering 100-game bans for Braun and Rodriguez, the punishment for a second offense, even though neither player was previously suspended for violating MLB's drug policy...

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/report-ryan-braun-refuses-answer-mlb-biogenesis-questions-230540570.html




*The name "Biogenesis Clinic" just has to have been used in sci-fi movie at some point. ;)

In a related note: "Coma" has never played the 'thon. -RF


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 5th, 2013 at 2:50am

Quote:
Japan launches talking humanoid robot into space

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has launched the world's first talking humanoid robot "astronaut" toward the International Space Station.

Kirobo — derived from the Japanese words for "hope" and "robot" — was among five tons of supplies and machinery on a rocket launched Sunday from Tanegashima in southwestern Japan, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said.
...Ahead of the launch, the 34-centimeter (13-inch) tall Kirobo told reporters, "one small step for me, a giant leap for robots."...
Photo deleted for being obscenely too cute

http://news.yahoo.com/japan-launches-talking-humanoid-robot-space-002814797.html


Yeah, but what will he do when you tell him to "open the pod bay doors?" ::)-RF

In other news...TREMORS for real!...


Hydrothermal Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope


http://www.livescience.com/33401-hydrothermal-worm.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 21st, 2013 at 8:35pm

Quote:
Mysterious ‘horned’ sea monster washes ashore in Spain

A mysterious sea creature featuring what appear to be horns on its head was discovered in the advanced stages of decomposition along the shoreline of Luis Siret Beach in Villaricos, Spain, on Thursday.

A woman first discovered the head and then found the body farther down the beach, according to ThinkSpain.com. The entire carcass with the head stretched 13 feet.

“A lady found one part and we helped her retrieve the rest,” said Maria Sanches of Civil Protection in Cuevas. “We have no idea what it was. It really stank.”



http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/mysterious-horned-sea-monster-washes-ashore-in-spain/

Soon to be a Already has been a bunch of motion pictures! :)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 24th, 2013 at 4:12am
"It was no boating accident!"



Quote:
Mysterious sea monster discovered in Spain is identified

It wasn't an oarfish, as many believed, but a shark, three leading shark experts conclude; 'definitely a shark skeleton,' says one...
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/mysterious-sea-monster-discovered-in-spain-is-identified/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 8th, 2013 at 11:07am
"How many sci-fi movies start out like this?" part 7 :o


Quote:
Is it The Hum? Listen to the strange groaning from the sky that's spooked a Canadian town... following similar reports from around the world
Kimberly Wookey of Terrace, British Columbia was able to catch a mysterious noise from above on video Thursday
Since 2011, hundreds of such videos have appeared on YouTube from all over the world
A similar phenomenon known as The Hum strikes indoors and only affects two percent of people
Science has yet to identify the cause of The Hum or the sounds from the sky

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 2 September 2013  | UPDATED: 07:15 EST, 3 September 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2409453/The-Hum-Strange-groaning-sky-spooks-Canada-town.html


Meanwhile...in Kiev:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUDYBIrWio

Could it be the sound of the Rays season imploding? ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvXII4ntZQ

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 11th, 2013 at 4:30pm

I might want to consider moving in if the recent SF-board warfare escalates to the use of WMDs! 8-)-RF



"Blast From The Past" for Real!


Quote:
Underground Vegas estate lets you weather the apocalypse


Even on the eclectic list of underground homes on the market (like a converted missile silo or a $53 million six-story hacienda), this Las Vegas bunker is unique. Built during the Cold War, when being vaporized by Russian nukes was an imminent fear of many Americans, the subterranean palace is pure 1970s-era luxury....
Surrounded by rusty iron gates, the aboveground portion of the Las Vegas house is 2,800 square feet that sits on a 1-acre lot. It fits in comfortably with the surrounding properties. But take an elevator down 26 feet beneath the ground and you’ll find another house--this one truly built to last.

In fact, the home has been preserved in all its 1970s-era glory, including a now-retro kitchen, bright pink walls and a fake backyard fit for the Brady Bunch...green carpet meant to mimic grass...The barbecue grill, hidden in an artificial rock, ventilates through the artificial trees.... :D

http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/underground-vegas-estate-lets-weather-apocalypse-235937555.html

Click the link for some truly amazing pictures -RF

Title: V'Ger: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Sep 14th, 2013 at 11:48am
Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/





Next stop for the Voyager - becoming "V'Ger" for the Star Trek crew to discover.......

OH $HIT! I just gave JJ Abrams the story idea to re-hash in his next Trek film..............

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 14th, 2013 at 3:04pm

Quote:
Quote LA: Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system:


I'm thinking Pioneer X1 or Jarrod Saltalamacchia's grand slam last night would come in a close second!  :)


Quote:
LA:
OH $HIT! I just gave JJ Abrams the story idea to re-hash in his next Trek film..............


Don't be so hard on yourself LA. If you hadn't done it J.J. would have had NO Idea what story to rehash. ;)



Quote:
1Pioneer 10 will continue to coast silently as a ghost ship through deep space into interstellar space, heading generally for the red star Aldebaran, which forms the eye of Taurus (The Bull). Aldebaran is about 68 light years away and it will take Pioneer over 2 million years to reach it....Pioneer 10 is now over 8 billion miles away. (On 17 February 1998, Voyager 1's heliocentric radial distance equaled Pioneer 10 at 69.4 AU and thereafter exceeded Pioneer 10 at the rate of 1.02 AU per year.)
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/missions/archive/pioneer.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 17th, 2013 at 9:03pm
"Snakes on a Plane II: Snakes on a Mars Explorer" :D

Quote:
European Space Agency Wants to Send a Snake Robot to Mars

"It's because of a snake's ability to get past almost any type of obstacle that makes it useful. Howie Choset, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, said that there are many places that current rovers can't reach. "The snake robot could travel to cliffs and look underneath overhangs," he said. "It could find a crevasse, crawl down it and extract a sample, which itself could tell us how Mars evolved as a planet."

http://news.yahoo.com/european-space-agency-wants-send-snake-robot-mars-214805716--abc-news-tech.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 24th, 2013 at 6:43pm
"Verne Troyer need not apply"


Quote:
Wookiee? 'Star Wars' Sequel Casting Call Suggests Hairy Biped

So you want to be a Wookiee? This could be your lucky day! That is, if you're extremely tall, relatively thin, and have good posture.

British casting service Spotlight has reportedly put out feelers for actors who fit the body type of Chewbacca. The film is unnamed in the call, but we're all but certain it's for "Star Wars: Episode VII" as the production date is listed as "early 2014" and the producers named include Lucasfilm co-chair Kathleen Kennedy and "Episode VII" writer-director J.J. Abrams.

Not a lot of actors will meet the physical requirements for role: "Male, 7 ft. to 7.3 ft. tall with a slim/thin build and upright posture. Not too worked out or too 'thick set' especially in the shoulders. Broad facial features would be a bonus."

That's in the range of the height of Peter Mayhew, who played everyone's favorite Wookiee in the previous "Star Wars" films. The Chewbacca actor stands 7 feet, 2 inches tall. Mayhew is now 69 years old and has been having health problems that make it difficult for him to walk, so if Chewie is coming back, they'll need someone new to fill the suit....
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/wookiee-star-wars-episode-vii-casting-call-suggests-170500828.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 4th, 2013 at 2:33pm
Beachgoers in Spain discover 30-foot giant squid

Carcass found in Cantabria is that of the mysterious and fabled Architeuthis Dux; it remains unclear whether the deep-sea denizen will be put on display



weighed nearly 400 pounds....there has been some argument regarding ownership, and it remains unclear whether the squid will be put on display, eventually, or dissected in the name of science. According to some reports it was initially to be simply cremated...In the times of ancient mariners, Architeuthis Dux, which resides in the lightless depths of all of the world’s oceans, is believed to have spawned tales of sea monsters, such as the legendary Kraken.

Architeuthis Dux was one of the vicious creatures in Jules Verne’s classic science fiction novel, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/beachgoers-in-spain-discover-30-foot-giant-squid/




What would Ken Tobey do?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 10th, 2013 at 5:32pm
One blogger's opinion:


Quote:
Getting rid of the human police and using robots could be a good thing

[quote]...But given good software, good logic—like following Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics—and good practices—with judicial control, transparency and public monitoring—I really think we will be more safe with robots and flying drones than with a police force that has demonstrated to have plenty of mentally unstable—hey, we are human after all—and trigger-happy people.


http://gizmodo.com/new-robocop-trailer-a-badass-robot-cop-built-to-save-t-1460143609/1460233390/@jesusdiaz[/quote]

Oddly enough, it's posted alongside the trailer for the new "Robocop".  :)

Title: Right Stuff: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 18th, 2013 at 6:32pm
If THIS doesn't make you feel old - THE RIGHT STUFF film is having it's 30th Anniversary! And, as is pointed out in this interview with Director Philip Kaufman - that means that the real events of the Mercury and Gemini space programs were closer to the making of THE RIGHT STUFF, than the movie is to us today!

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-news/director-philip-kaufman-makes-stuff-30-later-011811715.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by kirok on Nov 19th, 2013 at 2:27pm
excuuuuuuse me but you have made a false assertion. towit the gemini program was not featured in the movie "the right stuff". the movie ended with gordon cooper's launch into his 22 orbit flight.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 19th, 2013 at 8:44am

Quote:
Google acquires robot maker Boston Dynamics

Google acquires robot maker Boston Dynamics, now we just have to work out why....

Read more at:

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/34423/google-or-skynet-google-acquires-robot-maker-boston-dynamics/index.html?utm_source=ttnewsletter&utm_medium=ttemail&utm_campaign=ttcs


Why ask why? What part of "global domination" don't they understand?  In the future, changing your default browser may have horrific consequences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAspqCD34Hw






Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Dec 22nd, 2013 at 7:13pm
More Robots in the news:


Quote:
Robot Olympics: Japan's Schaft Takes Lead in 2-Day Competition
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — After one full day of competition, a two-legged, 209-pound (95 kilograms) blue robot sits atop the leaderboard here at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials.

The world-class robotics competition features 17 teams from five different countries attempting to demonstrate some of the most advanced disaster-response capabilities in the field of robotics. DARPA, the agency within the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new technologies for the military, designed the contest as a way to foster the development of new robots that could one day work with humans to secure disaster sites in the aftermath of a natural or man-made catastrophe.

The two-day event is being held at the Homestead Miami Speedway. The scored competition is based on the teams' performance in eight challenging tasksthat test the robots' mobility, perception, strength and dexterity. [WATCH LIVE: DARPA Robotics Challenge]

http://news.yahoo.com/robot-olympics-japan-39-schaft-takes-lead-2-135331699.html

Title: This just in: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 25th, 2013 at 12:53pm
Oddest news report - from Mars!








Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Mar 6th, 2014 at 10:40am
"Europa Report" for Real! :o


Quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life.
...Robinson said the high radiation environment around Jupiter and distance from Earth would be a challenge. When NASA sent Galileo to Jupiter in 1989, it took the spacecraft six years to get to the fifth planet from the sun.

Last year, scientists discovered liquid plumes of water shooting up through Europa's ice. Flying through those watery jets could make Europa cheaper to explore than just circling it or landing on the ice, said NASA Europa scientist Robert Pappalardo....

NASA will look at many competing ideas for a Europa mission, so the agency doesn't know how big or how much it will cost, Robinson said. She said a major mission goal would be searching for life in the strange liquid water under the ice-covered surface.


http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-plots-daring-flight-jupiters-watery-moon-215733641.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 1st, 2014 at 7:03am
NY Yankees and Garen Daly Sign Stadium Naming Rights Deal!




BRONX NY: (April 1, 2014) In the tradition of the TD Bank North Garden and other major sports stadium naming rights deals across the country, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner announced today a final naming rights deal with film critic Garen Daly. The house built in the parking lot of the house built on the rubble of the house that Ruth built will now be known as "Frugal Yankee Stadium".



In a public statement, naming rights buyer and Frugal Yankee website owner Garen Daly expressed excitement at closing the deal. "The naming rights cost of $401.99 is in keeping with the value for the money philosophy of "The Frugal Yankee", the only stipulation being that we also have to take on the contract of some guy named Alex Rodriguez, but really, how bad could that be?"





Title: What dread best slouches to BC to be born?
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 27th, 2014 at 6:28pm
Some of you may remember in the movie "The Independent" how Morty Fineman had a "Name my Baby" contest and then things went terribly wrong.  Well, a Canadian couple, hindered by not having seen the Marathon premier film, asked the denizens of the internet to name their baby. What were they thinking?


Quote:
In January of this year, an expectant father named Stephen started the website NameMyDaughter.com, where anyone on the Internet could suggest and vote on potential names for Stephen’s forthcoming baby girl.
Well, as noted by the folks at Betabeat, Stephen’s wife gave birth on April 7. And the winning name is — drumroll, please! — Amelia Savannah Joy McLaughlin.
Kind of sweet, right? Or, sweeter than you might have expected from the feces-hurling cesspool that is the Internet?

Unfortunately for those looking to have their faith in humanity restored, “Amelia Savannah Joy” did not technically win the vote. The real first-place name was “Cthulhu All-Spark.” (“Cthulhu” won the vote for first name, and “All-Spark” won the vote for middle name.)
The parents, who live in British Columbia, Canada, rejected that one in favor of the second-place name, Amelia. Though they did have a good sense of humor about the results...Let’s all just be thankful that Stephen and Kathryn chose responsible parenting over contest integrity. Congratulations to the new parents, and also to the newborn, for not being named “Chalupa Batman.”


All Bow Down to the Great and Powerful Cthulu:




"From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent."
                             -H.P.Lovecraft  "The Call of Cthulu"
:o



Title: Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Fave SF films: News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 11th, 2014 at 9:35pm
COSMOS host Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Top Sci-Fi films.

Lots of classics. Kind of a backhanded compliment for BLADE RUNNER. One oddity - DEEP IMPACT. Really? But, he makes up for it with the suprise inclusion of 2-time Marathon fave - THE QUIET EARTH!

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/2001-and-beyond-neil-degrasse-tyson-names-his-top-10-sci-fi-films/#/0

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by da_Bunnyman on Jun 12th, 2014 at 4:23pm
An interesting list, the guy's not afraid to put on some action films like Matrix & The Terminator.
I've always preferred Deep Impact to Armageddon because it seemed more like a good drama about the event rather than having the event an excuse for an action hero to go save us.

Watchmen's reputation continues to grow now that we've had Avengers and know what Watchmen was a more serious version of.

Biggest surprise is daring to put Contact and The Island on his list.

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jun 12th, 2014 at 5:11pm

Harrison Ford injured by Millennium Falcon on 'Star Wars' set

A hurt ankle sends the actor to the hospital

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/12/5804502/harrison-ford-hospitalized-after-ankle-injury-while-filming-star-wars

I bet he had a bad feeling about that.- ;)

Title: Neil D.Tyson: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Jun 13th, 2014 at 12:39am

da_Bunnyman wrote on Jun 12th, 2014 at 4:23pm:
An interesting list, the guy's not afraid to put on some action films like Matrix & The Terminator.
I've always preferred Deep Impact to Armageddon because it seemed more like a good drama about the event rather than having the event an excuse for an action hero to go save us.

Watchmen's reputation continues to grow now that we've had Avengers and know what Watchmen was a more serious version of.

Biggest surprise is daring to put Contact and The Island on his list.


CONTACT isn't that bad, plus, there's the understandable Carl Sagan connection.

Sure DEEP IMPACT is better than ARMAGGEDON but, that's saying very little. Michael Bay's opus terribulus cemented all the excesses of modern day blockbusters.

THE ISLAND? See Bay, Michael.

Title: Re: Neil D.Tyson: Today's News Stories
Post by da_Bunnyman on Jun 13th, 2014 at 6:45pm

L.A. Connection wrote on Jun 13th, 2014 at 12:39am:

da_Bunnyman wrote on Jun 12th, 2014 at 4:23pm:
An interesting list, the guy's not afraid to put on some action films like Matrix & The Terminator.
I've always preferred Deep Impact to Armageddon because it seemed more like a good drama about the event rather than having the event an excuse for an action hero to go save us.

Watchmen's reputation continues to grow now that we've had Avengers and know what Watchmen was a more serious version of.

Biggest surprise is daring to put Contact and The Island on his list.


CONTACT isn't that bad, plus, there's the understandable Carl Sagan connection.

Sure DEEP IMPACT is better than ARMAGGEDON but, that's saying very little. Michael Bay's opus terribulus cemented all the excesses of modern day blockbusters.

THE ISLAND? See Bay, Michael.



Yep, I liked Contact myself, I was more talking about its reputation among fans who were PO'd that they did not get to see an alien (so they could complain about how fake it looked.)

I know all too well about Michael Bay, but because of his comments I may have to watch the Island and ignore everything exploding and concentrate on the plot.

Title: Re: All time list
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jul 1st, 2014 at 12:50pm
Maybe this belongs in the "digital projection" category, as it sheds light on the state of the modern film industry. It turns out that "Avatar" and "Titanic" aren't really the all-time gross leaders if ticket price inflation is taken into account. Given that ticket prices have gone up ten fold since the 1960's, the adjustment has to be made to reflect ticket SALES- the real indication of a film's big screen success.

According to Box-office Mojo (a respected source):

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

After "Avatar" (14) the all-time Science Fiction ticket sellers that don't have "Star Wars" in the title are:


"Independence Day" (37),
"Back to the Future" (61),
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (71),
"Men in Black" (79),
"Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen*" (81),
"The Hunger Games" (94),
"Jurassic Park: The Lost World" (98),
"Terminator II: Judgement Day" (104),
"The Matrix Reloaded" (113),
"Transformers*" (114),
"Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" (129),
"2001: A Space Oddyssey" (135),
"Armageddon" (139),
"Inception" (192),
"I am Legend" (193),
"War of the Worlds" (195), which, I regret to inform you, is the 2005 remake not the original.

All of those articles on how the 1950's were the "Golden Age of Science Fiction Film" need to be reconsidered. If it's all about the $$$ then we're living in the genre's golden age right now. :o

Still, I get a warm feeling knowing that the most successful of the Universal Monsters and the highest grossing version of "Frankenstein" comes in at #118!



He truly had an enormous schwantzstucker at the box office! :D

*The "Transformers" franchise probably isn't any more sci-fi than the "Superman" or "Iron Man" type franchises, (nor "The Incredibles"- a superhero parody), which are also on the list. I included those big, noisy, CGI monstrosities because...hey, wait a minute... why DID I include them?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Frank on Jul 16th, 2014 at 1:17pm
Forty-five years ago today the Apollo 11 mission's Saturn V rocket blasted free of Mother Earth's atmosphere propelling Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins to their eventual historic rendezvous with the Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtQqH3rt3c

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Aug 17th, 2014 at 9:40am

Quote:
Did NASA Capture An Alien And Its Shadow On The Moon?
A shadowy figure was spotted on the moon's surface last month, and since then it has grabbed the attention -- and the extremely wild imagination -- of the Internet....


The short answer is "No". Still, those who are curious can check it out on Google Moon at 27°34’26.35″N 19°36’4.75″W

If it is a vertical object, it would be the size and shape of the Colossus of Rhodes: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Huff-Po story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/alien-shadow-moon-nasa-google-moon_n_5674798.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

Too left-wing? How about The Daily Mail UK story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2723717/The-man-ON-moon-Shadow-resembling-alien-like-figure-captured-craters-lunar-surface.html

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 25th, 2014 at 11:23pm
Hw many Science Fiction films start out just like this?


Quote:
Four Fireballs Spotted In Sky Along U.S. East Coast, Midwest
The Huffington Post  | By Jacqueline Howard
Not one, not two, and not even three -- but four fantastic fireball events were reported Tuesday along the East Coast and in the Midwest, the American Meteor Society said. The bright fireballs all came within a 90-minute timespan, according to the society. Multiple fireball events in a single evening are considered rare. ...More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/fireballs-sky-east-us_n_5882472.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592


What's next? Blobs, Triffids, aliens, giant spiders, pod people... ;)

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Sep 29th, 2014 at 4:22pm
GATTACA 4-real?

They think so:


Quote:
The World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Will Graduate High School This Year
Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For those who never saw the film and/or eschewed all pop culture in the late 90’s for some reason, it was a popular movie that came out in 1997 about genetically modified human beings. Now some literally genetically modified human babies born that same year are entering their senior year of high school.

The first successful transfer of genetic material for this purpose was published in a U.S. medical journal in 1997 and then later cited in a Human Reproduction publication in 2001. Scientists injected 30 embryos in all with a third person’s genetic material. The children who have been produced by this method actually have extra snippets of mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, from two mothers – meaning these babies technically have three parents.

It’s still unclear whether all 30 babies turned out healthy.  The Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science (IRMS) at St Barnabas, participants of the experiment, finally began following up with at least 17 of the now teenagers earlier this year...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/28/the-worlds-first-genetically-modified-babies-will-graduate-high-school-this-year/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000591


I can't say that everything you read in the UK press can be taken as fact.

On the other hand, it would help explain today's teenagers. ;)


Now that I think of it, maybe I should post this GATTACA article in the movie suggestions category.

Title: Mace is the new popcorn: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Nov 11th, 2014 at 11:51am
They're getting militant I tell ya!

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/woman-sprays-man-with-mace-during-afi-screening-1201353075/

The AFI Film Festival screening of “Mr. Turner” had theatergoers scratching their heads (and eyes) on Monday night when one audience member maced another in the face for asking her to turn off her cell phone

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Nov 19th, 2014 at 6:48pm


Quote:
Mysterious burst of light over Russia leaves scientists, locals guessing
On Friday evening, a yellow flash filled the skies over Russia's sparsely populated Urals region. Was it a meteor? A rocket launch? No one seems to know....

http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-burst-light-over-russia-leaves-scientists-locals-194423699.html

Youtube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCH7BpxBOTI

One with naughty Russian words censored:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFSsLyX6N1A

Now if Vladimir Putin starts acting like he just crawled out of a big green pod we really have something to worry about! Actually...now that I think about it... :o

Title: Orion launch! : Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 5th, 2014 at 9:28am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/second-orion-launch-nasa_n_6270530.html


Title: STARLOG online FREE!: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Dec 21st, 2014 at 12:39pm
Older Marathoners will probably remember STARLOG Magazine. All issues have now been put online - for Free! See original coverage of many many Marathon entries including this year's MOONRAKER!

http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/entire-run-starlog-magazine-online-free.html


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by Lile on Dec 23rd, 2014 at 6:14am
I remember Starlog fondly, when did they stop publishing?

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by pogo on Dec 23rd, 2014 at 1:42pm
From Wikipedia.
   "As of December 2008, the official website at Starlog.com had ceased to operate. In March 2009, Starlog became a sister site to Fangoria magazine's official site, with a new url tied to Fangoria. Simultaneously, production was halted on issue #375, May 2009. New content began to appear on the Starlog website on April 7, 2009, after the site returned to its original Starlog.com domain. The folding of the print edition was officially announced on April 8, with the unpublished issue promised in the near future as a web-only publication. However, the website has since shut down.
   In April 2014, Fangoria announced that Starlog would return in the summer of 2014 first as a relaunched website and later in the year as a digital magazine."

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jan 27th, 2015 at 11:34am
Once again, How many science fiction movies start out like this:


http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/01/26/mysterious-radio-signal-from-space-caught-live-for-first-time/

Mysterious radio signal from space caught live for first time

Astronomers in Australia have picked up an “alien” radio signal from space for the first time as it occurred. The signal, or radio “burst”, was discovered on May 15, 2014, though it’s just being reported by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “The burst was identified within 10 seconds of its occurrence,” said Emily Petroff, a doctoral student from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology. “The importance of the discovery was recognized very quickly and we were all working very excitedly to contact other astronomers and telescopes around the world to look at the location of the burst.”

Emerging from an unknown source, these bursts are bright flashes of radio waves that emit as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in 24 hours.  “The first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007,” Petroff tells FoxNews.com, “and up until our discovery there were 8 more found in old or archival data.” While researchers use telescopes in Hawaii, India, Germany, Chile, California, and the California Islands to search for bursts, it is the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Eastern Australia that is the first to catch one as its happening.

The cause of these mysterious signals remains unknown, with possible theories ranging from black holes to alien communication. However, UFO hunters shouldn’t get too excited. According to Petroff, “We're confident that they're coming from natural sources, that is to say it's probably not aliens, but we haven't solved the case completely....



Title: Re: Today's News Stories: Keep watching the skies!
Post by R_F_Fineman on Feb 9th, 2015 at 11:13pm

Quote:

What Could Explain the Mysterious Ring in Antarctica?

by Matt Williams on February 9, 2015

...news of the find and its possible implication spread like wildfire. Initial theories for the possible origin of the ring indicated that it could be the result of the impact of a large meteor. However, since the news broke, team leader Olaf Eisen has offered an alternative explanation: that the ring structure is in fact the result of other ice-shelf processes.

http://www.universetoday.com/118639/what-could-explain-the-mysterious-ring-in-antarctica/


It gets even weirder: The airplane pictured in the article is a DC-3/C-47 - the same type used in the 1951 Howard Hawks classic "The Thing From Another World".





This could be big trouble. What would Ken Tobey do?

Title: Interstellar: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Feb 25th, 2015 at 12:11am
The Special Effects men who won the Oscar for INTERSTELLAR thanked the scientist Kip Thorne who helped with the story.

But, have the special effects wizards now started teaching scientists a thing or two?

http://astronomy.com/news/2015/02/interstellar-technology-throws-light-on-spinning-black-holes

Interstellar technology throws light on spinning black holes

The team responsible for the Oscar-nominated visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s epic Interstellar have turned science fiction into science fact by providing new insights into the powerful effects of black holes.

In a recent paper, the team describe the innovative computer code that was used to generate the movie’s iconic images of the wormhole, black hole, and various celestial objects, and they explain how the code has led them to new science discoveries....

Title: Happy: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 5th, 2015 at 10:30am

Title: Another one of those top lists!
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 26th, 2015 at 11:23am
Is there still a lot of drug abuse going on at “Rolling Stone” Magazine?

This article should answer that question:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/50-best-sci-fi-movies-of-the-1970s-20150114/death-race-2000-1975-20150113


Quote:
50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s


50
'Laserblast' (1978)
49
'The Incredible Melting Man' (1977)
48
'Starcrash' (1978)
44
'Message From Space' (1978)
38
'Hardware Wars' (1978)
34
'The Terminal Man' (1974)
33
'The Black Hole' (1979)
26
'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' (1979)
25
'Demon Seed' (1977)
21
'Fantastic Planet' (1973)
6
'Zardoz' (1974)
4
'Solaris' (1972)


disgust, I mean discuss... ;)

Title: 14: Another one of those top lists! NEW STORIES
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 26th, 2015 at 4:05pm
Not the worst list out there (although #2 is way too high) Now, name the 14 movies on it that have NEVER played the Marathon!



R_F_Fineman wrote on Apr 26th, 2015 at 11:23am:
Is there still a lot of drug abuse going on at “Rolling Stone” Magazine?

This article should answer that question:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/50-best-sci-fi-movies-of-the-1970s-20150114/death-race-2000-1975-20150113


Quote:
50 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s


50
'Laserblast' (1978)
49
'The Incredible Melting Man' (1977)
48
'Starcrash' (1978)
44
'Message From Space' (1978)
38
'Hardware Wars' (1978)
34
'The Terminal Man' (1974)
33
'The Black Hole' (1979)
26
'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' (1979)
25
'Demon Seed' (1977)
21
'Fantastic Planet' (1973)
6
'Zardoz' (1974)
4
'Solaris' (1972)


disgust, I mean discuss... ;)


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Apr 26th, 2015 at 9:36pm

Quote:
LA:
Not the worst list out there


Now that I think about it, finding 50 good sci-fi films made in the 70's is actually pretty hard. ("Marooned" was '69, "Flash Gordon", "Blade Runner" and "Starman" were early 80's.)

I came up with 15 titles that haven't played. #19, #35 and #47 are news to me.

70's Movies on the Rolling Stone List that Haven't Played (I Think)

_2 The Man Who Fell to Earth
_4 'Solaris' (1972)
12 'Rollerball' (1975)
16 'Stalker' (1979)
19 'God Told Me To' (1976)
23 'The Brood' (1979)
32 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes' (1972)
33 'The Black Hole' (1979)
35 'Crimes of the Future' (1970)
39 'Wizards' (1977)
42 'Escape From the Planet of the Apes' (1971)
43 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' (1979)
45 'Deathsport' (1978)
47 'Welcome to Blood City' (1977)
50 'Laserblast' (1978)


Note: At least two films, "Laserblast" and "The Incredible Melting Man", which incredibly has played, both got the MST3K treatment. ;D

Title: Best of the 70s?: Today's News Stories
Post by L.A. Connection on Apr 26th, 2015 at 10:59pm
Doh! Must have run out of fingers! 15 it is.

Believe me, I've tried for decades to have ESCAPE & CONQUEST of the APES shown, along with MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, GOD TOLD ME TO and ROLLERBALL (I even posted about my close encounter with a rare 35mm print). Really, no excuse for those 5 not have been shown by now when you consider some of the repeats and "premieres" that have.  :-X

I could see BLACK HOLE and BUCK ROGERS screeing, but, some of the others are marginal SF.

As to STALKER and SOLARIS? As much as they deserve a screening, the reality of showing them might be much worse than the dream (same goes for ALPHAVILLE and CRIMES OF THE FUTURE).  :-/

* - Historical note: WIZARDS (then titled War Wizards) had clips from it shown at SF/2 before its release date...along with some footage from some STAR WARS thingee........



R_F_Fineman wrote on Apr 26th, 2015 at 9:36pm:

Quote:
LA:
Not the worst list out there


Now that I think about it, finding 50 good sci-fi films made in the 70's is actually pretty hard. ("Marooned" was '69, "Flash Gordon", "Blade Runner" and "Starman" were early 80's.)

I came up with 15 titles that haven't played. #19, #35 and #47 are news to me.

70's Movies on the Rolling Stone List that Haven't Played (I Think)

_2 The Man Who Fell to Earth
_4 'Solaris' (1972)
12 'Rollerball' (1975)
16 'Stalker' (1979)
19 'God Told Me To' (1976)
23 'The Brood' (1979)
32 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes' (1972)
33 'The Black Hole' (1979)
35 'Crimes of the Future' (1970)
39 'Wizards' (1977)
42 'Escape From the Planet of the Apes' (1971)
43 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' (1979)
45 'Deathsport' (1978)
47 'Welcome to Blood City' (1977)
50 'Laserblast' (1978)


Note: At least two films, "Laserblast" and "The Incredible Melting Man", which incredibly has played, both got the MST3K treatment. ;D


Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Oct 15th, 2015 at 5:49am
Alien technology possibly spotted orbiting a distant star
Scientists recently identified an irregular mess of objects orbiting a distant star that defies most natural explanations.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/alien-technology-possibly-spotted-orbiting-distant-star


Quote:
Nestled between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra sits what might be the strangest, most mysterious star in our galaxy. This star, designated as KIC 8462852, is not particularly unusual in and of itself. What's odd is what astronomers have spotted orbitting it: an irregularly-shaped mess of objects that appear unnatural, possibly even alien, reports The Atlantic...

“When [I was shown] the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” explained Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, to The Atlantic. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

In other words, it could be a swarm of mega-structures put there by E.T.-- our first glimpse at alien technology. Perhaps it's a fleet of alien spacecraft, perhaps a network of stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star. You can let your imagination run wild.



Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on Jan 18th, 2016 at 9:05pm
Belgian scientists' unique tribute to the late great David Bowie:



http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/18/david-bowie-astronomers-give-the-starman-his-own-constellation

Seven stars — Sigma Librae, Spica, Alpha Virginis, Zeta Centauri, SAA 204 132, and the Beta Sigma Octantis Trianguli Australis — in the vicinity of Mars.

http://www.stardustforbowie.be/

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by R_F_Fineman on May 15th, 2016 at 9:30pm
"BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy is ready to take ownership of the Zumwalt, its largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer.
Sailors' uniforms and personal effects, supplies and spare parts are being moved aboard the 610-foot warship in anticipation of crew members taking on their new charge, said Capt. James Kirk, the destroyer's skipper....Zumwalt was a challenge to assemble because of all the new technologies, but sea trials show it is a world-class warship with unique capabilities..." :D


https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-navy-poised-ownership-largest-warship-120402927.html

I hope the ship's new captain gave his crew a "Risk is Our Business" speech!

Title: Re: Today's News Stories
Post by pogo on Aug 3rd, 2016 at 3:53pm
C is For Cthulu.
I have noted a fair number of comments here and on other boards that participation in marathons falls off when kids arrive in families.
Well, here's a way to include them in the fun from an early age!http://www.vox.com/2016/7/31/12325578/cthulhu-mythos-abc-illustrated-childrens-book

An excerpt:
Cthulu sleeps In the Ocean Down South.
Dreaming of when Cultists Devout
Will make him - ho-hey
Rise up with R'lyeh
And crunch little kids in his mouth.

The illustrations are great too!

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