I don't care what you guys say....

yeah, st was lousy heinlein. the suits are the book. what's a cap trooper without his backpack nuclear bomb launcher? but it was ok hollywood. just think of it as a saturday main feature at the local sticky floor. never got into aliens. they remind me of my ex's and who nedds 'em?

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anything that feeds on your body and pops out through your rib cage has mucho scary.

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Alan Dicey wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk:

I've heard a reviewer say that. Alien is a haunted house movie in space. Sliens is a war movie in space.

Of course I have a large number of the models 2 ea of the APC and Dropship and the trading toys collection. I really wonder how deranged I am sometimes.

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If'n you liked the movie series, try getting ahold of the director's cut. I got the DC for Aliens (#2) and then the whole story made sense. It's also about 45 minutes longer then the theater version.

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The Old Man wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

I have the DC collectors set. Indeed, it helps, but reading the books really helps.

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Gray Ghost wrote: : : I actually like Battlefield Earth. Yeah it's hokey in spots, but really most : SciFi is anyway. : I only read the book. My paperback from the 80's has "SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!!!!!" on the back cover. Okay, if "soon" means 15 - 20 years...

As for the movie - never bothered. Could not see boiling down a 1500 page book to 90 minutes. Plus the clips with Harriers was just too c*ck-a-mamie to contemplate. When does the story of Johnny Good boy(?) take place - some hundreds of years after the invasion, at any rate. Fuel would no longer be, rubber seals would be a long lost memory, etc. And, finally, John as Terel? Nope. Worse, I tought he was playing Johnny Goodboy. No. HELL NO. : : And look at the dreck : the SciFi channel produces, : What? What was wrong with Alien... uh, something, with Bruce Campbell and Renee O'Connor? Apoclypse? Besides, look at all of the work "the Lou" has been getting with the SyFy-less (pronounced 'syphilus') network... : : views. And the "corporate" society gone mad. It's not a great movie but it so : much better than so much that is out there. : Well, only in that Will Farrell has only written one movie, but has re-shot it many times. Plus the "if only I had a brain" rehashes of Ducks of Hazzard, I Spy, Starsky & Hutch. Blech. And I grew up watching that stuff. Which does NOT mean I want to watch it now.

Bruce

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Yeah, I didn't know the time lapse, clearly long enough. Indeed the Harriers would hardly be flyable after all that time. it is one of the more irritating aspects.

Love Bruce. However I fear greatly, the name change bodes ill.

I know, my theory is that they ran out of ideas in 1984. For all the potential possible in todays movies they are as an entire industry lame beyond words. The writers are very bad, the actors for the most part lamentable. They have exchanged FX and hard bodies for any glimmer of talent.

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strongly disagree. very little is. good sf certainly isn't.

love that campbell movie with the bug invaders. high camp and funny.

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snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote in news:93N3m.309774$ snipped-for-privacy@en-nntp-03.dc.easynews.com:

Name 20 scifi movies from the last 20 years that were good. TV or theater. Drooling reviewers opinions don't count.

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20 - hell I can't name 1.

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And I wouldn't hesitate to help someone who fell on their kiester in front of a store either. I hold doors for people, say please and thank you and pick up stuff I knock off the shelf at the supermarket. Heck, I even straighten out the carts at the return spot. I used to be popular at the LHS because I'd straighten out the shelves as I'm browsing. I hate messiness which only adds to my stress in my current situation. (My kid and his family live with me.) If it's going to be messy I want to be the messmaker. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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just hide and don't look in any common areas. can't you get in and out without hitting messville? i had the impression you had your own entrance. or did i miss memeber?

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I'm sure that the main reason for that ST fiasco was that Heinlein had sworn off Hollywood after that one movie they made in 1950. I remember reading that he wasn't happy with the experience. Thus the suits waited 'til after he was gone to do another one of his books.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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that's actually a myth. he did more work for several years after and a bit in the 60's. check out grumbles from the grave and virginia's published email where she talks about it. he was pissed about destination moon, but that was at george pal. the starship movies came out after he was dead, i do believe. i could be wrong, but i think it was after. i still miss a new heinlein every year, even with the 70's hiatus.

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William Banaszak wrote in news:CKe4m.1065$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

Oh man! I used to do that as a kid. I thought I was the only one.

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on 7/6/2009 11:46 AM (ET) Gray Ghost wrote the following:

I still do it. Turn boxes around so that they are front forward. Pick up stuff from the floor and make sure I put it back in the right spot.

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A-ha, you missed! Seriously, no I don't have an outside entrance but I did get a lock put on my door at the top of the stairs.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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It's a sickness. But then again, how can you find what you seek when everything's askew.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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William Banaszak wrote in news:m8U4m.1440$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

Exactly! A lesson I wish the rest of my family would learn.

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and a peephole to really drive the point home? i really thought you mentioned a door so i thought of an au pair setup. remember to leave wheeled toys on the stairs.....

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