> > Guess it's all still a symptom of what I call in movies "Bad-Guy
> Disease"
> > (can't hit a main character, unless it's just one ultimately expendable
> > character hit somewhere around the center of the movie).
>
> Uh! I can't help it, but I came to think of Brandon Lee in The Crowe!!! The
> bad guys really hit there! :-(

There's a guy who I think could have had a great career. Terrible tragedy.

> > > Guess it's all still a symptom of what I call in movies "Bad-Guy
> > Disease"
> > > (can't hit a main character,
snip
> > Uh! I can't help it, but I came to think of Brandon Lee in The Crowe!!!
> The
> > bad guys really hit there! :-(
>
> There's a guy who I think could have had a great career. Terrible tragedy.
>
Yeah life and art getting mixed up again :(

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"He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! "

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> If you didn't like the last temptation, you're bound to like "The Life of
> Brian" - who couldn't!?
>
> "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! "

Most memorable quote (may be paraphrasing a bit)...

Brian: You're all individuals! You can think for yourselves!
Crowd: (in unison) Yes, Lord! We're all individuals.
Lone voice in the crowd: I'm not.

Do we have a "Wodger" in the cafe ?

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Is it just me, or has the use of the gratuitous nude scene declined in Hollywood movies in recent years? Seems to me that back in the eighties there were a lot more of the relatively pointless boob shots (eg, Die Hard, the couple interrupted making out on the office desk when something else could just as well served as the distraction allowing Bruce Willis to escape). They used to use those shots a lot to make sure the movie got the R rating.

I own loads of movies on dvd.Such things as Wrong Turn.Cabin Fever, Texas Chainsaw 2003,What Lies Beneath.All 3 Terminator films,The Thing,all Alien films,Sphere,Platoon,Spiderman 2,Troy,Man on Fire,Texas Chainsaw 1970's version, Texas Chainsaw 2,Starship Troopers,Demolition Man,Dead End,Dawn of the Dead,Matrix all 3 films,8 mile,Changing Lanes,Scarface,Resovior Dogs,Contact,Star Trek Nemeses,Big Fish,Gangs Of New York,Blade 1 and 2, etc


I find the best films are Alien and 70's and 80's movies.I find some modern movies have too many special effects and look more like a video game.

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<P>VHS: <B>The Man with One Red Shoe</B>, Be Forever Yamato (anime), Final Yamato (anime)</P></FONT>

Just a friendly reminder...

SciFi's Battlestar Galactica new series starts this Friday, Jan 14 at 9/8C

> Just a friendly reminder...
>
> SciFi's Battlestar Galactica
> new series starts this Friday, Jan 14 at 9/8C

Very aware of it. TiVo set to high priority record.

I must admit, though, I was somewhat disappointed with the pilot last December. The feel was kinda wrong to me. It didn't feel as, well, "epic" as the first half of the original movie felt. This may be due to their chucking the classical score and replacing it with jungle moans and drums. I found the simulated hand cam jerkiness in the space scenes to be just annoying. Also the attack on Caprica was dull: just a bunch of mushroom clouds. Most of the rest of it is okay, though I wish Boomer had been like the original character: the solid go-to person that was sort of a yardstick to measure the eccentricites of the main characters.

For the record, I have no problem with Starbuck being a woman. I actually like the updated Baltar character and his new "demon" cylon in his head. I also applaud them for going for the more "Wing Commander video game" feel to space combat.

> I must admit, though, I was somewhat disappointed with the pilot last
> December. The feel was kinda wrong to me. It didn't feel as, well, "epic" as
> the first half of the original movie felt. This may be due to their chucking
> the classical score and replacing it with jungle moans and drums. I found the
> simulated hand cam jerkiness in the space scenes to be just annoying. Also the
> attack on Caprica was dull: just a bunch of mushroom clouds.
I concur. Why put all those computer effects and detail into a show when you cant see them because of all the jerky camerawork. I also miss the classical score.

> of it is okay, though I wish Boomer had been like the original character: the
> solid go-to person that was sort of a yardstick to measure the eccentricites
> of the main characters.
This Boomer is a babe :)

> For the record, I have no problem with Starbuck being a woman.
I like the actress but I would rather she be another character. But perhaps Starbuck being a 'womanizer' wasnt PC so they changed the character into a 'tough guy' female.

> I actually like
> the updated Baltar character and his new "demon" cylon in his head. I also
> applaud them for going for the more "Wing Commander video game" feel to space
> combat.
To me Baltar is too much of a pretty boy, but his cylon demon is also a babe so I can overlook Baltar's faults. :)

One thing I miss and I think really screws with the continuity is the lack of lasers. That kind of advanced technology and they are still using their own form of space bullets.

> This Boomer is a babe :)

That does tend to take the edge off my disappointment, I'll admit. :)

> One thing I miss and I think really screws with the continuity is the lack of
> lasers. That kind of advanced technology and they are still using their own
> form of space bullets.

Yes, and it is a dramatic departure from the original series. Still, we can say the same for the Alien and Aliens, which were thoroughly enjoyable partially because of the weaponry. So far the best way to kill individuals is still an overdose of kinetic energy, from the club of a caveman to the slug of the army's latest weapon. It's kinda like farming: for all our fancy technology and tricks of the trade, it's still planting seeds in dirt.

[EDIT] By the way, for me it's often the little things that make TV enjoyable for me. In this BG pilot, it was when Starbuck was rescuing Apollo by locking gun struts together and crash landing on the deck of the Galactica. The actress' expression when she said, "Sure I know what I'm doing... I think" was CLASSICALLY Starbuck, right out of Dirk Benedict's repertoire.

Oh definately. Filling an Alien full of holes from an automatic rifle is much more graphically entertaining than seeing someone in a white plastic suit fall down after getting hit by a laser. But for outerspace scenes you cant "see" the bullets so theres a needed visual effect that is missing.

Hey Guys,

When was that original Battlestar Galactica made?
I'm 31 and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing
about it. I don't want to wake Ziggy just to ask
him for that.

Dominique

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> Hey Guys,
>
> When was that original Battlestar Galactica made?
> I'm 31 and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing
> about it. I don't want to wake Ziggy just to ask
> him for that.
>
> Dominique

Battlestar Galactica was on US television in 1978-79. To drum up funds, the pilot was released as a movie in Canada in 1978 if I recall correctly.

There was a sort-of second season called Galactica 1980 that nobody likes to talk about because it was perfectly awful.

> Battlestar Galactica was on US television in 1978-79. To drum up funds, the
> pilot was released as a movie in Canada in 1978 if I recall correctly.
>
> There was a sort-of second season called Galactica 1980 that nobody likes to
> talk about because it was perfectly awful.
>

Ok. Thanks. I'd say that pretty much explains why.
If it's on DVD I'll ask Ziggy to pick it up. I kinda
like this new one and now I'm curious about the old one.

Dominique

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> Ok. Thanks. I'd say that pretty much explains why.
> If it's on DVD I'll ask Ziggy to pick it up. I kinda
> like this new one and now I'm curious about the old one.

It is on DVD, released this year in one of those odd shaped boxes that guarantee you can't stack it neatly.

I'll be perfectly honest here. I watch reruns of the old series on SciFi channel and I find I'm not that interested in them. They're very "disco '70s" and the writing just wasn't that great. For me they don't have the same replay value that much of Star Trek the original series has, yet I still have to say I really enjoyed them back then. I'm not sure if it is the premise of the series I still like or just the fact that I was young when I first watched them and there was so little decent scifi back then.

Anyhow, here's a link the Scifi channel keeps for the classic series:

Classic Battlestar Galactica

> It is on DVD, released this year in one of those odd shaped boxes that
> guarantee you can't stack it neatly.

It's a 6 DVD set, and yes the box wont stack at all:

I missed off lord of rings 3 movies.Killbill 1 and 2,Finding Nemo,Phonebooth,Seven,Running Man,Jaws,Pirates of the Caribbean.Red Planet,

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