Brin: The Core

2008-10-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Was there any advance in the credit/lawsuit/whatever related to the rip-off movie The Core? I was editing the Portuguese Wikipedia article about it, and I would like to know if there is any hard data (references, frex) about it. The English Wikipedia article only mentions that it was ripped off

Re: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

2003-04-12 Thread Alejandro Rivero
Regarding Earth, I noticed last week that the trailer is formatted according this book. -THey start tellink of an undetectable weapon -Then it is said that something failed. -then they present a guy telling that he is going to computer-hack the Earth. This is not the context in the film, where

Re: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

2003-04-12 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 4/12/2003 9:50:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Time to read some Harlan Ellison? What in particular? I read _An Edge In My Voice_ earlier this year I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of Starlost and then Phoenix

RE: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

2003-04-12 Thread Horn, John
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of Starlost and then Phoenix without Ashes. Those who do not study history may be condemned to pay repetitive legal fees. Not to mention The Terminator and Soldier... - jmh

Brin: The Core - spoilers

2003-03-28 Thread Gary L. Nunn
RE: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars! No mention of using earthquakes as weapons, for example. I had had an impression they were going down to look for something that had fallen. Instead, they are apparently trying to re-start the Earth's dynamo with a nuke. yeep. Well, actually