[scifinoir2] Dollhouse Started With Desire, But Ended With Paranoia

2010-02-06 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Dollhouse http://io9.com/5460980/dollhouse-started-with-desire-but-ended-with-paranoi a Started With Desire, But Ended With Paranoia It's been a week since Joss Whedon http://io9.com/tag/josswhedon/ 's Dollhouse closed up its rent-a-slave operation, and we're still grieving, for the stories

[scifinoir2] Last Airbender Test Screening Reviews

2010-02-06 Thread Tracey de Morsella
M. Night had a test screening of THE LAST AIRBENDER in Phoenix, AZ tonight - here's 2 different views... Hey folks, Harry here http://www.twitter.com/headgeek666 - and it looks like last night in Phoenix they had a test screening of THE LAST AIRBENDER - and so far we have two wildly divergent

[scifinoir2] Thoughts after finally seeing Caprica

2010-02-06 Thread Kelwyn
Okay, admittedly I am on the late show but I just saw the pilot episode for SYFY's Caprica series. First of all, love the fifties, Mad Men esthetic: bros in fedoras (except, if like Eric Stoltz, they have great hair). Love the cityscapes (makes me want to move to Vancouver). I love that

RE: [scifinoir2] Special Unit 12 Marathon on SyFy

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, the sole answer I can give in explanation for the Empire's overrunning Vulcan is the one constant I saw in the two-part Enterprise AU run. Sheer, bloody-minded underhandedness. Earth probably went to Vulcan, hand extended in friendship, and the Vulcans never saw the phaser rifle in the

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Emanuel Apologizes, Signs Pledge to End Usage of Retarded

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
My bad. He was thumping the ground under my feet something fierce right after I posted that. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com

[scifinoir2] Blue Whales getting bass in their voices

2010-02-06 Thread Kelwyn
This reminds me of my favorite book of essays by the late great Ralph Wiley which he entitled: Why Black People Tend to Shout (but which I always remember as Why Black People Tend to Holler). They stopped killing the whales and the whales stopped screaming. Imagine that. ~rave!

Re: [scifinoir2] Thoughts after finally seeing Caprica

2010-02-06 Thread Mr. Worf
The Taruons are more like the Sicilian mob. The exception is that they are a little more modern. We got to see more of the Taurons in episodes 3 and 4. I won't give it away but it was interesting. Their religion mixes pagan with greek and mythology so you have people that worship Athena and

Re: [scifinoir2] Blue Whales getting bass in their voices

2010-02-06 Thread Mr. Worf
Maybe it has more to do with style? There could have been a whale with a deep voice like Barry White and it caught on as a new song style? Or we could be watching evolution at work here. Then again all of those sonar pings and equipment may have thrown things off for them for the last 50 years

[scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
http://www.tcm.com/2010/31Days/index.jsp You know what? Forget SyFy Originals. Forget the eleventy-millionth airing of Caprica. Blow off Lifetime Movies. Turner Classic Movies is airing a great block of films tonight. Starting at 8 pm EST, we have Steve McQueen in Bullitt, with the

RE: [scifinoir2] Blue Whales getting bass in their voices

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, I agree with you on your last. And, since the humor ice has been broken here, I was thinking that Melvin from the Temptations passed out a few lessons before he moved on to the Big Stage in the Sky. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Aubrey Leatherwood
So you're saying I should not go to the Mardi Gras parades or watch Seducing Cindy Margolis on Fox Reality? Aubrey To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:57:57 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

Re: [scifinoir2] Special Unit 12 Marathon on SyFy

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
I'm trying to figure out how Earth *got* to Vulcan based on using the tech in one stolen Vulcan starship. How did they create the infrastructure to create warpships, build and armada, and take Vulcan? Obviously they forged alliances with other races, but I'd sure like to see how they managed to

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
I'm there right now, waiting for that chase scene, Keith. Bonnie and Clyde I'll be passing on, as it aired just last month. The French Connection, though, is a must, particularly since I picked up a bit of trivia about Gene Hackman's performance in it. In the scene where he roughs up the

RE: [scifinoir2] Special Unit 12 Marathon on SyFy

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
That as a series of movies would be lovely. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Martin Baxter
Aubrey, an unequivocal YES on the latter. As for the former... okay, DVR this one. Have fun! ;-D If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To:

Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
Mardi Gras parades? What city? What's this Cindy Margolis thing? I haven't heard her name in a while now... - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2010 8:59:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Aubrey Leatherwood
Yes. Tampa. And it's a new show on FoxReality. I saw it because it came on before Solitary last week, which I shouldn't watch, but I can't help it. I'm DVRing both tonight in favor of going out into the night. Aubrey To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date:

Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
Hackman had trouble doing a scene like that? Wow! Just a couple of years ago, Hackman got into a fender bender, and the guy in the other car started mouthing off, then came at him. Hackman wiped the street with the guy. I read a recent interview where he said he's done with Hollywood. Said

Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
Watching it now. I was just telling my wife jubilantly, they just don't film movies like this anymore! Nowadays director would have twenty thousand camera angles, and you'd never be able to follow the action. This thing is fast-paced and exciting as hell, but I can take it all in. Speaking of

Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Keith Johnson
And funny thing, they're doing 360 movies in the special, and the theme is 360 Degrees of Separation. The first film stars Kevin Bacon, and then they progress through the now-familiar exercise, naming dozens of actors, to end up reconnecting to Kevin Bacon in the 360th film!

Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-06 Thread Mr. Worf
I think that they had to stick to stagnant angles in older movies because they usually only had one or two cameras running at once, because they couldn't afford more than that. If they wanted multiple angles they would reset the scene then reshoot it. Now they can afford to rent 10 or 20 cameras

Re: [scifinoir2] Special Unit 12 Marathon on SyFy

2010-02-06 Thread Mr. Worf
I guess it depends on when they went down that path. For example, if Earth had the Eugenics wars and the Eugenics faction won they would have had a united front of hyper intelligent, aggressive, people with advanced strength to go out into space. They would just need a few ships out where the