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

2010-02-14 Thread C.W. Badie
Ah Barry...The only man I know can truly make a girl coo my saying, You're a freak! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Thu, 2/11/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter

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

2010-02-14 Thread C.W. Badie
Thank you for that visual...Sorry, but I've seen enough real lab coworkers to pop that bubble... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mr. Worf

RE: [scifinoir2] Cycle Crazy: Strange Amazing Bicycle Concepts

2010-02-14 Thread C.W. Badie
They forgot the Spaghetti-O's bike and the old cable wire bike..."Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet"From "THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES" by C.W. Badie--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter

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

2010-02-14 Thread C.W. Badie
I thought you'd like that one... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2]

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-14 Thread C.W. Badie
Uh...Um... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on

[scifinoir2] In Japan, only women give chocolates to men

2010-02-14 Thread Kelwyn
I'm moving to Japan. http://japan.suite101.com/article.cfm/valentines_day_asian_style

Re: [scifinoir2] LOTR prequel made by a fanatic usin g her £25,000 life savings scores 500,000 vie

2010-02-14 Thread Mr. Worf
This shows once again that you don't really need a lot of money to make a movie. Hollywood made a lot of people think that you need hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment and sets etc before the first second of film is shot. There are a lot of good fan films out there that get no

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Opening night of the Olympics

2010-02-14 Thread Mr. Worf
They tried to rip off china a little with a young boy running through a wheat field then flying into the air ala wirefu. One of the weirdest segments was a style of music that is popular in Novascotia that is country violin with a punk look. So imagine riverdance with everyone wearing plaid, torn

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Opening night of the Olympics

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
k.d. lang's singing that is the one thing I regret missing. Need to chase that down on YouTube. Brought me to tears, the first time I heard her cover the song. _ Hotmail: Powerful Free

RE: [scifinoir2] In Japan, only women give chocolates to men

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
I get that anyway. Seriously. 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 From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:19:10 +

RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
You can't hold it in... it's there, waiting to bust out! ;-D _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/

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

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
;-D _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] Cycle Crazy: Strange Amazing Bicycle Concepts

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
The youth of today, pal... they forget all too easily. (And don't ask me why that keeps underlining itself. My third time typing it...) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant

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

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
Pal, if even one of them looks like a young lady I once dated in college (now a researcher at Johns Hopkins), I wouldn't mind... _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection.

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

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
;-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: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: astromancer2...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:04:04 -0800 Subject: RE:

RE: [scifinoir2] Luke Cage to lead Thunderbolts

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
rave, I'm loving the thought of this. One question, though -- has Cage gotten over what was wrong with him a few months back? _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service.

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
Exactly, pal. At times, it felt as though you needed a game controller in front of you. 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 From:

RE: [scifinoir2] New Jeans

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
(buffing nails) I only took advanced courses at WDU. ;-D _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] The Complete List Of Sources Avatar's Accused Of Ripping Off -

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
Yep LMNAO! 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 From: astromancer2...@yahoo.com Date:

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
That was a scene to behold, in a movie to behold time and again. 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 From: astromancer2...@yahoo.com

RE: [scifinoir2] New Jeans

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
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RE: [scifinoir2] LOT R prequel made by a fanatic using her £2 5,000 life savings scores 500,000 vie

2010-02-14 Thread Martin Baxter
WHOA. Let us now redefine the phrase labor of love. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/

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Re: [scifinoir2] Outlook grim for gaming industry

2010-02-14 Thread Keith Johnson
I sometimes have a that's what you get! attitude about EA because they've become the Microsoft of the gaming industry. They've gobbled up a lot of smaller, innovative companies, crushed creativity and originality in many of those they acquired, and have put together exclusive deals (like their

Re: [scifinoir2] Outlook grim for gaming industry

2010-02-14 Thread Mr. Worf
I totally agree with the comparison between EA and Microsoft. They have forgotten that their segment on the industry is a mixture of fun and art on top of being a business. I think that they have forgotten what makes a great game. There are a lot of game companies that have gotten started because

Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Keith Johnson
I liked the second, but constantly get disappointed at how it missed its potential. The trailers for that film had Epic written all over them. Some of the concepts are amazing, sweeping: The Necromonger forces, those giant statues they landed on planets, the whole strange holy war thing. Great

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Aubrey Leatherwood
Keith, you and I are of a like mind, my friend! Aubrey Leatherwood CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR FAVORITE EROTICA AUTHOR 2009 www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment,

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I agree about the prison planet arc being a distraction from the main story. That could have been a separate story From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:48 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject:

Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Mr. Worf
Didn't they use the prison planet as a game plot about a year ago? On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tracey de Morsella tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com wrote: I agree about the prison planet arc being a distraction from the main story. That could have been a separate story *From:*

Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Keith Johnson
Great minds and all...! Yeah, it was a distraction and incredibly cliched. - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:51:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2]

Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Keith Johnson
Yeah, look at the tropes: outer space bounty hunters...a prison planet with violent temperature extremes, giving us all that outrun the deadly sunlight scenes...the dirty, sweaty, crooked prison guards on the take...crazy outre prison dogs (looking like a Klingon Targ) running around menacing

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Perhaps the prison planet was a comprise to the suits to give them more of what was similar to the first movie, which made them a boatload of money. I desolate planet, where the other part of the story introduced new elements. Personally, I was riveted by the new elements and feat when they

Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Keith Johnson
Good point, but I agree with you. I don't want a return to the world of the first movie. I think we need to see what the heck he's going to do with the Necros, now that he's the leader? Oh--and give Thandie Newton the Best Overacting in a Melodramatic Role award for her performance! The way

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
No don’t either. Was Thandie’s camp intentional? From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:33 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way Good point, but I

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I think they are misleading the tea leaves. The second movie didn’t work in terms of box office , but I do not thing they understand why it did not work From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:33 PM

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Aubrey Leatherwood
I don't know if you mean to type misleading the tea leaves instead of misreading the tea leaves, Tracey, but on purpose or not, I loved that turn of phrase and it seems more like the industry, y'know driving what the audience wants instead of deriving it. Aubrey Leatherwood

RE: [scifinoir2] Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Misreading, I always post as I work and try to rush to get back to work, leading to a garbling of my posts.I agree that they do try to drive what they want the public to want, instead of what it might really want From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On

[scifinoir2] Re: Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread B Smith
Part of the problem with Chronicles was that it was two movies of story crammed into one film. Twohy and Diesel wanted to do a trilogy and when the suits balked they ended up cramming too much material into one movie. So the Riddick on the run, events on the prison planet and intro of the

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Riddick 3 Is On Its Way

2010-02-14 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Makes sense. If felt like that. Too bad. Both films would have worked better as separate entities then as one film. So what do you think about the new plan? -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of B Smith Sent: Sunday,

[scifinoir2] Night Watch

2010-02-14 Thread Angela Robinson
Starts at 12:15 am (i.e., in 1/2 hour) on IFC. No repeats. If you've never seen it, it has some interesting special effects in a story of the threatened battle between supernatural agents of day and night trying to maintain an age-old truce between the two sides. And it might surprise you