[scifinoir2] Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
Primer is a low budget indie film about two engineers that create a time travel device in their garage. Everything is great until they discover something wrong that happens in their future not of their own doing. This award winning film takes a methodical approach to time travel and how it could

Re: [scifinoir2] Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Omari Confer
Um.I dont know what movie your talking about...but the something wrong is a a bit different than you are selling it. But it is one of the best time travel movies of all time. Period. c w m On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Primer is a low budget

Re: [scifinoir2] topic: Rewrites

2010-02-20 Thread jazzynupe_007
I would change the ending to DS9. Leave ST:THG alone (ending that is). Continue 2 explore the mirror universe and the continuation of the founding of the Federation in Enterprise. And not even do that piece of crap Voyager. Fate. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original

Re: [scifinoir2] topic: Rewrites

2010-02-20 Thread Keith Johnson
what do you mean by rewrite? Do you mean revisit a series and update it in some ways, maybe telling side stories that were never explored, or updating some outdated cultural representations? Or do you mean completing redoing the series? I don't think any of the series needs a full rewrite,

Re: [scifinoir2] Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Amy Harlib
ahar...@earthlink.net I thought it was excellent. Cheers! Amy Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie: Primer Primer is a low budget indie film about two engineers that create a time travel device in their garage. Everything is great until they discover something wrong that happens in their

Re: [scifinoir2] Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Tracy Curtis
I've seen that movie. It was nice to see a time travel plot not overrun by special effects. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Amy Harlib ahar...@earthlink.net wrote:  ahar...@earthlink.net I thought it was excellent. Cheers! Amy *Subject:* [scifinoir2] Movie: Primer Primer is a

[scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
About to watch Primer on Netflix. I looked it up. It only made $424,760 at the worldwide box office BUT it only cost $7000 to make. Not a bad return on investment. 2004 seems so long ago. I suspect a Sundance Audience Award winner would do much better at the box office, today. Oddly,

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
The first time that I saw it, it was on the PBS show called Imagemakers a couple of years ago. They have been repeating it on IFC this month. Its coming on IFC again on 2/28 at 3am and 11am. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: About to watch Primer on Netflix. I

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
I've seen it twice and, frankly, IMO, it's a snoozer. Great idea, lousy follow-thru. 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] tech: disappearing car door

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
This is a good thing. As long as you don't hit the button by accident while tooling down the road, that is. 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] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
The style is a little heavy on the cerebral vs visual. I found it interesting because of the camera style (a reality style) and the directors ability to tell a story without a big budget. Has anyone seen the film Bobby loves Mangoes? On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Martin Baxter

RE: [scifinoir2] Why English Teachers Die Young

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
The writer in me screams in laughter at 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 From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 19 Feb

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Oh, yes. He wrote an op-ed piece somewhere, asking, basically, what was wrong with Sarah Palin. I was reading a Repairman Jack at the time I learned of that. Stopped reading it. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Pardon me. Tired, didn't clarify. He was asking why Democrats see anything wrong with the Wasilla Wingnut. 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] topic: Rewrites

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Fate, you read my mind to the letter. 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: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010

RE: [scifinoir2] 2010 Script Pimp Writing Competitions - CALL FOR ENTRIES - Deadlines: 3/1 (Early), 5/1/2010 (Regular)

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
My Pimp Pencil is strong, but I fear that I barely have time to write what's inf ront of me. Screenplay adapting? If I ahd another hundred years of life. 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] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
I like the style of shooting as well, but it just kept losing me. And no, I haven't seen that one. 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] Re: 'Heroes' Never Recovered From Its First Break

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, if I'm going to go there, it won't be on a small scale. I'll be needing the room. ;-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

[scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
A primer is a strand of nucleic acid that serves as a starting point for DNA replication. They are required because the enzymes that catalyze replication, DNA polymerases, can only add new nucleotides to an existing strand of DNA. The polymerase starts replication at the 3'-end of the primer,

[scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
I guess my nephew was right: FIRST, you build a time machine. THEN, you go back in time. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Omari Confer clockwork...@... wrote: Um.I dont know what movie your talking about...but the something wrong is a a bit different than you are selling it.

[scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
One reviewer said that anybody who claims [to] fully understand what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: I like the style of shooting as well, but it just kept losing

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: 'Heroes' Never Recovered From Its First Break

2010-02-20 Thread bruce harden
i think the fact they had no peter parker no speed ball no steve rogers . They had no one that you can like doomed it . so me people say hiro but too me he was a close to asterretype as you can get . i kept hoping for the apperaance of the dark hiro. the charecters all did nothing but bitch and

[scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
The Box in Primer is just a big DVR. You turn it on and it records time, in real time, but you can only go back to a time that was recorded while the box was on. If you turn on the Box at noon and come back at 6 pm, you can get into the box and go back in time to noon but it will take you 6

[scifinoir2] movie: Bobby loves mangoes

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
I found a link on Youtube that interviews the director of the movie. You will love this little film on time travel. Its 15 minutes. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdYsT5wQDw (part 1) Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y4yYc4AuDoNR=1 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: 'Heroes' Never Recovered From Its First Break

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
That brings up a couple of things that they skipped. The multiple time lines were totally forgotten about. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Sylar became president or NYC blew up. Or the original heroes first and second generations. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM,

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Af the risk of arrogance (and if I could stay glued to it long enough), I daresay I could make sense of it. I used to be in a Yahu group of physicists, and we created and played around with a temporal paradox (the basic someone kills your grandfathers in front of you, you have a time machine

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
LMNAO!!! And, IMO, the best time-travel movie on the books is La Jetee. 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] 2010 Script Pimp Writing Competitions - CALL FOR ENTRIES - Deadlines: 3/1 (Early), 5/1/2010 (Regular)

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
Once you get the formatting down it isn't that hard. There are some subtle things that are different though. There's a little more focus on the dialog and possible scene situations vs how books flow. There are experts that do screen adapting. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Martin Baxter

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: 'Heroes' Never Recovered From Its First Break

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Deity help me... I almost cared enough to try to rationalize 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 From: hellomahog...@gmail.com

[scifinoir2] movie: Doctor Who Infinite Quest?

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
I downloaded this movie a while back but haven't watched this yet. It is a Doctor Who anime made somewhere around two seasons ago. Freema Agyeman and David Tennent is in it. Here's more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064739/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Movie: Primer

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
rave, three of my ex-SOs are doctors. At one point or another, I think they tried to drill some point of bio-science into me. I thank Deity that I have a brain capable of shutting down in times of crisis. Martin (physics and math? Good. Bio-science? He'll be running away) If all the world's a

RE: [scifinoir2] movie: Bobby loves mangoes

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
I HAVE seen this before, Mr Worf. Still, thanks for the send! _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] movie: Doctor Who Infinite Quest?

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, I had this as well, and it was deleted from my hard drive by accident (the first and ONLY time anyone other than me has ever used my laptop). Loved 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] Intro Tracy, Madison, WI

2010-02-20 Thread C.W. Badie
Yeah...what he said... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 2/19/10, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us Subject: Re: [scifinoir2]

Re: [scifinoir2] Alien Nation

2010-02-20 Thread C.W. Badie
That's a great movie...Met the creator Rocky O. and told him so... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 2/19/10, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com Subject:

Re: [scifinoir2] Intro Tracy, Madison, WI

2010-02-20 Thread Omari Confer
Hello Tracy... On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself before. My name is Tracy. (I'm a female Tracy) I'm currently living in Madison, WI where I have a university job. I joined initially because one

Re: [scifinoir2] movie: Doctor Who Infinite Quest?

2010-02-20 Thread Mr. Worf
Its on my laptop too. I totally forgot about it until i looked at the list of movies on it the other day. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, I had this as well, and it was deleted from my hard drive by accident (the first and ONLY time

RE: [scifinoir2] Intro Tracy, Madison, WI

2010-02-20 Thread C.W. Badie
...And I won't cut the leash any more... 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, 2/18/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE:

Re: [scifinoir2] Intro Tracy, Madison, WI

2010-02-20 Thread C.W. Badie
And, by the way, ALL good science fictions shows are the ones that get cancelled... 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, 2/18/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson

[scifinoir2] Re: A bittersweet life

2010-02-20 Thread Martin
Passing the word to all interested -- Dirty Carnival will be on Sundance at midnight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Its not on Netflix. I recorded it from the Sundance channel too. Netflix although great at rentals aren't keeping up with the movies. It

RE: [scifinoir2] Intro Tracy, Madison, WI

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Say it again, pal! 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: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:59:23 -0800

RE: [scifinoir2] Alien Nation

2010-02-20 Thread Martin Baxter
Pal... now YOU have one anecdote worthy of being written down. We expect the paper soon. 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:

[scifinoir2] Re: How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

2010-02-20 Thread B Smith
Wow. He always seemed pretty level headed. Sadly Simmons has gone far beyond that. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: Pardon me. Tired, didn't clarify. He was asking why Democrats see anything wrong with the Wasilla Wingnut. If all the world's a

[scifinoir2] The Hughes Brothers to Direct the Akira Remake

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/02/akira_remake_hughes_bros.html Vulture has learned that Warner Bros. is negotiating to reteam with The Book of Eli's Hughes brothers to have them direct a live-action remake of the cult favorite Akira, from a script by Iron Man scribes Mark Fergus and

[scifinoir2] Rosario Dawson is Persephone in The Lightning Thief

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/2010/02/16/rosario-dawson-on-her-role-in-percy-jackson-the-olympians-the-lightning-thief/ It has been really fun playing a goddess, I have to say. She's wild. It is full-on flirtatiousness. This depiction of Hell is sumptuous, decadent and dark, all candlelight and

[scifinoir2] Rihanna added to cast of “The Last Dragon”

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
http://blackgeekdom.com/blog/2010/02/16/rihanna-added-to-cast-of-the-last-dragon-remake/ Rihanna is set to play a dominatrix alongside Samuel L Jackson. The singer has long spoken of her desire to branch out into film, and has even taken acting lessons to help her hone her skill. She has now

Re: [scifinoir2] Rosario Dawson is Persephone in The Lightning Thief

2010-02-20 Thread Augustus Augustus
yes she is! --- On Sun, 2/21/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Rosario Dawson is Persephone in The Lightning Thief To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 12:44 AM  

[scifinoir2] Babies with Laser Eyes

2010-02-20 Thread Kelwyn
http://babieswithlasereyes.com/