Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20
The Returner is on my list as well. I think my list is close to 900 movies now... On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Right off the bat, I want to know how he survived that initial jump without snapping both his ankles... And toss in the fact that the lead, Takeshi Kanashiro, was also the star of one truly underrated flick Returnerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U, and I'm there! On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This movie is kind of a cross between Zorro, Batman, and Desperado set in an alternate universe where WW2 never happened. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnJnoo6SCYfeature=player_embedded K-20 : The Legend of The Mask (2008) Trailer 4 commentshttp://www.yellowcinema.com/j-movie-k-20-the-legend-of-the-mask-2008/#comments Posted by tarc on Aug 7, 2010 in Actionhttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/action/ , Adventure http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/adventure/, Crime http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/crime/, Dramahttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/drama-movies/ http://www.yellowcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/K-20DVD01a1.jpg Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at thelast minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name. *Also Known As:*“K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den” *Director: Shimako Sato Country: *Japan *Language: *Japanese *Subtitle:* English *Year: *2008 *Genre:* Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Video: F**k Me, Ray Bradbury
I caught this late yesterday, Mr Worf, at Wired News. Too delicious, and the perfect birthday gift for a 90-year-old guy. Hope I'm so lucky... And here's the story behind this, for any interested. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/rachel-bloom-ray-bradbury On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Its a little risqué but funny. *[image: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shock-PC]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shock-PC[image: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shock-PC]* http://funniepicturez.blogspot.com/2010/08/fk-me-ray-bradbury.html -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 5C7DD1~1.JPG!cid_D1269C2B-71E0-4542-A21F-4BF75E075F6C.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20
I loved Returner so much that, ten minutes after seeing it for the first time on PPV, I owned it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The Returner is on my list as well. I think my list is close to 900 movies now... On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Right off the bat, I want to know how he survived that initial jump without snapping both his ankles... And toss in the fact that the lead, Takeshi Kanashiro, was also the star of one truly underrated flick Returnerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U, and I'm there! On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: This movie is kind of a cross between Zorro, Batman, and Desperado set in an alternate universe where WW2 never happened. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnJnoo6SCYfeature=player_embedded K-20 : The Legend of The Mask (2008) Trailer 4 commentshttp://www.yellowcinema.com/j-movie-k-20-the-legend-of-the-mask-2008/#comments Posted by tarc on Aug 7, 2010 in Actionhttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/action/ , Adventure http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/adventure/, Crime http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/crime/, Dramahttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/drama-movies/ http://www.yellowcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/K-20DVD01a1.jpg Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at thelast minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name. *Also Known As:*“K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den” *Director: Shimako Sato Country: *Japan *Language: *Japanese *Subtitle:* English *Year: *2008 *Genre:* Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: [Attachment(s) #12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopText from Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000. Tieguanyin [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] A rare Chinese green tea, Tieguanyin costs $3,000 per kilo (2 lbs, 3 oz) and approximately $15 for a single cup. Kopi Luwak [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] You can't have a discussion of the world's most expensive foods without mentioning Kopi Luwak. Originating from Sumatra, Kopi Luwak is created from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the coffee berries and the undigested beans pass through their system. The beans are then collected and brewed. Many people claim that the coffee has a high level of complex acidity that cannot be achieved through any other brewing method. With only around 500 pounds of beans produced every year, the cost for a pound is upwards of $300. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20
ahar...@earthlink.net I've seen Returner and yes, it is a very excellent SF action film. Amy From: Martin Baxter Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:13 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20 I loved Returner so much that, ten minutes after seeing it for the first time on PPV, I owned it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The Returner is on my list as well. I think my list is close to 900 movies now... On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Right off the bat, I want to know how he survived that initial jump without snapping both his ankles... And toss in the fact that the lead, Takeshi Kanashiro, was also the star of one truly underrated flick Returner, and I'm there! On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This movie is kind of a cross between Zorro, Batman, and Desperado set in an alternate universe where WW2 never happened. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnJnoo6SCYfeature=player_embedded K-20 : The Legend of The Mask (2008) Trailer 4 comments Posted by tarc on Aug 7, 2010 in Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at thelast minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name. Also Known As:“K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den” Director: Shimako Sato Country: Japan Language: Japanese Subtitle: English Year: 2008 Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Movie Review – K-20 Legend of the Mask
Movie Review – K-20 Legend of the Mask What a wonderfully refreshing film. Made in Japan, K-20 is an anti-hero similar to Robin Hood that is a mixture of Batman, and the Phantom thrown in. It is believed that K-20 has 20 disguises that he can change into within a blink of the eye. In K-20’s universe, it is 1949, and World War 2’s Pacific theater never happened, because Japan signed a peace treaty with the United States and United Kingdom effectively stepping back from the war. The royal family of Japan is still intact. In the film, Nikola Tesla was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his invention of wireless electricity. A portable mock up of the device is given to a scientist in Japan for demonstration purposes and is promptly stolen by K-20 at the beginning of the film. Meanwhile, a man named Heikichi Endo (Played by Kaneshiro Takeshi) works as a circus performer at a poor circus on the outskirts of town. He is a bit withdrawn and only seems to relate to the numerous doves that he takes care of. In his act, he dodges a barrage of metal tipped arrows while performing flips and jumps that is dazzling. One evening, a man approaches him from a gossip magazine and offers him a job to take pictures of a wedding between the Duke Akechi, a high-ranking police detective, and his bride for a large sum of money. Heikichi was planning on passing on the offer but he realized that he could use the money to help his ailing friend, the circus ringmaster. Heikichi takes the risky job and climbs to the top of the building where the wedding takes place. Just when he takes the picture, a bomb is ignited disrupting the wedding! Heikichi is spotted and is promptly arrested by the police who believe that he is K-20. Fine detail was put into the film making the city that they live in actual look like the late 1940s world. Small gadgets and cars populate the background of the city adding a visual realism. Keikichi’s acrobatic skills are purely Parkour with Keikichi leaping, flipping from ledges to rooftops across the city. The addition of parkour was a believable fit with the circus performer skills of Keikichi and a nice addition. Overall, the movie does give the feeling of a larger than life portrayal of an alternate world and the people within it. It is like watching an anime come to life. If this movie were to be made into a television series, I would definitely watch it. My only complaint is that we really do not get to know K-20 in this film. We only learn about his legend second hand. It would have been nice to see more of K-20’s exploits. Pros: Steam punk / Diesel punk gadgetry from blimps to heliocars, interesting story in an alternate universe. Using Tesla’s machine was a stroke of genius! Cons: The movie could have used a little more action. It is a fairly long film (over 2 hours) but the time does go by fairly quickly. Japanese with English subtitles Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Nanoscale DNA sequencing technique to advance personalized medicine
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[scifinoir2] One for the road: Researchers develop biofuel from whisky waste
One for the road: Researchers develop biofuel from whisky waste By Paul Ridden http://www.gizmag.com/author/paul-ridden/ *02:55 August 21, 2010* 2 Pictureshttp://www.gizmag.com/whisky-byproduct-biofuel-created/16098/picture/119540/ [image: Inside the biofuel lab: Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University have created a new bi...]http://www.gizmag.com/whisky-byproduct-biofuel-created/16098/picture/119540/ Inside the biofuel lab: Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University have created a new biofuel from by-products of the whisky industry *Image Galleryhttp://www.gizmag.com/whisky-byproduct-biofuel-created/16098/picture/119540/ (2 images)* Go Solar for $0 Downhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BuEfuGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC8bS6MQB5rLcsxbAjbcBgMC4AhABGAEgs9z6ASgEOABQqeqC0_n_AWDJjvCGyKOgGaAByoCE4wOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZEBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL3doaXNreS1ieXByb2R1Y3QtYmlvZnVlbC1jcmVhdGVkLzE2MDk4Lz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbMgC_ufcEqgDAegDkQXoA5YD6AMM9QMCAABEnum=1sig=AGiWqtzaSH7EsVG6I8N4OgcvfozdgR8auwclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://www.solarcity.com/campaigns/2010/backward/default.aspx%3Fcm_mmc%3DSEM-_-Google-_-CA-Energy-_-covsolggl882100c%257c5917313974%26 - www.SolarCity.com/FreeSolarQuotehttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BuEfuGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC8bS6MQB5rLcsxbAjbcBgMC4AhABGAEgs9z6ASgEOABQqeqC0_n_AWDJjvCGyKOgGaAByoCE4wOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZEBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL3doaXNreS1ieXByb2R1Y3QtYmlvZnVlbC1jcmVhdGVkLzE2MDk4Lz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbMgC_ufcEqgDAegDkQXoA5YD6AMM9QMCAABEnum=1sig=AGiWqtzaSH7EsVG6I8N4OgcvfozdgR8auwclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://www.solarcity.com/campaigns/2010/backward/default.aspx%3Fcm_mmc%3DSEM-_-Google-_-CA-Energy-_-covsolggl882100c%257c5917313974%26 Affordable Clean Solar Power Spin Your Electric Meter Backward. California Solar Powerhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=B6SPPGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC4T5vNsB3OapoBPAjbcB0NyKAhACGAIgs9z6ASgEOABQ3vvBkgFgyY7whsijoBmgAYjl9vwDsgEOd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb226AQozMDB4MjUwX2pzyAEB2gGRAWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbS93aGlza3ktYnlwcm9kdWN0LWJpb2Z1ZWwtY3JlYXRlZC8xNjA5OC8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1HaXptYWcrU3Vic2NyaWJlcnMmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTEyNGVlM2MzYmYtVUEtMjIzNTM2MC00JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWyAAgGoAwHoA5EF6AOWA-gDDPUDAgAARAnum=2sig=AGiWqtz05VVeSajxaJntQ7dP3Pib7ajAPAclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://www.solarpower.org/RequestInformation.aspx%3Fref%3Dsp.goog.ca.net - www.Solarpower.orghttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=B6SPPGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC4T5vNsB3OapoBPAjbcB0NyKAhACGAIgs9z6ASgEOABQ3vvBkgFgyY7whsijoBmgAYjl9vwDsgEOd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb226AQozMDB4MjUwX2pzyAEB2gGRAWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbS93aGlza3ktYnlwcm9kdWN0LWJpb2Z1ZWwtY3JlYXRlZC8xNjA5OC8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1HaXptYWcrU3Vic2NyaWJlcnMmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTEyNGVlM2MzYmYtVUEtMjIzNTM2MC00JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWyAAgGoAwHoA5EF6AOWA-gDDPUDAgAARAnum=2sig=AGiWqtz05VVeSajxaJntQ7dP3Pib7ajAPAclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://www.solarpower.org/RequestInformation.aspx%3Fref%3Dsp.goog.ca.net 50% Off California Solar Panel Projects. Sign Up for a Free Quote. Eagle Shield Insulationhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BruePGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC8i3u9oB8Mau_BTAjbcB0JnKAhADGAMgs9z6ASgEOABQ45C5o_n_AWDJjvCGyKOgGaAB6OKQ4gOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZEBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL3doaXNreS1ieXByb2R1Y3QtYmlvZnVlbC1jcmVhdGVkLzE2MDk4Lz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbIACAagDAegDkQXoA5YD6AMM9QMCAABEnum=3sig=AGiWqtxbC3UVFbfXSH0OGkNvrOP4lCJiMQclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://eagleshield.com/energy-audit-landing-g/ - www.EagleShield.comhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BruePGMhyTM2BLZCajQSm6eCYC8i3u9oB8Mau_BTAjbcB0JnKAhADGAMgs9z6ASgEOABQ45C5o_n_AWDJjvCGyKOgGaAB6OKQ4gOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZEBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL3doaXNreS1ieXByb2R1Y3QtYmlvZnVlbC1jcmVhdGVkLzE2MDk4Lz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbIACAagDAegDkQXoA5YD6AMM9QMCAABEnum=3sig=AGiWqtxbC3UVFbfXSH0OGkNvrOP4lCJiMQclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://eagleshield.com/energy-audit-landing-g/ Free Home Energy Audit Radiant Barrier Insulation Residential Solar
Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The Revenge* ** http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaws4_meglafoam1.jpg Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly see that something went horribly wrong. Michael Caine must still be suffering nightmares for agreeing to appear in this rather than accept his Oscar for *Hannah and Her Sisters*. *7. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2004_havana_nights_dirty_dancing_2._wallpaper_001.jpg * Image source - allmoviephoto The storyline for the original Dirty Dancing film was such a hit, why bother changing it for the sequel? The only changed in the sequel was the fact that it was set in Cuba the night before the revolution took place. Unsurprisingly the film flopped big time. The only thing you have to admire about the film is how the makers managed to persuade the original’s star, Patrick Swayze, to make a cameo appearance in the disastrous sequel. *8. Caddyshack II* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Caddyshack1.jpg* Image source - madamepickwickartblog Caddyshack became a cult classic and a terrific cast. The sequel though, which came out eight years later, simply wasn’t funny and the only original cast member to feature in this one was Chevy Chase. With poor jokes and none of the stars from the first film there to bounce off, Chase’s comic abilities were strangled. The
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: [Attachment(s) #12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopText from Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000. Tieguanyin [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] A rare Chinese green tea, Tieguanyin costs $3,000 per kilo (2 lbs, 3 oz) and approximately $15 for a single cup. Kopi Luwak [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] You can't have a discussion of the world's most expensive foods without mentioning Kopi Luwak. Originating from Sumatra, Kopi Luwak is created from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the coffee berries and the undigested beans pass through their system. The beans are then collected and brewed. Many people claim that the coffee has a high level of complex acidity that cannot be achieved through any other brewing method. With only around 500 pounds of beans produced every year, the cost for a pound is upwards of $300. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
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I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: [ Attachment(s) from Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle The World's Most Expensive Foods Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich The World's Most Expensive Foods The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie The World's Most Expensive Foods Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet The World's Most Expensive Foods The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae The World's Most Expensive Foods One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water The World's Most Expensive Foods The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum The World's Most Expensive Foods This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000. Tieguanyin The World's Most Expensive Foods A rare Chinese green tea, Tieguanyin costs $3,000 per kilo (2 lbs, 3 oz) and approximately $15 for a single cup. Kopi Luwak The World's Most Expensive Foods You can't have a discussion of the world's most expensive foods without mentioning Kopi Luwak. Originating from Sumatra, Kopi Luwak is created from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the coffee berries and the undigested beans pass through their system.
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
My wife and I have both been suffering from horrible summer colds, so we've been in the house for over a week. This Saturday night, desperately unable to sleep, but too sick to do anything else, I turned the tube to Miss Congeniality 2. I knew it couldn't be as funny as the original--which has enough one-liners and fun that I still love it--but man, was I surprised at how bad it was! I think I laughed exactly twice in the whole thing. My wife, who generally is more forgiving of comedies like this, turned to me and said That was horrible! I'm so glad we didn't pay to see it. It was indeed so bad that, had one seen it first, one would have thought that Bullock and Regina King were completely devoid of any comedic talent. I know it's an inescapable fact of Hollywood, but they really do need to realize that often you can't bottle lightning twice, and you just have to forego making a crappy sequel. .That's especially true when some of the people instrumental in making the first movie don't return. In this one, for example, Michael Cain was a hoot as Bullock's advisor in the first film. His character was obviously gay, but that wasn't the angle played up. In this one she gets a younger guy as her advisor, and he plays up the gay thing to the point of distraction. The movie even ends up in a drag club where this dude dresses up like a woman--for no reason other than it fulfilled a lifelong dream of his! With such awful stereotypes, bad writing, and no originality anywhere to be seen, it perfectly exemplifies the point of the article you posted. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:05:53 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. 1. Batman and Robin Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… 2. Blues Brothers 2000 Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original Blues Brothers film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him The Big Lebowski was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. 3. Legally Blonde 2 Image source - totalfilm After the surprising success of the first Legally Blonde film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! 4. Grease 2 Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that Grease is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 5. Speed 2 Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. Speed 2 lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. 6. Jaws: The Revenge Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in
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Mr Worf, I'm expecting that out of Starbucks any time now. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa08fdc998f18d_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000. Tieguanyin [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] A rare Chinese green tea, Tieguanyin costs $3,000 per kilo (2 lbs, 3 oz) and approximately $15 for a single cup. Kopi Luwak [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] You can't have a discussion of the world's most expensive foods without mentioning Kopi Luwak. Originating from Sumatra, Kopi Luwak is created from coffee beans that have passed through the digestive track of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the coffee berries and the undigested beans pass through their system. The beans are then collected and brewed. Many people claim that the coffee has a high level of complex acidity that cannot be achieved through any other brewing method. With only around 500 pounds of beans produced every year, the cost for a pound is upwards of $300. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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Keith, I don't get the appeal in those last two at all, and I've had the Bird's Nest Soup. That last... I wonder if those partaking bothered to read the ingredient list or preparation before swallowing. And I've eaten lots of offal in my life, including prairie oysters recently. Call it a VERY acquired taste. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa09a2650130bf_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world, each priced at around $53,000. Tieguanyin [image: The
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
That is all horribly pain-inducing. And, back when I worked for Federated, I learned that one of my fellow supervisors had a role in Jaws: The Revenge (and became a shark snack, if memory serves). Hurt his feelings when I said that I wouldn't see it if I were paid in gold bullion. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The Revenge* ** http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaws4_meglafoam1.jpg Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly see that something went horribly wrong. Michael Caine must still be suffering nightmares for agreeing to appear in this rather than accept his Oscar for *Hannah and Her Sisters*. *7. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2004_havana_nights_dirty_dancing_2._wallpaper_001.jpg * Image source - allmoviephoto The storyline for the original Dirty Dancing film was such a hit, why bother changing it for the sequel? The only changed in the sequel was the fact that it was set in Cuba the night before the revolution took place. Unsurprisingly the film flopped big time. The only thing you have to admire about the film is how the makers managed to persuade the original’s star, Patrick Swayze, to make a cameo appearance in the disastrous sequel. *8.
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
Apologies for the scream you all heard... On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: My wife and I have both been suffering from horrible summer colds, so we've been in the house for over a week. This Saturday night, desperately unable to sleep, but too sick to do anything else, I turned the tube to Miss Congeniality 2. I knew it couldn't be as funny as the original--which has enough one-liners and fun that I still love it--but man, was I surprised at how bad it was! I think I laughed exactly twice in the whole thing. My wife, who generally is more forgiving of comedies like this, turned to me and said That was horrible! I'm so glad we didn't pay to see it. It was indeed so bad that, had one seen it first, one would have thought that Bullock and Regina King were completely devoid of any comedic talent. I know it's an inescapable fact of Hollywood, but they really do need to realize that often you can't bottle lightning twice, and you just have to forego making a crappy sequel. .That's especially true when some of the people instrumental in making the first movie don't return. In this one, for example, Michael Cain was a hoot as Bullock's advisor in the first film. His character was obviously gay, but that wasn't the angle played up. In this one she gets a younger guy as her advisor, and he plays up the gay thing to the point of distraction. The movie even ends up in a drag club where this dude dresses up like a woman--for no reason other than it fulfilled a lifelong dream of his! With such awful stereotypes, bad writing, and no originality anywhere to be seen, it perfectly exemplifies the point of the article you posted. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:05:53 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** *
Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa099f98058d4f_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] One of the most expensive desserts in the world is a sundae sold at Serendipity 3, located on the east side of Manhattan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most expensive dessert, it consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23 karat edible gold leaf, and the world's most expensive chocolate, the Amedei Porceleana. To order this rich dessert, it will cost you over $1,000. Kona Nigari Water [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The most expensive water in the world is Kona Nigari water. This desalinated, high-mineral water comes from the deep waters off the coast of Hawaii and costs $16.75 per ounce. Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] This rum is the highest-selling because of it's rarity as well as it's high proof. Bottled in 1940, there are only 4 bottles left in the world,
Re: [scifinoir2] One for the road: Researchers develop biofuel from whisky waste
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Re: [scifinoir2] Nanoscale DNA sequencing technique to advance personalized medicine
Bring. It. On. [?] On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Nanoscale DNA sequencing technique to advance personalized medicine By Darren Quick http://www.gizmag.com/author/darren-quick/ *18:35 August 22, 2010* 2 Pictureshttp://www.gizmag.com/nanoscale-dna-sequencing-technique/16103/picture/119543/ [image: Illustration depicting a single strand of DNA moving through a nanopore that is being used...]http://www.gizmag.com/nanoscale-dna-sequencing-technique/16103/picture/119543/ Illustration depicting a single strand of DNA moving through a nanopore that is being used to sequence the DNA (Image: Ian Derrington) *Image Galleryhttp://www.gizmag.com/nanoscale-dna-sequencing-technique/16103/picture/119543/ (2 images)* GENEWIZ, Inc.http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BKH-jEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC-a9jLMBytmm-A3AjbcB8Kt-EAEYASCz3PoBKAQ4AFCGuc-d_P8BYMmO8IbIo6AZsgEOd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb226AQozMDB4MjUwX2pzyAEB2gGTAWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbS9uYW5vc2NhbGUtZG5hLXNlcXVlbmNpbmctdGVjaG5pcXVlLzE2MTAzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbIACAagDAegD1gfoAy31AwAAAEQnum=1sig=AGiWqtyVzbtzjzP-_Zc1KtIaVGOCAdwo2wclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://genewiz.com/%3F_kk%3Ddna%2520resequencing%26_kt%3Da239477f-a409-422a-87aa-f24a91b2d694 - www.genewiz.comhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BKH-jEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC-a9jLMBytmm-A3AjbcB8Kt-EAEYASCz3PoBKAQ4AFCGuc-d_P8BYMmO8IbIo6AZsgEOd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb226AQozMDB4MjUwX2pzyAEB2gGTAWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbS9uYW5vc2NhbGUtZG5hLXNlcXVlbmNpbmctdGVjaG5pcXVlLzE2MTAzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPUdpem1hZytTdWJzY3JpYmVycyZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MTI0ZWUzYzNiZi1VQS0yMjM1MzYwLTQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbIACAagDAegD1gfoAy31AwAAAEQnum=1sig=AGiWqtyVzbtzjzP-_Zc1KtIaVGOCAdwo2wclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://genewiz.com/%3F_kk%3Ddna%2520resequencing%26_kt%3Da239477f-a409-422a-87aa-f24a91b2d694 DNA Sequencing Services Molecular Biology Services $89 Home DNA Testhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BZBkMEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC_a5-LUBtMbt6gbAjbcB0IdWEAIYAiCz3PoBKAQ4AFC1hKfTAWDJjvCGyKOgGaABiab-_gOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZMBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL25hbm9zY2FsZS1kbmEtc2VxdWVuY2luZy10ZWNobmlxdWUvMTYxMDMvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9R2l6bWFnK1N1YnNjcmliZXJzJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMjRlZTNjM2JmLVVBLTIyMzUzNjAtNCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsgAIByALim7IBqAMB6APWB-gDLfUDRAnum=2sig=AGiWqty-Ir8X9M8gk-3XcviaEsV9Mun_ugclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=https://www.gtldna.net/%3Fsrc%3Dgoogle - www.gtldna.nethttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BZBkMEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC_a5-LUBtMbt6gbAjbcB0IdWEAIYAiCz3PoBKAQ4AFC1hKfTAWDJjvCGyKOgGaABiab-_gOyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZMBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL25hbm9zY2FsZS1kbmEtc2VxdWVuY2luZy10ZWNobmlxdWUvMTYxMDMvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9R2l6bWFnK1N1YnNjcmliZXJzJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMjRlZTNjM2JmLVVBLTIyMzUzNjAtNCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsgAIByALim7IBqAMB6APWB-gDLfUDRAnum=2sig=AGiWqty-Ir8X9M8gk-3XcviaEsV9Mun_ugclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=https://www.gtldna.net/%3Fsrc%3Dgoogle Free FedEx Return w/Kit! Accredited Lab - Fast Results. BBB Member DNA analysis in the cloudhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BxDfGEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC_Kf98gBkqatrBLAjbcBkPVwEAMYAyCz3PoBKAQ4AFCcx7HwBGDJjvCGyKOgGbIBDnd3dy5naXptYWcuY29tugEKMzAweDI1MF9qc8gBAdoBkwFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb20vbmFub3NjYWxlLWRuYS1zZXF1ZW5jaW5nLXRlY2huaXF1ZS8xNjEwMy8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1HaXptYWcrU3Vic2NyaWJlcnMmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTEyNGVlM2MzYmYtVUEtMjIzNTM2MC00JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWyAAgGoAwHoA9YH6AMt9QMAAABEnum=3sig=AGiWqtxhiEwZDhuQEcuorrYkg8RAUMcZ3Aclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://dnanexus.com - dnanexus.comhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BxDfGEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC_Kf98gBkqatrBLAjbcBkPVwEAMYAyCz3PoBKAQ4AFCcx7HwBGDJjvCGyKOgGbIBDnd3dy5naXptYWcuY29tugEKMzAweDI1MF9qc8gBAdoBkwFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lmdpem1hZy5jb20vbmFub3NjYWxlLWRuYS1zZXF1ZW5jaW5nLXRlY2huaXF1ZS8xNjEwMy8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1HaXptYWcrU3Vic2NyaWJlcnMmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTEyNGVlM2MzYmYtVUEtMjIzNTM2MC00JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWyAAgGoAwHoA9YH6AMt9QMAAABEnum=3sig=AGiWqtxhiEwZDhuQEcuorrYkg8RAUMcZ3Aclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://dnanexus.com Store, analyze, visualize next-gen DNA data via the web. Free account! RNA Therapeutic Institutehttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=lai=BcfJYEchyTM-IHKGajQTqy4SWC5SaulOY8tfRBcCNtwHA33IQBBgEILPc-gEoBDgAUOKi5cT9_wFgyY7whsijoBmyAQ53d3cuZ2l6bWFnLmNvbboBCjMwMHgyNTBfanPIAQHaAZMBaHR0cDovL3d3dy5naXptYWcuY29tL25hbm9zY2FsZS1kbmEtc2VxdWVuY2luZy10ZWNobmlxdWUvMTYxMDMvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9R2l6bWFnK1N1YnNjcmliZXJzJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMjRlZTNjM2JmLVVBLTIyMzUzNjAtNCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsyALuiI4SqAMB6APWB-gDLfUDRAnum=4sig=AGiWqtzeM6w0KzXWN8gUxyF9XRnqUafiugclient=ca-pub-1607124478120364adurl=http://www.umassmed.edu/rti/index.aspx -
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie Review – K-20 Legend of the Mask
Mr Worf, thanks for the review, and I'm about to chase it down in my area. If I can't find it, then it's off to see my contact at the mall... On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Movie Review – K-20 Legend of the Mask What a wonderfully refreshing film. Made in Japan, K-20 is an anti-hero similar to Robin Hood that is a mixture of Batman, and the Phantom thrown in. It is believed that K-20 has 20 disguises that he can change into within a blink of the eye. In K-20’s universe, it is 1949, and World War 2’s Pacific theater never happened, because Japan signed a peace treaty with the United States and United Kingdom effectively stepping back from the war. The royal family of Japan is still intact. In the film, Nikola Tesla was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his invention of wireless electricity. A portable mock up of the device is given to a scientist in Japan for demonstration purposes and is promptly stolen by K-20 at the beginning of the film. Meanwhile, a man named Heikichi Endo (Played by Kaneshiro Takeshi) works as a circus performer at a poor circus on the outskirts of town. He is a bit withdrawn and only seems to relate to the numerous doves that he takes care of. In his act, he dodges a barrage of metal tipped arrows while performing flips and jumps that is dazzling. One evening, a man approaches him from a gossip magazine and offers him a job to take pictures of a wedding between the Duke Akechi, a high-ranking police detective, and his bride for a large sum of money. Heikichi was planning on passing on the offer but he realized that he could use the money to help his ailing friend, the circus ringmaster. Heikichi takes the risky job and climbs to the top of the building where the wedding takes place. Just when he takes the picture, a bomb is ignited disrupting the wedding! Heikichi is spotted and is promptly arrested by the police who believe that he is K-20. Fine detail was put into the film making the city that they live in actual look like the late 1940s world. Small gadgets and cars populate the background of the city adding a visual realism. Keikichi’s acrobatic skills are purely Parkour with Keikichi leaping, flipping from ledges to rooftops across the city. The addition of parkour was a believable fit with the circus performer skills of Keikichi and a nice addition. Overall, the movie does give the feeling of a larger than life portrayal of an alternate world and the people within it. It is like watching an anime come to life. If this movie were to be made into a television series, I would definitely watch it. My only complaint is that we really do not get to know K-20 in this film. We only learn about his legend second hand. It would have been nice to see more of K-20’s exploits. Pros: Steam punk / Diesel punk gadgetry from blimps to heliocars, interesting story in an alternate universe. Using Tesla’s machine was a stroke of genius! Cons: The movie could have used a little more action. It is a fairly long film (over 2 hours) but the time does go by fairly quickly. Japanese with English subtitles Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20
Amy, after talking about it yesterday, I had to put down my pencil and dig out my copy. Left me smiling. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Amy Harlib ahar...@earthlink.net wrote: ahar...@earthlink.net I've seen Returner and yes, it is a very excellent SF action film. Amy *From:* Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, August 23, 2010 6:13 AM *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20 I loved Returner so much that, ten minutes after seeing it for the first time on PPV, I owned it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The Returner is on my list as well. I think my list is close to 900 movies now... On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Right off the bat, I want to know how he survived that initial jump without snapping both his ankles... And toss in the fact that the lead, Takeshi Kanashiro, was also the star of one truly underrated flick Returnerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U, and I'm there! On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: This movie is kind of a cross between Zorro, Batman, and Desperado set in an alternate universe where WW2 never happened. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnJnoo6SCYfeature=player_embedded K-20 : The Legend of The Mask (2008) Trailer 4 commentshttp://www.yellowcinema.com/j-movie-k-20-the-legend-of-the-mask-2008/#comments Posted by tarc on Aug 7, 2010 in Actionhttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/action/ , Adventure http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/adventure/, Crime http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/crime/, Dramahttp://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/drama-movies/ http://www.yellowcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/K-20DVD01a1.jpg Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at thelast minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name. *Also Known As:*“K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den” *Director: Shimako Sato Country: *Japan *Language: *Japanese *Subtitle:* English *Year: *2008 *Genre:* Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: [ Attachment(s) from Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle The World's Most Expensive Foods Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich The World's Most Expensive Foods The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie The World's Most Expensive Foods Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne. Le Parker Meridien Omelet The World's Most Expensive Foods The most expensive omelet in the world is sold at Le Parker Meridien restaurant in New York City. It contains 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar, six eggs, and an entire lobster. If you order it in the restaurant, it costs $1,000. To make it yourself at home, the ingredients will only run you $700. Serendipity 3 Sundae The World's Most Expensive Foods One of
Re: [scifinoir2] CLASSIC MOVIE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE 60S
No offense to any women here, but ah for the days when beauty in an actress wasn't about being skinny, blonde, and athletic looking. Remember when the (white) actresses in TV and film had actual curves, full lips, and were often brunette stunners? Sophia Loren, Racquel Welch, Liz Taylor, even Marilyn Monroe--all would be considered borderline overweight in the current atmosphere. I heard a lady on an entertainment show today say for the millionth time how breathtakingly beautiful Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Anniston wore, and wax ecstatic about their great figures. I see Anniston as fit but slim, Jolie as dangerously thin, and neither coming close to the standard of beauty of yesteryear. Although when made up, Jolie's feline features indeed are old school... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:28:37 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] CLASSIC MOVIE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE 60S -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Cloverfield doesn't even belong on this list. There's nothing remotely cheesy about it. Tremors and Slither are campy, horror comedies but no cheese was in sight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa145b98c7ceb5_12aa099f98058d4f_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in England, this dish contains $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef, $3,330 worth of Matsutake mushrooms, two bottles of Chateau Mouton Rothschild priced at $4,200 each, black truffles and edible gold leaf. The whole pie serves 8 people and costs around $15,900. A single slice costs $1,990, but is also served with a glass of champagne.
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The Revenge* ** http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaws4_meglafoam1.jpg Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly see that something went horribly wrong. Michael Caine must still be suffering nightmares for agreeing to appear in this rather than accept his Oscar for *Hannah and Her Sisters*. *7. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2004_havana_nights_dirty_dancing_2._wallpaper_001.jpg * Image source - allmoviephoto The storyline for the original Dirty Dancing film was such a hit, why bother changing it for the sequel? The only changed in the sequel was the fact that it was set in Cuba the night before the revolution took place. Unsurprisingly the film flopped big time. The only thing you have to
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The Revenge* ** http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaws4_meglafoam1.jpg Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly see that something went horribly wrong. Michael Caine must still be suffering nightmares for agreeing to appear in this rather than accept his Oscar for *Hannah and Her Sisters*. *7. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2004_havana_nights_dirty_dancing_2._wallpaper_001.jpg * Image source - allmoviephoto The storyline for the original Dirty Dancing film was such a hit, why bother changing it for the sequel? The only changed in the sequel was the fact
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
There was a Highlander after the third movie? O holy hell. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The Revenge* ** http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaws4_meglafoam1.jpg Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly
[scifinoir2] Apple applies for patent to kill jailbroken devices
Apple applies for patent to kill jailbroken devices by Steven Musil http://www.cnet.com/profile/stevenmusil/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 240 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20014356-37.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0#comments 7 [image: A browser-based iPhone 4 jailbreak was released just days after the U.S. Copyright Office ruled that such bypasses were legal.]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20012305-37.html A browser-based iPhone 4 jailbreak was released this summer, just days after the U.S. Copyright Office ruled that such bypasses were legal. (Credit: Steven Musil/CNET) Apple is apparently ramping up its battle to prevent iPhonehttp://www.cnet.com/apple-iphone.html and iPod http://www.cnet.com/ipod/ owners from jailbreaking their devices. The company has applied for a patenthttp://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50co1=ORd=PG01s1=20100207721.PGNR.OS=DN/20100207721RS=DN/20100207721, titled Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device, that covers a series of security measures to automatically protect devices from thieves and other unauthorized users. Unauthorized users apparently applies to those who engage in jailbreaking, which allows devices to run apps not approved by the company producing the operating system--such as Apple, the main target of such bypasses. The application, which was filed in February 2009 and published Thursday, describes measures to identify particular activities that may indicate suspicious behavior, so that safety measures can be taken to restrict the device's functions. Those activities include the hacking, jailbreaking, unlocking, or removal of a SIM card, according to the application. Apple also intends to send warnings to owners via e-mail or text message when such activity is detected. The application also describes a variety of measures that could be used to help identify the unauthorized user, including the activation of a camera that could capture and geotag the device's surroundings, and perhaps current user, and transmit that information to a remote device: In some embodiments, an unauthorized user can be detected by comparing the identity of the current user to the identities of authorized users of the electronic device. For example, a photograph of the current user can be taken, a recording of the current user's voice can be recorded, the heartbeat of the current user can be recorded, or any combination of the above. The photograph, recording, or heartbeat can be compared, respectively, to a photograph, recording, or heartbeat of authorized users of the electronic device to determine whether they match. If they do not match, the current user can be detected as an unauthorized user. When unauthorized use has been detected, access to particular applications can be restricted, access to sensitive information can be restricted, sensitive information can be erased from the electronic device..., the application states, effectively wiping and bricking the device. Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In July, U.S. Copyright Office ruled that bypassing a manufacturer's protection mechanisms http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20011661-38.html to allow handsets to execute software applications no longer violates federal copyright law. However, while the U.S. Copyright Office has declared the software legal, Apple has repeatedly discouraged users from loading such a bypass, reminding them that doing so will void their device's warranty. As we've said before, the vast majority of customers do not jailbreak their iPhones as this can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably, Apple had said in a statement in response to the ruling. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. Before joining CNET News in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers. E-mail Stevenstev...@cnet.com . -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
- *Highlander: Endgame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_Endgame *, the fourth film - *Highlander: The Sourcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source *, film spin-off of the television series - *Highlander: The Reckoninghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Reckoning *, a franchise reboot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot_(fiction) film There was also several animation shows that also had their own spinoffs. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: There was a Highlander after the third movie? O holy hell. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet
[scifinoir2] Info about Recalled Eggs
Go to this site for information on all brands of eggs affected, and how to read the codes on egg cartons to see if the eggs in your fridge are affected: http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/WhatsNewinFood/ucm223536.htm [AP News] Two large Iowa farms have recalled 550 million eggs because of possible contamination with salmonella. Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are trying to find the cause of the outbreak, but so far haven't pinpointed the source. Q: A half-billion — isn't that a lot of eggs? A: Well, yes and no. Those 550 million eggs might seem like a lot. But that's less than 1 percent of the roughly 80 billion eggs sold in their shell each year, according to the United Egg Producers, an industry group. Americans consume about 220 million eggs a day, based on industry estimates. Q: Is the outbreak likely to spread? A: There's no sign at this point that there are more than the two farms involved, Food and Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg said Monday. The recalls started earlier this month when Iowa's Wright County Egg recalled a total of 380 million eggs after some cases of salmonella poisoning were traced back to eggs from its farms. Then last Friday, a second Iowa farm, Hillandale Farms, announced the recall of more than 170 million eggs after tests confirmed salmonella. Q: Did the eggs get sent to my state? A: The eggs went to stores or distributors in mostly western or midwestern states, and were shipped nationwide under a variety of brand names. Recalled eggs have a specific plant number and packaged date on the carton; check the FDA website to see if your eggs have been recalled: http://bit.ly/9yambn Q: How far back does the recall go? A: Eggs included in the recall were packaged as far back as four months ago, so it's likely that many of the eggs have already been eaten. If you have any suspect cartons, return them to the store or throw them out. The Wright County Egg recall extends back to May 15; the Hillandale recall goes back to April 9. Q: How many people have actually gotten sick? A: No one knows for sure. Officials say it could be as many as 1,300 so far. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saw a spike in illnesses from a specific strain of salmonella in May. Through the end of July, there were about 2,000 cases — that's about 1,300 more than would be expected for that three-month period. That's where the 1,300 figure comes from, although some of the excess cases may not be tied to this outbreak. The number is likely to grow since it can take weeks for reports to be filed. Q: Has anyone died in this outbreak? A: No deaths have been reported. The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight hours to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product. It can be life-threatening, especially to those with weakened immune systems. Salmonella is the most common form of food poisoning from bacteria, and the strain involved in the outbreak is the most common kind, accounting for about 20 percent of all such food poisonings. Q: Are the eggs sold at my grocery store safe? A: Recalled eggs should have been removed from store shelves. But you can check the FDA website http://bit.ly/9yambn for the brands involved and double-check the egg carton. Q: Can you tell by looking at the shell or egg if there's salmonella? A: No, there's no way to tell. But consumers shouldn't buy dirty or cracked eggs. Q: Then should I just skip eggs to be safe? A: As long as they're not on the recall list, eggs should be OK. And thoroughly cooking them can kill the bacteria. But while federal investigators continue their work, the FDA's Hamburg said consumers should strictly avoid runny egg yolks for mopping up with toast. Q: How do eggs get infected with salmonella? A: Salmonella bacteria can get on the outside of the shell from fecal matter. Or it can be inside the egg if the chicken is infected. Eggs are washed and disinfected to deal with the dirt and germs on shells, and some producers vaccinate chicks against salmonella. Infected hens, rodents or tainted feed could be the source of the outbreaks, according to Patrick McDonough, a food safety expert at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Salmonella is not passed from hen to hen, but usually from rodent droppings to chickens, he said. The two Iowa farms share suppliers of young chickens and feed. On Monday, an FDA official said the hatchery that supplies the farms has been certified salmonella-free. That suggests that the contamination may have occurred at the farms. ___
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made
Agree on the last two, which is why I questioned the more modern films on here. Was Cloverfield a good movie in your opinion? I avoided it at the theatre because I knew the jerky camera would have had me reeling and retching in my seat. - Original Message - From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:56:11 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Cloverfield doesn't even belong on this list. There's nothing remotely cheesy about it. Tremors and Slither are campy, horror comedies but no cheese was in sight. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Dude, I remember Lepus from when I was a kid, and even then it didn't scare me, but boy was it fun! I mean, you see these bunnies running (hopping?) in slow motion to make them appear more menacing, and obvious bad FX are used to make them appear to be giants. But at least sometimes those bunnies are *real*. When the giant dummy rabbits attack people and slash them with the teeth, it is camp heaven! Let's not forget other animals gone wild movies from back in the day, such as Frogs, Bugs, and Kingdom of the Spiders starring The Shat himself. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:36:56 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made As I said in the forum where I first found this link, it's another case of the kids being left alone in the room with Internet access again. No true research done, just names off the tops of their widdle heads. And I laughed just *reading* that synopsis of the scene from Night of the Lepus, Keith. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: I can't *believe* they added relatively new movies like Clash of the Titans and Cloverfield, while leaving off some true, time tested classics! To wit, my additions below. And I beg you, please go to the included links and watch the brief trailers. You will *not* be disappointed!: * Night of the Lepus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3cfeature=related - You have ** to check out the carnivorous, giant bunny rabbits menacing veteran actors Janet Leigh, Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley! If you don't laugh when the rabbit punches through the lady's kitchen window and then slashes her throat, leaving its giant teeth covered in blood, you don't have a pulse! * The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvltniwzxI Anyone over 40 has to remember this really awful movie about an experiment in which a psycho killer's head is grafted onto the giant body of a gentle simpleton. The killer gets off on murder, while the big gentle giants sobs No, No! all the time. Like all such classic horror movies, it manages to mix murder and mayhem with nubile women in various stages of undress. It is priceless! Check out the trailer, please: Runner up: the copycat The Thing with Two Heads ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5Afeature=related ), starring football great Rosie Grier, Don Mission Impossible Martin, and veteran actor Ray Milland! In this one, the head of a white bigot is grafted onto the body of a black convict. Again, the trailer's a scream! * The Food of the Gods - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSwwZ1n6KU - people are trapped on an island where the animals have grown to ginormous size thanks to eating some kind of special food. I'm not sure if the giant menacing chickens, the killer big wasps or the crazy giant rats surrounding a house is the funniest thing, but man what a hoot! And it's so sad to see veteran actors' having to do films like this. Film great Ida Lupino is one of the stars. * The Deadly Mantis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqEccYXxaAY - freed from the ice, a giant, supersonic mantis menaces the world, attacking airplanes, overturning buses with its killer grip, and generally wreaking havoc. Lots of women grabbing their heads and screaming in mindless terror, of course, but really fun for the Italian sailor who yells Mama mia! as the killer insect sweeps in for the kill! - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:31:47 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Pirahna 3D's Painful Predecessors: 24 Cheesiest Movies Ever Made Though Tremors was cheesy goodness... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/08/cheesiest-sci-fi-films/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all
Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS
I just wonder if any extremely rare ingredients convey a taste sensation that's so incredible, or if it's perception. Sometimes food is like art: the value is all in what people say it is. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: [ Attachment(s) from Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle The World's Most Expensive Foods Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich The World's Most Expensive Foods The world's most expensive sandwich is the Essen Platinum Club Sandwich. It is a triple-decker sandwich, containing the finest grade chicken, ham, hard-boiled quails' eggs and white truffles. This sandwich contains almost 2,000 calories and is the world's most expensive, selling for a hefty price of almost $200. Steak and Mushroom Pie The World's Most Expensive Foods Based on the traditional steak and mushroom pie that is so popular in
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
Are the Highlander and Hellraiser sequels cheesy, or just plain awful? There's a fine line between so bad it stinks, and so bad it's a camp classic. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:02:09 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. 1. Batman and Robin Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… 2. Blues Brothers 2000 Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original Blues Brothers film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him The Big Lebowski was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. 3. Legally Blonde 2 Image source - totalfilm After the surprising success of the first Legally Blonde film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! 4. Grease 2 Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that Grease is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 5. Speed 2 Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. Speed 2 lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. 6. Jaws: The Revenge Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the original can clearly see that something went horribly wrong. Michael Caine must still be suffering nightmares for agreeing to appear in this rather than accept his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters . 7. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Image source - allmoviephoto The storyline for the original Dirty Dancing film was such a hit, why bother changing it for the sequel? The only changed in the sequel was the fact that it was set in Cuba the night before the revolution took place. Unsurprisingly the film flopped big time. The only thing you have to admire about the film is how the makers managed to persuade the original’s star, Patrick Swayze, to
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
Sure. You never saw The Source, the awful TV movie starring Adrian Paul, released a year or two ago? It was really awful. they killed off a couple of cool characters, put up all this foolishness about the Source of Immortality, and gave us a truly horrendous ending. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:03:35 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS There was a Highlander after the third movie? O holy hell. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. 1. Batman and Robin Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… 2. Blues Brothers 2000 Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original Blues Brothers film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him The Big Lebowski was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. 3. Legally Blonde 2 Image source - totalfilm After the surprising success of the first Legally Blonde film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! 4. Grease 2 Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that Grease is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 5. Speed 2 Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. Speed 2 lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. 6. Jaws: The Revenge Image source - omenaheights The third instalment in the Jaws films earned the lowest amount of money in the franchise. It grossed $50 million, which when you compare to the $470 million made by the
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
They stink. They aren't bad enough to be camp. Maybe in another 20 years? Or after the reboot is released. I think the 4th and 5th just didn't make any sense. There was no continuity between the story lines. One of the movies McCloud was an alien. Another he teams up with another immortal to fight a baddie. Its just endless garbage, but I guess if you are a diehard fan you would love it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Are the Highlander and Hellraiser sequels cheesy, or just plain awful? There's a fine line between so bad it stinks, and so bad it's a camp classic. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:02:09 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. *5. Speed 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/speed2.jpg* Image source - denofgeek The sequel was doomed after Keanu Reeves didn’t agree to sign up for it, yet they continued to make it with Jason Patric instead. *Speed 2 *lacked any form of originality like the first film had. Pretty much the same storyline but this time set on a cruise ship rather than a bus…nothing to really get excited about. *6. Jaws: The
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I'd forgotten the fourth film, in which Connor and Duncan have to fight a mad religious fanatic Immortal who has so many kills--over 600, to the McLeod's 200+ each--that he's all but unstoppable. It was pretty bad, with only the resolution to the problem of this powerful Immortal halfway interesting. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to see it. As for the last movie, The Source, it was released to TV three years ago. I actually killed brain cells watching it, hoping against hope they'd get it right. Nope. Here's some critics' thoughts on that last movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source Reception Critical reaction to Highlander: The Source has been universally negative. Christopher Monfette of IGN gave The Source a score of 1 out of 10, saying: The worthwhile days of Connor MacLeod , it would appear, are officially over—dead, decapitated, and depleted of their power. The struggle for an immortal to move through life unchallenged has since mutated into an awkward arrangement of mismatched mythologies, TV-to-movie crossovers, and a steady stream of low-budget, direct-to-DVD cash-cows which may, in the end, prove to be the only truly immortal thing about this series. [ 14 ] Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk gave the film one half star out of five, saying: The Source is nothing less than a parody of what has come before. If you've seen the previous sequels, you already know that's saying something. There is some relief that this franchise will finally be put out of its misery, because nobody in their right mind would try to keep this series going after watching just how boneheaded Highlander: The Source is. [ 15 ] Danél Griffin of Film as Art gave The Source one half star out of four, remarking that it's bad—cheesily bad, colossally bad, monumentally bad, bad enough to make you never want to watch another movie again bad. [ 16 ] Keith Breese of FilmCritic.com gave the film one star out of five, saying: Not only will Highlander fans be disappointed by the film's nosedive into nonsense, but the average viewer will be stunned by the backyard quality of this film. The acting is uniformly terrible, the special effects are hideous, the sets are cheap and grubby, and the direction is uninspired. The film is an utter failure. ... Surely this is the final nail in the coffin lid for this film series. If it isn't, then something is truly wrong with the universe. [ 17 ] The Sci-Fi Movie Page gave The Source one and a half stars out of five, saying: Just when you think that this is a franchise that can't sink any lower, along comes Highlander: The Source . ... One gets the impression that The Source was filmed with theatrical distribution in mind but that no sane cinema distributor would touch it with a ten-foot barge pole. Good for them. Instead it went straight to the SciFi Channel and now the DVD shelves where you should let it stay, collecting dust. [ 18 ] Noah Antwiller of The Spoony Experiment had this to say about Highlander: The Source. The Source is dogshit. I mean weapons-grade dogshit. If your dog shat something this nasty, you’d have it put down and buried in a Hefty bag. I wasn’t even ready for something this bad. If you thought The Quickening was the low-point of the series, well, I don’t even know anymore. This movie punched me in the nuts and stole my lunch. I’m still a little dizzy from that one. If it’s not worse than Highlander 2, it’s right up there. I mean, second-place by a razor-thin margin. I think the only reason The Source isn’t as notorious as Highlander 2 is because nobody saw it (it was direct-to-video) and expectations for the series were already rock-bottom. I don’t want to say too much but if ever a movie shot its way to the top of my review stack, it was this one. This short commentary on The Source came days after Antwiler did a two-part video review of Highlander II: The Quickening . - Original Message - From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:51:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS Sure. You never saw The Source, the awful TV movie starring Adrian Paul, released a year or two ago? It was really awful. they killed off a couple of cool characters, put up all this foolishness about the Source of Immortality, and gave us a truly horrendous ending. - Original Message - From: Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:03:35 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS There was a Highlander after the third movie? O holy hell. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of
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I agree. I think I mentioned the foodie restaurant here that one year the guy basically served chittlins, mountain oysters and tripe. For over $100 a plate. We had a good laugh on that. I said that for $20 each they could come by the house and my mom will cook them up something and they can have 2nds. :) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I just wonder if any extremely rare ingredients convey a taste sensation that's so incredible, or if it's perception. Sometimes food is like art: the value is all in what people say it is. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa26df9dcd49a6_12aa145b98c7ceb5_12aa099f98058d4f_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid for this delicacy, however, was $330,000 for 1.5 kilograms worth. Essen Platinum Club Sandwich [image: The World's Most Expensive
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Cuz I'm not eating it... On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. I think I mentioned the foodie restaurant here that one year the guy basically served chittlins, mountain oysters and tripe. For over $100 a plate. We had a good laugh on that. I said that for $20 each they could come by the house and my mom will cook them up something and they can have 2nds. :) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I just wonder if any extremely rare ingredients convey a taste sensation that's so incredible, or if it's perception. Sometimes food is like art: the value is all in what people say it is. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Well, there is always the $15 a cup tea. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Way above the price range of a Poor Black Welshman, that is. And I'm glad I gave up coffee, or that last would've done the trick for me. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: [Attachment(s)#12aa2767e4e22605_12aa26df9dcd49a6_12aa145b98c7ceb5_12aa099f98058d4f_12a9e7b1b567ee27_12a9ba7f2e51ddf3_TopTextfrom Mr. Worf included below] -- Forwarded message -- From: Missy May missy.may...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:23 AM Subject: [BSBB] EXPENSIVE FOODS To: brownsugars_bodacious_b...@yahoogroups.com White Truffle [image: The World's Most Expensive Foods] Not surprising, the white truffle is the world's most expensive mushroom. Found in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy, the white truffle's price is due to it's relative rarity. These truffles are generally sold for anywhere between $1,350 and $2,700 per kilogram. The record price paid
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I think that they just spin a wheel with plot points on it and go from there. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I'd forgotten the fourth film, in which Connor and Duncan have to fight a mad religious fanatic Immortal who has so many kills--over 600, to the McLeod's 200+ each--that he's all but unstoppable. It was pretty bad, with only the resolution to the problem of this powerful Immortal halfway interesting. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to see it. As for the last movie, The Source, it was released to TV three years ago. I actually killed brain cells watching it, hoping against hope they'd get it right. Nope. Here's some critics' thoughts on that last movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source Reception Critical reaction to *Highlander: The Source* has been universally negative. Christopher Monfette of IGN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGNgave *The Source* a score of 1 out of 10, saying: The worthwhile days of Connor MacLeod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connor_MacLeod, it would appear, are officially over—dead, decapitated, and depleted of their power. The struggle for an immortal to move through life unchallenged has since mutated into an awkward arrangement of mismatched mythologies, TV-to-movie crossovers, and a steady stream of low-budget, direct-to-DVD cash-cows which may, in the end, prove to be the only truly immortal thing about this series.[14]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-13 Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk gave the film one half star out of five, saying: *The Source* is nothing less than a parody of what has come before. If you've seen the previous sequels, you already know that's saying something. There is some relief that this franchise will finally be put out of its misery, because nobody in their right mind would try to keep this series going after watching just how boneheaded *Highlander: The Source* is.[15]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-14Danél Griffin of Film as Art gave *The Source* one half star out of four, remarking that it's bad—cheesily bad, colossally bad, monumentally bad, bad enough to make you never want to watch another movie again bad.[16]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-15Keith Breese of FilmCritic.com gave the film one star out of five, saying: Not only will *Highlander* fans be disappointed by the film's nosedive into nonsense, but the average viewer will be stunned by the backyard quality of this film. The acting is uniformly terrible, the special effects are hideous, the sets are cheap and grubby, and the direction is uninspired. The film is an utter failure. ... Surely this is the final nail in the coffin lid for this film series. If it isn't, then something is truly wrong with the universe.[17]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-16 The Sci-Fi Movie Page gave *The Source* one and a half stars out of five, saying: Just when you think that this is a franchise that can't sink any lower, along comes *Highlander: The Source*. ... One gets the impression that *The Source* was filmed with theatrical distribution in mind but that no sane cinema distributor would touch it with a ten-foot barge pole. Good for them. Instead it went straight to the SciFi Channelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel_%28United_States%29and now the DVD shelves where you should let it stay, collecting dust. [18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-17 Noah Antwiller of The Spoony Experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoony_Experimenthad this to say about Highlander: The Source. The Source is dogshit. I mean weapons-grade dogshit. If your dog shat something this nasty, you’d have it put down and buried in a Hefty bag. I wasn’t even ready for something this bad. If you thought The Quickening was the low-point of the series, well, I don’t even know anymore. This movie punched me in the nuts and stole my lunch. I’m still a little dizzy from that one. If it’s not worse than Highlander 2, it’s right up there. I mean, second-place by a razor-thin margin. I think the only reason The Source isn’t as notorious as Highlander 2 is because nobody saw it (it was direct-to-video) and expectations for the series were already rock-bottom. I don’t want to say too much but if ever a movie shot its way to the top of my review stack, it was this one. This short commentary on The Source came days after Antwiler did a two-part video review of Highlander II: The Quickeninghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening . - Original Message - From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:51:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS Sure. You never saw The Source, the awful TV movie starring Adrian Paul, released a
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The weird thing is there's a kind of division between those who follow the films, and those who follow the TV series. I think I saw the TV series first, then caught the first film--the only good one--afterward. The TV series was really well done, with a couple of exceptions. It had great actors, cool Immortals, intelligent writing for the most part, some memorable arcs, and a great lead in Adrian Paul's Duncan McLeod. I'm a bigger fan of the TV series, and am not that concerned about the film series ever being rebooted. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:56:08 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS They stink. They aren't bad enough to be camp. Maybe in another 20 years? Or after the reboot is released. I think the 4th and 5th just didn't make any sense. There was no continuity between the story lines. One of the movies McCloud was an alien. Another he teams up with another immortal to fight a baddie. Its just endless garbage, but I guess if you are a diehard fan you would love it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Are the Highlander and Hellraiser sequels cheesy, or just plain awful? There's a fine line between so bad it stinks, and so bad it's a camp classic. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:02:09 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. 1. Batman and Robin Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… 2. Blues Brothers 2000 Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original Blues Brothers film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him The Big Lebowski was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. 3. Legally Blonde 2 Image source - totalfilm After the surprising success of the first Legally Blonde film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! 4. Grease 2 Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that Grease is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful that it took a whopping $394 million at the box office! So why would they decide to go and spoil it all with this dreadful sequel? First of all it was directed by the original movie’s choreographer (not a promising start), secondly the songs were just plain awful, and thirdly the leading actors (Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield) had nowhere near enough chemistry that the fans expected after the original’s John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 5. Speed 2 Image
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I hear you! One of the surprising and ironic things going on in food is a turn or return to food that many of us ate out of necessity as kids. This is especially true of blacks, Southerners, and poor country folk. Things like chitlins, pig's feet, hogshead cheese, ox tail, turkey neck, souse meat, etc., are showing up in many fancy restaurants. And as you mentioned, they're costing a pretty penny. Here in Atlanta there's a return to offal and real meat, a kind of pushback against the low cholesterol/fat, no red meat craze. What I don't get is why some of these foods does cost so much. When I was a kid, my dad used to buy ox tails at the local country market on the cheap. It was one reason country black folk bought stuff like that: it was cheap. Now such parts cost a bit of money, at least in some restaurants. You can get it fairly inexpensively at Jamaican restaurants and the like. I guess the fancy joints use better quality of meat? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:58:49 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I agree. I think I mentioned the foodie restaurant here that one year the guy basically served chittlins, mountain oysters and tripe. For over $100 a plate. We had a good laugh on that. I said that for $20 each they could come by the house and my mom will cook them up something and they can have 2nds. :) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I just wonder if any extremely rare ingredients convey a taste sensation that's so incredible, or if it's perception. Sometimes food is like art: the value is all in what people say it is. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some animals digestive system, then boiling and consuming the excreted liquid. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:07:06 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2]
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I only watched the movies because there wasn't anything on at the time. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: The weird thing is there's a kind of division between those who follow the films, and those who follow the TV series. I think I saw the TV series first, then caught the first film--the only good one--afterward. The TV series was really well done, with a couple of exceptions. It had great actors, cool Immortals, intelligent writing for the most part, some memorable arcs, and a great lead in Adrian Paul's Duncan McLeod. I'm a bigger fan of the TV series, and am not that concerned about the film series ever being rebooted. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:56:08 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS They stink. They aren't bad enough to be camp. Maybe in another 20 years? Or after the reboot is released. I think the 4th and 5th just didn't make any sense. There was no continuity between the story lines. One of the movies McCloud was an alien. Another he teams up with another immortal to fight a baddie. Its just endless garbage, but I guess if you are a diehard fan you would love it. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Are the Highlander and Hellraiser sequels cheesy, or just plain awful? There's a fine line between so bad it stinks, and so bad it's a camp classic. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:02:09 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS You forgot Highlander 3-5 and Hellraiser 3-6 On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: They missed Ghostbusters 2, Highlander 2, and the Matrix sequels. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: There is always one problem with popular/successful movies: the threat of sequels. Sequels have the power to really get movie fans’ blood boiling because unless they are better or as good as the original then they will only crash and burn, and potentially tarnish the credibility of the film it tried so hard to follow. There are quite a few painfully bad sequels out there but in this article I have selected ten of the all-time stinkers. I’m sure you’ll agree with most or will have several others worth contributing. *1. Batman and Robin* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/batman-robin-clooney-odonnell1.jpg * Image source - snarkerati Filled with cheesy one-liners, bad acting, ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous costumes this terrible sequel very nearly killed the franchise until a certain Christopher Nolan rescued it. George Clooney as Batman simply didn’t work. Luckily for him he managed to continue his career and has gone on to become one of the leading men of Hollywood, unlike Chris O’Donnell who was playing Russian Roulette as Robin. And who can forget Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lovable Mr Freeze… *2. Blues Brothers 2000* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2819779.jpg* Image source - stuff This film shamefully has one of the lowest audience rankings of movie sequels. Dan Aykroyd has made some brilliant movies in his career, including the original *Blues Brothers* film with the late John Belushi. This one though was a bad choice. John Goodman could have ruined his career by appearing in this film but thankfully for him *The Big Lebowski* was also released later that year so all was forgiven for his performance in that. *3. Legally Blonde 2* ** *http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/legally-blonde-2-red-white-and-blonde-190-75.jpg * Image source - totalfilm **After the surprising success of the first *Legally Blonde* film (it made $141 million at the box office) a sequel was always going to happen. Not only was the storyline pretty weak but the timing of the film’s release was worse. In the movie thousands of people march against animal testing and succeed, but in reality thousands of people were marching in protest against the invasion of Iraq and being ignored. D’oh! *4. Grease 2* ** * http://urbantitan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/5811180.jpg* Image source - unemployment.matters We all know that *Grease* is one of the most famous musicals of all time and remains a cult favourite to this day. The film was so successful
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Yep. And did you ever see that god awful animated Highlander? It took place in the future. I watched maybe one ep and swore off of it forever. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:00:48 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS I think that they just spin a wheel with plot points on it and go from there. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I'd forgotten the fourth film, in which Connor and Duncan have to fight a mad religious fanatic Immortal who has so many kills--over 600, to the McLeod's 200+ each--that he's all but unstoppable. It was pretty bad, with only the resolution to the problem of this powerful Immortal halfway interesting. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to see it. As for the last movie, The Source, it was released to TV three years ago. I actually killed brain cells watching it, hoping against hope they'd get it right. Nope. Here's some critics' thoughts on that last movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source Reception Critical reaction to Highlander: The Source has been universally negative. Christopher Monfette of IGN gave The Source a score of 1 out of 10, saying: The worthwhile days of Connor MacLeod , it would appear, are officially over—dead, decapitated, and depleted of their power. The struggle for an immortal to move through life unchallenged has since mutated into an awkward arrangement of mismatched mythologies, TV-to-movie crossovers, and a steady stream of low-budget, direct-to-DVD cash-cows which may, in the end, prove to be the only truly immortal thing about this series. [ 14 ] Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk gave the film one half star out of five, saying: The Source is nothing less than a parody of what has come before. If you've seen the previous sequels, you already know that's saying something. There is some relief that this franchise will finally be put out of its misery, because nobody in their right mind would try to keep this series going after watching just how boneheaded Highlander: The Source is. [ 15 ] Danél Griffin of Film as Art gave The Source one half star out of four, remarking that it's bad—cheesily bad, colossally bad, monumentally bad, bad enough to make you never want to watch another movie again bad. [ 16 ] Keith Breese of FilmCritic.com gave the film one star out of five, saying: Not only will Highlander fans be disappointed by the film's nosedive into nonsense, but the average viewer will be stunned by the backyard quality of this film. The acting is uniformly terrible, the special effects are hideous, the sets are cheap and grubby, and the direction is uninspired. The film is an utter failure. ... Surely this is the final nail in the coffin lid for this film series. If it isn't, then something is truly wrong with the universe. [ 17 ] The Sci-Fi Movie Page gave The Source one and a half stars out of five, saying: Just when you think that this is a franchise that can't sink any lower, along comes Highlander: The Source . ... One gets the impression that The Source was filmed with theatrical distribution in mind but that no sane cinema distributor would touch it with a ten-foot barge pole. Good for them. Instead it went straight to the SciFi Channel and now the DVD shelves where you should let it stay, collecting dust. [ 18 ] Noah Antwiller of The Spoony Experiment had this to say about Highlander: The Source. The Source is dogshit. I mean weapons-grade dogshit. If your dog shat something this nasty, you’d have it put down and buried in a Hefty bag. I wasn’t even ready for something this bad. If you thought The Quickening was the low-point of the series, well, I don’t even know anymore. This movie punched me in the nuts and stole my lunch. I’m still a little dizzy from that one. If it’s not worse than Highlander 2, it’s right up there. I mean, second-place by a razor-thin margin. I think the only reason The Source isn’t as notorious as Highlander 2 is because nobody saw it (it was direct-to-video) and expectations for the series were already rock-bottom. I don’t want to say too much but if ever a movie shot its way to the top of my review stack, it was this one. This short commentary on The Source came days after Antwiler did a two-part video review of Highlander II: The Quickening . - Original Message - From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:51:40 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS Sure. You never saw The Source, the awful TV movie starring Adrian Paul, released a year or two ago? It was really awful. they killed off a couple of cool characters, put up all this foolishness about the Source of Immortality, and gave us a truly horrendous ending. - Original Message - From:
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I think that it is mostly hype. Most of the time they are getting the meat from the same sources. Others try to pretty up the meat by saying they bought it from an organic farm or some other bs. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I hear you! One of the surprising and ironic things going on in food is a turn or return to food that many of us ate out of necessity as kids. This is especially true of blacks, Southerners, and poor country folk. Things like chitlins, pig's feet, hogshead cheese, ox tail, turkey neck, souse meat, etc., are showing up in many fancy restaurants. And as you mentioned, they're costing a pretty penny. Here in Atlanta there's a return to offal and real meat, a kind of pushback against the low cholesterol/fat, no red meat craze. What I don't get is why some of these foods does cost so much. When I was a kid, my dad used to buy ox tails at the local country market on the cheap. It was one reason country black folk bought stuff like that: it was cheap. Now such parts cost a bit of money, at least in some restaurants. You can get it fairly inexpensively at Jamaican restaurants and the like. I guess the fancy joints use better quality of meat? - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:58:49 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I agree. I think I mentioned the foodie restaurant here that one year the guy basically served chittlins, mountain oysters and tripe. For over $100 a plate. We had a good laugh on that. I said that for $20 each they could come by the house and my mom will cook them up something and they can have 2nds. :) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I just wonder if any extremely rare ingredients convey a taste sensation that's so incredible, or if it's perception. Sometimes food is like art: the value is all in what people say it is. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:30:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS I think if a dish is difficult to create or has extremely rare and expensive ingredients then its ok, but I don't really think some of the things that are raved about is all that great. It usually comes down to personal pallet and subtle differences in flavorings. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know if I have the Cooking Channel but will check. I am *addicted* to all things frozen: ice cream, gelatto, sherbert, milk shakes, snow cones, ices, etc. I am also convinced that my biochemical makeup has a gene that is a perfect match for vanilla, as the mere smell of vanilla is enough to send me into fits of divine pleasure. I kept vanilla bean pods in my sugar bucket, keep Madagascan vanilla extract in the cupboard (put it in my milk shakes and pancake batter). I have at times paid some big money for really high quality vanilla products and gourmet ice cream. But I'm not sure I'd pay $19 a scoop for ice cream. At some point, I think the price is more a perception of taste based on rarity, difficulty in growing, harvesting and shipping the product, etc. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:39:11 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] EXPENSIVE FOODS Keith, don't forget the coffee that passes through a Civet. Have you checked out the Cooking Channel? It is similar to the Food Network but more geared toward cooking and gourmet food. On one of the shows they were talking about a gourmet ice cream truck that sells handmade ice cream that featured vanilla beans from the left side of a mountain in Italy. $19 a scoop. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I love eating out. And I have to confess, there is a market difference between eating at restaurants that use fresh, high quality food rather than, say iceberg lettuce from cold storage. It's why you can go to a place and eat a smaller meal that consists of high quality food, and yet be more satisfied than eating a lot of food that's of lesser quality. That being said, there is a limit to how much one needs to pay for the dining experience. I saw that ridiculous gold-leaf ice cream sundae on the History Channel special on ice cream, and shook my head. You can't tell me that the gold or even the high quality vanilla ice cream really makes it tastes hundreds of times better than one that can be made at a quality ice cream joint. I'm surprised they left off Bird's Nest Soup, made by boiling the nests of cliff-dwelling birds who excrete a glue-like saliva to build their nests, or that soup that the Japanese sell that's made from passing saki through some
Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS
All I remember seeing was a commercial. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yep. And did you ever see that god awful animated Highlander? It took place in the future. I watched maybe one ep and swore off of it forever. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:00:48 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WORST MOVIE SEQUELS I think that they just spin a wheel with plot points on it and go from there. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I'd forgotten the fourth film, in which Connor and Duncan have to fight a mad religious fanatic Immortal who has so many kills--over 600, to the McLeod's 200+ each--that he's all but unstoppable. It was pretty bad, with only the resolution to the problem of this powerful Immortal halfway interesting. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to see it. As for the last movie, The Source, it was released to TV three years ago. I actually killed brain cells watching it, hoping against hope they'd get it right. Nope. Here's some critics' thoughts on that last movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source Reception Critical reaction to *Highlander: The Source* has been universally negative. Christopher Monfette of IGN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGNgave *The Source* a score of 1 out of 10, saying: The worthwhile days of Connor MacLeod http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connor_MacLeod, it would appear, are officially over—dead, decapitated, and depleted of their power. The struggle for an immortal to move through life unchallenged has since mutated into an awkward arrangement of mismatched mythologies, TV-to-movie crossovers, and a steady stream of low-budget, direct-to-DVD cash-cows which may, in the end, prove to be the only truly immortal thing about this series.[14]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-13 Brian Orndorf of DVD Talk gave the film one half star out of five, saying: *The Source* is nothing less than a parody of what has come before. If you've seen the previous sequels, you already know that's saying something. There is some relief that this franchise will finally be put out of its misery, because nobody in their right mind would try to keep this series going after watching just how boneheaded *Highlander: The Source* is.[15 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-14Danél Griffin of Film as Art gave *The Source* one half star out of four, remarking that it's bad—cheesily bad, colossally bad, monumentally bad, bad enough to make you never want to watch another movie again bad.[16]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-15Keith Breese of FilmCritic.com gave the film one star out of five, saying: Not only will *Highlander* fans be disappointed by the film's nosedive into nonsense, but the average viewer will be stunned by the backyard quality of this film. The acting is uniformly terrible, the special effects are hideous, the sets are cheap and grubby, and the direction is uninspired. The film is an utter failure. ... Surely this is the final nail in the coffin lid for this film series. If it isn't, then something is truly wrong with the universe.[17]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-16 The Sci-Fi Movie Page gave *The Source* one and a half stars out of five, saying: Just when you think that this is a franchise that can't sink any lower, along comes *Highlander: The Source*. ... One gets the impression that *The Source* was filmed with theatrical distribution in mind but that no sane cinema distributor would touch it with a ten-foot barge pole. Good for them. Instead it went straight to the SciFi Channelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci_Fi_Channel_%28United_States%29and now the DVD shelves where you should let it stay, collecting dust. [18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander:_The_Source#cite_note-17 Noah Antwiller of The Spoony Experimenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoony_Experimenthad this to say about Highlander: The Source. The Source is dogshit. I mean weapons-grade dogshit. If your dog shat something this nasty, you’d have it put down and buried in a Hefty bag. I wasn’t even ready for something this bad. If you thought The Quickening was the low-point of the series, well, I don’t even know anymore. This movie punched me in the nuts and stole my lunch. I’m still a little dizzy from that one. If it’s not worse than Highlander 2, it’s right up there. I mean, second-place by a razor-thin margin. I think the only reason The Source isn’t as notorious as Highlander 2 is because nobody saw it (it was direct-to-video) and expectations for the series were already rock-bottom. I don’t want to say too much but if ever a movie shot its way to the top of my review stack, it was this one. This short
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