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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 2, 2009 9:29:45 GMT
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 15, 2009 17:59:11 GMT
New trailer (even though you philistines obviously don't appreciate good sci-fi judging by the lack of responses to this thread).  The alien ship is effing boss! (that said, all aliens must be destroyed, this is our planet and it's full up). AH |
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Post by motorist on Jul 15, 2009 21:19:35 GMT
Chuffing great trailer! I'm rooting for the aliens. If they want someone to round up unruly humans, I'll send them my CV  |
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Post by motorist on Aug 31, 2009 19:49:37 GMT
The film was bloody excellent, made up for my disappointments with Transformers 2 and Terminator 4 (yeah, Hooly, I know YOU liked T4  ). Chuffing great  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 2, 2009 17:38:16 GMT
Did you get to see much of their mothership? It looked boss, dead industrial IMO.
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Post by motorist on Sept 2, 2009 18:19:52 GMT
Did you get to see much of their mothership? It looked boss, dead industrial IMO. AH There was plenty of it being visible from the outside. You saw a little of the inside at the start when they show the people cutting in and finding the aliens I liked the documentary style that they used at the start and end of the film. It reminded me of Cloverfield, whose only saving grace was that it was the story of the CAMERA being used, which was amusing |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 2, 2009 18:28:17 GMT
I'll have to find out the DVD release date, I focking hate the cinema...it's always full of proles & scallies. AH |
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 20:13:33 GMT
Cinema's were best when they used to have those back-row love-seats for 2 and you could smugly snog all the way through Back to the Future, Nightmare on Elm Street and Out of Africa. I am convinced that's why the 80s wasn't a golden decade of film. They knew we didn't care. The 90s and 21C have had to up the game considerably.
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Post by Flatypus on Sept 2, 2009 23:11:29 GMT
Like the opening premise Why won't we let them leave?. That's not usual for SF! And the fact that speak proper English instead of Yank too!
There is a great novel about polar shift, nasty things under the Pyramids, finding 'Atlantis' in Antarctica, full of shape-shifting golems materialised from 13,000 year old nano-bots. Would make a good film unless Hellywood got their paws on it.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 3, 2009 9:24:32 GMT
Flatty, what's the novel called?
David Gemmell's "Jerusalem Man/John Shannow" novel's are about a catastrophic pole shift and the world that comes after...there is also an "atlantis" element in that.
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Post by Flatypus on Sept 3, 2009 12:38:51 GMT
Flatty, what's the novel called? David Gemmell's "Jerusalem Man/John Shannow" novel's are about a catastrophic pole shift and the world that comes after...there is also an "atlantis" element in that. AH Wish I could remember! I don't think it's Gemmell. I don't usually read his. It is quite a recent book though, this decade. It has a feel of somebody like Baxter about it but I don't think it is one of his. I particularly liked the way it explains traditional magic of golems and materialising spirits as nanobots forming into protective entities. Basic idea is that the polar or magnetic shift is caused by the sun. That a world-wide Atlantean protection against it was incomplete (see Graham Hancock's theories about astrological connection world architectural sites) but since their time has just about completed itself and is waking up to counter the coming shift (2012?) But what of the world's authorities know anything about it have got it wrong and thing that it is causing the various strange events that are starting to happen, not countering them, so they set out to shut it down, Western, Russian and Chinese - I think the Chinese have realised that it is the ally, not the enemy and are trying to protect it from the others. Result, that they have to fight their way through Atlantis city under the ice against various protectors but when they do, the man and woman to get to the central command find that they are the final component needed to make the world mechanism work and become 'plugged in' as part of it for presumably the next 13,000 years. I like that kind of story - a fair bit of action but a lot more tension and one bloody great mystery that hangs together a lot better than Dan Brown's repetition of the same old formula with different actors. Something you hardly ever get in ancient-SF is that they do get an 'instruction manual' in about a 50 different languages - except of course all the languages are so long dead as to be unknown except one that they surmise relates to Sumerian about as Latin relates to Italian and have to work back from that. It takes them days and a guess to realise all the numbering is base 60. That's the sort of thing that actually would happen. It could be staring you in the face and you wouldn't recognise it. For all I know, maybe it is and there's another way to read say Egyptian that means something entirely different - you can do that with Japanese, read the kanji for their meaning or their sound in either old Chinese or Japanese. Something else that might make a good film (but isn't such a great book) is Encounter with Tiber that Buzz Aldrin co-authored. It's a sort of updated 2001. The natives of Tiber, a moon of a gas giant about 40 light-years away realised their planet was in the way of an asteroid shower and evacuated by light sail to various places, one being here. There is a racial tension between them, the races until recently thought themselves two different species, they have diverged so far. They did not realise this world is inhabited, the main ship explodes and they end up enslaved but they can't handle local food and are gradually dying of accumulated poisons. A second mission arrives after the revolution back home and they eventually leave for Mars via a moon base where they leave an optical computer. It's clear that their story is in the Bible as Enoch who ascended into Heaven alive (because he jammed the throttle) and the Flood. Cut to present finding their lunar base, smashing the computer and going to Mars for a second one that gives them an interstellar zero-point energy drive and eventually reach what remains of Tiber to discover that one Tiberian mission has been there, so there are some of them somewhere. I reckon that would be very filmable if they could get over the double story. Maybe it would have to be done as two related films, then and now. Either could actually stand on its own. Tiberians would have to change. One race looks a bit like a gorilla, the other like an extended cat. It's really a vehicle for Buzz A to get his ideas about space travel and Earth-Mars shuttles in permanent orbit across. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 3, 2009 13:25:26 GMT
Ah, your description sounds like this... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_FoundI have "Heavens Mirror" and "Fingerprints of the Gods" by Hancock, although I went right off him when he personally banned me from his forum...his loss, the tool. AH |
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Post by Flatypus on Sept 3, 2009 13:45:02 GMT
Whatever did you say? I used to look in at the Daily Grail but I don't recall a forum. Haven't bothered for ages. I think there's something to it but I'm not sure that it's as much as he thinks or that correspondances can't come about because people think in similar ways. Fair enough, beliefs spread but that doesn't make them true or co-ordinated by eternal committees! Thanks for the link. It isn't that though! I'll have to do some scrounging around. But chasing Atlantis on the web is as bad as looing for it geographically. I'm supposed to be moving junk today as well, including the computer.
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