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From: adrian@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian Hassall Lewis)
Subject: Re: Favorite Movie One-Liners
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:10:30 GMT

swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur) writes:

>01fortec@ac.dal.ca writes:

>> This is probably cheating, but my favorite one-liner happened in real
>> life. It was a magnificent understatement by the pilot of an Apollo 
>> mission when he announced they had lost a fuel cell. He opens up
>> with a calm:
>> 
>> "Houston, we have a problem."
>> 
>> No shit, batman!
>> 
>> Joe
>> 01fortec@ac.dal.ca

>Fuel Cell?!  Are you referring to Apollo 13?  Heh... The correlations with
>two-thousand-and-one (heheh) are suprising...

>The name of the command module: Odyssey...

>They were playing the Richard Strauss Zarathustra theme...

>And it was an Oxygen Tank that ruptured, by the way :).


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What about that other classic NASA understatement -

in the air -> Challenger destroyed
on the ground -> "We have a major malfunction" (or words to that effect)

Also, I've heard that on one of the Apollo flights ACC was present (at mission
control), and the astronauts were planning to send a message something like
"we've found a magnetic anomaly over the Tycho crater".

adrian
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From: donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
Subject: Re: Alien 4 - NOT stop-motion animation!! (and it's a doggie)
Organization: none
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:00:48 GMT

In article <Bz2AJy.DHI@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.110355.29412@Princeton.EDU>, jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning) says most sayishly:
>>The alien is definiely *NOT* ray-traced, or computer-enhanced in any
>>significant way.  The motion looked so smooth because it was a human
>>running around in a rubber suit.  It's extremely difficult to create
>
>Are you *SURE*?  I do ray-traced animations frequently, and it's easy to
>tell when something is ray-traced.  Look closely at the scenes where the
>guys are luring the alien into the pistons.. and they show the alien
>(running on four legs) chasing one of the guys through a corridor.  Now
>I really don't see how a "guy in a rubber suit" could be so coordinated
>in that thing.  Also look at the scene where one of the people (was it
>Ripley?) looks at the alien when it's eating a human lying on the
>ground.  Yes, in some scenes you can tell it's a puppet of some sort,
>but I've noticed that in the cases where it's a puppet, it's very dark
>brown or black.  And in the scenes where they show the alien running
>around, it's a light, shiny brown color.
>
>>looks realistic.  Usually comupter animation of animals (humans and
>>aliens included) looks *too* smooth and regular to be believable.
>
>Not really.  You can apply various effects to make it more realistic.
>Motion blur is one effect, for instance, or you can make it jumpy on
>purpose, to reduce the smoothness.
>
>-- 
>Sam Hulick          | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the
>shulick@indiana.edu | courage to lose sight of the shore."  --Anon.
>(NeXTmail welcome)  |

Sorry, but I always figured it was a Kid in  a suit. Makes it easy to get
the "skinnier than skinny and then some" look. Or perhaps they pulled a 
page out of the "Galactica" handbook, and used a small animal in the suit.
I never saw anything that really suggested computer animation/enhancement,
nor have I ever heard about it.

Pax
					--Judex--

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From: ksf3e@Virginia.EDU ("Kayla *Soup* Friedman")
Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:46:10 GMT

I am sure that you know that the hitchhikers was made into a
bbc tv thing, and, with the apparent non-existant funding it
has was quite funny.  Any of his books would make a good movie,
in fact, there is a decisive (i can't spell) lack of any really
good sf or f movies beinb made at all.  too bad for people who
would see them, eh?
Kayla Friedman
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From: stephenk@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Kendrick)
Subject: Re: Favorite Movie One-Liners
Organization: University of Sussex at Brighton
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:02:30 GMT

I have quite a few favourite sci-fi quotes. Unfortunately, most of them are
obvious Aliens quotes but never mind.. ;)

At the moment though my favourite piece of any film is the end of Dark Star
when the bomb blows up. I can't remember it exactly but it goes something
like...

"In the beginning there was darkness, then there was me. Let there be light."

--
INSSOMNIAK
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From: wigs@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Aaron Wigley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Novels/Short Stories that have become movies (2/4)
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:10:30 GMT
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Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
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Greg Schmidt (gjschmid@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: Science Fiction Movies

Just an addition..

: The Thing (From Another World) (1951) (loosely based)
 The Thing (1984, remake) (directed by John Carpenter) 
:     "Who Goes There?" (1938)                       John W. Campbell
:     From _Astounding_                              as Don A. Stuart

The Wigs of Oz,
Aaron Wigley
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From: sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Subject: Re: T2 wish list.
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:23:30 GMT

jk87377@cc.tut.fi  writes:
> 
> In article <1992Dec16.181710.13216@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
> sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson) writes:
> >
> >Most of these were cut from the theatrical and video releases.
> >Please note, foreign audiences: In missing these "glitching"
> >scenes you have NOT missed anything that American audiences
> >saw.
> 
> Also this I don't understand; why you separate foreign audiences?
> The glitch we had in theater was that ripple rolling over
> T-1000 after he managed the hand of T-800.
> 
> So, I understood that you also didn't see anything else.
> And thus, why the separation?
> 
> How American and European theater releases differs?
> I have heard that some of USA people didn't see how
> Sarah shoots through car in parking hall of hospital.
> We saw it.
> 
> 
> >detailed in the screenplay of Terminator 2, available here in
> >the U.S. for about $20.00. Not a bad price, but still too much
> 
> Illustrated screenplay, Terminator 2
> ISBN 1-55783-097-5  New York: Applause Books, USA Phone: (212)595-4735
> 
> 
> Juhana Kouhia

I specified that the scenes were not in any US release because
of the possibility that the previous poster, from Germany,
or someone else outside the US might misinterpret my post as
meaning that there were scenes in the US release that were cut
for foreign release. Such things have been known to happen, and
it certainly wasn't my intention to insult anyone. 

Yes, we had the scene with Sarah shooting through the police
car window. I've never heard of it being cut. Maybe in the
UK... :-)

Thank you for supplying the ISBN and other pertinent
information.

Someone mentioned in a previous post that he (I think it was a
he) wished that the movie would be released on LBX VHS. It has.
The Terminator and Terminator 2 are available on LBX VHS in a
boxed "special collector's edition" with a 3-D hologram on the
front. The set also includes a documentary tape with the
teasers and trailers for both movies, interviews with James
Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and "The Making of
Terminator 2: Judgment Day," the thirty-minute documentary
film, whose title is self-explanatory. It should be on sale now
at your local Suncoast or similar video outlet; it costs about
$50 U.S. and is well worth it, IMHO. If you're not in the US...
sorry...

Steve
--
========================================================================
Why these nightmares? Why this sky?            Steve Tilson
This long road. This empty room.               sdt8s@virginia.edu
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From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
Keywords: SF heroes that make James Bond look like a fag
Date: 18 Dec 92 23:11:45 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.movies
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu

In article <1992Dec18.195815.7766@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc1104@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Avoid normal situations.) writes:
>>Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series could be fun with right 
>>casting (sugestions anyone?).


	I agree about TSSR as a great movie potentially. However, the
suggestions below...?

>  James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" diGriz - Jello Biafra

	WHO??? The name's vaguely familiar, but the associations don't seem
right at all.

	Whoever plays Jim must be tall, strong, handsome (after the operation
which, as far as I know, was never reversed), or at least fairly attractive;
I always saw him as a young Clint Eastwood with the ability to talk. Remember,
"My gut is flat, my bottom is lean, I fire sharpshooter, I instruct unarmed
combat!"

	No wimps need apply.

>  Angelina - Monique Gabrielle

	Again, who?

	I always saw her as Jane Seymour -- beautiful, innocent, harmless
looking. Don't trust the appearance.

>  Harold Peters Inskipp - Paul LeMat 
	
	Who?

	In the first book, I see him as Sean  Connery. Remember, he was about
as good as Jim in his day, and he DID catch DiGriz. Later on, Inskipp
does become sort of comedy relief, which rather annoyed me.

>  The Gray Men - G.W. Bailey, Nicholas Worth, Joss Ackland

	Some of those names are vaguely familiar...

>  James diGriz (junior) - Corey Feldman

	At last, a name I really recognize. I don't agree, but at least
I recognize it...

>  Bolivar diGriz - Jamison Newlander
>  Professor (what the hell's his name?? he of the time-helix)

	Coypu, he of the large yellow teeth like a beaver. 


                                 Sea Wasp
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Unrealistic space scenes
Keywords: n
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:24:19 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

news@sunfse.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com (news) writes:

>Solar sailers are only good near a star, they won't work in interstellar space.
>No light, no solar wind to move them.  The biggest problem with high speed 

You also can only move into one direction using sails: away from the
sun. Sailing against the wind, like it's possible on the ocean isn't
possible.

>interstellar travel is fuel.  The Bussard ram get that uses interstellar
>hydrogen to power it is an interesting solution.  Anti-mater is a compact
>way to store fuel but expensive to produce.  Finding an anti-matter planet

And dangerous to store. A strong magnetic field would be the safest so-
lution. But the anti-matter has to be magnetic for that. And all you
need is still a very small high-velocity projectile to make the whole
thing some bomb.

>would be like gold to a space fareing people.

Unless nothing falls onto the surface, that is. And there's still the
problem of mining the stuff.


May the Anti-Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:15:30 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

In article <1992Dec15.004447.17088@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.195012.7950@Virginia.EDU> cew2w@Virginia.EDU (Christopher Edward Wrike) writes:
>>	How about "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card?  You know
>>who you could get to star?
>
>That could be a good movie... if done right.
>
>>	MAUCALY CULKIN!!!!
>
>[1.5MB of agonized shrieks and violent retching deleted.]
>
>I don't think so.  

A little thought experiment I've been working on:

	If you were riding in a Russian sleigh pursued by hungry wolves
	and had to throw out one passenger to lighten your load and your
	only travelling companions were McCaulay Culkin and Wesley
	Crusher, who would you jettison and why?

	-- Stewart "I'd chuck *both* of 'em" Tame

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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Re: ZARDOZ
Keywords: ZARDOZ
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:21:24 GMT

In article <7537@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> fleurant@hri.com (P.Fleurant) writes:
>Zardoz, written, directed and produced by J.Boorman is out 
>on tape. (CBS video)
>
>It is uncut!   
>
>This 1974 film stars  S.Connery (007) in a very non-James Bond
>role with C. Rampling.
>
>IMHO this movie is still way ahead of its time and no other SF film
>has since come close to its satire, comedy, and drama.
>
Nor have they managed to match it's silliness, plot mis-handling,
bad direction, or lapses in logic.

It's still an awful lot of fun to watch. Can't beat Sean Connery 
running around with a pony-tail while wearing a red diaper!

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From: tmm@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM (Tim McCaffrey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: SF novels that have become movies (update)
Keywords: new, improved, a must-have for all movie buffs
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:27:28 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Devon Engineering Offices

Marooned by Martin Caidin, movie of the same name.  Around 1970?

Millenium by John Varley, movie of the same name.

The Thing was done twice, the remake was in 1982, the original
was in 195?.

There was a short story by Theodore Sturgeon that became a TV movie.
Can't remember the name (help?).  It was about a possessed bulldozer.

There are several H.P. Lovecraft TV movies made (alot of the stories
showed up on Night Gallery).

Many of Eager Allan Poe's stories were made into movies, as were
Jules Vernes (20,000 Leagues..., Mysterious Island, Journey to the
Center..., etc.) and H.G. Wells (Time Machine, War of the Worlds,
First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods).

Also, When Worlds Collide was originally a novel, I don't remember 
the author at the moment.  But, I have the book, so I can look it
up

Other books:  The Mouse that Roared, The Mouse on the Moon, and Failsafe.

					Tim McCaffrey

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From: kenl@origami.cc.bellcore.com (Ken Lehner)
Subject: Re: SF novels that have become movies (update)
Keywords: new, improved, a must-have for all movie buffs
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 14:47:13 GMT

Howsabout "Charley" (sp?), from the (possibly Hugo-award winning)
novella "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes?  One of my all-time
favorites (both the story and the film.
From: stuart.mcmillan@almac.co.uk (Stuart Mcmillan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: BLADE RUNNER PISTOL
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:14:00 GMT
Reply-To: stuart.mcmillan@almac.co.uk (Stuart Mcmillan)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. Scotland. +44 (0)324-665371

Have you tried Forbidden Planet - some of the people in there can
maybebe of some assistance - sorry for the garbage onscreen, my editors
away to h***.
Stuart.McMillan@Almac.co.uk
                                                                            
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From: milton@teal.csn.org (Milton Scritsmier)
Subject: Re: SF Novels that would make Great Films
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:56:17 GMT


How about Heinlein's _Citizen of the Galaxy_? It would make a great
epic film, and with the various location changes could be done with
a lot of visual impact. In addition, the central theme (personal
freedom and responsibility) would appeal to non-SF crowds.

I must admit, though, that it might be better done as a three-part
serial for television (Thorby as a slave, then on the trader ship
"Sisu" and in the military, and finally on Earth coming to terms
with his identity and fighting for control of his family's
conglomerate). Plenty of action, but with a very powerful central
theme.

I can picture Patrick Stewart as Baslim the Beggar, but can't
decide who would play Thorby from adolescence to early adulthood.


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From: interpol@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Drew Cheng)
Subject: Re: Favorite Movie One-Liners
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:45:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.165417.24503@u.washington.edu> labmas@stein.u.washington.edu (Michael Andersson) writes:
>
>>Like the subject indicates, what are your favorite one-liners or quotes from
>>sci-fi films?
>>

One of my favorites was in Alien 3, when the leader of the prison colony (the
short, stocky one) gets snatched up by the alien and all hell breaks loose. 
After things have calmed down, one of the prisoners says:

"FUCK!!!"

and that's it...probably the only good part of the movie...

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From: craig@odie.cs.mun.ca (Craig Coffin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: T2 wish list.
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:16:44 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland

chandler@maths.tcd.ie (Ross Chandler) writes:
> here's my wish list of what Cameron should do...
>
>In order of priority
>
>1	At the end of the film drop Sarah's cringe-making
>	"maybe we can to" line and cut straight to the 
>	credits.
>
>2	Put the following scenes that did not make the final'
>	cinematic cut back in.
  <descriptions deleted>

>3	Release it in LBX format
>
>4	Append scenes cut for "artistic" reasons to the end of    
>	the final credits.

My vote for order of priority is more like:  3, 2, 4, 1

(Note: by LBX, I mean VHS LBX....some of us don't have the cash for LD's)

-- 

Craig Coffin          |  "Try not.  Do, or do not.  There is no try."
craig@odie.cs.mun.ca  |       -- Yoda, TESB
From: seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Favorite Movie One-Liners
Date: 18 Dec 92 23:02:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: seawasp@unixd3.cis.pitt.edu


	Okay, some of mine:

	"Nimble little minx..." -- Professor Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters

	"Young fool... only now... at the end... do you understand."
			-- The Emperor, Return of the Jedi

	"Water! Water!" (hopping with burning boots... then staring up the
	tunnel) "WATER! WATER!"  -- Indiana Jones, IJ and the Temple of Doom

	"Excuse me, General; would you mind stepping outside?" 
			-- Superman, Superman II

	"Is that how a sick mind like yours gets its kicks, Luthor?
	 by planning the deaths of innocent people?"
	(looking up mildly) "Why no. By *causing* the deaths of
	innocent people."  -- Superman and Lex Luthor, Superman

	"Snakes.... why did it have to be snakes?" -- Indiana Jones, RotLA

	"Hasta la vista... baby." Ahnold, T2

	"YOU'RE Terminated, sucker!" -- Sarah Connor, T1

	"Shit... happens." -- The Predator, P2

	"...for Hate's sake... I SPIT... my last breath at thee..."
			-- Khan Noonian Singh, STII- Wrath of Khan
			    (quoting Captain Ahab)

	"SMILE, you gruesome son of a bitch!" -- Chief Brody, JAWS

	"EEEEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGNNNNNNNNN!!!!" (or something like
	 that) --- Gojira, GOJIRA

	"I'll be back." -- Ahnold in many movies

	"Children of the night -- SHUT UP!" -- Dracula, Love at First Bite

	"Goodbye, Mr. Bond." --- many overconfident villains

	(pointing in one direction) "Twenty miles."  (Pointing in the
	opposite direction) "Twenty miles." -- Professor Morbius,
						"Forbidden Planet"

	

		lots more where those came from


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From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: T2 wish list.
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:24:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.115715.12147@maths.tcd.ie> chandler@maths.tcd.ie (Ross Chandler) writes:
>	a, Kyle Reese dream sequence
>	b, Myles Dyson house introduction scene.
>	c, John Connor performing "brain surgury" on Arnie.
>	d, The "smile" scene provided it isn't to embarrassing.
>	e, Scenes showing the T-1000 "glitching". (Yes we are
>	   clever enough to understand this)

Could you be more specific about what was in these scenes?

And how about losing the lame thumbs up Arnie gives as he's 
being melted down.

John



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