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From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu (*R*A*I*)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: SF-Films
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:39:30 -0600
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <MAILQUEUE-101.930121135208.544@novell1.rtc-carlow.ie>, SCP21080@novell1.rtc-carlow.ie writes:
> My name is Justin Ryan and Ionly recently subscribed to SF-Lovers.  I
> am especially interested in any information you might have on Star
> Trek films as I am a real fan.  My user id. is scp21080@Novell1.RTC-
> Carlow.Ie
Like what?
I mean I'm sure you know the basics if you a fan,... You are referring to the
following movies:

STAR TREK THE MOVIE
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
w/ Ricardo Montalban
and Kirstie Alley
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
w/ Chirstopher Lloyd
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME?
STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
w/ Christopher Plummer
and IMAN

Rai.


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From: robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:43:07 GMT
Organization: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine...
NNTP-Posting-Host: pagoda.aero.org
Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster

In article <1993Jan28.152807.12108@news.columbia.edu> dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner) writes:
|News from Japan:
|
|"If they ask me nicely, I will do it."
|
|                    -- Akira Ifukube

Do what?

				R.S.


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From: tnielson@mccoy (THORIN NIELSON)
Subject: Re: Star Trek
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:28:02 GMT

In article <NcmsXB1w164w@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>  writes:

> I think that sounds like an interesting title. The other movies always  
seem
> to relvolve around a couple of main characters, namely Kirk or Spock.

That's exactly why I think that the FINAL final Star Trek movie will  
probably hinge upon the demise of Kirk.

Thorin Nielson --
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Jurasic Park casting
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:49:49 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <25JAN199320311405@gergo.tamu.edu>, dave@gergo.tamu.edu 
(Dave Martin) writes:

> Actually, I am going under the presumption that there will be no big names
> in this movie, only big animatrons. 

Well, no "big" names as in Nicholson, Cruise, Roberts, or Streep.

> I would actually prefer that there not be any major actors involved, since 
> there seems to be little need for it.

But I'd call Attenburough, Goldbloom, Neill, and Dern fairly major actors.

> I would presume that Jack Horner is the basis for the Alan Grant character 
> -- at least somewhat. Maybe Horner will be playing Grant in the movie... 

Yep, it was pretty interesting to see the scientists that Crighton based
his characters on.  Horner must have been a major influence for Grant,
but I dobt he was the only one.  As stated earlier Sam Neill (Dead Calm,
The Hunt for Red October, Reily Ace of Spies) will be playing Alan Grant.
(And I think he's perfect for the part)

Could someone please post the names of all the other major characters?
I'd like to match them up with the actors who will play them and include
them in a mini-FAQ for Jurassic Park.  (I *know* this question will come
up time and time again before June)

Greg Bole                             "We're talking about a religious 
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu           experience here.  I might say 'doth'
                                       or 'thou' or alot of things."
                                         Steve Martin in _Grand Canyon_
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Addams family?
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:38:48 GMT
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.

Anyone able to point me to a file containing accumulated gaffs and/or
weird, in the background, things to notice about this movie?
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From: a0s5108@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Jurasic Park casting
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:30:58 -0500
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Does anyone know who is cast for what parts in this film?  

I keep getting questions about it, but have no answers at hand.

Tanks....

-Neal
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From: kevin.sonnenberg@rose.com (kevin sonnenberg)
Subject: Star Wars #3      8/8
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:07:19 GMT
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Date Entered: 01-24-93 20:02
(Continued from previous message)

against his ship's deflector shields and their ion-propelled engines are no
match for his.

  In another sector of the battle, Obi-Wan Kenobi's starship swoops past an
engagement and accelerates into space, pursued by Darth Vader's flagship.
Kenobi executes a series of stunning maneuvers in an effort to lose the Heavy
Cruiser, but he quickly realizes that it will not be easy to shake.
Marshalling the Force around him, the last Jedi prepares for a death-defying
stunt.  He then guides his starship into the nebulae; and with his deflector
shields (and the Force) at full intensity, Kenobi flies through the core of the
exploding star.

  Darth Vader stands silently on the Bridge of his starship, gazing in
disbelief at the brightly-colored nebulae.  He demands the scanning sensors
probe the area for any sign of the Jedi Knight -- but the results are negative!
Gravely disappointed, the Dark Lord orders the Flagship returned to the fleet
and walks away, sensing that they would meet again.

  The victory is an incomplete one for Palpatine's forces.  His starfleet has
destroyed or captured nearly three dozen vehicles -- but scattered throughout
the galaxy were rebelous pirates and outlaws that he would one day have to deal
with!

                                          LAP DISSOLVE TO:

SCENES 28 TO 30:  EPILOGUE ---

  Jhantor --- EMPEROR Palpatine, with Darth Vader, the Dark
Lord of the Sith, at his side, smiles malevolently and plots his
next move as his assembled troops chant:  "Long Live Palpatine!
Long Live the Empire!!"

  Alderaan --- Lady Arcadia Skywalker -- now a common servant in the Organa
household -- sings her daughter to sleep under the watchful sensors of Artoo
Detoo and See Threepio, while Bail Organa awards Captain Antilles with a
commission in his service.

  Tatooine --- Obi-Wan Kenobi, the last Jedi Knight, delivers the infant boy to
his brother, Owen Lars, then disappears into the desert wasteland, awaiting the
day when Luke would claim the light sabre of his father (from him) and become a
man.


                                          FADE OUT.
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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator 3: Any word?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:55:26 GMT
Organization: Sun
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In article <goudswaa.727409585@sfu.ca> goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard) writes:
>>In article <ROUGAN.93Jan8181930@bigwpi.WPI.EDU>, rougan@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Untit
>>|> Who says that Skynet was prevented from coming into existance?  At the
>>|> end of the second movie, and I could be wrong, Arnold, in his beat up form
>>|> decended into the molten metal, and the kid throws the chip and the arm in
>>|> the metal, right.  The thing is that there were two unatached arms,or am I
>
>Skynet could still happen, from an arm??????  It was the chip that made
>Skynet come into sentience, not an arm.

Look at the arm again...

It loks as though processing was distributed throughout the cyborg (see the
chip(s) on the arm, which was the only recovered part of the first terminator.

In any case, it was more likely the software, rather than any hardware, that
made SkyNet work, although the hardware may have just been fast enough to make
the software useful.







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From: becka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rebecca Lynn Sparling)
Subject: Re: Blade Runner FAQ missing - please mail
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 08:19:22 GMT

In article <1jl2jlINN7ci@yarrow.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadec@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C J Hughes) writes:
>In article <muhlig.34.0@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl> muhlig@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl (Maciek Uhlig) writes:
>>Could some good soul mail me a copy of Blade Runner FAQ?
>>Thanks
>>Maciek
>>
>
> And me please!!!!!
>
> Thank you.
>
>		Chris Hughes.
>
>cstadec@csv.warwick.ac.uk
>esudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk
>chughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

and ME!!!
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From: JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander series in UK?
Date: 26 Jan 93 04:41:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.93025.234101JBK4
Organization: Penn State University

I was first introduced to HIGHLANDER by the series which I think is quite
good.  It is one of the best new shows that I've seen this year.  Anyway,
after watching the series I was prompted to rent the movies.  I was
disappointed with both, the 2nd much more so.  I found many of the fight
scenes lacking, for a movie, and the last battle was also a let down.  The
2nd movie isn't worth watching unless you totally ignore the first and even
then it's still bad.

Jason K.
From: jasstev@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (stevens jason)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander III
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:12:34 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

ogormanj@vax1.tcd.ie writes:

>In article <C1ECCv.ID0@news.ucs.mun.ca>, cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  ) writes:
>> I mentioned in an interview that I saw with Lambert last week that there
>> was no firm script set for the third Highlander movie. They are still
>> looking for a good one as to not repeat the disaster with Highlander II.
>> Lambert seemed to have a fairly good idea about the story was going to
>> be about, though. He made passing reference to shooting in England and
>> New York. Nothing about Japan, however. If things go according to plan,
>> filming will start the summer.

>I dont know about a firm script but there was an add for the film in my local
>video shop.They said it was been released straight to video and that it was due
>out in feb,93.
>Was this an old interview you saw,maybe or are the  people just
>sprouting rubbish.

    I think you may be a little confused here...Highlander 3 would be abig
    commercial set up (like the Sickening) and would not go straight to video.
    Point 2..H3 has not begun filming yet.
    Point 3..the ad you saw was for the Series, the pilot starring Chris
    Lambert as Connor...(but the main character is Duncan McCleod, played
    by Adrian Paul).

    It seems you need to study the poster a bit closer!!!!
    No hard feelings!

    Jason.
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From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
Subject: Re: Movie one-liners wanted + funny stuff from Aliens
Organization: QUAD Systems
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:59:49 GMT

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
: geirj@hsr.no (Geir Friestad) writes:
: 
: >Not long before Xmas there were a lot of favorite one-liners from movies
: >posted here. Someone volunteered to collect one-liners and post them right
: >after the Xmas-break.  Well, I haven't seen'em, so if someone would care to
: >mail them to me, I'd be grateful.
: 
: >Also, here's a good one from "Aliens":
: 
: >You don't see this joke the movie (unless you've got a fantastic pair of eyes),
: >but it's explained on the documentary LD which comes with the collector's
: >edition of the film.
: 
: >The two Marine dropships had their own names and logos:
: 
: >The primary dropship was called BUG STOMPER, and underneath the name the
: >legend "We endanger species".
: 
: >The secondary dropship was called SMART ASS, and carried the legend "We aim by
: >P.F.M". PFM means Pure Fucking Magic.
: 
: >I liked those! :)
: 
: I'm sure everyone noticed that Ferro (the dropship pilot) had "Fly the
: Friendly Skies" written on her helmet, but I thought I'd bring it up
: just for the hell of it.


Actually, all three are not that hard to see. I caught them the first time
I saw the movie and thought especially BUG STOMPER was good for a brief
chuckle.

-- 

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Roland Besserer          QUAD Systems, Santa Cruz             roland@quadsys.com
From: tgg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Tom Gardner)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:23:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: The Abyss
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies

My pocket summary of The Abyss:
	- underwater scenes and dialogue from a film about WW2 submarines
	- "mind blowing" journey from 2001
	- philisophy from Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
From: pjhst10+@pitt.edu (Peter J Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Star Trek
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:42:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I realize that this should probaly be in the rec..st newsgroup, but I have
noticed alot of post regarding upcoming startrek movies.  on Good Morning
America on Tues. Morn. they reported that this would be the last season
for Star Trek TNG. in 1994 STTNG would head for the silver screen, while
ST:DS9 would be the ST of choice for new episodes. so get ready to watch
reruns, and look out for Jean-Luc to appear at a theater near you.

One note of my own, down the road, how the hell are they going to make
movies out oof DS9? What kind of plot can they come out with?

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From: Mark B.
Subject: re: UNMADE GODZILLA FILMS
Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:21:17 GMT


In article <1993Jan18.213413.22135@news.columbia.edu> dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner) writes:
>
>A sequel to GOJIRA TAI HEDORA (GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER)

>GOJIRA FUTSUKATSU (RESURRECTION OF GODZILLA)


>GOJIRA TAI DEBERU (GODZILLA VS. THE DEVIL) 


>FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI GOJIRA (GODZILLA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) 


>UCHU GOJIRA (SPACE GODZILLA), 



>GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS IN 3D 



>MOSURA TAI BAGAN (MOTHRA VS. BAGAN) 

>
>FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI GASU NINGEN DAIICHIGO (FRANKENSTEIN VS. THE
>HUMAN VAPOR) 


>GOJIRA TAI GIGAMOSU (GODZILLA VS. THE GIGANTIC MOTH)


COOL LIST, DAVID! 

But what about "MY DINNER WITH GODZILLA" featuring the 
big scaley guy squaring off with a gigantic Wallace Shawn? 


Mark B. :-)

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From: dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner)
Subject: Re: GODZILLA NEWS
Keywords: Godzilla Japan Monster
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:10:11 GMT

In article <1k95vbINN3fu@news.aero.org> robert@aero.org (R. S. Statsinger) writes:
>In article <1993Jan28.152807.12108@news.columbia.edu> dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner) writes:
>|News from Japan:
>|
>|"If they ask me nicely, I will do it."
>|
>|                    -- Akira Ifukube
>
>Do what?
>
>				R.S.
>
>

Sorry about that - Ifukube said that he will score GOJIRA VS MEKAGOJIRA
if he is asked to, and he almost certainly will be.


David Milner  Columbia University
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From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Upcoming Movies, Part III
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:59:00 GMT


SF-themed movies scheduled (but not guaranteed) to be released in the Summer
of 1993.

The Coneheads
That family "from France" comes to the silver screen.  Lorne Michaels
produces and Dan Ackroyd is co-scripter.

Ghost in the Machine
A serial killer mutates into a computer virus and stealthily pursues a
family through the technology that surrounds them.  Karen Allen stars for
director Rachel Talalay.

Heart and Souls
Four souls recently dearly departed receive one last chance to redeem their
earthly existences.  City Slickers' Ron Underwood directs Robert Downey, Jr,
Charles Grodin and Alfre Woodard.

Hocus Pocus
Bette Midler, Sarac Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy (Sister Act) are three
17th-century witches who were hanged as sorcerers.  When their spirits are
conjured up in modern-day Salem, Mass, they vow to eat all the children they
can chase down.  Kenny Ortega directs.

Johnny Zombie
Bob Balaban directs a comedy about a young man who desparately wants to take
Missy to the prom, but is killed before the big night.  He uproots himself
but is horrified to discover he'll decompose on Missy unless he feasts on
living flesh. [This thing is from Buena Vista = Disney!]

Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton's best-selling novel about genetically recreated dinosaurs
that populate -- then wreak havoc in -- a theme park.  Steven Spielberg
directs, and Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough
star.

The Last Action Hero
Arnold Schwartzenegger reunites with Predator director John McTiernan in
this action-fantasy.  Austin O'Brien plays a young movie fan who joins his
favorite movie hero (Arnold) on screen.  F Murray Abraham, Anthony Quinn
and Mercedes Ruehl also star.

Needful Things
Stephen King adaptation by the Misery people.  When an outwardly peaceful
stranger opens a curious antique shop in a small New England village . . .
well, you know.  Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Max von Sydow, Amanda Plummer
and J T Walsh star for director Fraser Heston.

Orlando
Writer-director Sally Potter adapts Virginia Woolf's fantasy novel.  The
story takes place over 400 years, during which Orlando travels from Queen
Elizabeth I's court to Central Asia.  Along the way, he becomes a she and
grapples with the modern world.  Tilda Swinton and Lothaire Bluteau star.

Rookie of the Year
[I'm not really sure this is SF]
When a 12-year-old leftie goes from lobbing a baseball to hurling the heat
like Sandy Koufax, he hopes to bring a pennant to his beloved Chicago Cubs
[well, maybe it *is* fantasy, after all :-)].  Daniel Stern makes his
directing bow, starring Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey and Stern himself.

Super Mario Brothers
Bob Hoskins and John Leguizano as Mario and Luigi.  Rocky Morton and Annabel
Jankel directed.  Dennis Hopper and Fisher Stevens also star.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: KitchenRN@SSD0.LAAFB.AF.MIL
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Upcoming Movies, Part I
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:59:00 GMT


SF-themed movies scheduled (but not guaranteed) to be released through
the end of February, 1993:

Army of Darkness
Director Sam Raimi sends Bruce Campbell back to the Dark Ages.  To return
to the present, the time-travelling hero must not only battle an army of
the dead, but also steal their souls.  [Sounds like Evil Dead III. :-)]

Children of the Corn II:The Final Sacrifice
Continues the saga of the satanic children who terrorize a town.  David Price
directs; Terence Knox stars.

Dead/Alive
When the population of walking corpses in a '50s neighborhood becomes a
nuisance, a young couple decide to deal with it.  Peter Jackson directs.
Timothy Balme stars.

El Mariachi
Robert Rodriguez wrote and directed this futuristic action movie for $7000.
Set in a Mexican border town, it deals with a mariachi musician and a hit
man.  Carlos Gallardo and Consuelo Gomez star.

Groundhog Day
Bill Murray, Andie McDowell and Chris Elliott get together for director
Harold Ramis in this romantic comedy.  Murray's an ego-driven TV weatherman
in Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania who relives February 2 over and over.

Matinee
In director Joe Dante's latest, John Goodman is a B-movie producer type
who alters the lives of four teenagers when he comes to Key West, Florida
during the Cuban Missile Crisis to test his latest sci-fi thriller.  Cathy
Moriarty also stars.

Nemesis
Former kick-boxing champ Olivier Gruner limbers up in a sci-fi thriller set
in 2020, which pits cyborgs who have decided to rule the Earth against an
elite cop.  Brion James co-stars for director Albert Pyun.

Rain Without Thunder
Set almost fifty years from now, this drama follows two women who go to
Sweden for an abortion when that procedure -- and all contraception --
has been banished by a US constitutional amendment.  Jeff Daniels, Betty
Buckley, Linda Hunt and Frederic Forrest star.

Rick Kitchen
kitchenrn@ssd0.laafb.af.mil
From: SCP21080@novell1.rtc-carlow.ie
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Star Trek
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:48:58 GMT

Hi, Sorry to trouble you again so soon but I'm looking for more info.
 This time on the forth coming Star Trek film "Star Trek 7" I hope
that theres no truth in the rumour that its going to be called "The
Voyages Of Captain Sulu".


my user id. is Scp21080@Novell1.RTC-Carlow.ie
From: colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: The Abyss
Date: 22 Jan 93 12:50:07 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.movies
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK

In article <1993Jan20.105327.7533@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> g.coulter@daresbury.ac.uk writes:
>In article 8828@news.duke.edu, aes@hercules.acpub.duke.edu () writes:
>>Does anybody know when James Cameron will release the version
>>of The Abyss with the 20 extra minutes of footage on the end?
>>I know he's working on it, since, besides having said that he 
>>was planning on doing it ever since the original came out,
>>I read an interview with Michael Biehn in Movieline, and it
>>mentioned that he was re-recording dialogue for this new version.
>
>I thought I read somewhere that the directors cut of the Abyss
>would be about 50mins long, I could be wrong, but thats what I
>thought.

Em, do you mean 50 minutes longer , or 50 minutes long ?   :-)

I had heard that there was between 20 and 30 minutes cut off the end, don't
know about 50 minutes...

Point of interest :  The Abyss makes its British TV premiere this weekend on
		     Saturday, Channel 4, at 9pm.   The trailer for it was
		     in semi-widescreen - I doubt if the film will be though.


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