bad films we love

by **Dan East** » Apr 10, 2002 @ 9:27pm

This isn't quite on topic, but I'll give you my prediction. Within 10 years, maybe 15, Lucas will release Star Wars Episode 7. It will contain all the original characters; Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, etc. The real actors will do their voices, but their characters and the rest of the entire movie will be CGI.

Dan East

Website · by **Paul** » Apr 10, 2002 @ 9:29pm

i bet you have a big book of bill gates gags, eh?

by **randall** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 12:16am

Website · by **Paul** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 12:41am

by **NYIllustrator** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 5:19am

suck it Trubeck!

by **RICoder** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 6:28am

ROFL!!!

I watch Saturday Night Live JUST TO SEE if they do Jeopardy. There is something inately humorous about Sean Connery and Alex Trubeck going at each other.

by **randall** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 10:51am

by **Dan East** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 3:43pm

Here are three more:

Starship Troopers. There was something about that movie I really liked. It had a certain believable undertone. My biggest gripe was the fact that humans had incredible technology, yet reverted to sticking people on the ground with what looked like rifles that fired conventional bullets. Where were the armored vehicles, or exo-suit mech-like weapons? Why couldn't they send robots in to fight or draw out the bugs, then blast them from the air?

Contact - Excellent movie. My biggest question is why couldn't they just send someone through the "machine" again after Jody Foster went (since no-one believed her)? The second machine wasn't destroyed. You don't build a multi-billion dollar machine and use it just once because you didn't think it worked the first time.

There was a movie I saw a couple times. I think it starred Emilio Estevez (or was it his brother?). Anyway, it was similar in a way to Contact. He was a cable-repair guy, and discovered some sort of signal from space. He rigged up a couple dozen home satellite dishes (without their owners knowing it) into a single large array, and found the signal was coming from the moon. Anyway, the earth had been infiltrated by aliens that disguised themselves as humans. Their knee joints bent backwards and stuff. Cool movie.

Dan East

by **Pam** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 4:53pm

Dan, I think that was Arrival or The Arrival with Charlie Sheen.

Pam

by **refractor** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 4:56pm

You're right, it was his brother, Charlie Sheen - the film was "the Arrival".

Cheers,

Refractor

by **David Horn** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 5:56pm

Dan: About Contact.

In the book it says that the aliens sent the plans for the transporting device and were waiting ready to connect their "end" of the conduit to Earth's.

It also says that the aliens didn't intend to do that again in the near future, so if the humans did spin up the machine again nothing would happen.

by **Dan East** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 8:12pm

I haven't read the book, but I was under the impression that the machine created a wormhole. So unless the aliens had some sort of remote control that they could use to somehow disable the machine (from many light years' distance), then it could spin up and the physics would be the same. You could at least travel somewhere, although not all of the corridors would be complete, so it may only be for one "hop". The aliens also said that they didn't know who created the network of wormholes for transportation, so again, I felt it was just physics in use, and since we have a machine that can create a wormhole, it will take you somewhere. I also thought it was unrealistic that society was so quick to discount Jodie's experience. Some majorly freaking weird stuff was going on in the middle of that machine. I'm sure we could learn a lot with our existing technology from a worm hole created under a controlled environment. They also mentioned that the amazing technologies described in the blue prints were spun off and applied for use by humanity in general. The whole machine was of a technological level far greater than our own (remember when the door to the sphere closed and the metal somehow liquified to close the seam). To think that a single man, as a joke, developed all that technology on paper, then created such an elaborate hoax to "fool" humans into building the massive machine, is pretty absurd. That is exactly what the people and congressional council said in the end.

Dan East

by **David Horn** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 9:24pm

Well, the ending in the book is completely different to the film. In the film, "Rich man" (can't remember his name, sorry) dies, you see him being zipped into a body bag.

In the book he fakes his death and freezes himself, launching a little spacecraft in the hope he'll be rescued by aliens.

They don't play the hoax idea so strongly in the book, though. I bought it in reader format from (I think) the Barnes and Noble website, though any library should have a copy. It's actually quite a good book, but the best way is to watch the film and then read the book.

by **NYIllustrator** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 9:50pm

It wasnt the arrival, it was called "the cable guy"

by **Courtney White** » Apr 11, 2002 @ 9:56pm

No it wasn't.. The Cable Guy was a horrible film that nobody liked

and it had Jim Carey...

TCG was about a lonely guy who grew up with nothing to do and nobody to talk to but TV.

no alians.. well, not in the version i've seen.

Correct me if im wrong

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