I saw THE CORE! [not completely OT]

[MThibault]

Take a look at this handsome guy:

http://entertainment.sympatico.ca/news/stories/cp/e040122A.html

Cheers

 

[Fast Learner]

The thing that bugs me is this - you make a claim of knowing something about "more general sci-fi circles". That's a pretty big statement, and I'd like to know what support you've got for it.

So... I'm sure this has been carried quite a bit too far already, but since you're asking a specific question, I'll reply.

First, no one can claim to know precisely what other people do or don't know. Rather, one can only make generalizations about what a group of people is likely to have been exposed to.

I based my generalization on the fact that I've met and conversed with a wide variety of science fiction folk from all over the world for the last 25 years. I've run several 1,000+ attendance science fiction conventions, I edited a 10,000+ distribution quarterly science fiction magazine for 4 years, I've attended dozens of regional conventions all over the country and several Worldcons (most of which I also worked at), I've met and had long conversations with literally dozens of science fiction authors, I've been involved in the online science fiction community since the early days of GEnie, I read genre-specific magazines (such as Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle) regularly, and I've read thousands of science fiction books. From all of this exposure and much more, I actually do believe I have a pretty good handle on what the general science fiction community has been exposed to.

Does that mean I know what specific people have and have not been exposed to? No. But it certainly means I feel very comfortable making generalizations that I'm confident have a reasonable degree of accuracy.

Certainly as much or more than most folks.

But again, that wasn't my point.

 

[Paladin]

jonrog1...Your Kung Fu is Strong!

My wife & I loved this movie. We actually saw it twice already. The sound system's power supply blew up 20 minutes before the end, and couldn't be repaired. The cineplex gave us the choice of taking free passes and coming back later or sitting through the movie again from the beginning in another theater. We chose the latter, because we just had to see the end. Great job.

You also made a great point of suspending disbelief. All those who are griping about whatever scientific inaccuracies or stretches should definitely remember that we all play a game that is so far beyond anything in real life that it's called fantasy.

Please, oh please, oh please write any future D&D movies. I just thought I'd throw that out there...

 

[Gizzard]

What's the book version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Heinlein's (spelling?) Puppet Masters?

Ooops, my bad. I was thinking Puppet Masters and wrote Body Snatchers for some reason.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I have seen the film, here in the UK!

First of all, congratulations to jonrog1 for his excellent script! Or co-written script, I think...I really enjoyed the dialogue.

Plus, what no-one has mentioned, is the quality of the one liners! Example, early on:

Scientist good guy: "Why are you guys here?"
Large, scary FBI guy: "We don't know. Your security clearance is higher than ours."
Scientist: "I have a security clearance?"
FBI: "We're here to take you to your jet."
Scientist: "I have a JET?"

Plus the aforementioned "Hacking is my kung-fu, and it is strong."

That hacker is so much like what many of us would like to be in that movie...

Congratulations to you, and all involved in the film! And GO SEE IT, everyone!

 

[Victim]

Ooops, my bad. I was thinking Puppet Masters and wrote Body Snatchers for some reason.

Okay that makes much more sense.

 

[Fast Learner]

Xena vs. Star Trek

When I saw the early screening, the hacker says he needs an unlimited supply of Xena videos (and Mt. Dew, IIRC), but in the trailer he says he needs Star Trek videos

Jonrog, do you know which one made it into the film, and why was it changed? (Either way it's a great line, but I prefer the Xena version.)

 

[Schmackboy]

Re: Xena vs. Star Trek

When I saw the early screening, the hacker says he needs an unlimited supply of Xena videos (and Mt. Dew, IIRC), but in the trailer he says he needs Star Trek videos

Jonrog, do you know which one made it into the film, and why was it changed? (Either way it's a great line, but I prefer the Xena version.)

No doubt you can thank the film's studio, PARAMOUNT. I'd hazard a guess that they didn't want to give any free commercial air time to XENA when they make STAR TREK.

RE: PUPPET MASTERS, browse this:

http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp15.Building.the.Bomb.html

Hey Umbran, check this out:

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/mc/20030328/104890686000.html

Give it a read and I think you'll see that you're arming yourself to slay a dragon, and all jonrog1 is a windmill.

Hey, that was a helluva inelegant metaphor. He gets paid to write, I do not.

Anyway, loosen up and relax Umbran. You'll live longer.

 

[Schmackboy]

No offense, my man, but a bunch of us students at Caltech saw the trailer and we just couldn't stop laughing.

And WHO DOES THAT??!!

"Hey, you're in the White Stripes. No offense, man, but every time I hear your song on the radio I laugh at it."

Sheesh. Do you have no manners?

Mom says, "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all." So I suggest you go upstairs and tell your mom you're sorry.

Just cracks me up that the COLLEGE STUDENT is full enough of himself to mock a seasoned professional to his face.

Ego, much?

 

[Quartermoon]

"Unobtanium" is just funny. I don't care who you are!

Just say it out loud.

Come on, you know you want to.

Calcium...Selenium...Unobtanium...