29 Aug 2010, 8:03 pm
The BBC has always been far ahead of us in open minded broadcasting. I'll have to check out Quatermass. I looked up your username a while back and found it, but didn't have time to watch it at the time.
Too many shows! Too little time! 
29 Aug 2010, 8:10 pm
MrXxx wrote:
The BBC has always been far ahead of us in open minded broadcasting. I'll have to check out Quatermass. I looked up your username a while back and found it, but didn't have time to watch it at the time.
Too many shows! Too little time!
Too many shows! Too little time!
The BBC versions are much better than the Hammer Horror versions. The original The Quatermass Experiment only has two episodes existing (at the time, telerecording was at a very primitive stage), but there was an abridged remake in 2005 that's worth your time, although you don't see the monster in the remake. I saw a picture of the monster from the original in a scriptbook published for the serial, and it is very effective, considering it was just the writer sticking gloved hands through a blow-up of Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Seriously. It was done with gardening gloves covered in plants and latex, and it looks pretty damned good.
Quatermass II was meh, and Quatermass and the Pit was good. That's the best of the lot. I haven't seen the fourth Quatermass serial, but I've read the novel, and it's not as good as the others.
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29 Aug 2010, 11:49 pm
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I want to see Rendezvous With Rama turned into a movie. Morgan Freeman had been trying to turn it into a movie but with no luck.
http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/12/mo ... ama-again/
Cool student video rendition of the possibilities. I'd watch it! Slow moving is attractive to me!
01 Sep 2010, 3:46 pm
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ShenLong wrote:
I want to see Rendezvous With Rama turned into a movie. Morgan Freeman had been trying to turn it into a movie but with no luck.
http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/12/mo ... ama-again/
Cool student video rendition of the possibilities. I'd watch it! Slow moving is attractive to me!
Urgh. Sound in space. No thanks.
Here is a link to a two part adaptation that was broadcast in the UK by BBC Radio 4 last March: http://huffduffer.com/adactio/3213
It's really well done, and actually adds to the source material in spite of its two hour running time.
01 Sep 2010, 4:56 pm
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Urgh. Sound in space. No thanks.
First thing I thought too. I've been wishing for a long time that SOMEBODY would do a more realistic space movie with no sound and no ambient music. It'll probably never happen though. The public demands lots of sensory input to "buy" the realism.
I took a couple of classes in sound design for film and video recently. You'd be amazed at how much of the sound you hear in films is not coming from the actual filming, but is manufactured and added after filming. Footsteps, cars passing. Horns in the distance. A HUGE portion of sound in films isn't in the originally filmed version at all, in space, or on Earth.
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01 Sep 2010, 5:00 pm
MrXxx wrote:
Grey_Area wrote:
Urgh. Sound in space. No thanks.
First thing I thought too. I've been wishing for a long time that SOMEBODY would do a more realistic space movie with no sound and no ambient music. It'll probably never happen though. The public demands lots of sensory input to "buy" the realism.I took a couple of classes in sound design for film and video recently. You'd be amazed at how much of the sound you hear in films is not coming from the actual filming, but is manufactured and added after filming. Footsteps, cars passing. Horns in the distance. A HUGE portion of sound in films isn't in the originally filmed version at all, in space, or on Earth.
Ever see 2001 space odyssey?
01 Sep 2010, 5:04 pm
01 Sep 2010, 6:19 pm
Not as badly as Fox messed up the ending of Firefly when they cancelled it half way through season 1. 
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
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01 Sep 2010, 6:47 pm
Grey_Area wrote:
Not as badly as Fox messed up the ending of Firefly when they cancelled it half way through season 1.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
The thing that really bugged me about Firefly/Serenity was that the never fully (or even partially) explained how Shepherd new so much about the inner workings of the Alliance and space travel, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, and criminal activity.
01 Sep 2010, 8:46 pm
Titangeek wrote:
Grey_Area wrote:
Not as badly as Fox messed up the ending of Firefly when they cancelled it half way through season 1.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
The thing that really bugged me about Firefly/Serenity was that the never fully (or even partially) explained how Shepherd new so much about the inner workings of the Alliance and space travel, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, and criminal activity.
Well, Shepard was a full commander in the Systems Alliance fleet before being tapped to be a Spectre...
...oops, wrong Shepard. Sorry!
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01 Sep 2010, 8:48 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
Grey_Area wrote:
Not as badly as Fox messed up the ending of Firefly when they cancelled it half way through season 1.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
The thing that really bugged me about Firefly/Serenity was that the never fully (or even partially) explained how Shepherd new so much about the inner workings of the Alliance and space travel, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, and criminal activity.
Well, Shepard was a full commander in the Systems Alliance fleet before being tapped to be a Spectre...
...oops, wrong Shepard. Sorry!
Too what Shepard are you referring?
01 Sep 2010, 8:53 pm
Titangeek wrote:
DeaconBlues wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
Grey_Area wrote:
Not as badly as Fox messed up the ending of Firefly when they cancelled it half way through season 1.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
I've been trying to find a Youtube clip of Serenity going to full burn, or the scene at the end of Bushwhacked where the Alliance cruiser destroys the derelict ship, or the bit in Out of Gas where they put out a fire by opening the cargo bay doors, all of which are accompanied by no sound other than the show's eerily beautiful Chinese/country background score, but all I can find is fan-made videos.
The show had huge potential for morally ambiguous character development, but was sadly cut short before it even had a chance. The 2005 movie, Serenity, attempted to bring closure to some of the main plot threads, but I found the resolutions hurried and unsatisfying, so I just pretend that it's taking place in a different universe to Firefly.
The thing that really bugged me about Firefly/Serenity was that the never fully (or even partially) explained how Shepherd new so much about the inner workings of the Alliance and space travel, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, and criminal activity.
Well, Shepard was a full commander in the Systems Alliance fleet before being tapped to be a Spectre...
...oops, wrong Shepard. Sorry!
Too what Shepard are you referring?
That would be Commander Shepard of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. He was a Marine commander, assigned to UNS Normandy, an experimental stealth spacecraft designed by human and turian engineers, when he was tasked to join the Spectres, the Citadel's interstellar elite forces group. As a Spectre, he did get lots of experience dealing with criminals, especially if the player took the special side mission from Helena Blake in the Financial District of the Citadel Presidium...
