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Who scares you more? Robots, aliens or people?
Of all the dystopian futures predicted by scientists and scifi writers, which do you find more realistic or frightening, the ones where:
1 We create a new life form that annihilates us
2 We just annihilate ourselves
3 Aliens show up and put us out of our misery
These are by no means the only themes for our dark future, I just threw up a few of the more common ones.
Add pirates. and bugs. and zombies.
And, uh... Very large rocks.
(edit) @mods, in retrospect this should have been marked OT and posted in water cooler.
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Jul 30 2009, 9:59 PM EDT by
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OT - Robots AIs and aliens from other scifi
Off the top of my head....
- Data (Star Trek TNG)
From singing operah to building offspring, we're able to him grow and mature to the point where he as a machine is able to portray one of the most honorable acts of love where he sacrifices his own life for the sake of his friends. However we are left wondering about his older brother B4 who has been left with a copy of Data's memory as an inheritance.
- Annalee Call (Aliens)
Come one. It's Wynona effin' Rider. She'll steal you heart like she steals purses.
- C3PO and R2D2 (Star Wars, and yes they come as a package)
If ever we have androids and intelliegent robots, this is how I would like them. Not sentient in the slightest but programmed with enough personality to make them pleasant and good company to keep. I also like the friendship between the two... they're like Penn and Teller.
Replicants (Blade Runner)
- This one is tough since they're basically made out of enhanced versions of organic parts. It goes even further on blurring the lines of what makes us human, some people even say that Deckard is a replicant since Gaff knows what Deckard is dreaming about. I hope robots with AI never come to this point. It's sad.
- HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey)
He stole the show for those who left the theatre in the middle of all that long and seizure inducing psychedelic space travel scene. That was one of the most brilliant, dickweed, and condescending moves I've seen on film. It separates the men from the children. Really. Kubrick was a genius. HAHA! It soooo proves the point him and Clarke were trying to make
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Apr 23 2009, 7:13 AM EDT by TooBoku
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Is there no future for the Terminator film franchise?
“Is there no future for the Terminator film franchise?”
Simple answer, no!
Longer answer, not with McG at the helm.
He and the studio's made the same mistake they always make with Scifi films, they think huge budgets and special effects will cover the fact that the films they are making are total crap because of one simple fact...
The story sucks!
One of the best films is Gattica, it's scifi, but doesn't beat you over the head with it, it's well acted and directed, the story is tight and makes sense, and it treats it's audience like it has a brain.
It has special effects but they're there for a reason, to support the story not wow the audience.
Blade Runner, Alien 1&2, Terminator 1&2, even Star Wars and 2001 all have this in common, the stories they told were good and made sense in their respective contexts, they were all well acted and directed and above all, treated their audience with the respect they deserved.
McG treated us with contempt, he passed off crap by putting a pretty (and expensive) bow around it.
Give it to James Cameron or Ridley Scott and then you may claw back some respectability to the franchise.
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Jun 27 2009, 1:04 AM EDT by
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Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles - Stan Winston page
upcoming film Avatar AWARDS 1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps 1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
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Terminator: FAQ
, "Titanic", "True Lies", "Aliens", "The Abyss", and "Avatar." What is an "easter egg"? A special feature in a DVD video program which
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Terminator Glossary
yberdyne Systems , which is a nod to Terminator's Cyberdyne Systems. The Aliens film's director James Cameron , directed both Aliens
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Soundtrack: Behind the Scenes
into the film music business in the first place. I had always adored movies and music, but seeing Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2 and The Abyss in my
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Lena Headey/Sarah Connor
, but perhaps that is normal for somewhat-alienated teens like John. Not many hugs and kisses at this age, I guess. Of course, there is also not much
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TSCC: Petiton to move it from Monday to Wednesday
on the entire franchise. Films may be more memorable in the short term, but it is the TV series that really stay with you. Please do not let TSCC become
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Reasons Why We Need Season 3 Page Two
, and explosions. More importantly, this show explores what it means to be human on a level that few others do. Although I love spaceships, aliens
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RE: caine & abel
... Same story for the show Bones... But it's fine... X-Files fans were pissed they never found out the whole alien conspiracy, well that's fine, we
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Chris "Coach K" Kincey's rant on TSCC's continuity, content, and bus. mgmt challenges
fi films. This allows them to have enough money to have a house on the hill, gated fense, big dogs, etc. and she can walk around AS a bad ass driving
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Movies coming in 2010...some odd films to be remade
From the outset, 2010 looks like business as usual. There are sequels to 2009 releases (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part One), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), long-awaited sequels (Toy Story 3, Wall Street 2, Tron: Legacy) and many more in between (Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After). Remakes and adaptations abound, particularly those based on 1980s fare (Clash of the Titans, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The A-Team, The Karate Kid, Footloose, Red Dawn)
even though I liked some of the originals, I dont get why they would remake red dawn or the karate kid, and the A-team? clash of the titans? footloose? I doubt any of these will make much $
only Iron Man 2, twilight eclipse, and wall street, which has M. Douglas [again and shia labouef], and i wonder if they will do a take on recent wallstreet antics.? it is also done by oliver stone so I think it may expose some stuff about recent happenings that ruined the economy.
just saw DAYBREAKERS which is a lionsgate film, not bad , it cost 20 mil to make and has done that in first week, but doubt it will make alot of $ for them.
It was better than what the previews show it to be, I think the trailers and tv ads make alot of movies look bad .
I thought sherlock holmes would be a joke, but it was ok movie, didnt like the magic theme, but it turned out to not be magic. so better when see a 2nd time.
I also thought blind side was a very good movie, but again from ads on tv I didnt think it would be any good. is it just me or do others think this too?
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Jan 16 2010, 3:10 AM EST by
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Transcript - Episode 7 | Brothers of Nablus
this project to work on, or that short film he's producing. Mom: He's had his troubles, but he's a good boy. Dad: He's not a boy, Donna. He's a 34-year-old
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terminator forewer
I'm from poland and im think why FOX think to serial is bad to then no have much money from film mayby in us ppl dot like sci-fi but in eu wery many ppl lovit sci-fi and fantazy film ppl buing dvd-s paying money for axn sci-fi chanel fot that films not for bad and boring serial who i many on tv i was watched wery many films comedy, thrillers, action, cifi, fantazy all posible sci-fi serials on world many cinema is my first hobby sec is music third asg and next IT, many films is boring and bad but terminator for me iss besst film and legendary like alien or star wars we nead thats films.
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Apr 22 2009, 6:46 PM EDT by
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OT: James Cameron's ___Avatar- New Trailer finally
I'm sure they're some technical breakthroughs. But creatively to me it's a step down from the Terminator phenom. It's like JCameron is trying to push the fairy tale aliens again since the Abyss aliens failed to wow everyone, and critics panned the silly ending. He's the got the horror action, the girl's 1st romance fantasy/tragedy (Titanic), now he's trying to finish off his "set" of fantasy aliens and won't rest until it's successful with the public. He's also doing the massive cgi army; has to reach the bar Peter Jackson did with LOTR films. (Aliens/ T2 ragtag guerilla squad battles only). Jackson also had an unecessary obsession in trying to improve King Kong as a remaker, when he's actually a master book interpreter(LOTR). JCameron needs to continue with T5 and T6. He's good at horror/action with a personal story, forget the 3D cartoon genre. Just because he didn't create the Alien phenom in no way detracts from the action adventure he ran with in Aliens which superceded the first in many ways. Go back to Terminators, HK's and tanks, No need to create his own alien race.
Poor production design of the aliens. too cartoony. Nothing personal against the SW prequel trilogy artists, but the aliens(even the robots) were cartoony looking and couldn't be taken seriously. just those designs shouldn't have been chosen. The Avatar planet could just be another SW Episode III lush cartoony planet.
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Aug 24 2009, 12:55 AM EDT by
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How would you pump up the action and the drama?
I've come down hard on the music score choices, as you may be aware of... but now I'm setting my sights on the action and the drama.
The last episode had a T-888 hot on the trail of one of John's future soldiers, but I just didn't feel the danger and the tension and the excitement that I think would occur with a real face to face with John and Derek since this show is called TERMINATOR.
All we have to work with for comparison is the action and stunt pieces from T1 and T2 (T3 does not exist IMHO). Not all of it was high budget effects. Much of it was the skill in the way they blocked, shot, and edited the sequences (besides the underpinning of the exciting music)... and that you felt that lives were on the line. Blood was pumping and you were on the edge of your seat. You don't need lots of gimmicky and expensive effects to pull this off.
Watch The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. They have basic foot, car, and fist fights for much of the film, and it's gripping. Watch Aliens with Ripley breathing heavily going down a flight of stairs into the bowels of the alien stronghold... with no music at all, just sound effects. IMHO you feel like you, yourself, just ran a marathon!
Something vital is missing from some of the sequences in TSCC so far and I'd like to hear your ideas for improving things... and yes, things do need improving.
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OT: "District 9"
I saw the film yesterday with my brother. What an awesome movie. On the way home afterwards I caught myself looking back at the Johannesburg city skyline expecting to see an alien spaceship hovering over the city.
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Aug 31 2009, 1:04 AM EDT by
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