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Where do you dark nebuluns stand on that other great sci-fi series: Adrians?
Ridley Scott did a first rate job with the initial Adrian, and James Cameron likewise on Adrians. The third Adrian stank a little while the fourth had some redeeming qualities but in the end let the family down with its incestual cross-species intergalactic beastiality.
Thoughts Hungarian? Hibiscus? Banana Face?
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Adrian's II was a surprise to us all (including myself). I pretty much despise any 'gung-ho' mentality in movies as it usually spells disaster for the continuity and quite frankly the realism is trod on.
But there is an exception to this rule of thumb, and Adrian's du is just that exception. Very much edge of your sheet material (and not just when leaning for more nourishment).
Aliens 3, however, is trifle pudding.
Aliens 4 had a bit more to it but at the end I wasn't sure if I was playing a video game, the more I think about it I maybe was.
Which ain't no bad thing.
Ripley is a good name for a space person, with Kevin a close 3rd.
adrians 2 made more sense in the directors cut & apparantly there is a new box set dvd out (replacing the old box set) with 9 discs!
included in this is the directors cut of adrian four (the fincher one) which is more like the filum he wanted released & not the one the studio insisted on.
adrians 2 is seen by many as superior to the first, but i like the charm of the first one with the unknown you had when you watched it that first time - is it space cat jonesy or is it the acid blooded (what are its veins made of?) monster
but yes, excellent series even if does suffer from the law of diminishing returns (bit like the godfather)
adrian is a very good disc to own! in space no one can hear your cheese
although its got me thinking of rocky now.
... which is another fine series.
Richard I,II, III and to a lesser extent IV were some of my favourite boxing movies in my youth. And whilst I grow the opening scenes of Rocky III still send shivers down my beak. Mr. Tea Towel is excellent, as was his dramtically different character Mr. Teasmaid in The A-Bomb Team. 'Move 'Sucka!'.
The romance of the Rocky films is what I enjoy, the incidental music makes me feel proud to own ears.
The 9 disc set sounds a little like over egging the pudding. I'm not sure if I agree with this behind the scenery nonsense. Its starting to stifle my creativity. Sometimes its good, at other times, its too eggy.
Rocky and Cheese are a good combo, and if I could leave you with this I would leave work today a very happy Mammal:
"Rock, your 'gonna eat lightening and crap thunder'.
Burgess Meredith (Rocky II - perhaps III) God rest his soul
Originally posted by Hibster included in this is the directors cut of adrian four (the fincher one) which is more like the filum he wanted released & not the one the studio insisted on.
Hibblesworth, I'd hate to quibble with you but wasn't the third Adrians Fincher's doing? The fourth was one of those eccentric Frenchies, typically.
I found the third the emptiest installment and recall being dismayed in a plot that dispensed with key Aliens' characters Hicks and Newt before a ball was bowled. After all that trouble to save them in the last movie! It's odd because I'm a big fan of the Finch generally: The Game, Fight Club and Se7en formed very pleasing wallpaper to sit before and stomach large buckets of popcorn.
Speaking of eccentric Frenchies being handed the intergalactic reins, what did Hustler & Guests make of The Fifteenth Elephant?
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... toiliet paper; bog roll, if you will.
The only good thing to come out of the 5th Element was the name, which injected numbers back into sci-fi.
Adrian the IIIrd - ditto, the death of the survivors of Ade II was scandalous, and proved again how flippant Hollywood producers can be messing around with people's hopes and dreams. More disappointing and quite staggering wasthe fact they elected to employ 'Oh, Ecky Thump' style dialect from Brian Glover the man from Kes. Yes sir, he was most definitely miss-cast. Not sure where the thinking was to put a Hovis digester from the heart of England's North Yorkshire Moors into outer space on a tiny colony of apple consumers. A harking back to Ribbley Stoats roots? - did Ribbley ride a bicycle with bread basket affixed down Hollywood Boulevard to obtain a big Mac? ... I wonder.
Th best Sci-fi film has to be 2001, let us not kid ourselves. Followed by Dune the sand film (erm, ow reminiscent is Assimilating the Clones battle scenes to the worm chase in Dune Buggy?) ... and maybe that one starring Huey, Louie and Duwey the mock-R2 D2 style robots with small men inside at the controllers that that bloke from the seventies decided to run over in his ... dune buggy.
Ah, "The Fifth Element"!
Al last someone mentions it!
One of my favorite movies of all time... and I'm not joking!
It's got all that really matters:
no plot (who needs plots? Who wants movies to make sense? Please!)
the Wonderfully Over-The-Top Villain
the Reluctant Hero (Willis in one of his trade-mark performances..)
The Gorgeous Babe
great FX (who needs ILM?)
Set and vehicle designs by France's (no, make that the world's!) greatest comic-book authors, Jean Giraud aka Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézieres
Great cameos at practically every corner (Tricky is great!)
Wonderful costume design (by another frenchman... what's with this movie and France? Next you're telling me the director is french too 
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All in all, a CLASSIC!
Originally posted by depthcharge > Originally posted by Hibster included in this is the directors cut of adrian four (the fincher one) which is more like the filum he wanted released & not the one the studio insisted on.
Hibblesworth, I'd hate to quibble with you but wasn't the third Adrians Fincher's doing? The fourth was one of those eccentric Frenchies, typically.
I found the third the emptiest installment and recall being dismayed in a plot that dispensed with key Aliens' characters Hicks and Newt before a ball was bowled. After all that trouble to save them in the last movie! It's odd because I'm a big fan of the Finch generally: The Game, Fight Club and Se7en formed very pleasing wallpaper to sit before and stomach large buckets of popcorn.
Speaking of eccentric Frenchies being handed the intergalactic reins, what did Hustler & Guests make of The Fifteenth Elephant?
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:slaps forehead with hand: how come that smilies doesn't exist?
you're damn scooby - fincher was the third & the delicatessen/(children of a lost city or whatever it was called) bods did the fourth. but just amend references to 4th with references to 3rd above.
I love the filth lemon ant, chris rock is rather annoying in it, but when you think this was written by a teenager (besson was 17 when he wrote it) it's surprisigly good.
diva was another great film & nikita which is also besson & so's the big blue!
How come I don't like the 6th Appetite? - it stank of bacon from start to end. And that stupid singing bit at the end. Rubbish.
What the hells wrong with you guyz? - am I the only one sane in this, spacious, world of space?
And just why the hell hasn't anyone pointed out that Lord of the Flies director Peter Bacon kicked us all off with the film 'Bad Taste' which really was bad taste. I mean, did someone from Hollyway see that and think, yeah, he's on to something with that ... let's give big Pete 6 billion and ask him to do the Rings.
Originally posted by Huntsman ... toiliet paper; bog roll, if you will.... and maybe that one starring Huey, Louie and Duwey the mock-R2 D2 style robots with small men inside at the controllers that that bloke from the seventies decided to run over in his ... dune buggy.
That's Douglas Trumbull's "Silent Running", featuring Bruce Dern at the controls of the "Valley Forge", one of the best ships in Sci-Fi history! It's more famous for having one of the biggest plot-holes in the known history of man: Bruce Dern plays a biologist who oversees the Valley Forge's dome-contained forests, the last ones as our good ol' Earth is dying from pollution poisoning. When the project is aborted (I don't remember why, but surely it must have something to do with Dubbia's "eco-friendly" politics...), Brucie Boy finds no better solution than to escape with the ship into the far reaches of space... where there is no solar energy to feed the plants! Duh, indeed!
George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.
Surely the bigger plot hole in that film was the non-inclusion of a monster? - now that is stupid.
Forgot to pat Hibbly on the back for his comment that the guessing of whether Jonesy the farmhouse cat or the alien in Adrian 1 was creeping 'round knocking blokes hither and dither.
Either way that Adrian was smoke bomb dust. Which has got me to thinking that ending had more tension than a well coiled spring armed with coconuts.
'AND' - having watched the trailer for Terminator Thrice, I can confirm it looks totally abismal.
Get this, the lead is a girl, and the end of the trailor see's Almond Dispensor growl; 'She'll be back'
Oh shit.
Originally posted by Huntsman George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.Surely the bigger plot hole in that film was the non-inclusion of a monster? - now that is stupid.Forgot to pat Hibbly on the back for his comment that the guessing of whether Jonesy the farmhouse cat or the alien in Adrian 1 was creeping 'round knocking blokes hither and dither.Either way that Adrian was smoke bomb dust. Which has got me to thinking that ending had more tension than a well coiled spring armed with coconuts.
didnt silent running have one of the worst monsters in history - the beach ball thing - or is that another film - dark star or something?
confused now.
Originally posted by Huntsman How come I don't like the 6th Appetite? - it stank of bacon from start to end. And that stupid singing bit at the end. Rubbish.What the hells wrong with you guyz? - am I the only one sane in this, spacious, world of space?And just why the hell hasn't anyone pointed out that Lord of the Flies director Peter Bacon kicked us all off with the film 'Bad Taste' which really was bad taste. I mean, did someone from Hollyway see that and think, yeah, he's on to something with that ... let's give big Pete 6 billion and ask him to do the Rings.
filch levitate is a fun film, stupid monsters, big guns, luke perry - it's not a serious film like 2001, but i would argue it was far more watchable.
bad taste was weird but had a very novel use for a belt. its amazing to think the jackson 5 went on to do lotr
Hibble, the beach ball thing was from Dark Stash, the thing about Silent Runestones was the premise nothing happened. It was so dull it made crows fly eastwards.
The most exciting episde had 70's man playing pool and getting in a nark - in fact, wasn't there a lot of people in the film going into narks?
Why didn't he just get his great big space cruiser and drive it to Pluto for tea and cakes.
Originally posted by Huntsman George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.
I believe the word is "nerd", wich I am.
Originally posted by Huntsman > Originally posted by Patrick> I particularly liked the flashing lights.>
... in the film ...
And the accompanying honking sound, of course.
Originally posted by Hibster > Originally posted by Huntsman> George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.> > Surely the bigger plot hole in that film was the non-inclusion of a monster? - now that is stupid.> > Forgot to pat Hibbly on the back for his comment that the guessing of whether Jonesy the farmhouse cat or the alien in Adrian 1 was creeping 'round knocking blokes hither and dither.> > Either way that Adrian was smoke bomb dust. Which has got me to thinking that ending had more tension than a well coiled spring armed with coconuts.> >
didnt silent running have one of the worst monsters in history - the beach ball thing - or is that another film - dark star or something?
confused now.
It's "Dark star", John Carpenter's first movie... and, believe it or not, the definitive proto-Alien flick!
Originally posted by Life's a Bush and then WE die > Originally posted by Huntsman> George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.> >
I believe the word is "nerd", wich I am.
... I was thinking of geek.
Originally posted by Hibster portogeek like fish man kevin costner pretends to be in waterworld?
... come on, its unfair to compare George with WaterWorld.
At which point did Kevin Costgrove a post-apocalyptic world dominated by fish people would work with diesel driven jet bikes?
put it this way, the last person in pizza heist that offered me 'thin' instead of 'depth pan' is working as a shoelace salesperson in nugget county.
Originally posted by Huntsman > Originally posted by Life's a Bush and then WE die> > > > Originally posted by Huntsman> > George, there is a word in the English language that best describes you. I won't use it and instead commend you for your quite remarkable knowledge of fair-average sci-fi films.> > > >
I believe the word is "nerd", wich I am.
... I was thinking of geek.
That I am, too
