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| (...) Easy there, Admiral! Just making a jest at the expense of Canoe. (...) I'll buy that--it's not as if there'd been a whole lot of mainstream film exposure to cyberwear by the time that JM was released. (...) Fair enough. I also like the actor (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Well, what about you? I'm not trying to say it's a great movie that was just misunderstood by the general public. It's a hokey corny movie that was misunderstood. I don't think the average moviegoer knew what 75% of the stuff in the movie was (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.castle, Daniel Rubin wrote: snip (...) Apropos of much of this thread, I'm just glad when a movie resembles the book it was based on at all. John LeCarré once said: "Watching your novel being made into a movie is like watching your oxen (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Snip (...) Hey //ark, Me? Serious? Yes and no... The fantasy element is very real, but by that I mean that if you can imagine it and build it then it becomes real. There is a vast stock of inspiration out there in books and movies for Castle (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) No, man, by all means! I always get a kick out of those who have fun with their MOCs outside their theme (and outside LEGO bricks as well). Joe Meno comes to mind when he was over here for the Houston SciBrick event. He seemed to have a good (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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| (...) Did anyone ever see the British TV serial version? I thought it was "charming" is the only word I can think of. It did seem to me to catch the essence of books, even if it ended oddly. I particularly liked the way it switched between the story (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Ah, the old "didn't get" it trump card. What about those of us who did get it (and paid to see it in the theater!) but still didn't like it? 8^) It was cool to see Henry Rollins as a streetdoc, though. And the monofilament whip was nifty... (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Boy my reading comprehension skills are fantastic! I'll just chalk this one up to having started spring break last night and something to do with the Law Review Right on. I hope that the Hitchhiker's Guide movie is better than the BBC series. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| "Daniel Rubin" <hppyweasel@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Hu4229.D1A@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) stick (...) saw the (...) he (...) yup, apart from thats Red Dwarf, not Hitch Hikers Guide Red Dwarf starts filming down under in May (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| (...) with the original cast from the TV show. Too bad Rimmer's like 45 now. I saw the guy who played Lister hosting some robot battle show a few years ago, and he still looks pretty young, so there is hope. -Dan Rubin (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I wouldn't describe LOTR as the best trilogy in history. Not even second. To me, the original SW trilogy is superior. I'd also put the Godfather trilogy ahead, even though it's far from the topics discussed here. And, oh, and Back to the (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| nope, its very much back in production. They have been casting for it the last few months, filming starts next month (URL) James Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' Incommunicado "Andrew" (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hmmm.... You may have a good idea there... The baddest LEGO villain.... Ogel, Sam Sinister, Jack Stone... :-) Terry (URL) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.castle, Mark Sandlin wrote about some scifi stories being made into movies. (...) I've heard that Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is being made into a movie, but apparently it has fallen into the same black hole. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I'm greeting this update with a huge saltlick. The Ender's Game movie has been stuck in about the same spot as it is now for at least 6 years. I recall looking up details on it back in grad school, and seeing basically the same information (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Bruce!, Yes, I built these creations for our castle layout at the Children's and Parents Expo held here in Indianapolis, Feb 28th-29th. My brickshelf folder can be found here: (URL) can also take better pictures of orthanc, but alas, Mt. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Bicentennial Man was (not faithfully) adapted from Asimov's short story of the same name, as well as his novel The Positronic Man. Supposedly there are talks of doing something with Asimov's Foundation series, and I Robot is currently filming (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) snip (...) (URL) pretty excited about this too, but it's probably a few years away from the screen. It looks like they've only aquired the right's to Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, and combining them to make one film. Um. Getting a bit OT. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Ender's Game?!?!? Ooh, ooh! *drool* Of course, they've been "going to do" something with Pern for years now, and it keeps falling to the wayside. Besides, the problem they'd have with doing the Ender series is that they wouldn't need to get (...) (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| ya know, for years people have been telling me to set my robots up like this. Its good to see you do this, (as I've said). In directly flattery to you, you you mind if I set my Little Bots up like this and do a shoot? e (21 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun)
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