Yoda Is Your Father

ferris209 said:

Warbler said:

I'm also not sure how then can find someone to replace Mr. T as BA, and I'm concerned as well about Howling Mad Murdock.   I would think it would be very difficult to fill Dwight Schultz's shoes.  

Agree. I always felt that Jim Carrey would be a great Murdoch if he'd relax on the shtick a little. Say a "Jim Carrey Light".

I've always thought that too.

I wonder if any of the original cast will have cameos.  That would be cool.  Not OTT cameos like in Starsky and Hutch, just bit parts.

And some scenes where a vehicle does a stunt, gets completely wrecked, then quickly cuts to a perfectly intact vehicle driving off.

I've watched it a couple more times and I'm willing to wait and see... maybe it will be a good, fun action film.  Still not sure about Neeson as Hannibal though, as much as I like him as an actor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoILTG8UF-A

What do you think?  I know the original wasn't exactly high art but this looks like one for the toilet.  It's a shame because I think Bradley Cooper makes a good face... but BA is rubbish and why is Hannibal Irish?

I think Hasselhoff at least physically makes a pretty good Nick Fury.

ferris209 said:

I have a TON of old country and bluegrass vinyl. Best stuff ever!!

Country and Bluegrass are perfect on vinyl.  That sort of music shouldn't be crisp and polished.

adywan said:

I see we are getting some new style Daleks in the new show

Yay

(Sarcasm)

Bingowings, your episode summary was SPOT ON.

So what did everybody think of David Tennant's last episode?  Personally, I thought it was the usual Russell T David overblown rip-off-every-other-sci-fi-film rubbish, but Tennat was good as ever and the last ten minutes or so leading up to his regeneration were touching. 

I'm glad to see Russell T Davis go and Stephen Moffat take over, as he wrote some of the better tennant episodes.  I'm also glad to see Karen Gillan come in as the doctor's assistant because she's hot :)

C3PX said:

Warbler said:

I don't watch them all every year as there is just too many.   I alternate.

 

You missed the first part of his post, YIYF.

Ah, my bad! Haha - it seemed like a lot!

Warbler said:

oh boy,  I could come up with a large list here.   I don't watch them all every year as there is just too many.   I alternate.

Movies:

A Christmas Carol(Alastair Sim, George C. Scott, and Patrick Steward versions, I may have to day the new animated Disney version.  I don't like the added action scenes, but even with them, it is one of more accurate versions I've seen)

Scrooge(the Musical starring Albert Finney)
(yes, I am a big fan of the story A Christmas Carol.  I highly recommend that everyone should really the Book.  I try to read it every year as this time.)

Miracle On 34th Street(the original)

Its A Wonderful Life

The Lemon Drop Kid(its where the song Silver Bells comes from)

White Christmas(I have a tradition of watch this one at midnight on Thanksgiving to officially start the Christmas season. )

The Bishop's Wife

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Die Hard's 1 and 2

(at some point, I intend to get "The Nativity Story" and add that to the list)

TV specials:

Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer

Frosty The Snowman

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Twas The Night Before Christmas.

A Chipmunk Christmas

If I could, I'd like to get a hold of the original Looney Tunes and Disney Christmas specials that aired when I was a kid. 

I could probably add more to the list, but that is enough for now.

 

 

How the fuck do you have enough time over christmas to watch all that?

Christmas vacation was on TV the other day - classic.  Muppets christmas is ace too.

A few years back I went to see Patrick Stewart perform a one man reading of a christmas carol - very good.

I've got loads - Beatles, Lennon, U2, Michael jackson, prince, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Dylan.... too many to remember or list.

One cool one I do have is an original 1977 Star Wars OST that a friend gave me - I was looking through her records one christmas day and I was blown away by her SW record and she just said 'keep it, merry christmas'.

Just checked and Anchorhead has me on his ignore list... no idea why, especially as I very rarely post these days (more of a lurker) and I quite like his posts and his anti-anything-except-star-wars-77 stance. Baffling. oh well...

I use the old skool one.

skyjedi2005 said:

This kind of reminds me of that star wars rocks poster.

I am suprised Lucash has not worked with these companies to put out a star wars rockband, as he has sold star wars out as far as you can possibly go.

As a kid i never would have imagined there would be indiana jones or star wars legos, or star wars transformers.

Nor would i have imagined the director/producer/story author  i idolized would have destroyed star wars and Indiana jones in as little as nine years.

It would be sweet if you could unlock a secret cantina level on guitar hero or rockband...

Where did they get the Tauntaun fur from?

The Pianist was good though...

Everything on that website is awesome!

FanFiltration said:

"The Final Countdown" A United States aircraft carrier from 1980, with full compliment of nuclear weapons, jets, and crew is somehow transported back in time to December 6th 1941 by a strange phantom storm. The ship's captain (Kirk Douglas) must make a choice about getting involved in the next days attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor.

That sounds awesome!  Gonna check that one out myself.

I recommend Full Metal Jacket to anybody who hasn't seen it.

Nanner Split said:

skyjedi2005 said:

The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television.  Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.

 

Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P

Agreed!  Thank God, I thought I was the only one who thinks Russell T Davies is a hack writer.  Glad I'm not alone.

C3PX said:

Yoda Is Your Father said:

 you bought your music on a vinyl or CD...

Dude! You left our the part about the wonderful and glorious audio cassette! How could you leave out audio cassette?

True, true - my bad!  Although, let's be honest, cassettes sucked.  The fact that you could record on them was their only cool point - but not being able to skip tracks, and the fact that they almost always broke... rubbish!

Janskeet said:

I think youtube has improved recently, even in standard quality I think the videos look pretty good. So were music videos like Thriller recorded in 35mm and then broadcast in analog on cable networks back then and that was the only way of seeing them? Didn't they used to attach music videos to CDS for awhile? Apparently they had video in CD quality, since they were short they could fit on a cd, I never bought CDs much so I don't know. What about music videos sold on DVD? I have never seen a music video sold on DVD.

 That stuff didn't start happening till the mid-90s - before tehn you bought your music on a vinyl or CD and you watched videos on TV.  There was no internet, no 'enhanced' CDs with videos on the disc etc, none of that.

C3PX said:

There should be a lot less people saying, "Man, I hate the PT, every single time I watch it I feel like throwing up!" and a lot more saying, "Ah, I barely remember the PT. I haven't seen it in ages."

This is Me - I've seen TPM 3 or 4 times, AOTC 1.5 times, and ROTS Once.  Never owned them, don't plan to ever watch them again.

I enjoyed Star Trek and am looking forward to a sequel that is just an adventure now that all the time travel/timeline stuff is out of the way.

"If Lucas Made an Indiana Jones V or VI would anyone here see them?"

Not me.  I should have learned my lesson with the prequels, but no, I still went to see Indy 4... the lesson has now been well and truly learnt. 

White Flash at end of finale: Nuclear explosion or... time travel flash?

I'm building a really simple website in Flash but I haven't used the program for about ten years and it's changed a lot - I've managed through trial and error to build my site but does anybody know how to make it expand and contract to fit the window it's displayed in?  (I'm not even sure if that made sense)

Grateful for any advice.