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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
SirDudley:
*Been busy for the past few days. Cut me some slack for catching up*
Man, A.I. really is a crapshoot in QC. Let's hope this doesn't go down the Clinton path. At least this new character isn't trying to dry-hump Marigold's leg or something. Yet.
I only ask Jeph to resist the breast missile add-on for Momo's new chassis. The electricity is perfectly fine.
DSL:
@Akima ... yeah, I wish Hyams hadn't done that; the Chinese space mission was the best part of the book for me, from the sheer audacity of it as described (we need huge water pumps? Get them from the firehouse!) to Dr. Chang's final, fatal report on the Europan creature. From what I remember reading about the movie, the decision to "airbrush it out" was made early on, to the point they never seriously considered what the spaceship Tsien should look like, except for one faintly humorous scribble of a Chinese-food take-out box with a rocket motor attached.
Throg:
I liked 2010 -- both the movie and the book. The movie was definitely not Kubrick but it had its own deliberate pace that was a lot more studied than a lot of the usual sci-fi space opera BS.
IIRC, they also played up the Cold War aspect of things a lot more in the movie. How ancient that seems: who woulda thought that the Soviet Union would fall about fifteen years before 2010.
TheBiscuit:
--- Quote from: DSL on 23 Aug 2011, 16:55 ---
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 23 Aug 2011, 10:56 ---It had style, no doubt about that. I like those aspects, but I don't like it as a film because... I can't really get a handle on the narrative.
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Deliciously ironic. Did you mean to do that?
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If it was clever, of course. Now, what did I do?
In all seriousness I don't know the film well enough to have intended any intelligent wordplay.
Method of Madness:
You mentioned the narrative of a film that's about 90% silent.
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