Posted on 03/25/2012 2:57:22 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (03/25/12)
Monday:
8/7 -- Alcatraz -- Fox (Season Finale)
Friday:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
I'm in deep withdrawal. Seven whole months to hope and dream of Lori being eaten in the season opener.
I'm in deep withdrawal. Seven whole months to hope and dream of Lori being eaten in the season opener.
and twice would be even better
I didn’t think I’d like the show so I didn’t watch much of it. I think I saw the first episode and then didn’t watch much at all till they got to the farm. I’ve been a faithful viewer ever since.
Well, go for the spectacle. Given they spent $250 million on it, it is underwhelming, but worth a matinee for the great visuals and battle scenes (and the princess). If you want to see a much better picture for plot and intensity, see Hunger Games which was made for something like $75 million.
We started watching it from the first, but we just thought it would be a fairly good weekend entertainment, you know? And then pow——hooked.
I know a lot of people didn’t really enjoy the farm that much, but I liked it....I was sorry they had to leave.
I liked it, it pretty much stuck to the ERB book.
They also had the trailer up for Avengers and that looks great as well.
I didn’t read the comics, so I think you gave me a hint of what’s going to happen, LOL.
Yep, Lori is a snake. What was all that whispering to Rick about doing something about Shane? When Shane was up on the windmill and she came out to talk to him, she looked at him like she was starving and he was a porkchop. Maybe she wanted to set them on each other and go with the winner.
Yes, her reaction to Rick last week was a shock.
I’m with you about Andrea-—like her, but I thought she was being too hard on poor old Dale.
And Carol is bugging me with her whining. Is anyone ever going to insist that woman learn to shoot, or is she going to be dependent on the rest of them forever?
Oops, sorry, I shouldn’t give spoilers. They’re not entirely following the comics, so they change Lori’s outcome.
I feel sorry for Dale (yeah, I know he’s the lib-wanker), but in the comic he and Andrea’s character got it on, and he lived for quite a few issues. So, knowing the character from the comic, I’m going to miss him; and I felt the picked the perfect actor him. Now, I just wish Andrea would wear Dale’s hat like she did in the comic, but oh well.
I think that’s why I like the television series because it isn’t exactly like the comic. In many ways it’s better.
Saw it. It lived up (or down) to my low expectations.
Not to say it isnt a good popcorn movie; it is and people should see it if thats what they are looking for.
Sadly I re-read five of the books recently, so ERBs descriptions of places, characters and events from the books have been refreshed. These were NOT echoed in the film. Also, unfortunately, I was put off by the overt departures from the source material in terms of plots, descriptions and actions. The plot is partly new and partly an unrecognizable mashup from several different of ERBs Mars books.
The terrain is all wrong. Barsoom, while arid did indeed have ochre moss in great quantities, and scarlet swards of Martian lawn grass. Productive farms lined the great canals. Saw no one of that. The cities in the movie bear no resemblance to how they are described in the books.
Woola was a good characterization in the movie. Disney captured indeed the faithfullness of Carters beloved Calot. But though fast in the books, his ten legs (not six) did not make him leave a trail of dust like the road runner. The Therns were men (and women) of Barsoom who infiltrated the Red Martian cities by wearing makeup and wigs. They were not gimmicky shape shifting super beings. The White Apes, while large and dangerous were not the size of King Kong or even Mighty Joe Young. Etc etc etc. etc etc etc .
Perhaps most disappointing were the fliers. The fliers in the movie were clever and entertaining in their own right: but they were not the magnificent floating patrol boats, cruisers, and dreadnoughts of Edgar Rice Boroughs imagination. He saw them as ships of the type that were in battle at the time of the Spanish American War. Thats how they should be portrayed on screen as they sortie and battle in the thnning air of Barsoom.
Disney is in the business of making money, I understand, but ERB had an exciting vision of Barsoom which only modern CGI could render with fidelity. Disney chose not to and instead went for what I suspect is a pretense of an amusement park attraction, toys, etc.
And a word about the warriors of fair Helium .they were men. Thats right: a nation where the men were men, and the women were voluptuous. And nobody wore much in the way clothing (let alone armor something entirely foreign to ERBs vision). Female warriors of Helium? Must be the work of that guy from accounting.
And finally, what of the incomparable Dejah Thoris , the most beautiful woman on two worlds?
Woof.
Do the folks at Disney have no concept of beauty, or what kind of young woman would have the blue-blooded bearing of a Princess? Apparently not, for Disneys idea of Dejah Thoris is nothing more than a tattooed skank.
If there is to be a sequel, please, Disney .. Recast that role!
What a great finale! The scene with the barn burning as the walkers are in front of it was just beautifully done. The arrival of Michone in time to save Andrea was great.
How much do you wish a Walker would get Laurie?
Are new sci-fi movies like “Hunger Games” and “John Carter” up for discussion on this thread?
Thanks!
did you get it in time?
I think its a good story. A few typos or missing words but inconsequential.
They are already being discussed.
Yes, I was in time. I wrote the ‘thanks’ after it downloaded.
Looking forward to reading it.
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