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Speaking of Robert Zemeckis…

http://p2pproductions.blogspot.com/2009/07/jumpin-jeepers.html

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Completely forgot to mention this yesterday, but Bill was also interviewed for this new SpFX documentary, called ‘Alien Makers’.

http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/index.html

Anyone know if this is Bill’s RD Movie/Moon shuttle..?

EDIT:

Ah, I think THIS might be it. Either way, the model work for Moon looks fantastic.

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>Totally not worth it.

Thought it was great, myself. Actually, if it’s okay with you, Carl, here it is again, iTunes size:

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:-))

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Very rough, but is this the kind of thing you’re looking for, Ben?

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>I want this:
http://io9.com/5302979/a-picard-lookalike-and-a-sisko-lookalike-open-a-s…

I’m sure at least one of the photos featured on their site (the one with the Klingon) was taken at the (old) Collectormania venue in Milton Keynes – the MK Centre.

http://www.capt-table.com/page1003.html

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By a gnat’s wing. :-))

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This the place? http://www.10forwardcoffee.com/

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I think there’s also a Dark Star reference on the Six Of The Best boxset with the two tapes, CD and holograms (the DS reference being on the CD).

There are a few similarities between the film and series: for one, Dark Star is a kind of mining ship (actually, a ‘star killer’ like the Nova 5), and is also a fair distance away from Earth. The senior officer is also not only ‘dead’, but is kept in (cryo)stasis for, I think, almost the entire duration of the film.

BTW – I wonder if Red Dwarf could also be considered, ‘cyberpunk’..? Stylistically, this certainly seems to fit with the whole, postmodern, ‘used-future’ motif, IMO.

Also, something I have to confess as far as Blade Runner is concerned: it took me such a long time to warm to it. But then, the first time I ever saw it was on a crummy quality VHS, played on a tiny monitor in an equally tiny screening room. Truly a film that needs to be experienced in a cinema (be it home, or theatre).

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Happy Families, as in the series that eventually ‘became’ Dwarf (the second series’ budget, anyway)?

Psychoville feels very LOG Series 3, IMO. Right down to the cliffhanger endings for each ep. The murderous mother and son duo also feel very Tubbs and Edward – just with the genders reversed for Steve and Reece.

Have to say, I’m loving the show, so far. Very funny, indeed.

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I’m still holding out for the triangular VHS release, myself.

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VERY rough mock-up, but I guess the blue border BR edition might look something like this…

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Believe it or not, I was reading it just last night for the first time in ages. :-))

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> I vaguely recall a mention of a ?Gelf Runner? in Better Than Life, but I could be wrong.

Hey, found it!

BTL: Part 3, Chap. 9

“For a short time, Gelf-hunters proliferated, and a rebel vacuum cleaner waddling frantically down a crowded street, pursued by a Gelf runner, became a common sight.”

;-)

Also, I’m sure this has been posted before, but what the smeg.

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I vaguely recall a mention of a ‘Gelf Runner’ in Better Than Life, but I could be wrong.

And speaking of Mimas… http://p2pproductions.blogspot.com/2009/06/time-hole-detected-blog-publishing-date.html

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http://p2pproductions.blogspot.com/2009/06/psycho-vile.html

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Wow, wasn’t expecting that. ‘Thriller’ is still the greatest music video of all time, IMO. Great song too. Unbelievable talent with so many great productions over the years.

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Yeah, fortunately it’s a quick cut, so in theory, you can get away with it on the first viewing. I suppose, another option would be to make a thing of his leg falling off, but you’ve only so long to get the joke across.

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>I wondered about the running thing, It does make it out that Starbug is going to blow up.

Yeah, I prefer the walking version. I thought it might be interesting to see how the sequence played with the alternate take.

…Even though one of Robert’s leg sections does fall off near the start(!)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=N8KEr7jPAL4

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Possibly means, ‘this is the old Rimmer’ (the one that went off to become Ace), rather than the nanobot-resurrected version from VIII – as he couldn’t have known about the original squid.

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>Good work – excellent choice of music too :o)

Yeah, love that track – fits the ‘through the portal’ scene perfectly, IMO.

Ha! And I just noticed, the other track, ‘Happily Never After’ features in the Peel P50 segment on Top Gear..!

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>Alien Resurrection is a lovely screenplay that went on to become a horrible, horrible film.

Yep.

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Armpit name that tune…

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>Surely it?d be better if Rimmer, being a hologram, could walk through certain walls (e.g. metal railings, iron bars? the sort of thing he can fit his Light Bee through).

Fanastic idea.

Or maybe, just for the first two missions, Rimmer’s Light Bee has gone missing, having been stolen by the invading Simulants, hell-bent on taking over the ship. As he is operating on ship projectors only, the objective of Mission Three is to recover the Bee so that Rimmer can become a fully-fledged member of the team… Or something.

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BAAAAD HUMANS!!

Always thought a great idea for a Vs. comic series (Alien Vs. Predator, Batman Vs. Predator, etc.) would be Terminator Vs. Short Circuit.

…Seriously(!)

I mean, Johnny-5 is just an early model Hunter-Killer, right? And the reason why Guttenberg looked so glum at the start of the first movie: the week before, his old college buddy, Miles Dyson was head-hunted by Cyberdyne before they could complete their radical AI work at Nova Robotics.

I can sense a new fan trailer in the works…

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Personally, I’d just love to wander around Starbug and the Sleeping Quarters mid-mission. Apparently, in the new Ghostbusters game, you can explore the firehouse to your heart’s content.

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There’s a game called Project Eden where you can switch between members of a four-man team during gameplay and use their unique abilities to achieve different goals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Eden

Kryten could do the tech stuff (fix door locks, Xpress Lifts, etc). Cat could access hard to reach places – Rimmer too with walking through walls, etc. And Lister could be the tough-guy with upgradable Bazookoid.

There’d have to be a ‘piloting Starbug’ stage too, surely.

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>Which Monkey Island game was it where you had to mix certain drinks to win a spitting competition?

That’ll be the second game, LeChuck’s Revenge. You mix a Yellow Beard’s Baby with a Blue Whale to make a Green… Spit-Thickener.

…And always use a crazy straw to drink it, too. :-))

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Wow, thanks so much for posting this. Unbelieveably, I’m currently in the process of writing a Monkey Island article for the p2p blog. Just installed CMI again last week – the first instance of me actually wearing a CD out – had to buy a new one(!)

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>Dave Blipverts

:-))

If only they’d release old Max on DVD, too… Especially the TV movie that used to air all the time on Sci-Fi, years ago.

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>Who else thinks the arms coming out of the chair and grabbing Dana is one of the scariest scenes ever?
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>That?s one of the best aspects of the film; the scary bits are directed as if they belong in a horror movie. Nowadays the intention would probably be to squeeze every last drop of humour out of them.

Totally agree. I remember once trying to convince one of my old Film Studies tutors how at it’s heart, Ghostbusters was really a Horror film. The only difference is that it just happens to be funnier than many other films of the genre.

The sequel is distinctly less Horror, and as a result is just not as unique or engaging to watch. Saying that, I always thought the ‘new’ concepts in GB II were great: Mood Slime, Slime Blowers, the River of Slime, etc. Vigo was great too, IMO.

Must say, I’m looking forward to the upcoming Video Game. And GB III, of course. Heard they might be filming as soon as the end of this year.

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>When I bought Speed on VHS, also included on the tape was a documentary, trailer and music video. Which, at the time, seemed a rare and impressive thing to be doing?

Funnily enough, they did something similar with Ghostbusters. For some reason, just as DVDs started to become popular, they re-released the VHS of the first film with almost all of the DVD extras tacked onto the end – including a doc that was only available with the two-disc boxset, released a few years later.

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If memory serves, this was the episode featured on my old GB II VHS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgZZIGv_XuY&fmt=18

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>I thought only S-VHS tapes could retain teletext information?

I know! Never could explain it until now. All I can say for sure is that the tapes were definitely not S-VHS. But according to that page, at least some of the Teletext signal can be retained, so thanks for posting!

“…unfortunately most domestic VHS recorders do not keep this information. You lose picture resolution when recording on VHS, including almost all of the Teletext signal. By all means have a go at viewing it, but you probably won’t get much more than the Teletext or Ceefax logo at the top of the screen. “

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I remember, my Ghostbusters II VHS had a bonus Real Ghostbusters episode at the beginning, too.

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A few shows that I’ve recorded onto VHS over the years have somehow retained a partial Pg.888/subtitle track. Never thought that was possible, either.

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>I?m so glad it wasn?t an Academy film. What scenes we did get of that were all that was needed.

For this story, yes. The thing is, I just didn’t find the plot immersing, or interesting enough to justify a ‘3 years later’ caption card.

Creatively, there are just two ways to get Trek wrong, IMO. One is to be too reverential of what has come before, and tread over old ground. The other is to not be reverential enough… and tread over old ground.

For my taste, there were just too many unwittingly rehashed concepts, and aside from the retconning, and some other minor aesthetic choices, the film didn’t really have much else to offer in terms of freshness.

But most disappointingly for me, I didn’t really learn anything new about any of the main characters, which might have been different if we’d seen more of how they progressed from lowly cadets to revered Starfleet officers.

As far as modern-day movies go, there were some genuinely impressive moments, but overall, it’s only half-way up my list of the better films.

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>the music reminded me a lot of the score in Starship Troopers.

A lot of the film reminded me of Starship Troopers! The Academy costumes especially.

I heard the original idea for this flick was going to be more akin to Top Gun, and feature bookend cameos from Shatner and Nimoy. Apparently, two prospective titles were ‘Star Trek: The Academy Years’ and ‘Star Trek: The First Adventure’.

Personally, I’d have rather seen more of the film set at the Academy, and with less (or even better, none) of that time travel/alternate timeline business. It was just too distracting for me.

On the plus side, I thought Spock and Uhura’s romance was inspired.

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I wrote a review, here:

http://p2pproductions.blogspot.com/2009/05/dammit-jim-its-reboot-not-sequel.html

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People who don’t close their mouths when they chew, make me… Furious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MihonWEavUA&fmt=18

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>Epic theme tune.

Bloody hell, took me a minute to remember. Never thought I’d see this again…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXsjzcC4Jdw&fmt=18

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>The South Park film?

Yep. A Mr. Garrison line, if I recall…

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>I was wondering when someone was going to key a background into that video?

Me too! It just dawned on me about an hour ago. Wonder why Bobby didn’t add a background in himself..?

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Cheers, Steve. And Pete. And Si. And Danny!

>P2P, you seriously need to go and work for GNP, that was exellent.

…Well, I’m available if their interested. :-))

BTW, here’s something else for y’all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kr8CcaMHv0

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My version…

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Alan’s three rules of life:

1. Drink a cup of coffee in the morning
2. Don’t trust anyone
3. Floss

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