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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 22, 2021 20:44:57 GMT -5
I remember the Michael Crichton book being a good read when I was young. I bought a few paperbacks at a charity sale, pre-covid... Airframe was quite gripping, and State of Fear was utter dreck. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 22, 2021 22:41:28 GMT -5
I remember the Michael Crichton book being a good read when I was young. He also directed the film, from his own script. I read the book later and it was one of Crichton's better ones, especially for not being science or medicine-based. Film has Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Downe as accomplices and a host of great character actors in other roles. One of Sean's better 1970s films, too. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 23, 2021 4:34:27 GMT -5
I remember the Michael Crichton book being a good read when I was young. I bought a few paperbacks at a charity sale, pre-covid... Airframe was quite gripping, and State of Fear was utter dreck. Back in the mid-1990s, after reading Jurassic Park, which I found entertaining, I picked up cheap copies of pretty much everything I could find by him and then read them in order of publication. Based on that, I can tell that you that the ones worth reading are all pre-1980, i.e., Andromeda Strain, Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the Dead (on which the, in my opinion, not very good movie The 13th Warrior is based). You can safely avoid everything else he originally published under his own name - I soldiered all the way through Rising Sun, Disclosure and Lost World, all of which I almost threw at the wall when I finished them. By the way, in the late '60s and early '70s, he also wrote a number of crime/thriller novels originally published under the pseudonym John Lange (none of which I've read) and one, A Case of Need, under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson, which I have read and found pretty good. I'd be interested in reading some of those 'John Lange' books. Anyway, The Great Train Robbery is a really fun movie...
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 23, 2021 7:48:20 GMT -5
The Great Train Robbery is a really fun movie...
Which he also directed.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 23, 2021 19:01:02 GMT -5
The Great Train Robbery is a really fun movie...
Which he also directed.
I heard that somewhere.....  I have to say, I found the novel of Jurassic Park to be overly long, with way too much print spent on explaining Chaos Theory, while Jeff Goldblum does it in one short scene, in the film. Not that the film is better; but, there were elements I think it handled better. I kind of liked the 13th Warrior; well, about the first 2/3 of it. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2021 19:17:03 GMT -5
I heard that somewhere..... I have to say, I found the novel of Jurassic Park to be overly long, with way too much print spent on explaining Chaos Theory, while Jeff Goldblum does it in one short scene, in the film. Not that the film is better; but, there were elements I think it handled better. I kind of liked the 13th Warrior; well, about the first 2/3 of it. I didn't read The Eaters of the Dead, but the 13th Warrior movie had one of my favourite scenes ever: the one where the main character learns to speak Norse. What a beautiful and simple use of the medium. The scene in which Buliwyf is dying and really, really wants his story to be told but is too proud to ask, only to have Ahmad understand and confirm (without confirming it) that he will, is also extremely well done. So many testosterone-laden tears that refuse to fall! |
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Post by brutalis on Jan 23, 2021 19:53:30 GMT -5
I love the Walmart dump bins. $5 DVD bin dives sorting through modern mark downs to finding classic goodies. Hot Wheels .99 cent messy piles of peg warmers with buried treasures to be found. $5 CD's to dig thru of hit collections and singular hit discs.
Today's digging delivers 5 wonderful Hot Wheels that range from a glorious purple '75 Pontiac Firebird, a 2010 hot rod red Shelby GT500 Supersnake alongside a Shelby GT350R with a stunning Navy Blue striped Twin Mill and a blue/purple Tricera-truck in the Dino Riders collection. Then found sitting right on top of a mound of modern junk a CLASSIC 5 disc set of atomic age black and white sci-fi greatness with Tarantula [giant sized scares), the Mole People (with youngish butler Alfred), the Incredible Shrinking Man (he nails it), the Monolith Monsters (rock out), Monster on Campus (prehistoric fish fry) all reminders of the glory days of simpler special story and effects action.
I love the Walmart dump bins. There, I said it...
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Post by brutalis on Jan 25, 2021 9:06:54 GMT -5
Had a strange thought this morning pop into my head. What if you crossed Fran Drescher with Elvira? Jewish American Goth Princess Horror movie hostess? There, I said it. Can't get the image and sound out of my head...
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Post by shaxper on Jan 25, 2021 9:38:09 GMT -5
Had a strange thought this morning pop into my head. What if you crossed Fran Drescher with Elvira? Jewish American Goth Princess Horror movie hostess? There, I said it. Can't get the image and sound out of my head... And now neither can I  |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 25, 2021 9:55:17 GMT -5
I had five free minutes and a photo editor. Enjoy, brutalis:  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2021 11:57:13 GMT -5
Sounds like the Emergency Broadcast System with large breasts.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 25, 2021 12:35:47 GMT -5
I always thought Fran Drescher was funny, talented, and attractive. But yeah, I admit that her laugh can get kind of grating
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Post by impulse on Jan 25, 2021 14:50:43 GMT -5
Holy unexpected giant boobies, Batman. It's a good thing I've been working from home since last March as I would not have expected a giant cleavage photo to pop up on the "There I said it" thread at the CCF.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 25, 2021 15:25:54 GMT -5
Holy unexpected giant boobies, Batman. It's a good thing I've been working from home since last March as I would not have expected a giant cleavage photo to pop up on the "There I said it" thread at the CCF. There was a greeting card one year that I saw that was supposedly cleavage, but when you opened it up, it turned out to be a plummer's crack |
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Post by impulse on Jan 25, 2021 15:55:24 GMT -5
Holy unexpected giant boobies, Batman. It's a good thing I've been working from home since last March as I would not have expected a giant cleavage photo to pop up on the "There I said it" thread at the CCF. There was a greeting card one year that I saw that was supposedly cleavage, but when you opened it up, it turned out to be a plummer's crack A plumber's crack is also in the category of things I would prefer not to randomly pop up on my screen at work without a warning in case someone who cared walked by... Well, a plumber's crack is something I'd like to not ever have to see in any context if I can avoid it. |
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