Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:42:40 -0500
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In article , Pope Phil
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> interesting, but will probably be overshadowed by the BIG one
>
> http://www.pendragonpictures.com/WOTWKEY.html
I'm not going to let ANYTHING get my hopes up after what They did to
"The Time Machine."
Some of the trailer shots look pretty cool though. I don't care if it
is HORRIBLY done, the fact that they tried to stick to the period ...,
no, NO! I am NOT going to get my hopes up.
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Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:04:25 +0000 (UTC)
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indeed. some of the acting from the 'unknown' cast looks a bit ropey, but as you say: it is in
period and the correct location.
and there'll be no Spielberg schmalz or Cruise grin(TM)
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> In article , Pope Phil
> wrote:
>
>
>>interesting, but will probably be overshadowed by the BIG one
>>
>>http://www.pendragonpictures.com/WOTWKEY.html
>
>
>
> I'm not going to let ANYTHING get my hopes up after what They did to
> "The Time Machine."
>
> Some of the trailer shots look pretty cool though. I don't care if it
> is HORRIBLY done, the fact that they tried to stick to the period ...,
> no, NO! I am NOT going to get my hopes up.
>
Correspondent:: "frater S.O.D.D.I." Date: 24 Feb 2005 16:20:31 -0800
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I just wanna see ONE MORE of Wells' stories make it to the screen with
its original Socialist subtext intact. ("WotW"- colonialism, "TM"-
class struggle, "Moreau"- colonialism AND class struggle... )
Only "Shape of Things to Come" so far.
Occasionally this science fiction writing stuff can actually mean
something
Correspondent:: Cardboard Box Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:57:16 GMT
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Some time between the hours of March 10th and Friday, "frater S.O.D.D.I."
committed the following:
> I just wanna see ONE MORE of Wells' stories make it to the screen with
> its original Socialist subtext intact.
I want to see Wells' "The Wheels of Chance" on the silver screen.
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Correspondent:: Artemia Salina Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:53:45 -0500
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:57:16 +0000, Cardboard Box wrote:
> Some time between the hours of March 10th and Friday, "frater S.O.D.D.I."
> committed the following:
>
>> I just wanna see ONE MORE of Wells' stories make it to the screen with
>> its original Socialist subtext intact.
>
> I want to see Wells' "The Wheels of Chance" on the silver screen.
That would be nice, but for me, I want to see his "3000 Retarded Mexican
Janitors Buttfuck 10,000,000 Dick-shaped Space Aliens in the Mouth for
100 Billion Thousand Years Until the Dick-shaped Space Aliens Give Up on
Their Invasion Plans and Go Back into the 10 Million Thousandth Dimension
Where They Came From"
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:23:32 +1100
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>>I just wanna see ONE MORE of Wells' stories make it to the screen with
>>its original Socialist subtext intact.
>
> That would be nice, but for me, I want to see his "3000 Retarded Mexican
> Janitors Buttfuck 10,000,000 Dick-shaped Space Aliens in the Mouth for
> 100 Billion Thousand Years Until the Dick-shaped Space Aliens Give Up on
> Their Invasion Plans and Go Back into the 10 Million Thousandth Dimension
> Where They Came From"
this would be from when Wells travelled to the future and did a
collaboration with Sterno.
Correspondent:: Artemia Salina Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:33:53 -0500
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:23:32 +1100, nikolai kingsley wrote:
>
>>>I just wanna see ONE MORE of Wells' stories make it to the screen with
>>>its original Socialist subtext intact.
>>
>> That would be nice, but for me, I want to see his "3000 Retarded Mexican
>> Janitors Buttfuck 10,000,000 Dick-shaped Space Aliens in the Mouth for
>> 100 Billion Thousand Years Until the Dick-shaped Space Aliens Give Up on
>> Their Invasion Plans and Go Back into the 10 Million Thousandth Dimension
>> Where They Came From"
>
>
>
> this would be from when Wells travelled to the future and did a
> collaboration with Sterno.
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:51:25 +1100
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> Some of the trailer shots look pretty cool though. I don't care if it
> is HORRIBLY done, the fact that they tried to stick to the period ...,
> no, NO! I am NOT going to get my hopes up.
i'm impressed by the way the trailer shots seem to indicate they've
found a way to make the film without even one Martian War Machine. maybe
they'll be off-screen the entire time, and we'll only know they're there
when someone points off-camera and shouts "Look out!", and is then
vaporised.
Correspondent:: Pope Phil Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:32:08 +0000 (UTC)
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its a tease, and so are you
nikolai kingsley wrote:
>
>> Some of the trailer shots look pretty cool though. I don't care if it
>> is HORRIBLY done, the fact that they tried to stick to the period ...,
>> no, NO! I am NOT going to get my hopes up.
>
>
>
>
> i'm impressed by the way the trailer shots seem to indicate they've
> found a way to make the film without even one Martian War Machine. maybe
> they'll be off-screen the entire time, and we'll only know they're there
> when someone points off-camera and shouts "Look out!", and is then
> vaporised.
>
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:06:17 -0500
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In article , Pope Phil
wrote:
> its a tease, and so are you
>
> nikolai kingsley wrote:
> >
> >> Some of the trailer shots look pretty cool though. I don't care if it
> >> is HORRIBLY done, the fact that they tried to stick to the period ...,
> >> no, NO! I am NOT going to get my hopes up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > i'm impressed by the way the trailer shots seem to indicate they've
> > found a way to make the film without even one Martian War Machine. maybe
> > they'll be off-screen the entire time, and we'll only know they're there
> > when someone points off-camera and shouts "Look out!", and is then
> > vaporised.
> >
In the trailer I saw there is one shot (about 26 frames) of a Martian
tripod coming straight at the camera real fast -- you just see the
legs. I noticed also a shot of some appropriately
mechano-organic-looking tentacles writhing around a young woman and
they appeared to be UNDRESSING her. Horny Martian dicks, vast, cool,
and unsympathetic, have slowly been drawing hard-ons against us.
I would like to see ALL of Wells' novels and short stories done up
right -- in period, with period dialog, AND NO DAMES. (HAH! SURE we'll
see THAT happen!)
To be fair, neither George Pal and Harryhausen/Schneer went and
DELIBERATELY cut the balls off the Wells stories they did. Pal's Time
Machine and WotW simplified things due to budget constraints, but he
didn't carefully lop off the books' nads like more recent productions
have. First Men in the Moon retained at least the gist of its moral,
that Earth News at 11 will terrify even Selenites.
Then there's Moreau. The set design and make-up couldn't have been much
better, but it might have been nice to have used actors and directors
who didn't feel they needed to leave their own nonsensical piss-marks
on a classic.
I know how it is. I tried to shoot The Time Machine when I was 11, in
8mm. My brother and I only got as far as the Time Traveler's fist view
of Eloi-land. My brother played both the sole Eloi and the Sebastion
Cabot whose cigar does a time-travel demo in a mini-Time Machine at the
beginning. I played the Time Traveler. We hadn't discovered the film
splicer, so we filmed everything in chronological order, "cutting
in-camera" -- including the time-lapse effects for the time travel
sequence, etc. Boy is it "cute"!
I'd love to see Food of the Gods done up, but NOT according to the
book. If it followed the book exactly, at the 4 hour point a two hour
bombastic lecture by one of the giants would start, and you'd think you
were stuck in a Bizarro Ayn Rand world where the characters were just
as boring and stilted and pompous, but were all Commies instead of
Nazis. He wrote that one late in his life, when he had forgotten not to
Preach.
HEY!! When I was a kid there was a TV show that did an adaptation of
Wells "The Country of the Blind". Kick-ass story. I vaguely remember
seeing the actors in this show with makeup which hid their eyes with
just flat flesh.
WHAT SHOW WAS THAT? I don't think it was a Twilight Zone... would have
been very early 60s.
The Wild Wild West once ripped off a Wells story about "super-meth," a
drug which would speed you up so much that everything around you
appeared to be static. (Frye of Futurama achieved this state on his
100th Cup of Coffee in one cartoon.) I feel that way at Devivals
without any drugs. Especially at Devivals at bars.
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" was made in the early 30s -- I have a
copy -- and in this oddity you actually get to see the gods themselves
chatting about "what would happen if we gave some Earth poebucker our
powers!"
You are seeing his "World Encyclopedia" right where you are sitting
now. Modemac just improved on it, too!
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Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:32:14 +1100
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> The Wild Wild West once ripped off a Wells story about "super-meth," a
> drug which would speed you up so much that everything around you
> appeared to be static. (Frye of Futurama achieved this state on his
> 100th Cup of Coffee in one cartoon.) I feel that way at Devivals
> without any drugs. Especially at Devivals at bars.
"The New Accelerator". that was the Wells story that hooked me. the guy
was a lone SubG in a world of pinks. what's better, he knew more or less
how to hide it, when he wasn't out fucking anything in a skirt.
apparently he was a bit of a, well, you know, someone who devotes his
life to fucking anything in a skirt.
Correspondent:: "angelicusrex" Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:24:29 -0700
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> The Wild Wild West once ripped off a Wells story about "super-meth," a
> drug which would speed you up so much that everything around you
> appeared to be static.
I remember that one...they used liquefied diamonds, which they stole while
everyone was in a static state... I loved that show.