Also, I can almost always tell when they do not use real dinosaurs in a film !!!
Shamelessly misquoted Tracy quote ! :jester:
Later I figured that might have referenced the use of lizards in old films with stuff glued to them and trick photography to make them resemble some dinosaur like creature.
Yeah, my friend Tracy has dozens of funny quotes...
Some of the cheapie 50s sci-fi movies were so stupidly done, laughable SFX, such as an obvious small lizard with scary parts glued on, and such.
My Dad was a lifetime Science Fiction fan and a big manned spaceflight advocate too. When I was a kid, he used to take me to all the bad Saturday pulp film trashy movies and we'd eat popcorn and laugh and point out the mistakes.
Sometimes the usher would have to come over and ask us to pipe down with the laughter. It was a GREAT time with my Dad!
Occasionally there'd be a pretty decent SF movie, like Destination Moon or Conquest of Space by George Pal, and maybe It Came from Outer Space and a couple others, but they were few and far between.
Dad would always tell me, "Son, some day 'they' will make a real science fiction movie, one that's accurate and exciting and great to see." But he would continue to be disappointed, bad movie after bad movie. But I always remembered how much I loved our Saturday afternoons together and our love for SF movies.
So one day, I was able to repay him. Working for the KC Star at the time, I got two special tickets to the press pre-release screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (the original was in Cinerama) and I took him to the theater and sat with him in the front middle section, and from the moment that the movie began, he was hooked! And he understood the whole movie ending concept and the transformation of the astronaut.
The only time my tv is on one of the channels between 2 and 13 is for a sporting event that ABC-CBS-NBC might be carrying. Regular TV is boring to me.
I agree with you for the most part. There are a few shows however that I enjoy: "Supernatural", "Sons of Anarchy", "Justified", the new "Hannibal", and the "24" redo was fun, but besides those, not much.
I used to enjoy Covert Affairs but it got too soapy and romantic. I liked Criminal Minds but it devolved into a "WIP" (Women In Peril) weekly and became repetitious and egregious (women bound and tortured every episode? mebbe for some people, not for me).
My general feeling is this: It's FREE and so I am content to pick and choose among the very few good shows out there, and simply skip the remainder. I've not bought a bunch of DVDs for nuttin.
Exactly the same as with suspense and thriller novels... I review tons of them and most are "so so" and some are awful, and a very few are a delight to read! Of course having to review them "for a living" (yeah, right!) I read at least 1/2 of even the bad ones, so I can write a fair review.
The whole thing boils down to "Sturgeon's Law" which is "Ninety percent of everything is crap!" **
** Years ago the great SF writer Theodore Sturgeon was being interviewed, and the person remarked that Sturgeon was a terrific writer, why did he stick with science fiction instead of writing mainstream? And Sturgeon replied that he enjoyed the variety of being able to create a totally alien culture or set of circumstances that you couldn't do in mainstream books.
"But," the interviewer said, "Ninety percent of science fiction is crap." to which Sturgeon replied, "Ninety percent of everything is crap!" (Sturgeon's Law)
And I just apply this to TV in general, books, movies, sports, restaurants, and maybe even people. I just pick and choose among the very few decent TV shows and simply "click" the rest.
I'm pretty selective about what I spend my spare time on, but I also don't toss the baby with the bathwater, so I'm amenable to watching those few okay shows, and don't care a whit if I "miss" most of the trash.
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A pretty nifty gal. She's an extremely funny, smart, and pretty cute, 40-ish (okay, mebbe 50), lots of fun to have a beer with. She one of those rare but totally fascinating "one of the guys" women with whom you can hang around with, no put-on, no false stuff, just straight ahead good times.
We've known each other for some years, never seemed to "click" as a "dating" type relationship (which is fine) but we've enjoyed each others' friendship and laughter.
She was of course front and present at the Beer & Gun club cookoff, couple Saturdays ago.
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Yeah, my friend Tracy has dozens of funny quotes...
Some of the cheapie 50s sci-fi movies were so stupidly done, laughable SFX, such as an obvious small lizard with scary parts glued on, and such.
My Dad was a lifetime Science Fiction fan and a big manned spaceflight advocate too. When I was a kid, he used to take me to all the bad Saturday pulp film trashy movies and we'd eat popcorn and laugh and point out the mistakes.
Sometimes the usher would have to come over and ask us to pipe down with the laughter. It was a GREAT time with my Dad!
Occasionally there'd be a pretty decent SF movie, like Destination Moon or Conquest of Space by George Pal, and maybe It Came from Outer Space and a couple others, but they were few and far between.
Dad would always tell me, "Son, some day 'they' will make a real science fiction movie, one that's accurate and exciting and great to see." But he would continue to be disappointed, bad movie after bad movie. But I always remembered how much I loved our Saturday afternoons together and our love for SF movies.
So one day, I was able to repay him. Working for the KC Star at the time, I got two special tickets to the press pre-release screening of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (the original was in Cinerama) and I took him to the theater and sat with him in the front middle section, and from the moment that the movie began, he was hooked! And he understood the whole movie ending concept and the transformation of the astronaut.
Sometimes paybacks are great!
Here's the latest from my friend TriCoastal Tracy:
Tried to kill a cockroach with Aqua Net and now it smokes two packs a day, joined my bowling league and calls itself Brenda.
btw, here she is a couple Halloweens ago:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151464291761173&set=a.429481341172.213416.613361172&type=1&theater
She's one amazing gal.
I agree with you for the most part. There are a few shows however that I enjoy: "Supernatural", "Sons of Anarchy", "Justified", the new "Hannibal", and the "24" redo was fun, but besides those, not much.
I used to enjoy Covert Affairs but it got too soapy and romantic. I liked Criminal Minds but it devolved into a "WIP" (Women In Peril) weekly and became repetitious and egregious (women bound and tortured every episode? mebbe for some people, not for me).
My general feeling is this: It's FREE and so I am content to pick and choose among the very few good shows out there, and simply skip the remainder. I've not bought a bunch of DVDs for nuttin.
Exactly the same as with suspense and thriller novels... I review tons of them and most are "so so" and some are awful, and a very few are a delight to read! Of course having to review them "for a living" (yeah, right!) I read at least 1/2 of even the bad ones, so I can write a fair review.
The whole thing boils down to "Sturgeon's Law" which is "Ninety percent of everything is crap!" **
** Years ago the great SF writer Theodore Sturgeon was being interviewed, and the person remarked that Sturgeon was a terrific writer, why did he stick with science fiction instead of writing mainstream? And Sturgeon replied that he enjoyed the variety of being able to create a totally alien culture or set of circumstances that you couldn't do in mainstream books.
"But," the interviewer said, "Ninety percent of science fiction is crap." to which Sturgeon replied, "Ninety percent of everything is crap!" (Sturgeon's Law)
And I just apply this to TV in general, books, movies, sports, restaurants, and maybe even people. I just pick and choose among the very few decent TV shows and simply "click" the rest.
I'm pretty selective about what I spend my spare time on, but I also don't toss the baby with the bathwater, so I'm amenable to watching those few okay shows, and don't care a whit if I "miss" most of the trash.
Wow, cool picture, nice stems:up:
When does the movie start filming?
A pretty nifty gal. She's an extremely funny, smart, and pretty cute, 40-ish (okay, mebbe 50), lots of fun to have a beer with. She one of those rare but totally fascinating "one of the guys" women with whom you can hang around with, no put-on, no false stuff, just straight ahead good times.
We've known each other for some years, never seemed to "click" as a "dating" type relationship (which is fine) but we've enjoyed each others' friendship and laughter.
She was of course front and present at the Beer & Gun club cookoff, couple Saturdays ago.