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#26 2009-11-04 10:14 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: V
They remade The Andromeda Strain?
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#27 2009-11-04 10:30 pm
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Re: V
Tallgeese wrote:
They remade The Andromeda Strain?
Sort of, but trust me on this one - forget I ever mentioned it. I will never get those hours of my life back...
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#28 2009-11-04 10:55 pm
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radarman wrote:
Lets take, for example, the Andromeda Strain. Had they simply updated it with newer science, it would have scared the hell out of people. Instead, they try to spice it up with modern politics instead - so instead of scaring people, it just annoyed them.
Alternatively, you could just hand them the book, which is by far more compelling than either film ever could be.
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#29 2009-11-04 11:16 pm
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And Bren, having only seen the original miniseries once, during it's original airing, I'm hardly an authority on what has or has not been changed.
I'm sorry I didn't communicate that thought more clearly. I wasn't implying that all of this had been done before, and done better, in the original miniseries; I was asserting that every element of the new show has been done before, and done better, in more TV shows and movies than I can name.
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#30 2009-11-05 9:38 am
- Pithecanthropus
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Bren wrote:
Watched the show. I get it now: It's anti health-care reform, anti-Obama propaganda.
OMGNAZIMUSLIMREPTILIANS!!!
As is the case with so many Hollywood schlock movies, I'm really rooting for the villain, 'cause she's the only character that's even a little bit interesting.
The writing was done in 2007, way before the health care fiasco.
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#32 2009-11-10 11:28 pm
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AAAAArrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
I'm not more than eight minutes into watching episode two, and already I want to throw something at the screen! How could any director or actors work with such a poorly written script and not hate themselves?
Female FBI agent character whose name I don't care enough to remember:
We have to form a resistance!
Really? Who the Hell talks that way? In the long history of resistance movements throughout the ages, I'm willing to bet not one of their founders ever said, "We have to form a resistance!"
Please, please, please, let the lizards win!
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#33 2009-11-10 11:50 pm
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Bren wrote:
[snip]
Please, please, please, let the lizards win!
They have made a remake of "V"--the lizards have already won.
BOYCOTT SONY
"I think the question now is not whether you went to Vietnam or whether you didn't, whether you fought in the war or fought against the war. I think the only question is whether we can find a president smart enough never to make a mistake like that again"--Molly Ivins, way back in 1992
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#34 2009-11-11 12:11 am
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OK, it's nice to see Rékha Sharma from BSG. She's totally hot, and I like that her character's last name, Malik, is pronounced just like "Moloch."
Moloch, of course, being the Owl-god who our heads of state and captains of industry worship when they congregate at the Bohemian Grove and shape-shift into their true, reptilian forms.
Nice little inside joke there, or happy coincidence?
Regardless, Rékha's Tha Hawtness! Imdb has her down for one episode, but I do hope she'll be in all the rest.
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#35 2009-11-11 12:54 am
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I loved this movie!
I love this line by "V":
Evey: Who are you?
V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V. : Of course you can, I’m not questioning your powers of observation, I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh, right.
V. : But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
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#37 2009-11-18 10:16 pm
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Too bad that I can't expect to see Alan Tudyk any further in the series. He's such an underrated actor.
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#39 2009-11-29 11:18 pm
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I am 20 minutes into episode 3 and I am screaming (in my head):
you're part of an underground, super-secret society dedicated to the anti-V campaign --
and you keep VERY relevant newspaper articles about it taped to your wall
you keep paper records in your office
you leave phone messages about 'that guy we know,'
and you say things to complete strangers like, 'tell him I know what he meant at the warehouse (wink, nod, wink, wink)."
Jesus smurfing christ... give me the 80s version.
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#40 Yesterday 9:16 am
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Let's see...
Who do I hate?
I hate the FBI agent. I hate her kid. I hate her kid's buddy. I hate the shadowy leader of the resistance. I hate the black guy's simpering wife...
Most of all, I hate the writers, producers, and directors.
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#41 Yesterday 9:59 pm
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Are we going to get another refreshing dose of vitriol every week?
Sheesh, if you hate it so much, stop watching. Maybe ABC will see the ratings drop and purchase Dollhouse from Fox.
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