A little too late to appease the widows but at least the ghosts can be quiet and at peace, on hopes...?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
*tries to decide if you're serious about the ghost thing*
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
What, have trouble believing in the paranormal?
So did I. THen I moved into this house.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
For future reference, Sean, there is already a multi-page thread about current news events...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yes, I know. I attempted to search for it, but couldn't find it. SOmeone posted in it today though, and I put the thread into my favorites for future use.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
It is now stickied for easy finding. Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: What, have trouble believing in the paranormal?
So did I. Then I moved into this house.
This is where we find out that you've been dead for years and cant possibly have posted all this time....
I can see the teen-movie adaptation allready: Fabrus will be played by Hayden Christensen, Charles will be portrayed by Daniel Craig, Shia LeBouf will play young Mars....all of which will, naturally suffer grisly deaths as the paper-thin plot unfolds over 90 minutes.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I wanna be played by that guy with the long-ass nose who played Rat in that awful awful fucking awful movie Core.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Oh christ, don't get me started on The Core. As a geologist, that movie really makes me cringe.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Oh christ, don't get me started on The Core. As a geologist, that movie really makes me cringe.
But those big floaty Diamonds! You HAVE to love them.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
As anyone with common *sense* it makes me cringe. Unobtanium? Are you fucking kidding me? Ultrasound vaporizing rock? Where does it *go* asshole? Where's the heat and explosion?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I remember some crap scene where they were walking on a slab of rock in the earth's core...and not melting.
If I'm not mistaken, the Earth's interior is made up of molten plastic-like lava, and isn't the center either solid rock, more lava, or pure energy? The ship looked weird too. Like a giant caterpillar if I recall.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Earth's core is theorized to be a Ni-Fe alloy of some sort. And yes its solid. Then you have the outer core, which is fluid rock, then the mantle. All these media are separated by velocity changes in seismic waves traveling through.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I thought the outer core was fluid metal?
Also, they were standing in a geode. A ginormous (wow, that's a real word now? Firefox thinks so) geode several miles in diameter. They were still in the mantle at the time. Which, I would think, would preclude a frakkin' geode forming. They're hollowed out by water, aren't they?
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Note that the earth's core is (thought by scientists to be) solid only because the pressure exerted upon it by the immense mass of the overlying layers is so extreme as to prevent it from existing in a liquid state.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Rock will do funny things under extreme pressure. Trust me on that.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
(I'll be seriously impressed if anyone gets that.)
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Only Oom Paul will. So, I guess he is me.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
quote:Originally posted by Sean: What, have trouble believing in the paranormal?
So did I. Then I moved into this house.
This is where we find out that you've been dead for years and cant possibly have posted all this time....
I can see the teen-movie adaptation allready: Fabrus will be played by Hayden Christensen, Charles will be portrayed by Daniel Craig, Shia LeBouf will play young Mars....all of which will, naturally suffer grisly deaths as the paper-thin plot unfolds over 90 minutes.
The only person worthy enough to play me is Clooney.
As for The Core, where do I begin? Landing the Space Shuttle on a freeway? French Stereotype Guy who gets crushed? Giant Bug Zapper aimed at the Earth's core?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
It wasn't a freeway as I recall, it was one of those weird concrete valley things they seem to have all over L.A. where drug dealers and motorcycle-riding Terminator units hang out. What the hell are those things?
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Flood channels I think.
...wait, someone here actually watched the core?
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Daniel: The word you're looking for is aqueduct.
Kris: Yeah, I watched The Core too. Had to, out of silly geologist need.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I have to watch science fiction movies I know are going to suck. Some part of me enjoys being angry at it, I think.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: Only Oom Paul will. So, I guess he is me.
Okay, color me impressed!
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I have to watch science fiction movies I know are going to suck. Some part of me enjoys being angry at it, I think.
Now see, when I see a trailer for a movie that looks crap I say to myself "that looks crap, I won't bother watching it" and then I don't see it, life is less stressful that way. Catwoman, another good example; looked crap, didn't see it, Battlefield Earth; looked crap, didn't see it. Chronicles of Riddick...you get the idea. Not that I claim to have a spidey sense for crap movies mind you. I was tricked into sitting through Hulk (the Ang Lee one) only time I ever fell asleep in the cinema. Then there was the time I rented "Lady in the Water", but that was mostly born out of misplaced hope that is wasn't going to be crap. Oh and a female friend once insisted we go see Vin Diesel be a babysitter (I forget the title), though in my defence I agreed on the sole condition that we go see Sin City right after. It was worth taking the hit.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
quote:Oh and a female friend once insisted we go see Vin Diesel be a babysitter (I forget the title), though in my defence I agreed on the sole condition that we go see Sin City right after.
The Pacifier.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
/me watchs the topic transform into...
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Welcome to flare. If we're not off topic by page two then there is something very wrong.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
TOPIC! We don't need no stinking TOPIC!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
If you thought The Core was crap, there's a new version of Journey To The Center Of The Earth coming out. Lots of hard science in that one, I'd wager.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Why would you compare the two?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Well, I did say crappy scifi. I don't think Catwoman and Vin Diesel babysitter movies qualify for that. Neither, really, did Chronicles of Riddick to me; it was more like a lame jock-adapted fantasy movie with SF trappings.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
You mean like Star Wars?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Ah The Chronicles of Riddick, another classic(piece of crap). How Judy Dench ended up there I'll never know. And Planet Crematoria.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Plus the open-air bounty-hunter ship and the art-deco building spaceships of the "Necromongers". I saw that movie with a date and we giggled through it: the part where Riddick gets that knife was such an obvious setup, we both predicted it would be used to kill the main bad guy at the end.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I like the part when Riddick splashes water on himself as protection against the extreme heat on Crematoria and by the time he makes back to the other characters the water is steaming off of his skin. That's just a whole new level of over-the-topness. Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
He was basting in his own juices.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
It's a shame because Diesel is a good actor, he just seamed to fall into the same trap that the likes Stallone and others found themselves in. That is where they always have to be larger than life characters that save the world through heroics (or anti-heroics) and loosing boxing matches. Riddick, XXX, Fast and the Furious...all crap. Not because of Diesel, just that they were shallow commercial tripe that used his presence as the main selling point.
It's always a shame when a good actor becomes successful enough to be a "star" that they can't seam to go back to supporting roles and instead get sucked into these rubbish "star vehicles". I've lost count of how many times this has happened. In fact I can only think of a handful of "big names" that have managed to avoid it, or even survive it.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: You mean like Star Wars?
No. Star Wars isn't jock-adapted Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I guess I'm in the minority that actually likes Chronicles of Riddick. Oh well.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Well I never watched it, so I can't say if I'd like it or not. The general consensus however seams to be about what I thought it'd be like.
But hey, if it makes you feel any better, I'm one of the three people on the planet that actually liked (and owns a copy of) "The Postman". I also hear some people liked "Hudson Hawk". Go figure.
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