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Gah. Doomsday Book just about killed me. To Say Nothing of the Dog was delightful, but it didn't stay with me as long as Doomsday Book.
Doom and doom tends to make more of an impression than whimsical romp. I liked them both but, yeah, Doomsday Book will stick around longer.
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Have any of the James Franco lovers around these parts seen Sonny? It's been airing on one of the premium movie channels for a while now.
Lyra Jane, I just googled and found this site.
I think I'd need the flowcharts.
I could explain, I think...which do you wanna hear, how Back to the Future II is impossible, or why there were two Deloreans in the Wild West?
One of the other things that amuses me is when past films show "future technology" which appears dated by today's standards.
BttF II did a good job of speculating possible future technology, and on their "talking tech" (like the auto-sizing clothing) the voice technology sounded good for the time, but compared to today's artificial voice technology, it is now terribly dated.
One of the other things that amuses me is when past films show "future technology" which appears dated by today's standards.
You kinda haveta, though, don't you? Unless you go the Alien route, or something Firefly-esque where you just root the design firmly and not coincidentally in a time period that isn't the future.
I can get past most of them, but the communications devices that are bulkier than my cellphone/bluetooth earpiece combo jar.
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BttF II did a good job of speculating possible future technology, and on their "talking tech" (like the auto-sizing clothing) the voice technology sounded good for the time, but compared to today's artificial voice technology, it is now terribly dated.
All very true, but the fact remains: I want my hoverboard!!!
Also, I never heard the two delorean thing. Maybe in the time it takes MM to post it, I can figure it out.
Thinks real hard.
Also, I never heard the two delorean thing. Maybe in the time it takes MM to post it, I can figure it out.
Aimee, go read some other thread.
The problem comes in BttF III when Marty goes back to the Old West and trashes the fuel pump and runs out of gas in the Delorean he uses to get there.
Doc Brown tells him they're screwed, because another fuel pump and gas station won't be invented for several decades.
However, what Doc Brown forgets is that he already has gas and another fuel pump right there in 1885 -- in the Delorean that got him there.
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