You may be thinking of Contact.
I think I am. Thank you.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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Lyra Jane - Sep 27, 2004 10:42:22 am PDT #4154 of 10001
Up with the sun
DavidS - Sep 27, 2004 10:42:51 am PDT #4155 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Why?
Hundreds of millions of dollars?
Jim - Sep 27, 2004 10:52:12 am PDT #4156 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Also he needs a hit, and frankly I imagine they are an absolute blast to make.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2004 11:28:01 am PDT #4157 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
surprisingly nationalistic
I thought it was at least partially funded by the government, so not much of a surprise if that's the case.
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2004 11:58:16 am PDT #4158 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh. Soderbergh. Unnecessary sequel. Why? I'd generally assume it's to give Don Cheadle more screen time, but he wasn't used particularly well in the first one.
Story I heard was they went to some place in Europe, and he was all, "This is where we're filming the sequel."
Dude just wants to have fun.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2004 12:01:17 pm PDT #4159 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here's why the movie is nationalist:
The involvement of the Chinese government allowed Zhang to raise the unprecedented sum of $30 million US he needed to make the movie.
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2004 12:01:55 pm PDT #4160 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And in other news, the hell?
The next installment of the Terminator series will hit cinema screens in 2005 - but reportedly without Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger recently ditched acting for politics by becoming governor of California and, according to sources, his part in Terminator 4 will be reduced to a cameo role, while a new robot takes the limelight. A draft of the screenplay has just been completed by Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris. Sources say it is about what happens when the world's computer systems are infected by viruses.
Dana - Sep 27, 2004 12:04:07 pm PDT #4161 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Because T3 was such a success?
Nutty - Sep 27, 2004 12:22:01 pm PDT #4162 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Because, when your movie ends with a devastating nuclear war, sequel is the first word in your mind.
On the down side, we've known since 1984 pretty much what happens at the end of this story. On the up side, time travel! The ultimate retcon opportunity.
Mr. Broom - Sep 27, 2004 12:25:56 pm PDT #4163 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Maybe in T4 someone will finally have the idea we all had a long time ago--send the damn robot back to the factory right after Sarah Conner killed the first Terminator and is lying wounded on the floor. Shortest Terminator film ever, and it'd be the first one to make actual time-travel sense.