'Hell Bound'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
Yeah, ya gotta love that episode of Voyager where they had a microscope that zoomed in on someone's DNA sample until they could see the individual atoms.
Oh, this reminds me of when I recently watched an episode of the animated X-Men and saw a scene in which Beast looks through a light microscope and views a virus.
Love "A Thousand Pieces of Gold"!! A really good movie about the Chinese experience of the gold rush. Rosalind Chao (aka Keiko O'Brien and Soon Li from M*A*S*H) is excellent in it, but I forgot that Chris Cooper was in it, too!
He plays Jake Gyllenhall's dad in "October Sky," so he's definitely the antagonist in that film, but I wouldn't call him the villain, exactly.
He was also the hero in Matewan. I like Cooper a lot, actually.
He was the horse trainer in Seabiscuit.
There is that distinction...
Hm. I'm definitely interested in seeing 1000 pieces of Gold now.
I heard a lecturer at AU talking about the disparity between the percentage of Chinese immigrants during that period of history who were women vs. the same percentage as Irish women immigrants.
Irish = 52 %
Chinese = 2 %
That really struck me. According to the prof, each culture had no use for their women. So one left them behind as unprofitable and the other shipped them off as detritus.
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I need to finally see Matewan. My dexh was born in that town.
I saw A Thousand Pieces of Gold when I started working at Blockbuster part-time (suckiest job ever!), about the same time I saw Map of the Human Heart, so they're always paired up in my mind. Same thing with Fresh and Searching for Bobby Fisher, which actually have a lot more in common than the other two do.
Loved Fresh.
My biggest movie pet peeve is the one sprinkler head setting them all off.
I can vouch for the fact it doesn't as we had an actual live demonstration in the factory where I work. More than one went off, but only enough to contain the fire, which was highly localized to one set of pallet racking. Until then, I wouldn't have known the difference, either. Now I do.
only enough to contain the fire
Oyah. Which is why fire sprinklers are good!! (gotta represent for my mom, who designs fire sprinkler systems for a living.)