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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.
Serenity is the number one SciFi movie of all time, according to a new poll in SFX magazine.
1. Serenity (2005)
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. Blade Runner (1982)
4. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. The Matrix (1999)
6. Alien (1979)
7. Forbidden Planet (1956)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9. The Terminator (1984)
10. Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future?
Dude, that movie rocks.
I've seen all those movies but Forbidden Planet.
I've seen all those movies but Forbidden Planet.
You must see it immediately. It's The Tempest with cheesy special effects.
I am P-C in the what-I've-seen list.
Yeah, but I don't like The Tempest all that much.
Back to the Future?
Dude, that movie rocks.
Yeah, but I wouldn't put it in the top ten SciFi movies.
I don't like The Tempest all that much.
Yeah, but you don't have to. Did we mention the cheesy goodness? Also, tons of Freudian stuff. Really. They talk about the Id quite a lot.
Where's the Aliens love? It's all over, man!
Yeah, but you don't have to. Did we mention the cheesy goodness? Also, tons of Freudian stuff. Really. They talk about the Id quite a lot.
And Leslie Neilsen as the completely non-ironic hero.
Yeah, but I don't like The Tempest all that much.
Oh, the horror! It's can be hard to stage well, because it's so full of words, but they're such pretty, pretty words.
Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
O brave new world, that has such people in it!
I'll stop now.
Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
Cool. I hadn't head that one. Is that were the expression "sea change" comes from? Google says yes: [link]
The point at which it stopped being a direct quotation and turned into an idiom is hard to pin down, though it seems to have happened only in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The Oxford English Dictionary finds the first allusive use in one of Ezra Pound’s poems from 1917. But examples can be found a little earlier than that, as in The Great White Wall by Julian Hawthorne, dated 1877: “Three centuries ago, according to my porter, a sea-change happened here which really deserves to be called strange”.