Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-02 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:43 AM Thursday 6/2/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:50 PM Wednesday 6/1/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: (OK, not fair. I guess the FX were *tolerable* in context in the Heston film ... but when you compare PotA's "apes" to the pre-huma

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:50 PM Wednesday 6/1/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: (OK, not fair. I guess the FX were *tolerable* in context in the Heston film ... but when you compare PotA's "apes" to the pre-humans in _2001_, well...) Which one won the Academy Awa

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:50 PM Wednesday 6/1/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: (OK, not fair. I guess the FX were *tolerable* in context in the Heston film ... but when you compare PotA's "apes" to the pre-humans in _2001_, well...) Which one won the Academy Award, though? -- Ronn! :) _

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/1/2005 8:50:49 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will Smith might be able to play Uthacalthing, > the Tymbrini ambassidor and Danny Devito would be great as Gubru > Suzerain of Beam and Talon...But, I'm sorry; you're > absolute

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leonard Matusik wrote: God Warren; THAT sucks Look what BBC did with Adam's "Hitchhicker", :D Not the Beeb. I was thinking more along the lines of the folks who did the *Brit* version of _War of the Worlds_ recently. And the Beeb TV version was still a damn s

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Leonard Matusik
God Warren; THAT sucks Look what BBC did with Adam's "Hitchhicker", :D maybe someone could just do a stage play, maybe a musical adeptation.. Leonard Matusik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:50:12 -0700 On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Leonard Ma

Re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jun 1, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Leonard Matusik wrote: But Uplift WARS! (see even the name sounds movie-ish) That couldn't be a whole lot harder to do than "Planet of the Apes", could it? Which version do you mean? The Heston one with the goofy unlifelike masks, or the Burton one that was a var

re: kingdom of heaven/this chickenshit era we live in...../uplift wars

2005-06-01 Thread Leonard Matusik
H, I can see where you'd say that about something like Startide Rising. It's very cerebral and the water scene would almost have to be animated to work. You'd loose too much. (like how could you possibly do the "underwater homosexual dolphin" scene? But Uplift WARS! (see even the name sou