Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's Raises the Stakes, Again (free wireless)

2009-12-19 Thread Keith Johnson
Yeah, I've been to the website, and gotten brochures from the reps at movie theatres and stores. I can never convince myself the outlay of money is necessary, since I try to get free wifi at those coffee shops and such. - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: "SciFiNoir2"

Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's Raises the Stakes, Again (free wireless)

2009-12-19 Thread Keith Johnson
There's also the Krispy Kreme in the West End  - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: "SciFiNoir2" Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 2:55:27 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] McDonald's Raises the Stakes, Again (free wireless)   It is? I just

[scifinoir2] Re: Doctor Who

2009-12-19 Thread Kelwyn
Thanks for the heads-up! I will be watching football (you gotta have priorities!) but I will be DVRing this episode and "Inside the TARDIS." ~rave! Who's your friend? Who's your buddy? ("Stripes") --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" wrote: > > There's a new episode tonight called "

RE: [scifinoir2] Science at the movies this week

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Thanks! Now I have to find it on my tier. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
I remember that line as well! "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:36:43 -08

Re: [scifinoir2] Science at the movies this week

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
Discovery Science. They have a lot of good shows on that channel. http://science.discovery.com/tv/tv-shows.html On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > What channel, Mr Worf? > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the d

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
That's the sign of good writing. It makes them ask questions about the show and teaches us about things. Most of the time you won't get a lot of questions from a Warner Brother cartoon. You definitely will not get any questions from Hanna Barbara cartoons. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Tracey d

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
Yea. I remember saying, "They have giant robots and we have Bugs Bunny??" On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Oh, yeah, Mr Worf. After that, the regular stuff never looked quite as good > again. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >

RE: [scifinoir2] McDonald's Raises the Stakes, Again (free wireless)

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
'Tis okay. Lots of that floating around. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 1

RE: [scifinoir2] FW: Science speculation - Avatar's moon Pandora could be real

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Thanks for this one, Tracey! I can work this into a story I'm writing. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: tdli...@multicultu

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Another example, The Avatar: The Last Airbender has dark themes (Death, war, betrayal, human weakness, forgiveness, revenge), but is presented in a way that in my view is great for kids to gain an understanding of such issues. My daughter loves avatar and I feel she has benefitted from view

RE: [scifinoir2] Science at the movies this week

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
What channel, Mr Worf? "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:07:39 -0800 Subj

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Oh, yeah, Mr Worf. After that, the regular stuff never looked quite as good again. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hello

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I saw Speed Racer, Astro Boy, etc growing up. I’m real old, so Robotech came out when I was an adult or almost one, around the same time I saw vampire D. Sailor moon came to the states when I was an adult and never appealed to me. I guess I was responding to Rave’s point that most people

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
They started airing the first episodes of Robotech about a week into summer vacation and ran commercials for it too! By the end of the first episode I was hooked. I already knew that the Japanese shows were way cooler than the junk they were showing us here. (I figured that out after looking at the

[scifinoir2] Science at the movies this week

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
If you haven't caught this show yet, you are missing out on some interesting tv. This week's show takes up behind the scenes on how they created Bumblebee for the Transformers 2 movie. Its actually 20 feet tall. Also on the show is a look on how they created the new 3d movie making technology.

RE: [scifinoir2] Doctor Who

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Already on BBC America, Mr Worf, because they're also re-airing "The Next Doctor" and "Planet of the Dead" before that, starting at 5 pm Eastern. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/wat

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
Neither did I, Tracey. The first piece of anime I ever saw was "Roboteckh", one day when I was in HS and my bus was late arriving, allowing me to see the ep in full. When I fgot to school, I talked it up with a number of my friends, my age (14) and older, and none of them got it. Went right ove

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
You never watched Speed Racer or Robotech or Sailor moon when you were younger? On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Tracey de Morsella < tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com> wrote: > I never thought of Anime as for kids, as the first anime I was exposed to > 20 > years ago was Ninja Scroll and Vampi

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I never thought of Anime as for kids, as the first anime I was exposed to 20 years ago was Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D. I see Miyazaki as kind of on the edge. Presented in a way that appeals to both adults and children. I'm pretty sure that many children in Japan view his films. It's been

[scifinoir2] Doctor Who

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
There's a new episode tonight called "Waters of Mars."

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Mr. Worf
I agree. I think that we shelter children a little too much here and that makes them not prepared for the real world when real things happen to them. There is the impression that someone else will do it for them. A good example of this is the censorship of the internet that started happening in Au

RE: [scifinoir2] Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Baxter
That'll be tomorrow. Tonight is a DW marathon on BBC America. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com

[scifinoir2] Re: When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

2009-12-19 Thread Kelwyn
This is ongoing problem of being black in America. I want to love "Avatar," and I think I will because I am a huge James Cameron fan (I even like "The Abyss"), but I am powerfully turned off by the Pocahontas vibe. Ain't feeling that blip at all! I didn't like the Pocahontas story when I was

[scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Kelwyn
Adrianne made the point (and very well I might add) I wanted to make: here, in America, when something is animated, it is automatically considered for children. I felt I would be remiss if I didn't add that caveat to my whole hearted recommendation of all of Miyazaki's movies. My two childre

[scifinoir2] What other movies have done as well in creating an alien world?

2009-12-19 Thread angelababycat
Another point re Avatar: the movie did a great job of emersing you in the world of Pandora and spent a lot of time (and CGI budget I presume) on creating realistic flora and fauna in the background and 3D foreground of almost every sence. So I'm trying to think of other movies that have done as

[scifinoir2] Re: When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?

2009-12-19 Thread angelababycat
Well, I beat the blizard and saw Avatar yesterday afternoon. Besides the Digital 3-D killing my eyes after about 45 minutes, yes, this was the one thing that irked me about the story: same old average white guy to the rescue (or Will Smith--I could see him in this role easily), accomplishing th

RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I think you misread the post. Right or wrong she has already seen them all expect for Spirited Away ( some of them multiple times), so it is too late to do as you recommend. She also loves Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and The Cat Returns. Her little friend has screen

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Inglourious Basterds

2009-12-19 Thread Adrianne Brennan
I want to see the movie myself. So far have seen Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill 1 and 2. Need to see more of QT. :D ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to t

Re: [scifinoir2] Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Adrianne Brennan
Watch it!! :D I'm being snowed in tonight so it means catching up on Dollhouse and seeing what's on On Demand. ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in t

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Tv: Howl's moving castle

2009-12-19 Thread Adrianne Brennan
It still amazes me that such warnings need to be made. For anyone familiar with anime, they *know* most of it is aimed towards older teenagers and adults with few exceptions. Sailor Moon was heavily edited and censored when it came to the States as its original content was far more adult. ~ "Wher