best space movie?

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:02:26 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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...Overall, tho, it wasn't as bad a mini as I feared it was going to
be, considering that the budget was reportedly cut by 10% just prior
to filming - thank you Bonnie Hamner at Sci-Fi Channel, you ignorant
[word deleted to keep Mary Shaffer from removing my head and mounting
it on a pike]. Although I would have probably preferred it if Leto
removed from a ring on his finger a red full-body stillsuit with a
yellow lightning bolt on the chest and donned it before he started
running ;-)

That would have been cool.

(And you could have used "slut" there, since the phrase is such a
byword--it would have been better than misspelling my name.)

Mary
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"Mary Shafer" wrote in message
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(And you could have used "slut" there, since the phrase is such a
byword--it would have been better than misspelling my name.)

OM, you ignorant slut! Misspelling our Queen's name is tantamount to George
Bush referring to "Poop John Paul the Second".

For that, I sentence your kill file to throw out Stuffie for a week.
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I think that you would like the Apogee kit a lot better than
either the Estes original, recent Estes/Centuri merged kit (which is
still better than the original Estes version), or certainly the Revell
kit. It's much more accurate than any of the other kits. It is a little
on the big side at 1/70. And it's not half the price!!

Brett



I have seen the Apogee kit on the 'net and I started drooling over
that kit since day one! It's now on my Christmas list!


Gene

Henry Spencer wrote:
Fuel tank 216,000 gallons, LOX tank 345,000 gallons, according to the
Saturn V Flight Manual, Apollo 8 edition.

( I'll accept Henry as authoritative, even without the S-V
Flight Manual cite. :-) Thanks!)

Looks like around 3500 gallons of fuel + oxidizer consumed
per second by all five engines combined.

In message , OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org writes
On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:54:28 GMT, Wally Angleseaâ„¢
wrote:

Ohh, no, I have to disagree. I have both versions, and lemme tell you,
I think they ruined it. It was a stretch anyway, but they only made it
worse.

...Depends on how fluent you are in the Duniverse. I still preferred
the longer version simply because I prefer 3 hour films with all the
outtakes put back in that work. Most of the outtakes we see these days
clearly show that at least 75% of the cuts made are made only to
reduce the film's length, and not to tighten the story or make it
better. The grand goal, IMHO, is to make all films exactly one hour
long so you can charge $20/hour to see a film. _Men in Black II_ is
what I see the first major step in that direction, as it came in at 88
minutes, IIRC.

Most TV shows seem to be 43 minutes, with a "feature-length" double
episode of Star Trek coming in at 83-86 minutes, so you can run them
with adverts in a one hour slot. I remember when "for the next hour we
will control all that you see and hear" meant 50 minutes of story and
credits, and that's still usual in the UK. So you probably lost seven
minutes of "Invasion: Earth", for instance, if you bothered to watch it.
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Mary Shafer wrote:
Silent Running is one of those movies that if you see it when you're 13 you
think it's incredible, but years later you watch it again and are totally
embarrassed...

I haven't seen it, because I mixed it up with "Run Silent, Run Deep"...

Silent Running is one of those movies which are best watched with the
sound off.
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Diane Wilson writes:
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om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy... _facility.org says...
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:23:49 -0400, (Mike
Flugennock) wrote:

...Cut to the end scene. Same transport scene, except it's Han who's
in the medical bay. He's not fully recovered, so Lando & Chewy go off
after Luke, vowing to find out where he was taken and what his
condition is, and then the entire fleet will rescue him if necessary.
This, of course, would have led to "Return" being more of a Luke
redemption film than bringing Anakin/Vader back to the light side of
the duct tape, and kept the first two of the first trilogy hopefully
from being "Leave It To Adolf - The Adventures of Adolf Hitler When He
Was a Boy" and "The Many Loves of Dobie Hitler"

Adolf! Come and get it! Your clam cakes are getting damp!

Them's Grub Cakes, Ma! Heavy on the 30 Weight, and pass me my
Entrenching Tool.


Actually, I got my copy of "The Firesign Theatre's Big Book of
Plays" right here, and they're clam cakes.

The 30-weight goes on groat cakes.

Diane

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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Henry Spencer wrote:

In article ,
Mary Shafer wrote:
Silent Running is one of those movies that if you see it when you're 13 you
think it's incredible, but years later you watch it again and are totally
embarrassed...

I haven't seen it, because I mixed it up with "Run Silent, Run Deep"...

Silent Running is one of those movies which are best watched with the
sound off.

Ditto (except that it's not a movie, it's a TV show) for
*Battlestar Galactica*. I recommend putting *Blows against the Empire*
on the turntable.

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"Gene DiGennaro" wrote in message
om...
I finished the bird over the summer of 83
but my cat knocked it over in 1989. The third and second stage tanks
were hopelessly cracked.

Did you do something bad to the cat?

I can't believe I forgot a movie I like even better than "Apollo 13"!

"The Dish" is the best space movie ever.