[40k] Strangest thing...
smcdaniel1
prolly noticed a Leman Russ in the background. (Belongs to my son, I was
repairing "Battle damage" that my grandson had inflicted.
I got home from work yesterday; It's gone. ("Can we fix it?"... "It's GONE
McCready...").
The dozer blade and a few road wheels are still there, but I can't find the
tank.I do leave my back door open during the day so the cats can get in and
out.
Who the Hell would come into someone's house, walk past $5000 worth of
musical gear and steal a plastic tank. And I kid you not: It is Gone.
--
Sir Scott "Bizzare... " McDaniel
Playa
Hey,
On Jul 1, 9:06 am, "smcdaniel1" <smcdani...@cox.net> wrote:
> Who the Hell would come into someone's house, walk past $5000 worth of
> musical gear and steal a plastic tank.
Karnak says, "Nosey neighbor kid."
Probably known to be friendly to your cats.
Wait - not one of those 600lb Ampeg 8x10s?
Heh, thieves'll give those a pass on GP.
You sure nothing else is missing?
Playa
Craig Little
"smcdaniel1" <smcda...@cox.net> wrote in message
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> I got home from work yesterday; It's gone. ("Can we fix it?"... "It's GONE
> McCready...").
> The dozer blade and a few road wheels are still there, but I can't find
> the tank.
I have a partially damaged LRMBT for sale, it's missing a dozer blade, a few
road wheels and appears to be covered in cat hair...
__
Craig (Not really, you tits)
Matt C
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Know anyone who plays Orks?
Specifically Blood Axes?
Good use of the quote, btw.
smcdaniel1
"Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message
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Heh, I do. And to elaborate, I was so freaked that I may have put it
somewhere strange: I checked the fridge and freezer.
>
> Good use of the quote, btw.
>
>
Thank you! I love that movie.
Found out my son came over and grabbed his tank for at home use. Little shit
could've left a note.
Matt C
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One of my friends once came home from work to find his wife had put a
frozen chicken on the front doorstep and an empty milk bottle in the
freezer.
Incidentally, watch the very last scene again.
McCready's breath is very visible - large clouds of vapour.
Nauls' breath isn't.
smcdaniel1
"Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message
> Incidentally, watch the very last scene again.
> McCready's breath is very visible - large clouds of vapour.
> Nauls' breath isn't.
"I guess we'll just sit here a while...and see what happens..."
"And Chiles; WHERE were you"
Damn:I love that flick
BTW: Let's not forget the best quote of all "You've gotta be fucking KIDDING
me!"
Myrmidon
the movie. Hell, I based a CyberPunk 2020 adventure off that flick.
Players get sent in with no info shortly after the end of the movie time
wise. Everything's a wreck and they think some other corporation or
government hit the place. Early on the players were so jumpy that they
were shooting at anything. By the time the real horror began, they were
low on ammo and running their asses off. It was great.
Myr :)
--
"I'm already impoverished from buying wargames minis,
and I'm too knackered for riotous living..."
-- Moramarth
RGMW FAQ: http://www.rgmw.org
Or...
Matt C
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How long before Hollywood fucks up a re-make by filling it with a bunch of
teenagers or Nicholas Cage, and slapping on a happy ending ?
Spack
http://www.deadlantern.com/2009/01/30/commentary-why-the-thing-sequelprequelremake-isnt-necessary/
Hopefully it will never see the light of day ... or night, or any other time
period, or even in an alternate reality where it's never September and every
post is about Lemartes and Nagash, and those aren't even the least of the
horrors in RGMW. So, next weekend then?
smithdoerr
"Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message
They're going to have trouble coming up with a reason for them to be
strutting around half nekkid in the Antarctic.
> or Nicholas Cage,
Do they have the technology to CGI a hairpiece that doesn't look like
something scrapped off the highway?
> and slapping on a happy ending ?
Nah, the standard formula for Hollywood horror is to always have the baddie
"not quite dead" so they can make a bunch of progressively worse sequels.
Unless by "happy ending" you mean blow job in which case you'll be doing
that at the box office before you enter the theater. Bring your knee pads.
--
-smithdoerr
Matt C
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> http://www.deadlantern.com/2009/01/30/commentary-why-the-thing-sequelpr
> equelremake-isnt-necessary/
Oh, FFS I was kinda joking, I can't believe I'd overestimated the IQ of
hollywood suits.
I used to work in the games industry, and everyone, everywhere used to
voice the same complaint: a lack of originality.
This was purely a financial consideration: if ABC makes money, keep doing
ABC and we'll keep making money. DEF might make twice as much, but if it
makes nothing, we'll all be unemployed.
Same seems to be happening to movies: what's a classic sci-fi / horror that
made money, and is a classic? Stick a star at the front and off we go.
War of the Worlds
I Am Legend
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dawn of the Dead
Planet of the Apes
King Kong
Wicker Man
Or take a franchise and screw it til it squeals:
Star Wars
Alien / Predator
Terminator
Indiana Jones (they're doing a fifth. Possibly decided after drinking a
fifth and doing an eigth)
Y'all heard of Purefold?
Tony and Ridley Scott, due for release either later this year or early next
Summer (?)
Webisodes, 5 - 10 minutes each
Prequel stories to Blade Runner.
Fuckers.
Oh, and let's not forget there's a damn A-Team movie due next year, and
they've already screwed transformers over.
He-Man next?
Craig Little
"Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427340/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_%28film%29#2011_film
Matt C
>> Oh, and let's not forget there's a damn A-Team movie due next year,
>> and they've already screwed transformers over.
>> He-Man next?
>>
> Funny you should say that
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427340/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_%28film%29#2011_fi
> lm
>
>
>
Hell's hairy teeth !
Spack
> "Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message news:Xns9C3CBE39CF4...@69.16.176.253...
>> "Spack" <ne...@worldofspack.com> wrote in
>> news:h2il8a$2l8$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>>> http://www.deadlantern.com/2009/01/30/commentary-why-the-thing-
>>> sequelpr equelremake-isnt-necessary/
Surely this can't be any worse than the previous MotU film, can it? CAN
IT?!?!? ....
--
Dan
http://www.ageofstrife.com
Moramarth
>
> >> Same seems to be happening to movies: what's a classic sci-fi /
> >> horror that made money, and is a classic? Stick a star at the front
> >> and off we go.
> >> War of the Worlds
> >> I Am Legend
title - can't recall the Author, but he also wrote "Legend of Hell
House" - hasn't that been redone?
> >> The Day the Earth Stood Still
> >> Dawn of the Dead
> >> Planet of the Apes
> >> King Kong
> >> Wicker Man
Or rework Kurosawa: "Rashamon" was the first rip-off as a Western
(can't remember the title), "Yojimbo" became "Fistful of Dollars",
then "Last Man Standing", "Seven Samurai" became "The Magificent
Seven" (which was magnificent but the sequels weren't) which became
"Battle Beyond the Stars" (with Robert Vaughn repeating the same
role..). OTOH, Kurosawa liked doing Shakespeare as Samurai Epics,
but he's not the only one, wasn't "Forbidden Planet" based on "The
Tempest"? You can stick a good movie in space - "Enemy Mine" was
"Hell in the Pacific", just so long as they don't try it with "Lord of
the Rings"...
>
Then there's the persecution of Michael Caine (AKA Sir Maurice
Mickelwhite): do dross remakes of all his decent films - "The Italian
Job", "Get Carter", "Alfie", "Sleuth". I'm dreading the rehash of
"Zulu", maybe they'll make a film of "Orc's Drift"...
>
I'm thinking it would be a lot better not to remake SciFi classics,
but to recut the originals with new CGI replacing the original
geriatric FX, a la "Trials and Tribbleations".
Regards,
Moramarth
Matt C
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Didn't know they'd redone Sleuth ?
> Or rework Kurosawa:
The Hidden Fortress ?
I'm sure they'll get round to Zulu eventually, although you could say
the siege sequence of Starship Troopers is a bit of a rip off of it.
Anyway, if Hollywood do remake it, it's gonna be an explanation of how
Mel Gibson's character rescued the poor, put-upon zulus from the
clutches of the evil Brits.
Oh, and I forgot Death Race.
Fallen
But the film already showed a Thing breathing in the cold and you could
see it when Bennings moans outside.
Fallen.
smcdaniel1
"Fallen" <fal...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> Incidentally, watch the very last scene again.
>> McCready's breath is very visible - large clouds of vapour.
>> Nauls' breath isn't.
>
> But the film already showed a Thing breathing in the cold and you could
> see it when Bennings moans outside.
>
But Bennings wasn't complete yet...
Matt C
@newsfe10.iad:
Also, the version I've got uses the word "thing" in the chapter title in
any chapter where a creature appears (and only those) and the last chapter
is titled "one last thing"
I figure it for one of those where you can have your own opinion and always
be right - like maybe his breath doesn't mist cos he's been out for longer
and his core temp has fallen.
Or it's an error of cinematography
Or he's been turned and this is its way of waiting.
smcdaniel1
"Matt C" <no...@noway.jose> wrote in message
"YEAH? Well fuck you, too!"
In all honesty: I think it was an error of cinematography. But I also agree,
we don't ever find out. By the way, the "Thump thump" music throughout was
played on the Moog Taurus Pedals, now being reissued for only $1995 a set.
http://www.moogmusic.com/taurus/?section=product&product_id=21299