In article <opj3er$o6n$
1...@dont-email.me>, Obveeus <
Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:
> I watched:
>
> THE QUIET EARTH: A 1985 film about a guy who wakes up one day to find
> that he is the LAST MAN ON EARTH. This was certainly better than that
> TV series, but there were parts of it that played like a bad TWILIGHT
> ZONE episode as the guy got way too weird, way too fast. In the end,
> I'm not sure what happened...at least I'm not sure if it was intentional
> or not, but it did seem like a happy ending.
>
> BELOW HER MOUTH: A 2016 lesbian porn film (it was in MyList before
> Anim8r mentioned it)
Heh
starring Erika Linder and Natalie Krill (who
> constantly reminded me of Eliza Dushku here,
Okay, it just moved up a slot
but others may recognize
> her from WYNONNA EARP or THE LISTENER).
And now Ian likes it
This is lesbian porn made by
> women, for women; yet it stars a cast of very attractive women and the
> sex scenes definitely play out in that over the top porn fashion.
> Beyond that, it takes a long time before this film gets to anything more
> meaningful that sex scenes and starts exploring the characters (a
> repressed lesbian living happily in a heterosexual world and a casual
> sex lesbian afraid of long term relationships). I suppose these two
> stereotypes are common in the world in which the writer and the director
> live, but the biggest fault of this film is in just how quickly both of
> these characters abandon their stereotypes. Ultimately, this was an
> excellent film for the visuals and a mediocre film for the plotline.
Did they ever explain the title? I keep thinking of those neck openings
on THE STRAIN ...
> What did you watch?
More retro cleaning and a double feature: McHale's Navy and McHale's
Navy (the original and remake theatrical movies). Apparently "Joins the
Air Force" was release on a beautiful Blu-ray but only to metric
countries.
And then I watched PLYMOUTH because it's highly recommended. I babbled
to a non Peach friend as it went:
Me: I'm watching a highly rated failed TV pilot
"Plymouth"
Them: Should it have failed?
Me: small town in Oregon has a radioactive spill, so they have to
evacuate
and they do
to the moon
this seems ... excessive
Them: It IS Oregon.
Me: It's very earnest. Takes itself quite seriously, which makes it
hard to laugh at.
and it has Cindy Pickett
Them: Well....
Me: the moon has earth normal gravity
despite them saying it doesn't and pregnant women have to spend an hour
a day in a centrifuge to get a heapin' helpin' of Earth normal gravity
We have a big new space station halfway to Mars
My question would be: "Why?"
Them: Well...why NOT?
Prolly to mine that umpty-trillion-dollar gold asteroid.
I Swanee...I wanted to tell the Niven crowd that the train is fine.
Me: Asteroids be beyond Mars
and what's 'halfway between earth and mars' anyway?
much of the year it would be the sun
Them: You have already established that science does not matter to the
writers of that show.
Me: my tv group routinely savagely mocks the 'science' on the new TV
show SALVATION
they have a science advisor but he's a total 'tard
Them: Second season Space:1999. That is all.
Me:
heh
Them: So did STTNG
Me:
he writes global warming alarmist articles about how sea ice melting is
going to flood the shorelines
Them: That is SO '70s.
Me:
and idiotic
sea ice melting has zero effect on sea levels
Them: Or was that cooloing...hard to keep up.
Me:
it's a fairly basic and easily probable physics lesson
Them: Iced tea.
Me:
yep
floating ice displaces the same volume that it will once it's melted
Them: Yes.
Popular science has as much worth as 'most anything else that is
"popular".
Except ME, of course....
It's like not recognising that mankind is PART of the ecosystem.
Evolution is great fun, until it gets personal.
Me: Like me not breeding
Them: That, yes.
Me: so the last group of Plymouth refugees has arrived 5 years after
the first
you'd think after 5 years they'd have found another life
you also wouldn't think you'd be shipping the retirement home to the moon
this sounds delightfully awful. I must find it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393199/
Me: Oh no! A solar flare is coming in! It measures X – 12!
The space miners are out of range of the emergency beacon because they
only have the line of sight communications because, it's the moon
The solar flare will be here in 15 minutes!
Let's not do the math on that.
Them: Oh, let's shall....
Me: Well, the sun is 8 light minutes from earth
So this is approaching add about half the velocity of other
electromagnetic radiation
And what have we got that gives us advance warning of this?
Them: But...but...X-12!!
That means FASTER, right? Like CAT 5?
Right? Huh?
Me: Hee Hee
Them: Telescope?
Me: It's like DEF con seven
Light doesn't get to a telescope any faster than the solar flare gets
here to WAP you upside the face
I wonder if the flare is taking the long way around
Them: I'm thinking like a TV writer. This is hard.
Me: I'm not even sure it's possible
Oh my God
They have a big radiation proof shelter
Them: * grips chair *
Me: That's mostly transparent
And the solar flare is noisy
Me: And they left all their computers running outside the shelter
Because who cares about EMP
Them: Irwin Allen taught us that meteors and comets fly through space
red-hot and roaring!
Me: Sometimes they're green hot
Them: No that's the laser strikes in "Andromeda Strain".
Me: The stun lasers
Them: Yah.
Anti-mousie.
Larfed out loud.
X-12.
Just wow.
Me: I know!
This implies there are at least 288 categories before it
Them: You're hardcore.
I just watched "The Terrornauts" last night.
Rather a fun romp from 1967.
Me: Oh my God
Madre de Dios
The astronauts that were trapped on the surface are sick and returning
How to save time rather than re-pressurize the airlock
They're going to open both doors and let them walk straight in
While the whole fucking city is standing there hanging on the stuff so
they aren't sucked in the space
This is their plan
Me: Maybe they got the outer door closed and opened the inner door
without pressurizing the airlock
That's not quite as stupid although you think there would be all sorts
of emergency overrides to keep you from doing that
Them: At least as hard as microwaving your head.
Them: Did they make it? I am a-quiver with anticipation.
Me: Oh dear. They have a greenhouse so big it has atmosphere and clouds
Them: AQUIVER!!
Me: We're getting the report now
"By and large we got lucky"
One guy is still unconscious, a couple others don't get to go out on the
surface for another six months, the rest need coffee and a week off
I guess radiation poisoning wears off and then you could go have more
Them: WHEW! Wal brand mah barometer!
Me: Oh it turns out she lied
She wants to tell the sick people privately
Jimmy caught too much radiation
One of the guys who was going halfway to Mars
Them: caught!!
Me: She doesn't know if he's going to die because "radiation doesn't
play by any rules"
If there was ever a time to ask for a second opinion
She says that if she gives him everything constant treatment he'll be
dead in a year
I really really don't think they meant that the way it came out
Them: He could always go home, marry a hot redhead, and have her claim
he's half a man.
Me: It's raining in the greenhouse
I didn't get the half a man reference?
Them: Doppelganger
Me: Ah
Them: I've seen it WAY too many times.
Me: God, they let people smoke on the moon
Them: Only after fatal doses of radiation?
Me: Heh
When I don't get is the old guy who just moved there yesterday is now in
charge of the city Council which has decided to make the young rebel who
is no longer going to Mars the new mayor
I hate these people trudging upstairs
Like you wouldn't go boooiiing and land on the upper platform
Them: Politics and bad science. It's 2017 all over again!
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