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aruba
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response 25 of 150:
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Apr 19 06:30 UTC 2002 |
I was going to say Dark Star too!
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fenhir
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response 26 of 150:
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Apr 19 12:41 UTC 2002 |
In tthe past i was thinked that North American are donkeys, but now i see the
truth, some one are fool, any think ...great
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remmers
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response 27 of 150:
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Apr 19 13:12 UTC 2002 |
In the 1959 film "On the Beach", about the aftermath of nuclear
holocaust, I don't think everyone in the world was dead yet by
the end of the movie. But it was clear that they were soon
going to be. Even Gregory Peck.
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jep
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response 28 of 150:
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Apr 19 15:24 UTC 2002 |
In the science fiction book "Demon" (John Varley), all human life on
Earth is clearly going to end. In "Warday" (I forget the authors), it
seems very bleak that anyone will survive for long. In "The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe" (Douglas Adams), the universe ends, but the
book travels to another point in time and continues with it's story.
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remmers
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response 29 of 150:
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Apr 19 17:23 UTC 2002 |
Another near-miss is "The Quiet Earth", a 1985 scifi flick from
New Zealand. There's all of two people left alive on earth
at the end, with a third person teleported to god-knows-where.
It seems to have garnered a Smithee Award for badness, but I
rather liked it. There's that stunning closing shot...
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brighn
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response 30 of 150:
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Apr 19 17:43 UTC 2002 |
There are numerous planets that go extinct in the various Star Trek series.
"All Our Yesterdays," for instance (the one written by the same guy who wrote
Blade Runner and Total Recall, IIRC; McCoy goes drug-crazed on an extinct
planet with a wayback machine that has apparently eaten Mr Peabody, and goes
back in time, managing to snuff out the Earth's evolution in the process
[making The Enterprise disappear]).
Of course, Star Wars: A New Hope features a planet (Aldaraan) getting blowed
up, but no characters are on it at the time (perhaps, ironically, some of the
characters in Attack of the Clones were on it...?).
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jazz
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response 31 of 150:
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Apr 20 02:08 UTC 2002 |
I think everyone died in one of the "of the Dead" movies. Probably
the last of them. "Day of the Dead", I think.
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aruba
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response 32 of 150:
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Apr 20 02:38 UTC 2002 |
Re #30: I think you're conflating a couple of episodes there, Paul. THere
was nothing about earth in All our Yesterdays.
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gelinas
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response 33 of 150:
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Apr 20 03:25 UTC 2002 |
I've not seen the "Living Dead" movies, but I understand that "Night of the
Living Dead" ends with the death of the last main character. (A sheriff kills
him, so some people are still around.)
"I am Adam" (or similar title) in J. Merril's "World's Best SF (1965 ed.)"
ends with the guy who destroyed the world contemplating his rather quickly
approaching death.
"On the Beach" ends with the last known humans scuttling their sub.
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brighn
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response 34 of 150:
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Apr 20 04:29 UTC 2002 |
#32> Single episode, but I may have the title wrong.
Ah yes, I quick jog over to the web tells me I'm thinking of "City on the Edge
of Forever," originally written by Harlan Ellison and thoroughly mangled by
the TV censors. "All Our Yesterdays" is also about time travel, but with a
different plot.
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aruba
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response 35 of 150:
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Apr 20 12:20 UTC 2002 |
Ah, I see what you meant now. But Harlan Ellison didn't write Blade Runner
or Total Recall.
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remmers
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response 36 of 150:
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Apr 20 14:01 UTC 2002 |
Those were based on Philip K. Dick stories, if I remember correctly.
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jp2
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response 37 of 150:
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Apr 20 15:57 UTC 2002 |
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krj
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response 38 of 150:
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Apr 20 18:00 UTC 2002 |
More likely the Piers Anthony book was a "novelization" produced as
a movie-tie-in after the movie was developed from the Philip K. Dick
story. imdb.com says the film "Total Recall" was "inspired" by
the Dick story, with "screen story" and screenplay developed by
Ronald Shusett & Dan O'Bannon and a couple of other people.
(Shusett and O'Bannon wrote "Dark Star" (tying this drift back in to
the earlier discussion) and the first Alien movie; I've always been
a little disappointed that they've done so little else I cared about.
I thought they were on a roll.)
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jp2
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response 39 of 150:
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Apr 20 18:15 UTC 2002 |
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remmers
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response 40 of 150:
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Apr 20 21:10 UTC 2002 |
According to the Piers Anthony website <http://www.piers-anthony.com/>,
the Piers Anthony _Total Recall_ is a novelization of the movie and
has a 1989 publication date. The film was released in 1990. That's
consistent with the book being based on the film.
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jp2
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response 41 of 150:
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Apr 20 21:14 UTC 2002 |
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janc
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response 42 of 150:
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Apr 21 00:54 UTC 2002 |
Right - Dick wrote "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale" which
inspired the movie from which sprang the Anthony story. I remember it
clearly because of the disconnect I felt upon hearing that Piers
Anthony had done a rewrite of a Phillip K. Dick story. It's like
casting Jim Carrey to play George Washington. Just makes no sense.
Turned out to be a totally different story anyway. Bladerunner is more
closely based on the P. K. Dick story "Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?". I think there have been other P. K. Dick movies.
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remmers
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response 43 of 150:
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Apr 21 12:48 UTC 2002 |
The movie "Imposter" from last year was based on a PKD story.
According to the article at http://www.audiencemag.com/ARTICLES/philip.html
there are upcoming films of "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly".
The same article also claims that the following films were "lifted, either
directly or indirectly" from PKD material: "The Matrix", "Blade Runner",
"The Truman Show", "Fight Club", and "12 Monkeys". Hmmm...
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jp2
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response 44 of 150:
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Apr 21 17:57 UTC 2002 |
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brighn
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response 45 of 150:
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Apr 21 23:04 UTC 2002 |
Bah, ok, I screwed up the title and the author, but I got the plot right.
*smirk*
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jp2
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response 46 of 150:
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Apr 21 23:07 UTC 2002 |
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mcnally
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response 47 of 150:
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Apr 22 00:49 UTC 2002 |
re #43: I think the author of the article is overreaching to claim credit
PKD for the list of films you mention, with the obvious exception of "Blade
Runner."
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jazz
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response 48 of 150:
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Apr 22 01:33 UTC 2002 |
No kidding. I'd give him - and a few others - credit for "the Truman
Show", though. It was a pretty old idea by the time Carey acted it.
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gull
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response 49 of 150:
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Apr 22 14:13 UTC 2002 |
There aren't really any totally new ideas in Hollywood anymore. That's
why all we're getting lately are remakes. It's a lot easier to sell a
film when you can explain it as being based on a formula that's already
worked once.
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