JamesSavik

Way to stick it too the man Matty!

Wretched, bogus, implausible, horrible, badly written, plastic characters, a circle jerk of chicles, really, really bad science and the worst ending in the history of movies. Neutrinos that heat up the earths core? The writer should be beaten to death with a physics book. Fails the science, barely pases for fiction. Skip it or watch it for computer generated graphics- the best part of the movie. The CGI is all this crappy, craptacular crapfest has to offer. Don't be a fool and buy it at retail. Wait till it's on the $5 rack in Walmart before you add this turd to your collection. Better yet, flush it.

Let's see... if it's like American Idol, it's rigged and the gay guy with real talent gets screwed over by some hick from Arkansas in the end. As much as this reminds me of Las Vegas and the Bill Clinton years, you might want to rethink it.

In Mississippi the biggest winter sports are basketball and deer hunting.

Why wait to get attached to your balls? When an amateur just won't do. You really can get everything you need at a country store. They must be great crabs- people keep coming back. Popular joint. I'm wondering what is in the gift shop.

I write because I can't paint, sculpt or play an instrument. The urge to create is a primal thing. If no other outlet presented itself, I would paint the deer that I had slain on my cave wall.

I expected that you would do well. We have some exceptional young men here at GA... which makes me wish that I was twenty years younger.

What were they thinking!?

Sometimes you see something that the only possible reaction to is WTF!? This little gem was at a rummage sale held by a Catholic diocese. The Alter-boy candle holders came complete with creepy candles. I mean... come on... WTF!?

The big networks couldn't make Caprica. They are too busy with reality bullshit and Lost-a-likes. Besides- their union writers get tired if they are asked to produce anything more than a twenty minute shit-com.

I'm a big fan of the naked sauna grope. Nobody gets a medal but everybody wins.

I always respected Dom as a writer, now I like him as a him being. Well done pal.

Abby who?

For me it was World War II. A great many of my relatives fought in that war and the military became a big part of our family culture. After the war, and probably most important, my father and uncle used the GI bill to be the first men in the family to go to college. This permanently raised the status of the family from poor farmers and ranchers to professionals. I grew up in the Cold War under the shadow of nuclear warfare- another legacy of WWII. I make my living in computers and networking- another technology that born (or grew exponentially) out of WWII. Even though I was born 17+ years after the war, I can think of no other historical event that had its impact. _________________________________ What historic event most shaped your world? I'm curious to see what you think and your reasoning behind it.

Michael Trucco stars on a Sci-Fi channel B-movie tonight. Trucco (Anders from BSG, rebel leader and one of final 5 Cylon [which blew my mind]) is pictured here with his co-star and love interest from Battlestar Galactica Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck).

I've seen them. The best of the lot is the Eggman's A New Life and Life Goes On. It works because the characterization is so well done, consistent and believable. None of the characters inexplicably smokes crack, becomes a bank robber or checks into a Mormon st8 camp.

< Yo, Adrian!

My older brother and I had a horrible month long fight over... Cheese Its. That cheesy goodness makes us mean. :2hands:

Successful sequels require strong characters and a significant change in setting & plot to differentiate the sequel from the original. This is a necessity because the new story must stand on its own. This is where Hollywood falls on its face with sequels. Prime example: Heinlein's Starship Troopers is a favorite science fiction novel and was made into a feature film in 1997. As a film, it was very successful and made quite a lot of scratch. Since Hollywood bought the rights, they decided to cash in on the franchise. They hired some writers and a whole new cast and did Starship Troopers II: Hero of the Federation which sucked raw balls. Not to be outdone they did Starship Troopers III: Marauder which still sucked balls but was not quite as bad as SST II. Heinlein only wrote the original story. Everything else was ripped off from his original ideas and regurgitated (as cheaply as possible) to cash in on the rights. The point is that simply because you CAN do a sequel doesn't mean that you should. Ask yourself: Is it contrived? Does the story flow naturally or is it a reach? [this is where Hollywood falls on its ass] Are you trying to clone a hit? Ask Hollywood- it can only rarely be done and usually fails. Did you plan a series or sequel to start with? Did you leave room and open questions from the first story? Are the characters and setting strong enough to support a continuing story line? Often Hollywood does low-budget sequels with a new cast and invariably screws up any possibility of the sequel succeeding. Can you be consistent in the new storyline? If the original story was a coming of age story, is the character a young adult in the sequel? Does he/she use the lessons learned in the first story line? Did they grow? Is that growth consistent?

If you want a complex literary character, Holden Caulfieled is a raging pussy compared to Brian Kellum of the Brian & Pete Series by Dewey. Nobody does angst better.

Why don't you two just get a room and get it over with?

How Twilight Works by the Oatmeal sums it up nicely. Annoying to me- as I have a story by the same name. Many think my Twilight is fan fiction and write to bitch about it not being about vegetarian vampires. Days later they write back to say that my Twilight is a more interesting story. Fooking Hollywood formula scripts. If is wasn't an ass-fest, no one would have even noticed the movies.

In Mississippi, this guy is normal. I don't want to be normal. I hope for better.

"redneck hell" would be somewhere that rednecks are uncomfortable. Somewhere where there is no college football, NASCAR or Bass Pro Shops. Someplace with a lot of sophistication where people use a lot of big words and drink 5$ a cup coffee. "the gay mecca USA" can only be San Francisco "the middle of nowhere" is relative to where you define no where's boundaries. Once the boundaries have been established, calculating the middle of no where requires a few simple first order differential equations.

Mark- You aren't a post whore. You are promiscuously conversational. See the difference that the right words can make? JS