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Earendil 
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 Posted: July 29 2011 at 16:58 |
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I love the original movie, but this new one coming out looks awful.
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fusionfreak
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Posted: July 31 2011 at 14:51 |
 Eärendil wrote:
I love the original movie, but this new one coming out looks awful. |
Yes!I'm afraid it won't be a good film.By the way I've just finished watching Apes ' saga and it's really nice.Conquest........was good for example(cops are dressed like nazi officers/SS,very disturbing)and Caesar is like Malcolm X but he ends being Martin Luther King.Great films!
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 01 2011 at 23:35 |
presdoug wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
Used to watch it every week when I was a kid,even had the action figures.I think SyFy rebroadcast it awhile and I rewatched it and it's pretty bad.I guess you had to be a young kid in the 70's to appreciate it. |
Me, too. As I recall it started out promising but fizzled out.
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I haven't seen the tv series since it was initially on tv in the mid seventies (when i was about 12)-wonder what i would think now?
Another short lived sci fi tv series from that time based on a movie was the Logan's Run series, which i remember really liking
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I read the very short book Logan's Run when I was a kid(still got it,just checked the copyright and I bought my version in 76 when I was 10 years old)and loved it.The sequel Logan's World isn't bad,but I read my copy to tatters and it's now out of print.
Since I started with the books I was very disappointed with the movie(they have been trying to get a remake off the ground for years but still "no go").But oddly enough I liked the series and have it on dvd.You should give it a try again sometime.
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Atavachron
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Posted: August 01 2011 at 23:46 |
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^ I too bought the novels at about 11 after seeing and liking the movie, didn't care for the show-- as for Apes, the original movies are fun, and I have vague memories of the show with the two Starsky&Hutch-like guys but it didn't do much for me.. and I actually think the new Apes movie looks kinda good, that last one with Wahlberg was well-made but disappointing IMO
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presdoug
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Posted: August 02 2011 at 11:52 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
presdoug wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
TheProgtologist wrote:
Used to watch it every week when I was a kid,even had the action figures.I think SyFy rebroadcast it awhile and I rewatched it and it's pretty bad.I guess you had to be a young kid in the 70's to appreciate it. |
Me, too. As I recall it started out promising but fizzled out.
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I haven't seen the tv series since it was initially on tv in the mid seventies (when i was about 12)-wonder what i would think now?
Another short lived sci fi tv series from that time based on a movie was the Logan's Run series, which i remember really liking
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I read the very short book Logan's Run when I was a kid(still got it,just checked the copyright and I bought my version in 76 when I was 10 years old)and loved it.The sequel Logan's World isn't bad,but I read my copy to tatters and it's now out of print.
Since I started with the books I was very disappointed with the movie(they have been trying to get a remake off the ground for years but still "no go").But oddly enough I liked the series and have it on dvd.You should give it a try again sometime. |
I did not know that the series was on dvd, i will have to check that out-thanks for letting me know-i really like the movie, and did not know that a remake movie was being considered-interesting
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fusionfreak
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Posted: August 08 2011 at 14:53 |
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By the way I've just watched Michael Radford's 1984 again,what do you think?It's one of my personal favourites thanks to John Hurt and Richard Burton.Great music too and Eurythmics'Sex Crime is a good song.Double Plus Good!
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
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Atavachron
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Posted: August 09 2011 at 20:54 |
^ I liked that one, it illustrated the book very well and the atmosphere was tremendously effective, but it is so dark and dreary that I didn't need to see it more than twice or so (whereas the book was so joyous and uplifting  )
Edited by Atavachron - August 09 2011 at 20:58
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fusionfreak
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Posted: August 17 2011 at 12:48 |
Atavachron wrote:
^ I liked that one, it illustrated the book very well and the atmosphere was tremendously effective, but it is so dark and dreary that I didn't need to see it more than twice or so (whereas the book was so joyous and uplifting )
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Yes,as joyous and uplifting as Terry Gilliam's Brazil
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
of searchers with the help from
crimson king
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Sheavy
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Posted: August 17 2011 at 17:07 |
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The first one is the only one worth watching. Roddy McDowell did a dantastic job.
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