Probably required by the Actors' Guild for safety. The horses were probably all a newer breed, too.

A fair point, but couldn’t you edit them out?

Live feed of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch. Blast off is scheduled for 3:45PM EDT.

This post has been edited by Kane: Feb 6 2018, 09:30 PM

Awesome! I was literally clapping when I saw the two booster rockets make perfect landings at the end. It's about time we were able to do this, instead of just dumping them like garbage into the sea.

I hope the core landing went as well.

Core didn't fair as well. Two of the three engines didn't ignite, and it missed the ship. Hit the water at something like 300mph.

I have had poor luck with movies this week. I tried Bladerunner 2049 a few days ago. But it was meh. It moved a pace best described as glacial. They could have cut an hour from the movie and lost nothing, but boredom. It has a big twist near the end, which is rather meh. Harrison Ford is barely in it. Instead it relies upon Justin Theroux. Boy, that guy is ugly. His eyes are tiny, and too close together. It makes the top of his head look smaller than the bottom. I was very underwhelmed.

I also tried Netflix's new Cloverfield movie. Which like the last Cloverfield movie has absolutely nothing to do with Cloverfield. Maybe Solo will be the next Cloverfield movie? It is not like it needs to have any link to the first - and only real - Cloverfield.

Anyway, even as a standalone sci-fi movie, it is weak. That is in spite of Agent Kallus (well David Oyelowo) being one of the stars. It is supposed to be set in a future where the Earth is just a few years away from completely running out of energy. But aside from a long line at the gas station at the beginning of the movie, we never see any trace of energy being in short supply. Even those people in line had their engines on, wasting the fuel they had! Lights blaze everywhere, everyone is still driving their cars. The world we see is all nice and clean and neat.

Come to think of it, Bladerunner 2049 had a similar problem. The original Bladerunner was a dystopian mess, with garbage everywhere and people packed in like sardines. We hardly see any other people in the sequel, and for the most part everything is nice and neat and clean. Except for the part set in a garbage dump of course. But even that was just all piles of old iron scrap. Not plastic bags, no old tires, no rotting anything being eaten by seagulls. When I compare it to the worlds presented in films like Soylent Green, well it is very wanting.

Anyway, neither film really made me believe in their worlds. Or really much of anything.

I watched Westworld today. No, not the tv show. The original, from 1973. Even after all this time, it is still a good movie. Some of it is cheesy by modern standards, especially the fake blood. But the characters are good, and the story - while simple - works. I especially liked how the robots get a silvery gleam in their eyes, sort of like Riddick's shine job. Yul Brenner really steals the show as the Gunslinger. He only has something like 3 lines in the movie, but his charisma really shines through.

I got inspired to watch it because during my ongoing watching of the new Westworld there was a neat homage to the original. There is a scene where Jeffrey Wright (who is marvelous as always) goes deep down into the basements where the oldest robots are stored. In the background, and slightly out of focus, was Yul Brenner's Gunslinger. He was just standing there, obviously shut down for decades. But it was cool nonetheless.

Watching Gotham by Gaslight. Like the graphic novel, it is excellent. Outstanding voice acting, good story, solid artwork. Anthony Head is especially awesome as Alfred.

It is funny, DC is definitely lagging behind in the superhero movies. But when it comes to animation they are just killing Marvel. Mainly it is just the Batamation, like this one, Batman and Harley Quinn, Gotham Knight, Under the Red Hood, Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, etc.. Marvel has not been doing anything in animation remotely as good. At least not since Wolverine and the X-Men, and that was 10 years ago.

Even with its sappy parts, this is one of my favorite movies. I still get a knot in my stomach watching it when Yul Brenner is chasing that guy after his robotic eyes have been burned with acid!

I haven't seen the show yet, but would really love to see that scene!

Just got done watching Soylent Green again for the first time in probably a decade. Still an awesome movie.

Though it has been a very long time since I saw that, I do remember it well - and agree with you.

IT’S PEOPLE!!

Never saw the movie by the way. Need to do that.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Feb 11 2018, 02:25 PM

That was another good one! Our sociology teacher in Jr. High school made us watch it = stunned the whole class so badly that we couldn't even discuss it; lol. Didn't want to eat in the cafeteria after that either,

Soylent Green was a wonderfully chilling dystopian future. When I watch other dystopian movies, I often compare them to it. That is one of the ways I found the new Bladerunner and Cloverfield movies wanting. It also takes place in... 2018! Oops I was wrong. The movie set in 2020. Something during the movie was from 2018, I think when Soylent Green first went on sale.

Wow, we are slacking. 2015 was supposed to be hoverboards and 2018 was supposed to be reconstituted human food paste. Khajiit is disappointed in humanity.

Now with more flavor!

Yes, it is really amazing how advanced everyone thought the world would be by now; yet here we are almost the exact same as we were when these movies were being produced. What happened to our drive for advancement?








Right? "Back to the Future?"









EW! Is that what the movie used to represent the urk? Now I won't be eating that again,

Mmmm, flavored powder!

No, the real Soylent company only got started a few years ago. They just used crackers for the other types of soylent in the movie. The soylent green didn't even look like real crackers, just like metal or plastic squares colored green (they didn't flake or crumble no matter how they were crushed).

And Blade runner is set in 2019. So Pris will be two years old on Wednesday.