HAL 9000 for sale on ebay
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ooops, I forgot to place the link
Its here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...=ADME:B:EF:US:1
Doesnt look like there are any bidders, they should have placed no reserve on it, I would have bid at least US$9,000 for it, but not $150,000
Its here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...=ADME:B:EF:US:1
Doesnt look like there are any bidders, they should have placed no reserve on it, I would have bid at least US$9,000 for it, but not $150,000
Lorand
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Classic or not, this film is simply booooring...
Kubrick is boring... The Clockwork orange could be a great film if someone cuts 3/4 out of it.
I agree that explosions and killings every minute is far from being cultural entertainment, but artistic film doesn't mean watching a still image for hours.
I'm not a science fiction fan, so for me Brazil is the best of its genre.
Kubrick is boring... The Clockwork orange could be a great film if someone cuts 3/4 out of it.
I agree that explosions and killings every minute is far from being cultural entertainment, but artistic film doesn't mean watching a still image for hours.
I'm not a science fiction fan, so for me Brazil is the best of its genre.
alienationware
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The book is weird tho...
The book is weird tho... Written by Arthur C. Clarke:
Here's how it ends:
David Bowman, knowing he won't ever come back alive, descends in a spacepod to the slab of blackness on Saturn's moon ala dimension 1, 4, 9 (the perfect roots of squares). Turns, out the slab was a teleporter. It turns inside out, teleporting him to weird space... where he travels through another darkness slab to a red sun. On the red sun, he finds that he is not vaporized and in a replicated hotel made by "aliens". So he eats goo, falls asleep. When he slept, the "alien beings" (materless) slowly rewind his memory back in time, transfering them to a new being which does not depend on matter (The StarChild). So he is David no more, but a god like star-child. Being the StarChild, he could see beyong the slab's dimension 1,4, 9,16,25 etc. So he wisps back above earth and detonates all the floating nuclear space bombs, thus killing every1 on earth.
The author of the book had to be a psycho...
The book is weird tho... Written by Arthur C. Clarke:
Here's how it ends:
David Bowman, knowing he won't ever come back alive, descends in a spacepod to the slab of blackness on Saturn's moon ala dimension 1, 4, 9 (the perfect roots of squares). Turns, out the slab was a teleporter. It turns inside out, teleporting him to weird space... where he travels through another darkness slab to a red sun. On the red sun, he finds that he is not vaporized and in a replicated hotel made by "aliens". So he eats goo, falls asleep. When he slept, the "alien beings" (materless) slowly rewind his memory back in time, transfering them to a new being which does not depend on matter (The StarChild). So he is David no more, but a god like star-child. Being the StarChild, he could see beyong the slab's dimension 1,4, 9,16,25 etc. So he wisps back above earth and detonates all the floating nuclear space bombs, thus killing every1 on earth.
The author of the book had to be a psycho...
Lorand
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The book is ok. Arthur C. Clarke is ok. But not every book is suitable for making movies out of it.
Another boring experience of mine was with Solaris (both Tarkovsky's version and the remake). I enjoyed Lem's book, but the movie simply can't reproduce the emotions suggested in the book -- the director tries to do it with breathtaking images, but ends up being extremly boring...
Another boring experience of mine was with Solaris (both Tarkovsky's version and the remake). I enjoyed Lem's book, but the movie simply can't reproduce the emotions suggested in the book -- the director tries to do it with breathtaking images, but ends up being extremly boring...
Sparticle
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I have been a big fan of robots since I was a little kid. I would always take my toys apart, admiring the circuitry, while watching movies like Short Circuit and shows like mst3k (Mystery Science Theater 3000). I especially loved Hal from 2001, and watched the movie every time it was on tv. I also read the books 2001, and 2010, and I enjoyed them, although I can also see how people could find them boring. I can remember in 2001 that when Dave is traveling to Saturn, and he is the only one awake (or alive, i don't remember which), almost nothing really happens for at least 5 chapters.
These are calssics though, and I enjoyed them very much.
p.s. Wow, $150,000?
These are calssics though, and I enjoyed them very much.
p.s. Wow, $150,000?
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YourDreamSystem
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I thought the end of 2001 space odessy was really messed up! what was with that bedroom part anyway?
Sparticle said:I have been a big fan of robots since I was a little kid.
p.s. Wow, $150,000?
So, Why don't u make one. I support my university robotic team, and it's damned fun, except that if the deadline is getting nearer and nearer and nearer....aggghhhh!!!!
Unfortunately....though it Fun, I'm still faraway in capable making one myself.
Sometimes i think studying in the uni is too short that many things i haven't tried/done yet.
lorand said:
ya, but it really depend on the movie maker(director, scriptwritter, producer, etc) i think. see LOTR for example...if i read the novel..well, it's hard too understand coz the language is soo English(it's classic novel...many poetry, etc), but the movie can soo..representative and great. then Jurasic park 1....wow, it's like our imagination really come out in the movie. But, when watching Harry Potter....emmmhhh....i prefer reading its book.
I wonder if i've ever watched it.
Lorand
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I prefer consuming some culture instead...
When I heard about the huge success of this Potter trash, I wanted to read it to find an explanation for Potter-mania. After 40 pages of pain I gave up... That book sucks big time! I have no clue how this valueless book could become a worldwide bestseller.... What do you think: the world gone crazy or the problem is in me?
Lorand said:
maybe u are....
he he (^kidding^). I like reading coz Mrs. Rowling is so brilliant in descripting the witchy world. She descript like it's really exist and being a witch is as normal as we are..
I rather late being HP's fan. coz i thought,"it's kid's book" and started underestimated it, but then i got courious.
So, when a friend of mine lent me one. I have to admitted my opinion were wrong.
I am not a Harry Potter Fan, I can watch any kind of movie, but I fell asleep watching the original Harry Potter movie.Lorand said:I prefer consuming some culture instead...
When I heard about the huge success of this Potter trash, I wanted to read it to find an explanation for Potter-mania. After 40 pages of pain I gave up...
ian said:
coz the movie has not strong story. too many important fact has been cut, and i think you have to read the novel if u want to understand the movie.
Everytime i watch a movie based on novel, i always lower the standart 1st degree than my imagination. too bad HP the movie is still lower than that. ^dispointed^.
and respect for LOTR, wow..its above my imagination...^impressed^
back to HAL 9000,
sometimes if i read/watch science-fiction novel/movie, i'm impressed with the Creator's imagination. How can their idea/imagination is so high so great that sometimes give an inspiration to many inventor to make the idea happened.maybe, that's why some people always say, "never stop dreaming!!"