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Old 04-02-2018, 09:00 PM   #1
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If you are a fan of Arthur C Clarke...
You will love this. Great spoof on Arthur C Clarke about 1/2 to 3/4ths in


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeQi4zbT8fA
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I can't check YouTube videos at work, but I am an A.C. Clarke fan.

2001: A Space Odyssey is being re-released to theaters on May 18th to celebrate its 50th anniversary. I've seen it on the big screen before. But I'm still hoping to find a theater showing it: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/...h-anniversary/
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I can't check YouTube videos at work, but I am an A.C. Clarke fan.

2001: A Space Odyssey is being re-released to theaters on May 18th to celebrate its 50th anniversary. I've seen it on the big screen before. But I'm still hoping to find a theater showing it: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/...h-anniversary/
Don't sit too close to the screen or you'll see that the stars look like light bulbs.
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2001: A Space Odyssey is being re-released to theaters on May 18th to celebrate its 50th anniversary. I've seen it on the big screen before. But I'm still hoping to find a theater showing it: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/...h-anniversary/
I saw it when it first came out. Really cool movie, though I never understood the ending until I read the book. I liked the 2010 movie too, though it's not as good as 2001.
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...I never understood the ending until I read the book.
I don't think many did.

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I liked the 2010 movie too, though it's not as good as 2001.
Yeah, it's tough to be a director trying to follow Stanley Kubrick. 2010 (the movie) is workmanlike, but I enjoyed it.
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I just love love this short film. i watched it a million times at least. 2001 movie I di dnot understand till i read the books. Just simply blew my mind. Great books
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I saw it when it first came out. Really cool movie, though I never understood the ending until I read the book.
They changed the ending of the movie because Kubrick had just made Dr. Strangelove and he didn't want to end two movies in a row with a nuclear explosion.
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Indeed!

Arthur C. rocks!
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One book of his that I'd like to see become a movie is "The Sands of Mars."
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Arthur C. rocks!
Well . . . not as much as he used to. What with bein' dead and all. Put a real crimp in his social life.
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Well . . . not as much as he used to. What with bein' dead and all. Put a real crimp in his social life.
He is Rock'n the Afterlife!
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Well . . . not as much as he used to. What with bein' dead and all. Put a real crimp in his social life.
His books live on.
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One book of his that I'd like to see become a movie is "The Sands of Mars."

Is it good? His books are either fantastic or bad, no middle ground lol
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"Sands of Mars" is a very early novel, his second I think. And the first of his that I read. It seemed to me grown-up sf than than a bems-and-blasters space opera, about a struggling dome colony on Mars and its attempts to become self-sufficient, specially in atmosphere. It dates from about '53 so the Mars of the book is not quite the real Mars; atmosphere in the book is thin, but no thinner than the top of Everest, so pressure suits are not needed. However, oxygen masks are needed.

The plot involves a middle aged journalist joining a Mars supply mission to report on the colony back to Earth, and personal discoveries and realisations he makes when he gets there.

Not bad, but because the length of sf novels of the time was not great, the publishers preferring about 80,000 words, the details of the Martian ecology are not worked out in enough detail to work out where it's odd animal life came from.

It was good enough, though, to make me a Clarke fan and finish up reading a lot more.
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Am I the only one that Hated, Hated, Hated the sequels to the Rama series by that idiot who couldn't write his way out of a paper bag? Jezzze what a waste of a great story line. That guy should have been tarred and feathered.
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