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A Canticle for Lebowski -- Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley.
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| safewrite |
| 2007-01-29 15:43 (UTC) |
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Childhood's Ent - The reason Treebeard can't find the entwives is that they have evolved into a supermind that is about join up with the sentient Supermind at the heart of the galaxy. Haraln Ellison does a guest cameo as an orc.
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 15:54 (UTC) |
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I Yam Legend - Popeye is the last spinach-eating man alive, in a world where green, leafy vegetables are all but extinct. Olive Oyl's chronic emaciation is explained.
Sex in Dark City - Can friends find love, or even a good shoe sale, in a town turned upside-down by urban planners run amok?
Oh, god, there will be more....
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| delkytlar |
| 2007-01-29 16:11 (UTC) |
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Malcolm X Men - A group of students with mysterious powers follows the teachings of their teacher (wheel-chair bound since an assassination attempt in 1965) in a fight for racial equality.
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I started to want to applaud this and then got hit with:
Freedom Riders a spin off of Malcolm X Men where a group of the mysterious students, with powers from hell, get on motorcycles and tour the country to fight for racial equality.
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| the_ogre |
| 2007-01-29 16:13 (UTC) |
| You know, Jay... |
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...it is not not fair to do that to your readers. I just watched The Big Lebowski again last night (introduced it to minimo) - and now 'll be thinking about your "sequel" all bloody day, and giggling at odd moments, thus discomfiting my co-workers.
Shame on you.
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 16:24 (UTC) |
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The one that gets a lot of play is East Ender's Game. I can't imagine a brilliant youth military commander coming out of or putting up with the soap opera soddery, however.
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| kadath |
| 2007-01-29 16:31 (UTC) |
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I have your address, man. I could come get you in your sleep.
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| mizkit |
| 2007-01-29 16:31 (UTC) |
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...I now desperately want to see A Canticle for Lebowski.
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| magentamn |
| 2007-01-29 16:44 (UTC) |
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MUST. SCRUB. BRAIN.
Has anyone told you you are evil? Really, truly, e-vile.
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| skidspoppe |
| 2007-01-29 17:37 (UTC) |
| Best on short notice... |
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Dandelion Whine
A group of anthropomorphic flowers bitch about the state of existence in a beautiful summertime setting
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| delkytlar |
| 2007-01-29 17:54 (UTC) |
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The Lord of the Ringworld - a group of hobbits and miscellaneous other hangers-on face danger at every turn as they travel through alien habitats on a quest to destroy an evil artifact. After months of fighting life-threatening monsters, they discover that, had they travelled spinward instead of widdershins, the molten pit they had sought was only two sort ring segments from their starting point, and they would have been back home before suppertime.
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| rysmiel |
| 2007-02-01 17:36 (UTC) |
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| it's all about the zaphod |
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Of course, there's also Niven's two volumes of Hollywood memoirs, The Inconstant Moon's a Balloon and Bring On The Empty Ringworlds.
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| fairmer |
| 2007-01-29 17:59 (UTC) |
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I cannot take credit for this one, but I can't remember who said it first anyway, but it always makes me laugh:
Cool Silent Runnings--a group of Jamaican androids hijacks a space freighter in hopes to turn it into an interspace bobsled
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 19:56 (UTC) |
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Alternatively, Cool Running Man, where the bobsled team has to fight for their lives in post-apocalyptic Burbank. Snake Plissken cameo optional.
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| pnh |
| 2007-01-29 18:27 (UTC) |
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O Stranger, Where Art Thou. After escaping from a chain gang, Valentine Michael Smith brings free love to the Depression-era South. Country music ensues.
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| yourbob |
| 2007-01-29 19:02 (UTC) |
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Freaks Friday -- An evil midget tortures himself when bodies are suddenly switched.
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| elfs |
| 2007-01-29 19:26 (UTC) |
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Sure you can't work in an oversexed, genetically engineered Hot Bi Babe with a tattoo on the roof of her mouth in there somewhere?
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| gooddamon |
| 2007-01-29 19:27 (UTC) |
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Discworld is not Enough -- Bond has to rescue the city of Ankh-Morpork from an evil megalomaniac, with Death constantly at his heels.
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| elfs |
| 2007-01-29 19:53 (UTC) |
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Kushiel's Scion Tc, in which an advertising campaign for cheap automobiles goes horribly wrong and brings an unfortunate young man to the attention of gods with a taste for pain. A sequel, Kushiel's Subaru Legacy, is planned.
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 19:58 (UTC) |
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Blade / Runner - Vampire cyborgs, the men who track them down angstfully, and the subcultures who love them.
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| garunya |
| 2007-01-29 20:33 (UTC) |
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| Warp Core Breach |
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Lieutenant Bueller's Day Off - Star Fleet Lieutenant Ferris Bueller, disappointed that he got stuck in a mindless desk job (his sister got her own ship), convinces his friend Captain Cameron Frye of the Enterprise B to take it out on a joy ride.
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 20:35 (UTC) |
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Bonus points for working his captaining the Ent. B. :-)
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The Number of the Beast -- the early version has a hair-metal band trying to make it big on the Billboard chart, whereas the remake has AOL trying to replace 0-800-666 with unlimited DSL and parental controls.
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| yourbob |
| 2007-01-30 17:47 (UTC) |
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The Number of the Beat Generation -- Jack Kerouac battles the devil.
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| charlesks |
| 2007-01-29 21:00 (UTC) |
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Galactic Highway Patrol. Broderick Crawford is newly graduated Lensman Kimball Kinnison, one of the men whose training, skill, and courage have enforced and preserved our Civilization's laws.
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| greyduck |
| 2007-01-29 21:11 (UTC) |
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| Tsubasa Chronicle "Crossover Fanfic" |
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In To Die Hard in Italbar, the galaxy is in chaos, with people falling prey to an unidentifiable disease. Only one man has the ability to help — a man who can heal or kill with a touch, usually while tossing off witty quips. Known only as "Roy," he is being sought after by everyone (including a gang of European terrorists who may not be what they appear to be), but for vastly different reasons.
(I feel so dirty now...)
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| elfs |
| 2007-01-29 21:25 (UTC) |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles of Thomas Convenant. Appropriate to both writers, it has little to no plot.
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| etcet |
| 2007-01-29 21:33 (UTC) |
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Moonstruck is a Harsh Mistress - I'm not sure I can even bring myself to picture Cher's hair in low-G.
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| ginalin |
| 2007-01-29 21:38 (UTC) |
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Battlefield Of the Network Stars Stars try to outrun John Travolta (in alien guise) through various obstacle courses as he chases them with Scientology pamphets.
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| elfs |
| 2007-01-29 21:43 (UTC) |
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I Am Curious Legend.
I bizarre art-film, shot in black-and-white with some hand-tinted frames, stars a young, beautiful and shirtless Tom Cruise holed up in a house while vampires wander about. His nemesis is a tall and almost unrecognizably buff Tim Curry, but Tom and his girlfriend stay inside arguing about unicorns, obesity, and free love.
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| fenmere |
| 2007-01-29 21:52 (UTC) |
| bit off color, but I guess that's where my mind is going today... |
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Saved by Private Brian - The U.S. Government and the media realize that the sole survivor of a special mission to strike deep into the heart of the German forces is actually the new Messiah, so they let the Nazi crusify him and then thank him for his selflessness.
Pigs in Office Space - Improperly filed TPS reports result in a bureaucratic nightmare for Miss Piggy, who, after a botched hypnotherapy session, goes all "Rodney" King on Starfleet Command.
And I should be pilleried, drawn and quartered, and then shot many times for this one, but...
Raising Eragon - A dragonless couple steals a whelp to raise for themselves, but they find the dragonlet to be more trouble than they bargained for, especially when the husband's delinquent brothers break from prison to start their own evil empire. Twenty minutes of the little dragonling playing on the front porch while grandpa watches bigfoot porn is sure to make this feature a Christmas special fans won't soon forget.
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| ginalin |
| 2007-01-29 22:01 (UTC) |
| Re: bit off color, but I guess that's where my mind is going today... |
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Eragon love! Well, not really. But it had terrrific gay pants.
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