Good Ideas and Bad Ideas
Dec. 1st, 2002 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
So Elaine and I went to Shelley's 30th birthday party last night and I had fun. We came up with what I think is the best idea for a 30th birthday gift - a copy of Logan's Run. I was difficult to find, but worth the joke. However, combining Guinness, too much cake, and brandy-beans was a bad idea. Today has been shot to hell. 
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brandy-beans?
any possible thing i can think of to fit that description couldn't possibly be a good thing... lol!
Re: brandy-beans?
Date: 2002-12-01 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: brandy-beans?
And along those lines
Date: 2002-12-01 07:00 pm (UTC)From one sugar-zombie to another...
Date: 2002-12-01 10:38 pm (UTC)I'm kinda glad we didn't get into drinking that last night after all. I think it would have killed us (well, me anyway). Maybe I didn't have as many brandy-beans as you, but whiskey, Coke & cake did me in just the same.
Yay egg nog! *^_^*
And now I'm gonna have to try khalua in my egg nog as well! ^_~
Re: And along those lines
Egg Nog
Re: Egg Nog
Re: brandy-beans?
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Date: 2002-12-01 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-02 11:02 am (UTC)*Run*, runner!
Date: 2002-12-02 02:34 am (UTC)Where did you find the movie anyway?
Re: *Run*, runner!
Date: 2002-12-02 11:00 am (UTC)Last day: Capricorn 20s
Date: 2002-12-03 12:25 am (UTC)Suprisingly, LR is one of the few movies better than the original book. I have the novelisation for THX-1138 plus the original script and both have slightly different feels. The book gives some insight into the mindset and brains that actually run the society in THX. The "leader's" name is "Control" - which I found appropriate.
Renew! Renew!..love that carousel
Date: 2002-12-02 11:23 am (UTC)at the end of their life spin their life away ... oh yeah I forgot about WHEEL OF FORTUNE
You know the future predicted in logans run is so much different
than the way things actually turned out .. Life was BASICALLY over at 30 and people who wore anhks went to a place called SANCTUARY....wait a minute.....
Logans run is great RETRO-FUTURE ...Waht did you think about THX-1138?
Re: Renew! Renew!..love that carousel
Date: 2002-12-02 12:14 pm (UTC)Re: Renew! Renew!..love that carousel
Date: 2002-12-02 12:21 pm (UTC)THX-1138
Date: 2002-12-02 12:33 pm (UTC)This Is The Voice of World Control
Another VERY good movie from that era - very hard to find but well-worth checking out - is Colossus: The Forbin Project. Very low-key production but great storyline. My favourite line has to be: "This is the voice of World Control. I bring to you the peace of plenty or the peace of an unburied grave", after which the supercomputer then detonates a couple of nuclear warheads to prove its point.
Here's the Amazon review I wrote two years ago about it:
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THIS IS THE VOICE OF WORLD CONTROL - November 24, 2000
Reviewer: David XXXXXXXXXXXXX (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)
Every five years or so - usually quite often by chance - I'll catch an obscure, low-key movie on late-night television that will enthral and mesmerise my interest through either a really great story or stylistic visual look. Colossus: The Forbin Project is one of those movies.
The basic premise of the movie is a vast computer system, named Colossus, built by the computer genius Dr. Charles Forbin to manage the United States nuclear missile stockpile - thus successfully eliminating the potential dangers of nuclear war due to man's irrational and emotional reaction by allowing a rational decision-making machine to safeguard the American defences.
As mankind soon discovers, much to the dismay of its creators, Colossus does its job far better than originally programmed to do.
Once activated (I just love those scenes at the beginning where the lights in the complex are turned on), Colossus soon detects the existence of a Soviet counterpart system (named Guardian) and requests, no... orders its creators to have Colossus linked up to the Soviet machine.
Once the two systems are able to communicate on the same level (they devise their own computer programming language that only they know), the Colossus-Guardian system begins to issue demands on the threat of nuclear death.
What follows the fast-paced attempt by Forbin and his colleagues to somehow dismantle the threat posed by Colossus before the computer gains too much power.
The movie ends on a gloomy note. Colossus has just broadcast over television his ultimatum-greeting to the world ("This is the Voice of World Control...") and then detonates an American missile silo to show that it means business. Until this point, Dr. Forbin had shown himself to be calm and civil while dealing with his 'problem child'. The shock of Colossus' cold murder leads Forbin to believe himself to be the cause for this new terror unleashed on the world.
Granted, the dated 1970s 'futuristic' feel is fully evident here. The computer terminals are very big and antiquated compared to our present-day PC terminals and Colossus' raspy electronic voice is typically Kraftwerk-esque robotics at its very finest. However, considering that this was evidently a low-budget film, the sets are still executed suitably and superbly.
A fellow cinema buff told me that Colossus: The Forbin Project bombed in the theatres mainly due to its sudden, depressing ending and an obvious lack of big-name stars. In my opinion, the acting by Eric Braedon and Susan Clark is excellent, and so too are the rest of supporting cast.
It is these very factors along with the tight storyline that actually give the movie its strength