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post #1 of 15
8/8/02 at 7:21pm
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Arrive home today and find a big brown envelope with 'SFX Magazine' stamped all over it.

Inside a note:

'Congratulations - you have won our Predator DVD competition'.

Seeing as the last comp I won was back in the 70's - I'm feeling pretty chuffed at the moment! wink
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post #2 of 15
8/9/02 at 3:38am
You lucky lucky b*****d
at least i got to meet all the SFX
staff in Blackpool
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post #3 of 15
8/9/02 at 5:16am
I like SFX. It manages to tread the fine line between satisfying the hardcore genre fanbases while avoiding outright nerdiness. Sometimes it spends too much time on pap like Stargate SG1 and other second-string sci-fi shows, or crowbars in something with only vague relations to sci-fi (Austin Powers, for instance) but on the whole it's great.

And they're all really nice people. I missed the Blackpool event, but I've e-mailled back and forth with a few of them and they know their sci-fi onions alright.
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post #4 of 15
8/9/02 at 10:00am
My dad once collared me because he saw me buying a copy of SFX, and naturally being old and having dodgy eyesight, he thought it was called SEX, and thus assumed I was buying porn. I guess the fact the newsagent stocking it on the top shelf didn't help.

Still... what kind of porn has a Imperial Stormtrooper on the cover?
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post #5 of 15
8/9/02 at 10:26am
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Fett Dobler:
My dad once collared me because he saw me buying a copy of SFX, and naturally being old and having dodgy eyesight, he thought it was called SEX, and thus assumed I was buying porn. I guess the fact the newsagent stocking it on the top shelf didn't help.

Still... what kind of porn has a Imperial Stormtrooper on the cover?
Star Whores?
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post #6 of 15
8/9/02 at 6:18pm
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Just to expand on this - was John McTiernan on some sort of medication when he recorded the Director's commentary for this disk?

Shit - he sounds like William Burroughs!
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post #7 of 15
8/10/02 at 1:05am
I got a large UPS package today. It said i had won second prize in the "National day to prevent teen pregnancy sweepstakes." (something i dont remember entering)

Well, i ended up winning a $25 Old Navy gift card (cant use, there are no old navy stores in NF and the website dont deliver to canada); a girls t-shirt that says "Be SEXY - That don't mean you have to have sex,"; and a bag filled with many interesting Feminine products. (This is the first time i ever heard of "Feminine wipes" *shudder*)

I now have all the tampons i'll ever need!!
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post #8 of 15
8/10/02 at 6:28am
Quote:
Fett Dobler:
Still... what kind of porn has a Imperial Stormtrooper on the cover?
Probably your kind of porn...
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post #9 of 15
8/10/02 at 6:29am
"Aren't you a little "short" for a Stormtrooper?"
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post #10 of 15
8/10/02 at 6:32am
Quote:
AgentOrange:
Just to expand on this - was John McTiernan on some sort of medication when he recorded the Director's commentary for this disk?

Shit - he sounds like William Burroughs!
I picked up the Predator set the other night (some of us peasants have to pay for it ) and I know what you mean. I haven't listened to the commentary, but I watched all the documentaries, and he's definitely a laid-back mother fucker.

The worst part for me was seeing him describe the geography of action scenes, and how important it is for the audience to know clearly where the hero needs to be, what's in his way and how he has to to get there. That's what makes Predator (and Die Hard) such great action movies - they're beautifully constructed.

So what happened to the real John McTiernan, and who's the cack-handed impostor who made Rollerball?
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post #11 of 15
8/10/02 at 6:36am
Shouldn't that be the best part?

I really enjoyed the commentary, and the text one is cool, although like the Trek ones, they try to make jokes which could work on an audio commentary but fall flat on a text one.
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post #12 of 15
8/10/02 at 7:03am
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Fett, The 1000-yard Assassin:
Shouldn't that be the best part?
Not really, because it just reminded me how fantastic he used to be, and how shite his recent stuff has been. The documentaries made it clear that he understands action cinema perfectly, so it baffles me how he could squeeze out a confusingly-edited turd like Rollerball.
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post #13 of 15
8/10/02 at 7:05am
Ahh, I see now. My brain is in dead mode right now, being at work. A fool I am.

BTW, the original Predator was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Perfect for Attack of the Killer Zoidbergs!
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post #14 of 15
8/10/02 at 5:26pm
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Quote:
Daddy Whitehead:

I picked up the Predator set the other night (some of us peasants have to pay for it ) and I know what you mean. I haven't listened to the commentary, but I watched all the documentaries, and he's definitely a laid-back mother fucker.
His opening 'drawl' for the title sequences had me in stitches.

<fx: 20th Century Fox logo appears>

JM: You'l.......notice.....the logo is st....r...e.c...h...e.d......I wanted <fade out>.......to use anamor.......p....h.<fade out>.......ic....but the <confused pause>...stu....di....o thought it would cost <another confused pause as JM takes a draw on his reefer>.....too much.

No wonder his films have gone to shit - all that marajuana has turned his brain to mush!

P.S. Belated congrats on the baby Dan - wasn't here last week.
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post #15 of 15
8/11/02 at 7:05am
Quote:
Fett, The 1000-yard Assassin:
BTW, the original Predator was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Perfect for Attack of the Killer Zoidbergs!
Now imagine Jean-Claude Van Damme trussed up inside it, dreaming of the day he'll get to work with Dennis Rodman.

Then the comedy level becomes high enough to power a small city for a month!
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