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Post by Lensman on Jul 31, 2006 23:25:22 GMT
"Explorers" is a great first half of a movie. If the rest of it were done as well, it would be one of my favorite films. I think I've read the FX for the aliens weren't working, but it was rushed to completion anyway.
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Post by numanoid on Aug 1, 2006 8:53:06 GMT
I love that film too. That's the one where they make that bubble and fly into space isn't it?
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Post by Lensman on Aug 2, 2006 18:09:21 GMT
Yeppers.
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Post by Trivet on Aug 2, 2006 19:31:42 GMT
There is one reference I like in The Simpsons, its were Mr Burn declares "Ha, nothing can stop me now!!!...... except perhaps microscopic germs!!"
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Post by nervouspete on Aug 3, 2006 11:25:15 GMT
Aha! But I believe that was a Howard Hughes reference, where the famed casino owner and plane builder went crazy bonkers and thought that germs were out to get him, and lived in a hermetically sealed room in the casino. But yeah, that's what I thought first time I watched that episode too!
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Post by Trivet on Aug 3, 2006 18:26:04 GMT
I sit corrected!, the line makes more sense in context of a casino episode now.
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Post by nervouspete on Aug 3, 2006 21:00:26 GMT
Smither's germs: "Freemasons rule the country!"
Burns: "Guaaaaagh!"
Genius.
Stupid big smiley face from me via all the 'Explorers' love, by the way. And in the 2000's version of Peter Pan Wendy's mum can be seen reading 'The War of the Worlds'.
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Post by Lensman on Aug 3, 2006 23:56:43 GMT
This year at my science fiction club's annual Film Festival, one of the things we showed was an episode of the "Disneyland" TV show: "Mars and Beyond", an animated piece which includes some artists' conceptions of what Martian life was imagined to be back in the '60s, as well as depicting some fictional Martians, including those from Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" novels, and of course Martians and Tripods from this forum's favorite novel. I can't say I think much of the art style on this animation or the crudity of the drawings, but it most certainly *is* a piece of Wellsiana. For that reason, WotW completists may want to pick up the DVD of "Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland".
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Post by Bayne on Aug 5, 2006 2:35:45 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I was so bored yesterday I ended up sitting through an episode of the cartoon Arthur.. in which there was a solid WotW referance... including naming the book with a cutesy version of the cover art of the first version I bought! There was also an animation of people getting panicked by Orson Welles broadcast![/glow]
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