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silly 
"That rabbit's DYNAMITE."
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 Posted - 12/02/2008 : 17:28:17
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How did they find the scene whether the authorities come along and take Elliott and E.T. to be plugged into monitors? I found that bewildering and frightening, as I didn't understand who they were and what the quarantine tunnel was all about.
Me, too! Very much the "here comes the authorities and boy are YOU gonna get it" feeling.
Scary also was a scene in "Close Encounters" where the kid gets napped. |
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Mr Savoir Faire
"^ Click my name. "
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 02:57:19
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Barely related topic, does anyone else feel that this film ripped off The Cat From Outer Space?
I'm in no way saying that this isn't a good film, just saying... |
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 15:32:58
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Originally posted by Randall
Sheer coincidence.
I guess that B.B.'s line of thinking that film names are never random has rubbed off on me. Anyway, at least I kept my review there in one form if it is a coincidence.
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And here's another: in 2001, the name of the computer, HAL, is IBM transposed back one letter. Both Clarke and Kubrick denied to their deaths that it was anything other than a coincidence.
I've always thought this one reasonably likely to be a coincidence. When was I.B.M. founded? Assuming that it was before 1968 (or else people would not even suggest the link, at least that way round), how well known as a company can it have been by then? |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 15:36:31
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Originally posted by Mr Savoir Faire
Barely related topic, does anyone else feel that this film ripped off The Cat From Outer Space?
I don't know, but I associate them together, presumably because I saw them around the same time. I definitely saw The Cat... at this (presumably technically illegal) club called Saturday Cinema, where for 20p we watched a film on a T.V. screen via a video cassette. I think I may have seen E.T. there too, hence my not really remembering the cinematic experience. |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 18:10:36
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Originally posted by Salopian
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When was I.B.M. founded? Assuming that it was before 1968 (or else people would not even suggest the link, at least that way round), how well known as a company can it have been by then?
I.B.M. traces its origins to the late 19th C. and it was incorporated in 1911. By the 1950s it was a worldwide household name as well as a pretty good stock choice.
Here is part of an article from 1955. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/03/2008 : 18:42:01
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
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Originally posted by Salopian
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When was I.B.M. founded? Assuming that it was before 1968 (or else people would not even suggest the link, at least that way round), how well known as a company can it have been by then?
I.B.M. traces its origins to the late 19th C. and it was incorporated in 1911. By the 1950s it was a worldwide household name as well as a pretty good stock choice.
Here is part of an article from 1955.
Or you could just buy my book and learn of the part IBM played in the development of the interweb thingy.
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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 12/04/2008 : 13:51:22
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
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Originally posted by Salopian
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When was I.B.M. founded? Assuming that it was before 1968 (or else people would not even suggest the link, at least that way round), how well known as a company can it have been by then?
I.B.M. traces its origins to the late 19th C. and it was incorporated in 1911. By the 1950s it was a worldwide household name as well as a pretty good stock choice.
Here is part of an article from 1955.
Or you could just buy my book and learn of the part IBM played in the development of the interweb thingy.
I like the way that plug fitted seamlessly in with the thread.....Go Baftababe!! |
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boydegg 
"Creator of Grammarman comic."
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Posted - 10/24/2009 : 16:15:26
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Salopian
I also found the whole quarrantine part of ET weird. As a kid I just didn't get what was going on. What was with all the spacemen and sheets of plastic?
As an adult I now realize that the same men who tried to close in on ET's ship at the beginning, must have been tirelessly searching for the stranded alien with sophisticated equipment all along.
But at the time, I was just jarred completely. A cute story about some kids befriending a visitor from space suddenly became stressful, scary and confusing.
That Stephen Speilberg sure is clever though.
Did anyone else find Elliot's mom hot? I think she was my first MILF.
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 10/28/2009 : 04:16:14
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Did anyone else find Elliot's mom hot? I think she was my first MILF.
Now that she's older, I think she and Cherry Jones look a lot alike. (Actor replicants or switched at birth?) |
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Choice of the name Elliott in 'E.T.'
