Man Conquers Space (filim in production)
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Astonishingly, Dennis has said something that I agree with wholeheartedly. I'd much rather see low-budget, direct-to-DVD, homemade movies with SFX done on a home PC that are made with heart and sincerity than have pop culture dominated by soulless, vacuous garbage like nuTrek. Modern technology has made it possible for stuff like this and this to exist. I hope to see more like them in the future. 
You're not entirely beyond hope of enlightenment.
Was that supposed to make some kind of sense? 
RJDiogenes, my parents have a little bean-bag-like thing that looks kinda like your avatar. If you throw it against the floor, it cries out in stupidity. Is your avatar of one of those noise-making bean-bag-like things?
It's actually a toy version of "Goofy Grape," the politically-incorrect mascot of a flavor-ade drink mix called "Funny Face" first marketed in the 1960s (although it's not apparent from the design of the stuffed toy version, the grape is wearing a "Napolean" style hat as if to suggest that it's suffering from megalomaniacal delusions, and mental health groups protested. Seriously).
Three mascots and two flavor names had to be changed based on reactions from various groups. The flavor names deemed offensive were "Injun Orange" and "Chinese Cherry."
What Dennis said. My Avatar is actually a picture of a stuffed Goofy Grape pillow that came out in the early 70s (which I sadly never got-- although I did get Lefty Lemon and Choo Choo Cherry).
Oh. My. God.
Funny Face, Goofy Grape, Rudy Tutti Frutti: I actually do remember now, barely. I think I even had some once or twice.
Funny Face, Goofy Grape, Rudy Tutti Frutti: I actually do remember now, barely. I think I even had some once or twice.
The original appeal to parents was that Funny Face was "sugar free." It was chock full of cyclamates instead, which were banned a few years later.
Astonishingly, Dennis has said something that I agree with wholeheartedly. I'd much rather see low-budget, direct-to-DVD, homemade movies with SFX done on a home PC that are made with heart and sincerity than have pop culture dominated by soulless, vacuous garbage like nuTrek. Modern technology has made it possible for stuff like this and this to exist. I hope to see more like them in the future.
I would like to see these low budget efforts as well, but in accompaniment to large scale SF that only studios can do...Founation, Rama, Ringworld, etc
RAMA
That came later. Originally, you added your own sugar.
That would be great if they could get it right. The odds of that are not good.Astonishingly, Dennis has said something that I agree with wholeheartedly. I'd much rather see low-budget, direct-to-DVD, homemade movies with SFX done on a home PC that are made with heart and sincerity than have pop culture dominated by soulless, vacuous garbage like nuTrek. Modern technology has made it possible for stuff like this and this to exist. I hope to see more like them in the future.
I would like to see these low budget efforts as well, but in accompaniment to large scale SF that only studios can do...Founation, Rama, Ringworld, etc
RAMA
The odds of a major studio producing a movie version of any one of those three properties that I would like = 1%. Reason: the plots in the original novels are almost entirely devoid of frenetic action.
To make my point clear, I mean to say that, gazing into my crystal ball, I would predict (a) that frenetic action would be inserted into the plots (b) at the expense of treatment on screen of the intellectual developments explored in the stories. Even if the movies were successful, I don't expect I would care for the films. These were great novels, long on ideas, long on breathtaking vistas even, but short on action, relative to what seems to be expected today. 
How sad. And how sadly true. There are so many good stories that could be told yet no vision to try telling them as they deserve.
Of course. No one spends lots of money on a film with the intention of losing it.
Rama is one thing - it's really stretching the meaning of "intellectual" to suggest that there's anything of intellectual value in the Ringworld books, though. Niven likes his story puzzles.
You know, it's not (a) that's the problem for me. Rather, it's the conjunction of both (a) and (b), and the apparent belief that in order to have (a), you must also have (b).
