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  • peter wrote: » I wouldn’t say I was a non believer…. I always thought there must be other life forms out there, but after reading @ColonelSun ’s research and then the series he’s developing, I was moved to believe this is a topic of such large sco…
  • ColonelSun wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » @ColonelSun I am familiar with the Drake equation. Just so we're clear: its validity has never been experimentally verified. The equation itself is largely based on presumptions, not on empirical data. S…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » @ColonelSun I am familiar with the Drake equation. Just so we're clear: its validity has never been experimentally verified. The equation itself is largely based on presumptions, not on empirical data. So 'doing the math' is ce…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » @ColonelSun I am familiar with the Drake equation. Just so we're clear: its validity has never been experimentally verified. The equation itself is largely based on presumptions, not on empirical data. So 'doing the math' is ce…
  • They use electro-magnetic forces, in sync with element 115 (revealed by rocket scientist, Bob Lazar in the 1980s, and later discovered to be a real element in the mid-2000's), to warp space/time around their crafts and, in doing so, create antigravi…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » No need to be so sharp, gents. From what I've read, many if not most of us are convinced that "they" are "out there". Many if not most of us are also more than open to the suggestion that "they" may have visited us already. And,…
  • goldenswissroyale wrote: » PrinceKamalKhan wrote: » I'll buck the trend and vote for Sean in DAF. It's got a terrific John Barry score, some of the most quotable dialogue in the series, Sean and Jill seem to be enjoying themselves more than …
  • delfloria wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » I know some people on this site will try to trash what I am saying. These people might try to mock everything, but, I suspect, they are only trying to cling on to a perceived reality, which they sincer…
  • I really like SP, but I'd got for DAF just because it was the second Bond film I saw in the cinema, after OHMSS the year before at a Pontins holiday camp, and, although I was only 6, I still remember the experience and the audience cheering when Con…
  • I know some people on this site will try to trash what I am saying. These people might try to mock everything, but, I suspect, they are only trying to cling on to a perceived reality, which they sincerely believe is the only truth. But, if they h…
  • peter wrote: » The research that @ColonelSun has done on this topic, and how he then wove it into a series, really gave me pause. After the extent in which he's gone to provide answers to himself, he's uncovered a lot of detailed accounts that …
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Yes to both. I believe that the likelihood that aliens exist is infinitely high, but the likelihood they’d ever encounter us is infinitely low. I think the idea they coul…
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Yes to both. I believe that the likelihood that aliens exist is infinitely high, but the likelihood they’d ever encounter us is infinitely low. I think the idea they could find us, even if they’re far advanced, and even i…
  • From Russia With Love because I think it's Connery at his very best, but I also love Goldfinger.
  • Has to be the first three with Connery. Hard to beat those.
  • peter wrote: » Thanks @CraigMooreOHMSS ... Well, it's a shame I didn't see DoD sooner (the summer got away from me), but I'm genuinely pleased with the film we watched; Within minutes into it, my wife pointed out that I was smiling, and that sm…
  • ShakenNotStirred wrote: » Some people need films to be financially successful to validate their opinion on the film for some reason. Some of the best films ever made were not big box office hits or underperformed; It's a Wonderful Life, Wiz…
  • AstonLotus wrote: » mtm wrote: » It should have been made because it's a good film, and most of the Indy fans love it. Ford is also superb in it, I'd have hated it if we'd been deprived one more great Ford performance. Kathleen Kennedy was Ex…
  • mtm wrote: » It should have been made because it's a good film, and most of the Indy fans love it. Ford is also superb in it, I'd have hated it if we'd been deprived one more great Ford performance. Kathleen Kennedy was Exec Producer on Crystal S…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » Even a movie made a decade before SUPERMAN IV looks vastly superior. It’s a shame the unit that was used for I-III and SUPERGIRL were not utilized. Actually, Roy Field contributed, as did others who did VFX work on …
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » AstonLotus wrote: » Posted in the Indiana Jones thread but it belongs here.. There’s a guy on YouTube called APRICEPRODUCTIONS who has taken it upon him…
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » AstonLotus wrote: » Posted in the Indiana Jones thread but it belongs here.. There’s a guy on YouTube called APRICEPRODUCTIONS who has taken it upon himself to remaster and redo the bad fx shots from Superman I…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » That would explain the odd moment where Superman intensely stares at his spaceship and it just disintegrates. Also on a longer version of the flying scene that got cut out, we get Superman letting Lois fly solo for extende…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » The full version would have been more coherent, for sure. Still marred by production issues and questionable story choices that kneecapped the film right from the start. I do recall you saying that originally Superman w…
  • chrisisall wrote: » J. Lee Thompson directed the last two Apes movies in the 70's. I thought he did a wonderful job on both, given the TV movie budgets. And his Cape Fear was so much better than the remake. ColonelSun wrote: » Actually, I was t…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » Saw it in the cinema. Enjoyable. But certainly no rival to 'Raiders' J.Lee Thompson the director I believe? Anyone remember the T.V. show 'Bring Em Back Alive'? Actuall…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » Saw it in the cinema. Enjoyable. But certainly no rival to 'Raiders' J.Lee Thompson the director I believe? Anyone remember the T.V. show 'Bring Em Back Alive'? Actually, I was the second assistant film editor on King Sol…
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » it's the worst Bond film in the series, only to be edged out by The Man With The Golden by just a little inch. Blasphemy! Everyone knows DAD and NTTD are the worst Bond films. TMWTGG is actually one…
  • peter wrote: » I think YOLT. It tickles my childhood memories of Bond (big, strange, hidden HQs (both Tiger’s and Blofeld’s)…). But I love DAF for the absolutely bizarre humour and it’s almost unnecessary existence…. In the end, if DAF never ex…
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Barbie has crossed $200 million dollars in the US in 5 days. Oppenheimer, a 3 hour, very dense and deeply intelligent drama (with an amazing script, s…