TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

Dark Angel

[viper37]

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

You can't unmelt circuitry.

What I mean is: something that would create a persistent effect over a wide area.  The EMP pulse melts the circuitry, but you can rebuild it elsewhere and replace the parts.

So, in theory, can a "dampening field" à la Star Trek can be created?

[Syt]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity? 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/King_of_Queens

Carrie: What movie do you want to see?
Kelly Palmer: Something brainless. What's that thriller where the Earth starts to lose its gravitational pull?
Carrie: Oh, yeah..."Floaters".

[Eddie Teach]

Syt has just outed himself as a King of Queens viewer. 

[11B4V]

Prometheus....jury's still out. There's something there. I need to check out the deleted scenes.

[Josquius]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the directors cut. They will probally have some sort of development with the captain lady which makes the "Oh, btw, thats my dad" scene less ham fisted and meh.

I liked Prometheus, it wasn't the best thing ever but it was pretty OK. Just like Avatar however it is very popular to hate on it.

[Razgovory]

Can some form of EMP pulse be made permament, remove the pulse?

You can't unmelt circuitry.

What I mean is: something that would create a persistent effect over a wide area.  The EMP pulse melts the circuitry, but you can rebuild it elsewhere and replace the parts.

So, in theory, can a "dampening field" à la Star Trek can be created?

Yeah, just set off a nuclear bomb every thirty minutes.  I imagine that take away the atmosphere and bombard the earth with gamma rays that would also keep unshielded circuitry from working.  Of course that would make a very short show.  You can protect electrical equipment from these kind things though.  It's not really that hard. All it would require is some chicken wire and tin foil.

[mongers]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film. 

[CountDeMoney]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film.

I do. Saw it in theaters when it was first out. Total fapping material for the lost art of mission-specific naval aviation.  Intruders. 
And splashing Zeros don't hurt, neither.

One of Martin Sheen's more obnoxious characters, though.

[Razgovory]

It's not a bad movie.  I like all the real airplanes being used which would now be replaced with CGI.

[mongers]

I watch 'The Final Countdown', excellent carrier aircraft photography, looked like an advertising promo for Grumman Aerospace; F14s and AGM-54, Money must love this film.

I do. Saw it in theaters when it was first out. Total fapping material for the lost art of mission-specific naval aviation.  Intruders. 
And splashing Zeros don't hurt, neither.

One of Martin Sheen's more obnoxious characters, though.

Yeah I saw it in the cinema when first released.

In addition to the F-14s and A-6s, lots of A-7s, Hawkeyes, even an F-8 carrier launch.
The SH-3s even photographed well, pity there was not Vigilantes on board, though there was one on the flight-line at Pearl Harbor.

[garbon]

One Day

aka emotional torture

[Ideologue]

A world without electricity?  What the fuck?  What's next, a world without gravity? 

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/King_of_Queens

Carrie: What movie do you want to see?
Kelly Palmer: Something brainless. What's that thriller where the Earth starts to lose its gravitational pull?
Carrie: Oh, yeah..."Floaters".

You'd watch it.  Would the Earth unbind itself or is it sufficiently mechanically connected?  I mean, it doesn't matter, since the remaining pressure from the sun's core would cause it to immediately begin to expand, but the science is important to get right so we correctly show how people die in the absence of gravity.  It's called "Constant."  GIVE ME MY CHECK.

[11B4V]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the directors cut. They will probally have some sort of development with the captain lady which makes the "Oh, btw, thats my dad" scene less ham fisted and meh.

I liked Prometheus, it wasn't the best thing ever but it was pretty OK. Just like Avatar however it is very popular to hate on it.

Scenes I thought were over the top were,
1. Dumb ass trying to pet the mutated cave worms. What I said when that scene unfolded was, "You got shit for brains and you'll get your up and comins" "Stupid". I'd have probably shot the thing when it first "Flared". Would have defiantly had it muzzled with a weapon.
2. Taking their helmets off way too quickly.

3. The father thing.

4. The impact of what they had "discovered", "an intelligent extraterrestrial species with ties to earth" was down played or marginalized by the writers.

Posed more questions than answers. Nothing wrong with that IMO. I think the spinoff plot lines caused by us, "Meddling Monkeys" are minor side plots of typical bumbling humans. Maybe deflections by Scott and the writers. 
1. Opening the vault that mutated the cave worms
2. Why did driod boy bring the mutagen on the ship and infect dude with the mutagen (agenda there).
3. Shaw getting pregnant by infected boy.
4. Shaw's bundle of joy that took down the Engineer, which led to a familiar face  popping out of his chest.
5. Mohawk boy doing a face plant in the goo and getting mutated.

I think the real plot, at least to me and questions I would like answered in sequels are;
1. Who were the Engineers?
2. Why did the create life on earth?
3. For what purpose did they create or harvest the mutagen and what was their intent with it?
4. Why did they want to (apparently) destroy what they created on earth? They dated the dead engineers at 2000 years on LV 223. That would have been 93 CE on earth at the time the Engineers were alive.
5. Why, when the surviving Engineer gets woke up and comes to his senses, does he gets pissed? A big WTF moment in his eyes? ZOMG there loose?
6. Explaining or tying in the other craft on LV 426.

[The Brain]

The movie sucked. Get over it.