20070412

So good

Flight of the Navigator is on you tube.

10 comments:

Friend of Voorhees said...

The Flight of the Navigator always left me twisted because it always pissed me off that he came back to Earth and his younger bro was older than him. That shit is fuct and violates everything I know about being a sibling...

If E.T. every made me younger than my kid sis, I'd stomp some phoning-home ass

Also, Greg I'm close enough to hang,I thinks...so let's do it. CO to LA, how many hours you think?

G-reg said...

Oh, you so need to. It's been more than a year, and last time was fucked!

Yea, traveling faster than the speed of light is a bitch. I just finished the movie. I love how they use the same animation of the ship every single time. This movie used to disturb me when I was kid.

Come to cali.

total cool dude said...

flight of the navigator is scary but not as scary as cocoon

G-reg said...

I think you're right. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it, because I was so terrified by the fucking trailer.

total cool dude said...

if you're scared of wilford brimley and old people having fun (i know i am), it's the scariest movie ever.

Eff Gwazdor said...

I'm mentally much younger than Henry.

It's always been a fantasy of mine to collect a bunch of clips of computer animations from movies from the mid 70's to mid 90's - like the ones with the green grid lines, alien typefaces, etc and put them together. From Star Wars to Weird Science. There is a lot of technobabble too. I'm intrigued by the idea of creating something alien or futuristic. Futurologists are the closest thing contemporary society has to wizards because "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd Law). And aliens must think differently than us - like Chet is always saying - try to think of something you would never think of... Art that attempts an impossible task has a high chance of being great.

Chet's such a ball-buster!

total cool dude said...

there is a great mid-90's hardcore acid track called "only those who attempt the impossible will achieve the absurd". i like that.

Eff Gwazdor said...

THAT'S.... ABSURD!!

G-reg said...

I just read something yesterday about HD-TV and how it's changing the way people have to design sets. (EFF, Your sci-fi collection idea above made me think about this). Basically, HD cameras capture insane amounts of detail, so now instead of just having papers on a cops desk for instance with dummy latin text on the page like "lorem, ipsum dolor...", they're hiring people who;s job it is to make actual police reports to put on the cops desk, etc. I think I read it in wired.

Eff Gwazdor said...

PAVE THE WORLD!!!

Cops' realistic papers for imaginary crimes - perhaps someone will start a spin-off by reading the papers. Perhaps it will also be a story of li'l Mr. Cockroach who lives in the top drawer of the cop's desk. They don't have to show it at different times - just weave the bug into the story and we can kill two target audiences with one sitcom.

Like with how nature shows are getting better - more detailed, more accurate, more hyperdramatic, more meaningful - as we slowly kill off all life. The real world is getting flat and the fake world is getting facinating. As Logan always said, "simulation is the ecstacy of the real" (OK - it's actually our late friend Baudrillard). Art is like that too - ever increasing detail, ever depleting resources - the thought-replicators in our minds are slowly destroying the old paradigm of DNA-replicators. That's why I say, "PAVE THE WORLD!" It's inevitable - robots will learn to suck up our minds for breakfast before they learn to walk. They need a flat world for their little wheels.