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Upcoming Films; Just post here films which you think are going to be good
Topic Started: Feb 26 2011, 05:16 PM (2,128 Views)
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They could claim it's a unmanned mission, sending a massive rover and probe, but it fails.

The Launch Escape is still in place to recover classified technology in case of an emergency.


Fails where and how? Where is it going to fail? Beyond the sight of everyone at the launch site? What happens when skywatchers see the stage in the parking orbit? And when the USSR tracks a spacecraft headed to the Moon?

Also, there is not only the LES, but the CSM is all exposed on the top of the vehicle. You don't need a CSM or a CSM-shaped thing there for an unmanned probe, you just need an aerodynamic fairing. And having a LES to 'recover classified technology' in an emergency doesn't make sense either: if something goes wrong with the vehicle, you just blow it, and the 'classified technology' to bits. This is called range safety, and is a standard on many rockets... it can be triggered when the rocket veers off course (and puts spectators or populated areas at risk) or loses control (which might lead to it veering off course into spectators or populated ares). Range safety explosives were triggered after the Challenger disaster, for example; although the shuttle and its external fuel tank had disentegrated in the accident, the much more solidly constructed solid rocket boosters kept on flying, and were destroyed a short while later to prevent them from posing a threat.

And you still cannot hide the manned aspect.
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Minor mechanical failure meant the rover would not deploy, and contact was lost quickly. Dozens of spacecraft have been lost over time.

Rover is a pretty good idea really, you don't even need to get the Soviets onboard, they can track it to the moon, because that's where it was supposed to be going.

It must be really hard for you to go to the cinema
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Minor mechanical failure where? With the rover? With the fairing? With the upper stage? With the lander intended to get the rover onto the surface of the Moon?

They are all different and they all lead to different things.

Also, you just need a fairing for the rover... no Command and Service Module + LES...

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It must be really hard for you to go to the cinema


When people take my favourite stuff and get it wrong, yes, yes it is.

But when/if they get it right... I want to hug them. :rolleyes:
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It must be really hard for you to go to the cinema
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Man, you are really not going to like Iron Sky.

If you can't make the leap that they pretended a manned mission was a rover, or imagine some little technical difficulty that stops the rover working. Oh. I just get why you don't read novels. Do you not like filling in the gaps in fiction?
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I'm not? Maybe I failed to mention that I generally love anything that goes beyond the absurd... :P

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Mental picture of T. Neo (no idea what you look like) - sitting there, in the semi-darkness, grinding his teeth, crushing the armrests with his white-knuckled grip of frustration at the over-exaggeration and sheer implausability of the plot, at all the trophes and cliches... growling and barking at the screen, and disturbing all the other patrons...


Nope, most of the time it's just several sighs of annoyed boredom. :P

And if I'm watching a film at home (I usually don't bother to go to the cinema, rather I just watch films when they come on TV) I usually make sarcastic comments about the events in the film, either to the benefit or chagrin of anyone watching with me...

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If you can't make the leap that they pretended a manned mission was a rover, or imagine some little technical difficulty that stops the rover working. Oh. I just get why you don't read novels. Do you not like filling in the gaps in fiction?


Actually I don't read novels because I get bored and my hands... get... tired holding the pages apart. Seriously. :rolleyes:

I like filling gaps in fiction. Problem is, I can't fill the gap between a payload fairing and an exposed command/service module...
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When is Iron Sky coming out though? Last I heard it was still begging for production money.
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I'm very looking very much forward to the new Sinbad movie.



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Iron Sky should be out by the end of the year
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BY DARWIN!!!! I love stop motion!!! Please can they stay true to the Harryhausen style!!! Please ive had enough of shitty CGI give me clay models damn it!!!
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That's exactly how I feel too! I'm so sick and tired of how CGI is being grossly overused, with almost no talent or true effort at all. I bet I can count the movies with CGI that is more realistic than the old Harryhausen movies with my fingers <_<

As this new movie is a sequel to a Sinbad trilogy in which Harryhausen made the special effects, and that they're using dynanimation (something Harryhausen invented, if I'm remembering it right), I think this will be very much like his movies. Let's just hope todays filmmakers are nearly as talented as Ray was...

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Amen to that. CGI reminds me of most modern buildings, sure some look good now, but in 30 years they will be horrible. Stop motion has permanence.
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I saw Ironclad yesterday and it was awesome!!!! :D :D I have never seen medieval warfare done so grittily, the cast is perfect. Its a real gem for history buffs ;)
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