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  • #31
    Snowfire: Don't get it just for the one short story. It's only about 30 pages, after all and almost totally devoid of character development. But that's just ****.

    ISBN 0-8065-1276-8
    LOC 87-50158

    SS: I couldn't agree with you more. It was a real shame how low quality it was.

    The Man in the High Castle still might raise some eyebrows with the international audience that the moviemakers are going after nowadays.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #32
      True...it would probably ignite some Anti-Americanism...but you know that the Japanese and Germans all secretly wish we were their peons.
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      • #33
        What is The Man in the High Castle about?
        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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        • #34
          Originally posted by DanS


          The Man in the High Castle still might raise some eyebrows with the international audience that the moviemakers are going after nowadays.
          I think everyone would fail to notice. That book is a bore. I read it a second time just to see if it was really as mediocre as I thought the first time. It is. I never have understood how it got a Hugo.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by DinoDoc
            What is The Man in the High Castle about?
            Its set in an alternate Earth where the Nazis won WWII. Maybe if D!ck had actualy written a plot instead of casting the I-Ching to decide the plot turns the idea would have worked. Some people do like it though. It did get a Hugo. But for me its the worst thing I ever read from him besides the Zap Gun (which had no zap gun).

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            • #36
              Hmmph. I liked both AI and the Man In the High Castle.

              In fact my entire family liked AI. I thought that the acting was really good, the visuals were awesome, the story was interesting and surprising, and my only quibbels are with the slightly hokey voice over and occasionally the soundtrack. Also, at times it moved as slowly as Blade Runner.

              I thought AI was quite similar to Blade Runner, and I think that in the future, will acheive a similar status…

              www.rottentomatoes.com reports that 96% of the movie reviews are "fresh" (good) while 4% of the reviews say that the movie is "rotten". I'm definitely going to cheeck it out.
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              • #37
                Originally posted by Ethelred
                But for me its the worst thing I ever read from him besides the Zap Gun (which had no zap gun).
                Do I even want to ask why it was named Zap Gun if it had no zap gun?
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by DinoDoc


                  Do I even want to ask why it was named Zap Gun if it had no zap gun?
                  I think it was a fake secret weapon but I don't really remember. The main thing I remember is characters doing tranqs to be cool and there actually being no Zap Gun. My favorite of his was The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldrich but I haven't read it decades. The last one of his I read was when I reread The Man In the High Castle. Before that it was the book that Roger Zelazny helped him finish. Didn't care for that either and Zelazny was my favorite author.

                  I read most of D!icks books back when he was still alive and writing. So they are a bit fuzzy in my mind.

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                  • #39
                    We're talking about a library here. You go in there and read it there, especially if it's a short story. No need to "get it." But thanks for the number.

                    Hmm, I saw the last 2/3 of Screamers because my roommate rented it in hopes of it being a cheesy bad horror movie. Ended up being dissapointed because it wasn't so bad as to laugh at it, but it was more of a wasted potential type thing. And ugh, the plot holes towards the end definitely needed some work.
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                    • #40
                      Ethelred: I was referring more to the subject matter rather than ****'s particular take on it. Germany and Japan represent about 1/3 of the global sales for such a film and Axis victory seems like a verboten subject to them. Also, much of the sales is derived from countries that still harbor a lot of ill will toward the Japanese and Nazis.

                      Error - Box Office Mojo
                      http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/data/vs.htm
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #41
                        I saw the movie, and it WAS freakin' amazing.
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                        • #42
                          AI was pretty good...until the end. THat is the dumbest, most unrealistic ending I've ever seen.

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                          • #43
                            I hated AI.
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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by David Floyd
                              I hated AI.
                              See! Other people hate it too!

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                              • #45
                                After being burned by AI (why oh why couldn't they leave the kid in Little Mermaid-ville?), I'm a bit hesitant about MR.

                                But I'm a total sucker for visuals. If it's pretty and shiny enough, I can ignore the other bits.
                                Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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