Subj : Re: Threshold
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 23:26:17

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:
> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>> Trouble wrote:
>>
>>> I keep remembering Mr. Garrison's line from South park about
>>> Contact.  Wait the entire movie to see the alien and it's her
>>> goddamn father! 
>>  
>> (People actually watched that movie in order to see an alien?)
>
> Um, I was quoting Southpark, but in looking for the exact quote I have
> noticed people use the Southpark reference as their single rationale
> that the movie is a bad movie.

Yeah, people do that.  I've seen some people using a particular "Family
Guy" quote as a reason to not watch "Six Feet Under".

> I actually liked Contact, it was the first DVD I ever bought, however
> IF you make a book/movie about contact with Aliens then there ought to
> be some Aliens in there, somewhere.
>
> I think the current trend of using humans with no makeup, prosthetics,
> etc, to be the "hidden enemy" aliens among us is going to get old
> fast. 
>
> I am equally wary of forehead of the week aliens, a la trek, I like
> the balance Farscape and Firefly had.

While I see your point about the 'hidden enemy' heading towards
over-use, _Contact_ in particular was better off done the way it was.
(Yeah, I know you said you said you liked it.)  I should pick up that
DVD some day.


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Tyler Trafford

A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.

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