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Still avoiding the trailer, but the poster looks awesome.
I've been writing a similar sort of story about astronauts for the last couple of years and I fear that once I've seen this I'll either abandon it or be unwittingly influenced by it... but I really want to watch this as it's my dream film. Shucks.
Must... resist... space...
Not knowing anything about the franchise, the trailer has me interested. I like alien invasion/'today we celebrate our independence day type' movies so I'll probably see this. If only to see jets flying around in the sky and spaceships doing their thing. The only dodgy thing about this is kids.
I couldn't care less about who wrote the books this is based on, or about their personal politics. Most people we meet in life are going to say or think things that we disagree with, and rummage around enough in any closet and I'm sure we'll find something dumbass, racist, sexist or selfish things either said or done. You can't really be absolutionists about these things, and so you end up being selective with your outrage, or worst, obliviously prejudiced.
Saw The Challenge on youtube - 80s movie about an American boxer (Scott Glenn) who's hired to smuggle a Japanese sword into Osaka for Toshiro Mifune and all sorts of antics ensue. It's ok, it jumps around a bit and moves dangerously close into 'Westerners can learn martial arts over a couple of weeks' territory. I did look at the clock towards the end to see how much more there was of it, which I never think is a good sign.
Also saw Lost in Translation. I thought it was ok, quite melancholic but had a few much needed funny moments too to lighten the mood, even though some do come at the expense of the Japanese. Bill Murray really steals it (not that he really has anyone else to steal it from), and I was taken aback at first by just how young Scarlett Johansen looks in this.
Going to Japan for the first time in October so am in a bit of a Japan kick at the moment. Even saw Rising Sun (Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes) for the first time in probably two decades.
I don't agree at all that everyone paying money = greater sense of community. Shared interests bring people together and community simply develops over time and frequency of discourse. If the podcast/forum/chat charged you to become a member, would any of us still be here?
This 'new' model sounds like any other club in any other activity, pay us and you'll get stuff or be treated special. And who cares about an 'isolating event'? You still do it and money still gets to where it's supposed to go. Is this therefore going to be about bragging rights - where it shows all the other members that you gave money and how much you gave?
You can alreayd donate regularly and automatically, it's called Paypal (which most people use to make the donation in the first place).
It still looks like a 'fan project', I mean I'm not convinced the execution (acting especially) will be any different or better than the dozens of other low budget sci-fi shows we've seen which have been made for far, far less. Despite all the money, it won't have the quality look of Firefly or anything we see on proper TV, it'll probably look like ARK (and yet cost a magnitude more) or feel like LOTR: Born of Hope (where acting/directing is cheap).
The Early CGI shots they show on the video are atrocious, to the extent that I'm wondering whether they are making an animated show? No matter how early, I can't imagine anyone thinking that those shots are acceptable for a live action show, when they don't even look good enough for an old computer game.
Oh, and much of the saving of B5 at the time was that they were set in one place (fewer sets) and used CGI rather than models.
I'm just performing a slight bit of necromancy with this thread because I've recently started watching a hard sci-fi anime series called Space Brothers, which I can't help but love and find inspiring.
It's about two brothers who love space who become astronauts. The younger one is already an astronaut at NASA and is on the mission to return to the moon, the older is a 31-year-old salary-man who rediscovers his dream and decides to try out at JAXA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Brothers_%28manga%29
Here's a bit from one of the episodes.
It's my new favourite series, and rather wonderfully, it's a long running series (something like 40 episodes so far). Inspiring and funny. And you can tell it's made by space nerds (an obvious The Right Stuff reference in the above clip).
Thank you for doing two great choices for D- I mean "What are you doing, movie?" and thanks for announcing it on the forum 
Nice name, reminds me of one of my favourite quotes from Dorkman, something like "what's that movie, little Timmy's trapped down the well?".
That said, you can pry my previously downloaded [Redacted]-opening episodes from my cold dead hands. They'll be highly collectable you just wait and see 
If you do a search on the US Trademark site http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=s … :jtl32.1.1 of Down in Front, you do indeed find a live patent.
Thanks and good find Bathilda. That amazes me, someone actually gave it to them... Still, their case wouldn't hold up in court. Quite aside from the fact that they've not defended their trademark, they've not maintained their right either - their "Down In Front Radio Network" is for all intents and purposes dead, with no shows since late 2008 and no current availability or activity. It's effectively abandoned. Further, it looks like it's a free show so it's not like they can claim damages. And without damages, no court or legal people are going to be interested.
Welcome to Bizarro world!
I found a thing on Youtube, some video talking about movies, dating back to 2007. Maybe that was it?
I still don't buy that someone has even actually trademarked it (as opposed to thinking they have ownership over the name because they did a thing with that name years ago), let alone thinks they have a case against you, because 1) they've not defended their trademark for at least 3 years, 2) they don't appear to be using their trademark, and 3) they shouldn't have been granted the trademark in the first place.
EDIT - I would suppose that it's this show - Down in Front with Dana Carvey, available on Netflix.
http://www.vanmetreproductions.com/inde … 0&at=0
It doesn't look like it's an ongoing show, or something that has had anything new in the last 5 years, so... yeah...
In reality, you wouldn't have much time to get bored or sick of your new surroundings. If you read and listen to the people who spent days on the moon, which is as equally desolate as Mars, you never get any sort of impression that this how they felt. Similarly, the folks who spent months on the ISS aren't the type of people to mope and pine over luxuries.
You wouldn't want to go, sure, and you would undoubtedly experience what you describe, but there are plenty of others who would want to go and wouldn't feel the same. The first people to land on Mars will want to go and will want to be there. It will be both a passion and a job for them. And their daily tasks will keep them occupied for months and months. There will be a wide range of experiments, classes with school children, maintenance jobs, geological expeditions, gardening, rock analysis (the whole point is that you bring the man and lab to Mars, not bring the rock to the man and lab), personal research projects, photography opportunities, etc. quite aside from the fact that you are living and working on FUCKING MARS.
Perhaps most significantly, they'll be scientists working in a completely different setting doing what no-one else has done and can do. I really wouldn't underestimate this.
Also, Mars isn't like Tatooine at all. It's not just a sea of reddish rocks. There are mountain ranges, canyons, gorges, etc. It is, to borrow a phrase, magnificent desolation. The view from a rover is far more interesting than a satellite picture, no matter how HD it is, and the view from actual eyes in a human head would be even more interesting.
And I don't believe seeing Earth from Mars in person is worth $100 billion versus sending a camera there for $300 million. That's just my personal preference. If that trade-off was affordable/practical, sure.
I wish NASA had 5% of government funding instead of 0.5% - then it could afford to flood the solar system with probes AND send humans to Mars. That'd be great. But at the moment, many scientists are pissed off because their probe missions are being cancelled. Hence the advocacy of the Planetary Society.
As we also talked about in another thread way back when, it's about a lot more than just a handful of people physically being able to visit Mars and the cool factor. I think we're all at risk of only seeing the short-term picture here, as are folks like Krauss. The process of a manned mission to Mars is probably the best way of developing better technologies and improving all space exploration. It's by overcoming the obstacles of getting men further out than the moon and to other celestial bodies that we increase our learning of doing so. Practice, practice and trial and error.
We've been doing robotic missions for around 40 years now and haven't really made any significant advances. The robots might be more complicated and do various functions better, but the means of getting them around haven't changed at all. And that's the problem. The two main problems with space travel are weight (for getting off Earth) and speed; robotic missions challenge neither.
"We do these things not because they're easy but because they're hard." And by doing the hard stuff, it'll become easier, and cheaper too as advances produce greater efficiency.
Have you met any humans that insist on seeing everything in person rather than books/pictures. We're making those compromises all the time.
Not everyone is content to view the world through the eyes of others and travel does occur - a lot in fact - and those that do like to travel and go to places themselves get great satisfaction from it. Can you understand that a person would want to see the Grand Canyon and not be satisfied with a photograph of it? Is it entirely possible that seeing something in person is a completely different experience? And that's really the rub here, it's so much more than just about seeing . The fact many places on our planet survive almost soley on tourism proves the validity of the idea that being there is more valuable than mere imagery of it. That no human can possibly see everything is irrelevant.
And I really do pity anyone who has the mindset that they've experienced the pyramids having only seen them on TV.
For one human mission to a rocky plain on Mars, we could get 10 x MSL rovers all over Mars (including interesting places), aerial floating missions to Venus, landers on Mercury, Cassini-grade orbiters around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nepture, and ice-core drillers on Europa, floating probes on Titan's lakes, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder to locate Earth-sized exoplanets.
We've talked about this before. You're making a lot of assumptions about costs here, what's more, this far-reaching robotic exploration isn't happening now in the absence of a manned mission to Mars, so it's unlikely to happen in the future. Further, a rover mission is always going to be a rover mission, and an orbiter is always going to be an orbiter. A manned mission to Mars would be a multi-purpose mission, and practically equivalent to 10 robot missions...
That's a weak argument. Why go anywhere then, not just in terms of travel but venturing outside or away from a screen? Why eat food when you can get nourishment intravenously? Why do anything when an easier or cheaper substitute is available?
We've been sailing since ancient times e.g. the Phoenicians. If going to Mars was so technologically simple, we'd have done it by now.
It took several thousand years before humans could travel across oceans, and it's only been 100 years or so since we can do it reasonable safety and certainty. Sickness and premature death were just as likely for our water-faring forebears as it is today with astronauts - actually, arguable more since technology is rigorously tested before any human is allowed near it.
As Brian has said, you're rather grossly underestimating the difficulties faced with ocean travel. There's a reason why humans mostly travel by air for long distances now.
Muscle wastage
Loss of bone density
Radiation on route
Radiation on the surface
All currently solveable problems with the exception of bone density loss, but then, if you're not going to return to Earth, that won't matter anyway.
Just one malfunction in life-support (temperature, pressure, gas mix) - and that's it
Where do you get the impression the life support isn't built, as they always are on man-rated craft, with redundancies?
Sometimes, you need someone just to be a little crazy and go for it. If we're paralysed by fear of something bad happening and making mistakes, then we can never learn.
You know... there have been so many suggestions I just really, really want you guys to tell the trademark 'owners' of this generic phrase to go fuck themselves.
Saw GI Joe Retaliation this past weekend - much better than the first movie and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It has its problems, some inherited and some of its own, but I liked it.
Forgive me, but what's the format/method of communication, somebody mentioned Google Hangout? How does that work?
I don't like the sound of my voice so I probably won't engage that way (don't have a mic either), but listening in would be fun.
Someone suggested We'll Fix It In Post, or maybe some variation (Fixing It In Post, whatever). That's actually quite good (if that name is available) at describing what we do, and also what we DO. It definitely says "movie-based", and it's a valid title for both the commentaries and pretty much every Intermission we've done, too.
It's too ironic for my liking, at least I hope it's meant to be ironic... it's an atrocious attitude to have when making a movie. I don't know, I guess I wouldn't mind so much if the wording was explicit in acknowledging that it's a crappy thing and you guys were there 'cleaning up the mess', both literally in your jobs and figuratively in the commentary 'booth' discussing about where a film goes wrong and giving suggestions.
I like 'Fridge Logic Commentaries' or a variation thereof. The Front Row I liked, but Back Row to me has connotations of being noisy jerks throwing popcorn at other folks at the cinema or lovers making out.
Still... there's always Geekza. You don't need to see any others, that is the one you're looking for.
Real shame you got jumped on by a clearly put upon jackass, who frankly would lose in an actual case. Anyhow, I like 'Friends in Your Head' and 'The Intermission'. 'Geekza' is good too.
An alternative could be to use another common phrase people use at the movies, though I appreciate the fact that 'Turn off your phone' and 'Stop slurping that cola' don't quite have that same zing. 
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