BWprowl wrote:Comic book characters, sci-fi movie characters...
I bet you a billion people are going to continuously confuse Battleship for Transformers this Summer. This is the society we're living in. Well the rest of us anyway, you apparently live in some wild place where reading Star Wars novels is a regular occurance for the average person.
Two different subjects....
And somebody has to be buying all of those Star Wars novels for them to publish so many.
Holy crap yeah, let's just talk about Battleship. It's on-topic for this thread.
The commercials for Battleship I'd have to admit does kinda look like the Transformers movies. But then, what does aliens have to do with it? I don't remember that being a part of the game.
I think I've only seen the promo once and dismissed it thinking it was another promo for DOTM on DVD. I am interested to see how they interpret a board game into a movie though.
Shockwave
-And now a "Robot Chicken" sketch has become reality. Next up: Chutes and Ladders starring Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller.
Shockwave wrote:Shockwave
-And now a "Robot Chicken" sketch has become reality. Next up: Chutes and Ladders starring Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller.
I know, right? After this and Real Steel which was totally not-'Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots' I'm already looking forward to Hungry Hungry Hippos, Mousetrap, Twister, and...and...Crossfire!
Shockwave wrote:Shockwave
-And now a "Robot Chicken" sketch has become reality. Next up: Chutes and Ladders starring Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller.
I know, right? After this and Real Steel which was totally not-'Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots' I'm already looking forward to Hungry Hungry Hippos, Mousetrap, Twister, and...and...Crossfire!
I had an idea for a Terminator "prequel" set in the Old West. This is the dumbass outline I wrote for it before I got bored:
The year is 1884. The Wild West. John Wayne Connor is a pacifistic former gunslinger-for-hire on his way out to California searching for gold. He's got his horse and he's got his supplies and that's all he needs. Named for his father, John Connor, a famous steam engine worker. He didn't follow in his father's footsteps, instead choosing to head out West--and that's why he just goes by Wayne Connor. He used to gunsling as a profession but those days are over, and he's seen too much bloodshed. He's an older man now. He doesn't want to fight...but he still can, if times call for it, which they often do out West. In some territories, he's still a wanted man.
A barn. Cows. Horses. Assorted farm animals.
A flash of light. A crackling sound. An explosion?
The hay ignites. The barn catches fire. Animals yelp. Some escape.
From the fire emerges a skeletal figure, covered partially in burning skin. One arm is revealed. Robotic. Partially dismantled. His face, however, is fine. It's a familiar face. The face of ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER.
He puts out the fire on his robotic arm with his other hand. These things usually don't happen. But he'll survive. All he needs is some period-appropriate clothing, a poncho and hat, and no one will suspect a thing.
Elsewhere: A saloon bathroom. Similar lights and noises. Patrons take notice from outside. They didn't know anyone was in there.
Out walks another naked man, this one cold, emotionless. He is ready to find the man he came across time for. John Wayne Connor. He's there to kill him. He's there to stop the great-grandfather of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance against the machine network Skynet in the year 2029.
Already we can see the plot threads forming. You know where this is going.
TERMINATOR 1884
Plot points include: Rebuilding the T-800 with a steampunk robotic arm, meeting Michael Reese, the ancestor of Kyle Reese, a chase scene involving a train and a horse, and a climactic battle set inside an abandoned mine converted to a smelting plant.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
Y'know, that wouldn't be such a bad movie. And it would make sense that Skynet would just keep going further backwards through time to accomplish their mission.
Yeah. But, Skynet is the same computer that decided "attacking that wily foe John Connor in a crowded factory makes much more sense than killing him outside, despite the fact that I have been tracking him for a few days at least".
