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Euchre
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 		Ladies and Gentlemen, THAT is how a trout is done!
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RasGold
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 		Somehwat Interesting [flashback]
Kodak re-introduces Super 8mm film
From April 6, 2010!
http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about/news/2010/Apr06_1.htm

DATE:_____ TITLE:_____ PROCESSED BY KODAK:_________
"Many of today's great cinematographers and directors began their careers at the counter of their local photo shop, buying a cartridge of Super 8 film, ... But KODAK Ektachrome 100D Color Reversal Film offers filmmakers image quality far beyond that of the familiar home movie format of the 1960s, ..."

I'm just pointing out the coincidence of Kodak re-introducing Super 8 film at about the time J.J. and Spielberg would have been working on their trailer.
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SeekerX
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 		Nice find RasGold. Thought the Kodakchrome was ultimately going to vanish. Fortunately Kodak seems to stick to their past and build upon it:).

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ljm
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Euchre wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen, THAT is how a trout is done!

Thank you sir, following directions isn't that hard. Wink

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hollis
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 		Parthenon
Many of the proportions of The Parthenon are golden ratios.
I was just looking into the Golden Ratios theory with the audio clip and I found that many of the proportions of the parthenon are golden ratios. so i did a cross search with the parthenon and ET's and apparently there is big speculation that the parthenon was built by or given directions for us to build by aliens. maybe thats what the movie is about? hopefully, thatd be rad

PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:04 am
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 		The nature of the beasts
To add to the speculation on the nature of Abrams' aliens I wanted to raise this point: Spielburg intended to create evil aliens long before he made War of the Worlds. In fact his follow-up to CEotTK was to be an evil alien flick. Maybe he and J.J. are creating a movie that is homage to a film that was never made, but would have cool and terrifying. Check out the trunacated article on movies that were never made below by Devin Faraci of chud.com. It says it all. Maybe Abrams has possession of those Baker aliens... (full article is here:http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/20181/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-MOVIES-THAT-NEVER-WERE-3/Page1.html

"Night Skies. For a generation of movie geeks this is the holy grail of unmade movies. It's Spielberg's evil aliens film, the movie that would mutate into the soft and cuddly E.T. But before ET phoned home, he wanted to destroy ours. 
Written by John Sayles, the script for Night Skies came from a treatment by Spielberg. The director was anxious to head off another Jaws 2; Columbia wanted a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third King and, like Universal with Jaws, could go ahead and make one without him. He decided to pitch them a movie originally called Watch the Skies (named after the last line from Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World, but that phrase was owned by someone else and thus ditched), which was a horror movie take on alien visitation. Inspired by cattle mutilations and the story of a Tennessee family supposedly terrorized by little aliens in the 50s (a story relayed to Spielberg by J Allen Hynek, the UFOlogist who came up with the Close Encounters system in the first place), Spielberg's film would find a farm family coming under attack by 11 (reduced to 6 in the final draft) evil extra-terrestrials. The aliens would work their way up from cattle mutilation to really menacing the humans.

Sayles envisioned the film as a riff on Drums Along the Mohawk, John Ford's awesome Revolutionary War-period film about Henry Fonda and family fending off Indian attacks on their upstate New York farm. Sayles named the leader of the aliens Skar, after the Indian chief in Ford's The Searchers. And at the center of the family he placed an autistic boy, who could reach out to the one good alien in the bunch. 

Sayles' script is like a harbinger of E.T., Poltergeist and Gremlins, but never is quite as good as any of those. There's some serious tension and good scares and then absolutely silly stuff like an alien named Squirt eating a pie while being chased around a kitchen by a broom-wielding granny. The good alien, Buddee, has it out with Skar and gets left behind on Earth. He's very much in the ET mold and does all sorts of cute stuff and hides in a clothes hamper and things like that.

As Sayles was writing the script Spielberg was making Raider of the Lost Ark; apparently as he was killing Nazis the director decided he wanted to do something lighter and sweeter next (even though he never intended to direct Night Skies and had in fact tapped Tobe Hooper to do it); he read his treatment to Harrison Ford's girlfriend Melissa Matheson, and she really identified with the Buddee character. The two worked together on reforging the story into E.T.

But that wasn't the end of Night Skies, at least not as a hassle. Rick Baker had already begun working on the alien designs for the film, and had spent almost a million dollars on building them. He and Spielberg fought and Spielberg hired Carlo Rambaldi to design ET. There were claims of concepts being ripped off, but apparently Baker and Spielberg have come to an understanding over the years. Getting a look at one of Baker's Night Skies creatures may be the only holy grail harder to come by than the film's script." 

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 		Another post by a guest on a subject matter well touched upon and dsicussed in the past threads.Sad


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ljm
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 		[TROUT] Come on and get in the boat, fish fish.
Desperation Jones wrote:
To add to the speculation on the nature of Abrams' aliens I wanted to raise this point: Spielburg intended to create evil aliens long before he made War of the Worlds. In fact his follow-up to CEotTK was to be an evil alien flick. Maybe he and J.J. are creating a movie that is homage to a film that was never made, but would have cool and terrifying. Check out the trunacated article on movies that were never made below by Devin Faraci of chud.com. It says it all. Maybe Abrams has possession of those Baker aliens... (full article is here:http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/20181/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-MOVIES-THAT-NEVER-WERE-3/Page1.html

"Night Skies. For a generation of movie geeks this is the holy grail of unmade movies. It's Spielberg's evil aliens film, the movie that would mutate into the soft and cuddly E.T. But before ET phoned home, he wanted to destroy ours. 
Written by John Sayles, the script for Night Skies came from a treatment by Spielberg. The director was anxious to head off another Jaws 2; Columbia wanted a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third King and, like Universal with Jaws, could go ahead and make one without him. He decided to pitch them a movie originally called Watch the Skies (named after the last line from Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World, but that phrase was owned by someone else and thus ditched), which was a horror movie take on alien visitation. Inspired by cattle mutilations and the story of a Tennessee family supposedly terrorized by little aliens in the 50s (a story relayed to Spielberg by J Allen Hynek, the UFOlogist who came up with the Close Encounters system in the first place), Spielberg's film would find a farm family coming under attack by 11 (reduced to 6 in the final draft) evil extra-terrestrials. The aliens would work their way up from cattle mutilation to really menacing the humans.

Sayles envisioned the film as a riff on Drums Along the Mohawk, John Ford's awesome Revolutionary War-period film about Henry Fonda and family fending off Indian attacks on their upstate New York farm. Sayles named the leader of the aliens Skar, after the Indian chief in Ford's The Searchers. And at the center of the family he placed an autistic boy, who could reach out to the one good alien in the bunch. 

Sayles' script is like a harbinger of E.T., Poltergeist and Gremlins, but never is quite as good as any of those. There's some serious tension and good scares and then absolutely silly stuff like an alien named Squirt eating a pie while being chased around a kitchen by a broom-wielding granny. The good alien, Buddee, has it out with Skar and gets left behind on Earth. He's very much in the ET mold and does all sorts of cute stuff and hides in a clothes hamper and things like that.

As Sayles was writing the script Spielberg was making Raider of the Lost Ark; apparently as he was killing Nazis the director decided he wanted to do something lighter and sweeter next (even though he never intended to direct Night Skies and had in fact tapped Tobe Hooper to do it); he read his treatment to Harrison Ford's girlfriend Melissa Matheson, and she really identified with the Buddee character. The two worked together on reforging the story into E.T.

But that wasn't the end of Night Skies, at least not as a hassle. Rick Baker had already begun working on the alien designs for the film, and had spent almost a million dollars on building them. He and Spielberg fought and Spielberg hired Carlo Rambaldi to design ET. There were claims of concepts being ripped off, but apparently Baker and Spielberg have come to an understanding over the years. Getting a look at one of Baker's Night Skies creatures may be the only holy grail harder to come by than the film's script." 

I used the forum search button at the top of the page, conveniently centered, attractively clickable, even, and in the search box on the following page I typed in "Night Skies" in quotes, to make sure I got related terms. And hot damn, you'll never guess what I found.

FIRST, I found a [SPEC] thread about Night Skies. You can find that at the following link: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=7091a61

SECOND, I found a [TROUT] thread from somebody who didn't bother to scroll down the topic list and see an existing Night Skies thread in the lower half of the page. You can find that here, for good measure: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=709115

And that was just the first two results from the forum search function! It's... so... FUNCTIONAL!

I'm actually leaving for a fly fishing trip in an hour and a half, but I didn't think I'd catch so many trout before I even got into the river. And this is a pretty epic trout.

And now, what you've all been waiting for: Trout

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Tracker_56
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 		For reals. How about we skim the forums a little better, use the search function, and if all else fails, ask us if we've covered something before you type up three paragraphs worth of explanation on something we're already quite aware of.


I don't intend for that to sound malicious, but with the time you took to type all of that out, I think you could've searched the forums for "Night Skies" and seen that not only do we have a thread specifically titled "Night Skies", but it has been mentioned in several others as well.

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 		This is awesome, if you haven't seen it: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail44.html

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 		I'm bored of speculation now ...... I WANT ACTION!!! Cursing
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slinkydge wrote:
I'm bored of speculation now ...... I WANT ACTION!!! Cursing


Totally agree on that one. The game seems to be at a hold at the moment. Next clue(s) please !

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ljm wrote:
This is awesome, if you haven't seen it: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail44.html


Nothing like a trip down nostalgia avenue. I love Homestarrunner.com. I love it good. Smile

slinkydge wrote:
I WANT ACTION!!! Cursing


In light of my current good moods, I thought I would treat you to a hefty helping of THATS WHAT SHE SAID.



I AM in a good mood today!

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Tracker_56 wrote:
For reals. How about we skim the forums a little better, use the search function, and if all else fails, ask us if we've covered something before you type up three paragraphs worth of explanation on something we're already quite aware of.


Agreed. When I first joined up here, I actually read through all the threads before I made my first post (there were fewer then, admittedly), but I took the time to familiarize myself with the discussions already existing.

Why? To show respect for everyone already doing work on the forum.

When new members or guests jump in, post some theory or article about topics already discussed, it shows a disrespect for others' time and work. It's tantamount to saying, "I won't waste my time reading what you all have written, just pay attention to me."

Opinions, theories and comments are most welcome here — I can attest to that as a relatively new player. Just show others the respect they're going to show you from the moment you show up... unless you prove yourself less worthy of respect.

Yes, there's a LOT to read on SUPER 8 already. But it's worth reading because you'll be much better informed when you offer your contributions. And it's certainly worth a few seconds SEARCHING for topics before posting about them.

Omega-3 goodness is tasty, but getting up to speed on the game before joining in to play is better. And if you think there's "too much" to read now, try reading it all six months from now! Very Happy

That being said: JJ, we're ready for our next solid clue, please!

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Tracker_56 wrote:
slinkydge wrote:
I WANT ACTION!!! Cursing


In light of my current good moods, I thought I would treat you to a hefty helping of THATS WHAT SHE SAID.!


LOL Tracker.

New shirt idea?

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