Beating down America one half-educated, half-literate dufus at a time.
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Ahkk!... Rollerball is peak 1970s anti-establishment film with the fatalism of Zardoz, the kitsch of Omega Man and a hint of the dysfunctional shiny future of Logan’s Run. What’s not to like?
...because I mind-blocked the Robocop remake into nonexistance along with the Rollerball remake. I defer to your original post which was spot on.
...make it a straight-up action movie, the way they did with RoboCop...
I think both AN and CJA would approve this as worthy of an io9 entry, however they cannot confirm due to the properties of time.
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Read in George Carlin’s voice. Sounds like this:
Could’ve been the whiskey
It might have been the gin
Could have been the three or four six-packs, I don’t know
But look at the mess I’m in
My head is like a football
I think I’m going to die
Tell me, me oh, me oh my
Wasn’t that a party
The Mesozoic ended 65 mya...something to do with a 10-mile wide asteroid. Earliest humans ≈3mya.
“...5000 meters and closing, keptain.” 1966
After reading through the comments I think you need to include Phase IV (1974), at the intersection of sci-fi, horror and 70s acid trip.
Every time I see “Schiaparelli” I hear Shkreli, as in Martin Shkreli the hated pharma sociopath. As a result, I have irrational mixed feelings about the success of the landing.
Those people’s lives weren’t filled with tv, internet, and comment section trolling. Their entire existence revolved around hunting. I’d argue they knew exactly what they were drawing with a high level of feature accuracy, same as you’d expect from any pro in their trade, even if the drawing itself is rough.
Not a video, but you could hum Blue Danube Waltz while staring at this possibility.
Why would they be confined to a cubicle though? ... wouldn’t the now mostly empty ship have plenty of free space?
Like a breadcrumb trail for the aliens to follow back to Earth?
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all of the pieces reusable, returning to Earth, and people were welcome to hop back on for a ride home
To live to 122...then we could look back through cataract fogged eyes and dementia fogged brains and say “Remember the good old days with Kinja and what’s-her-face?” Yup, that’ll be swell.
This would help to warn people not to build in these areas much like flood zones.