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  • Evildead666
    Super MURCer
    • Mar 2002
    • 3116

    #1

    Rendezvous with Rama...

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    Porting Arthur C Clarke's novel(s) to the big screen!
    Go see for yourself...
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  • Gurm
    MS Fanboy
    • Aug 1999
    • 11460

    #2
    Huzzah! One of my favorite novels, and would make an excellent movie with today's directorial style. Wouldn't have worked 10 or 20 years ago I don't think.

    - Gurm
    The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

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    I would still get screwed

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    • efty
      MURCer
      • Jan 2000
      • 429

      #3
      Gurm you may find this hard to believe but Rama is one of my favorites too

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      • Drizzt
        Super MURCer
        • Oct 1999
        • 1314

        #4
        Rama is one of my favorites, too...
        Sat on a pile of deads, I enjoy my oysters.

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        • Gurm
          MS Fanboy
          • Aug 1999
          • 11460

          #5
          Lefty,

          Not hard at all. Unlike Tolkien, Clarke translates quite well into other languages.

          - Gurm
          The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

          I'm the least you could do
          If only life were as easy as you
          I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
          If only life were as easy as you
          I would still get screwed

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          • Dr Mordrid
            Moderator
            • Apr 2001
            • 26592

            #6
            Gawd, this is so*damned* exciting!!

            This is one of my favorite sci-fi novels too. Now if only they don't botch it.

            Dr. Mordrid
            Dr. Mordrid
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            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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            • thop
              Super MURCer
              • Mar 2001
              • 2536

              #7
              Hmm never heard of it. Is this sth. like the Hitchhikers Guide?
              no matrox, no matroxusers.

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              • Marshmallowman
                Super MURCer
                • Sep 1999
                • 3416

                #8
                Pity the Author is a deviant

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                • Gurm
                  MS Fanboy
                  • Aug 1999
                  • 11460

                  #9
                  Thop,

                  Yes, it's EXACTLY like Hitchhiker's Guide.

                  Except it's not a comedy.

                  And it doesn't have any actual aliens.

                  And there's only one space ship.

                  And it's completely different.

                  - Gurm
                  The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                  I'm the least you could do
                  If only life were as easy as you
                  I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                  If only life were as easy as you
                  I would still get screwed

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                  • Rakido
                    Super MURCer
                    • Feb 2000
                    • 1313

                    #10
                    What's so exciting about butter?




                    Rakido
                    "Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."

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                    • KvHagedorn
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 10725

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Marshmallowman
                      Pity the Author is a deviant
                      Every Sci Fi author is a deviant.. especially that overbearing pompous ass Isaac Asimov. He was under the delusion that his was the most superior mind in all the world, and felt it was his mission to write ceaselessly on every topic, graciously explaining all great concepts to us mere mortals in terms we could understand. His great horror about death was that his brain would be worm food.

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                      • Jammrock
                        The Berserker
                        • Aug 1999
                        • 8661

                        #12
                        [Puts on asbestos suit. Straps into protective armor. Blasts off into orbit with a 7 year supply of food, water and air. Types message.]

                        I've never actually read any Arther C. Clarke novels...

                        [Ducks for cover.]

                        Jammrock
                        “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
                        –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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                        • Gurm
                          MS Fanboy
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 11460

                          #13
                          Jamm,

                          It's ok, they're kinda dry.

                          - Gurm
                          The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                          I'm the least you could do
                          If only life were as easy as you
                          I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                          If only life were as easy as you
                          I would still get screwed

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                          • KRSESQ
                            Super MURCer
                            • Feb 2000
                            • 3224

                            #14
                            Clarke has gotten a little full of himself in his later years.

                            Anyone read 3001: The Final Odyssey? If you cut out all the preaching it would be 5 chapters long.

                            Still, it would make a helluva movie starring Brendan Fraser as Frank Poole.

                            Kevin
                            Last edited by KRSESQ; 10 February 2003, 07:48.

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                            • KRSESQ
                              Super MURCer
                              • Feb 2000
                              • 3224

                              #15
                              [QUOTE] His great horror about death was that his brain would be worm food./QUOTE]

                              Hey, that's MY Great Horror about death, Too!

                              Great minds really do think alike!

                              Kevin

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