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Post by Obviousman on Mar 2, 2007 0:02:31 GMT -4
(prepares for onslaught)
I actually like CAPRICORN ONE. Sure, it's inaccurate but there were some great scenes in it. The interaction between Elliot Gould and Karen Black was hilarious!
And Telly Savalas? Tremendous!
Robert Caulfield: Mr Albaine, how much do you charge to dust a field? Albain: Twenty five dollars. Robert Caulfield: I'd like to hire your plane. Albain: That'll be a hundred dollars. Robert Caulfield: You said you charged twenty five? Albain: Twenty five dollars to dust a field, but you ain't got no field because you ain't no farmer, which means you ain't poor and I think you're a pervert! Robert Caulfield: Okay, one hundred. Albain: One hundred and twenty five. Robert Caulfield: What? Albain: Because you said yes to a hundred too quick, which means you can afford a hundred and twenty five.
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Post by thestargazer on Mar 3, 2007 2:03:06 GMT -4
\ Paging Mike Nelson, Bill Corbet, and Kevin Murphy! Gah! Blasphemy! Surely you mean Joel Hodgeson, Kevin Murphy and Trace Belieu!
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Post by Count Zero on Mar 3, 2007 2:45:16 GMT -4
Mike may have been a writer, but Joel had the delivery (not to mention the better theme song lyrics).
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Post by gillianren on Mar 3, 2007 4:13:25 GMT -4
\ Paging Mike Nelson, Bill Corbet, and Kevin Murphy! Gah! Blasphemy! Surely you mean Joel Hodgeson, Kevin Murphy and Trace Belieu! Actually, that would be Joel Hodgson, Kevin Murphy, and Trace Beaulieu. Also Dr. Clayton Forrester, as portrayed by, um, Trace Beaulieu, and TV's Frank, Frank Conniff. (We tend to refer to a lot of people as TV's fill-in-the-blank around here, whether they've been on TV or not. This started when I discovered that my boyfriend and Abe Vigoda are the same height. My roommate asked who Abe Vigoda is, and I told her "TV's Fish." She asked me if I meant "As opposed to the couch's hamster.")
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Post by PeterB on Mar 4, 2007 21:31:19 GMT -4
My wife bought me a DVD of Capricorn 1 as a laugh, knowing how I'd roll my eyes at the premise.
The thing is, I have no problem with the use of Apollo equipment in a movie about people going to Mars. The problem I had was with the ham-fisted way we were supposed to believe the hoax was covered up.
For example, the reporter visits the flat his NASA friend lives in, and finds a woman living there who seems to have evidence for having lived there for years. But it's a flat in a complex of 40 other flats, for cryin' out loud. Why didn't the reporter ask any of the others?
And while he's talking to this woman, a party or parties unknown manage to sabotage his car in about five ways as it sits in the street without anyone noticing. And they do that instead of just staging an accident, or killing him in a night-time mugging "gone wrong".
Finally, when he gets to the Ol' Western ghost town, the unknown gunman shoots only a couple of times at him, and doesn't pursue him to finish off the job, despite the fact there's no-one else around to see what's going on.
It's almost as though the hired killers are only trying to frighten him, rather than kill him. Perhaps they're really whistleblowers, trying to leave a subtle message...
If Capricorn 1 has to be remade, I think it'd work better if they made it about Apollo - the amazing story of how NASA fooled the world for 40 years. I've read one very funny short story which works on this premise.
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Post by showtime on Mar 6, 2007 8:42:32 GMT -4
O.J. Simpson had the goods on the Apollo Hoax from the friends he made during filming the original, thats why they tried to discredit him ;D ;D ;D
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Post by JayUtah on Mar 6, 2007 9:54:08 GMT -4
Yeah, and Bugs Bunny had Roger Rabbit secretly killed.
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