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[vt_maverick]

...This isn't the first time I have had to alter my story because of released movies - Independence Day forced my first rewrite...

So you also had the idea to use a MacBook to dial-up connect to the alien computer system and distribute a virus?

Sorry for the TJ, but I was a computer science major in college when that movie came out, and you could literally hear the audience groaning at that sequence. Perhaps the single most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in a movie (followed closely by the Transporter 2 sequence where he uses a crane hook to remove the bomb from the bottom of his car).

[nfpgasmask]

LOL, yeah ID4 and Transporter 2 are both HORRID movies.

Roland Emmerich is probably my 2nd most unfavorite director right after Michael Bay. I swear they are two peas in a pod.

Bart

[kirk hilton]

LOL, yeah ID4 and Transporter 2 are both HORRID movies.

Roland Emmerich is probably my 2nd most unfavorite director right after Michael Bay. I swear they are two peas in a pod.

Bart

I would probably agree with that although to my shame I'm still fond of Stargate. Hey wait a mo, come to think of it ... ain't there similarities between SG and Avatar?

[ZEUS]

So you also had the idea to use a MacBook to dial-up connect to the alien computer system and distribute a virus?

Sorry for the TJ, but I was a computer science major in college when that movie came out, and you could literally hear the audience groaning at that sequence. Perhaps the single most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in a movie (followed closely by the Transporter 2 sequence where he uses a crane hook to remove the bomb from the bottom of his car).

HAHA, oh hell no! Nothing like that. But I did invent Windows 7! I had to rewrite because I had an invading alien race going from solar system to solar system to mine planets (ala Enemy Mind, ID4) and then a humanoid population that fought back (ala every war movie). That's when I started creating the planet the a-holes came from to tell a broader story - cause and effect. I have always tried to maintain the concept as primitivity versus technology for the contrast and depth and message. I'm still very amateur tho and probably have created something stupid within a cool concept, but I try to be conscious of what I am creating.

[Stephen Biko]

Sorry for the TJ, but I was a computer science major in college when that movie came out, and you could literally hear the audience groaning at that sequence. Perhaps the single most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in a movie (followed closely by the Transporter 2 sequence where he uses a crane hook to remove the bomb from the bottom of his car).

Awww, come on! That stuff is modern camp. You aren't supposed to believe it, you are supposed to laugh your sass off because it is so ridiculously over the top. Complaining about that sort of thing is like complaining about wire-fu.

Plus, the razor girl character in Transporter 2 was just freaking awesome. I wish they hadn't killed her but instead given her a spin-off film. That actress, btw, can actually act too, she just did a nice little horror flick called "Nine Miles Down" out on dvd and blu-ray.