tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.comments2023-05-01T06:14:36.203-06:00Talons and Claws are fun!emeraldimphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-58888321688061292282010-12-13T23:12:34.828-07:002010-12-13T23:12:34.828-07:00Aw, that's what lonely Ringo looks like too!Aw, that's what lonely Ringo looks like too!chriswhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15619793038628166217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-55534892192370265792010-09-06T15:32:56.633-06:002010-09-06T15:32:56.633-06:00This has got to be one of the best sci-fi novels I...This has got to be one of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read.nmatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052232045884947902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-16288425236071871462009-04-15T13:01:00.000-06:002009-04-15T13:01:00.000-06:00Geoff---this is Brandon's sister...email me at jd_...Geoff---this is Brandon's sister...email me at jd_jewels@hotmail.comJulianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04888685759543201494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-59492779766580564002009-01-14T17:14:00.000-07:002009-01-14T17:14:00.000-07:00I love it!I love it!ortmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08863510143883035248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-79325640995188239572008-09-17T09:42:00.000-06:002008-09-17T09:42:00.000-06:00awww, yay i'm so proud of you!awww, yay i'm so proud of you!Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-46699630049069637912008-08-03T11:09:00.000-06:002008-08-03T11:09:00.000-06:00Aw, thanks! It's probably one of the best, but I ...Aw, thanks! It's probably one of the best, but I think there are a couple that are even better.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-85960652477747950102008-08-03T00:49:00.000-06:002008-08-03T00:49:00.000-06:00It's incredibly beautiful. This is my favourite of...It's incredibly beautiful. This is my favourite of yours. Favorite picture I've seen in general in a while.Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-56088083983644127332008-07-30T10:44:00.000-06:002008-07-30T10:44:00.000-06:00Also you always need a shiny brand new authentic P...Also you always need a shiny brand new authentic POOP SIGN!Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-91627213125642295602008-07-20T14:26:00.000-06:002008-07-20T14:26:00.000-06:00So, we decided that they're fruit flies, and there...So, we decided that they're fruit flies, and therefore Steve is the biggest fruit in the house, followed closely by me and then all the lemons, pineapple, etc.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-68450415331835102252008-07-16T22:30:00.000-06:002008-07-16T22:30:00.000-06:00aw, they just like you is allaw, they just like you is allNaveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-8705554016834079002008-07-01T21:50:00.000-06:002008-07-01T21:50:00.000-06:00Thank you!I hadn't seen the BuyNLarge site... Quit...Thank you!<BR/><BR/>I hadn't seen the BuyNLarge site... Quite interesting what folks are doing these days in regards to mixing fiction and reality! (Not that setting up a site for a fictional company in a film is original, but still...)<BR/><BR/>I hadn't noticed some of the things you mention - the symbolism of EVE's womb and the uniformity of the humans, for example - but I agree completely. (Except I'm willing to believe, as my boyfriend says, that the BNL CEO was knowingly lying about microgravity being the cause of their weight.)<BR/><BR/>Is it murder to kill sentient beings? Yep, but remember, if they're evil, it's ok, at least in Disney movies (Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Scar in The Lion King, etc).<BR/><BR/>Oh, well. It's <EM>better</EM> at least, than many sci-fi films. I just hope we'll see more improvement in the future.<BR/><BR/>Now, back to Heinlein (Starship Troopers)!<BR/><BR/>BTW, do you have a blog?emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-2057215499996558502008-07-01T13:00:00.000-06:002008-07-01T13:00:00.000-06:00Hello! I love your review! It seems like most cr...Hello! I love your review! It seems like most critics are, ironically, not critical thinkers - nothing but fawning praise.<BR/><BR/>Have you seen the lovely BuyNLarge website the filmmakers set up? So much fun detail. http://buynlarge.com/<BR/><BR/>I am an avid Sci-Fi fan and had many head scratching moments about choices the movie's makers made also - things that seem like they would have been so easy to show in some way to wrap up loose ends.<BR/><BR/>When the autopilot turned the ship, and everyone tilted over, I was severely surprised and disappointed - such a simple point in a supposedly meticulously created film - and now children all over the planet have a misconception of gravity in a movie they probably loved. Then there's the explanation of the gravity being missing as a reason for their being fat - but that doesn't make sense - there is clearly gravity - but nobody was swimming in the pools, so probably nobody ever exercises. Enough explanation I suppose but why drive home the false explanation?<BR/><BR/>I also would have loved to see the way energy and material resources are gathered in that they are used so generously on the Axiom. It could have driven home the point of resource waste even better to show them sending out ships to consume other planets or asteroids to get their fuels and materials. Then there is the fact there appears to be NO non-human natural life on the ship - we never see a plant, never see a bird, any animals, any insects. We are supposed to believe the cockroach and the seedling on Earth with WALL*E are the only remaining living things? Then where do the fish and birds and diversity of plant life come from in the rebuilding / recovery montage at the end?<BR/><BR/>What is the motivation for the humans to embrace life on a desolate and hostile Earth when they have been pampered and taken care of for generations? How do they have kids on the ship if they never meet or interact with each other in person?<BR/><BR/>The robots on the Axiom are clearly more evolved. Who built the new machines? There appears to be nobody human who is technical or with a job on the ship besides the captain.<BR/><BR/>How could BuyNLarge build a ship filled with complex robots that could run continually and sort-of sustainably (even if it must mine resources wherever it goes nothing seems to have devolved) for 700 years when the robots on earth are all long dead and the President / CEO of BnL says Earth cannot be recovered? That seems inconsistent.<BR/><BR/>If they have SO MUCH energy on the Axiom to send over interstellar distances and land a giant, perfectly functioning, complex ship to release INDIVIDUAL probes regularly over 700 years, how could they not build machines to successfully clean up the earth? Wouldn't dropping the probes into the atmosphere and then only landing if they need to retrieve them make more sense? Eve seems to have INCREDIBLE power to fly very fast and far. And what is that weapon and itchy trigger finger for anyhow, in a probe to discover plant life? Especially when the bots to try to stop the rogue robots on the Axiom don't seem to have ANY weapons? She could have EASILY destroyed WALL*E, her only chance to find the plant, and even the only plant itself. After all, WALL*E had put it somewhere with no light or water.<BR/><BR/>What was the motivation for the "bad" robots? Obviously, the Top Secret status of the info why they were not to return to earth is overridden by the captain, why not simple instructions to return home? They seemed too... actively evil. If they were just following orders, and most of the robots were showing signs of sentience, isn't destroying them equivalent to murder?<BR/><BR/>Would have loved to see more of the slow control of humans by the corporations - and a better parallel for our current fascism and corporate control. Why did they use a single real human actor for the CEO anyhow? That was jarring to me. I don't recall any ethnic diversity on the ship either, now that I think about it.<BR/><BR/>And while I appreciate that the robots were given 'sexes' most likely to make the love story more engaging for MOST of the audience, I really wish Eve hadn't had a "womb" that WALL*E gave his male "seed"-ling into. Why so much gender sexuality for robots? WEIRD. As a gay man, I had hoped that stories of robots in love might lead to people seeing the injustice of denying any sentient beings the rights to be in love. I can still hope.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, I am sure I could go on, but I wish they had taken a little time to be more complete with their story. I think it would have been more educational for people without them even realizing, made its point much better, and would have made it easier for me to say I LOVED rather than just LIKED the film.<BR/><BR/>-=DrewUniversalCitizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03006584342706776078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-80119267910892971002008-05-10T07:58:00.000-06:002008-05-10T07:58:00.000-06:00Yeah, it's among my favorites, too. I don't think...Yeah, it's among my favorites, too. I don't think I really did it justice with this one, but them's the breaks.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-1569788390563722332008-05-09T23:33:00.000-06:002008-05-09T23:33:00.000-06:00That's crazy, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening...That's crazy, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is actually my favorite poem.Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-40330661604108850032008-04-07T07:40:00.000-06:002008-04-07T07:40:00.000-06:00To me it seems that if you were able to make an id...To me it seems that if you were able to make an identical model to that of real life, it would essentially have to be a little universe within our own universe that we can "play" with; a model in which the people would have the same capacity for thought, free will, and feels that we do. And in being identical to our universe, then yeah the suffering would be as real as the suffering anyone here experiences.<BR/>I don't think being able to just wash it away makes the suffering any less worse. Just because it can be erased doesn't mean it didn't happen or that it was any less real.<BR/>But really, how likely is it that you could make a model that's identical to the real world? It would have to be the real world.Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-57176040431662256472008-03-22T15:10:00.000-06:002008-03-22T15:10:00.000-06:00Yeah, I especially like the Rama series. I hear h...Yeah, I especially like the Rama series. I hear his short stories are especially good, though, so I may have to find some of those to read.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-13993200829061005432008-03-20T10:42:00.000-06:002008-03-20T10:42:00.000-06:00did you like his work?did you like his work?Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-66546546490666929822008-03-14T15:35:00.000-06:002008-03-14T15:35:00.000-06:00I did make it up. :-)I did make it up. :-)emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-5380056115115784462008-03-14T09:28:00.000-06:002008-03-14T09:28:00.000-06:00did you make that up? that's the cutest/sweetest t...did you make that up? that's the cutest/sweetest thing i've ever read from you.Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-74089450121978862212008-03-09T23:15:00.000-06:002008-03-09T23:15:00.000-06:00It's an actual conversation fragment Steve and I h...It's an actual conversation fragment Steve and I had the other day.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-84369712791648146532008-03-09T23:15:00.000-06:002008-03-09T23:15:00.000-06:00Don't worry about it... It's mostly for me.Don't worry about it... It's mostly for me.emeraldimphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13683692183888099714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-82856654241193670552008-03-08T23:44:00.000-07:002008-03-08T23:44:00.000-07:00huh?huh?Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-31345648275164181602008-03-08T09:02:00.000-07:002008-03-08T09:02:00.000-07:00cute= )cute<BR/>= )Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-41180284058333180692008-02-27T22:43:00.000-07:002008-02-27T22:43:00.000-07:00all i can say is LMAO :)all i can say is LMAO :)ortmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08863510143883035248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6089630.post-37262449987857489212008-02-25T08:52:00.000-07:002008-02-25T08:52:00.000-07:00I think from your guys' perspective it's easy to b...I think from your guys' perspective it's easy to believe this idea, but it is more a result of you guys not being social rather than because you're two guys with "similar mindsets" and therefore don't need outside relationships.<BR/>Besides you guys, all of my friends, both gay and straight, enjoy all of their friendships whether short-term or long-term. And I know plenty of gay people that just because they're in a relationship doesn't mean they need to not maintain their friendships.<BR/>I mean look at lot of gay men in our circle of friends. How many have a female best friend(s) that they've known for a long time, yet that doesn't stop when they start dating a guy.<BR/>The idea that hetersexual couples have a hard time interacting is baseless. Yes men and women don't always relate perfectly, but that doesn't mean they have a hard time interacting and therefore need friends. We're social beings and it's not typical to have just one close relationship, so besides having a partner we have friends.<BR/>I think there's also the issue that we're still young and the friendships we build in high school aren't long-term friendships. I don't think most people start making "long-term" deep friendships until later in college and after.<BR/>I think bottom-line is that you guys are very comfortable not having close friends outside of your relationship. It seems you guys just don't value friendships the way that other people do and so you guys don't feel the need to maintain them. And I have to say from my experience, it can be difficult to have a close friendship with you guys.Naveenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10776708639175066665noreply@blogger.com