Posted by dragonhavn on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Re-Digest-Number-1099-tp1500798p1500809.html

--- In [hidden email], SumitonJD@a... wrote:
> Big Welcome Back!

*chuckle* thank you.

> Gee, where ever did you come up with the idea of casting the
actor who
> is playing Tom Sawyer aka Agent Sawyer, Shane West(I looked it up)
in the new
> movie The League of Extraoridnary Gentlemen as Straker in the movie
(trying
> so hard to hurt myself laughing).

uhm -- i dunno. there's this errant weapons master i talk to in the
evening who mentioned it ------ can't remember the guy's name ---
*ryuu in full file purge mode*

argh -- if we set it in 1980 -- it's not exactly comprehensible as
sci fi -- unless you kitsch it. and i personally would stay away from
a UFO movie done with any resemblence to what was done to I Spy.
(anyone even suggests will smith or eddie murphy in this movie and i
will personally think of something awful to happen to them in my next
fan fic! ha!) I agree with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" rule.

> I've heard Marc and others say that UFO needs to be updated
for todays
> movie audiences. That is what been wrong with other movies made of
classic
> series. If it ain't broke don't fix it. UFO isn't broke.

no, but it would take die-hard UFO fans to make it thru what is so
much a part of our knowledge of the show again. you have to take into
account that we don't just want a "release to vid" movie on a tiny
budget here, we want a movie that appeals not just to us, but to
people who don't know the show. (personally, i think keep the wigs. i
always adored the loonacy of those "anti-static" wigs. i don't think
anyone ever actually explained them, and i would keep them
unexplained.)

> If you think it is or was you aren't really a fan of the
series. >>

*ryuu makes a rude noise.*

>>It
> shouldn't be remade in the image of Space:1999 or Space Above and
Beyond or > anything else. Because then it wouldn't be UFO. If you
don't get this I am > sorry for wasting your time.>>

this i get. still think updated would be best. and why moth balled?
(altho', *ryuu's forehead wrinkles in thot until it resembles a
klingon crest* in the process of mothballing it for lack of use could
be an interesting beginning sequence. especially with a number of the
members of the crew getting belated medals and stuff. full ceremony
with shrouded stuff all around. SID's voice cutting in over head with
incoming info. yipe. i feel a fan fic coming on -- no -- not that --
wrong list!!!!!!!!!!)

side note: how come i didn't get a digest today? *plaintive inquiry*
then again, my server was having some problems earlier. they may have
been down when it was sent <g> thank heavens for message archives!

laters

ryuu