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Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> "Based on speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang‘s short story “Story of Your Life,” “Arrival” tells the story
>  of a top-tier linguist named Louise Banks (Adams) who is brought in to help avert a global crisis by establishing
> communication with mysterious aliens in ships hovering just above the Earth’s surface."
> 
> https://www.google.com/#q=5+Movies+to+Watch+Before+You+See+%E2%80%98Arrival%E2%80%99
> 
> "Based on speculative-fiction..." ? Is that a new word "speculative-fiction"??
> 
> Is that like between Science today and Science Fiction of yesterday?
> 
> You know like NASA saying there is life and water on Mars...but it's just "speculative-fiction".
> 
> I never heard the word "speculative-fiction", but...i don't read fiction anyway...not even 'short stories'.
> fiction is too fiction for me...it's Dr. Seuss for adults.
> 
> I guess if Hollywood buys your 'short story', they only have to pay 2 cents for it.
> 
> Then they give it to some kid inside script writers and pay him ten million.
> 
> That's how Hollywodd works, ..they steal an idea and make a movie.
> 
> This is how Hollywood's insider talks "Give the chink two cents and a couple of chop sticks."
> 
> You know, without the 'idea'...there is no movie.
> 
> Any stupid kid can write a script...
> 
> The Starmaker


According to the WSJ article...i should download 5 movies Before I download Arrival!


The fuckin FBI would be after me if i did that!! I'd be sharing a cell with Hillary by then...



Let me see


The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

(that's worth the download..)

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

(i never seen it...is it worth the download, and a night with Hillary Clinton?)


Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

(stupid mountain..)


Contact (1997)

(i wanna bang Jodie Foster! that's worth download..)



Interstellar (2014)


(never heard of it...is it worth the download??)


Fuck the FBI, i'll download it all.


The Starmaker


i just hope it don't have chink subtitles...


makes my eyes cross eyed..


(then these girls ask me.."What's that stuff on the bottom???")


"Did somebody just got up to buy popcorn????"



Ever watch a movie with a girl who never seen a download before?


"WHAT KIND OF MOVIE IS THIS??!!"


or they have a confused look in their eye and ask "Didn't that movie just came out in the theater???"


then a few days pass and they ask..."Do you think you can get me this new song from the internet????"


I say, "You want the whole album, or do you just want the song?"


They say, "YOU CAN GET THE WHOLE ALBUM????"


and then they say..."Isn't that illegal?"



Then I quote them Henry Kissinger:

 "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." -- Henry Kissinger

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speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-10 11:02 -0800
  Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival Bill Steele <ws21@cornel.edu> - 2016-11-10 15:10 -0500
    Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-11-10 21:21 +0100
      Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-10 13:01 -0800
        Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-11-10 22:04 +0100
          Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-10 13:31 -0800
            Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 13:49 -0700
  Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-10 12:56 -0800
    Re: speculative origon of Arrival Bill Steele <ws21@cornel.edu> - 2016-11-11 13:39 -0500
      Re: speculative origon of Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-11 11:18 -0800
  Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-10 16:12 -0800
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    Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-12 12:26 -0800
      Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-12 12:41 -0800
        Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-12 14:58 -0800
          Re: speculative-fiction...Arrival The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-13 12:23 -0800
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