Chat Thread - Make BiffTannen Great Again

[El Chupacabra]

Everyone before that probably thought the world was going to end any second so never thought that far ahead.

 

[El Chupacabra]

"The earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and interplanetary warfare."

2nd century AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story

Cool.

 

[El Chupacabra]

I guess Mary Shelley and Frankenstein is considered the first one to spark the genre in the last couple hundred years. I need to do more reading on this.

 

[ImTheCaptain]

you know you're a baller when you call your story "A True Story"

 

[El Chupacabra]

Double feature of Blade Runner and The Quiet Earth (which I don't know) in Durham tonight. Hmmmm...

 

[Say Hey Deac]

Double feature of Blade Runner and The Quiet Earth (which I don't know) in Durham tonight. Hmmmm...

Whenever I contemplate my own mortality, I think of this scene.

 

[Shooshmoo]

Soo...this:

Trailer is in the tweet thread, and fully worth it.

 

[RJKarl]

Double feature of Blade Runner and The Quiet Earth (which I don't know) in Durham tonight. Hmmmm...

Apparently, The Quiet Earth has become a minor cult film.

 

[El Chupacabra]

Soo...this:

Trailer is in the tweet thread, and fully worth it.

Amazing.

 

[deacdiggler]

Big Moira Kelly fan here.

she hasn't aged particularly well. but i was into her back in the day.

 

[IamThunderbolt]

I remember the lacrosse in American Pie being comically bad. Also Mighty Ducks always bothered me, half the time they did the flying V someone was off side and the knuckle puck would never work. You would get crushed setting it up.

That, and a triple deke isn't even a real move. That's like saying a lame-ass crossover is some unstoppable move in basketball.

 

[Say Hey Deac]

Wife looked out the window this morning and saw 2 squirrels doin it, but by the time I ran over there to see they had already left.

 

[Say Hey Deac]

One day I’ll be able to check that off my bucket list.

 

[Deacfreak07]

Billy McFarland reminds me of Nathan Fielder in this Hulu documentary.

 

[wakephan09]

hey english nerds, what was up with Science Fiction as a genre for humanity prior to the 1920s or whatever - did ancient/roman people ever write about the future?

If you're actually interested in reading about this, a buddy of mine (and another former colleague) edited this very good book about medieval science fiction. Cool anthology with some modern science fiction writers in there too.

https://boydellandbrewer.com/medieval-science-fiction-hb.html

 

[Biff Tannen]

Consider the tremendous volume of science fiction writing that has occurred because there are so many dorks out there who couldn't get laid.

 

[Biff Tannen]

 

[LadyDeac03]

Not a sports movie, but I was listening to the Rewatchables podcast about Dazed and Confused that came out recently and they were hating on the kid’s pitching skills during the ball game (blanking on his name - the long haired one that gets paddled and then hangs with everyone later)

 

[harmoniousmonk]

Pretty incredible underwater photos here
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/01/winners-2018-ocean-art-underwater-photo-contest/581056/

 

[DeacsATS]

Not a sports movie, but I was listening to the Rewatchables podcast about Dazed and Confused that came out recently and they were hating on the kid’s pitching skills during the ball game (blanking on his name - the long haired one that gets paddled and then hangs with everyone later)

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