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[The Third Man]

It went from an awesome Alien/2001 mashup to Nightmare on Elm Street. Blah.

[TimeForGuinness]

Yeah regarding Sunshine, ithe first 2/3s was so so good, then some WTF'ing for a half hour.

Pretty much nails it for me, too.

About 2/3s of the way through I thought..."Oh, that's too bad...it could have been an excellent movie"

[lukethedrifter]

Yeah regarding Sunshine, ithe first 2/3s was so so good, then some WTF'ing for a half hour.

Pretty much nails it for me, too.

About 2/3s of the way through I thought..."Oh, that's too bad...it could have been an excellent movie"

For a minute I thought you guys were talking about Little Miss Sunshine.

[Vidor]

I guess I should ask this question here, rather than the Baseball forum.

Watched "A League of Their Own" on cable a while back. As long as you skip the pointless prologue and epilogue, it's a decent flick. Anyway--isn't Lori Petty out at the end, by rule? Just how long do you have to hold a baseball for it to be called a successful tag?

[AdmiralKird]

Yeah regarding Sunshine, ithe first 2/3s was so so good, then some WTF'ing for a half hour.

Pretty much nails it for me, too.

About 2/3s of the way through I thought..."Oh, that's too bad...it could have been an excellent movie"

So much for not giving too much about the movie away...although its hard to critic Sunshine without mentioning the genre flip. The thing that really bugged me though:

[SHOW]

Was how they played off the navigational guy forgetting to re-angle the dish when they had to change course and dock. REALLY??? You forgot to adjust the dish when that's like, one of the two things that you had to do on the trip? And you're the best and brightest that the WORLD had to send? I mean, where was the realistic ass the whole movie at this point making sure people didn't forget things?

[The Third Man]

He didn't forget to adjust, he just adjusted it wrong.

[AdmiralKird]

He didn't forget to adjust, he just adjusted it wrong.

[SHOW]

I'm watching it now. He says their new course changes their angle of approach to the sun 1.1 degrees and he forgot to "reset the shields to the new angle." Meaning he simply forgot that they were sitting next to the flipping sun with a huge dish that was protecting them, and was just assuming it would always face the sun. How did you make navigational officer again?

[TimeForGuinness]

He didn't forget to adjust, he just adjusted it wrong.

[SHOW]

I'm watching it now. He says their new course changes their angle of approach to the sun 1.1 degrees and he forgot to "reset the shields to the new angle." Meaning he simply forgot that they were sitting next to the flipping sun with a huge dish that was protecting them, and was just assuming it would always face the sun. How did you make navigational officer again?

Probably the same way the Mars Polar lander crashed - one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. Oops.

[MrSaigon]

Spike Jonze is in Moneyball. Recognized him immediately, had a little moment of doubt, then had a WTFLOL.

I didn't realize they didn't have DePodesta's name.

[jim]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371939/

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