DRAG0NFLIGHT Wrote:I've got 8 out of 10 here. I'm just lacking Zardoz and Solaris. Both of which one of my friends probably has on DVD...If it's the friend we have in common, then I know he's at least seen all ten - including both versions of Solaris, one of which he's shown me.
DHBirr Wrote:And that reviewer's comments on the "Grand Purpose" of science fiction rubbed me as much the wrong way as when Ursula K. Le Guin said (in a non-fiction essay) it shouldn't count as fantasy if the characters use 20th Century speech patterns.Well, everybody's entitled to an opinion, no matter how overblown that opinion might be stated... And has Ms. le Guin changed her mind, or does she still consider most of Charles de Lint's works to not be fantasy?
Oh, yes - the three I haven't see are Forbidden Planet, Gattica, and Close Encounters. The ones I have copies of are 2001, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Star Trek:TMP.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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