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Rewatching olld shops that I never got to see all episodes before.
Stng, ds9, voyager, enterprise. It got me emotional a few times. We grew with them as they grew, because a part of our family in a way.
Startrek tos, tos movies
All those family that in many cases have come and gone now.
It’s not just those shows either when you watch those old,shows that you felt weekly have gone by it’s like saying goodbye at a funeral and makes you cry. They didn’t have over the top cgi like today. Many had props and full sets that made you believe it was real.
Many of today’s movies don’t even shoot scenes outside of studios anymore. They sit in vehicles in front of blue screens and race down streets, go through buildings and whatnot.
Let’s look at the jb movie man with a golden gun. Modified lighters, pen pad.. and voila a gun that could shoot a golden bullet. Center piece of movie and quite the prop. Irl it can’t shoot. But it was totally believeable.
Spy who loved me underwater lotus sub car.. real thing but required fully suited divers to shoot scene. Elon musk bought it and it not really is an underwater, a bit shallow, car. At the time totally believeable and didn’t require cgi to do it.
There was an edge of fantasy to older stuff to make you believe and feel for people.
Maybe I just getting old but it seems those days of believing have been replaced by going meh it’s a new movie with good fx.
Where is the fantastic hidden bases with then easily escapable death traps? Where is the romance and comedy we fell in love with. And we’re totally pg.. op they kiss and go to bed…..next shot.
Where the strange new worlds that open our minds to new options?
Where is the spark that ignites my own imagination to improve?
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Time passes by...
... and all good things must come to an end.
-- Daphne Xu
An 'old time radio' (30's-50's) program ...
... told us "All costumes, sets, props, locations and scenery provided by your imagination:"
A science fiction convention hospitality suite had a bathtub full of canned beer left over. This is contrary to just about all other conventions.
I said "Most sci-fi (*) fans are also science geeks. We've been into the core of a collapsing star, moments from it going supernova, and with the heat and pressure needed to fuse everything up to, and past, plutonium ... So why do we need beer?"
Have any jewelry? Lights running on fission power? Gold, silver, uranium all formed in the core of a now exploded supernova (**). The 'pieces' got swept up into what turned into our Solar System. As has been known for maybe 50+ years: "We are star-stuff."
(*) I know. Much debate on how to say and write an abbreviation for 'science fiction'
(**) 'Regular' stars can't fuse heavier than about iron. Not enough pressure/temperature.
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The imagination is still there, and some of it is real. With luck, my life will have these 'Lunar Phases':
- We are going.
- We are there. Yes, I watched "One small step on live TV.
- We were there.
- We are going: NASA, et al: Artemis.
- (With luck, I will see) We are there.
Yep, I'm old. I'm older than everything humans have orbited.
I'm older than everything humans have orbited
There's a whole cadre of us out there. So don't feel lonely. I'm with you, the whole golden age of movies went by the wayside in the 70s. It used to be the industry policed itself. All the major studios concerned themselves with the possibility of offending decent people and left the in your face sex scenes to the shady porn studios.
The same for television. In the old days of television if a couple weren't actually married in real life, then their bedroom hand twin beds. Even Ricky and Lucy had twin bed even though they were married. You just didn't show unmarried people in the same bed, even if they didn't do more than talk or sleep.
The movies I really loved were those shot on location. There was a time when the craft was so well honed that big budget blockbusters was the norm. Taking an entire movie crew and equipment to and exotic location paid off at the box office. These days the bean counters run the show. They ask how can we fake this and make it cheaper?
:o(
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
You just didn't show
You just didn't show unmarried people in the same bed, even if they didn't do more than talk or sleep.
If that was the 70s, my memories confuse me. Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies shared a bed on the BBC, and they weren't even pretending to be married.
50s or 60s
That was definitely in the 50s. I don't know how far that rule extended to the 60s.
-- Daphne Xu
Movie(s) shot 'on location'
As I type, a Russian film film crew is filming the fiction movie "Challenge" -
on board the International Space Station. They won't need to fake or use CGI for micro-gravity ...
They expect about 35 minutes of on-ISS time in the film.
Briefly, the plot is an ISS crew member has a heart attack and needs surgery - but can't survive the G-loading of re-entry. So a surgeon is trained in a hurry, and sent up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Challenge_(2022_film). { Sorry. This link is 'funky', please use the Wikipedia page you get to 'dis-disambiguate'/select "(2022_film)" }