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http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/reservoir.shtml

Script of Starwars before Marsha got to it.... http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/swd1.shtm l

http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/young.sht ml

It's from the movie Sleep With Me - Tarantino has a bit part, and his character comes out with this monologue

I like Val Kilmer's reaction to it here

http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/sleep.sht ml

Actually, the conversation you're attempting to quote happened between Admiral Kirk and Scotty's nephew, Preston. It went like this:

Preston: "Is the word given, Admiral?"

Kirk: "The word is given: Warp speed."

Preston: "Aye..."

There...

BayStar is betting that SCO will be able to collect license fees from Linux users. "We think this licensing initiative is going to work," says Lawrence Goldfarb, managing partner. "We spent a lot of time calling around to potential licensees, and we believe SCO is going to sign enough companies to make this an interesting growth story."

Big money on the wrong side, backing a bunch of whackers making exhorbitant claims and trying to "kill" innocents... what fits that?

• The Silent Scream?
  
• Total Recall?
  
• Confessions of a Simple Surgeon? (if you get a chance to see this one, do)
  
• Blue Thunder? (how do you park a legal system across the train tracks?)
  
• Your Suggestion Here

Either way, D'ohl and his crew of vultures stand about as much real legal chance of succeeding as an insect in IBM's headlights. If any of the studios are challenged, they'll either push SCO's brains through their collective rear or say "we're waiting on the outcome of the IBM case" and sit. It's a lose, lose, lose situation.

Except for Microsoft.

How many people will foolishly turn back to Microsoft simply because there's corporate headcases loose in Linux land? "I'm not playing with that bunch, there's a kid with wild, staring eyes who keeps kicking the others and demanding their milk money."

Want to make sense of what's happening? Simply follow the money. Who stands to profit the most? "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Sounds trite but it's absolutely true. Money is a game counter that lets the power-hungry keep score, and power hungry people aren't in the game for your benefit.

Actually, I have read the original script. It can be found here.

While it does contain elements that went into the entire trilogy (a desert planet, bickering droids, a chase through an asteroid field, a swamp planet, an uprising of primitive natives against an Imperial installation, and the redemption of a Sith Knight, among others) the overall story thread was very different from any of the finished movies.

Okay, let me understand this, the plotline is so bad, that Cameron won't have anything to do with it anymore, BUT, they won't bother to make the flick that Arnold was dying for I am Legend ???? The script alone has had me jonesing for this flick for the last three years, for the best adaptation yet of Matheson's book, one the THE best vampire stories ever.

Hollywood truly is intelectually bankrupt.

At the risk of flaming, I ask everyone to please take a look at this diagram if you really think the Space Shuttle wings are "large," or that they could conceivably weigh anything remotely close to half of the vehicle's weight. The fuel, on the other hand, weighs many times more than the entire ship plus payload. There's just no comparison between a passive lifting body and fuel. To quote Pulp Fiction, "it aint the same ball park and it aint the same league, it aint even the same fuckin' sport!"

Speaking of flames, we haven't even considered what happens to objects sitting around near a rocket launch or landing site. Vertical landing does not mean rockets can take off and land in "any old parking lot" !!?? Can you say, "Dude, where's my car?" There's no way a giant flamethrower is going to be allowed to come down over any heavily populated area. Rockets would need their own special takeoff and landing facilities, and if they didn't land right next to the fueling site (yikes!) they would have to be hauled there, carefully.

The Shuttle has these problems too, but it's not supposed to be the Ultimate Answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The Shuttle is only the first working example of a vehicle going to orbit and landing repeatedly without fuel. It's particular shortcomings are not arguments for using fuel instead of lift. The goal is to use a regular airport, which rockets will not do.

But there's a big gap between warmed-over Tarantino satire being regurgitated as pop feminist criticism, and poking holes in a plot. The former is pretty ridiculous, especially in the context of a blockbuster action/romance movie. The latter, even a child does.

I had to look it up, not having seen BG for a very long time, but you have to admit, if the Silons would just get on with it and destroy all these pesky humans, at least the flow of bad movies and bad criticism would stop!

Since he started on Hollywood movies, Woo has put out a lot of average to mediocre movies.
Who can remember "Hard Target" (his first US movie) or "Broken Arrow" without shuddering? I know I found them painful.

No, Woo should have stuck with what he does best, gritty Hong Kong Action Theatre movies.
Movies like "Hard Boiled" or "The Killer".
Where having two handguns, slow-mo sequences and unbelievable acrobatic fighting moves is not only accepted, but expected!
Throw in some comedy (keeping the action!) in "Once a Thief", and your HKAT experience is complete.

Put Chow Yun Fat in a Woo movie, and I'm guaranteed to be in the audience! (he's in both "Hard Boiled" and "The Killer")

"The Replacement Killers" and "The Corruptor" - both excellent movies with C.Y.F. and without Woo, for people who don't like his style.

Ha ha...

"Good process... bad process... I'm the process with the gun."