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Nobel Prize Winners on Sci-Fi Flicks
scientistguy writes "In case you missed it, Harold Varmus, Nobel prize winning retrovirologist and cancer biologist, former NIH director, and current
head of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has written a review
of 28 Days Later
in this weekend's New
York Times. One would think
that his time is more valuably spent running important medical institutions,
searching for new cancer insights/cures, etc, but the dude's also an English lit major and has a penchant for
sci-fi. 28 Days Later
is the new flick from director Danny Boyle (Shallow
Grave, Trainspotting, etc.) about a virus termed rage
that is advertently released from a Cambridge primate research facility and
goes on to devastate much of merry old England more rapidly than the dragons
did in Reign of Fire. Although Varmus appears to go out of
his way to be even handed, it's clear that he has a problem suspending disbelief on a
topic (virology) that is near and dear to him. Reviews from
professional movie critics on 28 Days
Later have been mixed, but Ebert
and another NY
Times reviewer were into it.
Good, clean summer fun - aside from 'the scenes
of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'."
That Ghostbusters movie was top notch!
I thought it was a sequel to the Sandra Bullock movie, 28 Days.
Jason
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aside from 'the scenes of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'."
shoplifting goes with maiming, what the..?
Jesus saves souls and redeems them for valuable cash prizes
Not only that, the DVD was out about a month ago as well.
Time the folks in the US to look-up on-line stores that ship region 2 stuff to the US!
The only thing that I found hard to believe was that anyone would be able to tell the difference between a comatose bike messenger and one that wasn't.
One would think that his time is more valuably spent running important medical institutions, searching for new cancer insights/cures, etc
:)
As if people reading Slashdot had a right to criticize anyone else about not working.
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Wasn't this the same in Day of the Triffids, except everyone went blind and was eaten by vegetables?
um, Frank left his credit card at the cash register before they left the store. And besides, everyone was dead anyway...which made the fact that he left his card kind of cool. What were they supposed to do, starve to death because there was no one alive to give the money to? Furthermore they only took necessities like food, medical supplies, and single malt scotch.
When will Hollywood draw the line here!
Who cares about guns, we gotta get those MP3 players off the streets!
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
Omega Man was released in 1987 by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and it's about a man with a pellet gun for an arm, who subsequently battles through 10 levels to fight the evil Dr. Wily. I don't know where you're getting you information from.
aside from 'the scenes of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'.
Shoplifting, what's this world coming to?
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Ummm... you do know that there are plenty of standalone DVD players that do the NTSC/PAL conversion just fine, so that you can watch PAL discs on an NTSC television set ... right?
Well, I guess I know why I'm not getting modded up :)
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Good, clean summer fun - aside from 'the scenes of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'.
I give up. What can be more fun than scenes of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting?
The power of Christ compiles you!
If you get rage-infected blood onto a cricket bat, you won't be able to use it to play cricket without taking serious risks. Blood on bat, transfers to ball, transfers to hands... just not worth taking the risk. Baseball bat to kill, cricket bat to play cricket.
Right after I saw 28 days later I saw terminator III. When I saw the last scene of T3 the 28 days later line (paraphrased) "What, you got a plan or do you want to just find a hole and fuck?" rung in my head. Indeed, what a coincidence.
Photos.
A movie where the zombies run faster than you can.
Not your typical limping, sedentary zombies. More like track runners on crack.
"Rats become infected with T. gondiii by eating infected beetles or worms. Once infected, the rats lose their fear of cats and become aggressive towards them and thereby becoming dinner for the cat."
"I wonder how long it will be before T. Gondii evolves to affect humans?"
Don't worry, even if you lose your fear of cats it is unlikely that you will become their next meal, unless you live in Africa where there are some really big cats or if you are an old woman.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,