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  • Heh Hey - "Pixels" - Sandler StupidFunny But Actually Amusing

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 18 23:36:53 2025
    Old movie - but FUN ! :-)

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  • From LV-426@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 19 04:34:35 2025
    On 2025-07-18 11:36 p.m., c186282 wrote:
    Old movie - but FUN ! :-)


    Yeah it was good, but Kevin James as president was a bit of a stretch lol. I
    loved that guy in King of Queens, my favorite sitcom.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 19 01:47:34 2025
    On 7/19/25 12:34 AM, LV-426 wrote:
    On 2025-07-18 11:36 p.m., c186282 wrote:
    Old movie - but FUN !  :-)


    Yeah it was good, but Kevin James as president was a bit of a stretch
    lol. I
    loved that guy in King of Queens, my favorite sitcom.

    A bit of a stretch - but, politically, a "regular
    guy" WOULD have 'appeal' :-)

    The evolving dynamic with the haughty DARPA gal
    was kinda interesting.

    Anyway, the movie wasn't intended to be 'serious'
    in the least ... kind of HAPPY for 'dumb' movies
    that aren't trying for an Oscar. Such pretense
    has ruined a lot of films.

    The PREMISE was kind of interesting however ...
    aliens who totally mistook old footage of a
    video-game contest. Such mistakes probably
    can/will happen.

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  • From Charlie Gibbs@21:1/5 to c186282@nnada.net on Sat Jul 19 17:49:05 2025
    On 2025-07-19, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

    The PREMISE was kind of interesting however ...
    aliens who totally mistook old footage of a
    video-game contest. Such mistakes probably
    can/will happen.

    Is that like the "historical documents" in _Galaxy Quest_?
    Brilliant concept.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Charlie Gibbs on Mon Jul 21 14:10:04 2025
    Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote at 17:49 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 2025-07-19, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

    The PREMISE was kind of interesting however ...
    aliens who totally mistook old footage of a
    video-game contest. Such mistakes probably
    can/will happen.

    Is that like the "historical documents" in _Galaxy Quest_?
    Brilliant concept.


    Galaxy Quest was a much better movie, and did the concept a lot better,
    IMO. I do like the visual effects of Pixels, though.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Charlie Gibbs on Mon Jul 21 23:05:39 2025
    On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:49:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    Is that like the "historical documents" in _Galaxy Quest_?
    Brilliant concept.

    We laugh at that, but imagine if, in our first contact with advanced
    aliens, it happened to us ...

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 25 04:12:34 2025
    On 7/21/25 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote at 17:49 this Saturday (GMT):
    On 2025-07-19, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

    The PREMISE was kind of interesting however ...
    aliens who totally mistook old footage of a
    video-game contest. Such mistakes probably
    can/will happen.

    Is that like the "historical documents" in _Galaxy Quest_?
    Brilliant concept.


    Galaxy Quest was a much better movie, and did the concept a lot better,
    IMO. I do like the visual effects of Pixels, though.

    It's a generally interesting theme ... 'aliens' may
    NOT really grasp our current cultural paradigms,
    get an ENTIRELY wrong impression.

    Hawking was mostly right - we should NOT be advertising
    ourselves to The Universe at this time because we
    Can't Cope. The 'aliens' probably DON'T think like
    we do - empire/conquest/slavery - but MIGHT. What the
    fuck would we DO with an alien incursion if they
    were even 100 years advanced on our tech - much
    less 100,000 years ???

    As best I can tell from the popular media, SOME
    'aliens' have been here for thousands, maybe
    hundreds of thousands, years. Forget 'conquest',
    they're The Owners by right. Fortunately they
    don't seem to think we're worth talking to.
    We'd need like 200 more IQ points minimum .....

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