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Tsevir Leirbag 
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 Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:21 |
 Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:21 |
Spoilers in white- highlight to see:
1. The prawns clearly outnumbered the black market people. The alien weaponry is seriously powerful, and the black market guys have a hoard of it. The prawns also have superior reflexes and agility (as shown in the beginning of the film), and even more convenient is the fact that humans cannot use their weapons. How hard would a coup have been?
2. Wikus and his MNU cronies serve eviction notices in the beginning (why, I do not know...the whole "human rights" thing seems rather silly, but okay- not my point here). We see the aggression some of the prawns have toward the humans- ripping off limbs and such. Why are there no prawns helping Wikus and Christoper Johnson in the end? In fact, I didn't see any prawns at all.
3. The fluid used to leave Earth seems to serve whatever purpose the scriptwriters need it to. Not a plot hole, admittedly, but kind of silly nonetheless.
4. Christopher Johnson and his son get back on the mother ship. How do they plan on flying the thing if it's been up there for decades? Are we to believe that the magical fuel will power the whole giant fortress or something, and that two aliens (one a child) can pilot the thing alone? And if all this is the case, why the hell didn't the aliens use the fuel that was on board in the first place to be on their way instead of chilling over South Africa? Granted most of the prawns are worker class, but CJ should have known this and been able to wrest them from their circumstances.
5. Wikus goes from a pansy little bureaucrat to someone who is able to pilot various alien craft almost perfectly in less than 72 hours despite not even knowing how to turn any of it on, and he has amazing precision shooting alien weapons that he's never wielded prior to his transformation (and no, becoming a prawn himself does not grant him these abilities, because most of the prawns are shown to lack these skills).
6. How did all that weaponry (especially the mech suit) get from the mother ship to Earth?
7. Communication clearly isn't a problem. So why in the hell doesn't CJ (or any other prawn) basically say to MNU, "Hey, we know you don't want us here. We're looking for fuel. Let's find it, and we'll leave your primitive and tasteless planet." Yes, we know MNU wants to research the weapons, but so what? Twenty-plus years of living in a slum?
8. Why was there no reverse engineering on the mother ship if the military got in and had decades to examine it?
9. Presumably the mother ship wasn't functional, but it could fire a tractor beam?
10. The humans cut into the hull of the mother ship. How can it function in space?
11. The prawns lack opposable thumbs.
Still, a fun movie. 
And the final scene is perfect.
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:22 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
I think I prefer Les Noces.
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Ricochet
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:26 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?  I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
Edited by Ricochet - March 08 2010 at 16:26
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:28 |
A Person wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
I think I prefer Les Noces.
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Les Noces is great but Rite of Spring... That's something 
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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Ricochet
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:29 |
A Person wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month?
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I wish I had that much classical music.
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It's highly obtainable.
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:30 |
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The Yumyum Tree is a pretty good album. I don't remember seeing it in the '09 list though. Too bad.
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Any Colour You Like
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:31 |
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I need some Ozrics.
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:31 |
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?
I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
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Shostakovitch
Rachmaninov
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:33 |
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:34 |
Any Colour You Like wrote:
I need some Ozrics.
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Me too, I only have this album. I have heard music from other albums though.
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:35 |
Epignosis wrote:
Spoilers in white- highlight to see:
1. The prawns clearly outnumbered the black market people. The alien weaponry is seriously powerful, and the black market guys have a hoard of it. The prawns also have superior reflexes and agility (as shown in the beginning of the film), and even more convenient is the fact that humans cannot use their weapons. How hard would a coup have been?
2. Wikus and his MNU cronies serve eviction notices in the beginning (why, I do not know...the whole "human rights" thing seems rather silly, but okay- not my point here). We see the aggression some of the prawns have toward the humans- ripping off limbs and such. Why are there no prawns helping Wikus and Christoper Johnson in the end? In fact, I didn't see any prawns at all.
3. The fluid used to leave Earth seems to serve whatever purpose the scriptwriters need it to. Not a plot hole, admittedly, but kind of silly nonetheless.
4. Christopher Johnson and his son get back on the mother ship. How do they plan on flying the thing if it's been up there for decades? Are we to believe that the magical fuel will power the whole giant fortress or something, and that two aliens (one a child) can pilot the thing alone? And if all this is the case, why the hell didn't the aliens use the fuel that was on board in the first place to be on their way instead of chilling over South Africa? Granted most of the prawns are worker class, but CJ should have known this and been able to wrest them from their circumstances.
5. Wikus goes from a pansy little bureaucrat to someone who is able to pilot various alien craft almost perfectly in less than 72 hours despite not even knowing how to turn any of it on, and he has amazing precision shooting alien weapons that he's never wielded prior to his transformation (and no, becoming a prawn himself does not grant him these abilities, because most of the prawns are shown to lack these skills).
6. How did all that weaponry (especially the mech suit) get from the mother ship to Earth?
7. Communication clearly isn't a problem. So why in the hell doesn't CJ (or any other prawn) basically say to MNU, "Hey, we know you don't want us here. We're looking for fuel. Let's find it, and we'll leave your primitive and tasteless planet." Yes, we know MNU wants to research the weapons, but so what? Twenty-plus years of living in a slum?
8. Why was there no reverse engineering on the mother ship if the military got in and had decades to examine it?
9. Presumably the mother ship wasn't functional, but it could fire a tractor beam?
10. The humans cut into the hull of the mother ship. How can it function in space?
11. The prawns lack opposable thumbs.
Still, a fun movie.
And the final scene is perfect.
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That was fun to read. Some points make sense.
Edited by Ricochet - March 08 2010 at 16:35
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Ricochet
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:36 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?
I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
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Shostakovitch |
mmm, I could go for the Preludes & Fugues
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Any Colour You Like
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:38 |
A Person wrote:
Any Colour You Like wrote:
I need some Ozrics.
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Me too, I only have this album. I have heard music from other albums though.
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I might check them out at the cd store tommorrow, unfortunately most of their stuff is pretty pricey here.
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:39 |
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:40 |
Ricochet wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Spoilers in white- highlight to see:
1. The prawns clearly outnumbered the black market people. The alien weaponry is seriously powerful, and the black market guys have a hoard of it. The prawns also have superior reflexes and agility (as shown in the beginning of the film), and even more convenient is the fact that humans cannot use their weapons. How hard would a coup have been?
2. Wikus and his MNU cronies serve eviction notices in the beginning (why, I do not know...the whole "human rights" thing seems rather silly, but okay- not my point here). We see the aggression some of the prawns have toward the humans- ripping off limbs and such. Why are there no prawns helping Wikus and Christoper Johnson in the end? In fact, I didn't see any prawns at all.
3. The fluid used to leave Earth seems to serve whatever purpose the scriptwriters need it to. Not a plot hole, admittedly, but kind of silly nonetheless.
4. Christopher Johnson and his son get back on the mother ship. How do they plan on flying the thing if it's been up there for decades? Are we to believe that the magical fuel will power the whole giant fortress or something, and that two aliens (one a child) can pilot the thing alone? And if all this is the case, why the hell didn't the aliens use the fuel that was on board in the first place to be on their way instead of chilling over South Africa? Granted most of the prawns are worker class, but CJ should have known this and been able to wrest them from their circumstances.
5. Wikus goes from a pansy little bureaucrat to someone who is able to pilot various alien craft almost perfectly in less than 72 hours despite not even knowing how to turn any of it on, and he has amazing precision shooting alien weapons that he's never wielded prior to his transformation (and no, becoming a prawn himself does not grant him these abilities, because most of the prawns are shown to lack these skills).
6. How did all that weaponry (especially the mech suit) get from the mother ship to Earth?
7. Communication clearly isn't a problem. So why in the hell doesn't CJ (or any other prawn) basically say to MNU, "Hey, we know you don't want us here. We're looking for fuel. Let's find it, and we'll leave your primitive and tasteless planet." Yes, we know MNU wants to research the weapons, but so what? Twenty-plus years of living in a slum?
8. Why was there no reverse engineering on the mother ship if the military got in and had decades to examine it?
9. Presumably the mother ship wasn't functional, but it could fire a tractor beam?
10. The humans cut into the hull of the mother ship. How can it function in space?
11. The prawns lack opposable thumbs.
Still, a fun movie.
And the final scene is perfect.
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That was fun to read. Some points make sense.
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Thanks Rob, I suppose the white spoilers do not work when you have your monitor is on negative colors right...  I haven't seen the movie yet..:!!!
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:42 |
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?
I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
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Shostakovitch |
mmm, I could go for the Preludes & Fugues
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Symphony n°7 "Leningrad"
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:42 |
jampa17 wrote:
Thanks Rob, I suppose the white spoilers do not work when you have your monitor is on negative colors right... I haven't seen the movie yet..:!!! |
If we had spoiler tags that wouldn't have happened.
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Ricochet
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:44 |
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
Ricochet wrote:
Serious thought. Why don't I listen just to classical music this month? |
Two things...
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring |
That's gonna fill the entire month?
I do like Stravinsky hours, otherwise I'm not interested in Orff.
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Shostakovitch |
mmm, I could go for the Preludes & Fugues
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Symphony n°7 "Leningrad" |
Commie.  (j/k) Some of those Andrew WK links are lol-worthy.
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A Person
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Posted: March 08 2010 at 16:45 |
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You know, I haven't even listened/watched any Andrew WK links yet.
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