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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 241644" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>tonight (Tuesday).</p><p></p><p>Innerspace, ITV2, 8pm.</p><p></p><p>Similar plot to the famous Fantastic Voyage, with a minaturised sub travelling around inside somebody's body. Except, here it all happens by accident (oops), and there's just one man in the sub! So, the pace gets frantic, with one thing after another, and it's all done for laughs .....</p><p></p><p>Director Joe Dante specialises in "B movie" knockabout sci fi comedy, with films like Explorers (shown film4 opening night), Gremlins, etc.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerspace" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerspace</a> .</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dante" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dante</a> .</p><p></p><p>Moonraker, ITV4, 9pm (repeated tomorrow 7pm).</p><p></p><p>James Bond films have fantasy and lots of gadgets, but are they sci fi? This one probably has the best claim, with space shuttles, and a large manned space station (for maximum publicity, the film's opening was supposed to coincide with the first shuttle flights, but they got delayed ....).</p><p></p><p>This time, "Dr Evil" has morphed into Drax, who - guess what - wants to take over the world. So he steals a space shuttle, and Bond is sent to investigate.</p><p>Lots of exotic locations (M's Egyptian base is inside a pyramid), and action sequences (Richard Kiel's metal teeth "Jaws" character returns, one more time, having been unexpectedly very popular in last film - The Spy Who Loved Me - before being given a "nice" ending, when I saw it everyone in the cinema went "ahhh ....nice").</p><p></p><p>It all ends with a big "star wars" type space battle ....</p><p></p><p>Includes some "film parodies", which seemed funny at the time, but now are just very irritating.</p><p></p><p>Very different from Ian Fleming's original 1950s novel, which has just 1 ICBM secretly aimed at London, if I remember rightly on the Isle of Wright!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker</a> .</p><p></p><p>Under Siege, 10.50pm, BBC1 Northern Ireland ONLY (Sky ch 973).</p><p></p><p>Excellent action thriller. A decomissioned USA warship is en route to the breaker's yard, but gets hi-jacked by terrorists, who - guess what - want to steal the nuclear weapons which just happen to be on board. Only 1 man can stop them, ship's cook Steven Seagal (really a commando in disguise).</p><p>This has lost of action and ingenuity, and gains much from being set inside a claustrophbic mazelike ship. Excellent Tommy Lee Jones plays the main baddie.</p><p></p><p>This got poor reviews, mainly because film critics hate Steven Seagal, claiming he "can't act". Yeah, well come to that, you wouldn't expect Michael Caine to play King Lear, but to say he "can't act" .....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_seagal" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_seagal</a> .</p><p></p><p>Blue/Orange, BBC4, Midnight (Wed morning).</p><p></p><p>Oh dear, I'm cheating again, this isn't sci fi, and maybe not even science ..... but, is of some interest!</p><p></p><p>Like Copenhagen, this is another "filmed" National Theatre play (see above post).</p><p></p><p>A young black man is being detained ("sectioned") in a mental hospital, after some "incident", but after the statutory 30 days is due to be released. After all, he seems quite sane, if a little aggressive from being locked up! But, his (young trainee) psychiatrist doesn't agree, a major problem being that this patient thinks all oranges are really coloured blue!</p><p>The psychiatrist's supervisor is an older man, who subscribes to the old fashioned theories of radical 1960s psychiatric guru R D Laing (Brian Cox plays the supervisor with a Glasgow accent, which Laing had, although the script makes it clear he isn't Laing).</p><p>There follows a power struggle, with the supervisor threatening the trainee psychiatrist , who then might not qualify .....</p><p></p><p>This is partly about cultural relativism; what would be "normal expected behaviour" for a person from a particular social/ethnic background? There's also some oblique references to Wittgenstein, with colours perception, and the (im)possibility of a "private language" .....</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/blue-orange.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/blue-orange.shtml</a> .</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_D_Laing" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_D_Laing</a> .</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_language_argument" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_language_argument</a> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 241644, member: 192438"] tonight (Tuesday). Innerspace, ITV2, 8pm. Similar plot to the famous Fantastic Voyage, with a minaturised sub travelling around inside somebody's body. Except, here it all happens by accident (oops), and there's just one man in the sub! So, the pace gets frantic, with one thing after another, and it's all done for laughs ..... Director Joe Dante specialises in "B movie" knockabout sci fi comedy, with films like Explorers (shown film4 opening night), Gremlins, etc. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerspace[/url] . [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dante[/url] . Moonraker, ITV4, 9pm (repeated tomorrow 7pm). James Bond films have fantasy and lots of gadgets, but are they sci fi? This one probably has the best claim, with space shuttles, and a large manned space station (for maximum publicity, the film's opening was supposed to coincide with the first shuttle flights, but they got delayed ....). This time, "Dr Evil" has morphed into Drax, who - guess what - wants to take over the world. So he steals a space shuttle, and Bond is sent to investigate. Lots of exotic locations (M's Egyptian base is inside a pyramid), and action sequences (Richard Kiel's metal teeth "Jaws" character returns, one more time, having been unexpectedly very popular in last film - The Spy Who Loved Me - before being given a "nice" ending, when I saw it everyone in the cinema went "ahhh ....nice"). It all ends with a big "star wars" type space battle .... Includes some "film parodies", which seemed funny at the time, but now are just very irritating. Very different from Ian Fleming's original 1950s novel, which has just 1 ICBM secretly aimed at London, if I remember rightly on the Isle of Wright! [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker[/url] . Under Siege, 10.50pm, BBC1 Northern Ireland ONLY (Sky ch 973). Excellent action thriller. A decomissioned USA warship is en route to the breaker's yard, but gets hi-jacked by terrorists, who - guess what - want to steal the nuclear weapons which just happen to be on board. Only 1 man can stop them, ship's cook Steven Seagal (really a commando in disguise). This has lost of action and ingenuity, and gains much from being set inside a claustrophbic mazelike ship. Excellent Tommy Lee Jones plays the main baddie. This got poor reviews, mainly because film critics hate Steven Seagal, claiming he "can't act". Yeah, well come to that, you wouldn't expect Michael Caine to play King Lear, but to say he "can't act" ..... [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_seagal[/url] . Blue/Orange, BBC4, Midnight (Wed morning). Oh dear, I'm cheating again, this isn't sci fi, and maybe not even science ..... but, is of some interest! Like Copenhagen, this is another "filmed" National Theatre play (see above post). A young black man is being detained ("sectioned") in a mental hospital, after some "incident", but after the statutory 30 days is due to be released. After all, he seems quite sane, if a little aggressive from being locked up! But, his (young trainee) psychiatrist doesn't agree, a major problem being that this patient thinks all oranges are really coloured blue! The psychiatrist's supervisor is an older man, who subscribes to the old fashioned theories of radical 1960s psychiatric guru R D Laing (Brian Cox plays the supervisor with a Glasgow accent, which Laing had, although the script makes it clear he isn't Laing). There follows a power struggle, with the supervisor threatening the trainee psychiatrist , who then might not qualify ..... This is partly about cultural relativism; what would be "normal expected behaviour" for a person from a particular social/ethnic background? There's also some oblique references to Wittgenstein, with colours perception, and the (im)possibility of a "private language" ..... [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/blue-orange.shtml[/url] . [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_D_Laing[/url] . [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_language_argument[/url] . [/QUOTE]
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