![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
May. 18th, 2012
"The Martian Chronicles"
May. 18th, 2012 08:09 amThis week I popped in my DVDs of 1979's "The Martian Chronicles". To put it mildly, this adaptation of Bradbury's masterwork had more than its share of problems, including excessive cheesiness.
It also had excellent moments.
Such as this one.
It also had excellent moments.
Such as this one.
funding a Bonestell tomorrow
May. 18th, 2012 12:37 pmThe first time I contributed to a Kickstarter Project, it was for Mary Robinette Kowal’s puppet show at the worldcon in 2011. Then came an erotica SF book by Mary Anne Mohanraj, followed by a fantasy novel by MK Hobson. And now… Today a movie, tomorrow the world?
I was quite intrigued by Marc Scott Zicree’s "Space Command", a proposal to make a film set in the Future as it had been depicted by artist Chesley Bonestell, and in George Pal’s movies such as 1955’s “Conquest of Space”.
I was also intrigued by the idea of Kickstarter being used to fund SF movies. So I thought I’d make some contribution because if Zicree – who wrote “Star Trek” episode “World Enough and Time” – shows it can be done, others might get the idea that they too can make it work. Who knows what could happen next? CJ Cherryh’s “Merchanter’s Luck”?
For details about his Kickstarter, click here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58936338/space-command
I was quite intrigued by Marc Scott Zicree’s "Space Command", a proposal to make a film set in the Future as it had been depicted by artist Chesley Bonestell, and in George Pal’s movies such as 1955’s “Conquest of Space”.
I was also intrigued by the idea of Kickstarter being used to fund SF movies. So I thought I’d make some contribution because if Zicree – who wrote “Star Trek” episode “World Enough and Time” – shows it can be done, others might get the idea that they too can make it work. Who knows what could happen next? CJ Cherryh’s “Merchanter’s Luck”?
For details about his Kickstarter, click here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58936338/space-command
I came home early tonight so I planted Sue's last flowers. At least they're supposed to be the last. After cleaning up, I had a mac&cheese for dinner, then the last ice cream cone, then the last popsicle, and a big bag of chips. I just finished writing up a review of some short stories. Next, I'll probably watch the first episode of Season Two of "Game of Thrones".