[Nuclear1]

Since there was a Freespace Trivia Game in the Gen. Freespace, I figured we could something in HLP. Same rules as the other (ask a question, then whoever answers first can ask the next one).

First up:

Alien - Name 4 out of the 8 initial passengers on the Nostromo.

[tEAbAG]

Easy.

Dallas, Ripley, Kane, Ash



Finish this quote:

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to...

[diamondgeezer]

Nostromo had seven crewmembers - Dallas, Kane, Ripley, Lambert, Parker, Bret and Ash

(unless you count Jones - )

[Petrarch of the VBB]

That moggy looks evil.

[diamondgeezer]

Most ships' cats only have to deal with mice... Jones has a somewhat taller challenge to cope with

[Unknown Target]

Jones = |<1(|< @55!

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]What film is my avatar from?
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[Petrarch of the VBB]

Something Irish, no doubt, and involving a wing'ed sword.

[Rictor]

a white "stick" with 2 "wings", entering a red "tunnel"

gee, I dunno, nothing at all

*runs*

[an0n]

BSG?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Is that Roald Dahl's Big Sodomy Giant?

[an0n]

Battle Star Galactica.

And I know which film it's from now but I can't remember which one.

It's either Battle Beyond the Stars or The Last Starfighter.

It's the one with the barrier and that traitor and the death-blossom thing methinks.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by an0n
The Last Starfighter.

[color=66ff00]*Ding, Ding, Ding!*

You have won the star prize! *sends cookie*

Anyone know what it is about this film that makes it interesting? (other than the fact that it's leet).
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[an0n]

The meteor cannon that can propel seemingly inert lumps of rock at FTL speeds?

The way he was conscripted from playing a video game?

The oddness that the entire police-people fleets were annihilated by like 3 shots?

The way the uber-ship was like 600m long but was almost as big as the moon it crashed into?

[Martinus]

Originally posted by an0n
The meteor cannon that can propel seemingly inert lumps of rock at FTL speeds?

The way he was conscripted from playing a video game?

The oddness that the entire police-people fleets were annihilated by like 3 shots?

The way the uber-ship was like 600m long but was almost as big as the moon it crashed into?

[color=66ff00]Actually it's not a storyline matter that makes it interesting. Something to do with Cray...  
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[an0n]

Google says:
As members of the imagist school of CGI, Digital Productions would harness the world's fastest calculating machines - first a Cray-1/S supercomputer and then its successor, the Cray X-MP - to fashion images that would be as much as 700 times more complex than the most ambitious of TRON's computer-generated objects.

Whitney had been discussing such a film since 1981 with his friend Miguel Tejeda-Flores, vice president for film development and acquisition at Lorimar, Inc., the television and movie production studio. But no script then making the rounds in Hollywood had the right mix of story line, space setting and broad audience appeal that the two thought would make a movie suitable for the special effects Whitney had in mind.

Digital Productions had scarcely hung out its shingle when Tejeda-Flores called Whitney to say that a script reader at Lorimar had come across something that seemed made to order. Called The Last Starfighter, it told the story of a young video gamesman who is recruited by aliens to save an embattled federation of planets from imminent destruction. Whitney and Demos started negotiations with the studio even before their first computer was installed.

Although the computer images were an important reason for doing the movie, Whitney was determined not to make the same mistake that Lisberger had made with TRON. In The Last Starfighter, the story came first: "The special effects are there to serve the purpose of furthering that story," Whitney said later. "They were not meant to stand alone as special effects, but to present outer space in as acceptable a way and as easy a way as location photography does."

The centerpiece was a space fighter called the Gunstar. The first step in creating the craft was to make a detailed drawing on graph paper to facilitate encoding it for the VAX 11/782 mainframe used for the initial phases of production. "In the early stages," said Digital Productions' designer Ron Cobb, "we were kind of handicapped in that I had to use geometric primitives to a certain extent." But gradually, Cobb and the crew of computer encoders became more skilled in their work. As the project advanced, Demos - a programming genius if ever one lived - improved the graphics software he had masterminded, and the Gunstar became increasingly detailed. The final version of the craft, which had begun as a sample of Digital Productions' work for Lorimar's approval, comprised 750,000 polygons and took Digital's team of encoders, which at times had as many as 30 members, almost three months to feed into the computer.[/b]

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Actually it's not a storyline matter that makes it interesting. Something to do with Cray...  
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it was the first REAL modern CG movie....

Oooo! i've got one..

1st man: he must be a king
2nd man: Why?
1st man: he hasn't got **** all over 'im

[Petrarch of the VBB]

"We are now no longer the knight who say "NI"."

Who are they now?

[Turnsky]

jeez, i dunno... i haven't seen the movie in ages

"the knights who formerly said ni":p

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Dear dear.

"We are the knights who say: Ecky ecky ecky ecky pikang, zoop-boing godthrownrem"

"He's not the messiah!"

What is he?