h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Count Zero, you slay me!

When I was young chap, and actually saw this film in a theater, I could NOT shake the unmistakeable likeness of the spaceship to that of a plucked, headless chicken.

But, now that you mention it, the pods at the 'bottom' of the ship do look like...

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Holy ... Guess who designed that spaceship...

James Cameron. And yes, it was intentional.

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?BID=10153

BTW, you only have to read the first paragraph from that linked page to read what I was talking about.

Ooh, but I'm such a slave to 'drilling down' in the cross-reference links...

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The attendance has been so low that I probably won't do another series for a while. I don't know whether it's the choice of movies or a bad time slot or what. The people who encouraged me to do them aren't even coming.

I'm sorry to hear that, Hypatia. But I know the feeling.

Back when I was teaching college, we had something called the Great Books course. I was one of a number of people teaching this required course. It occurred to me that it might be helpful to put together a film festival. Which we did.

The most we ever had there was 6. It was a shame - we illustrated the Great Books with films including 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' (If you're at a Benedictine college and your projectionist is a monk, it works), 'Heart of Darkness' (Merchant/Ivory), even 'Quest for Fire' (to illustrate Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

It's spring, what can you do?

It's frustrating to plan things, put in time and resources you could use elsewhere and then have a poor result. I've always held to the philosophy that if I keep throwing mud against the wall... It looks like I need a different philosophy.

"Brother Sun, Sister Moon" I'm impressed.

I know what you mean about frustration.

Yep. Of course, this was a college that included the Rule of St Benedict in its Great Books course. So I got the nuttiest monk as a guest speaker...