Thank you very much for that indeed, it means a lot; you know how I love Seven and Ace. I think you're right, Seven did seem quite often to find himself brooding upon the evils of the universe, and Ace always had an opinion on that sort of thing. That 80s earnestness; it's easy to sneer at it from the standpoint of our more cynical age, but it came from the heart, at least the writers cared about something.
I love Dr Strangelove, and put in quite a few references to it; not just the man himself, but Wing Attack Plan R and the big board all that stuff... The best character in the film, though, is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake; I love that little argument he has with the paratrooper: "What kinda suit you call that, fella?" "This *suit*, as you put it, is the uniform of Her Majesty's Royal Air Force!" "Know what I think; I think you're some kinda deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversions and that you were planning some sort of mutiny of preverts!" The best line in a film full of 'em, that and "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" And God help me, I quoted all that from memory; I've seen that film too many times...
Yes, joking aside, though, any of that post-apocalyptic stuff gives me chills, from nuclear war to zombie movies, not because I think those things are particularly likely to happen (well, I'd really hope not, in the case of zombie movies!), but because they show how fragile our society is and how it wouldn't take very much going wrong at all to put us at the mercy of nature, and each other... Even the swine flu thing, as overblown by the media as it is, gives me little niggles of doubt...but that probably says more about me.
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Date: 2009-05-05 09:47 pm (UTC)I love Dr Strangelove, and put in quite a few references to it; not just the man himself, but Wing Attack Plan R and the big board all that stuff... The best character in the film, though, is Group Captain Lionel Mandrake; I love that little argument he has with the paratrooper: "What kinda suit you call that, fella?" "This *suit*, as you put it, is the uniform of Her Majesty's Royal Air Force!" "Know what I think; I think you're some kinda deviated prevert, and I think General Ripper found out about your preversions and that you were planning some sort of mutiny of preverts!" The best line in a film full of 'em, that and "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" And God help me, I quoted all that from memory; I've seen that film too many times...
Yes, joking aside, though, any of that post-apocalyptic stuff gives me chills, from nuclear war to zombie movies, not because I think those things are particularly likely to happen (well, I'd really hope not, in the case of zombie movies!), but because they show how fragile our society is and how it wouldn't take very much going wrong at all to put us at the mercy of nature, and each other... Even the swine flu thing, as overblown by the media as it is, gives me little niggles of doubt...but that probably says more about me.