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Message no. 1
From: XaOs [David Goth] xaos@*****.net
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:52:13 -0500
> And now for something completely different: How bout that Wild preview
> before the Matrix? :) I WANT to see that movie!!

Yep, it should be your typical Wil Smith blockbuster. I first saw a preview
for it during the last Superbowl. It looked like a nice mixed-genre film.
F/X look good as well. (Do we become jaded at some point?) Should be
interesting to see Branagh in a blockbuster-style film.

"The Mummy" also looked good, although it looked better to me when I saw the
preview first (again, during the Superbowl) for some reason. Maybe I saw
problems that I had missed.

I hope that WWW has some good cross-genre ideas that could inspire similar
ideas for our cross-genre game, Shadowrun.



-XaOs-
xaos@*****.net
-David Goth-
-Mr.G.D.-
Message no. 2
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 02:54:56 -0500
>I hope that WWW has some good cross-genre ideas that could inspire similar
>ideas for our cross-genre game, Shadowrun.

It's sure providing some fodder for my new Dead Lands campaign. Should
provide ideas for the SR stuff, too.

--
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 3
From: Pantherr pantherr@*****.net
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 04:02:36 -0500
> Yep, it should be your typical Wil Smith blockbuster. I first saw a
> preview for it during the last Superbowl. It looked like a nice
> mixed-genre film. F/X look good as well. (Do we become jaded at some
> point?) Should be interesting to see Branagh in a blockbuster-style film.

Looked to me like a cross between Maverick and James Bond <g>

Pantherr
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Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism
Message no. 4
From: Glenn Royer groyer@********.EDU
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:37:27 -0700
> Yep, it should be your typical Wil Smith blockbuster. I first saw a
> preview for it during the last Superbowl. It looked like a nice
> mixed-genre film. F/X look good as well. (Do we become jaded at some
> point?) Should be interesting to see Branagh in a blockbuster-style film.

Looked to me like a cross between Maverick and James Bond <g>

Pantherr
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well i hope you all know it was based on an old tv show.. you DO remember
that, don't you? ;)
i really love the feel of the old west mixed with fantastical 'steam-tech'
stuff.
-Glenn
Message no. 5
From: Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:47:33 EDT
In a message dated 4/11/99 1:34:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
groyer@********.EDU writes:

> > Yep, it should be your typical Wil Smith blockbuster. I first saw a
> > preview for it during the last Superbowl. It looked like a nice
> > mixed-genre film. F/X look good as well. (Do we become jaded at some
> > point?) Should be interesting to see Branagh in a blockbuster-style film.
>
> Looked to me like a cross between Maverick and James Bond <g>
>
> Pantherr

That's pretty much accurate, and a good description of what the original
series was like. Glenn has a very good point, Wild Wild West was originally
a TV show, shot back in the 1960's or so, old enough that about half of the
episodes were shot in Black & white. And it basicly was a cross between the
wild west capers as shown in Maverick and high tech "James Bond" like
stuff... though what would qualify as high tech in those days was a lot less
high tech than Bond's gadgets. The main Star was James West, and his
companion Artemis Gordon (I think, I'm not sure abou the last name) and they
were Guv'mt agents who went around the West investigating stuff and getting
drawn into all sorts of wild adventures. They had a mobile base of
operations, in the form of a private train, and used lots of gadgets, quick
wits, and disguises during the course of their cases.

Interstingly enough, The Episodes still run on a local UHF channel in the Los
Angeles area (Channel 56). This channel shows almost all old shows, such as
Wild Wild West, The Rockford files, Streets of San Francisco, and the like.
When I was growing up, they also showed several very old sitcoms too, like
the Dick van Dyke show, McHale's Navy, and F-troop.
Message no. 6
From: Machine-gun Kelly mgkelly@****.com
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:59:07 -0400
> Interstingly enough, The Episodes still run on a local UHF channel in the Los
> Angeles area (Channel 56).

IIRC, some cable channels like USA and TVLand also air the reruns. I've
caught them on the occasional Saturday morning. One I remember was
something like a Mad Scientist had made some sort of cannon that could
aim itself through clockwork and detecting sound waves or something.
It's pretty good source material, particularly for those of us playing
Mad Scientists.

MGK
--
"The next time we go to the Tir, I'm bringing a nuke...."
Message no. 7
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:37:46 EDT
In a message dated 4/11/99 9:49:59 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Starrngr@***.com writes:

>
> Interstingly enough, The Episodes still run on a local UHF channel in the
> Los
> Angeles area (Channel 56). This channel shows almost all old shows, such
as
>
> Wild Wild West, The Rockford files, Streets of San Francisco, and the
like.
>
> When I was growing up, they also showed several very old sitcoms too, like
> the Dick van Dyke show, McHale's Navy, and F-troop.

Interesting, here on the cable network, that *almost* sounds like "Odyssey",
a new network that has a very strong tilt ...

-K
Message no. 8
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: Wild, Wild West (was some Matrix thread)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:38:35 EDT
In a message dated 4/11/99 10:00:16 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
mgkelly@****.com writes:

> MGK
> --
> "The next time we go to the Tir, I'm bringing a nuke...."
>
"I know where you can get one...cheap!!!"
-K

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