Re: Bad Technothrillers (was nitrogen grenades)

["Dr. Stuart Levy" <Kingfisherridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tengu" <tengu@concentric.net>
To: <millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Technothrillers (was nitrogen grenades)

Damn you all.
I never expected my pet hate - Mathew Reilly - to grace this fine site.

For the record - Ice Station is bad.  And his third book "Temple" could be
classified as a crime against literature.  Although for anybody that feels
likes melding ME with something spooky like Cthulu then Ice Station is a
potential scenario - just stop reading at about the 4/5ths point, let your
imagination do the rest and you'll finish with a superior product.

Stuart


>
> >
> > The movie _Freejack_, where there's a sound of a hammer being cocked.
Pan
> > the camera around: Emilio Estevez is holding a gun on someone.
> >
> > Problem: the gun is a Glock 17.
> >
> > No hammer.
>
> Unfortunately, there's always errors with firearms in movies. The
> "hammered" Glock is one I always say, "Oh come on!" to, either out loud
> or to myself.
> I do remember a movie where the lead character was holding a SIG pistol,
> and said it was a "forty-five." Granted, it could have been a SIG 220,
> but when he went on about how the safety worked, I cringed. (You'd think
> Steven Seagal Sensei would *know* a bit more about guns, since he's been
> known to carry. BTW, the movie was Under Siege 2.)
>
> Oh well... Can't have a perfect representation of firearms in movies...
> always have to go for the dramatic license and effect...
>
> -- tengu
>
>
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> make him mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they
> first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and
> Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's much more
> interesting and it doesn't take as long.
> -- Terry Pratchett, "Soul Music"
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