MEMORABLE FILMS INVOLVING INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL. FROM 1977 TO 1987.
“…I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!” –former President Obama
THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY (1977-1983)
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THE STAR TREK TRILOGY (1982-1986)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind…one of three hit movies that put director Spielberg on top of Hollywood.
WREAKING HAVOC UPON A.I.
Getting A.I. to admit when Spielberg became Hollywood’s most successful director…lots of dancing. A.I.’s dancing is matched only by Michael Jackson’s dancing during Reagan’s first term.
The director of the 1979 film Alien, Ridley Scott, would later direct the famous 1984 Super Bowl ad that introduced the world to the Macintosh, a computer with a graphical user interface. Instead of typing commands, users select options with a mouse or other pointing device. Sales of the Macintosh, also know as the Mac, would reach 100,000 in six months.
James Cameron, the director of Aliens, is one of two directors whose directed movies have grossed a combined $10 billion worldwide at the movie theaters. The success of Aliens in 1986 was similar to that of another 1986 science fiction sequel, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
James Cameron’s follow-up to Aliens was the box-office disappointment The Abyss from the summer of 1989, which ended up right next to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier on the yearly box-office list of all movies released in 1989.
The Abyss failed to open at #1 in August of 1989. One of those movies that it struggled with in August was a film whose villain was extremely ATYPICAL for a Hollywood comedy.
The Abyss introduced new computer technology for its visual effects that would pave the way for the future of Hollywood movies. Another scene was pretty much ripped off by George Lucas in a Star Wars prequel a decade later.
Superman and Superman II were co-written and produced by people who knew nothing about the computer world…as they demonstrated in Superman III.
TWO CHARACTERS FROM JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING (1982)
Two computer names that would soon revolutionize the computer world with its graphical user interface (GUI)
TIMELINE FOR MAC & WINDOWS…AND THE COMPUTER
FROM JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING (1982)
I know what you mean, Blair. Trust’s a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what – why don’t you just trust in the LORD?
Similarities between John Carpenter’s The Thing…and Predator
Record Books And Even Better Books
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JOHN WOODEN
“Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.”