Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

In article <070520081819464348%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >  Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > ravenlynne <ravenlynne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Just once I wish a movie would end this way.  No writer wants all
the 
> > > > people dead though..except in that book Dead Rising where every
single 
> > > > person died. that was cool.
> > > 
> > > I think there are two reasons why this doesn't happen. One, happy
> > > endings make people walk out of the theater feeling good while
tragic
> > > endings make them walk out feeling down. Two, one aspect of sf in
> > > particular is that it is optimistic - every problem has a solution,
> > > every obstacle can be overcome - and encourages us to move ahead
> > > despite difficulties. 
> > > 
> > > OTOP, there are several Martian Chronicles that end "everyone dies."
> > > Also, histories like "Custer". And didn't Lucifer's Hammer end with
> > > everyone dead, or did they run to the mountains and survive?
> > 
> > ack, no.  Lucifer's Hammer ends with the survivors carving out 
> > civilization again.  The cannibals are defeated, the anti technology 
> > nutcases are defeated (although the wizard dies), the nuclear plant is

> > saved, and as an airplane from another pocket of civilization flies
over 
> > it, one of our heroes thinks "we still control the lightning"
> > 
> > And then another big hunk of space rice krispy begins it's long
journey 
> > towards the sun . . .
> 
> Man, I am thinking of a completely different movie. One that was based
> on the book, clearly not one with a space rice krispy. Could it have
> been Deep Impact or Asteroid?

Um

Lucifer's Hammer isn't a movie, it's a book.  A great book by Larry 
Niven.

It's been ripped off for several movies though, including those.

-- 
Star Trek 09:

No Shat, No Show.