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That's like "Birth of a Nation" followed by "Intolerance".
bc, who wonders if the sequel sold as poorly as did Intolerance.
Mark Sylvester wrote:
Yes, but the author wrote a sequel in which the hero undoes his xenocide by
developing empathy for the aliens and reviving the almost lost race!
Mark
At 07:35 27/01/2005 -0800, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
Mmm,
"... alien race)." Training not only military, but political
indoctrination.
bc
Mark Sylvester wrote:
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card developed from an Analog short story
published in 1977, and has a similar theme (only the kids play games to
learn to destroy an alien race).
Mark
At 13:49 26/01/2005 -0500, Rick Tarara wrote:
Yes and one of the first films where all of the special effect were
computer
generated.
So BC--computer games are an alien conspiracy? Let's chalk up another one!
;-)
Rick
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Subject: Re: Political (Military). Was: Re: Computer Games (was Mac vs.
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Bernard wrote:
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Subject: Political (Military). Was: Re: Computer Games (was Mac vs. PC
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[snip]
p.s. A sci-fi. film's, a few decades ago, plot was an alien power
placed
games in small towns. The winners were abducted to pilot their
fighters. This was at a time the military had begun using games as
training.
I believe the film was "The Last Starfighter" -
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