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BILLK wrote:<br>
"Reminds me of the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets<br>
(2017) Director: Luc Besson<br>
I enjoyed the spectacle and want to see it again. Too much to take in<br>
with one viewing!"
</div><div><br></div><div>If there was ever a film that suffered from bad casting, and a lack of chemistry between the two leads, it was Valerian! I had such high hopes for it, especially because of my deep love for The Fifth Element. But I found it to be a titanic disappointment, though the opening sequence was fantastic...</div><div><br></div><div>There is an anime based on Valerian which is actually pretty good.<br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 8:25 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 12:21, John Grigg via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What do you think?<br>
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> "So what’s “the metaverse,” anyway? The term was coined in 1992 when Neal Stephenson published his hit sci-fi novel Snow Crash, in which the protagonist moves between a virtual world and the real world fighting a computer virus. In the context of Epic Games’ announcement, the metaverse will be not just a virtual world, but the virtual world—a digitized version of life where anyone can exist as an avatar or digital human and interact with others. It will be active even when people aren’t logged into it, and would link all previously-existing virtual worlds, like an internet for virtual reality.<br>
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> <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/04/14/epic-games-raised-1-billion-to-fund-its-vision-for-building-the-metaverse/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2021/04/14/epic-games-raised-1-billion-to-fund-its-vision-for-building-the-metaverse/</a><br>
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Reminds me of the film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets<br>
(2017) Director: Luc Besson<br>
I enjoyed the spectacle and want to see it again. Too much to take in<br>
with one viewing!<br>
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Quote from Roger Ebert review -<br>
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” is an utter delight and<br>
one of the most gorgeous fantasies to hit the screen in recent<br>
memory—the kind of film that can take moviegoers logy from the usual<br>
array of craptaculars and render them giddy with its pure fun. The<br>
question, of course, is whether viewers will be willing to give its<br>
weirdo charms a chance. But if you want to come away from a film<br>
feeling dazzled instead of simply dazed, this is an absolute must.<br>
Besides, it is almost certainly going to become a cult favorite in a<br>
few years, so why not get in on the ground floor while you can?<br>
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BillK<br>
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