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I'm actually looking for two things: good magazines I haven't found, and good magazines to submit science fiction stories to. I also want to know where I can find your favorite magazines; I've been getting them at the Barnes&Noble in town, but they sell out quickly. Once all they had was three copies of F&SF, and I found it to be excellent. Another time I found five titles, but I haven't seen Asimov's there, and I always liked that one.
Analog was excellent as well, as they've always been. The British Interzone was very well designed, with excellent layout and large amounts of excellent artwork, but I didn't like any of the writing. It just didn't suit my taste.
I have yet to find any decent online mags, I'm sure you guys can supply me with that.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday November 18 2015, @01:02PM
Hey! I liked it too. It's cheesy but as a kid it was fun as hell to watch. The best part was the contraption build.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 18 2015, @02:18PM
For "kids these days" the A-Team was a 20 minute "junkyard wars" "scrapheap challenge" welding build bracketed by a 20 minute cheezy crime drama and a 20 minute ridiculous action flick. Being the 80s all guns including revolvers were fully automatic and had infinite magazine capacity and being prime time TV they fired at least 50K rounds per hit and usually no one got hit. Also being the 80s the tough guy (Mr T in this case) had ridiculous one liners. Kids these days would describe Mr T as primarily speaking in tweets, which at that time was not serious but it was funny.
I miss the concept of junkyard wars. It got too formulaic / scripted / pre-planned / planted toward the end, but in its prime, it was pretty cool. AFAIK last time I searched it was legal unobtanium due to the usual licensing BS although the illegal copies were available from the usual sources. I might do some nostalgia watching soon. My future wife bought me a junkyard wars analog clock, the numerals welded on in a decorative manner conceptually stolen a decade later by the mythbusters for their signs. I still have that clock, and that wife, oddly enough. So I was a fan of that show also. If you liked A team builds you'd like scrapheap challenge or junkyard wars.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 18 2015, @04:32PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:57PM
I'll be, I didn't even know there was an A-team remake movie. I checked. There really is one.
I got powned pretty hard w/ the 10/21/2015 back to the future stuff where I spent about half the day figuring nobody would talk about that crap movie unless there was a remake movie coming out so how about that. And there wasn't a remake, people really were just responding to a "blah" teen movie from decades ago.
(Score: 2) by jbWolf on Monday November 23 2015, @09:47AM
For better and worse, it's different from the original. Personally, I liked the movie. It is more violent (people die, but mostly so off screen and it ties into the crime; BA has to confront morals about killing people) and not as much junk yard builds. Lots of references to the old series and (with the exceptions of what I just mentioned) seemed to honor the spirit. Cheesy? Check. Crime drama? Check. Funny? Check. Ridiculous action flick? Triple Check! (Suspend your disbelief before starting the movie. You'll enjoy it more.)
Watch for cameos by Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict. If you don't see them in the movie (different versions of the movie floating around), make sure to look at the deleted scenes. They'll be there. They are hilarious.
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