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She reveals that one thing she and Soong couldn't possibly have anticipated was that Data didn't mind being naked, although some of the colonists certainly did as he is anatomically correct. The Soongs asked him to dress, but he didn't feel it was necessary as he didn't "suffer from the elements." With a laugh, Juliana concludes that they had to resort to writing a modesty subroutine just so Data would keep his clothes on.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I saw that film in the theater and I have to say I remember absolutely nothing about it. I do remember it reminded me of the Welsh comedy, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven't. Thanks. I admit, I haven't seen a huge number of Irish films, looking at a list of Wikipedia films. I've seen some of the big ones like The Commitments, My Left Foot and Michael Collins, but that's about it.

Edit: Oh wait, that's the selkie film. I have seen it.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The Secret of Roan Inish is a top five movie for me. Mick Lally doing traditional Irish storytelling is truly amazing.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure if you saw my edit, but I actually have seen it. It's just been a very long time. Again, I don't remember a lot about it. I'm going to have to watch these films again.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh cool! It came out in the 90s, so hardly anyone has seen it. I've yet to meet anyone who has. It's such a beautiful film all around.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I worked a part-time job as a projectionist at an art house/indie/foreign film theater for a while in the 90s, and I was a regular patron before that, so I saw a lot of smaller movies in that era.

It's funny because I've seen hardly any new movies since my daughter was born. Too hard to go to the theater for years and I just sort of fell out of the habit of watching them.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was a projectionist at a 12-plex in late high school through college!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nice. This was a small time operation. They didn't even have a permanent theater location. We moved 16mm projectors between a nightclub which showed the films twice a week and a theater on campus which they did some sort of deal I knew nothing about in order to show films there. And there was a separate theater on campus that also showed movies, so that was extra weird.

We usually had two projectors and had to wait until the reel ended on one, started the other ASAP, rewound the reel on the first one and then put the third reel (or did this process more than that if it was a longer film) on the first projector.

The nice thing for me was that the nightclub often did standup after the movie and I would stick around and hang out with the host who, also ran the sound board, became friendly with the comedians and eventually became the host myself, which got me into standup comedy and that got me a decent career doing comedy writing and other comedy-related things in L.A., so it all worked out pretty well.

On the other hand, it almost landed me in the hospital once when they decided to have a special outdoor showing of Rocky Horror at one of the dorms on their lawn and it was a particularly humid day and I saw all the moisture building up slowly around the projector as it got darker and darker out until the lamp blew up and the fireball narrowly missed me.

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