On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Brendan Nelson wrote: >I propose this as the final solution to our collective obsessions: > >An ideal film would involve a scene were a main character is piloting a >helicopter and suddenly realises there is a slow-acting poison in his >bloodstream. Panicking, and losing perceptive powers rapidly, he scrabbles >desperately around the helicopter in vain for The Antidote, but in doing so >knocks the controls of the helicopter, causing it to bounce off of a nearby >cliff face. The helicopters controls catch fire in the resulting collision >(movie rule #1843 - all control panels on any mechanised vehicle must catch >fire instantly in event of a collision or other sizable mishap), and also >our hero catches fire. Flailing heroically but uselessly around the >helicopter, on fire, he then jumps out of it and, as it continues its >crippled descent to the ground and a big SFX bill, our hero, by now Poisoned >and Burning and being shot on the way down by some passing baddies, lands in >a vat of acid and explodes. He drags himself out the vat of acid -- >exploding burning and melting, the poison also killing him off, and still >being shot in the face and chest by several baddies -- and stays alive just >long enough to see the helicopter, filmed from an impressive array of camera >angles, spectacularly crash into a big neon-lit billboard as he breathes his >last. >Later on, someone who also subscribes to ABIB comes past, sees the mess, and >sheds a tear for his hideously mutilated and decidedly dead colleague (only >kidding!). Well, you missed the space theme - this would all have to be set on an Orbital, which has its atmospheric shields torn apart by the explosion, and the flailing body is sucked into the vacuum, the poison goes into the 'bloat' stage, and the writhing mass of flesh and icky bits explodes across the cosmos. -Kim Randell GCU In bullet-time, of course 2nd year Joint Maths and Computing, Imperial College ICQ #14838035 "In an ideal world I would cure poverty and go to the gym at least three times a week."