"Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water" to Screen at Cannes

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'Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water' to Screen at Cannes Film Market,
May 12 - 23, 2004

DENVER, Colo., April 30 /PRNewswire/ - Producers of the entertaining documentary, "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water," revealed today that Actor Michael Dorn, recognized worldwide for his role as 'Worf' in the Star Trek film and television franchise, stars in the documentary film about Klingon language and culture. "Earthlings" will make its international debut at the Cannes Film Market, May 12 - 23 (booth 23.01, Palais des Festivals)....The entertaining documentary "Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water" captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a' (conference). Klingon is, of course, the warrior language invented by Linguist Marc Okrand for the Star Trek television show and movie franchise.

http://www.earthlings-movie.com/

[Khephra]

1. On a similar topic

Someone should do a documentary on the Gor fans too. They're just as interesting.

[AlienGirl]

Gor is interesting

But some of the tenets of the Gor subculture leave me a bit squicked. I'd never say YKINOK, but theirs is not my thing.

Tucker

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Seems like that might bog down...

in side-tangents about the Marquis de Sade and Pauline Reage's "Story of 'O'" pretty quick, though...Klingon linguists are fairly harmless geeks, like the people who study Tolkien's created languages. Gor freaks, on the other hand, are bent in ways that go beyond a mere resonance with a particular fiction and find echoes from the dead French authors I've mentioned to a certain bizarre Austrian by the name of Sacher-Masoch and well beyond.

[sfwriter]

2. I'm working on a documentary...

About TV Horror Show hosts!

www.americanscary.com

We've interviewed something like 30 of them!

[brainshrub]

4. There are 30?

I can't even name two.

Let's see...ummm ... El Vira?

[sfwriter]

7. Elvira....

Vampira (Plan 9, wasp waist....)
Zacherley
Commander USA
Ghoulardi
And on and on and on...

I found 268, I only interviewed 30.

[brainshrub]

3. I just checked out the website and saw the trailers.

I don't know if the movie will be any good, but the trailers suck. Boring as hell.

[sfwriter]

6. Yup...That's what I thought...

Check ours out...

[brainshrub]

9. Yes, much better.

I watched this one: Teaser Trailer 480x270 - 12Mb Quicktime

It was good... I definitely will go watch it. I think it runs a bit to long, but it's light-years ahead of the HWBOMW trailer.

[JackDragna]

8. In other news..

Schedule of Klingon Language Conference, Day 1

8:00 - 9:00 How to Explain to Your Parents why You Blew All your Cash On Going to a Conference for a Fake Language When You Still Owe $10,000 in Student Loans
9:00-10:30 Girlfriends: What Are They? How Do We Get Them? Theories on How to Impress Women With Klingon Language
10:30-11:30 Screaming and Fighting with Plastic Weapons
11:30-12:30 Lunch at Jack in The Box.
12:30-2:30 Wear Their Scorn as a Badge of Honor: Insulting Things to Say in Klingon to People Who Point and Laugh at You When You Go Out in Public in Your Costume
2:30-5:00 Costume Contest. Awards include Blackest Costume, Most Unkempt Hair and Squeakiest Leather.
5:00-7:00 Dinner, probably Domino's. In celebration of Klingon power, no vegetables will be allowed, nor concessions made for the lactose intolerant.
7:00-9:00 Keynote speaker Michael Dorn on Where Has My Career Gone?, followed by cocktail mixer. Arguing between dwarfish-looking men with nasal voices strongly encouraged.

[regnaD kciN]

10. My film got turned down for Cannes...

...and this thing got accepted???

:grr: