cjtremlett made this post this morning about "Favorite Moments in SciFi". I kept expanding my list mentally after I'd replied, so here it is
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Random belated comment, as I work on reading past entries on my flist...
Star Trek - Kirk and Picard on horseback, specifically Kirk's side pass
LOL! We watched that last night, and sajuka actually commented on it, wondering how easy it was for a horse to do that. I had to explain that any well-trained horse could do it easily. (My mom's barrel racer could, the stupid palimino I rode could barely back-up.)
Am I correct in thinking those horses were Shatner's? I remember reading or hearing that somewhere. (Sajuka also commented that Picard would be in trouble, since it would be impossible to find an English saddle anywhere in Iowa. I laughed at the poor guy and then explained that Kirk had just mounted an English saddle. Again, I assume, because Shatner rides English.)
Yep, horses can do it easily, they just have to be trained to respond to the cues. I occasionally ride my friend's Gypsy Vanner mare and she's trained to respond to mere shifts in weight. Unfortunately I don't have that much finesse and I'll send her off in various directions without meaning to.
I'm pretty sure that the horses were Shatner's, plus the farm and house too. I didn't think the movie itself was very good overall, but that little bit added to the Neatness factor. I love how Shatner incorporates the horse into his body language: riding in a circle around Picard like he's pacing around a room. The side pass is part and parcel of that, besides being a cool move that you don't generally see horses make onscreen.
My guess is that Shatner rides English, though I really couldn't say. The obvious answer is that it's more accepted to ride English when jumping, and the jump is a key plot point. :)
Yeah, Mom's barrel racer Dollar knew more cues than I did as well. I got thrown by accident once when I lifted my hand off his neck and then put it back on his neck, which I hadn't even realized I'd done. Apparently that's the cue to spin around the barrel. Dollar took off going the opposite direction, while I continued the way we had been going.
Since we went to Star Trek: The Experience in Vegas last week, and Sajuka has the box set of Next Gen movies (essentially 7-9), and we were dead tired after the parade last night, we put Generations in. (We haven't actually seen the most recent, and I like this one because it gets me better acquainted with the Next Gen crew, so I figured we might as well watch them in order.)
And yeah, jumping with a pommel... not a good idea! :)
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Crichton: "Tell them who their daddy is."
D'Argo: "I'm your daddy."
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Cowboy Bebop: "bang"
Back to the Future: lightning strikes the clock tower
Back to the Future: the repeated chase scene from the diner to town square
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Alien: the chest burster
Aliens: "Game over man! Game over..."
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Contact: Elly enters the wormhole
The Day the Earth Stood Still: the saucer opens
Dune: any time there's a sand-worm
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Firefly - the captain tightpants bit
Firefly - "I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you!"
I don't tend to count comic book movies like X-Men as SciFi - to me, they're their own genre, but that's just me.
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Star Trek - Kirk and Picard on horseback, specifically Kirk's side pass
LOL! We watched that last night, and sajuka actually commented on it, wondering how easy it was for a horse to do that. I had to explain that any well-trained horse could do it easily. (My mom's barrel racer could, the stupid palimino I rode could barely back-up.)
Am I correct in thinking those horses were Shatner's? I remember reading or hearing that somewhere. (Sajuka also commented that Picard would be in trouble, since it would be impossible to find an English saddle anywhere in Iowa. I laughed at the poor guy and then explained that Kirk had just mounted an English saddle. Again, I assume, because Shatner rides English.)
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I'm pretty sure that the horses were Shatner's, plus the farm and house too. I didn't think the movie itself was very good overall, but that little bit added to the Neatness factor. I love how Shatner incorporates the horse into his body language: riding in a circle around Picard like he's pacing around a room. The side pass is part and parcel of that, besides being a cool move that you don't generally see horses make onscreen.
My guess is that Shatner rides English, though I really couldn't say. The obvious answer is that it's more accepted to ride English when jumping, and the jump is a key plot point. :)
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Since we went to Star Trek: The Experience in Vegas last week, and Sajuka has the box set of Next Gen movies (essentially 7-9), and we were dead tired after the parade last night, we put Generations in. (We haven't actually seen the most recent, and I like this one because it gets me better acquainted with the Next Gen crew, so I figured we might as well watch them in order.)
And yeah, jumping with a pommel... not a good idea! :)
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