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#299723
Topic
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299723/action/topic#299723
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It's out today and there's nary a word of it on IndianaJones.com. Has Lucas really turned into this much of a marketing dipshit. The O-OT quality fiasco was pretty bad, but not hyping your (supposedly quality) release on your own web site is about as fucking stupid as anything they've done. Millions of people hitting the official site to find out about this new movie suddenly learn there's a whole boxed set of movies they've probably never seen and might want to check out ... but instead we have tired-ass video updates from the set of Indy IV.

I can't be the only one who was more excited about the YIJ DVDs than I am about the upcoming Clone Wars animated series.
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#299655
Topic
Movies you watch during the Halloween season
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299655/action/topic#299655
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The 93 minute silent one ... that's what I have.

In addition to all the stuff I listed earlier, I've got some stuff in my rental queue that I'll be watching in good time:

The Invisible Man Returns (introducing the then-unknown Vincent Price)
Revenge of the Creature (I wish the 3-D version was available)
The Creature Walks Among Us
Son of Dracula
House of Dracula
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat
The Raven
White Zombie
The Corpse Vanishes
Scared to Death
Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein (especially for Lugosi's triumphant return to the role he originated ... see a pattern?)
The Golem (silent - The Simpons spoofed this one last year)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (silent)
The Man Who Laughs (silent - featuring the character upon whom The Joker was modeled)
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#299654
Topic
CNN: God's Warriors
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299654/action/topic#299654
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Umm, I'm an active Christian. All I did was post an image of Ted Haggard and suddenly I'm bashing the millions (actually there are billions) of Christians around the world? You're jumping to a conclusion there. I'm bashing hypocrites because, as the first post in the forum says "I was shocked by some of the fanatics who use and abuse religion for power and political goals and want to force their religious shit on others."

I agree that the Bible is not hypocritical, even if it is contradictory at times. But those contradictions do make it easier for hypocrites to seize upon it for their own purposes. Just sayin' ...
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#299601
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299601/action/topic#299601
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For the record, Colbert is a re-affirmed Catholic who teaches Sunday School at his church in Jersey. So while his tongue may be firmly planted in his cheek when he spoofs these neocon talking heads like O'Reilly, he's not doing it to prop up the notions of the Godless Hollywood Elite but rather to bust on the whole cult of personality that is ruining the television news media.
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#299561
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299561/action/topic#299561
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The states are doing a shitty job with health care too. My "red" state restricts what policies you can buy based on geography. If I want better health care I need to move. Even five miles north into a different county would open up better options for me. And the more and more health care saps out of my self-employed pocket (already past $10k this year and still bleeding), the more moving looks like a viable option.
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#298688
Topic
Movies you watch during the Halloween season
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298688/action/topic#298688
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Am I the only one here who commits to the old Universal Pictures horror classics with Lugosi, Karloff, Chaney, Rains, etc.? I just kicked off the Holiday Season with Dracula (1931) last night. I have a special folio where all my Halloween-themed DVDs are kept, and they only see the light of day during October. Here's what's in my collection:

Corpse Bride, The
Creature From the Black Lagoon, The
Crow, The
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1932, 1941)
Dracula (1931, 1977, 1992)
Frankenstein (1931, 1994)
Frankenstein, Bride of (& other sequels)
Halloween I & II
Halloween is Grinch Night
Ichabod & Mr. Toad
Invisible Man, The (1933)
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
King Kong (1933), Son of Kong
Mummy, The (1932)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Nosferatu (1922)
Old Dark House, The
Phantom of the Opera (1925, 1943)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror (1-7, 12, increasing every time a new season is released)
Werewolf of London, The
Wolf Man, The
Young Frankenstein

I'm surprised that a few of those more modern flicks haven't gotten a mention before now.

I also have some "See Also" films that are very Halloween-friendly that aren't in my October-only collection:
Batman, Batman Forever (Returns is in my Christmas "See Also" cross-reference)
Beetlejuice
E.T.
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Ghostbusters
Hannibal Lecter movies
Harry Potter movies
King Kong (2005)
Practical Magic
Psycho
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Goonies
The Mummy (1999)
The Shining
Willy Wonka
Wizard of Oz

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of Tim Burton stuff on the list.
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#298350
Topic
Bionic Woman 2007
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298350/action/topic#298350
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I think the only really great comedies to come out in recent years were Arrested Development, Earl and Psych. I think it is interesting that all three ditch the laugh track and let you get the jokes on your own. Not to mention they're all incredibly "smart" comedies, and Earl cleverly disguises it by having all the characters (except Darnell) dumb as shit.

The Office and Scrubs in particular never gelled with me. The sitcom is, in a word, dead. Two and Half Men? Give me a break, CBS, that forced claptrap would have been bad back in the day, it's no better now.

I'm finding better fare on FX and USA than HBO these days. Now that Big Love is on hiatus I'm going to drop HBO for a while. FX meanwhile gives really deep character dramas like The Shield and Rescue Me, while USA's Burn Notice was the best Action/Comedy since Magnum P.I. I'm still giving props to Jericho though ... y'all HAVE to watch that show before the new season starts.
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#298259
Topic
Bionic Woman 2007
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298259/action/topic#298259
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That's right. It's another pointless "re-envisioning" because there are too many channels and not enough creative ideas.

Can you imagine if there were still only four networks including PBS and all the good shows were on with all the crap relegated to the dustbin of history? We'd never have a reason to get off the couch and take a walk.
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#298179
Topic
ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298179/action/topic#298179
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Go with PCM, and then use that file as a reference for re-creating a 5.1 file in Vegas. MPEG audio is pretty nasty.

You shouldn't be using this process to do a GOUT/PCM transfer though. Instead: Go here and here. Womble is really designed to edit streams without the need to recompress. If you're re-synching the GOUT to the LD PCM, you should use different methods. I've done this recently myself.
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#298176
Topic
Prequelize the OT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298176/action/topic#298176
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I normally eschew cross-posting, but this one merits it, and I'm embellishing what I put in the other thread in the interest of originality ...

Imagine the completed scene with Luke, Biggs and Red Leader, with Red Leader being a youngling who escaped Anakin's wrath:
Biggs: "Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot in the outer rim."
Red Leader: "Skywalker? I knew your father when I was a boy. Real asshole. Killed all my classmates. Good pilot though ... If you're half the man he was ... well, come to think of it, HE is half the man he was. I'll explain after we blow up the Death Star and kill Vader. Meanwhile, don't worry. You'll do well."

Or maybe Red Leader had nothing to do with the Jedi OR the Old Republic. Maybe he was that red-headed kid on Tatooine:
Biggs: "Sir, Luke is the best bush pilot in the outer rim."
Red Leader: "Skywalker? I knew your father when I was a boy. Punk-ass kid weaseled out of slavery piloting a Pod stolen from his own owner. Left all the rest of us and his own mom on that sweltering sand pit while he went off to be a Jedi. Don't worry. You'll do well. Now, let's go play ball."
Luke: Wait, you're from Tatooine too?
Red Leader: Uh, yeah. We're all from Tatooine ... mostly.
Luke: And he went with Obi-Wan when he was only a kid?
Red Leader: Who the heck is Obi-Wan? He went off with some mullethead Jedi named Qui-Gon who conned his slaveowner.
Luke: I'm so confused.
C-3PO: Hey, that's my line.