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#256886
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Chronicles of Narnia (The movie) striking similarities with The Lord of the Rings (the movie)(s)
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Remember: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were the best of friends and colleagues at the time they wrote these seminal works. The similarities go back to the printed page.

Then remember that Weta Workshop and Weta Digital handled the designs for Narnia just as they did LOTR. Just as ILM and Sony have a style, so does Weta.

The similarities aren't accidental. But that doesn't mean Narnia is a rip off of LOTR either.
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#256735
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The Spider-Man 3 thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256735/action/topic#256735
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In Spidey 2 they wisely chose not to load up on villains, in an attempt not to fall into the same trap as Batman & Robin.

Seems they forgot that with Spidey 3. They could have squeezed three movies out of this one and properly developed each villain (especially Harry, who deserves to be the final baddie based on how the films' story arc has been constructed).

And still no Lizard? WTF??? This isn't news to me, but damn if they shouldn't have moved Dylan Baker to the next level in this film. They should have made Lizard in Part 3, started to work in Eddie Brock in part 3 only to have him become Venom at the end as a cliffhanger, have him be the main villain of part 4, have Harry find out about Peter at the end of Part 4 and have Part 5 as the final battle between these two.

Instead this looks terribly ham-fisted. It'll probably be fun, but not remotely intelligent like the first two tried to be.
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#256089
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ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256089/action/topic#256089
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Yes, in fact. There are several ways to do this, but what I would do is separate the MPEG's streams using DVD Lab Pro by dragging the MPEG into the Assets/Audio & Video Window. This will demux the file.

The end result will show you each of the streams, their file size, framerate, pulldown ratio, time and average bitrate.

DVD Lab Pro will also tell you your total bitrate for a movie with all the video and audio streams you've added so you can be sure not to exceeed the 9800 max. (It took me a long time to realize this, but now it's useful when I'm working with PCM tracks).
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#255938
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The personal hygiene thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255938/action/topic#255938
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Interstingly, the rise in chronic halitosis (bad breath) has less to do with personal hygene and more to do with a certain medical trend: specifically the removal of the tonsils. As recently as the Baby Boomer generation, doctors were yanking tonsils out right and left at the slightest inflammation. With the rise of hi-powered antibiotics that have made such surgery largely unnecessary, more people still have their tonsils. Thing is, behind the tonsils is a breeding ground for actinomyces, that white, solid, pus-looking crud everybody hacks up from time to time. It's perfectly safe, but it stinks to high-hell. For persons with small tonsils and large cavities (known as "crypts") behind them, this decrepid matter "colonizes" in a manner that causes chronic halitosis that, often times, is unknown to the actual person.

Solutions in dealing with it:
1) Having your tonsils removed.
2) Keeping the crypts cleaned out regularly with a water pick, a sterile swab, etc.
3) Regimens of antibiotics such as Clindamycin as necessary.

Department of Otolaryngology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Although actinomyces has been identified in between 1.77% and 37% of resected tonsils its possible role in recurrent acute tonsillitis has received little attention. A histological and bacteriological study of 129 pairs of tonsils from patients with recurrent acute tonsillitis showed actinomyces to be present in 29.5%. The organism, however, was also present in 40% of tonsils from 10 patients with no history of tonsillar disease. In neither of these groups was there any specific evidence of tissue reaction to actinomyces nor was there a male preponderance as in clinical actinomycosis. The presence of actinomyces in the tonsil was not favoured by the concurrence of beta-lactamase producing bacteria. These data indicate that actinomyces does not have a causal role in recurrent acute tonsillitis.

PMID: 8877183 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


This concludes my "way more information than you ever knew existed" entry of the month.
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#255635
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The personal hygiene thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255635/action/topic#255635
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I've known those who brush after lunch, but they're few and far between. I tried to get into the habit twice in my life, but failed both times. Once when I was in braces. That lasted a good long while as all the other middle-schoolers were told by their orthodontist to do it and the teachers were patient with the extra restroom time it took. Later in adulthood, but that only lasted a few weeks.

Americans are just funky that way. We'll spend thousands of dollars on dental care for the whitest, brightest, straightest smiles on the planet, and then not brush properly. We figure we can just cap, fill, and bleach our way back every time.
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#255219
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MOVED THREAD (Guy Fawkes Day)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/255219/action/topic#255219
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The totalitarian regime in the film is far closer to what happens in the average Muslim nation (just reversed with hypothetical 'Christian' radicals in power) than anything in the modern day west.
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Tyranny begins with the individual submitting to it.

Like when we turn a blind eye to the suspension of habeas corpus in the United States.

Nah, that would never happen in the West, only in those rogue Muslim nations.