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#175326
Topic
spider-man 3
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/175326/action/topic#175326
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Schumaker needs to get back to his roots. I'm hoping for a sequel to D.C. Cab myself.

Meanwhile, killing off MJ would disservice the story. I kid about wanting that a lot because of my disdain for Kirsten Dunst ... or what she's become since the success of Spidey 1. All I have to say is she'd better show up with her game face on this time because she was the lone sour note in the otherwise pitch-perfect Spidey 2. And I'm not the only one who noticed.

Whenever any actor or actress gets too big for their britches, the Great Unwashed LOVES to see them get taken back down. Affleck. Halle Berry. Tom Cruise. Val Kilmer. All of these guys got their ego confused with their paycheck at some point. Kirsten's been teetering on that cliff herself.
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#174988
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9 Years Ago Today....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174988/action/topic#174988
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I remembered the commercials in '95 saying "... Then it's gone ... forever!" in regards to the final O-OT release on VHS. So I was prepared for the "new and improved" trilogy to replace the O-OT on store shelves.

I really looked forward to the SE, and enjoyed them a lot. But each film introduced something so stupid that I was already re-editing them in my head. In ANH, it was Greedo shooting first. In ESB it was Luke's wussy scream and the landing on the Executor. In ROTJ is was that awful, awful, awful Jedi Rocks.

I was blown away that only one of these was removed for the 2004 DVD, and that even worse changes were added in: Wussy Krayt, Boring Jango, and Unbearable Hayden and Cringeworthy Jar Jar. Wesa "F#$%^ed"

Fortunately that DVD release led me to this site, where I patienly await the X0 project's completion.
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#174750
Topic
and how was your day?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174750/action/topic#174750
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I spent some of my day crunching numbers.

Duke
Private University
undergrads: 6,107
Graduate enrollment: 4,805
Percent applicants admitted: 23%
98% of enrolled students had h.s. GPA of 3.0 and higher
National academic ranking for graduate study: 7

UNC
Public University
undergrads: 16,278
Graduate enrollment: 8,175
Percent applicants admitted: 37%
National academic ranking for graduate study: 17

Who was it who sucks again, Sess?

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#173660
Topic
Lucas and CGI in the Prequels
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/173660/action/topic#173660
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People all hailed Jurassic Park for all of its incredible CG, but the very first shot was so fake looking to me, that my questioning of CG began then and there.

I've said before that I think ships and landscapes do quite well in CG, but organic "living" things never get pulled off believably. Be they Brachiosauruses, Gungans, Gollums, Wargs, or 25-foot Gorillas. They look real only up to a point, and then they just look fake after that. The human brain is amazingly adept at picking out what has crossed that barrier.

I'm amazed at how good the T-1000 looks 15 years later, but he was liquid metal .... adhering to very specific physical properties that a computer could handle. We constantly push CG beyond its limits and it breaks the fourth wall every time.