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#87880
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Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87880/action/topic#87880
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I know there are pro-Bush and anti-Bush people here and I realize this joke is quite anti-Bush, but it was too funny to not post. If you don't get it, don't bother saying anything. Just move on...

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?
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#87885
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Who has caved?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87885/action/topic#87885
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The official LFL DVD set has been available now for just about four months and I'm curious who has them. I'm also curious who said they wouldn't get them and wound up caving in.

Three options here, pick one...

1. You're still holding strong and you do not own them

2. You purchased them for yourself (if so, when did you get them in relation to their release date... right after they came out or later on?)

3. They were purchased for you as a gift

Personally, I stand at #1. Haven't even considered them. Haven't rented them or borrowed them from friends. Still happily watching my LD>DVD transfers.
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#87870
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Discussion: Meet the newest Lord of the Sith, Darth...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87870/action/topic#87870
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I'm of the opinion that this thing (Darth Tater) is gonna be a surprisingly big hit. It's received media coverage from at least two radio stations in Chicago and the local NBC affiliate morning news show. That's just here in Chicago. I can only imagine what others are saying. When was the last time a Star Wars toy warranted mass media coverage like this?
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#87864
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Sequels that should never be...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87864/action/topic#87864
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Ring 2 is still in preproduction or maybe it's moved on to the production phase. Either way, it's not available to watch yet.

I read the book The Ring and watched the U.S. version of the film. Sorry, both bored me to tears and I have no comprehension whatsoever as to why it was so popular. And even less comprehension about why they are making a sequel.

Yes, Problem Child 2 should never have been made. Arguably the same goes for the original.
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#87857
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Sin city
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87857/action/topic#87857
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Not with Sin City. Frank Miller was way overprotective with this property and never wanted to see it made into a movie. Rodriguez came along and made a short snippet of how he saw the film being done and presented it to Miller. Miller was so impressed that he worked with Rodriguez on the film and both are credited as codirectors of the finished project. If Miller was that protective and actually became a codirector, he's not going to let it become kiddiefied. If Hollywood said it was too violent to be put on the big screen, Miller would just can it and put it on a shelf rather than dumb his baby down for the Hollywood machine.

It will not be kiddified.
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#87790
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87790/action/topic#87790
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Sometimes, movies are very loosely based or adapted from previous films. They may not be a direct remake like Dawn of the Dead, but they are, in a sense, a remake.

The Magnificent Seven is based on Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

ANH is based on Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.

Last Man Standing and A Fistful of Dollars were based on Kurosawa's Yojimbo.

I was reading a review of the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 and the reviewer said that people cannot complain about this remake being made simply because it's not the first "remake" of the film. Carpenter himself remade his original AoP13 as Ghosts of Mars (with the location changed, of course) and that the original AoP13 was pretty much a remake of, I think he said, High Noon. Maybe it was a different spaghetti western, but I think that's what he said.

Reservoir Dogs was based on a Chinese film called City on Fire and also stole some scenes, pretty much frame for frame, from Kubrick's The Killing.
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#87800
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The Top Ten
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87800/action/topic#87800
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I find the newer, slower, acoustic version of Clapton's "Layla" to be far more depressing simply because it's so terrible by comparison to the original, faster version. I hate the acoustic version.

I would like to add Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" to the list. How can you not include a song the guy wrote as therapy for the death of his infant child?
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#87798
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Laptops
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87798/action/topic#87798
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
GOING FROM OS 9 TO OS X IS A HUGE STEP.


I know. I made the jump from 8.6 to 9.1. I was sweating through the entire process. 9.1 to 9.2 is no big thing. Just like X.1 to X.2 to X.3 is no big deal. It's just the jumps from 7 to 8, 8 to 9, or 9 to X that terrify me to no end. I've got a friend here at work that says he will clone my 9.2 HD so that if something goes wrong with the upgrade, we can just restore the previous settings.