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#72240
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Tribute to motti's drinking, partying, friends and persona
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72240/action/topic#72240
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Motti...

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with drunken sex you could wake up with a partially-sex-changed north korean sailor named Koesha, in a fishing boat at the sea of Japan, dressed in a schoogirl uniform, with a used condom in your mouth.


This is your idea of reality and you wanna pull me back into it?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

*Bossk goes running for the hills.
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#72236
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In Memoriam: jimbo September 2003 - October 2004
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72236/action/topic#72236
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I'll admit that I got t'd off by his intolerance. I still have trouble believing that such intolerance still exists. And then people like Jimbo remind me of it. However I will miss the devil's advocate stance he took. Once in a while, he did hit on a nugget of useful pondering that would make you think. De vez en cuando...

Jay, you did the right thing. Better to be more harmonious than allow the ire build up to a virtual overflow.
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#72233
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Deals to take advantage of...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72233/action/topic#72233
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Here's a thread that I thought would be fun. If you find a great discount deal in a store or whatnot that you think others would want to take part in, post the information here. Don't use this thread to post your own items you are trying to get rid of. This is strictly for those killer deals through actual retailers. Bargain bin finds at places like Wal-Mart are a great thing to list here.

On that note, for anyone who is a fan of westerns, you can get a killer deal on the 2 disc special edition of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly thanks to Target. But it's this week only. For those not in the know, there are two DVD versions of GBU, the original 1 disc (to be henceforth referred to as "GBU-O") and the 2 disc SE that came out last year in an off-white box (to be referred to as "GBU-SE"). Target's sale ad for this week lists GBU as being a $7.50 bargain. They were intending to sell off their GBU-Os real cheap and then carry nothing but the GBU-SE. However, their promotions department used the cover image from the GBU-SE instead. Any Target you go to now has nothing but the GBU-O (and it's marked as being the $7.50 special). Neither of the two Targets I've been to have had the GBU-SE on the shelf or even had shelf tags out for it. They either sold out of the SE real quick or, more likely, pulled them from the shelf. They can say they sold out of them and wait until next Sunday to put them back out as Target has a no raincheck on sale items policy. They screwed the pooch on this one. So, my suggestion is to go to Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Circuit City with your Target ad and grab one of their copies and take advantage of their price match policies. I had no problem doing this last night at CC. I got a US$20 set for US$7.99 (after tax). I can definitely handle that. You might have to fudge a little if they ask you why you are coming to their store instead of just going to Target (most price-match policies require that the competing store where the sale is actually have the product in stock). So don't say Target is out of the movie. That wouldn't work. Lie and say you were shopping at another store in that same strip and you are too lazy to drive to Target. Or make them feel good and say you'd prefer to give your hard-earned cash to a quality store like Circuit City (Best Buy, Wal-Mart *hack*, etc.). They never questioned me about it, but they might ask you so you need to be ready.

Anybody else found any good deals?
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#72228
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The Next Superman
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72228/action/topic#72228
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Here we go...

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Superman Flies with No-Name?

The studio isn't commenting; a movie news Website is--and it says it has the scoop on Brandon Routh.

Um, who's Brandon Routh...?

According to LatinoReview.com, Routh is the ex-Undressed man who's been tapped by director Bryan Singer to don cape and tights in the upcoming Superman movie.

Routh previously donned the Superman emblem, if not the cape and tights, last Halloween. This, also according to LatinoReview.com, which has the party picture to prove it.

On Monday, Warner Bros., the studio behind the Superman franchise, didn't deny the report. It didn't confirm it, either. Officially, it had "no comment."

The fan site Superman-V.com previously reported that Routh screen-tested for the part back when Charlie's Angels director McG was calling the shots. In August, it said Routh had been called back in by Singer, who came aboard after McG packed in his halo in July.

By Superman-V.com's count, Routh was one of six actors put in front of the camera by the Man of Steel-scouting McG. He was neither the biggest name of the bunch (that honor would go to Roswell's Jason Behr (news)), nor the smallest (if nothing else, Routh's just as unknown as one Mike Vogel).

Oddly, after reputedly nixing onetime Superman director Brett Ratner's leading-man choice (Matthew Bomer) as too obscure, Warners has fixated on no-names to help restore its superhero series.

Routh's credits would seem to make him a perfect fit for the job. He's worked--an episode of Will & Grace last January, a bit on the Gilmore Girls three years ago, a 2001-02 stint on ABC soap One Life to Live, the aforementioned Undressed gig--he's just not famous.

The Iowa native turned 25 on Oct. 9. As LatinoReview.com pointed out, that's the same day Christopher Reeve, the last big-screen Superman, suffered the coma-inducing cardiac arrest that led to his death the next day at the age of 52.

On his Website, Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles speculates Warners is holding off on news of Routh's casting out of respect for Reeve and his unexpected death.

The Singer-directed Superman flick is slated for a summer 2006 release. Presumably, someone will have been officially cast by then.
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#72092
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72092/action/topic#72092
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It's kinda cool to look at the rankings now. We've got another new person in the top 10.

Top 10 User Listing
11477 Bossk
10398 motti_soL
5311 GundarkHunter
4656 Shimraa
4563 PSYCHO_DAYV
3806 Luke Skywalker
2074 jimbo
1734 sean wookie
1486 Rebel Scumb
1445 ricarleite

Congrats, Ric!

Warbler, you've almost made it. And it shouldn't be a problem. Scumb hasn't been around in months and Jimbo apparently ain't moving any higher in the list.
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#72087
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UPCOMING DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72087/action/topic#72087
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I'd say more than one studio, since Catwoman is Warner, Collateral is Dreamworks/Paramount and I, Robot is Fox (I still think it would've been fun if Fox had cast Ewan McGregor in the Will Smith role and changed the title to 'Aye, Robot").


No, wait, lemme guess, the badguy robots would look like a bunch of cybernetic Jack Sparrows?
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#72060
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OT.com appearing in GQ Magazine in September
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72060/action/topic#72060
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I agree with you on many of your points there, Rattlehead. I agree that many of Smith's movies are mismarketed. Chasing Amy wasn't meant to be blatant comedy. I've spoken with Kevin and he said so (he came to my University some years ago for a Q&A soon after CA came out). Mallrats is truer in spirit to Clerks, but to expect Chasing Amy to be that way, too, is to deny a filmmaker the right to evolve. And that's what CA is, KS's coming to terms with his life and mistakes he has made in his past. It was an apology of sorts that was completely mishandled by Miramax brass in terms of marketing. If they had given it a chance and tried to market it as a bit more of a dramedy, then the pubklic would have been a bit more well prepared when Jersey Girl came along and was completely disparate from all of his previous works.

Yes, Dogma was a bit preachy. But it was a voice that hadn't really been heard before. How many times in the past have you heard a filmmaker say that denominations and belief systems have ruined religion? Never. And it needed to be said. Unfortunately, it was heard in the form of a comedy, but it still got word out albeit to a much smaller audience than a Ben Hur or a Passion of the Christ.

All filmmakers have an agenda. It's something we've just gotta live with. Even Clerks and Mallrats had agendas (to expose the hell of working in retail hell and shopping in retail hell, respectively). I've learned to deal with it. That's all you can do. Either take it with a grain of salt (my preferred method of attack especially with documentarians) or avoid the film altogether.
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#71391
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Dude, where's the General Lee?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71391/action/topic#71391
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Well, it's seemingly official...

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Reynolds in Hogg Heaven with 'Dukes of Hazzard' Film

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson are in final negotiations to join Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson (news) in the big-screen version of "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Reynolds, most recently in theaters with the hit comedy "Without a Paddle," would play the evil Boss Hogg, a role played in the original 1979-1985 CBS show by the late Sorrell Booke.

Nelson would play Uncle Jesse, stepping in the shoes of the late Denver Pyle. Knoxville and Scott will play his good ol' boy nephews, Luke and Bo Duke, respectively, with Simpson on board as their sexy cousin, Daisy Duke.

Jay Chandrasekhar is directing the Warner Bros. project.

Reynolds' upcoming film include "The Longest Yard," "Cloud Nine" and "Instant Karma." Nelson, better known as a country music legend, has appeared in such films as "Wag the Dog" and "Red-Headed Stranger."


I do think that Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse is a damn cool idea. Kinda thin. But who best to identify with as a southern yokel scrub?
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#71383
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OT.com appearing in GQ Magazine in September
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71383/action/topic#71383
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I know this isn't GQ, but if anyone read the most recent Entertainment Weekly (Desperate Housewives on the cover; Motti, get your mind out of the gutter, it's a TV show), the letters section has two people writing in saying they prefer the original versions of the movies and the third letter says the guy is on the fence about which version he prefers but is just happy to have them on DVD. All in all, I'd consider it three victories (okay, maybe two and a half) for our cause in a large-circulation magazine. I want to shake these peoples' hands. No mention of our site, though. That would have been very cool.
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#71309
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Beautiful Women
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71309/action/topic#71309
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Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been around for a week. Been slammed at work. This is the first time I've been on the boards since last Thursday or Friday.

Thanks for the anniversary wishes! I'm assuming you saw it on my site, Dayv? It's three years now. Six years, this December, that Katie and I have been together. So, even though you were off, Gundark, you were still on. So to speak. I think... aye aye aye. I'm confusing myself. What else is new?

Dayv, I've actually done that, too. When I find loose CDs or DVDs sitting around, curiosity gets the better of me as well. You just can't help but wonder what other people are up to and see if it could benefit you at all. I actually found an 8MB PS2 memory card out on the street yesterday. I'm gonna throw it in my console and see what's on it sometime soon. It's kinda beat up, so I'm not banking on it working, but if it does, that's 8 free MB of storage. I also found a memory stick one time. Never was able to access the stuff on it until I got a Sony digital camera. Just some family photos. I now use it as a backup card.