logo Sign In

Bossk

User Group
Members
Join date
10-Mar-2003
Last activity
13-Jan-2008
Posts
9,501

Post History

Post
#45559
Topic
Evil Empire...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45559/action/topic#45559
Time
I'm not touching the war debate again. Like I said, I argued it once before and I'm not doing it again.

But I would like to clarify about Enron. Not that they went bankrupt. It was corrupt accounting practices. Enron had hired Arthur Andersen to serve as their independent auditing firm. They also hired Andersen Consulting to work as their consulting firm. Alarms should have been ringing at this point, but they didn't care. AC wants only the best to happen for Enron as would be expected. The better Enron does, the better AC looks. So when some of AA's own accountants decided to look for new jobs, AC shipped them off to work for Enron exclusively. Now, AC and AA have some control of Enron's accounting staff. When a questionable accounting thing would happen, AC and AA would have pull to get their former employee to cover it up and it was accepted by the brass at Enron. They knew it was wrong, but it looked good on paper. Until a non-AA/AC accountant at Enron blew the whistle on the whole operation and turned them in to the SEC. Ironically enough, the woman who blew the proverbial whistle still works at Enron. She did nothing wrong in her job, technically, so they have no recourse to fire her. And she can't leave because nobody in their right mind would hire someone they know is willing to go to the SEC. So she's effectively stuck there. She's a pariah in her own office and has no friends but cannot afford to leave her job. As for AA and AC... Andersen Consulting no longer exists under that name. They branched off and formed their own company and were told by Arthur Andersen that they could not keep the Andersen name (this actually happened just before Enron was exposed). So they are now known as Accenture. And Arthur Andersen may as well not exist because they've consequently lost nearly 100% of their clients.
Post
#45557
Topic
Kill Bill on DVD
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45557/action/topic#45557
Time
I'm hoping he means the public in general because I've never purchased a second release of a movie. I've still got my original of Pulp Fiction, only the EEs of the LOTR films, the non-SE of A League of Their Own, and only the Criterion copy of Robocop. None of the other releases of these films. Not worth the extra investment. Some movies I won't buy the initial release of because I can tell by the lack of extras that it's just a "band aid" release. This was the case with Dogma which was released on DVD SE a year after the original release. I only purchased the SE. It's the reason I've held off on buying Batman as well.
Post
#45556
Topic
BaseBall talk
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45556/action/topic#45556
Time
Yes. It would seem that the vast majority of the Mangler Brothers, Inc., are in support of the Cubs. Sorry. But I'll pull for the Phils in every game they play except against the Cubs and Twins and Red Sox (will the Phils play the Twins or Bosox in interleague at all this season? Haven't checked the schedule).

So, on that note... GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and they're still sitting at 9-6 since their game against the Pirates was rained out yesterday.
Post
#45549
Topic
A new petition?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45549/action/topic#45549
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Han's Girlfriend
hey, i've heard Life of Brian is going to be rereleased in cinemas this year. is it true?

Thus far it is. Monty Python folks and some others are rereleasing it to counter The Passion of the Christ. Kinda their own little wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Post
#45548
Topic
How does Grand Moff Tarkin fit into Ep 3?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45548/action/topic#45548
Time
Here it is again.

The link was miscoded. This isn't the shot I was thinking of. The one I saw showed a much younger actor playing Tarkin. Or maybe what I saw was a shot of him out of makeup. Not sure.

Samatar, are you wondering who played Tarkin in ANH? If so, it's Peter Cushing and he is very well known as an actor from old 50s/60s/70s monster movies. Check his listing on IMDb. The guy has been in a ton of flicks.
Post
#45547
Topic
Discussion: does anyone has $1000 to spare?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45547/action/topic#45547
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Han's Girlfriend
what do you expect when its top poster is gone. how much time do you spend on this forum on average?

Don't ask. I'm a web designer so I'm online all day long and I get bored. Supposedly, I average 22.00 posts per day according to this site's news page. But I don't post on weekends so it's gotta be higher for those days when I do post. But when Motti, Dayv, Shimraa, and Gundark aren't here (the other four posters in the top five), I don't post as much because there's not as much to say and we all know each other so well that we just have entire conversations about nothing. God bless the Off Topic section.
Post
#45546
Topic
When Han Solo was Frozen in Carbinite How did he survive so long without Water ?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45546/action/topic#45546
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: DarkFeline
Thanks I was thinking it might be something about him being a sleep for so long or whatever but I wanted to hear others opinion first and I was not quite sure. I am wondering if Lando where there so long and even though he was dressed up how did Boba Fett not notice him and great a Bounty Hunter as he was and had all that time ? Surely Lando's voice must have seemed familar ? Maybe Luke was just so good at planning things by this time that he somehow knew how to tell Lando how to not get caught , plus the force must have been with them

As for Lando's voice, it's possible that there was a muffler or translator built into the mouthguard much like the one in Leia's Bousshh disguise.

As for cryogenic reanimation, I agree that they do not have a way to reanimate yet, but there must be something happening to keep a body nourished to keep the brain from dying entirely or the body from withering into nothing. Something more than just the ice, that is. I don't see how reanimation of a body could ever happen if a brain completely dies. I know cryogenic freezing usually happens to people that are "dead". But don't they keep the brain going for a while via machine? Maybe I just don't know my cryogenics. So maybe the people in the SW Universe do. I would still assume that carbon freezing is relatively equivalent to cryogenic freezing. Just that carbon dissolves into gas. Remember that when Han came out of the carbon freeze he was cold and shivering and undernourished. Sounds like the same sort of thing I would expect from someone emerging from cryo freeze.
Post
#45544
Topic
Plot holes in the SW saga
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45544/action/topic#45544
Time
He was protecting Luke from the truth. He knew that if he told Luke, then Luke would rush off and try to save Vader and bring him back to good when there really was no way to accomplish that.

IMHO, Obi Wan never lied to Luke. Just like he said, what he told Luke was the truth "from a certain point of view." By becoming this nearly 100% robotic evil shell of his former human self, Vader did effectively kill off Anakin. I don't see it as a lie.
Post
#45543
Topic
Last line of episode 3?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45543/action/topic#45543
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Samatar
There's nothing confusing about watching the Matrix trilogy; you just watch the first one three times and throw the others away...

I LIKE IT! (your idea, that is)

And I would probably go with Warbler's idea on presenting the SW films.

Quote
Originally posted by: Han's Girlfriend
hey, maybe we should get that machine from "eternal sunshine" to get the memories of SW wiped out to see how it feels like to wath them 'in order'........no, i take it back, it's not worth it...

Don't do this, HG. Just remember that the OT OV has yet to be released. Being deprogrammed of it, you'll have never had the pleasure of seeing it the "real" way.
Post
#45542
Topic
Out of town...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45542/action/topic#45542
Time
Okay Motti, who the hell are you talking about? I'm not Jimbo. Remember?

Sweyland, I love foreign films and have a ton in my Netflix queue waiting to be sent out. Our local video stores have a sorry collection. And I'm not going to buy them without watching them first. So, please send me reviews. I'll post them.