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#41642
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What's the name of EP3 gonna be?
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
only his head was CG thou, i thought they had an actual guy that played him.

He was rather Gollum-like in how he was created. He was acted out by a human, yes (Ahmed Best). But, his motions and physical presence were subbed out of the final product by a digital character. Much like how they created Gollum. Andy Serkis actually acted through most of the scenes, but he was wearing one of those digital suits like what Tiger Woods wears when they are making his Tiger Woods Golf game. It's a sort of body suit with those white bulbs on his joints that are tracked by computers so they can replicate his real movements digitally. So far as I know, Serkis actually wrestled with Elijah Wood and Sean Astin in the scenes where Frodo and Sam are wrestling with Gollum. It's not as though they wrestled with thin air in anticipation of where Gollum would be digitally inserted.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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#41487
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April Fools Pranks 2004
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/41487/action/topic#41487
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I had to share this AF prank with you guys and then offer you all the opportunity to share pranks you've either endured, borne witness to, or played on others.

WXRT-FM 93.1 in Chicago yesterday (4/1) announced that they were caving to FCC pressure and editing their music library. They were changing their slogan from "Chicago's Finest Rock" to "Chicago's Decent Rock" and that they were "taking the 'X' out of 'XRT'." This station plays it all from jazz and soul to alternative rock and R&B. They run the gamut and they are one of the few stations that does play this vast a library of music. So, yesterday, if they weren't introducing stuff like Jars of Clay, they were bleeping out questionable material within songs. And this wasn't just a couple hours that they were doing this. It was the whole 24 hours that constituted yesterday. They even changed their website to include a banner announcing that they were now Chicago's Decent Rock and that portions of the website that existed may no longer be accessible while they do a thorough revamping. They even have a movie reviewer called "The Regular Guy" who speaks with a Southside Chicago accent while doing movie reviews (think the Superfans from Saturday Night Live). He does his reviews on Tuesday and Thursday. Instead of doing a review yesterday, he announced his new ratings system which harkens back to his Catholic school days of using the A,B,Cs. A are okay movies with subcategories depending on content (A-A, A-B, A-C, etc.). B movies require you going to confession. C movies mean you're condemned to hell, no questions asked. Then he went in and started listing recent movies that he would rate C and why. Like Starsky & Hutch for scantily clad women, swearing, and drug use. Ridiculous stuff like this.

Obviously it was an April Fool's prank. But just that they kept it going for so long without any error. It was beautiful. And, as would be expected, some jackasses with no common sense, would call up and complain and they played a montage of complaint calls this morning.

I was dying. Most exhaustively planned and executed April Fool's prank I've ever seen (or, more to the point, heard) in my life.
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#41480
Topic
State Test
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/41480/action/topic#41480
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And don't forget that you need to pay for all damages incurred at the Mangler Lair (tm). That would include reupholstery and new carpet. Plus, I think a few of your bullets may have damaged the yet-to-be-built full-size video arcade. So we'll need payment for that to make repairs to equipment that theoretically would have been in that room.
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#41479
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New music.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/41479/action/topic#41479
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That's kinda funny because all the reviews I saw of Probot said it was surprisingly decent. I almost nabbed a copy of it used at a record store in St. Cloud, Minnesota, when I was there a month ago. But a guy we were with really, really wanted it and I already had 3 or 4 CDs in my hand that I was going to buy, so I gave it to him to purchase. He e-mailed and said it had its high points. Not spectacular, but not at all bad.

I'm still a bigger fan of the older Flaming Lips albums. Much the same way I am with Radiohead. I'll listen to their new stuff, but it just all sounds so different anymore. Plus, like my problem with Melissa E., local radio has killed FL's "Do You Realize?" I want to give Yoshimi another spin so I'm having my friend loan it to me.

Is anyone here a fan of Big Head Todd and the Monsters?
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#41374
Topic
DVDs of 2004?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/41374/action/topic#41374
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Californians are never happy no matter what compromise is (or is not) reached.

Grumpier Old Men is one of those that doesn't need to be in widescreen for me. It doesn't really add much to the film since the film is all dialogue and physical comedy. Scenery plays very little into it, or at least insofar as the need for more scenery would arise.