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Post: #308811
Topic: Indiana Jones IV
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308811/action/topic#308811
Time: 1-Feb-2008 11:29 AM

No!!!!! My worst nightmares are coming true!!!!! Once the Batman and Superman Mr. Potatoheads come out all my favorite childhood characters will be potatoheads! I feel silly for having ever bought that Darth Tater, it was only $6 and seemed like a neat little novelty item at the time... little did I know...

I am sick of everything becoming everything else these days. It was cool when Lord of the Rings Risk came out, nice to have a new map and all, but now we have Star Wars Risk and Transformers Risk, and many more Risks I don't want to know about. Monopoly is even worse. It just cheapens all these things. It cheapens Star Wars, it cheapens Monopoly, it cheapens Legos, and yes... it even cheapens Mr. Potatohead. All these once great products are becoming extremely lame by merging themselves together.

It was cool when they bred a lion with a tiger and made a baby liger. But now we are to the point of taking the genes of everything and artificially merging them into everything else and coming up with some really creepy ass mutants, which is what we see when we walk down the aisles of a Toy's R Us or the toy section of Wal-Mart. It really is quite horrifying.

I remembered back when Lego ripped off Indiana Jones and Star Wars by making their own generic "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" sets, but now they all have the real thing. Can't even buy cool lego sets like I got when I was a kid with knights or pirates. Now they are all Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. There even used to be a ripped off Back to the Future lego series, now I am just bracing myself for the day when they manage to get into the pants of the real series and produce the ugly offspring of a licensed BTTF lego series. When everything is Licensed like this do kids get to use their imagination like we use to?

Ack, forget it. Thus is the state of the over marketing Empire we live in these days, might as well just stop complaining about it. So, anyone up for a game of Indian Jones Risk? I get to be the Nazis! You can be the one man army of the guy in the Fedora.

Post: #308802
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308802/action/topic#308802
Time: 1-Feb-2008 9:53 AM

Yeah, having not caught season one - three certianly isn't going to help understand anything. The recap is FAR from sufficient. Had you seen the others you would have understood everything that went on last night. Also having started this late in the game really ruins the first episodes.

"this show might not be so bad after all"

What gave you the impression it wasn't a good show? It has been fantastic from the beginning, it has only been in season three that it has started to grow a bit weak. Season two are some of the best television episodes in history IMHO. But that all depends on what you are into, I fo rone hate sitcom and haven't watch TV regularly since way back in the days of X-Files. Lost is the show that gave me something to look forward to on TV every week, but yeah, the last season wasn't near as good as season one or two. Anyway, if you enjoyed last nights episode (which like I said, wasn't that incredible of an episode) I really think you would like the rest of the show. Best way to see it is to borrow the DVDs off of a friend, if you don't have a friend with the DVDs the second best way to see them is on ABC.com. They currently have every episode from the pilot up to last nights in high quality (seriously, the quality is great) streaming video with limited 30 second commercials. But you have to have decent internet for this. Anyway, I highly recommend it. But in the meantime, yeah, Hurley's episode was in the future. Every episode up until the finale of last season takes place in the past. Last season's finale introduced us to the future, we still don't know how they get off, or what exactly happens, only that as Hurley told us that only six of them get off the island, but as the season unfold we will learn more and more. Hurley (on the island) was not imagining the things in the future, he doesn't know about them because they have not happend yet.

Seriously, watch the show, it is one of the few shows worth wasting your time on.

Post: #308774
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308774/action/topic#308774
Time: 1-Feb-2008 12:13 AM

Well, tonight was the night. Did anybody else watch this? It wasn't the most exciting episode, but it did a good job setting up the story for season 4. It certianly didn't top the openers of seasons 2 or 3. Well, one down, seven more to go. Next weeks episode is titled "Confirmed Dead".

Sorta SPOILER below---------------

One of the dumbest things about this episode was where Naomi turns up missing and is bleeding all over the place. Locke just nailed her in the back with a knife and nobody bothers to check her pulse, just assuming she was dead. For some reason she doesn't catch onto to the fact that it was a renegade that tried to kill her, and so she decides she has to escape from them for her own safety and cover her tracks so they can't follow her. So she manages to walk a good ways splirting blood onto every leaf and tree, then double back and walk another long ways, then manages to climb a tree when she hears Kate coming, and still has the strength to tackle her. Only then, after having left her on the ground to die without even taking the time to check her pulse as they all celebrate the fact that they are going to be saved, does Kate offer to help patch up her wounds. Then Naomi talks on the phone for a couple of minutes and promptly dies. Getting kind of tired of this new trend of people conveniently coming back to life. Makes me feel like Echo, Boone, Anna Lucia, or Libby are going to come running out of the woods at any moment and catch up on old times.

Oh well, it is only the first episode so far. Maybe Naomi and Mikhail will stay dead these times around and the story will progress.

Post: #308773
Topic: Bond 22: Quantum of Solace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308773/action/topic#308773
Time: 31-Jan-2008 11:54 PM

Originally posted by: Mike O
Weird-ass title, if you ask me.

Fleming didn't exactly write high art though; he was basically a pulp writer, and some of the "flights of fancy" were pretty fun (The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldeneye).

What is weird about the title? I am wondering if it is coming under such criticism because people don't know what those words mean, or because they are words that see relatively little regular use. I like that they are both very powerful words that seem to get very little use in common speech, it is very poetic title too.

As for Fleming's flight's of fancy, "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Goldeneye"... you do realize Fleming did not write Goldeneye, right?

Post: #308692
Topic: Optimus Maximus keyboard.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308692/action/topic#308692
Time: 31-Jan-2008 11:56 AM

Wow! For $1500 that thing better be spill proof. Keyboards are not like computer screens, keyboards wear out, fill up with dust, keys break, things get spilt on them, and so on. A keyboard like this seems like it would be even more delicate. What if a key burns out? Now you have a key without a label. It is really cool, but it isn't all that practical for regular use. How often do you actually look at your keyboard? It would be very useful for foreign characters though, but too expensive to be practical. If the technology takes off and gets cheaper as time goes on, then these could be excellent. But I feel anything over $100 bucks is WAY too much for a keyboard.

Post: #308688
Topic: Love me...love my Star Wars obsession?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308688/action/topic#308688
Time: 31-Jan-2008 11:40 AM

Arnie, I just tried the link, it works fine for me. It has a short commercial or ad at the beginning that you have to wait to finish before it will show you the video. Is that maybe what you were seeing?

Post: #308658
Topic: Peter Jackson evidently IS returning for The Hobbit...sort of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308658/action/topic#308658
Time: 31-Jan-2008 1:20 AM

Yeah, as much as I like Raimi, I am not so sure I would want to see him do the Hobbit. Though I am sure the Bruce Campbell cameo would be pretty amusing, and Lucy Lawless would make a great... huh, I can't think of a single female character in that book. It has been a while since I have read it, but I would almost hazard to say that there are not any.

Post: #308657
Topic: Scientology is going down.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308657/action/topic#308657
Time: 31-Jan-2008 1:06 AM

What?? They've got to Smith now too?? They are brainwashing hollywood!!

Post: #308600
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308600/action/topic#308600
Time: 30-Jan-2008 3:00 PM

Starwolf is a lot easier to make. All they have to do is change the colors on Fox's model and add an eye patch.

Post: #308550
Topic: Bond 22: Quantum of Solace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308550/action/topic#308550
Time: 29-Jan-2008 9:17 PM

Did you like Casino Royale?

Post: #308545
Topic: Info Wanted: Whats the overall view on the best fan edits ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308545/action/topic#308545
Time: 29-Jan-2008 8:50 PM

Originally posted by: boba feta
Why should the running time have any bearing on whether the edit is good or not? ADM reinserted several deleted scenes back into his edits.

Right, but ADM's things are extended editions of movies that were already half way decent to begin with. He isn't trying to improve the movies he adds scenes into, he just likes making alternative extended cuts. I understand what Mojo is saying, if it is a movie as crappy as AotC or ROtS no small amount of editing is going to add up to anything. I myself wouldn't put a specific time limit on it, but he is pretty much right. You have got to remove enough of the bad stuff to make it worth while, otherwise what you leave in there will still be enough to kill the film. Though some movies like 300, though not a very intelligent movie to begin with, I think gained a lot by removing (as I did in my personal edit of the film) some of the overly silly "comic book elements" (that ironically were not even in the 300 graphic novel to begin with) which add up to little more than five minutes of screen time. Again, 300 isn't that great of a film to begin with so it is not the best example for short edits benefiting movies, but I am sure it is not the only case. I am sure there are several movies where a couple of dumb moments bring them down considerably.

Post: #308542
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308542/action/topic#308542
Time: 29-Jan-2008 8:35 PM

No, since it was unplugged you should be fine. Just don't plug it in until it dries out. If you plug it in while still wet you'll fry it, but as long as it doesn't have any juice running through it she should be just fine. I'd let it dry out for a few days before plugging it in to test it, just to be on the safe side. If you were very attatched to it that might seem like a long wait to find if it still works or not, but the longer you wait the safer you'll be.

Post: #308534
Topic: Peter Jackson evidently IS returning for The Hobbit...sort of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308534/action/topic#308534
Time: 29-Jan-2008 7:35 PM

Ha! Good point.
I had never actually heard of Jackson or known of any of his work before Lord of the Rings, but I must admit (and this is from a guy who often criticises the films and Jackson's take on them) that he and his crew did a good job on capturing the right feeling of ME.

I guess there are some director's that get pigeon-holed into their unique style of directing. Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet are pretty good examples of this. When you see a film buy one of these guys and not know it is directed by them, but yet know their other stuff, you could almost look at it and guess that they were the director. This would be harder to do with something directed by Spielberg, who still has his own unique style but it is more mainstream and not as immediately recongnizable. Del Toro strikes me as more of a Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Jeunet sort of director. I have only seem a couple of his films, but they have a kind of unique Del Toro-esque thing going on in them. I would hate to see somebody do to The Hobbit what Jean Pierre did to Alien 4, he added his uniqie style to it, and I like his style, but it just worked better for films like "Delicatessen" and "La Cite des Enfants Perdus" than it did for Alien. I like Del Toro's style, but I don't want The Hobbit to come out looking like "El Espinazo del Diablo", "El Laberinto del Fauno", or "Hellboy".

Post: #308528
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308528/action/topic#308528
Time: 29-Jan-2008 7:03 PM

That would have been cool for Ridley to have been a playable fighter. Too bad that is not the case. Wouldn't have worked to well anyway, considering he is a winged alien who is suppose to be able to fly and he is rather large. Geno would have been really cool also, but he is pretty obscure, and I suppose plenty of other Nintendo characters deserve their turn first. Would have liked to have seen a playable Koopa Trooper in there, I think those guys deserve more credit than they get. He was always my favorite playable character on the VB's Virtual Tennis.

Post: #308527
Topic: Bond 22: Quantum of Solace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308527/action/topic#308527
Time: 29-Jan-2008 6:58 PM

Attack of the Clones was a crappy movie regardless of the title. That whole movie was a mess from its title onward, but its title was not the reason for its suckiness, just the beginning of it.

I like the title Quantum of Solace. It is a fitting title considering the plot of the film and all Bond has been through up to that point.

Post: #308479
Topic: Peter Jackson evidently IS returning for The Hobbit...sort of...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308479/action/topic#308479
Time: 29-Jan-2008 11:16 AM

That would be extremely... weird. Directors tend to bring a lot of their style with them and Del Toro's just doesn't seem Middle-Earthish.

Post: #308443
Topic: (SPOILER) new "STAR TREK" 2009 spoiler thread (SPOILER)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308443/action/topic#308443
Time: 29-Jan-2008 1:47 AM

Sorry to interupt the current flow of conversation, but these are definitely worth posting.

G4 Star Trek 2.0 advertisement

Another G4 ST 2.0 ad

Post: #308365
Topic: My Name is Bruce
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308365/action/topic#308365
Time: 28-Jan-2008 12:43 PM

Yeah, I know a thread for this movie already exists, but due to the controversial title of Sean's original "My Name is Bruce" thread, I decided it was best to make a new one rather than to revive the old. Just saw the trailer for this, and now I am not as excited about it as I was. I was hoping for something more along the lines of Evil Dead, but this is definitely more along the lines Bubba Hotep (which I didn't really care for).

My Name is Bruce Trailer

Post: #308299
Topic: (SPOILER) new "STAR TREK" 2009 spoiler thread (SPOILER)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308299/action/topic#308299
Time: 27-Jan-2008 10:53 PM

I could be 100% off on the reboot idea. I have wasted pretty much no time at all reading about this movie. I thought I had heard that it would be a reboot, and it would make sense for it to be a reboot. I mean, we have Simon Pegg playing the role of Montgomery Scott, not sure how compatible that is with the original series. But I probably was mistaken about the reboot thing. I guess it is a straight up prequel.

EDIT:

Just looked it up and it seems Abrams, Lindeloff and co. prefer the term "re-vitalization", which sound suspiciously like a politically correct way of saying "reboot" so as to not stir up the droves of dedicated Trekkies out there.

Post: #308296
Topic: Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308296/action/topic#308296
Time: 27-Jan-2008 10:41 PM

Imagine if Spielberg had made E.T. and then a sequel to E.T., then another sequel, then a trilogy of E.T. prequels that deal with E.T.'s dad and the birth of E.T. and how E.T. ended up coimg to visit earth and so on, then imagine Spielberg complaining about all these other movies he had wanted to make, yet was forced to do nothing but E.T. all his life. Nope, I can't imagine it either.

Post: #308292
Topic: Scientology is going down.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308292/action/topic#308292
Time: 27-Jan-2008 10:31 PM

Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Well, if you put it like that it sounds like a criminal organization.

No religion should have to resort to things like this, Operation Snow White or this, Operation Freakout in order to keep themselves credible.

Post: #308289
Topic: (SPOILER) new "STAR TREK" 2009 spoiler thread (SPOILER)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308289/action/topic#308289
Time: 27-Jan-2008 9:53 PM

I agree with Zombie about Star Trek having to place to go but up. The series has really been drug through the dirt, even if this one stinks it can't be any worse than if they had continued the TNG era movies. At first I didn't like the idea of other actors playing the parts of the original TOS crew, and the idea of it being a prequel seemed even worse. But I have liked J. J.s stuff in the past, I think his style mixed with ST might be really interesting. As for the difference in the Enterprise design, I don't think that is such a bad thing. I like the old series as much as the next guy, but it is a pretty old series, I would have never expected them to render of 3D model of the old Enterprise and call it good. There are already plenty of continuity problems between the various Treks, making the ship a little more up to modern standards is pretty minor all in all. This is suppose to be more of a reboot than a prequel isn't it? Over the last few years everybody has been rebooting everything, and most of the time it is a huge success. Look at what it did for Batman and James Bond. Sometimes you can only take something so far before there is nowhere else to go. We have had five television series, six if you count the animated series, and ten movies. That is a lot of hours of Star Trek. If they want to keep milking this poor old cow the best they can do is take its DNA, make a clone of it, and start the process all over again. Whether Roddenberry would have approved of it or not, it is probably the best decision as far as ticket sales and potential sequels are concerned.

Post: #308242
Topic: Bond 22: Quantum of Solace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308242/action/topic#308242
Time: 27-Jan-2008 3:28 PM

Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
As fun as it would be to see them do some more book adaptations (even if they are remakes) I do like finally having a real James Bond sequel.

But the books were real sequels to one another. Live and Let Die follows Casino Royale, it refers back to events that took place in Casino Royale, it is a true sequel to Casino Royale. The movies are much more disconnected from one another than the books are. That is not to say that you can't pick up any James Bond book and enjoy it on its own without having read the book before it.

Post: #308206
Topic: Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308206/action/topic#308206
Time: 26-Jan-2008 9:29 PM

Bob, do you even have a DVD burner? That is step one. Chances are your burner came with a program such as Nero. Open Nero or whatever DVD burning program you use, select "Make DVD Movie" or something to that extent, then browse to the folder where you downloaded the Primitive Screwhead edition of Evil Dead 3 and select it. A DVD-5 is is a single layer DVD, a DVD-9 is a duel layer. If you bought a cheap spindle of blank DVDs then you have single layers.

Mumbles, I am not sure if Ridgeshark ever intended to release a duel layer version of this. Anyway, with the amount of editing Ridge did on this thing it most definitely required re-encoding. I suppose he just re-encoded it to fit on a DVD-5. I know that is considered a little small these days, but it suits the majority of us just fine. I think the quality on the thing looks as good as any of the official DVD releases I have seen.

Post: #308177
Topic: The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308177/action/topic#308177
Time: 26-Jan-2008 3:05 PM

Originally posted by: Trooperman
I would tend to think that the duel should be left unscored. I would really have to see the scene in context to know for sure, though. And what I've seen so far of Ady's edit has left me speechless, so there's no reason for me to think that this scene was a major problem.

I agree with you completely about the duel being left unscored. But I can appreciate what Ady was trying to do, and I think he did what he was trying to do quite well. You really do have to see it to understand what is going on. He sped up the seen and made it a faster fight and he added some of the music from the Anakin - Obi-Wan battle at the end of ROTS. In this way it reflects back to their previous fight with each other. In its faster state being left scoreless wouldn't have the same effect the original version of the scene had. You can't really describe Ady's edit as anything but a blantant SE with some changes just for the sake of changing. What we have now is a more modern version of SW that better matches the PT. And what is wrong with that? As I said before, I was excited about the 1997 SE when it first came out. I really enjoyed them, but I saw them as alternative version and didn't realize they would be replacing the versions I had loved for so long. Ady's edit is an SE we can enjoy, a fun alternative version of the film. Ady's version is not threatening the existence of any of the other versions. We are not being told this is the only one that exists anymore.