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Post: #298991
Topic: ignore this thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298991/action/topic#298991
Time: 14-Oct-2007 3:10 AM

Have fun Sluggo, enjoy the last day of your free life while you still can. You are about to enter into a life long imprisonment... your life will never be the same. Its fun though.

Post: #298989
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298989/action/topic#298989
Time: 14-Oct-2007 2:19 AM

Originally posted by: Scout trooper

Originally posted by: C3PX

Originally posted by: Scout trooper
SSM Brawl? that game is gay

Fifa 08 and Project Gotham Racing are now the best games you have to buy

ha ha you're probably a fat middle aged man in your thirties who spent money on a console and games aimed for kiddies, sad wanker.

Um, couldn't be more off. But while we are making lame pathetic minded assumptions, I bet you probably don't have too many friends on account of your obsessive "I'm fucking awsome and
think I know everything" attitude.

But, I am more realistic than that, and I know I couldn't possibly guess what you are really like in the real world, why even try? As for sad wankers, I find it to be some pretty sad wankering when someone has such a hard on for sports games and such an inflated view of his own opinions of what it good and what is not that he feels he is doing the world a favor by insulting them when they don't share his tastes.

As for playing childish games, I guess I don't see Metroid, Mario, Zelda, or Star Fox that childish. Sure, I have been playing those games since I was a child, so perhaps my interest in them is more on the nostalgic point. But I would say that they are all pretty timeless and ageless. I bet you couldn't beat either of two original Zelda games, the original Metroid or Star Fox. Mostly because I am pretty sure the NES/SNES days were before your time, and second all those games are pretty tough, especially Metroid and Zelda II. These are the games I grew up playing, so their modern successors are of interest to me for that reason. Even if I were over wieght and I were thirty, why would that make me a sad wanker? If I were skinny and thirty would it make it any better? Or if I were seventeen and over weight, would that be just as bad? The cool thing about Mario (and things like Super Smash Brothers), is that they are pretty ageless, anyone ought to be able to pick them up and enjoy them at any age. I am secure enough with my adulthood to pick up a Mario game and play it from time to time.

One of my favorite writers put it best when he said,
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C. S. Lewis

Post: #298922
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298922/action/topic#298922
Time: 12-Oct-2007 10:19 PM

Originally posted by: Scout trooper
SSM Brawl? that game is gay

Fifa 08 and Project Gotham Racing are now the best games you have to buy

Well, at least now we know Scout trooper isn't serious and that he has just been taking a piss on us this whole time. That was a pretty funny post. I almost craped myself laughing when I read that Fifa 08 and Project Gotham Racing were the best games around. So, Scout trooper, now that your out of the closet, what kind of games do you really like?

Oh, something I thought I would share, I finally buckled down and spent forty bucks on a used Gamecube and am rediscovering the world of Nintendo. I beat Star Fox Assult and was horribly disappointed at how short and easy it was, glad I just barrowed it instead of buying it. I bought Wind Waker and am likeing it a lot more then I ever thought I would, my only complaint is the weird freeze framing/slow motion thing it does when you are fighting an enemy. Really irritating. I bought Metroid Prime for 5 bucks, incredible game, I am amazed how well they translated that Metroid to 3D. Best five bucks I have spent in a long time. Also I ordered SSB Melee, it should come in the mail next week. Believe it or not, I have never played that game before, but I am an old veteran of the original Super Smash Bros. for the N64. I may not have a Wii, but since I have been out of the loop of all things Nintendo even sense the end of the 64 era all these things are all new to me. Funny though how I am just about to start experiencing Melee, while you all are anticipating the next in the series.

Post: #298845
Topic: "Lucas can't find home for Star Wars spin-off"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298845/action/topic#298845
Time: 11-Oct-2007 1:05 PM

Yeah Sean, they watched the pilot, said it wouldn't fly as is, then after they redid it they took it. But that is the point, they didn't like the pilot and so they said that they would take it with some changes, which was easy enough to do since only one episode had been made. With this silly SW cartoon thing, there are already 50 made, with another 50 being cooked up. That means rather than a "Let's see how this thing is and we'll go from there" sort of thing, it is a commitment to buy the entire 100 episode run. If you consider that most shows have about 24 episodes or so in a season, this is the equivelent to 4 whole seasons before it has even hit the airwaves.

So in the case of this show, it would have to be after the 100th episode before they could give them a second chance and make a new pilot with the cast we might all come to know and love.

Post: #298830
Topic: Anything? Anything At All? (that is remotely positive or good about the SE and PT?)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298830/action/topic#298830
Time: 11-Oct-2007 3:02 AM

Whoa! Maybe skyjedi's constant anti-Lucas rants are not his fault, perhaps that Luke avatar festers with Lucas hatred, seems like it is affecting Lan Hakari too

Post: #298829
Topic: Prequelize the OT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298829/action/topic#298829
Time: 11-Oct-2007 2:58 AM

hehe, jangotroopers! From this moment on I will never use the word stormtrooper again in context of the PT or the 2004 revisions.

Post: #298794
Topic: Deep Space Nine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298794/action/topic#298794
Time: 10-Oct-2007 2:22 PM

TOS was filmed in full screen, so there would have to be some tampering in order to make it widescreen. I would think this would also be the case with TNG, DS:9, and Voyager. It made sense to update the special effects of the original Star Trek (because they wanted to re air them in HD), but I am not sure I would see the point of doing the same to the others. I mean honestly, when is enough enough? Can we not accept that a show or movie is from a certian year and enjoy it as that? Things like special effects will ALWAYS be getting better, does that mean we have to constantly be upgrading them in every show and film? George Lucas has fallen into this trap. SW has already undergone two special effects revisions, and I daresay they won't be the last. The idea of a work art never being finished is a futile one, if that is the case how are we every to enjoy it? Might as well say, I'll check it out later, when it is finsihed and no longer a work in progress. Let it be done and enjoy it for what it is. This is Star Wars, a film from the late seventies, notice the model work and the special effects? They were top notch for the day...

Post: #298762
Topic: Deep Space Nine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298762/action/topic#298762
Time: 9-Oct-2007 6:55 PM

Originally posted by: HotRod
careful...Old TB has his spies all over the place.

I wouldn't put it past him. He is not the leader of the Orcs for nothing.

Post: #298722
Topic: Deep Space Nine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298722/action/topic#298722
Time: 9-Oct-2007 1:38 AM

One thing I found annoying about DS:9 were the Ferangi. I absolutely hate the Ferangi. Has to been the dumbest idea for an alien species anyone has every come up with ever. I cringe to watch them. They literally make me want to start removing my intestines with a fork. So yeah, I truely dislike Ferangi, and DS:9 has WAY more than its fair share of Ferangi dedicated episodes, not to mention a full time Ferangi cast member. So it is kind of hard to Ferangi dodge when it comes to DS:9, something that is far easier with every other incarnation of ST. Still, I am always told DS:9 is the absolute best, so I ought to start trying to watch them. Anyway, if you hear in the news about a guy violently ripping his own intestines out with a dinner fork, then it is safe to guess I finally decided to try to work my way throug DS:9 and just couldn't handel it.

Post: #298706
Topic: X-Wing Rocket Launch....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298706/action/topic#298706
Time: 8-Oct-2007 10:15 PM

At first I thought you were talking about one of those small model rockets you use to be able to buy at walmart for fifteen bucks, but now that I got bored enought to watch the video, that thing was huge!! Sad that it didn't make it back down safely. Looks like they put a lot of work into that, the fact that they went through the trouble of a parachute says that they expected it to last longer than it did. Sad it only got like ten seconds of flight time before breaking apart.

Post: #298699
Topic: Idea: ¨The Adventures of the Starkiller¨Radio drama-type production?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298699/action/topic#298699
Time: 8-Oct-2007 8:39 PM

It would require a good number of decent voice actors, all having some decent recording equipment or living in the same area. Recording something like that from multiple locations around the world would be tough. For a project like this, it would be preferable to have all the actors in a single location acting together. If anyone has ever heard a fan made radio drama, they are pretty much one of the most painful things you can inflict upon your ears. This is a cool idea, but it would take more than ambition, willingness, and equipment to carry it out, it would need some decent talent, otherwise it would just be a waste of time.

Post: #298698
Topic: What If The SE Were Only...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298698/action/topic#298698
Time: 8-Oct-2007 8:34 PM

Originally posted by: Sluggo
The Faces tapes and discs were marketed under the "One Last Time" campaign.

Yeah, but did any of us really take that seriousy back then? Back then it seemed more of a "the films are back in print, get them while you can before they disappear!" I even had a star wars novel display stand in my room (asked the bookstore if I could have it when they were done with it, since it was for trade paper backs it could nicely hold a large number of books ) that had the faces set Star Wars poster half Vader mask on it, with a pop up tie interceptor (yeah, made zero sense in the context of the SW poster in the back ground) that had the "One last time" slogan on it. For the few years that thing set in the corner of my room, I never once heeded that forboding warning of things to come.

Post: #298672
Topic: What If The SE Were Only...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298672/action/topic#298672
Time: 8-Oct-2007 1:17 PM

Hmm, was there really an indication back then that they were going to replace the originals? I was clueless to that foul plot. I figured they would be like most director's cuts and be available both ways.

Post: #298671
Topic: Movies you watch during the Halloween season
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298671/action/topic#298671
Time: 8-Oct-2007 1:07 PM

My Halloween favorites include the PT back to back. Unlike most scary movies where watch characters fear for their lives, the PT + the idea of having to watch all three in one setting literally makes me have to fear for my own life and sanity. A hell of a lot scarier than watchin Jason Vorhees hack campers to death.

And to shift back to seriousness,

Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness
The Last Man on Earth
Omega Man
Soylent Green

oh, and two others that are occasional fun this time of year, but definately not worthy of rewatching each year (in my mind at least)

Duel
Westworld

Post: #298665
Topic: Mr. McGregor hated SW?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298665/action/topic#298665
Time: 8-Oct-2007 10:52 AM

Mark is probably the worst example to use since the SW trilogy were about the only major motion pictures he has appeared it. It is his first major appearence so everyone is going to see him as Luke, and he didn't get any big roles after that to shake it.

Ewan had roles before, between, and after. The PT was a very forgettable set of movies (though they shall haunt me forever), so while people might say about Ewan, "Hey, its Obi-Wan!" I would be inclined to say that is due to the popularity of the old films, which every one already knows Obi-Wan Kenobi from, and the over hype of the PT. If the PT had been free standing movies without any OT to fall back on, just three films from an unknown director (like the originals were), there would not have been a sequel to the first one, and therefore not three of them for one, and having been close to ten years now since TPM came out, I am sure it would have been forgotten. It would probably be remembered mostly by fans of the actors who look up their filmographies, see some odd obscure children's sci-fi film, and go out searching high and low at video rental stores for it, pop it in the old VHS player, have a good laugh, and return it nodding their head, "Oh, Ewan/Natalie/Liam, how did you ever get so hard up to sign on for that dog of a film..."

Post: #298632
Topic: What If The SE Were Only...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298632/action/topic#298632
Time: 7-Oct-2007 4:42 PM

I saw all the SEs in the theaters when they came out, and I was excited about seeing each and everyone of them. I really liked them alot. Having been a fan of the old ones for so long, new extended footage and minor changes was a fun new way to experience the trilogy. As soon as they came on VHS I bought them. I had my faces set box set, and I have my SE set. They sat quite nicely together in the entertainment center. Now I generally hate the SE, and I cringe at the thought of it. Why? Because back then my faces box set and my SE set sat together quite nicely in the entertainment center. Now I have been told that I can only have the SEs take them or leave them. My VCR eventually died, and my old box sets were boxed away and placed in the basement, but there were no official DVDs anywhere to be seen, when there finally were they were exclusively the SE, eeerr, I mean, no they wern't, they were whole new versions all together, none of which I had ever seen before or had any fondness for. So why would I buy them?

I liked the SE. I really enjoyed them. It wasn't until I was told that the old films I grew up with "didn't exist anymore" that I started holding a grudge against them.

Post: #298508
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298508/action/topic#298508
Time: 5-Oct-2007 3:49 PM

Originally posted by: asterisk8
Incidentally, what's the deal with your sig? Are there really fan edit haters out there?

You have NO idea. All MeBe's sig quotes are true quotes. Most of these anti-fan edit guys are huge Lucas fans who love the PT with all their hearts (in other words, under the age of ten) and can't stand the fact that others feel the need to change them. They also tend to hate this project since they think the two disc sets from last year with the non-anamorphic unaltered trilogy as a special feature are down right amazing since they came from the deity of Lucas himself. It is kind of funny actually.

Post: #298488
Topic: No more Star Wars from Master Replicas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298488/action/topic#298488
Time: 5-Oct-2007 1:50 PM

"It just didn't seem to be the same kind of quality that my pistol was and wasn't as accurate as I thought it should be. "

Where is that quote from? What is this in reference too? What did I miss?

EDIT:
Oh, never mind. That was from the stormtrooper gun. Got it now. That is funny. If the thing fired at all, accuratge or not I would order one in the next second.

Post: #298467
Topic: No more Star Wars from Master Replicas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298467/action/topic#298467
Time: 5-Oct-2007 12:14 AM

I got it!!! The solution to the world's energy crisis! All we have to do is figure out a way to tap into skyjedi's impressive amount of hate aimed at George Lucas.

Post: #298464
Topic: Indecision2008 Name Your Canidate
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298464/action/topic#298464
Time: 5-Oct-2007 12:10 AM

Originally posted by: sean wookie
Gore should have been elected in 2000.

I shudder to think what that would have been like.

Anyway, had he been elected president he would not have had the chance to become an award winning director. That would have been truly ashame, what would the world be like without the film that is An Unconventional Truth.

I can just see after 9/11 Gore standing up and complaining about all the energy wasted in the rescue effort and cleanup up ground zero. He probably would have appealed to Bin Ladin in an effort to join together to prevent global warming, or demanded that he buy the United States enough carbon offsets in order offset all the dangerous carbon caused by exploding commercial airliners.

Post: #298455
Topic: "Lucas can't find home for Star Wars spin-off"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298455/action/topic#298455
Time: 4-Oct-2007 10:19 PM

Yeah, no kidding. Honestly the time for something like this would have definately been between episodes 2 and 3, instead of those stupid clone wars shorts. Imagine how excited people would have been about it then. Now everyone, even friends of mine who love the PT, seems to think this is going over board. If this would have been instead of the shorts more people might have enjoyed them. They would have been on at regular hours and therefore easier to watch than the CW shorts, and they would have quenched people's thirst during the wait for episode III. Instead of 'too little too late', I think a twisting of the term to 'too much too late' might be appropriate.

Post: #298453
Topic: Deep Space Nine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298453/action/topic#298453
Time: 4-Oct-2007 9:42 PM

Whoa, Ringo. You better be careful what you say about WoW, wouldn't want to incite another orc attack.

Post: #298441
Topic: No more Star Wars from Master Replicas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298441/action/topic#298441
Time: 4-Oct-2007 6:51 PM

Those are really cool. I really liked the 44 cal rep. blade runner gun. Though it was a little too shiny looking and the handel was a little too transparent. But the sabers looked perfect.

Post: #298420
Topic: Deep Space Nine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298420/action/topic#298420
Time: 4-Oct-2007 2:00 PM

The guy that works next to you is the WoW guy right? Sorry to hear he is constipated. I get that a lot. It really sucks. Especially dealing with it for almost an entire week! Has he tried something to free that up? Prune juice or something... anyway, tell him I said I hope he gets better soon. At least he has got a crap load (no pun intended, honestly) of TNG to watch now. I don't care what people say, that was still the best ST ever.

Post: #298356
Topic: Idea: Uncanny X-Men (X3 edit - * unfinished project*)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298356/action/topic#298356
Time: 3-Oct-2007 3:32 PM

Yeah, I know for sure that one of the X-Men games deals with what happened to Nightcrawler, it said so right on the back of the game box, but I don't remember what X-Men game it was. If it was Wolverines Revenge, or the one that came out around the time of the third movie, but I know for a fact that one of them deals with it, I am just not sure it what way it deals with it. How great would it be to have a line in there with Charles saying something as concise as "Well, Nightcrawler has left us to rejoin the circus. We'll miss him."