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#284722
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Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284722/action/topic#284722
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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
I do think in this case that you don't know what the heck you're talking about, C3PX. Read more than one sentence of a person's post before responding. Also, keep in mind that Ferris lives in Texas, not Los Angeles. Racial tensions are higher in L.A. than almost anywhere else in the country. The L.A.P.D. has a long history of alleged racism and corruption, not the least of which was brought to light during the O.J. Simpson trial, which is the entire reason he was found not guilty.

I have read your whole post, and gave a brief glace at the article you posted, and I have to say that it tells me cops seem to be crazy psychos that do horrible things to people, just like Asians all take guns to school and shoot their class mates. And yes, let us keep in mind how very unprejudice the Southern part of the US is.

Ferris is very correct. Hollywood portraying cops like this is a very bad thing. I am sure he agrees that cops do bad things, it is just typically Hollywood for them to portray them that way. It would be a lot like them portraying Asians as psychos. Wouldn't be a good thing, even if one is a phycho from time to time. The fact is the VAST majority of cops are good people. What I really found ironic is that you tell a guy who deals with guys who stick their dicks inside the disembodied necks of little girls and say that he live in a candy coated fantasy land.

Let's clarify the candy coated fairlyland comment that ferris blindly made.

Originally posted by: ferris209
Crash,

Yeah, I saw that film, pretty good story telling, but extremely inaccurate as far as Law Enforcement goes. Pretty lame and ignorant, do you really think a cop could even think about feeling up a woman on duty and actually get away with it? Number one, I would never consider it, and two, let's not forget about the continued persecution of cops we have come to accept. I mean, can you think of any other job where your every word, movement, and decision will be videotaped, recorded, and documented and then second guessed for years to come? I have been around cops my whole life, and I have yet to hear a single one point race out as a single factor in anything. It is extreme prejudice of the media against police and it is now believed to be fact. Terrible, terrible, assumptions.


Hmm, can't seem to find the part where he blindly says this sort of thing never happens...


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#284698
Topic
Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284698/action/topic#284698
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I love how you believe Hollywood over the guy who is actually a real cop. I have known a number of real cops. Ferris of all people here is the LAST person to live in a candy coated fantasy land. That dude has to deal with the grim reality of life on a fairly regular basis. The last thing he needs is someone online who thinks a ruddy movie is a representation of real life telling him he lives in a fantasy world. If what you said is true than that must be some piss awful tasing candy coating, and one dark and sickening fantasy.
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#284623
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"BRING BACK STAR WARS" Channel 4 UK documentary coming soon...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284623/action/topic#284623
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Ford has been very vocal about not being too fond of SW. I guess "pissed on" would be kind of a strong word. But any time he has been asked if he would play in another SW movie he doesn't hesitate to say no. He has also more than once mentioned that he wished they would have killed Han in Return of the Jedi, because he didn't want to be asked back to make a fourth film or the second trilogy. I believe once he even said he wished George would have killed the "son of a bitch" in reference to his character, but I don't remember clearly.
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#284490
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Star Wars Radio Drama - *update in 1st post* - completed review
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284490/action/topic#284490
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I have always intended to read the SW novelization. I have made several attempted and made it to various points before getting sidetracked and having to restart years later. It is actually really good (as far as I have read) it really feels like part of the "Big Galaxy" too. I really like when Luke asks Obi-Wan what a duck is, and Obi-Wan tells him. Most people point that line out as something funny with inserting a real world animal into this alien universe, but that line has a lot of relevance. Luke grew up on a desert planet where most of the indigenous wild life are reptilian (basing this on the Kryat (sp?) dragon and the Dewbacks and where there is no surface water to speak of (which would be a must for a duck). So it is makes perfect sense for him to wonder what it is. It also makes perfect sense they would have ducks in the SW universe, after all they have humans, why not ducks? Not everything has to be bizzare and alien.

Anchorhead, you probably would like those Han Solo books, they are 100% pre-ESB. I have them all (in their pre-ESB publication, lacking the name SW and all), I bet they are as easy to find as SOTME. Now I am wanting to dig out all my BU books and start reading.

Now pulling away from the topic again, corellian, if you do a search online for original Lord of the Rings artwork there is some really fantastic stuff. Alan Lee is my favorite. Anyway, maybe some of that artwork will help purge the movie imagery from you mind and help you to develop your own personal image of everything. I am at the moment eagerly awaiting Children of Hurin (a newly published work of Tolkien's) to come in the mail, I can't wait to read it. Don't worry about having seen the LOTR movies before reading the book. It does spoil a lot, but there are still plenty of surprises waiting for you. My absolute favorite bit of narrative from the whole work is the second to last chapter of the six book. I pick up my leather bound copy and read just that chapter alone sometimes. If you really thought the Appendices to LOTR were amazing, I bet you would really enjoy the Silmarillion or perhaps even some of the collections of fragmented bigs of manuscripts that have been published as The History of Middle Earth in 12 volumes.

Uh, now back to our regularly scheduled topic...

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#284444
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CSPAN Watchers?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284444/action/topic#284444
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Yeah, I watch it from time to time too. It is laughable at times.

People are too lazy to find out the facts for themselves even when they have endless possibilities to do so. It is just a lot easier to read another man's abridgment than to read the real novel and find out what the author really wrote. Actually, screw the abridgment! Cliffs note's work fine. Or better yet, save some money on cliff's notes and read somebody's blog about instead. That is about the way it works these days, we do it to literature, we do it to news.
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#284395
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Star Wars Radio Drama - *update in 1st post* - completed review
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284395/action/topic#284395
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Yeah, I don't have XM radio either, but it is fairly easy to find a decent amount of any of those online in MP3 format with minimal searching through google. It would be nice to just turn on the radio and hear them though. corellian, are you enjoying LOTRs? First time you have read it? Tolkien is truly an amazing writer. I really like his minor works too, of which Leaf by Niggle is my favorite. The radio adaption for LOTR is on equal grounds with the SW adaption in my opinion. Gollum's voice is a bit too much though, but other than that it is great. A lot better adaption than the recent films. I forget how many episodes it is, but it is also in thirty minute segments. If you do decide to give it a go, becareful because there are two different radio adaptions of it, the BBCs being the good one, and other one (by NPR I think) is unbelievably horrible. Sounds like it was recorder by a bunch of eight year olds. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which actually started off as a radio show and was later adapted to a novel rather than the other way around as is commonly believed) is my third most listened to radio series right next to the BBC's Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
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#284393
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Jar-Jar fate...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284393/action/topic#284393
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
how do you eat that thing without looking like you're playing a vigorous game of dirty, dirty tonsil hockey with Jar-Jar Binks?!


The answer is simple: You don't. As a result there were many kids walking around making out with miniture Jar Jar heads back in 1999. If you pull on that little knob on the back he retracts his tongue and closes his mouth, you push it in and he opens his mouth and sticks out is tongue. It was so wrong on so many levels. Had to have been about the worst marketing idea in the history of movies.
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#284388
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Colony Collapse - Why are the bees dying and what is the impact?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284388/action/topic#284388
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"but you'll have a lot more to worry about than EMP if there's a nuclear detonation in the atmosphere. You'll be dealing with fallout and a massive loss of life as well."

I know the scenarios quite well. The initial loss of life really wont be all that much compared to what would be to come. Depending on the distance from the detonation, the fallout wont be an immediate problem either (at least for a few hours), their will be plenty of time to take shelter, though unfortunately there are no shelters unless you are a member of your local nuclear survivors group (they are everywhere, but they try not to make themselves too publically known) or you bothered to construct one yourself. Good news about it is, that when and if this does happen, we wont really be worrying too much about the bees anymore. Not for a while anyway.
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#284330
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Get high with Vader
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284330/action/topic#284330
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This thread is too good to fall off the front page just yet.

*In a Darth Vader modulated hippy voice*
"Hey man...don't hate it when you like... turn to the darkside to keep your wife from dying... then... you like... choke her to death and stuff... it totally blows man... "

"Yeah... so I was talking to my son the other day and he was like "Yo, dad, there's still good in you." And I was all like, "Pfft, no way little man, you don't know what you're talkin about" and he was like all "No way dad, you're still good inside, I know it." And I was all like "Wait, wait, let me get this straight, you have a sister? You have a twin sister and you're mom like never told me?" then Palps man was all like "Now you're gonna die little Skywalker dude!" and I was like "Pyah! We'll see about that!" and he was all like "AHHHHHH" and I was all like "oOOOH" then he was like "AHaAaAaAaAaA" and I was like "Gaaaah" It was pretty far out..."
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#284329
Topic
"BRING BACK STAR WARS" Channel 4 UK documentary coming soon...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284329/action/topic#284329
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Have any of the other actors pissed on Star Wars other than Ford? Mark Hamill has always been real good with SW fans, even produced some of the comics I think. I have no idea how Carrie Fisher feels about it, but she did do the commentary for the 04 DVDs. Ford is the only one I know of who cringes everytime he hears those two words used together in the same sentence. I think Lucas went through a phase were he was saying that out of all the work he has done the only thing people ever ask him about is Star Wars and he seemd annoyed about that. Oh, and Sir Alec Guiness would be another who was annoyed at that, but he was big long before SW, so IMHO he had every right to piss on it if he felt like it.