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#272020
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What the fuck??? : George is definitely gone "bye bye"
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Originally posted by: JediRandy
Again, I LOVE ESB.... no complaining here or anything like that....

but, if you were to show that flick to someone who has no idea what SW is... who has never seen the ANH... they'd be completly lost and going "Whaa?" every 2 minutes. Imagine the Wampa cave with no prior knowledge.... how the hell is he making that thing fly into his hand... then who is this ghost? You can go on and on...


There was this girl I was dated once who felt all science fiction was was silly fluff with no substance. One one of our dates we watched The Empire Strikes Back together. She had never seen a Star Wars film before and had never even heard of Star Wars other than from me. No knowledge of the Jedi, nothing. In fact, she was surprised when Luke lifts up his goggles and shows his face for the first time because *gasp* he was a human and not a robot. I don't know what the hell she was expecting the movie to be like, but she loved it. There was no "Whaaaaa?" every two minutes. She even let the force grabbing of the lightsaber pass by without a word. Later in the film Yoda explains the force to a very adequate degree. When the movie was over she could not believe how much she had enjoyed it and at our next date we watched Return of the Jedi, then later Star Wars. The reason I showed them to her out of order was that I knew that if she didn't like it she would only see one SW film in her life, and I wanted that to be Empire. No this girl is married to me and happily sit beside me and watching sci-fi with me all the time. It is still not her favorite, but Empire gave her a respect for it she never had and showed her it could have a lot more substance than she ever thought.

So your "Whaaaaaaaaaa?" every two minute argument is shot to hell. I agree Empire benefits greatly from watching Star Wars before hand, but I think it is a movie that can stand on its own, and that it does have a beginning middle and end in its own way. It does not resolve, that is true, but even if Jedi was never made the end of Empire Strike Back indicates hope, not despair. I don't think my wife was unique in being able to watch Empire Strikes Back before any of the others, the beauty of that film (not just as sci-fi, but as a film in general) way out weighs the confusions it might offer by being a sequel with no resolve.
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#272014
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Which game is better?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272014/action/topic#272014
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YES! BattleToads is a truly amazing game. It very well may be one of the greatest games ever made.

Brikhaus, this threat brought that Billy Madison scene into my mind immediately when I read the first post. I have to agree with Mr. Sandler on that one, Donkey Kong ranks right up there with BattleToads, not to mention that it is the very first game to introduce Mario.

Zig's obsession with his favorites is something very interesting to ponder. It seems he has that title for every category he can think up, I think psychologically he feels the need to keep the things he loves close to him, and the best way he can think to do that is in absolutes. By having an absolute of everything he can more easily hold onto them. It would be my guess that when he thinks of all the things he loves, he finds it overwhelming, thus his need to narrow them down into a more tangible quantity. In this way he can sleep in the same room as everything he loves and physically have them near. When he gets tired of one thing, he simply moves onto something else, this is normal in all of us, we play a new game and while we are playing it we could honestly say there is no game in the world we would rather play. Perhaps we will play that game every second we get the chance, while we are at school we will be thinking all day about going home so that we can play that game. Sooner or later we tire of it or beat it or get another new game and that becomes the center of our focus. Zig seems to be exhibiting this same type of behavior only Zig's way of handling it seems very unusual to the rest of us. Zig seems to be very insecure, I think he sees "his favorites" as his comfort blanket. Perhaps we should not be so harsh to him and just let him do his own thing. As long as he is not hurting anyone, (accept for annoyance, and in that case all that is to be done is to avoid reading Zig's post or not letting him get to them so much).
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#272008
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272008/action/topic#272008
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Originally posted by: GhostAlpha26
The Force Unleashed...

It is truly amazing the technology developed for this game, its going to really change future video games, Its starting to go beyond virtual reality

http://lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/


I like how it is starting to go beyond virtual reality. Did I miss something? Has virtual reality come and gone without me knowing it? Or did they just decide to skip it all together and go beyond it? Maybe it is just me, but I have never seen a single advertisement for "Better than Life" or any thing like it. When you say "virtual reality" you wouldn't happen to be talking about my Virtual Boy would you? Because that was a bit of a joke (but you can't deny the beauty of the thing. It looks awesome and is a nice addition to my Nintendo System collection). I don't think it can be called virtual reality or even beyond virtual reality when you have to use a conventional controller as a user interface.

I agree with Nanner, I think it is lame they use Vader's apprentice. Does every Sith have an apprentice? I guess they all cheat on each other in the EU, Palps has his secret apprentice Mara Jade, Vader has his secret apprentice. That is why Jedi are better, they don't cheat on each other like that. Qui-gon got tired of teaching OBi-Wan, and when he found a new kid he liked better he flat out told Obi that they were through and that it was time to move on. I respect that in a Master.

Anybody remember Kyle Katarn? Of course you do because he is in every single Jedi Knight game, but I mean Kyle before he was Jedied. He was cool because they made a new character and made an SW game that held its own weight. You were part of the Star Wars Universe and you were not Luke, Han, or Leia for the first time. It made the SW Universe feel bigger. Remember X-Wing? Tie-Fighter? Same thing. Remember Rebel Assault? (Well, maybe I shouldn't go there, Rookie One was hardly a groundbreaking character). I liked how all the old Star Wars games had original characters, kind of made them stand on their own, now every game have to be main characters again (or closely related to one. The Vader's apprentice thing is almost as cheap and introducing Luke's long lost brother Duke to be a new character. I guess because the market shifted from loyal SW fans of the nineties to casual fans and people who liked the advertisements they paid $7+ bucks to see (called Episode II and III, you know what I am talking about) and decided to buy the game(s).
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#272004
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Do you legally own the OOT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272004/action/topic#272004
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I own it five times over, and I proudly don't own a single set of the 04 versions. All my versions are pre-Star Wars on DVD era.

I must second Cassidy's request for a quote on that one. I have never heard anyone say they refuse to pay for the OOT. Also you have to be careful to understand the person on that one. If anyone did say they refuse to buy the OOT, what they probably meant by that was that they refuse to buy it again. I too am sick of buying it, when they announced the DVD release I decided I should buy it for the last time, but then realized the DVDs where not the films I was looking for. Then the GOUT was announced and I again prepared myself to buy them, but I found out I already own the exact same thing (yes legally, not bootleg) in pretty much the same quality. At least all the other releasing I was suckered into buying had various differences, like the cool box set, then the THX Faces set, then the SE (which I thought would be a cool addition to the series, not a replacement). Every version I had bought had something different about it, the GOUT is exactly what I already have, why should I buy it again? If that is refusing to buy the OOT, then I am guilty.

Now, if sometime down the road the movies I have loved for so long are released to DVD or some other media in a quality half way reasonable for a commercial DVD release, then I imagine I will buy them one last time. But one last time is my limit, so I plan to choose my purchase wisely.
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#271865
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271865/action/topic#271865
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Dude, calm down. Nobody ever said anything about throwing out old 35mm movies. You are absurd for even mentioning it. You said HD sucks, Cassidy said that a consensus of cinematographers felt that HD was not as bad as people make it out to be, and in fact very comparable to 35mm quality wise. Fair enough. You don't have to agree with that, I myself was shocked because I always heard the contrary. Of course as technology gets better HD will look better. 35mm has been around for a long time, it is silly to believe that someday some new technology wont replace it, but it is even sillier to say that because it gets replaced that everything ever filmed on 35mm must go too.

A hint of advice, sit back and enjoy the movie with your friends. Like you said it just annoys the crap out of them when you pick it apart like that.
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#271788
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Posters
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271788/action/topic#271788
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Whoa, this is really showing how many of us are true SW nerds. Back in the day when I live with my folks and had to go to school everyday, I had the Return of the Jedi poster with the Luke's hand holding a blue lightsaber and I had a poster of the Ralph McQuarrie drawing of Luke in his X-wing in the Death Star trench with Darth's Tie-fighter on his tail. I also had the original movie poster for Star Wars and in the corner I had that big six foot stand-up store display for Ocarina of Time featuring the master sword and the name and title of the game and the caption at the bottom "Have ye what it takes". Oh, and I also had blue prints for various SW ships taped to my walls. And for a while I had a Scottish flag hanging from my ceiling (don't ask, because I couldn't tell you why).
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#271786
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271786/action/topic#271786
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I agree with you about playing games the way they were meant to be played. I am a purist in that way too. I extend this purism to films, hence my fondness for this site.

I remember waiting anxiously for A Link to the Past, and being disappointed when I couldn't go around Hyrule and see everything in its new fixed and normal state once I beat the game. When I first got sent into the Dark World and found out that the game was twice as big as I was expecting it to be and found myself to be a little pink bunny, I stood up then and there and declared it my favorite game of all time. It is a game that never disappoints (well, expect for the whole not being able to talk to people after you save them and there world for certain doom). The first Zelda game was my all time favorite for the NES. It is funny to think that I bought it at a used game store because of its shiny gold cartridge and the name "Zelda" sounded really cool. Oh, and it had a cool looking shield on the cover. I still love playing that game. That is why the less than perfect (but very close) port/remake for the PC (called "Zelda Classic" if you want it google it, it is easy to find and completely free) is always one of the very first programs to be installed every time I reformat or get a new PC. It even has an option to use the SNES style BS Zelda graphics (speaking of games not in their original form). One of the best parts is its level editor so you can design your own world and dungeons.
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#271776
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271776/action/topic#271776
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Originally posted by: C3PX


What the hell is up with Japanese tentacle porn?


Believe it or not, there is a tentacle rape page at Wikipedia, located here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_rape

Note the corresponding picture, dating back to 1820. My personal opinion, not that I'd know, is that the shape and texture of a tentacle is very much pleasing inside of a woman's hoohoo.


Right, which makes perfect sense why guys would get off on it....

Also it is usually depicted as forced sex, which I always thought most women don't like too much, another reason why I doubt it had anything to do with the womens pleasure. Maybe it is just historical fact. Maybe Japanese octopus are in the dirty habit of rapping human women.

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#271775
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271775/action/topic#271775
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: C3PX
Time for an exciting new topic.

The subject of Japanese tentacle porn was briefly mentioned in the "Most Epic Pictures" thread. I figured this was as good of time as any for me to lay down one of the great questions of the ages (to Westerners anyway)...

What the hell is up with Japanese tentacle porn?


I ain't in to it. and it was in Rar in a Jpeg thread.



Oops, sorry. You are right, it was in the Rar and Jpeg thread.
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#271530
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271530/action/topic#271530
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Agreed, C3PX on all accounts.

In terms of a films' effects withstanding the tests of time, I think it's dangerous to think that a film from, say 1933, or even 1977 should hold up to a film from 2007.

I think that the way you experience a film changes over time. For example, audiences were completely sold on the reality of King Kong in 1933. In 2007, I can watch the film and appreciate it's cultural and historical significance. It doesn't take me out of the reality of the film, but the way I experience it is different.

Same goes for Star Wars. In 1977 I totally bought into the reality of the film. In 2007 I don't experience Star Wars in the same way - I appreciate it more for the nostalgic value than the actual worth of the film...if this makes any sense at all.


By withstanding the test of time, I don't necessarily mean it should look state of the art 30 years down the road, but that it should be made to last. Of course you cannot judge the effects of a 50 year old movie by today's standards, but it can still be a good movie and the effects can come off as archaic rather than cheesy. There are some fantastic movies from the 30s and 40s that I still love watching today, then there are movies from the nineties that are laughable. There is a difference between using state of the art effects to make somebody say "wow" one year and "pfft" the next and making a movie built to last. Some movies you look back on and you laugh at the cheesy effects, others you look at them and think how impressive the effects were for the time. I think the first Jurassic Park was built to last, as was Last Crusade. The effects of the Nazi with the super fast aging action at the end of the film may not be up to todays standards, but it worked and you can watch it without it taking you out of the film. Where obvious CG shots inserted here and there always do the trick of pulling me right out of a film.
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#271477
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271477/action/topic#271477
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Remember, his collaboration with ILM brought us the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park which at the time were totally believable.



It is my belief that films should not be made for "at the time" but that they should be able to stand the test of time and be viewable for generations to come. "At the time" does not cut it. Models look real for all times (with some exceptions of course). However I still enjoy Jurassic Park and find the CG very fitting in that film. Jurassic Park used just the correct amount of CG, and was very cautious with it. After all it was one of the pioneers of CG film making. The texture of the dinosaurs look fantastic. I think that movie is a perfect example of how to use CG. Take a look and the 1997 incarnation of "A New Hope" the Jawa's Ronto (sp?) seems like it should be on par with Jurassic's dinosaurs, but instead it is very cartoony and even blurry. Cassidy, what you said it very true about Lucas relying on CG to tell the story, and Spielberg using story to to work the CG. You have to wonder what a great film George would have come up with had he been the one to direct Jurassic Park. My personal favorite scene would have been when Dr. Grant meets a genetically engineered talking dinosaur who shows him around the island, unfortunately for poor Dr. Grant, this talking dinosaur is very clumsy and he wishes he had never met him.
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#271455
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271455/action/topic#271455
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Yeah, that scene does look fake, but you are right, for some reason it is a lot more forgivable than old CG (Like the 1997 Jabba, always reminds me of Pete's Dragon and Song of the South). What is even more unforgivable is the lack of models used in film making. For a while there every car crash was painfully CG. I would always laugh when people would say, "Nah, that looks pretty good, you can barely even tell it is computer generated." The whole point is not to be able to tell at all and the fact that you can even tell at all that it is CG shows it is inferior to models.
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#271454
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271454/action/topic#271454
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Originally posted by: Windexed
classic controllers for the Wii: yay or nay?


yay to classic anything. How great would it be if they re released the power pad? Or even better the Zapper? I guess light guns are a bit too unPC for Nintendo's more or less squeaky clean image, of course I think the Wii is slipping a bit on that so maybe. I sure do miss my duck hunt (actually I still have my NES, but I always get the cursed blinking red light of doom and it is a pain in the rear to trying to get the game to hit the connectors just right. I wish I had one of those top loading models).
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#271452
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New Star wars books and other fiction and books thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271452/action/topic#271452
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Shim, this is the right place for it, he mentioned a lot more than SW books (though I suppose he could remove "Star wars" from the thread title). Whoa, I didn't even know Zahn had another book out since Outbound Flight. Sounds interesting. His later stuff isn't as good as his first books though.

I am definitely looking forward to The History of the Hobbit. Though I am not so sure about Children of Hurin. Just because Christopher Tolkien bears the last name of Tolkien doesn't mean he is his father, who was an irreplaceable loss to the literary world. With that said, I think it will be interesting to see what Christopher does with the work. Perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised. but Definitely looking forward to History of the Hobbit, I just wish it was one volume for my pocketbook's sake.
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#271404
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Does anybody know where I could find some good free downloadable fonts?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271404/action/topic#271404
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This is comming from a guy who has written more than his fair share of ransom notes, you are never even going to get this looking close to what you want. My advice is to get some newspapers and a glue stick and spend a couple of hours throwing the thing together, then photocopy it. It'll be a piece of cake and since you (presumably) don't really need to hide your identity, you don't have to bother with gloves and figure prints and all that. If you're still bent on doing it the easy way ( heh! more like the loser way! ) then sorry, I can't help you. I know of know good font sites.
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#271369
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Rar in a Jpeg *MORE THAN BOOKS NOW!!!1!one one.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271369/action/topic#271369
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: ferris209
Originally posted by: sean wookie
They originally use it on 4chan to hide porn from the mods and FBI. Now they put books o torrents in them.

What are they doing over at 4CHAN that they are worried about the FBI seeing their porn?!?!? That sounds really bad to me.



Nudie pictures of underage Japanese cartoon characters.


As sick as it is thats actually legal.


I wrote that in jest. But seriously, what kind of porn does 4chan have that they have reason to believe that they must hid it from the FBI?