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#251667
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How do you watch the Star Wars Saga?
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Go-Mer, if the PT had a dick, you'd be sucking it right about now. I think everyone is entitled to thier opinion, and that means that you don't have to comment on each and every one of them just to protect your precious PT. Yes, the PT and the OT have about the same amount of plot holes withing themselves, but putting them together as a saga means that the PT creates a shitload of them that ruin the viewing experiance. I get that you like the whole saga, you don't have to keep defending it to make us all get that. Can you just chat here without defending the PT at every possible point?
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#251635
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The Spider-Man 3 thread
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I hope they don't have him end up with Gwen. They've had two movies of us waiting for him to get with MJ. He did. It was a big YAY moment. And when I saw it, I knew that the next film could be relationship struggle free and we could have flat out action. Instead, we have another romance, soap opera stuggle. I'm not going to be waiting at midnight for this one.
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#251631
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How do you watch the Star Wars Saga?
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Originally posted by: Lord_Of_The_Sith
What do you guys think? To celebrate the 30th Anniversary next year im going go to do a Star Wars marathon.


I'll be throwing a Star Wars party on May 25th, 2007. I'll get my friends and family and we'll watch Star Wars, and if we have time, the other two. I'll have the soundtrack playing on the boom box before and after we watch the film.
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#251629
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How do you watch the Star Wars Saga?
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Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I understand a bunch of you don't like the prequels or SE's, but to keep your kids from drawing their own conclusions seems a bit severe don't you think?

It's just Star Wars, not a satanic tome.


Why would we not show it to our kids?

1: Completely ruins half the surprises of ther OT. I want my kids to be mesmerized by these things.

2. Young kids will like the PT more than the OT. Statistical fact, I'm sorry to say. And I will have no child of mine yapping about how cool Anakin vs. Obi Wan is while I try to get them to watch the OT.

3. The special effect of the PT are not things to be appriciated. My kids will learn to appriciate REAL special effects, not crappy CGI. If they see the PT, they'll think thats good effects, and the effects in the OT are bad (which they are NOT).

4. If kids see them, they'll be pointing out all the plot holes in the "saga," and won't listen to me when I try to explain that Lucas is a hack. I'd be shooting myself.

5. I want the OT to be the first films my kids see when they grow out of Pooh and Barney. I want the OT to be the movie that brings them into the real world of moviegoing, which is an experiance lots of people had in 77. I did not, but I want my kid to have that experiance, to feel that magic. The PT cannot give them this. TPM would just put them to sleep with all the bad dialouge. The OT is simple good vs. evil, something all kids can understand. I want them to be exposed to films in the most magical way possible, and that is the OT.

So Go-Mer, it's not a satanic thing. It's a matter of how I want my kids lives impacted by the films. I will also not be teaching them the episode numbers, or any of George's "master plan saga." If I ever do show my kids the PT, it will be when they are 12 or older so they can see just how bad they are.
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#251369
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Info: Hold onto your old Little Mermaid discs!
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Originally posted by: Doctor M


And of course we have this:
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Oh. My. God.

I cannot believe people are actually bitching about this change. I looked at that picture for two minutes before I noticed it. If you were just watching the film, you'd have to already be looking for it to see it. I know its more of a matter of principle than anything, but why let it distract from the viewing experiance? Just watch it without thinking about it, and you'll forget it when you watch the scene. I can't get what the bitching is about.

Also, all this stuff about muted colors and bad sound....what the hell? You're all overanalyzing this. Once again, everyone is delving deep to find problems so that they can distract from the viewing experiance. Can anyone spell martyr? The film looks and sound great, I can't understand what the complaining is about.
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#251353
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2006 OT DVD: the deal with the Best Buy tin ...
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My Best Buy was rid of all of them when a went there a week after getting my set. Not sure if they sold out or just took them off shelves.
When I went to buy it, they were in the middle of restocknig the Star Wars display, and they had about 20 tins out when done. I think those tins sold pretty darn well. I'll vouch for them as the best way to store the Star Wars trilogy, they're really great.
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#251352
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The Lord of the Rings (Films vs. the Books)
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
My opinions on the subject are pretty much the same as JediSage's... The movies took everything awesome about the books (of which there was much) and cut out all the meandering.

I understand Tolkien was trying to write a myth, but I really don't need to know about the Hobbits taking a bath before crossing the Brandywine river and whatnot. And I understand it's okay to go into more detail in a book, and I'm not saying the books are bad, or that Tolkien got it 'wrong'... just that it is more dramatic to condense and show the most important details.

The elves at Helm's Deep, I think, were basically a way of evening the odds. The idea that 300 men, half of whom were too old or young to effectively weild a sword, could hold off ten thousand orcs strains suspension of disbelief. I'd rather Jackson make book purists irate than lose the audience on something more farfetched than inspiring. Helm's Deep is not Thermopolae, and the people of Rohan are not Spartans.


I think you're right about that. As much as I love the books, Jackson made all the neccesary cuts. The meandering works for the books, it adds a level of magic to them, but it wouldn't work in a film. Jackson did an almost perfect job in my opinion with the cutting. There are some things I think should have been in, such as the scouring of the shire. The hobbits set out to save the shire, and the story comes full circle at that point. Also, Tokien loved that part a lot, and it meant so much to him. I think it was excellent putting the Aragorn Arwen romance in, because that also meant a lot to Tokien and he couldn't fit it in the normal text.

But I was annoyed at all the people complaining thier asses off about Tom Bombadil. Get a freaking life already.
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#251123
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The Lord of the Rings (Films vs. the Books)
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Tom Bombadil is superfluous garbage? Well I never....

The books are probably the greatest literary masterpiece of the 20th century; in fact, they are. They are beyond excellent, a level unabtainable by most authors. Some think it drags, with all the stopping for resting and songs, but that's what's so great about them. They have a sort of laid back feel, which for some reason makes me feel right at home when reading them.

The movie are the best films of the 21st century, without a doubt, and one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time. They omitt things, and change details, but they embody the very essence of Tolkien and what he wrote. Watching the bonus features on the DVD, you can tell every last person involved with the film had a passion for it, and that really comes across on screen. I really have no complaints about the films, because for once, they didn't dumb it down for american audiences, like with 99.9 percent of Hollywood adaptations. The ending of FOTR is so strong, so moving, that I was almost crying at the end of it, and is possibly my favorite film of all time. I remember when it first came out, and I saw it with my Dad on opening night, how magical it was.

So for me, the films and the books are about equal. They are different mediums, and let's face it. A straight adaptation would have been boring. They made all the right moves with the films, and now we have two great ways to experiance Lord of the Rings.
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#251122
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Remember when...
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I really wish I had memories like these. The world just isn't as fun for kids anymore, at all. Seeing a new movie isn't all that special, first person shooters are ruling the gaming world, and the thing kids like to do the most is sit around and smoke weed. Hell, my friend admitted to it on the bus today, talking about it like it was a big joke, something as natural as breathing.

I do have one, really fond memory of Star Wars though. Two summer's ago, my mom and I went to Chicago to see my Uncle recieve his P.h.D. We stayed with my other Uncle, and as much as I love my mom's side of the family, when dinner was over, they liked to just sit around and talk for a few hours. Sitting in the middle of a room with chatting adults playing my Game Boy is rather rude, so I went to my Uncle's basement where he had a huge TV and great sound system. And on top of that, a Lazy Boy reclining chair.

But what to watch? I found my Uncle's set of widescreen Star Wars tapes. I'd been into the prequels at that point in my life, (ROTS having come out a week earlier) and hadn't watched these in years. I popped in SW, and was instantly transported to that galaxy far, far away. Over the next few nights, I watched the whole trilogy, and even though they were the special editions, they were the best time watching Star Wars I'd ever had. I can't explain it at all, I just have really, really fond memories of that, watching the trilogy alone and being lost in the experiance. I think I loved it so much because it really was the first time I'd gotten lost in the films, and it was like watching them for the first time. Though the first time watching them had been on fullscreen rental tapes, I don't remember that at all. I have absolutely no recollection of seeing these for the first time. Maybe my parents showed me them when I was too young. I don't know. But for me, the first time I really saw these films was at my Uncle's house. The first time you see a film, in my definition, is the first time when you get lost in a film. You all have fond memories of first seeing the imperial star ship gliding over the screen and how cool it was. My jaw dropped when I saw this, and I wanted to clap when it was over watching it at my Uncle's.

So I guess that's the reason that experiance is so special to me. For all intents and purposes, it was the first time I'd seen the films, (long before I saw the OOT) and no matter how young we were, where we were, or in what venue we saw it on, we will all remember the first time we saw Star Wars until our dying days. And I consider watching them at my Uncle's house to be the first time I'd seen them, and I'm so glad I'll always have that memory, because I truly wouldn't have it any other way. For all the cool things we did in Chicago, I remember being fairly impatient to get back from checking out the city so I could see ROTJ. I cherish that vacation among my favorites, and seeing Star Wars for the "first time" is one of my favorite memories.
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#251077
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A New Indie No-Budget Movie by ... Me
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Just watched the trailer, and i'll have to say, that sure doesn't look low budget to me. It looked and felt like a real movie trailer, same quality as something I'd see with a theatrical film. If the trailer is any indication of how good the film is, then I'm up for watching it.

Two quick questions. What kind of home camera did you use that achieves widescreen? And what kind of editing software? The trailer was really faced past and well edited, and I'm fairly confiednt I couldn't do that on good ol' Pinnacle Studios software.
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#251074
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Lucas on Colbert
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Just shut the fuck up Go-Mer. It's true. Most people hate Jar Jar. A fair share of telivision shows have parodied him, he's been the victim of numerous parodies and insults against Lucas, many from casual fans of Star Wars, and was one of the main complaints about Episode one besides the fact it had a horrible plot. It's only the people who are gay for George Lucas and would probably pay to watch the man take a shit who love Jar Jar. So get Lucas' dick out of your mouth and join the real world.
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#250832
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Favorite Star Wars Movie
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See? I knew Go-Mer couldn't give a satasfactory response to the Jabba reveal. When you have to dig as deep as saying the reveal is "he gets angry," that's hardly an arguement at all. He doesn't even really get angry. He just raises his voice a little and sentances them to death, which was his threat in the ANH added scene. Go-Mer, you don't have to defend every last detail about George's perfect vision saga. Really. You don't.
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#250831
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Info: Has anyone done a preservation of misprinted Wal*Mart 'X-Men 3' bonus disc?
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According to Digital Bits (and they are correct over there 99.9 percent of the time) the adverytising was just wrong and all the discs are the documentary. They simply misprinted it. Here is the whole passage from digital bits. It also includes some information about the deleted scenes controversy.

Finally today, a lot of you have been wondering what's up with Fox's X-Men: The Last Stand DVD. Some readers have reported that select copies of the DVD were released with 22 deleted scenes, while others have only 10. We've checked with our industry sources and have learned this is true. However, we've also learned that the number of discs that were released with the larger number of deleted scenes is very, very small - so little in fact that they all sold out early on the first day. We don't know why they were pulled, and speculation runs from a problem with clearance issues on the deleted material to the possibility of Fox releasing an even more elaborate special edition in 2007. Either way, there was no way to tell which disc you were getting based on the packaging. The main thing to know, is that if you've already purchased a copy and have been thinking of returning it hoping to get one of the copies with 22 deleted scenes, don't bother. Those discs are LONG gone at your local retailer. In fact, if you purchased your DVD on the first day but haven't opened it yet, that's your best bet short of eBay for getting the version with more deleted scenes. Also, as far as Wal-Mart's bonus disc - the packaging claims the bonus disc inside will include a pair of making-of featurettes, and then when you open it, you get a featurette on the history of the X-Men comic book. The packaging was simply mislabeled. You're getting exactly what you're supposed to be getting. We hope this information at least helps ease your minds a bit.


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#250828
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Remember when...
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C3PX got the nail on the head Go-Mer. I respect your opinions, but not when you are shoving them down our throats. Your average posts per day are 11.3, and you have 300 some having been here less than a month. You're here constanantly, always saying basically the same thing, and it's really annoying. Yes, this community is primarily people who enjoy Star Wars pre SE's and dislike the prequels, but that doesn't mean we discourage people from voicing thier differing opinions. We just don't like it when we are getting constantly bashed over the head with them.