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AntcuFaalb said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
If I see one more piece of spam in my inbox for some sort of stupid cyber Monday sale I swear I will kill something!
1 Purchase http://www.spraynine.com/
2 Kill HIV in 45 seconds or less!
Oh I'll kill them, I'll kill them and bring them back to life just so I can kill them again!
AntcuFaalb said:
My good news is that my plan to fill DrCrowTStarwars' inbox with Cyber Monday spam is almost complete. Muahahahaha!
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/If-you-need-to-B-tch-about-something-this-is-the-place/post/738657/#TopicPost738657
Well say goodbye to your front lawn, because I am going to kill it!
Warbler said:
tell me, is John Williams doing the soundtrack for the new movie?
Yeah he is and I have to say no one loves John Williams more then I do but with JJ directing part of me was kind of hoping we would get to hear Giacchino's take on Star Wars for an interesting change. But hey you can't have everything.
If I see one more piece of spam in my inbox for some sort of stupid cyber Monday sale I swear I will kill something!
I didn't see any lens flare in the trailer for the new Star Wars movie so maybe JJ is over this kick of simulating a broken camera and making it impossible to see what is happening in the movie.
yes.
Possessed said:
If you want to be that much of a nitpick, "Try getting it right then" all by itself is a sentence fragment, so get the fuck over yourself, asshole. I knew what you meant and who you were talking to, because it was in the context of a FUCKING FORUM. A medium of communication known for improper language usage. And you're nitpicking about the word "alot?" Jesus christ. I love you you're nitpicking my grammar, in incomplete sentences.
"alot lol"
"Try getting it right then"
Neither of those are proper either, so get the fuck over yourself.
Frink is just a schoolyard bully who uses his power as a mod to push other people around because he has nothing else in his life. He will do anything to get a rise out of you but he isn't smart enough that you should worry about anything he says. Just ignore him and he will go away and pick on someone else.
I stopped using youtube a while ago because no matter what connection I use even the shortest trailer has to buffer about five times and the adds are sometimes four or five times longer then the videos I am trying to watch. Not to mention the fact that they try to force me to post my real name and email address for the whole world to see and make their site insanely hard for anyone who doesn't have a google plus account to use, youtube is garbage.
For the types of videos I watch on there I can use blip or a torrent site, there is no reason for me to ever go on youtube and put up with their BS again.
Ender's Game.
I have never read the book but this film was okay. Some interesting Sci-fi ideas and it was well shot in that I could always tell what was happening on screen unlike most modern movies and the director at least seems to know what to do with child actors so that is pretty good news. The ending was pretty much sequel bait for a film that is never going to happen and the story is pretty much Starship Troopers crossed with The Last Starfighter but over all not a bad little film.
6.5/10.
Possessed said:
He said he dislikes turkey, not red meat
Hah! See you just gave away his secret...RED meat.
Red! Like his evil communist heart!
DuracellEnergizer said:
To be honest, I'm not all that fond of turkey.
That's not very American and that would make you a...Communist!
I guess you would rather eat Borsh, My red friend.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I didn't go to sleep last night and now I'm paying for it in the form of an upset stomach complete with rotten egg-tasting burps.
You should have had turkey, that puts me to sleep every time.
Ryan McAvoy said:
A comparison between a frame from the 2D/3D set captured by KK650 and the "same" frame that I've captured from the UK 2D standalone release...
Being a daylight scene the colour difference probably isn't as marked as it is in some scenes. If you look very closely though you'll see that this isn't actually the "same" frame. It more obvious when I overlay the two...
Everything in the foreground and background is at a different angle. I'm 99.9999% sure this is because the standalone 2D is just a scan of the left or right eye from the 3D Blu-Ray. It's not the first time I've noticed this problem...
Dredd 2012 French Blu-Ray Review
I'm not sure if this is because preparing a seperate 2D home-video master is expensive, or if sometimes studios just don't really care and assume nobody will notice. Maybe this is standard practice wth Marvel. I wasn't that impressed with the 'Winter Soldier' BR either but unlike Guardians, I hadn't seen that movie 3 or 4 times to be able to instantly notice when something was off.
Another couple of shots...
^ This one is terrible, like a photocopy, of a painting, of a film... in the dark.
...and what is up with the blue splodges of flat cyan in the background of this ^.
This and the UK Dredd 2D Blu-Ray really shakes my faith in the format. I'm going to treat any release of a 3D film with deep suspicion from now on.
Yeah that is awful, there is no excuse for that on a full priced new release.
I wish the government would start fining companies every time a defective product reaches the market, maybe then we would seen the end of this garbage.
I don't have the money for a 3D Tv so I am skipping this release and I am advising all my friends to do the same and my friends head my advice so it is not just my money Disney is losing it's six to ten other people's money they are losing. Was taking sloppy short cuts worth it Disney?
Ryan McAvoy said:
Long story short. After a lengthy and heated argument, the store gave me my money back. No is not an answer I'm prepared to except in these situations ;-)
I'll be buying the 3D/2D set tomorrow with hopefully better results. I have my doubts that it will really be any better. To clarify, I take it we've been so far discussing the US Blu-Ray sets. So the UK 3D/2D might be just as bad or worse? Any info on that around the interwebz??
I'd imagine this is going to be the biggest selling Blu-Ray of the year so returns are gonna be plentiful, even given the fact that 99% of people couldn't give a sh*t how a movie looks.
The fact that some stores now just refuse to give refunds for defective products says it all about when there isn't any quality control on anything any more. It seems like ever other disc I buy has some sort of defect but most stores have a policy of not accepting returns on open discs when you can't tell if the disc is defective without opening it. No wonder the companies don't do anything about this kind of stuff, it's free money for them. They could sell you an empty case and you would still have a fight on your hands to get a refund.
I am starting to think all disc related media is just one giant con game. If I had highspeed where I will I would go VOD and never look back, at least with that you get something in exchange for you $25!
Ryan McAvoy said:
Arrrrrrgh!!! Just got back from buying the 2DBR an hour ago and thought the image looked off. Almost so dark and muted I couldn't see what was going on.
Then saw this thread. Dammit why couldn't I have read this first. Refund time!
Behold this awesome FX shot I did a screencap of...
(^ Click to see full res)
Yeah no way I am parting with cash for that.
SF Debris' review got me to start working my way through KOTOR again for the first time in years.
I had forgotten what a great game this is and the graphics still look pretty good if you can over look the fact that they are not in HD. This is one of the few games I would ever buy an HD remake of so I could play it on a modern system. If I had one complaint it would be that I wish the combat was just straight up real time and if you hit or missed your attacks was solely based on your aim instead of a simulated D&D dice rolling system that some times causes you to miss. Still the rest of the game is so good that I can over look the combat having problems and you can't say that often, also it is so packed with content that I have already spent more time playing the game then I did on the inter game of Mass Effect 3 and I am only about a third of the way through this game. Talk about a great game. If you have never played this game before and you are a Star Wars fan stop what you are doing and go play it now! The PC version is cheap used, doesn't need a code or anything else to install and be played, and it is the best Star Wars game ever made!
I will say this it is strange hearing voices I am used to hearing in Mass Effect coming out of other character's mouths.
This game is proof of what Bioware can do when EA isn't messing things up.
SilverWook said:
I'm just kidding about the possibility they're just trying to make people buy the version with the 3D disc. I've read the 2D version does not have the IMAX aspect ratio change though.
Yeah I don't want to pay $10 extra for a disc that I can't use just to watch the movie without the picture messed up, what a rip off.
The three Blu Ray sets I was most looking forward to this year all have massive defects. You know this is why people Torrent, because the official products are a rip off. I have never torrented something that I could buy before but all the recent screw ups on official home video releases have me tempted because it seems no care goes into these releases any more.
For $25 they can afford to check the discs for defects. Heck the Blurays I make at home of TV shows I recorded off of the air are of a higher quality then most recent official releases.
I'll wait and by the 3D set used. Nice going Disney you just lost $25, maybe next time if you give a crap about your next home video release I will buy it in a format where you will get some of the money.
Well that is disappointing, I was looking forward to that boxset but I am not buying something where the lip sync is off, that is one of those things that really bugs me and draws me out of a movie. It's only reason I like sub tittles more then dubs.
Oh and through careful sopping at used stores and sales I was able to add The Avengers:The complete Emma Peel mega set and all five seasons of Chuck on Blu Ray to my collection in the past two weeks.
TV doesn't get any better then this!
MST3K
Warrior of the Lost World
Soultaker
Code Name Diamondhead
The Girl in Gold Boots
Manhunt in space
Last of the Wild Horses
Parts the clonus horror
As you can see I celebrate Turkey Day.
Oh and add to that A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Chuck Vs. The Gravitron and you see that I had a full day of TV watching and eating yesterday.
Every year when we have to turn the heat on in my house my rash gets worse and my eyes become all red and puffy.
I HATE WINTER!
DuracellEnergizer said:
I wonder if YouTube is the cyberspacial equivalent of Mos Eisley.
I always thought that was facebook or the pirate bay?
darth_ender said:
TV's Frink said:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (EE) (2014)
I know a lot of people have a lot of problems with this movie but I'm an ardent defender of it. I presume it helps that I never read the Tolkien books until after seeing the LOTR movies so I have no devotion to the books. I also forgive PJ his occasional missteps give how incredible the movies are overall. This was the first time watching the movie since seeing it in the theaters two years ago, so I wasn't 100% sure of what was new for the EE, but in general I thought it all worked just fine as a whole.
7.5 riddles in the dark out of 8In spite of his racism against Hasidic Jews, I agree with Frink here. The Hobbit movies are fun, and they are not rehashes of the LOTR films. They have a different tone, and I really enjoy them for what they are, in spite of any shortcomings. I haven't seen the EE, but I look forward to when I finally do.
Yeah I enjoyed them as much as the Lord of the Rings movies because they are their own things.
I am a huge fan of the books but I have no problem with Jackson having fun and doing his own thing and using 48fps does make these the best looking 3D movies I have seen in theaters, I mean I can make out all the details and tell what is going on in every scene!!! That is a huge step up from every other 3D movie I have ever seen.
RicOlie_2 said:
"Today *hic* we're gonna learn how to *hic* shubtract:
'Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall,
ninety-nice bottles of beer...'"
Barney Gumble math teacher, Day one.
RicOlie_2 said:
Why must people describe what they did when they were drunk during math class?* I didn't want to know....
Darn it! You ruined my mental image of a drunken math teacher trying to teach fractions!
DuracellEnergizer said:
^Oh, now you've done it.
LoL! Love that bit! :)
