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#300787
Topic
The Dark Knight (Batman Begins Returns Again)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300787/action/topic#300787
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I'm glad to see another convert.

After seeing Batman Begins the first time I came home, logged into Amazon, and sold my Burton/Schumacher set.


Well, I wouldn't go that far. I love the Burton films, especially Batman Returns, which was just dazzling. But I do love Begins's new take on this subject matter (as far as cinema goes). I think it's especially interesting that you don't really see Batman until an hour into the movie. And people complained that there wasn't enough Batman in Burton's film! But Bruce carried that film so well that it didn't even really matter. And now I'm off to watch my 1943 Batman serials!
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#300385
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KOTOR III....maybe in 2008
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300385/action/topic#300385
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Originally posted by: C3PX
That really sucks. Stupid MMOs. If I wanted to interact with other people, I would go out and interact with people the old fasion way.


You do you realize you're interacting with people on a massively multiplayer online message board, right? ^_~

Seriously, though, I've never played any of the KOTOR games (don't have an XBOX), but I feel the same way about MMORPGs.

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#300220
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What happened to the live-action show?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300220/action/topic#300220
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Once again, does any show have completely original music for every episode? No! They use tracked music because it would be impossible to come up with scores in such a limited amount of time for such a large amount of material!


While I don't disagree about all that being pretty unlikely, I learned via the Lost podcast that each episode of Lost is scored via orchestra. So I guess some shows do. But yeah, Williams is pretty unlikely, but then again, Georgie has a ton of dough.


I'm not saying that TV scores can't be orchestrated. I'm just saying that, in TV shows, it is not generally feasable for every single episode to have its own unique score. Usually, they use the first several episodes to compose character and emotional themes and then reuse them throughout the rest of the series, occasionally composing a new bit when the need arises, which will then also be put into rotation from then on.
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#300178
Topic
What happened to the live-action show?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300178/action/topic#300178
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That... sounds highly unrealistic. Not coming down on you, adywan, I'm sure you didn't make this up, but this sounds like even more of a pipe dream than their plans for the CG show. Four hundred episodes?! How many series actually make it to 400 episodes? And this hasn't even been picked up, mind you. And John Williams coming down from the heavens to work on a TV show? And to come up with 400 separate scores?! Yeah, that's a big "not happening." Once again, does any show have completely original music for every episode? No! They use tracked music because it would be impossible to come up with scores in such a limited amount of time for such a large amount of material! Ugh. Somebody just kill these damned Star Wars shows.
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#300157
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Fantasy novels being Made into movies for big and small screen
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300157/action/topic#300157
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Well, the Globetrotters didn't show up until Castaways from Gilligan's Island, after they'd already been rescued and turned the island into a resort, so they don't really fit into the category of "assholes who discovered them and left them for dead."

EDIT: But off the top of my head, the biggest jerks I think was that Beatles wannabe band (I can't even remember their name) who were going to rescue them until the girls put on a concert, and they suddenly got afraid of the competition and took off! Man, those people suck!
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#300070
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College Football
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300070/action/topic#300070
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Eh, I'm so glad that our game was "away" this weekend. I used to enjoy football... er, the inappropriately named American football (am I the only person outside of Europe who actually gets how inappropriate the name is?) until I got to college three years ago and found how frickin' seriously everybody takes it. At good old Ole Miss everybody and his uncle and sister and any other distant relative is a complete "football" freak, and it wasn't long before I hated the damned sport. Every weekend there's a game here, the campus becomes like a country preparing for war... if preparing for war consisted of roping off all the parking lots, setting out hundreds of never-used trash cans, and dozens of porta potties. Ugh, the whole thing just drives me crazy. I've only been to two "football" games the entire time I've been a student here, and it probably won't change before I graduate. That's not to say it's totally a waste of time, as I used to have quite a bit of fun playing backyard "football" with my friends back in my pre-teen/early teen years. Of course, I also played plenty of soccer/real football and enjoyed that too. But oversaturation of the market killed the sport for me, and now I just wish it would die. On a lighter note, though, I loved "Brian's Song".

And how come making a sport for females automatically makes it inferior?
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#299952
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Would you give up ESB in exchange for...?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299952/action/topic#299952
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I've been following this conversation in the other thread, and I definitely sympathize with the viewpoint. Ultimately, though, I voted no without much hesitation. I was introduced to the Star Wars Trilogy in that form. Like many others here, after becoming more aware of the real history of Star Wars, I began to see the original movie in a new context, now renewed to me as a standalone movie, which is was, even though I'd been fed the "one movie that had to be cut into three parts" line from George and believe it for years. So now I've finally been able to experience Star Wars for what it originally was: an amazing good vs. evil morality tale set into space. And it works great that way, maybe even better than in the trilogy context; equal to at the very least. But every time I watch Star Wars, I immediately follow with the other two movies. It's just that when I watch it now, I don't think of them as parts I, II, and III to a trilogy. I think of Star Wars as a film, and the other two as sequels to that film. But I love ESB far too much to let it go, and I don't really have to keep from thinking of all the crap that's come since, just like I don't have to think about all the other series when I watch the original series of Star Trek.
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#299856
Topic
‘Artist’ Chains Up Dog Until It Dies… Is This Art? Or Animal Abuse?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299856/action/topic#299856
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Wow. I can't think of anything more horrible. How does anyone get off calling something like that "art"? That's like calling the Inquisition or any other type of purposeful torture "art". Yeah, what a brilliant "artist" this guy is. I'm sure he put a lot of thought and effort into that one. Bet he had to reach deep into his soul and expend hours of effort to sit on his ass while a dog starved. Brilliant! Got a regular fuckin' Picasso over here!
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#299715
Topic
Dragonball Z
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299715/action/topic#299715
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No. The thing that pisses me off is that they have gotten competent with every other property they've licensed over the past half-decade, but they still keep screwing up in every possible way concerning Dragon Ball! I think the only good things that have happened this decade is that they dubbed Dragon Ball with the original music... but then they screwed that up by totally ruining the score of DBGT. And on these new DBZ boxsets, they've restored the original score to the dub (finally), but they've done such shitty things with the picture. Thank goodness I don't ever watch the dub and am spared their lack of respect for this property, but changing audio tracks isn't gonna get me my lost picture back.

Sean referred to these boxsets as "uncut". I don't really consider anything "uncut" when the top and bottom of the frame has been undeniably cut out of the show.
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#299706
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Dragonball Z
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299706/action/topic#299706
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Yeah, I was so angry when those boxsets came out because that would have been the perfect, economical way to collect the entire series, but FUNimation not only ruined it but lied terribly about it saying all this bullshit about getting more picture by showing bogus comparison images of cropped vs. double cropped pictures. I so would have bough those if FUNi hadn't been so dishonest about them and just released them in their proper aspect ratio.
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#298980
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298980/action/topic#298980
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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


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?


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.


Boy, if that's not an ignorant statement, I don't know what is. I'd say more, but sean's picture captures the mood too well for words.
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#298929
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/298929/action/topic#298929
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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


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.


I hear ya. I haven't been out of the Nintendo loop, but, for some reason, I have yet to get Super Smash Bros. Melee. I always see it in the store and say, "I really should get that sometime," but I never do. And I'm a big fan of the original. I don't know what it is. I guess it's all those memories of my friends kicking my ass whenever I'd play Melee. Of course, if I actually had it myself, I'm sure I'd get better at it.