Gaffer Tape

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Post: #228109
Topic: Editing movies ruled illegal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228109/action/topic#228109
Time: 22-Jul-2006 3:07 AM

I think that Power Rangers thing is just dumb, for two reasons. One, the word "Morphin" is spelled out in the frickin' title of the show! It's obviously not morphine. "But what if the kid is too young to read?" you might ask. Find me a kid who hasn't gained the skills to read yet knows what morphine is, and I will buy him a car!

EDIT: Third reason. What's so bad about morphine anyway? It's a legitimate drug. I don't see how knowing of its existence is supposed to be damaging to kids.

Censoring is stupid.

Post: #228108
Topic: General Anime/Manga Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228108/action/topic#228108
Time: 22-Jul-2006 3:05 AM

Yeah, I happened to take advantage of the Buy 2, Get 3rd Free as well yesterday. I had to buy the last two volumes of DB and decided to get the first volume of One Piece as well, since I've heard a lot of good things about it. Haven't read it yet, but I'll be sure to talk about it when I do.

Post: #228107
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228107/action/topic#228107
Time: 22-Jul-2006 3:04 AM

Same here! Yeah, I did it lose it at that point, but I lost it earlier too. The first thing that did it for me was when Cedric's spirit spell-recall thingy appeared to Harry and said, "Bring my body back to my dad." Even though I had to smile a bit at their slight line-changing (as opposed to "Bring my body back to my parents," since they omitted Cedric's mother from the movie), it still drove me to the breaking point!

Post: #228105
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228105/action/topic#228105
Time: 22-Jul-2006 3:00 AM

Awesome list, and I especially agree with the in-jokes to the OT. Lucas probably thought he was doing a good thing by tying elements together. He just didn't know what he was doing. He left so many gaping holes of continuity, yet he put in a whole bunch of crap that didn't need to be there, like all the things you mentioned. He just put them there for no reason, and that, in turn, gave him the need to change things in the OT to make up for them (i.e. The Fett Bunch). Plus, the entire reasoning is off. I mean, it's so obvious that the only reason they're there is so OT fans can go, "Hey, this is just like when..." But according to Lucas, you're supposed to watch them in numerical order. I think that's a stupid idea to begin with, and, if you do choose Lucas's way, then the "in-jokes" have no meaning behind them because there's no precedence for them. You can't have it both ways. You can't make references to your earlier movies, and convince your fans to watch the earlier movies last. It just doesn't make any sense.

Post: #228095
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228095/action/topic#228095
Time: 22-Jul-2006 2:09 AM

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with Columbus's adaptations. I'm not entirely sure, though, if he would have done as well with the later books, when they got longer and more mature. His book accuracy plan worked well for the two short books, but obviously that would have been impossible with the longer ones, and I wonder if he could have pulled off capturing the spirit while extremely condensing the plot. Prisoner of Azkaban did great with capturing the essence but screwed up a lot of important plot points. Goblet of Fire did great on both, with only a few missteps (Priori Incantatem). Like I've said before, I rarely cry at movies, but Cedric's death had me bawling the first two times I saw it. For that alone, I'd give it two thumbs up, but nearly everything else about it was perfect too.

The only thing I worry about now is how the movies deal with existing supporting characters, primarily the teachers. For the past two movies, you only see classroom scenes with the new teachers. And Kloves always seems to have trouble figuring out new ways to work McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick, etc. into the movie while keeping the plot going. I admit that it'd be hard. We've already seen with GOF that certain characters have had to be sacrificed in order to keep the plot going for the timespan of a movie.

Post: #228093
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228093/action/topic#228093
Time: 22-Jul-2006 2:00 AM

"Once upon a time, a beautiful princess got married, had kids, and died, causing her kids to be great rulers. The end," was how the story had gone. Obviously, Jenkins had been one of the offspring. Only he got bored one day and dashed off to Pluto to do some adventuring. The Plutonian atmosphere had allowed him to live for generations but turned him into an albino. There he met a beautiful woman and married her. Obviously, they couldn't have monkey children of their own, so they adopted a monkey, who would be Mojo's father. But they intravenously injected Jenkins's royalty into him through Plutonian science. Then he met Silvestre, who also had a pet monkey. But this monkey was also quarter elf and quarter Petebest the Dragon. Soon the monkeys married and mated. And all those factors meant...

Post: #228070
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228070/action/topic#228070
Time: 21-Jul-2006 11:32 PM

Mojo and Reallife took the stage to thunderous applause... just like how Liberty died... but that's the lead female of the Mojo prequel. Loretta is the ingenue of this story. And she just managed to make her way to Japan at that very moment, with a terrible plot-twisting secret to reveal.

Post: #228062
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228062/action/topic#228062
Time: 21-Jul-2006 11:05 PM

While Radiohead continued playing, the sidekick Oxnar had spawned from nothing, who resembled a young Judy Garland, asked, "Why don't you just kill them backstage rather than wait until they're surrounded by thousands of rabid fans? And did I mentioned we're not in Kansas anymore?"

Post: #228060
Topic: SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228060/action/topic#228060
Time: 21-Jul-2006 10:59 PM

Are you sure? The old Batman serials of the '40s mimicked the comics's costume, as did the '60s show and movie (although I always thought the cowl looked kinda weird with its little tiny ears and strange eyebrow and nose markings...).

Post: #228057
Topic: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Trailer
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228057/action/topic#228057
Time: 21-Jul-2006 10:56 PM

I was a bit skeptical when I heard the turtles were going to be CG instead of the awesome live-action suit jobs of the previous movies. But if it's a fully-CG movie, instead of four CG turtles in a live world, maybe I can put my fears to rest.

Post: #228055
Topic: Star Wars prequel Box set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228055/action/topic#228055
Time: 21-Jul-2006 10:43 PM

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
^ ^
And there's the rub: Nobody really gives much of a damn about the prequels to complain about the lack of an O-PT. Hell, many of us who support the preservation of the O-OT have gone all out re-editing the PT to our own satisfaction. (Granted, I've done that to the SE as well, but that's only academic. The O-OT is my first love and desperately needs a proper release.)

Even though I'm not a huge fan of the prequels, I do give a damn, because I'm not just here because I think the Star Wars trilogy's theatrical editions should be preserved, but that of all movies.

Post: #227822
Topic: 20 years ago, would anyone believe...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227822/action/topic#227822
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:51 AM

Thank you! This politically correct bullcrap needs to be dumped off somewhere. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In fact, most of the time it is. And those times it isn't... well, get over it! Things are only offensive when people choose to be offended by them.

Post: #227820
Topic: Finally Got Rid of My 2004 DVD's...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227820/action/topic#227820
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:49 AM

Amen!

After all, special editions belong with other special features on disc 2. Isn't that special?

Post: #227819
Topic: SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227819/action/topic#227819
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:43 AM

Originally posted by: greencapt

Originally posted by: TheSessler
They didn't change his look, I thought it was just a part of the symbiote storyline?

Eventually it was, but at the time it was a marketing ploy to increase sales of Spidey. At first it was *only* a costume, albeit a strange one that was made from alien technology... but the writers gave themselves an 'out' by making it slightly different from the other costumes that the alien tech made (read 'Secret Wars'). Fan backlash was strong, mainly against the costume, so Marvel used the 'out' to make the suit try to take over Spider-man (and eventually become Venom). But enough fans enjoyed the costume that Marvel couldn't totally commit one way or another so for a time (circa 'Web of Spider-man #1) that Sipdey actually made a regular cloth costume that looked exactly like the black alien costume.

Confused?

You won't be after this week's episode of... Soap.

Oh wait... wrong series.

I just had to give you props for the Soap reference. Sometimes I feel too old for my age...

Post: #227816
Topic: Pirates of the Caribbean Two
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227816/action/topic#227816
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:40 AM

I agree that I could barely understand that fortune teller either.

EDIT: And that's bad since she pretty much outlined the entire plot from then on out.

Post: #227814
Topic: Editing movies ruled illegal
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227814/action/topic#227814
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:38 AM

I thought Wal-Mart only edited music.

Post: #227812
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227812/action/topic#227812
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:37 AM

"Wakari masen," the Japanese citizen replied. It turns out that Oxnar had, in fact, not been speaking Japanese. His immense power had only caused him to hear that he was speaking Japanese. So, Oxnar decided to speak in a language that he knew this person would understand.... The Good Ship Lollipop!

Post: #227810
Topic: End of SE ROTJ...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227810/action/topic#227810
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:25 AM

Well, I would never say that it destroyed the whole movie, but Lucas's reasoning behind it does compromise the whole redemption aspect. Besides, that line of reasoning is the best possible motive behind it. But I have my suspicions that:

a. It was simply done as a futile and half-hearted attempt to connect the two trilogies together
b. It was done to make fans feel completely obligated to watch the movies in their improper order of I-VI. In other words, a laughing, "Screw you!" to the fans.

Post: #227807
Topic: 20 years ago, would anyone believe...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227807/action/topic#227807
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:21 AM

Originally posted by: JennyS1138

-Leia's mother was allowed to wear underwear in space.

Whoah, wait. When do you get to see Padme in her underwear? This I have to see!

Post: #227804
Topic: Star Wars prequel Box set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227804/action/topic#227804
Time: 21-Jul-2006 12:04 AM

Originally posted by: Mike O

Originally posted by: Paulus
Have I spent some years in a coma or something?????
Didn't Episode I just get released not ten years ago????

Could old george really be serious about tinkering with episodes I, II, and III????? If he does, I think that we can't put this down to Buddhism but to insanity. He just doesn't know when to quit.....

It is almost a fact at this point that he is going to alter the PT. Not that I mind much, and in any case the original version of those have been circulating in high quality (the edge enhancement on Episode I controversy aside) on DVD for a while now. But that doesn't seem to bother him as much as the OOT. I wish that I could understand this man, I really do.

Actually, that's not at all true. None of the prequels' theatrical versions exist on DVD, and they never have. He couldn't even wait for those to get on DVD before he started tinkering with them. TPM has the most significant (and worst) edits, while ROTS just has one scene transition changed (allegedly), but the fact remains that the theatrical versions of all three prequels have already been supressed much further than even the OOT.

Post: #227801
Topic: Finally Got Rid of My 2004 DVD's...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227801/action/topic#227801
Time: 20-Jul-2006 11:57 PM

Of course we wouldn't insult you. I can only understand your point of view to an extent, but we're not crazy fascists like some other board whose name I won't mention. We only attack people who come here telling us how crazy we are and other such insults.

So welcome, and I hope you have a great time!

Post: #227560
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227560/action/topic#227560
Time: 20-Jul-2006 5:24 AM

With Mojo's sudden success whisking him off his feet, many years passed before Mojo even thought about his destiny, the necklace, or the card again. But, of course, that was all part of Reallife's altruistically-imparied plan. It was a really quite complicated plan, actually.

EDIT: Added subordinate phrase in first sentence for clarification.

Post: #227552
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227552/action/topic#227552
Time: 20-Jul-2006 4:20 AM

"Okay," Mojo said, "I'll bite. What the hell could possibly the difference between the two? And wouldn't that be an awesome idea for a guitar-based ballad?"

Post: #227547
Topic: SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227547/action/topic#227547
Time: 20-Jul-2006 3:27 AM

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
But as far as I know, all the modern Batman films have had large and successful toylines. I still have dozens of figures from Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns. Apparently, however, they couldn't get the rights to use DeVito's face or maybe they thought it would be too scary, but the figure of The Penguin was the comic-book version.

That's probably part of why filmmakers and toymakers love Batman so much - Batman's vast array of gadgets makes it easy to mass merchandise him. Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Captain Marvel, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter lack those accessories and I wonder if that works against them.

I don't know. Most of the "gadgets" they use in Batman toylines are made up exclusively for the toyline and resemble absolutely nothing ever used in any type of Batman story. As a kid, I'd generally go for the Batman figure that most resembled the one in the movie/cartoon/comic and then expand my collection from there. But, anyway, my point is that they could just as easily make up gadgets or costume variations for other superheroes, and make figures that utilize one of the superpowers. I know they've done this before. I have three Spider-Man action figures from back in the day. One of them has his arms spread out with string emerging from them that he can slide up and down. The second has him in a darker costume that has a button that allows his arms to move in a wall-crawling motion. And the third has detatchable night-vision goggles and Dr. Octopus limbs.

So, yeah, toy developers have a long history of butchering aspects of superheroes.

Post: #227545
Topic: Simple Storytelling
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/227545/action/topic#227545
Time: 20-Jul-2006 3:22 AM

"Wow," Mojo mused. "How amazing that my possessed and sold soul housing an evil entity can perform surgery on me so well... And not choose to kill me in the process!"