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#129224
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Comics Fans
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Originally posted by: JediSage


I'm looking forward to it as long as it's not the Flash 90210/Smallville version. He's always been a favorite, so it'll be good to see him get the big screen treatment. Have you ever seen the tv series that was on in the early 90's? I thought it was pretty darn good.


I saw the two TV movies which covered his origin and featured Mark Hamill as the Trickster. Thought these were pretty decent.

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#129226
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Quotes I Like
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129226/action/topic#129226
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When I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with many brilliantly talented homosexuals. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite. Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh. - Charlton Heston
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#129132
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Any GI Joe fans around here?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129132/action/topic#129132
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Originally posted by: greencapt


The GI Joe comic series from Marvel was, IMHO, superior to the show in many ways and I followed it for quite some time after I stopped watching the show. Anyone else read the comic?


I've looked for the GI Joe comics but can never find them. I've talked to a few people who have read them, and they make me feel like I'm some kind of sinner for not being a die hard fan of Snake Eyes.

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#128937
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Any GI Joe fans around here?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/128937/action/topic#128937
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Originally posted by: segaflip
I thought for sure this thread would grow much bigger and faster then this.
Anyone got those new DVDs of the show? How are they?


I too am surprised how little action this thread is seeing.

Got Season 1, Part 2 (the second half of hte first season), which comes with three different audio options (5.1, 2.0, and "Original Broadcast") and interview with voice actors Bill Ratner, the man who gave us Flint (the guy with the beret) and Mary McDonald-Lewis, the woman who was Lady Jaye, and they talked about how the auditions for GI Joe were like an old Hollywood cattle call, with hundreds of voice actors lined up with scripts in "shaky hands". Mary McDonald-Lewis said she was originally reading for a much smaller part, but the voice director Wally Burr liked the sound of her voice and asked to be Lady Jaye, which she claims she got because Wally was impressed with how passionately she screamed "Yo Joe!" into the microphone. Bill Ratner said the key to his winning the role of Flint was his ability to grunt and groan and do various throat punishing straining noises, which proved to be a big part of the acting in GI Joe, since the Joes were forever getting into fist fights with Cobra operatives and what not.

The DVD for GI Joe the movie comes with retooled sounds, 12 GI Joe public service announcements (in which various GI Joes explain to kids the true meaning of life - or how to survive it) and two TV spots advertising the original GI Joe miniseries GI Joe: A Real American Hero (better known as "The MASS Device").

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#128627
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Quotes I Like
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Quotes from people

"Life is to be lived within the limits of your knowledge and within the concept of what you would like to see yourself to be." - Burt Lancaster

"Sam [Peckinpah] is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set." - Charlton Heston

"I'm not interested in reputation or immortality or things like that...I don't care what I'm remembered for. I don't care if I'm remembered. I don't care if I'm not remembered. I don't care why I'm remembered. I genuinely don't care." - Richard Harris

"If it hadn't been for Geoffrey Unsworth, we wouldn't have had a movie." - Richard Donner

Quotes from movies or various entertainment areas

"I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the American way."
"You're gonna end up fighting every elected official in this country." - Superman (1978)

"We're fine..."
"I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound... fine?" Evil Dead II (1987)

"Riiiiight Harold, I'm lyin'. So why don't I have a little fun and keep lookin' by myself?" Escape From New York (1981)

"You seem like a decent fellow. I would hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow. I'd hate to die." - The Princess Bride (1987)
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#128435
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Any GI Joe fans around here?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/128435/action/topic#128435
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Originally posted by: JediSage
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I just got done subjecting myself to the CGI laden GI Joe: Valor VS Venom and while it was not the worst thing I ever sat through, it could not match the hand drawn GI Joe cartoons of the 1980s that dominated my childhood.

So I thought I'd pop in and see if anyone else here spent time with the GI Joe show.


I grew up with that version of Joe. I was really in awe when they were doing 5 part story arcs, like the weather control machine, etc; while other shows were doing one shots (except Transformers). The one thing that I could never really get over was that nobody ever died on the show. Everyone was the worst shot on the planet.


Funny you should mention that, Jedi Sage. In the original script for GI Joe: The Movie (1987), Duke (the rugged blonde guy who kinda looked like classic vintage Aquaman) was supposed to die, but the death of Optimus Prime in the Transformers movie upset a lot of kids, which led to unhappy parents, so the GI Joe people changed Duke's death to a coma, even though if you watch the scene [without audio] and just go by the reactions of Lt. Falcon (Duke's half brother), Scarlett (the jaunty red head) and General Hawk, then it's quite clear that Duke is dead. Now whenever I think of that scene and the coma line, a voice in my head screams "The man is clearly dead!"

And this all goes back to the fact that production actually started first on the GI Joe movie, but GI Joe ran into a series of production problems and delays, allowing the Transformers film to finish first, so release dates were swapped, giving fans time to freak out over the death of the great one (Optimus Prime), thus short changing Duke and GI Joe, leaving some fans to theorize that maybe if GI Joe's movie had gotten released first and kids freaked out over Duke dying, Optimus Prime might have been spared (although they did bring Prime back, which I guess makes him the Jesus Christ of Autobots).

Isn't it great that you have me to provide you with this useless trivia?
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#128147
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The Princess Bride
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/128147/action/topic#128147
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Out of curiosity, was "Princess Bride" a hit at the box office or a miss that amassed a great cult following like "Buckaroo Banzai"?

Has anyone read the book on which the film was based? I think there are like two different versions, an original and a "good parts" version.

You know, if they were making TPB now, it would probably star Orlando Bloom or some WB boy as Westley (played by Cary Elwes originally) and some underfed girl as a tougher, more feminist type Buttercup (originally Robin Wright Penn).
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#127063
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Too much blonde hair?
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yes, but our society, for some reason, also finds shallow and unintelligent as attractive.

And I personally don't see the big deal about blonde women. I'm just not attracted to them for some reason.


I find myself liking blonde women less and less with each passing day. I'm not saying I wouldn't date a blonde woman if she seemed nice and maybe showed interests similar to my own, but when Hollywood goes out of its way to tell non-blonde actresses to go blonde for a role or whatever (Nicole Kidman, Laura Prepon, Lindsay Lohan, etc) I find it very off-putting (personally I prefer red heads, even unnatural red heads). And it's always the super white platinum blonde look to boot, which just looks horrible on pretty much everyone no matter how fair their skin may be.