JarHead413

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Join date: 6-Jan-2005
Last activity: 9-Jan-2016
Posts: 425

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Post: #281334
Topic: IN NEW YORK NOW...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281334/action/topic#281334
Time: 8-Apr-2007 7:57 PM

I'm real interested in reading the book now.

To the LIBRARY!!!!

Post: #281316
Topic: IN NEW YORK NOW...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281316/action/topic#281316
Time: 8-Apr-2007 5:02 PM

I liked the new one a lot in 2001 but I can assure you it's because I was 14 at the time, hadn't properly seen the older ones and was (and still are) a big fan of the works of Tim Burton and Danny Elfman (I love the hell out of the Main Titles cue). 6 years later and I have seen the original a few times and although I consider it a good movie, IMO it's no masterpiece. It's equal to me as the new one. Both have good points and bad points but I could easily see why a fan of the original before 2001 wouldn't like the new one. They have obviously a very different look and overall feel from each other and the new one is just more "amazing" to watch for most people, but nothing compares to the original ending.

BTW...the street performers in NYC range from junk to surprisingly very talented. I gave this one guy with plastic buckets and drum sticks $10 just because he was so damn awesome.

Post: #281175
Topic: IN NEW YORK NOW...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281175/action/topic#281175
Time: 7-Apr-2007 8:06 AM

Is it a totally planned trip? Like, is everyone always in a group doing the same stuff everywhere or do they let you go in a certain area and tell you when you need to be back at "base"...or what have you?

I was there St. Patrick's Day 2003 for a band trip and it was amazing.

We were set loose in and around the following cool places:
5th Avenue
Radio City Music Hall
Empire State Building
Central Park
Time Square
WTC hole (that's mean)
Ellis Island
Staue of Liberty

Apart from going to Hawaii for band in 2005, this was easily the vacation with the most "holy shit I didn't think I'd ever get to go to these places" moments.

Post: #281173
Topic: Smokey and the Bandit *aspect ratio*
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281173/action/topic#281173
Time: 7-Apr-2007 7:57 AM

I've never seen it but you might just have to make a compromise here. They might have matted it to (1.85:1) so that people with widescreen TVs don't have to deal with or bitch about stretching and/or zooming making the movie less than desirable to watch. Taking overscan and the matting into perspective, you'd be loosing very little picture and probably nothing important at that. If you have a 4:3 TV and want what was originally put to film, stick with the PAL, otherwise the NTSC probably would look nice on a good 16:9 TV.

Post: #280581
Topic: Post Office unveils Star Wars stamp set
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280581/action/topic#280581
Time: 3-Apr-2007 3:16 PM

I voted Luke on Tatooine...i would have voted Yoda in second place. Everyone loves Yoda.

Post: #280431
Topic: Alec Guinness's Birthday today
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280431/action/topic#280431
Time: 2-Apr-2007 8:27 PM

The man was in so many other good movie that it must have have bugged the piss out of him that the only thing people would want to talk about was SW.

RIP

Post: #280266
Topic: I have decided...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280266/action/topic#280266
Time: 1-Apr-2007 7:59 PM

you son of bitch you.

Post: #280161
Topic: Gunmen Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280161/action/topic#280161
Time: 1-Apr-2007 12:23 AM

Never seen or played it in my life but the picture taking idea is cool. They should do that more in games, especially multiplayer FPS like Halo.

But people always have to ruin that shit by doing stupid stuff, which is prolly why it didn't go anywhere.

Post: #280139
Topic: TMNT
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280139/action/topic#280139
Time: 31-Mar-2007 10:27 PM

Pretty NSFW...but funnier than hell.

The Angry Nerd Hates TMNT3 - Part 1

Part 2

Post: #280137
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280137/action/topic#280137
Time: 31-Mar-2007 10:22 PM

My math professor looks like Hurley.

Post: #279733
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279733/action/topic#279733
Time: 29-Mar-2007 1:09 AM

actually, way more bearable.

Post: #279651
Topic: Children of Men
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279651/action/topic#279651
Time: 28-Mar-2007 1:56 PM

The car chase, the birth and the final battle sequence stand as some of the greatest things I have ever seen in a film. I've never been so engrossed in a movie and had the feeling of those events actually happening like I did in this movie. How this monumental achievement in cinematography and effects work went unnoticed my most of the world and the Oscars is beyond me.

Post: #279507
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/279507/action/topic#279507
Time: 27-Mar-2007 3:50 PM

I agree for the most part. Things have gotten really weird and interesting. I actually have a hard time realizing I'm watching the same show when I think about the first season. But the writers really know how to jerk ur memory around. It's weird watching the first two seasons knowing what I do know, cuz some of it was set up waaay before-hand.

Post: #278949
Topic: A Heart-Warming Message from the RIAA
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278949/action/topic#278949
Time: 23-Mar-2007 10:00 PM

Everyone always seems to turn to me to get them new music or movies or something. I always tell them to do it themselves and they act like I'm being an asshole. It seriously takes 5 minutes to find the right program and the right torrent (if you choose that way) and you're set, yet everyone seems to think you have to be a hacker or something. Most of them spend more time on the net than I do too.

Post: #278948
Topic: Tax refunds...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278948/action/topic#278948
Time: 23-Mar-2007 9:58 PM

I'm not sure how they work in other countries outside the US (I'd imagine similar tho) but what do you plan on doing with the money you get. I did mine back in Jan and ended up getting $700 or so back. I put a CD player in my car, paid rent and credit card bills and put the rest in checking. I can't stand when people act like it's free money and blow it all on useless shit then turn around and complain they don't have money for the important stuff.

So what did you do with yours...or whenever you get it, do you have plans for it.

BTW, i'm 19 and work part-time so obviously most of you guys will have a much bigger refund.

Post: #278943
Topic: A Heart-Warming Message from the RIAA
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278943/action/topic#278943
Time: 23-Mar-2007 9:50 PM

I love downloading a screener of something (for Academy members or something) and the ripper seems to intentionally leave in the big blue screen telling you that if you're watching it and you aren't who it was intended for then you are a piece of shit and should report it. They act like if you downloaded it, you know you aren't supposed to and should turn yourself in.

BTW, those adverts and warnings take up precious encoding space for the movie being pirated, so none of them have those.

Post: #278311
Topic: R2 goes postal!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278311/action/topic#278311
Time: 20-Mar-2007 2:59 AM

I just saw one two days ago about a mile from my house in Green Bay, WI in front of a grocery store. My friends and I weren't sure if what we were seeing was right from the road but we went up to it and started laughing our asses off. I didn't know only 400 were being put out until I read this thread...so in a small way...I feel special.

Unfortunately, either someone stole it or the USPS took the covering off cuz it's back to normal as of today.

Post: #276971
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276971/action/topic#276971
Time: 12-Mar-2007 9:39 PM

Mandy Moore

Post: #276768
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276768/action/topic#276768
Time: 12-Mar-2007 4:24 AM

Jesus people...three forum pages back?

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5918/981wow0046kzlh5.jpg

Post: #275472
Topic: The vocalizing in the PT.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275472/action/topic#275472
Time: 5-Mar-2007 8:16 PM

At least John Williams was able to make me feel something during scenes in the PT. Without the epicness (wha?) of Battle of the Heroes, the energy of Duel of the Fates, or the eeriness of the music during the ROTS balcony scene, GL would have gotten little to no emotion through with the lame acting/dialogue and the less than gripping camera work (not a knock on the actual operators mind you)...again, the balcony scene aside. I totally love watching and listening to that scene even out of context of the movie because it makes me happy knowing for a minute and a half, John Williams and George Lucas got me to feel awesome watching something so simplistic.

So basically, yeah the score and vocalizations do kinda force emotions but in the case of the PT, I'm more than happy to have something to love about the PT. I listen to those soundtracks more than I've seen the movies and it's always nice.

Post: #273182
Topic: To Catch A Predator
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273182/action/topic#273182
Time: 21-Feb-2007 10:14 PM

I was reading it slowly and right when I got to "I hope that someday I get to participate..." I sort of stopped and thought to myself....what in the fuck!

Post: #273181
Topic: Windows Vista
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273181/action/topic#273181
Time: 21-Feb-2007 10:13 PM

I can't even concern myself with Vista because, like most people, I lack the funds to update ALL of my hardware to run the thing.

The nice thing is, the program I'm in at my technical school has a nice little hidden web-site where anyone in the program has a direct link to download Vista for free and legal (some computer workers association runs it)...or actually any version of Windows from 95 on.

I finally get the opportunity to not pirate an OS and I can't even use the new one....damn.

Post: #273173
Topic: Getting too old for this sort of thing?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273173/action/topic#273173
Time: 21-Feb-2007 9:13 PM

Originally posted by: LexX
And if you guys think what a kid like me thinks about SEs an PT... Well, at first I thought that the SEs were cool because of better picture and sound quality like they showed in the featurettes before the movie. I didn't focus to the things they changed. Then I heard about Episode I. I thought why would they make more because the story is complete already. But I got excited about it and I even went to see a movie because I knew they'd show TPM trailer for the first time! Man! When I saw The Phantom Menace, I thought it was kind of cool with all these lightsaber fights, but I never ever thought that it was better than any of the originals. As I grew couple of years older, I was maybe 14, I started to hate it. I thought AOTC was as boring and crappy as it is still to me.
And of course, I absolutely hate this Lucas' tinkering and weird stuff he's come to. I want the real theatrical releases on DVD, dammit! Btw, I've been eagerly waiting for X0 for two years now.

I'm so happy when it's launched.

I too am 19 (4/13/87...hence the numbers in my sn) and I first saw the OT all in one day in maybe 1995 when my dad brought down the VHS set he had. It's the black box that had wing type things on the sides and original poster artwork on the boxes...I think.

I agree with most of what you said here, I was too young to really care about GL's revisionist craziness (plus we all still kind of assumed he'd not completely disavow the existence of the OT at the time). When TPM was announced and released and so forth, I was in the perfect demographic GL had obviously targeted and was sucked in by the hype, all the crazy CG (still didn't care for Jar Jar...mainly his voice) and cuz I thought Padme was pretty good lookin' (still holds true). When AOTC was released, I was older and wiser to what was going on. I was bored with the over-use of CG that wasn't even that good most of the time and the convoluted story-telling that really was going anywhere sometimes. Then the hype of ROTS started and I truly believed I'd get to see an excellent Star Wars movie the day it was released. Sadly, the 8 hours in the line/party in front of the theater turned out to be more fun than the movie, but it was a slight step above AOTC. Overall, the only PT movie I really watch anymore is TPM because I liked it so much more at the time I saw it than the other 2...and the CG looks better on film....and the Maul saber battle....and the pod race....yep.

EDIT: Yep, this VHS set...

http://i2.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/8b/95/2a74_1_b.JPG

Post: #272369
Topic: What the fuck??? : George is definitely gone "bye bye"
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272369/action/topic#272369
Time: 16-Feb-2007 8:36 PM

You know what....I'm totally watching ESB tonight. Yes, it'll be the 2004 DVD...but it's changed a lot less than any other one and looks so incredibly nice on my TV. None the less....it will rule.

Post: #271674
Topic: Most Epic Pictures
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271674/action/topic#271674
Time: 13-Feb-2007 11:23 PM

good.......................god.......