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Jaster Mareel

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#136565
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Seans ytmnd.com pages
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I like the blue matrix one


That's funny. That has to be the one that I put the least amount of effort into. I just found that image on myspace, and was like "wow cool" so I used it and put the blue song with it. It took all of three minutes to make, but for some reason it's quickly becoming my most popular. It only has 10 less views than the shut up one, which has been up for two days now.

I guess that just goes to show that putting to much thought into something never really turns out to be good. You just have to GO FOR IT. JUMP ON THE TRAIN!! RIDE THE WHALE!!! You know what I mean? Never wear a watch, baby! Because it's always NOW! And NOW is when it NEEDS to be DONE! YEAH! YEEEEAAAAAHHH! RAAAAARGGGHH! RAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
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#135798
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katrina
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/135798/action/topic#135798
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It's kind of messed up how I'm sitting here in my room eating Burger King, and watching TV, when just a few hundred miles away, people are dying and looting and raping and all that. Just a week ago, those people were all living normally. Now, most of them are homeless.
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#130760
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Favorite Movie Soundtracks
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130760/action/topic#130760
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Originally posted by: Darth Enzo
Two more that I really like and listen to regularly are John Ottman's score for "The Usual Suspects" and David Arnold's "Stargate."

I always get a kick out of really good music in really crappy movies, like Christopher Young's "Species" and John Debney's "Cutthroat Island."


Yeah, the score for The Usual Suspects was great. Stargate had a pretty good one aswell.
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#130689
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The Fountain
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130689/action/topic#130689
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Hey, I was just wondering if anyone else was looking forward to the new Darren Aronofsky film, "The Fountain." It stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. I've been watching it closely for a few months now, reading all the interviews I can find and stuff.

The website is finally up, but it has almost nothing on it. The background is pretty cool though...

Anyway. I feel like I'm going crazy waiting for this thing. They haven't even put out a trailer yet (not counting the trailer that those lucky guys at Comic Con got to see.) and so far there's no release date, although it's suppose to be winter of 2005. But really, I'm more anxious about this then I was about Episode III. What sucks though is that I'm betting it'll probably only be released in select cities. But, I guess driving an hour or so would be worth it, just so I can see it as soon as I possibly can.

I'm trying not to have any of the story spoiled before I go to see it, so even though the graphic novel is being released november 2nd, I'm probably not going to be buying it untill after I see the movie (unless I didn't like the movie, but I think I will.)

Aronofsky is a brilliant director. Requiem for a Dream is my favorite movie. It leaves me speechless everytime I watch it. I didn't as much care for Pi, even though it was still a good movie.

But, yeah. I just thought I'd see how many other people here were Aronofsky fans and if any of you were planning on seeing The Fountain.
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#130642
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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130642/action/topic#130642
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Everyone wants to blame somebody for a bomb, but the truth is, it all comes down to the producers, the director, the screenwriter(s) and the studio. The studio is to blame for greenlighting the thing. The screenwriter is to blame for failing to produce a decent script (don't get me started on originality). The director is to blame for failing to interpret the script properly (or failing to realise that it was a piece of shite and should never have been made in the first place). Finally, the producers are to blame for failing to keep a tighter rein on production and not saying no to the egotistical director often enough.


Finally, if the actors are actually to blame, they can usually be sacked, right?

*Gets off soapbox.*


Exactly. Couldn't of said it better myself.
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#130599
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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130599/action/topic#130599
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I saw the movie and McGregor and Johanson are not to blame. I didn't think The Island was a bad movie, but it did have a few script problems. The budget apparently was over $100 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it on screen. I don't know why people are not going. There are plenty of other even more brainless action movies making money, Dukes of Hazard made $30 million dollars last week.


Maybe Johanson should have been in a music video of her wearing a bikini and washing a car.
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#130506
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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130506/action/topic#130506
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Fricken wonderful. I hate it when someone randomly pops in and tells me a movie that's gotten good reviews and that I'm planning to see is bad. Now I don't know if I should or not. Yeesh.


Well, see it if you're interested in seeing it. Don't let my opinion of the movie keep you from seeing it and forming your own opinion.

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It seems like The Island is having lots of trouble...

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Producers of the 1979 independent SF movie Parts: The Clonus Horror filed suit in federal court on Aug. 8 in New York alleging that Warner Brothers/DreamWorks' The Island was based on their film, Variety reported. In addition to a request for unspecified damages and part of the proceeds from Michael Bay's SF movie The Island, the suit asks the court to order the studios to withdraw it from theaters and block further release, the trade paper reported.

Since The Island was released on July 22, several reviewers have noted the similarities between the two films. Premiere magazine wrote: "The first hour of The Island plays like a much more expensive, albeit scene-for-scene, remake." The New York Daily News and Memphis' Commercial-Appeal, as well as plenty of online critics, agreed, the trade paper reported.

Clonus, produced by Myrl A. Schreibman and Robert S. Fiveson, who also helmed, tells the story of a secret colony of clones who are told they will one day go to a utopian place called "America." They're actually being raised in case their human counterparts need spare organs. One of the clones escapes into Southern California and is chased as he tries to expose the facility.

In The Island, the clones are similarly raised as a source of spare parts for humans, and two clones escape into the real world, a futuristic Los Angeles, and try to shut down the cloning facility.

DreamWorks said in a statement: "The Island was independently created and does not infringe anyone's copyrights."

Made for $120 million, The Island has done poor business at the box office, grossing just $55 million worldwide to date, the trade paper reported.

Source.

I've never seen Clonus, but I've seen Logan's Run and THX-1138 and The Island basically is just a rehased telling of those movies. I mean, it's your basic running away from a dystopian future story, only this one is directed by Michael Bay. I've never really been a fan of Michael Bay. He's okay if you like summer action movies, but really, he's not even that great at doing those.

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#130440
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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130440/action/topic#130440
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
No it isn't. I wish I could vote with my dollar and help it out, but the lack of transportation, and my dad's hospitalization won't let me. (And not that an extra three-five people would make the difference.)


I wouldn't really waste your time. It's a bad movie. If you've seen the previews, then you know or can at least guess everything that happens.

Also, I think another reason for low box-office turnouts could be because of all the remakes. I mean, at any given point during this year, there has been a remake in theaters. Bad News Bears, War of the Worlds, Herbie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Pink Panther... Then there are the TV remakes, like Bewitched and Dukes of Hazzard. Then there has been a million sequels and such. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, The Transporter 2, Saw II, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, The Legend of Zorro...

Put all that together and then throw in movies like "The Fog" and "The Cave" and it's no big surprise that people aren't flocking to the movie theaters.

Honestly, there are very little films I'm actually looking forward too seeing.
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#130288
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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130288/action/topic#130288
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McGregor had nothing to do with the failure of The Island. The fact that it was a horribly written movie directed by the king of horrible teen summer movies is what made it a failure. I mean, they really tell you EVERYTHING about the story in the trailers. There was nothing surprising about the movie at all.

Besides, if I want to watch a movie about a dystopian future where there is a character running from something, I'd rather watch Logan's Run or THX-1138.

Though, I have to admit... Ewan's acting didn't seem as good in this movie as it normally does. I wish he'd do something with Boyle again...
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#129867
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My first....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129867/action/topic#129867
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Jaster Mareel
I actually feel dumber after reading this thread. Seriously, I think my I.Q. has dropped.


I agree, I don't really want to know when you guys first "did it" or when you first consummed drugs.

(Graham Chapman's Colonel character comes in) "Quite agree, quite agree. Stop that. It's silly. Far too silly."


I was referring more towards the horrible typing and constant posting of one liners. I feel like I'm in an AOL chat room.
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#129855
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Jedikev?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129855/action/topic#129855
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Originally posted by: greencapt
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Originally posted by: Jaster Mareel
BOO JEDIKEV! NEVER ALLOW HIM BACK! HE MUST BE BANNED FOREVER!!!


...Actually, I really don't care if he's banned or not... I was just saying that because everyone else was saying we should bring him back. I thought being different would make me cool.


Sounds like all my goth and 'alternative' friends- "I want to be different... just like like everyone else!"


Yeah, that's who I was making fun. I really can't stand those kind of people... They annoy me so much. And Emos annoy me too.