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#73930
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The Next Superman
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73930/action/topic#73930
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Regicidal_Maniac

Sounds good enough but I'd still have rather seen McG's take on the story.


WHY?! 75% of the movie would be a poorly done CGI Superman flying in bullet-time sequences with Prodigy music on the background. The other 25% would be filled by women in sexist, degrating roles and by awfuly delivered one liners. McG has NO talent, he's a music video director who once watched The Matrix and thought "I can do something even cooler".


That's harsh and untrue.

McG is no story teller I grant you that but he is a visualist and has a great eye, whereas Singer is a story teller but not much of a visionary director.

The CGI I assume you're referring to in Charlie's Angels is well above the standard set by Stephen Sommers or Jon Mostow and was meant to be fantastical and have a slight edge of unreality.

The script was supposed to be by JJ Abrams of ALIAS and may have needed a bit of work but it was new and fresh and that's what we need not rehashed Donner films. We needed a new Superman for a new era and the films should represent our times, if that means soulless, shallow and empty, all front and flash then so be it.

Personally I'm sure McG would have surprised even his staunchest critics if given a tough line producer.

He has talent but you have to look past the pvc buttshot CA2 poster to see it.

And the situations his female characters would have been in would have been totally different to the CA films as those situations were largely at producer Drew Barrymore's request.
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#73775
Topic
The Next Superman
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73775/action/topic#73775
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So far things are looking like this:

Director Bryan Singer

Screenwriter Dan Harris

Brandon Routh for Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman

Evangeline Lilly for Lois Lane

Kevin Spacey for Lex Luthor

Shawn Ashmore for Jimmy Olsen

Terence Stamp as General Zod (maybe)

The film is extensively prevized.

Superman 1 & 2 are being used as the origin story with this new film following on from them.

Superman has been missing for a few years and is returning to a world that had gotten too used to relying on having a 'Super' man around whenever things went pear-shaped.

The super suit will likely be classic blue red yellow but will probably get a slight update.

The costume design will be similar to the Spiderman latex-fabric combination bodystocking.

It'll be shooting around the corner from me at Fox in Sydney early next year.

Sounds good enough but I'd still have rather seen McG's take on the story.
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#73757
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Yoda cuts one - in the PT.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73757/action/topic#73757
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Apparently.

AICN Spoilers

TFN Forum Spoilers

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Does Yoda really fart in the movie?

"In the rough cut, he did."

Sounds up to standard so far.

YODA
(leaning sideways)
Upon us the winds of change are. A bad feeling about this I have.

MACE
Indeed, I…
(wrinkling his nose in disgust)
Oh geez did you just cut one?

YODA
Uh the uh Dark Side clouds everything.

MACE
(not impressed)
…

YODA
Yea uh…
(waves his hand in front of Mace’s face)
Smell nothing you can.

MACE
(staring at Yoda)
You know that’s not gonna work.

YODA
Hmmm… powerful anger the Midichlorians feel. Order not the Dianoga stew again shall I.

MACE
They oughta call YOU Windu.

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#73113
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My Generation Rocks!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/73113/action/topic#73113
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK, somehow I feel some people will get angry at me... Geez I promised to get away from political discussions, but they pull me back again!


"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" - Michael Corleone

Here in Oz we get loads of American news in our nightly newsbroadcasts, you know being a contender for the 51st state and all.

The thing that surprises me is the disparity of information between OUR reports of an event and the NBC news or CNN news reports or other reports of the same events. On our ABC and SBS the reporting is far more detailed than the reports from Americas own stations which will usually only have a portion of a soundbyte whereas our reports will include said soundbyte in context.

I used to be annoyed at how much focus some other country got in our news but I guess it is important seeing as how he who controls Rome controls the world. It's a pity then that the rest of the world has no say in your elections which end up impacting our lives.
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#72831
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Bush and Nuclear Proliferation
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72831/action/topic#72831
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
it would be naive to say that money doesnt effect the presidency, we have had zero poor/middle class pres. But to state that Conservative lobbiest have more power than liberal lobbiest is also naive. If the defense contractors are so powerful why did clinton get in? That guy slashed the military budget...


Sometimes it's 'just time'.

I'd like to see a budget breakdown of the two campaigns and a budgetary comparison between Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents.

Seems to me, a self confessed liberal, that the Dems spend more money on fixing what's broken rather than on tools to break things.

But then I am biased.
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#72819
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Bush and Nuclear Proliferation
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72819/action/topic#72819
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Originally posted by: Kingsama
As i have said before, i have no problem with upgrading technology, as long as there are no more bombs built. AKA replacing old technology. I am full on in favor of scrapping most of our nukes, it is redundant to have them, not to mention to pay for their upkeep. But i agree full nuclear disarmerment is a great idea, but not plausable. That would be like disarming the military and police. The quasi good will generally follow the rules, but the bad, never will...


I have to agree with Kingsama here.

They'd have to all be dismantled at once, which would require total cooperation (never gonna happen).

There's always going to be some two-bit tinpot despot with access to a dirty bomb and as much as it pains me to say it I don't see a way out of the nuke stockpile problem.

There's no way to unfuck the situation.

MORE nukes and ICBM in the sky is a retarded idea, seriously drooling monkeys couldn't have worse ideas.

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Originally posted by: Kingsama
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There would still be plenty of funding for Defense contractors even if new nukes werent built. There is a laudry list of new technologies being developed that have nothing to do with nuclear bombs...


Here I agree again. I am for progress but I'm not sure if we really need deathrays and phantomzone projectors and the like.

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Originally posted by: Kingsama
And no one bought the presidency, there were many studies done by independant news sources that backed the Electoral COllege, and the supreme court. One of which was done by CNN, which is by no means a concervative entity...


The Presidency, or the leadership of any country for that matter, is for sale to the highest bidder. It's all about advertising and the more you spend the more votes you'll buy, especially important is a vicelike control of the main media outlets.

Here is the full text version of the quote in my sig:

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Originally posted by: Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."


He who controls the media controls the lie.

Victory! FOX News calls 2004 presidential election for Bush

I seem to recall the pro-Bush FOX news calling an earlier election also.

In the 2000 election a full cousin of George W. Bush, John Prescott Ellis, was analysing data from the Voter News Service for Fox News and had several times contact by telephone with both George and Jeb Bush that night. It was his decision to call Florida for Bush, with Fox being the first network to do so.

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Originally posted by: Lethe
I wonder how it is voters willingly support this sort of program?


To answer this I will use the full version of my other sig.

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Originally posted by: Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag
"Of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."