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SilverWook

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#1036678
Topic
Rogue Zero - What was changed, reshot, etc in Rogue One?
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ray_afraid said:

IP55 said:

SilverWook said:

IP55 said:

The only thing that exists on my world is the OT, vader lived on the death star and other ships haha. Not some count ducula castle…cannon,prequels and Wikis are just shite that was created after the event.

What part of previously unused Ralph McQuarrie OT concept do you not get?

None of it, the films are the films.

I have to agree Just because Ralph designed it doesn’t mean we should all accept it as canon.
I dig it though.

It’s not something Disney pulled out of their asses either.

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#1036420
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The "Name that Movie/TV Show I Can't Name" Thread
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Darth Solo said:

This a good thread idea as I hear that question by the bucket load.

Something that has bugged me for quite some time, is a TV show that i think I watched in the early 90’s on late night television which is based in American book store and had three main characters, two guys and one girl, who work there deal with the paranormal, and get their information from a individual book on the subject.

Are you sure you’re not thinking of Friday The 13th The Series? Which had nothing to do with maniacs in hockey masks killing horny teenagers at summer camp.

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#1036259
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

TV’s Frink said:

I want to believe this is fake news but who the fuck knows.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-military-equipment-inauguration_us_58811f4ae4b096b4a23091f7

The military “may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing our military.”

Trump spoke about his vision of military parades in vague terms, suggesting it was something he might oversee in the future. But according to several sources involved in his inaugural preparations, Trump has endeavored to ensure that his first day as commander-in-chief is marked by an unusual display of heavy military equipment.

During the preparation for Friday’s transfer-of-power, a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the inaugural parade, a source involved in inaugural planning told The Huffington Post. “They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” the source said, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang, typically seen as an aggressive display of muscle-flexing.

Military flyovers of parades and sporting events isn’t terribly new, but wouldn’t tanks be likely to tear up the asphalt of most roads?

Yes:

The military, which traditionally works closely with the presidential inaugural committee, shot down the request, the source said. Their reason was twofold. Some were concerned about the optics of having tanks and missile launchers rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. But they also worried that the tanks, which often weigh over 100,000 pounds, would destroy the roads.

That’s what I thought. There are streets in my town big trucks aren’t supposed to go down even.

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#1036250
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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TV’s Frink said:

I want to believe this is fake news but who the fuck knows.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-military-equipment-inauguration_us_58811f4ae4b096b4a23091f7

The military “may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview published Wednesday. “That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing our military.”

Trump spoke about his vision of military parades in vague terms, suggesting it was something he might oversee in the future. But according to several sources involved in his inaugural preparations, Trump has endeavored to ensure that his first day as commander-in-chief is marked by an unusual display of heavy military equipment.

During the preparation for Friday’s transfer-of-power, a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the inaugural parade, a source involved in inaugural planning told The Huffington Post. “They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” the source said, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang, typically seen as an aggressive display of muscle-flexing.

Military flyovers of parades and sporting events isn’t terribly new, but wouldn’t tanks be likely to tear up the asphalt of most roads?

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#1036138
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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MalàStrana said:

I know it’s going to be historic. The man is funny AND seems to be efficient. Obama had good speeches but without intelligent actions speeches are worthless, and so are Obama’s 8 years: worthless. He only brought more wars than Bush and let ISIS spread. So yeah, thanks Obama, really… won’t miss you…

Do you complain about your own country’s leaders this much?

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#1035939
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All Things Star Trek
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DuracellEnergizer said:

Of the Trek series I’ve watched, I consider DS9 the only one that really managed to realize its full potential. TOS was hampered by its episodic nature and strict focus on Kirk/Spock/McCoy; TNG by awful technobabble and Roddenberry’s utopian crap; and TAS by cheap animation, short runtime, and some really dire voice acting on Doohan’s part. Aside from everything to do with Worf and the Klingons, I have no similar gripes with DS9.

Every Sat AM cartoon series in 1973 was cheap animation. And one hour shows were rare, save for The New Scooby Doo Movies. And Doohan did many voiceovers for TOS, IIRC.

In any event, TAS showed us alien vistas and creatures even the later live action shows couldn’t regularly afford.

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#1035507
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Rogue One * <em>Spoilers</em> * Thread
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Tyrphanax said:

eiyosus said:

There’s an old vacuum commercial with Frank Sinatra (I think) dancing with a vacuum (or maybe it was Singing in the Rain Footage) that they made sometime after Forest Gump pioneered the technology of placing old actors (or JFK, in the case of Forest Gump) in new footage, so they’ve been at it for a while now.

It was Fred Astaire and a Dirt Devil and they got in a lot of trouble with his estate.

Uh, it was his estate that pimped him out while stiffing documentaries and other legit venues of even being able to use film clips of him. Moral of the story, don’t marry a control freak late in life who will whore out your likeness after you’re dead.

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#1032689
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Episode III: Revenge of the Ridiculousness
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yoda-sama said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3rwwACMu8

I’m enjoying this, though I feel the vehicle sounds significantly overpower the dialog. (Love the David Cross line at the end.)

Also, it should be said, I really like what you did with the Mace Windu lightning scene, I think the effect worked well enough to mix it in, and it is all pretty funny. The Wookie blurring scene works great, and would be fine as a one off, as it looks like they’re all showing their junk on purpose as a group thing, it doesn’t have to imply they’re balls-out-naked all the time.

As we Wookiees don’t wear pants, that’s a logical conclusion. 😉