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Bingowings said:

 Hey! That's a 1983 Tardis Console in a 1980 film. Timey wimey or what! ;-)

DuracellEnergizer said:

The strawberry has the perfect taste, the perfect shape, and the perfect colour -- it's nature's perfect fruit.

 For a third of the year yes... the other 3 thirds it tastes like crap ;-)

TV's Frink said:

Jetrell Fo 1 said:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-TVs-Frink-AKA-The-Real-Ric-Olie-vs-the-Infinite-Fos-Thread/topic/16525/

Why on earth would someone think that if a member saw a thread with their name in it that they would blindly enter knowing the wolves await?

Weird .............

 Can you list the wolves so we know who to avoid?  Thanks.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wolverhampton_Wanderers_F.C._players

Take special care to avoid Andy Gray ^

Glad I could help

There's not a better Cinema experience than seeing a bad movie with a good crowd ;-)

Love that character, so memorable for such a minor part.

But I think he talks much more like Gollum, and the Gollum voice was minted by Peter Woodthorpe in 1978 (And in a good part by Wolfe Morris in 1968) both long before ST3 and Yoda (Not to mention the books from 1937 and 1954).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi5OR0ZVdw

I hope JJ doesn't just do homages to scenes like the Cantina but I do hope that the characters hang out in some dangerous places and not boring senate chambers.

Watched 'The Android Invasion' from the Tom Baker era.

I agree with Bingowings above point, that the finger guns were a big mistake as they far too similar to The Autons. However aside from that, I thought The Androids were a significantly different proposition to their plastic cousins with a whole different agenda.

The basic plot is 'Invasion of The Bodysnatchers' run by an alien Dr Mengele who looks like a mutated Rhino. The serial was full of interesting concepts and ideas related to the premise of aliens trying to copy people and places. Sometimes with less than accurate results like failing to realise that calenders have more than one day or that all coins aren't the same... and I was left with a craving for a couple of pints of Ginger-Pop.

Milton Johns once again turns in a great performance in the show, totally different from both of his other evil or devious roles (The brainwashing reveal was a brilliant idea). The subtle and chilling performance from Elizabeth Sladen as her doppelganger is a world away from her melodramatic acting from the Sarah Jane Adventures that was sadly her last trip into the Whoniverse.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!SPOILER FOLLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a bit strange that, although The Doctor defeats the evil alien scientist Styggron at the end. The writers seemed to have forgotten that there was still a Kraal Invasion Fleet lead by Marshal Chedaki waiting to invade Earth (Styggron was just trying to capture Earth through science first, rather than outright force). So presumably the Kraal forces are still waiting somewhere in space to invade Earth, forty years later.

But putting that aside it's Barry Lett's excellent and inventive Direction that lingers in the memory.

'The Princess and the Frog' rocks. Georgous hand drawn animation, lovely characters, soulful music and none of the big loud 4th-wall-breaking modern razzamatazz pop-culture-in-jokes nonsense. An old-fashioned Disney film in a very good way. Disney needs to stick to the pledge it made to make more traditionally animated films like it.

But it's been 4 and a half years since 'Princess and the Frog' and they still haven't done a single full-length hand-drawn movie (Unless you count the hour long 'Winnie the Pooh' limited theatrical release).

Have you tried looking in the bottom of that top drawer in your desk, you know the one, the one where you put stuff when you don't want to forget where you put it but you always do, kinda defeating the point of putting it there? That's where things always are for me anyway LOL

Jetrell Fo said:

@Bingo ...... may I ask why you reference the Winter Olympics with regards to me in that last post?

 I think he's refering to Putin's controversial comments just prior to the games, where he expressed much the same thing (Google it).

Darth Lucas said:

Terrible news  =(  My computer crashed and I lost ALL of the information on my hard drive.  Which unfortunately means I will have to start this edit all over again from scratch.

 Commiserations but surely the data is recoverable somehow. Start a thread in off-topic asking for help and advice. There are some very knowledgeable people when it comes to I.T. issues on this forum.

Moth3r said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Those of a certain age may remember the fiendishly addictive late 80s game 'Stunt Car Racer' on the Amiga (And other platforms).

I must be of a certain age then, because I remember it well. I managed to beat the first set of tracks on the Amiga, it then repeats the same tracks but with blue colouring and a faster car. I found it impossible to progress from there, if you drove fast enough to beat your opponent you'd end up wrecking the car, and if you drove carefully to avoid damage you would always lose. 

The game became even more fun when you had two Amigas, a null modem cable and a group of friends.

 It reminds you how much more difficult games used to be. A game I really loved recently was the new Tomb Raider but it rarely presented more than a mild challenge even maximum difficulty.  You'd have to work hard at being bad at Tomb Raider to get stuck and be unable to progress. I never was able to complete half the games I had as a kid LOL

btw The day before yesterday, I mentioned to a YouTuber I follow, who does retro 80s let's-plays that it would be cool if he did some Amiga ones. 24hrs later he'd done two videos taking in everything from Shufflepuck Cafe and Captain Planet to Batman and Robocop 2 (That's service for you!).

Lets Play Retro: AMIGA Collection Part 1

Lets Play Retro: AMIGA Collection Part 2

Check out anything Aardman Animation have done in the last decade or so. It's all perfectly smooth as silk. If they can do it with plasticine then it can be done with rubber puppets and physical models.

Aardman Studio Tour

SilverWook said:

TheBoost said:

aflip said:

Original actors only in the lead spots, please. No generic 2000's actors, thank you. We don't need generation facebook dweebs like that Hayden Christiansen buttwipe ruining any other Star Wars films. OK?  BTW, Leia is WAY sexier than that generic Padme'...Leia has more attitude and would be  better in bed. But if you like cold fish..well, Padme' for you.

 Stay classy San Diego.

 Not to mention Hayden was cast almost four years before Facebook even existed. ;)

 Never let facts get in the way of some prequel bashing Wook.

Before they are too old, Ewan and Hayden should be brought back to do a standalone Live-Action Clone Wars movie.

Seeing Ben and Anakin's friendship, seeing Ben's youthful recklessness and Anakin's hot-shot piloting skills was the only damned thing I wanted out of the PT really (And it was the last thing we actually got).

None of the plodding politics and melodrama of the PT, just two best buds (The two best buds we saw rescue Palpatine for all of 15 minutes at the start of ROTS) riding round the galaxy, kickin' ass and taking names. Lots of humour, lots of high adventure, exotic locales and a good sprinkling of action and romance. If the Marvel universe can do this type of film then so can Star Wars.

The ulterior motive would be that the footage could be used to create a new fanedited trilogy using none of TPM and good chunks of AOTC and ROTS with the new Clone Wars movie woven into the center as the new Episode II.

It might be a good idea to have some sort of Tatooine based sequence whereby we see Owen and Anakin both bonding and falling out. Maybe Anakin comes back to free the slaves from the Hutts as he promised but Owen doesn't hold with his ideals and doesn't want to get involved. But he begrudgingly does anyway ('Cause he's a decent bloke at heart) harburing some slaves resulting in the Hutts burning his Moisture farm in a for-shadowing of the events of ANH.

Can't think of a decent title. The world might implode if another SW thing is called Clone Wars again.

Almost the film that this ^ poster implies without it sucking ass like that childish CGI cartoon monstrosity did.

Warner Brothers

I decided to go a bit further back and watch some more Patrick Troughton. I choose 'The Seeds of Death' an Ice Warriors 6-parter.

In Earth's future, The Ice Warriors have taken control of the moon and are using it as a spring-board to conquer earth. Mankind has abandoned conventional travel and instead uses only T-Mat to beam everywhere. Rockets and even cars are but a relic of the past forgotten in a museum. So Earth finds itself seemingly helpless to take back the moon with the T-Mat in the invader's hands.

This was a great premise for a story but it wasn't without it's logical problems. The one with the Tardis is quickly ignored, when The Doctor says that his rickety old Tardis couldn't possibly be guided accurately enough to land on the moon. So you forget that and enjoy the adventure... until episode 5. At this point the earth forces suddenly remember that they do have Rockets after all when the script requires the launching of a satellite. Also when they need to get somewhere fast they find a convenient car out of nowhere (Where they got the petrol from is never explained).

However the central performances, the atmospheric and inventive Direction, the dramatic tension thoughout, some terrific set designs and superior model work (Some of the best space footage from the classic era IMO) make these logical problems easy to forgive.

I found Terry Scully's complex character Fewsham ^ particulaly engaging as he tustles with morality.

Two 'Invasion' stories (Dinosaurs and Androids) from Pertwee and Baker T next.

Those of a certain age may remember the fiendishly addictive late 80s game 'Stunt Car Racer' on the Amiga (And other platforms).I found a free version that you can play on your Windows (XP,Win7-32&64) desktop. Installs almost instantly with zero emmulation setup issues and I was playing straight away and reliving this classic.http://stuntcarracerwin32.bravesites.com/

I lost an hour last night just trying to beat the first few tracks LOL

Sadly it's not the glitzy Amiga version with live damage, dashboard read outs, nitro flames and nice menus. It's just the basic PC version (From the days when PCs were little more than jumped up pocket calculators) but it still plays and sounds the same.

Amiga:

PC:

Bingowings said:

Luke is wearing...well it's hard to tell...

 "LOOOONE STAAR!"

Gotta love those old "They only let me see the trailer once so I had to paint it from memory" posters.

Jetrell Fo said:

Why do we only ever make celebrity death stand out?  What about the average person?  Why is it that they can't get a mention when they pass.  They were important to someone weren't they? 

 "One" being the operative word in your post.

Celebrities by their nature mean something to a vast proportion of people. Hopefully something meaningfull like creating a great work of art.

If George Lucas died I'd care... if his brother died, I wouldn't really give a toss (Harsh but the truth) because his life had no meaning for me or anyone else beyond his immediate family. Just as Lucas (Or his possibly imaginary brother) wouldn't give a toss if I died.

Markstar said:

Am I the only one who would have been happy with Ady's excellent color correction and fixing the top 10 most obvious errors?

 Yes ;-)

Markstar said:

Adywan is getting outpaced by technology. This thing started with DVD format and by now we have seen the introduction of 720, 1080, 3D and now 4k. Don't get me wrong, I'm still find with a good DVD quality movie on our 46" and will be grateful for whatever Adywan is going to release whenever he sees fit. All I'm saying there is merit in having a schedule that doesn't span a decade.

 As I understand it ESB:R will be 720, but the official ESB isn't really available in any of those larger formats you mention either.

Sadako said:

Osoku narimashita.

  No, you can go to the bathroom during recess.

skyjedi2005 said:

It will be something insipidly stupid like Rise of the Force, or Return of the Sith.

Star Wars into Darkness,lol.  With Benedict Cumberbatch.

 I think in that crazy Hollywood Executive world of logic, sticking "Dark" or something similar into a film's title equals box office gold. 'The Dark Knight' was a success and that had "Dark" in the title, so it stands to reason right?!?

Star Trek Into Darkness
Thor: The Dark World

So sure something generic like...

Star Wars Episode VII: Dark Force Rising

...or the like is very possible. Also having "Rising" in the title worked for TDKR! LOL

Bingowings said:

New Baddie Alert.

 Oh well that's my last glimmer of hope that the Capaldi era will be a little less camp and more serious all but extinguished LOL

On the upside Keeley is indeed on top form at the minute in 'Line of Duty'.