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#308186
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Heath Ledger dead at 28
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Originally posted by: PaulisDead2221
Heath took things pretty far to play the role, I don't think Malcolm McDowell spent any time in a hotel room alone writing down the most awful things he could think, then get himself to laugh maniacally, trying to find them hilarious as fuck. Then again, McDowell's got a pretty sickly rad sense of humor already, don't you think? Maybe Heath just couldn't handle it.


That's dedication. While I respect people who can go to such extremes in pursuit of an ideal, that kind of overworking combined with a lack of sleep and a medley of pills certainly wouldn't have been good for his health.

Oh, McDowell does have a pretty neat sense of humor.
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#307957
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Scientology is going down.
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Has Anonymous ever actually accomplished anything truly threatening though?


Originally posted by: sean wookie
The video that started this.
http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=23593


That video is really long. Is there any part in particular that stands out as incredibly bad? What I did see while skimming through the video was very disturbing, but I don't want to watch the whole thing.
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#307858
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Heath Ledger dead at 28
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lol, what idiots.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Geez, what a bunch of nutjobs. Even considering for a second that they're actually right, and Heath Ledger is burning in hell right now, what good would picketing his funeral do?! What's the point? Whatever Heath's fate is, it's in God's hands, and no amount of hate from a bunch of crazy fundamentalists is going to sway anything. All this is going to do is cause pain to the family and friends who are already grieving. Yeah, nice job...


It's such an insanely sick way to behave that our society should not support it by allowing it to occur on public property. There is no constitutional right to picket people's funerals. It's so ridiculous on the surface that I'm actually at a loss for words.
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#307707
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Jekyll (BBC1)
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Originally posted by: Nanner SplitThe Empty Child/The Doctor Dances in series 1, The Girl in the Fireplace in series 2, and Blink in series 3


I've seen the first two but not the third. Those were good episodes. Unfortunately I'm currently having some trouble finding "samples" of Jeckll (if you know what I mean).
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#307051
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307051/action/topic#307051
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Any copy protection that even comes close to threatening private use of blank discs is outrageous. I'd doubt that any hardware manufacturer would have the guts to care about the movie industry's profits that much. But, I suppose it could be possible.

Otherwise, region encoding is absolutely worthless. It probably accounts for less disc sales than any it protects from pirating.
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#306565
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Could even a good Fan Editor save "Galactica 1980"?
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Are you bad mouthing the real Battlestar Galactica???


Sort of. I understand that a lot of people like the show, but it always seemed so hokey to me. Keep in mind, as a child I loved to watch re-runs of Star Trek TOS, but BS always left me completely bored. Though I barely remember the show, so perhaps I never gave it a proper chance.

My girlfriend has been showing me the new, sci-fi channel series that just started and I'm liking that. At first I was sort of against the show just because of my dislike for the original, but it's very different.
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#306369
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Film grain is not your enemy.
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Originally posted by: DarkGryphon2048Well, it just preserves what's on the celluloid of the reels of film. Depending on the film, it'll have very high to even moderate and low grain. Due to alot of the times the film stock being used and the artistic choices of the Director and Director of Photography.


True, but removing the grain does result in a loss of real, visual data does it not? While grain may not be as clear in comparison to what you would see with your naked eye, removing grain, once an image was captured in a grainy way, will result in a loss of detail on some level. In other words, that grain was produced by a real image being distorted. Therefore to smooth out the image from the grainy image, you'd need to further deteriorate what was originally captured. That's what I worry the most about losing.

I understand what you mean about the artistic use of grain too. I think it looks very nice at times and I'd certainly want to see what a particular artist intended for his or her work.
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#306367
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Originally posted by: C3PX
I am not sure it has ever tried to explian the whispers as having had anything to do with the others, unless I missed something. The whispers have always been more closely connected to the smoke monster than to the others. Don't forget about the smoke monster, Jacob, or the unaging Richard, I am confident there is still something cool to come with those things.


Near the end of season two they tried to explain the weird whisperings as merely being the result of "the others." It was in the episode where Michael led the chosen group to be captured by the others. Just before everyone was hit with darts they all heard similar whispers in the surrounding jungle. Clearly it was the others trying to coordinate with each other before the trap was sprung. Therefore I thought that was obviously an explanation for what Sayid had heard. Needless to say, I have been hoping that explanation was merely a way to throw all of us viewers off of the otherworldly trail, but, as the show goes on and they keep trying to demystify everything, I'm starting to think that may have been the real explanation. It seems like the writers really want to go for a world where they first make my imagination go wild with impossible things only to then give me one boring explanation after another. I now worry that eventually the show will simply devolve into Gilligan with guns.
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#306060
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Originally posted by: C3PXReally what I find great about the show is all the literary and philisophical references and themes.


I love the philosophical references on the show and the general themes it touches on. It's my favorite part of the show actually. After that I enjoy the drama of the characters and what will happen to them (the characters are all really well written in general).

I even like how "the others" and Ben are written out. They're cool characters and have interesting motivations/histories. I wonder what kinds of things they know and I even care about them. My problem is only with how all of that then matches up with what I saw in season one and in the beginning of season two. If the writers were trying to trick me I think they went too far. I don't care if they borrow ideas from books, philosophers, or whatever to explain the show's earlier mystical events; I certainly don't need something original and brilliant, I just wanted something cool. Whether they chose ghosts, rifts in time-space, heaven/hell, or whatever, I don't care, I just wanted a neat explanation for the cool mysteries they had presented. Instead we're shown a group of people that would best fit into Mr. Rogers neighborhood. I'm now forced to pretend that these clumsy people were just whispering a little too loudly as they accompanied Sayid through the jungle. That seems silly to me. Even as incompetent and frail as the others are, I have trouble believing even they'd be stupid enough to sit around someone and whisper like that. I also have trouble believing that Sayid wouldn't have noticed all of the talking people behind the nearest bush. I guess I just would have liked a better explanation than what we got.
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#306017
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I watch the show for its mystery and I don't demand answers. All I demand is that the answers are good. I see how you can enjoy the drama the most, but if the world is illogical then I have trouble believing the drama that results from that world. That's why I want some very cool concepts by the end.

I'm not a person who generally enjoys stories that are based on twists. It's fun being fooled, but if there's nothing substantial when all is said and done, the twist is merely a superficial gimmick and I generally have no reason to ever enjoy that story again. Using twists alone is pure sensationalism as far as I'm concerned. If you can enjoy that all by itself then I'm happy for you, but I find that I generally need more than that.


Originally posted by: C3PX
I don't know what is so mundane and pedestrian about the others, they are still pretty creepy and we still know relatively little about them. No we know that they are living in Dharma's old barracks, but they are not Dharma. If you remember when young Ben met Richard Alpert in the woods, Richard was dressed very much like the rag wearing version of the others that we saw early on in season two. Not to mention, he had aged very little over a relatively long period of time. Richard and Ethan both tend to appear in the real world from time to time. I still find both the characters of Richard and Ethan still rather creepy and mysterious. Let's also not forget about Jacob and the look on Richard face when he was told that Ben was taking Locke to see him. Also the Clockwork Orangesque brain washing Alex's boyfriend was undergoing at Ben's orders. The others still are not exactly your average group of doctors.

You mentioned that the others were "merely some pathetic leftovers of a corporate-picnic-gone-bad"??? If you remember correctly, the creepy and mysterious others are what made the corporate picnic go bad and were not actually part of it. They were already there before the corporate picnic began. Yes, a few of the Dharma people joined the others or the hostiles, but that is not to make all the others to be thought of as nothing more than left-overs of a band of silly hippy doctors. I am sure the writers are making some things up as they go, and maybe changing a few of their original intentions in favor of things they find more interesting, but I don't think that is going on quite as much as you seem to think.


Yeah, those people weren't a part of the Dharma initiative, but they're easy to kill, pretty pathetic, and they're led around by the biggest loser of all (Ben). I can't think of them as impressive, intense, and creepy jungle people. :\
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#306014
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Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306014/action/topic#306014
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Hmm, you two definitely make good points. A movie is very involved and I could see someone getting very sick of it after meticulously putting each piece into place. For instance, I don't fault Hayao Miyazaki if he becomes sick of one of his films after having closely analyzed the quality of each and every frame of animation in it. If that's the only reason George Lucas is no longer attached to his previous edits of Star Wars, then I could understand that. It might just be the way the medium of film works.

When I said above that a good artist enjoys what he makes, that doesn't actually mean that the artist loves to purposely go back to his past works time after time. It just means that he can truly enjoy it whenever it comes up. I'm not convinced that George Lucas tends to do this though. I'd hope that he does, but he seems like someone who casually tosses out the old to bring in the new. True enjoyment of something will care for what it enjoys.

Otherwise, when it comes to picking out flaws and being highly critical of your own work, that's probably another matter entirely. A person can still enjoy their successes on some level in that case (in-between having sorrow over their failures). They simply have an overly negative attitude . . . or their work could use a lot of improvement.


Originally posted by: Mielr
I wish George Lucas was more of a fan of Star Wars fans.


Hah, that I agree with wholeheartedly.
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#305974
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Is George Lucas a fan of Star Wars?
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My philosophy says that all of the best artists in the world enjoy their own work. They obviously don't think their various works are flawless or unsurpassable, but they know what they enjoy about what they've created and why. They know why they've made what they've made and still find that as something worth reflecting upon.

That got me thinking today about George Lucas, however. Does he enjoy his own work? Does he, to this day, find the original Star Wars a fun film to watch? Is he actually devoted to the film as a great work of art as I am?

I ask this because his latest actions (dramatically editing the film and then twisting it with the "prequels") seem to come from someone who doesn't strongly care about that which was previously established. Instead, they seem to come from someone who no longer cares all that much about what works and what does not work artistically. If so, that might explain the disconnect he has with people who have a fanatical devotion to his past artistic successes.

In the past I concluded that George Lucas, as an artist, has too short of an attention span to devise a large, complicated string of ideas. He moves too quickly from one fascinating idea to another to be concerned with the continuity or depth of something that involved. But, perhaps the source of this artistic tendency of his comes from the way he enjoys all art. Perhaps he never enjoy enjoyed his own work in any lasting way in the first place. Maybe the Star Wars films were fun while he was making them, but then they became unimportant to him from then on (beyond making money with them at any rate).

I certainly don't know. It's a fun thing to think about though.
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#305971
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Oh I suppose I should quickly post what I really think about "the others" and what the authors of the show intended:

Clearly the others were never meant to be such normal people. For instance, the portrayals of Ethan were totally fudged in the most obviously pathetic way possible. I'm supposed to now believe that he was just some technician who was working on pregnancy issues, but before he was a creepy silent dude who only talked when he needed to completely fool people or level creepy, violent threats at people. He was able to easily carry a pregnant woman around the jungle under one arm while dragging an unconscious Charlie around under his other arm. He then proceeded to hang Charlie from a tree and beat the living snot out of Jack while still carrying a pregnant woman around the jungle. Then, to top it all off, he has the killer bolas skills of a feral jungle man in rags. The new version of Ethan was a total fudge on the part of the writers simply because they didn't like their older ideas for some unknown reason. I'm guessing that during the course of writing the show they decided that they wanted "the others" to be something else entirely in light of some, huge, plot change and decided to explain away their previous version of the others as if it were all a trick. Unfortunately their explanations were really lame in comparison to what I saw.

The writers also seem to have started off with a more mystical island, but then decided to take the show down another path and hence we get a stupid explanation for the otherworldly whispers that Sayid heard. I'm almost certain they made their biggest change in this regard between season one and season two. Their cleanup job has been too clumsy. Even the "hatch" was originally portrayed as something very different from what was ultimately revealed. I can't wait to find out how they'll explain away the smoke monsters if I'm correct about all of this semi-retconning.

The part of me that wants to think the show is still perfect wants to believe that the writers are simply trying to trick us with fake explanations for things that are, in actuality, really cool in some way, but I'm definitely having trouble keeping that hope alive as the show "reveals" more. (I put "reveals" in quotes because I don't think they can "reveal" something they didn't have in mind from the start.)
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#305970
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Originally posted by: C3PX
I guess you didn't catch the part where the jungle people who were dressed in rags were actually the others trying to fool the survivors into thinking they were something they were not. Perhaps you should go back and watch the last few episodes of season two again. Remember Cindy the flight attendant that the silent, creepy people in the jungle kidnapped? Don't you remember the episode in season 3 where Jack sees her at the others' camp seemingly brainwashed and with several of the tail sections kids with her? Is that not enough evidence to say that those creepy silent people were really the others?


Nah, I caught those parts. I just really hope that what was implied during those scenes is not going to be the real explanation for those events. They're so mundane and boring that they don't work with what came before. The others seem so pathetically pedestrian that I don't want to believe that they were the creepy silent people or the sources of the otherworldly whispers. No average pedestrian bum can be that creepy and silent!

I've been hoping since that "rags" episode that there is instead another group of people that are dressed in rags but live on the island is some primitive, violent form. I want to see some real "others" that are intense bad guys and not merely some pathetic leftovers of a corporate-picnic-gone-bad. How else can you train a baby boy, still carrying his teddy bear, to silently walk around a jungle bare footed and creepy unless that boy has somehow become a feral beast like the feral human beings that have captured him?!

Seriously, I just want the show to end well and I can't currently respect those explanations as good. Perhaps I'm simply missing information that the writers haven't revealed yet and I should just be patient enough to see why the logically-inadequate, clumsy, and boringly-pedestrian explanations are actually something I should like, but, until then, the dramatic scenes were too impossibly mystical and paranormal in the way they were portrayed on the screen. My mind can't accept "the others" as a good explanation for those events. Maybe the portrayal was meant to convey what Sayid and Jin were experiencing in their minds, as apposed to something objectively mundane, but there is nothing in the style of the show to make me think that.

Oh well, I suppose, by this point, I'll probably like the show no matter what. The ride has been too fun for the stop to disappoint me too much. Thanks for the other information you posted. I found it interesting and didn't know that stuff about what the authors have been saying.