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Post: #289292
Topic: Time to get assertive
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289292/action/topic#289292
Time: 6-Jun-2007 5:52 AM

We all hope so.

Post: #289232
Topic: Han never shot first! (NOT what you think)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289232/action/topic#289232
Time: 5-Jun-2007 5:09 PM

Working everyday with "scum and villainy" must be difficult for a man with Han's ethics. Thankfully his enemies seem to be incompetent.

Post: #289171
Topic: Han never shot first! (NOT what you think)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289171/action/topic#289171
Time: 5-Jun-2007 6:45 AM

That was hilarious beyond words.

Post: #289109
Topic: IGN Star Wars movie poll.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289109/action/topic#289109
Time: 4-Jun-2007 4:37 PM

I totally understand what you're saying, Marvolo. I too enjoyed RotS when I first saw it. However, once I began watching it a few more times, and I was able to better digest the fast-paced barrage of scenes and events, the movie began to really fall apart for me. I found very little that I wanted to like anymore. There really isn't anything to the movie, but its all assembled and portrayed as if there were (as far as I'm concerned).

Anyways, just to sound repetitive on a Star Wars forum one more time: Star Wars deserves to be #1 in my opinion because it started Star Wars and because I've watched it hundreds of times and it still hasn't really gotten old for me. It's one very good movie from those two perspectives. (Though I do not begrudge ESB being more popular.)

Post: #289016
Topic: IGN Star Wars movie poll.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289016/action/topic#289016
Time: 4-Jun-2007 7:42 AM

lol, Episode II so definitely deserves to be below the Ewok movie. Though, its very sad that the original Star Wars isn't above Episode III and RotJ.

Post: #289014
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289014/action/topic#289014
Time: 4-Jun-2007 7:38 AM

Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Alizee

She doesn't have much of an ass, but she can wiggle it well.

Post: #289011
Topic: Was ricarlette a racist?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289011/action/topic#289011
Time: 4-Jun-2007 7:32 AM

ZigFried, a friendly word of advice: sometimes its best not to voice every single idea in your head. Of course you'd have less to say, but you'd sound less foolish at the same time. Either do that or work on your ideas more.

Post: #289009
Topic: LOST
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289009/action/topic#289009
Time: 4-Jun-2007 7:19 AM

I finally saw the finale yesterday evening. Pretty good stuff. I knew that Mikhail wasn't really one of the others, but now he clearly doesn't seem like he could ever be a benevolent philanthropist in disguise, so I guess that might kill my Alvar Hanso idea.

I'm thinking the coffin contained someone they knew on the island (because Jack thought that Kate would care) and that the person is the kind of person who would seem as if he or she would have loved ones who'd come to his or her funeral (to explain Jack's shock). Also, it seemed like the death of this person provoked Jack's feelings of regret over leaving the Island and multiplied his suicidal mood. Since Locke didn't want to leave the Island, the criteria would all point to him the most I guess.

I just have one problem, when the funeral guy asks Jack whether he is friend or family, did you guys hear him say "either" or "neither"? I have two friends who heard "neither," but even when I listen closely and try to hear "neither" I still hear "either." Both either and neither create problems in terms of guessing who was in the coffin, but I don't know.

Post: #288734
Topic: celebrating 70 years of The Hobbit and 30 Years of the Silmarillion.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288734/action/topic#288734
Time: 1-Jun-2007 7:12 AM

The Hobbit is the best story ever written in my mind. I love that book.

Post: #288720
Topic: The Sunburn Anti-Ship Missile
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288720/action/topic#288720
Time: 1-Jun-2007 1:17 AM

I had not heard of the Sunburn missile before. Could be big trouble. But, the rest of that article got a bit goofy in terms of attacking Israel as if it were equivalent with Iran. World opinion may be important in terms of intelligent strategy, but it should not rule over our ethical judgments.

Post: #288589
Topic: A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288589/action/topic#288589
Time: 30-May-2007 8:14 PM

Hmm, what's the argument in this thread about exactly?

People can read or not read if that's what they want. While it's kind of sad that the practice of reading is declining (and that I don't read more books myself, heh), a book store owner's warehouse doesn't necessarily speak to that fact directly. I suppose I find his burning of books to be an interesting way to promote reading (if that's what he's doing it for). Otherwise, I don't see the controversy here. :\

Post: #288490
Topic: Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288490/action/topic#288490
Time: 29-May-2007 10:21 PM

I'd hope that all movies being put on HD-DVD or Blu-ray are transferred in their proper aspect ratio and that the players are then properly programmed to alter that ratio for specific TVs based on what the viewer prefers. That would be the smart way to ALWAYS do it considering how DVDs were often so crazy when it came to aspect ratios.

Otherwise, lordjedi, I don't think new codes would erase the old codes (if they did that would be just-plain sick). So if your old discs need the old code, it will still be able to play them.

Post: #288454
Topic: Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288454/action/topic#288454
Time: 29-May-2007 7:01 PM

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
This is a prime component of Blu-Ray's copy-protection. They touted this as a major advantage. If they don't enforce it, then it's no better than HD-DVD's.

HD-DVD players don't use the same copy-protection system? I was almost sure that they did.

Post: #288203
Topic: The Other 30th Anniversary...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288203/action/topic#288203
Time: 27-May-2007 4:44 PM

I see what you guys mean:

http://www.ferristech.net/users/mcever/journal/archives/Sally%20Field01.bmp

Hmm, otherwise, Smokey and the Bandit is a very good movie from what I remember. I haven't seen it in years though.

Post: #288171
Topic: The limit your trolling to here thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288171/action/topic#288171
Time: 27-May-2007 3:37 AM

lol, that's pretty good.

4chan is definitely an interesting, and always disturbing website from what I've seen. A great way to waste one's time (if he or she is into anime and other stuff enjoyed by people who like anime).

Post: #288057
Topic: Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288057/action/topic#288057
Time: 26-May-2007 7:16 AM

I do know it's against the rules of Islam to portray their great prophet using any visual representation. That would be an image for idol worship apparently.

Post: #287950
Topic: Happy 30th Anniversary, Star Wars!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287950/action/topic#287950
Time: 25-May-2007 3:56 PM

I should watch it this weekend but I don't have the time. Even then, Star Wars has become a bit bittersweet for me. It came out before I was born, but it was the movie I grew up with more than any other. It's those memories that are the most fond for me now.

Post: #287948
Topic: Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287948/action/topic#287948
Time: 25-May-2007 3:45 PM

They don't have the guts to follow through on that. Not even the movie industry is willing to alienate its customers that badly . . . is it?

Post: #287945
Topic: This year belongs to STAR WARS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287945/action/topic#287945
Time: 25-May-2007 3:37 PM

Originally posted by: Wesyeed
That's why when I was watching a news special about the star wars anniversary and the thing had clips from the prequels in there, it just seemed very stupid.

That's actually offensive. Could everybody at Lucasfilm be that clueless? It's the anniversary of a franchise and not the groundbreaking movie that started it all. :\

Post: #287878
Topic: This year belongs to STAR WARS
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287878/action/topic#287878
Time: 25-May-2007 6:21 AM

Hear, hear.

Star Wars was a great movie that deserves a lot of respect.

Post: #287824
Topic: New Star Wars Movie...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287824/action/topic#287824
Time: 24-May-2007 10:30 PM

lol, I love what everyone had to say in this thread. I'm surprised by all of the responses that were similar to my own.

Anyways, I doubt it's true. Either way, Star Wars is already being handled as a money-making franchise. I expect nothing more.

Post: #287659
Topic: Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287659/action/topic#287659
Time: 23-May-2007 6:02 PM

Yeah, I'm definitely not sure what happened there. As a child he seemed to have a perfectly adjusted relationship to the world around him. He selflessly cared about other people and endured the hardship of being a slave with stoic contentment. Something happened along the way though, while under the tutelage of Jedi, that led him to start enjoying his own happiness above that of others to the degree where one loses all sense of a proper perspective.

Post: #287602
Topic: Comics Fans
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287602/action/topic#287602
Time: 23-May-2007 6:35 AM

I loved Watchmen when I read it. (Far better than V for Vendetta.) Fantastic book. Rorschach was the hero of the story as far as I'm concerned. Too bad he failed in the end, but I think he also kind of won strangely.

It would make a fantastic film if they could get a director to completely reproduce the story/images faithfully at each and every point. It had the most compelling and realistic take I've ever seen for "super heroes" and what their lives would really be like. It deserves an equally realistic translation to film in my mind, one that captures all of the character drama and doesn't try to insert a bunch of special effects or other sensational crap.

Post: #287601
Topic: Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287601/action/topic#287601
Time: 23-May-2007 6:18 AM

Not just any personality disorder. I've been arguing for a long time that Anakin (of the PT) displayed all the signs of a bona fide psychopath. For instance, he regularly showed a complete inability to balance his own personal desires with those of the people around him; there were many times that he had extreme reactions to relatively tame problems, but those reactions only seemed to come when those problems affected his own happiness. Also, he only seemed to care for the wellbeing of others when they served as emotional supports for him, and the minute they stopped serving as such even slightly, he reacted in extremely violent ways against them, no matter how close his relationship to them had been previously. When it came to the lives of strangers and innocents, he had no trouble murdering them without empathy or remorse. Just one sick puppy all around.

Post: #287504
Topic: Heath Ledger as The Joker (new pic)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287504/action/topic#287504
Time: 22-May-2007 6:50 AM

At this point I trust the people who did Batman Begins to have not made a bad choice in casting the Joker. The Joker is my favorite Batman villain however (so long as its the kind of Joker who laughs a lot and cracks twisted jokes all of time), and I would have never thought of Ledger as a good choice. I'm hoping I'm wrong though. I want this set of films to be good.