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#99866
Topic
THE PSYCHO REVIEW
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99866/action/topic#99866
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I'm really getting tired of this double-dipping crap from Fox and CTHE. Why not just release the deluxe versions @ the same time? We know they're ready because other regions had them.


I agree entirely! At least Fox had the right idea once upon a time... they would release the nice 'collector's' editions FIRST, then later when sales dropped they would re-release in a cheaper, single-disc version for the more casual movie buyer. But not now. I almost *always* wait a bit to see/hear if a better edition is coming out. Or I just buy the better edition from Amazon.UK (shipping isn't bad to the USA really).
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#99858
Topic
SW TV Confirmed
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99858/action/topic#99858
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Hi Greencapt, Thanks for the PM but for some reason my PM doesn't work properly so I can't reply. I think a hi-res scan is the best I'm gonna get for now so I would greatly appreciate that, thanks.


whoops.... didn't know sorry...

I scanned it at 300 dpi and saved as a .PNG which came out to about 25 mgs, give or take. Is that about what you were looking for? Email me at : greencapt-at-yahoo.com and tell me where I can get it to you!
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#99813
Topic
MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99813/action/topic#99813
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Originally posted by: Bossk

Available in TPB? I've never read the original. Heck, I never read the newer ones or saw the movies.

It *used* to be, but I'm not sure if it is still in print. There was even a pretty cool RPG based on it (not video game, pen and paper RPG) at the time. At its core it was a parody of Frank Miller's (creator of 'Sin City') run of Daredevil from the 80s. Hence the ninja bad guys (originally people NOT robots), the Sensei named 'Splinter' (Daredevil was trained in martial arts according to Miller by a Sensei named 'Stick'... get it?). In fact, if any of you are familiar with the origin of Daredevil (in the comics at least) and the Turtles they are the same 'event'- Young Matt Murdoch was walking down the street when a small canister of radioactive goo gets thown from a vehicle and hits him across the eyes. In TMNT, the canister falls down a sewer grating and lands on four poor little discarded pet turtles and a rat... mutating them into... well, you know.

OK, I know *I'm* a geek...

Originally posted by: Bossk

And knowing is half the battle!!!!


We have a WINNER!!!


Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab

Mature Audiences and TMNT don't mix. Turtles is about having fun and pizza, not vigilante.. stuff. Leave that to Batman and the Punisher. Or the Mangler Brohters!


It wasn't *too* mature, but gritty and funny.
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#99795
Topic
MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99795/action/topic#99795
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: greencapt
Bossk, you know we're getting old when we both get the reference, Chaltab doesn't and you just barely beat me to the punch with essentially the same answer.


But do you remember G.I. Joe issues 27 & 28 ("The Origin of Snake-Eyes" parts 1 & 2)? Those were some great comics. Back when G.I. Joe was cool.


Hell yeah! They whole first couple of years were hot. After what, about issue 35-40 it became a little *too* toy advertisement-ish. I mean, yes they were toy ads but at least they were fun ones and Snake-Eyes, in black head-to-toe, will always rule!

PS: I still have my family trained to, whenever anyone says "And now I know..." to reply with:

c'mon Bossk! What is it???
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#99774
Topic
MANGLER BROS., INC. IS NOW CLOSED HERE
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99774/action/topic#99774
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
1)Snake Eyes? That is a gambling term, or a movie archetype?


Snake Eyes is a classic G.I. Joe character. He is actually a Ninja and armament expert who works for the good guys. Deafened in a Vietnam-era helicopter accident. Blood brothers with and studied ninjitsu with Cobra Ninja assassin Storm Shadow.



Bossk, you know we're getting old when we both get the reference, Chaltab doesn't and you just barely beat me to the punch with essentially the same answer.
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#99801
Topic
Sin City
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99801/action/topic#99801
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
that was good, i read a few of the other ones that were on there as well

found the last line in this one particularly interesting http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/05/spiderman2.html

-Darth Simon


That came from an April Fool's joke, and they meant Spider-Man 3 not 2...lol. How a simple typo can ruin someone's joke! At least I didn't fall for Peter Jackson's 'Son of Kong' joke like many websites and one of my friends did.
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#99755
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99755/action/topic#99755
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
But I thought the reptilian was her natural form and the human woman was Zam's change.


It may have been, but I agree that the whole thing was not needed unless it played a major plot point. Might have been cool to have the poison from the dart make her shrivel up, like the nazi at the end of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'. Of course that wouldn't have been needed either, but it would have made Jango look like a mean mamma-jamma!
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#99762
Topic
SW TV Confirmed
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99762/action/topic#99762
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I'm putting my money on 'Big' Will Smith. And he can do a rap for the intro music, it'll be great.
Incidentally, does anyone have a hi-res image of the Lucas Portrait used in that article??


Hi YodaIYF! I read you were looking for a copy of that image. If no one gets you one by tonight (USA eastern time) I'b be happy to scan the cover from my book if that's ok- or are you only looking for a 'clean' textless copy?
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#99753
Topic
SW TV Confirmed
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99753/action/topic#99753
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This from LatinoReview.Com (no April Fools this time):



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More Info On The Star Wars TV Series

I know that there’s been word on this whole Star Wars TV Series and that George Lucas went as far as confirming it, saying that one way or another Star Wars will continue. Plus, Lucasfilm's Jim Ward confirmed that a "Star Wars" TV series is on the way in the near future but didn't say when it would be a go. We’ve been provided with a little bit more information on the TV Series. Below is what our “Anonymous” source tells us.

First, I work for Hasbro. If you're not familiar with us - we do the Star Wars toys.

Without getting anyone's butt in trouble, especially my own, I wanted to let you know that there's a "Star Wars" TV series in the works - because we've just got the contract for the new line. Barrage of new characters in the show that I've never heard of (sans a couple), but someone said it's along the lines of 'Young Indiana Jones' and it could have Mark Hamill reprising his role as Luke Skywalker for several episodes. George Lucas is involved, but only in the creative sense. A Lucas Film rep told another of the guys here that they're going to be testing a mass of young actors for the roles. I'm keen myself to find out who's playing [hint] 'the original owner of the Falcon'".

We will keep you posted!


http://www.latinoreview.com/scoops/starwars-tv.html

Thoughts? Lando? When the heck is this supposed to take place?
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#99722
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99722/action/topic#99722
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
WHY THE KESSEL are you taking the Yoda-Dokuu fight out!?!?!

Not even MagnoliaFan was that cynical!


lol. I have to agree with Chaltab here. I *do* understand what trooper said about the lightning and the 'contest' aspects though- it slows the pace waaaay down. So may I suggest having Dooku make to leave... the Yoda footsteps and approach (still a nice dramatic moment), a quick reaction cut to Dooku and then back to Yoda drwaing his lightsabre... etc.

Just my 2 cents
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#99522
Topic
<strong>The &quot;Dr. Gonzo&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99522/action/topic#99522
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Originally posted by: bruga
I must admit, I don't know what "PM" means.
maybe you can tell me


It stands for 'Prime Minister'. You can relay a message to your country's Prime Minister and the PM will call you and let you know what the message is.







Just kidding- it stands for 'personal message' and its a system that you can send little in-forum 'emails' to each other.
Look for the 'message' indicator at the upper left-hand corner of your screen.
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#99509
Topic
Sequels that should never be...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99509/action/topic#99509
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
That website rocks. I live in England and already have a multi region player but I'm moving to America later in the year and was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to watch my region 2 disks, but now that problem is solved. Thanks greencapt!!


Hey no problem! I found that site a bit back and was floored by all the info there! Just about anything you want to know about encoding, decoding, recoding, precoding, mecoding, treecoding, dvdloading, etc can be found there... the mind reels!

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Have a good move. And welcome to the USA later this year! Honest we aren't all pricks like they say we are.


LOL. True that! The problem is we have the LOUDEST pricks in the world, so those are the ones everyone else in the world sees and hears. The rest of us hide... in shadows.. lurking...

We mostly come out at night..... mostly.

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#99395
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99395/action/topic#99395
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This whole project still sounds cool! I'd offer voice as well, but I know what you mean about not getting them read the correct way. I'm an amateur director and have the same problems.

What if you did the read and used SoundForge to post-process your voice ever-so-slightly to keep the acting but to make it 'not you' so you can enjoy the experience some more.

Also, if you DO decide to redo alien voices maybe some of us could help out with that as A) it would save you from having to do all of them, B) those would be 'lines' could be trimmed or sped up/slowed if need be and C) it would just be fun!
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#99434
Topic
Sequels that should never be...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99434/action/topic#99434
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Aha... once YOU were the Masters and *I* the learner! LOL

Gentleman, start your buying! Everyone take a look at which DVD you currently own... seriously the cheaper the better! Then hop on over to kindly ones at VideoHelp.Com. For DVD player 'hacks', start here:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

You can enter in the make/model of your DVD player and see if there is a hack for it. Around Christmas, I went out to my local stores to see which players were currently available. The reason I said 'the cheaper the better' is that many of what we consider 'off-brands' here in the USA are really 'ON-brands' in many other countries- countries that often sell multi-region DVDs as mentioned above. So let's take the player I chose for instance. For $40 at Target I got a Daewoo DVG-9200N. Search for it and voila: Here is the info for that player

Read down, see peoples comment on which codes work and which don't and try the ones you feel safe with. On this player it was as easy as:

1) Turn on Player

2) Open Tray

3) With the remote, key in the numbers 1,3,7,9. They will appear as "X's" in the top left hand corner of the screen.

4) After keying in the numbers, promptly choose your region code you'd like, from 0-6. The region code you select will appear as a number, not as x's, as did the 4 number hack code.

5) Throw in a Region 2 Pal or NTSC dvd to try it out.

And it voiks lak a cham!

Since then I've bought different Region discs from all sorts of world-wide retailers. There's many UK programs and films I'm interested in. (everyone here at OT.Com HAS to see the series 'Spaced' from the same crew that did 'Shaun of the Dead'- there are some HILARIOUS SW references as well as other genre fanboy stuff) I've bought many a disc since then from Amazon.UK as they have decent shipping to the USA.

Anyhow, I digress.

You also want to look for if the player is listed as doing internal NTSC/PAL conversion. Just click on the 'DVD Compatibility' link and you'll get something like this:

Spec Page

On that page it'll tell you every bloody thing the DVD player plays, reads, encodes, etc. Look for a player that says 'Multisystem PAL/NTSC Convert' which will mean it can do internal conversion. Some players do better job at this than other. This particular Daewoo converts in true progressive scan while some others just interlace the converted image...

But perhaps I have spoken too much. LOL.