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#571228
Topic
Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/571228/action/topic#571228
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walkingdork said:

Happy Birthday Leonardo!

BTW, I love greenpenguino's David Bowie avatar from Venture Bros (where my avatar also comes from). I also like doubleKO's Beemo avatar.

*thumbs up.gif*

 

A friend of mine kept raving on about it for ages, it was only when he mentioned that a shape-shifting David Bowie was in it that I actually saw it. Great stuff.

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#571155
Topic
Last web series/tv show seen
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/571155/action/topic#571155
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CP3S said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

I never really got into DS9 when it first aired, so I've decided to watch it. Currently on season 3, and so far my feelings are mixed. The storyline is interesting and the characters are ok (admittedly, I'm having a harder time connecting with them than I did with the TOS and TNG crews), but it's nowhere nearly as gripping and interesting as, say, Babylon 5.

I've heard that the last four seasons are quite a bit better than the first three, so hopefully that's accurate. I wouldn't say it's been bad so far by any means...just not exactly captivating.

I agree with all of this completely. I started watching DS9 a couple of years back, with it being the only Trek series I'd only managed to catch one or two episodes of. I made it about halfway through season 3 over the course of several months back in 2010, and have never managed to come back to it. They are still there waiting for me, and I still intend to watch them sometime, but for over a year now, I just haven't been in the mood for them and have had more interesting thing to watch.

"Not exactly captivating" is a great way to put it.

I'm sure you've probably heard this before, but yeah, the last four seasons are considerably better than the first three. This seems to be a a problem with trek series, where at least one season has to completely suck.

 

For TOS it was season three, for TNG it was seasons one and two, for DS9 it seasons one - three, for VOY it was seasons one - seven, for Enterprise it was seasons one-three...

 

Stick with it guys, it really is a great show.

Post
#571029
Topic
Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/571029/action/topic#571029
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Oo! Oo! I have a new idea for a film! It's called 'A LUCAS Carol'.

 

The plot starts out when George Lucas is visited by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg warns Lucas to change his ways lest he undergo the same miserable fan rage as himself or something. Lucas is then visited by three additional ghosts – famous directors.  The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Fritz Land, takes Lucas to scenes of him as a film student, which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent.

They also show what made Lucas the miser that he is, and why he dislikes Film Preservation.  The second spirit, the Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock, takes Lucas to several differing scenes - the shooting of THX-1138, the shooting of AMERICAN GRAFFITI, the shooting of the original STAR WARS, his then wife Marcia editing the movie with Richard Chew and Paul Hirsh. A major part of this stave is taken up with George Lucas' speech to the library of congress for the preservation of film.

The third spirit, the Ghost of Stanley Kubrick, harrows Lucas with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed - including the death of Film Preservation. Lucas' own neglected and untended grave is revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what may be." 

In the fifth and final stave, Lucas awakens in the morning with joy and love in his heart, then spends the day restoring the original triliogy and doing other good stuff. Lucas has become a different man overnight and now treats his fans with kindness, generosity and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Film Making. The story closes with the narrator confirming the validity, completeness and permanence of Lucas' transformation.

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#570818
Topic
The "Let's Hug It Out" Thread (we all like SW, can't we be friends?)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/570818/action/topic#570818
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XyZ said:

The End, eh?

I guess this post is the end credits then...

 

ENDCREDITSMUZIK

DIRECTED BY

walkingdork

...

...

PRODUCED BY

TV'S FRINK
WARBLER
GREENPENGUINO
A PLATE OF TOAST

...

...

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

JAY
MOTH3R

...

...

BASED ON SOME LAME ASS ORIGINAL IDEA THAT DIDN'T EVEN WORK BY

georgec

 

;)

...

...

CREDITS BASED ON SOME STUPID THING FRINK DID AGES AGO BY

TV's Frink (Seriously guys, why post in the cbox? There's no point.)

 

MEMBERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)

 

walkingdork

twister111

XyZ aka ABC

Bingowings

TV's Frink

Warbler

darth_ender

georgec

doubleofive

*sigh*

GREENPENGUINO

corellian77

bkev

Mrebo

Akwat Kbrana

PSYCHO_DAYV

Sluggo

captainsolo

Gaffer Tape

xhonzi

HotRod

C3PX CP3S

Leonardo

Ziggy Stardust

GREENPENGUINO

Zoidberg

 

 

SPECIAL THANKS

FAT-AT AND MINI DEATH STAR INDUSTRIES

YESTERDAY WAS A LIE!- STARRING PETER MAYHEW
TATOOINA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
YE MEN
PAST TENSE PRESENT PARTICIPLE
3RD PERSON AND SONS
PANAKACAKE BAKERY
FROKTURIAN MEGATIGER LTD.
OOC CLEANER
ATTRACTIVE WARS 100% JUICE BRAND
TALKY CELL PHONES
JUSTICE COMES FOR YOU ON BLURAY AND DVD 9/27
R.M. HAMBURGERS
ABY SKIN CARE SYSTEM
NABOOBIAN WIGS
THE LAW OFFICES OF SMITE AND EXALT
MOFF SCHOOL OF MOFFERY
HANSOM CABS
MINXY PETS
SHIMPLES HAIRCUTS FOR KIDS
DUBSTEP DJ SERVICES
THOOPER SAVER MART

THEBOOST, FOR WASHING THE DISHES
MURR WAAWAT'S BALLS
**** and ***** *****
NUDE NUDE PUBIC DP PROBE! LATE NIGHTS ON CINEMAX

AND EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS TO

JAY
MOTH3R
WARBLER
ABC

DOUBLEKO

 

A OT.COM PRODUCTION

 

KEEP CIRCULATING THE TAPES AND MAY THE SPONGE BE WITH YOU

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#570815
Topic
Last movie seen
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/570815/action/topic#570815
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Bingowings said:

Explorers find a giant sculpture of a head on an alien planet, a holographic map room and evidence that life on Earth was engineered by an advanced race of Godlike beings.

A massive sandstorm blows up and before you know it.... NO NOT THAT ONE IT"S NOT OUT UNTIL JUNE.

No I'm talking Mission To Mars (2000).

What was in the water around the turn of the millennium that made well respected directors of the 70's and 80's make expensive and astonishing crap science fiction films?

I previously mentioned Supernova of the same year, of which Walter Hill (with a bit of help from Francis Ford Coppola) should be deeply embarrassed.

This time it's Brian De Palma's turn to sully his considerable (albeit not to everyone's taste) talent in SPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCEEEEE!

Just about everything in this film doesn't work, make sense or inspire even rubbernecking interest.

The score is intrusive and often does the opposite of what it's meant to.

Scenes which on paper, I assume, were designed to provoke tension or pathos backfire like a funky banger too clapped out to make it unassisted to the wrecker's yard.

The product placement is astoundingly vulgar.

Don't watch this film, just stay away, run if you have to.

No balls

The one thing I liked in this film was  the fact that it portrayed weightlessness in a fairly realistic way... that's it.