greenpenguino

Tobar said:

They had multiple X-rays that they purposefully disregarded and then completely ignored their patient's pleas that he had special medical needs.

To be fair, I think that's a reference to the first Pertwee story. From what I can remember, the doctors in the hospital that take care of Pertwee dismiss the x-Ray as a double exposure, and are baffled by a sample of his blood (it's too sticky or something). Then again I could be remembering that bit from the novelisation by Terrance Dicks, which my dad would read to me when I was little.

Still doesn't excuse the Doctors in the 1996 special from being woefully incompetent though.

TV's Frink said:

Some big movies get released on Wednesday here in the States. Friday is not an ironclad rule.

That's done to capitalise on the opening weekend. At least where movies are concerned, releasing your movie on a Wednesday counts towards the amount of profits made on the opening weekend (despite Wednesday obviously not being part of the weekend. It's some sort of weird loophole thingy.)

TV's Frink said:

SilverWook said:

Are you replacing Blue Dude's voice?

I was going to replace the Blue Dude entirely - use new footage from...something.

JEDIT:Hard for me to make out what word Nute is saying.

:-(

Anyone else having that problem?

 

<insert screencap of Lina Lamont from Singing in the Rain here> 

I liked it!

FanFiltration said:

I just discovered what A great actor Sam Rockwell is.

 Hell's yeah he is!! Not only that, but he dances in EVERY. SINGLE. MOVIE he's in (ish). If Sam Rockwell's in a movie, you can expect him to dance at some point. It's great.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) 10/10

and

Moon (2009) 10/10

First viewing of both films. I'm glad I knew little to nothing about what they were going to be about. Each film gave me exactly what I wanted and expected of a great movie experience. But then... 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) 0/10

From the first note of the opening song I knew that this re-telling was going to be awful, and I jumped ship early. I turned this off not long after the opening credits. I am a fan of the original BBC productions and books, not this. 

You're a person after my own heart.

FanFiltration said:

My Dinner with Andre (1981) - IMDb

This has got to be one of if not the most powerful thought provoking films that I have seen in a very very long time. It is inconceivable how this one got by me for so long. 10/10 ***** 

CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT SCENE

One of my favourite films of all time! I'm nearing completion of this Animation project I was hired for and once I'm done with that I'm going to start work on making a film that's pretty much directly inspired by this film (except with more than two actors, because the basic plot setup is different).

The way I had figured it is that Obi-Wan and Anakin would be the main characters at the very beginning, before shifting focus to the leaders of the rebellion near the end of Episode II and through Episode III (Obi-wan disappears at the end of Episode II, after defeating some unknown cloaked figure in a Tie-Fighter factory in duel. He takes the name 'Ben' as a tribute to a fallen friend of his, though this wouldn't be stated outright. He doesn't show up again until STAR WARS) Characters like Mon Mothma, that bearded guy in the briefing scene in STAR WARS, and Admiral Ackbar would be prominent secondary characters before taking the reins at the end of Episode II as we see the rebellion formed amidst the continuing rise of the empire.

Warbler said:

Last edited on September 12, 2015 at 8:59 PM by greenpenguino (Reason: Yeah, I know it's from one of the shit Bond films (of which there are so, so many. *sigh*) but that bit is pretty cool. And it's near the end, so that's a plus

hey!  perhaps because you've been gone so long you've forgotten, but the "*sigh*" belongs to me.

 Oh yeah, well DOUBLE STANDARDS on you!!

TV's Frink said:

I feel no need to post on a forum where people use fetus pictures as avatars to indicate they are anti-abortion with every post they make, no matter the content of the post.  I don't see why that's so difficult to understand.

On topic, welcome back greenie!

James Bond Jr said:

I never left...

Sevb32 said:

Yeah but the hypocrisy is if someone started a positive prequel thread, many of you throw negative comments in it and would say they should be allowed.   Truth told, there really isn't anything that can be said on the topic that hasn't already been said over the last 10 years. Pos or neg.

You mean this thread? Where there are lots of different users that, while they may not have liked the prequels in their entirety, praised aspects of them that they genuinely liked. There's a lot of cool and interesting stuff in the prequels but, and this is just my opinion, it's undermined by an onslaught of badness, most of which can be attributed to the script and the direction.

There's nothing wrong with liking something (unless it's something truly heinous like rape or murder), but there's also nothing wrong with discussing it with people that may not have liked it. They probably have very good reasons for not liking the prequels, just as I'm sure you have good reasons for liking them.

Sevb32 said:

And how dare anyone have a differing opinion.

 DOUBLE STANDARDS

ray_afraid said:

swagmasta69 said:

I heard that the end of the film is Rey bringing Luke his lightsaber on this island in Ireland where he is in exile/hiding/meditating/whatever.

 That's cool.

 They look a lot like the Whaligoe steps in Scotland.

DuracellEnergizer said:

greenpenguino said:

ATMachine said:

Personally, I'd say the prequels make a lot more sense when watched alongside Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain.

 What are you talking about!? A completely nude man shooting milk out of his cat shaped nipples onto a bald man, while screaming laughter plays in the background makes TOTAL sense!

I watched The Holy Mountain only last summer -- why don't I remember any of this beautiful nonsense? 

Probably because there's all the other beautiful nonsense going on that film! It's just wonderfully bonkers.

Anyway, back on topic: Lando, lightsaber, prequels, Dr Spock .etc .etc

ATMachine said:

Personally, I'd say the prequels make a lot more sense when watched alongside Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain.

 What are you talking about!? A completely nude man shooting milk out of his cat shaped nipples onto a bald man, while screaming laughter plays in the background makes TOTAL sense!

I was about 8 at the time Phantom Menace was released and the majority of the cinema experience was spent running back and forth from the toilets to be sick (not from the movie, hehe. I had eaten too many sweets and had worked myself up with excitement. For a long time afterward I had a fear of going to the cinema because I was afraid I would be sick, which is odd now that I have a career in the film-making.) The odd thing is that I would only come in during the action scenes, so I missed the majority of the plot and the dreadful dialogue scenes. It was when Episode 2 came out that I realised how bad the Prequels were. I went to see it with my Dad and a friend and a palpable feeling of embarrassment came over me as I watched it.

Extra note: There was an exhibition at the Barbican (a sort of arts venue in London) a year or so prior to Episode II, which displayed several of the props and concept art for the STAR WARS films. There was far more stuff from the original films, which I was totally fine with (Han Solo and Luke being my favourite characters as a kid). We got a chance to meet with a Iain McCaig, one of the concept artists of the prequels, for a group discussion and a crash course in concept artwork. He was really gracious, patient and was an all round joy to meet. Goes to show that although the prequels are irredeemably terrible, the people who worked on them weren't.

ZkinandBonez said:

I realize I'm a fair bit late to discussion, but I just thought I should share this:

"Silent Drifting" from 1979. 

 I think someone did post those at some point several years ago, but the links are probably dead now. I really like that design for the jedi. It's simple, but it's very cool, and it makes me wish we had got something similar with the actual prequels (although I'm keener to forgot those films.)

Beneath a Steel Sky

Pretty good little game. I was expecting a little more from it, but what I got I enjoyed. For a cyberpunk game there's a light-hearted, playful tone and lot of humour in it that feels refreshing. Dave Gibbons (of Watchmen fame) draws the artwork for the opening cutscene (which is styled like the panels of a comic book). 

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars

A friend recommended this to me after playing Beneath a Steel Sky. Great adventure game. The art style is wonderful, and there's a charm and playfulness to the story and characters. Some of the voice acting is a little naff, but it's all in good fun. I always love hand-drawn animation/rotoscoping in games, Flashback and Another World being other favourites of mine, as well as The Neverhood (which is actually stop-motion, but whatever). It's very rare to see that type of animation used in a game nowadays and I wish that they would bring that back at some point. I only just learnt that there's a puzzle involving a goat which is, apparently, meant to be infamously hard. I managed to figure it out in a couple of seconds. Oops! Every character is memorable and likeable (except for the bad guys, obviously). A real classic, definitely play it if you can get a hold of it. From what I hear, you should avoid the "director's cut" as it removes a lot of things from the original game.

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. Is this game awful. All the goodwill that I had for the previous game has completely vanished (I haven't been able to get a hold of the second game yet, so skipped onto this turd... sorry third) . Awful dialogue, awful controls, awful puzzles, awful camera system and (at the risk of repeating myself) an awful story! Awful, awful awful!! The camera switches around CONSTANTLY, meaning that when you're running down A STRAIGHT FUCKING ROAD you'll run right into walls and so on. You're having to continually fight against the camera and controls in order to make any sort of progress. Then there's the unskippable dialogue and cutscenes which are insufferable to sit through, and if you fuck up (and you will with the game's dreadful controls.) you have to sit through the same turgid rubbish ALL OVER AGAIN. Fuck this game.

The move to 3D was clearly a bad idea, losing a lot of the charm and that wonderful art style present in the first game (how is it that game that came out in the 90s looks better than a game from 2003?? WHAT THE FUCK?). Don't even get me started on the fucking box puzzles. BLEEEGH!!!! I have given up with this fucking piss-poor non-point, non-click "adventure" game. Play the first one and throw this one under a bus. AVOID at all costs. 

Lord Phillock said:

buddy-x-wing said:

REAL LOCATIONS, PRACTICAL EFFECTS, PHYSICAL SETS , REAL ACTORS in Rubber suits as the creatures, every shot in that Comic-Con clip has got to be a virtual slap in the face to everything George did with the prequels.

 I like to make fun of the prequels as much as the next guy, but this sort of stuff has never been new to this film series at any point.

https://imgur.com/a/QYfpA

I think that's why, in addition to shooting on film, comes out TPM looks the best out of all of the prequels, Revenge of whatever coming in at a close second.

Of course something can look very nice and still be stupid as hell, just like *insert name of celebrity you don't like here*

No.

ratpack1961 said:

Vader in the OT never references Anakin in any direct way.  He only references him in the ESB SE during the new Palpatine segment

He only says "That name no longer has any meaning for me".  That part of himself is gone, or so he thought.  But that's not really referring to himself in 3rd person.

The Rebels Season 2 premiere has him referring to Anakin in the 3rd person.  I think that's the first time we hear Vader refer to him as a separate person.  I'd say that's a rare error on Filoni's end.

As for the republic knowing about Anakin, that character basically disappeared after Order 66.  It's doubtful most people of the galaxy put Vader and Anakin together as the same person.

As for Luke Skywalker, maybe it's a common name or not a rare name in the galaxy.  Or the people on Tatooine like Wormie and Fixer just don't care.  When ANH was written, Luke's father was simply a great pilot and jedi so his son living on some backwater planet is not that far fetched.

I had the same kind of idea. Like 'Skywalker' is the star wars equivalent of 'Smith' or 'Jones'. Same with Kenobi, which would sort of go some-way towards explaining the whole 'Ben Kenobi/Obi-Wan Kenobi' thing that people rag on.

Handman said:

EyeShotFirst said:

People are quick to start a confrontation about almost everything. I've had simple non-political/religious small talk turn into a heated argument with the snap of a finger. It's happening more and more.

 You slimy, no good -- What do you know?

How dare you call him slimy!! You green blooded hobgoblin!

TV's Frink said:

EyeShotFirst said:

You can buy a nazi flag on Amazon, but not a confederate flag...

Let that sink in.

 One wrong and one right does not make it right or wrong...it just makes it halfway to right.

Let that sink in.

 Ugh. What does he want now?

Congratulations to my American friends over the pond for achieving marriage equality!!

Hooray!!!

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Yeah it is a great country where less then half a dozen unelected people who do not answer in any way to anyone can force their will on more then three hundred million people because they have an armed military and police force on their side who is unlike anything that has ever been seen in human history.

Also if we have no right to judge anyone and this is all about freedom then how come people who want to marry more then one person or people who want to marry animals were not included in this ruling?  Seems to me the pro gay marriage people are just as judgmental of the love of people they don't like as anyone else.

All the unhappiness that gays blame on chrisitans will not go away because of this ruling, so the time will come soon where Christians will be forced to either renounce their faith or face public execution.  You may laugh but that day is coming, they are already forcing chrisitans to make wedding cakes and now with this ruling churches will be force to preform this "marriages", so the out and out banning of the faith under the belief that it will solve all of gays personal problems can not be far behind.

The fact is America is not a free country and problems like this will never be resolved peacefully as long as five old unelected people are allowed to force their will on others.  I wonder if the ruling would have gone this way if they had to stand for election, didn't have an armed police force who murders anyone who questions them behind them, of they answered to the people in any way.

I love the fact that 99% of the time Christians are treated as pure evil in this country but despite that fact gays still want to use the courts to force the church to give them the blessing of the church and whenever something like 9/11 happens all you people can't run to the church fast enough to beg for protection.  Either Christians are an evil backwards hate group who shouldn't be listened to, in which case why do you care about getting married or getting wedding cakes, or they are the servants of God in which case ignoring the world of God is the dumbest thing you can do.

All I can say is if the Church in this country still stood for anything the next time there was a disaster in this country they would refuse to help and they would bar their doors to all the hypocrites who come running looking for protection from the Church.  You have made your choice now you have to live with it and never complain about the fallout when God with draws his protection from this country.

I know I am finished here after posting this because in this country there is no room in public for anyone who believes the Bible is the holy word of God so don't worry I am deleting my account.

Just remember when you find yourself still unhappy and depressed even after all the people who you say were attacking you are gone and when this country goes up in smoke, you were warned and you called us all crazy.

This country has made it's choice and the Bible is clear, we are not supposed to try and change anyone's minds.  The time has come for all Christians who believe in the Bible to do what I am going to do. Leave, and never again have any contact with the world.  This country has chosen hell so when everyone in it ends up burning in it they have no one to blame but themselves.  I am done with all contact with the outside world.  Nothing good has ever come of Christians trying to coexist with the people of the world, instead the world uses it's weapons to force us to sin.  All Christians should just cut themselves off and wait for death, that way they can't be forced to break the laws handed down to us by God.

Today proves that having contact with nonbelievers is in and of it's self a sin that destroys the church and I guilty of it as anyone.  Well no more.  I will never speak to anyone who isn't a member of my church for as long as a live, no good can come of it.

 It deeply saddens me that you feel this way.

DuracellEnergizer said:

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Fuck summer.

Can do!!

;)

Just as long as she doesn't put The Smiths on. Bleeegh.

SilverWook said:

Wait, he hates Star Wars so much he destroyed all of his collection? I know he's done con appearances in the past.

I remember there was an interview with him a while back (maybe it's on youtube or something, I can't be sure) where he revealed that he was bullied a great deal at school for all the star wars stuff. That and the fact that irate fans would come up to him as he was growing up and insult him for simply being in the prequels, blaming him for a lot of stuff that he had no involvement in. If I were him, having most memories of star wars associated with some sort of abuse, I would probably feel pretty bitter about the whole thing too.

Then again, I am half remembering all of this so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm probably remembering most of this wrong.

I was playing around with something called "Space Engine" a couple of weeks ago. It was a ton of fun... but the downside was that it killed my computer :( I'm now waiting on a new motherboard before I can get back on with editing work, gaming and so on.

Ho hum.

TV's Frink said:

Hey, bkev isn't dead either!

 You catch on pretty quick.

bkev said:

He's all right but after a few listens I got really tired of Tycho.

Welcome back, Greenie.  I hope you've brought your double standards back in full force. :)

 It's been a while so I may be a little rusty.

*AHEM*

DOUBLE LANYARDS

Eh, close enough.