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#998077
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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.
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Contacted the site, will keep you guys posted.

But, man, the heck did I get myself into here. Finally decide to donate to a campaign and try and do something good and it turns out to be a potential scam, and the person in question turns out isn’t very nice himself (though, I’m not judging anybody here).

Should’ve just minded my own business (unless it’s a legit campaign).

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#998067
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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.
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TV’s Frink said:

haraldo23 said:

The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy.

https://pages.gofundme.com/guarantee-faq/

If GoFundMe investigates the campaign and confirms that there has been misuse, then we will refund your donation up to $1,000 per campaign.

I would contact them.

Hey, thanks! This link here - https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204150420-How-can-I-get-my-donation-refunded- gave the impression that there’s no shot. Will try and contact the site.

The amount wasn’t much, just 15 bucks, but having a fake campaign up like this (if it’s fake) isn’t cool either way.

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#998050
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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.
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The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy. I don’t know anything about Sonny’s personal life (or that he ran for the office, even), I just watch Predator 20 times a year and felt compelled to do something when I read this online.

Should’ve done more research. Will edit the original post with a warning.

Apologies if I messed up.

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#997928
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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.
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Yeah, I don’t know. At first it seemed like people just don’t care or maybe he’s not one to share his pain, or doesn’t have any social media-savvy people around him. I already threw a few bucks in, but it is definitely strange.

Sent the campaign maker a message:

_"Hey, Michael!

I have a question - I donated to the campaign, spread the word on social media and simply wish you guys the best - but some people, including myself, are wondering how come this isn’t making any news? I read about your campaign on manlymovie.net who got their info from KCCondifential.com, but, other than that - there’s nothing on google news or anything. Not trying to imply anything, just find it shocking and am curious as to why this isn’t making any news. I hope you understand.

Thanks and good luck!"_

Will see what he replies. I’m a huge Predator fan, watch that movie often - could very well be the greatest action flick ever made. Idea of seeing this dude in it again, knowing I didn’t do shit, didn’t even spread the word, would just bother me. But, yeah, now that the shock has worn off, I do have some more questions as well.

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#997910
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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.
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EDITED: That GoFundMe campaign is suspicious and, after a potentially dumb impulse donation on my part, I contacted the campaign maker for more information. DON’T DONATE ANYTHING until I hear something solid back from him. This could be a scam.


Only now found out about this: http://www.manlymovie.net/2016/10/sonny-landham-loses-legs-needs-help.html.

Here’s the GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/2seeyfg.

Chime in, if you can, if not - share the link around. Tweet it to Arnold, maybe.

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#740288
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The new Star Wars comics - a general discussion thread
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 I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but it almost feels like artists working on these are being forced to draw in a certain style. That stiff, lifeless, traced-photography look... It's as if getting the resemblance right comes before the storytelling.

Now, I realize how hard it is to draw comics, so I'm not knocking these guys. The effort is appreciated. But I wish they'd hire artists with different, distinctive styles and just let them go nuts with it, interpret the characters (visually) the way they want.

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#739714
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Do the Star Wars movies contain evidence that Lucas makes it up as he goes?
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This reminds me of what Stephen King mentioned in his book "On Writing" (I'm pretty sure that's where I remember this from) - some writers like to structure things out, whereas others - like Stephen King himself - like to just plant a seed and see where it takes you, hope that the story evolves properly and finds its natural conclusion.

Basically, some writers are architects, while others are more like botanists. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, so there's no right or wrong approach.

In Lucas' case - dude just kind of rolled with it in both directions it seems (with more emphasis on botany). Till he accidentally cracked the biggest code in cinematic history...

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#702239
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Lucasfilm clarifies the future of the EU
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 Tough to image how this can be a big thing to anybody. Unless you're an OT purist through-and-through, the whole Star Wars mythology is one giant mess even if only movies are considered - let alone all the books and games, and TV shows. Saying there's continuity in Star Wars is like saying there's no steroids in professional sports.

On top of that, EU has always been just fan-fiction. Better funded, better marketed - yes - but still fan fiction. So if you're a Star Wars fan with a Star Wars story - in the world of EU - you're on the same ground as everyone else.

So be it a comic book by Darkhorse, an animated show on Cartoon Network, a fan-[re]written Episode II script posted on OriginalTrilogy.com or a 5 minute long YouTube video about the origins of Darth Maul shot by a bunch of 8th graders -  at the end of the day, the quality of the story is what matters, what will make your story "count", become "canon" to people.

You gotta good SW story? Let me hear it and take it into consideration. That's how EU should work and how it  has worked for me. So they can reboot it all they want, I will keep pick-and-choosing the stories I like anyway.

P.S. With all this said, though, I like what Disney is doing. It will give EU a bit more focus.

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#665832
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How would you have handled Episode VI (6)?
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ROTJ is very interesting in a sense that it's probably the weakest of the three overall as a feature film, but it has the most powerful, most memorable moments from the entire saga (to me, that is).

So the core of the film, the foundation of it is super solid. It's only the tiny things that seem rather off. The rather unoriginal opening scene, Boba Fett serving no purpose whatsoever and going out like a punk, Han tending not to act like Han sometimes, Ewoks taking down the Empire in an awkwardly implausible manner, some of the sets not having as much life & detail as one would hope...

Having ewoks be wookiees would probably give more motivation to our characters, Boba Fett not being in the film at all would  make his character even more mysterious & kewl [in ESB], Han acting more like an overconfident wise ass would spice the flick up a bit more, more detailed sets would make the flick seem larger and a powerful opening scene would make you even more excited about the whole thing (1st and last impressions being the most important ones... that type of thing).

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#664662
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Bingowings said:

Well...

The Official "Landon't Die!" thread.

 

Anyways, just thinking - when I got my hands on ANH:R, I watched it 5 times that week and around 20 times after that... Have you guys thought about how many times you'll end up watching ESB:R? And how/where you gonna do it?

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#641217
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Star Wars 9 Film Saga... Abrams Edition?
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I'd like to see something like that happen just so Lucas would get a little whiff of how it feels like when somebody takes the thing you thought was perfect and redoes it, and announces it as The New Definitive Version of It.

Other than that... I don't think JJ will be able to match any of the fan edits. He may alter certain scenes that might later come in handy for faneditors, but... yeah, other than that - I'm not really interested in anything like that.

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#641082
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ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!
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Well, here's how I see it: there are quite a few scenes in ROTJ (like Luke fighting Vader... especially the part where the music kicks in) that I like more than any other scene in any of the SW flicks.

However, as a whole, as a 2+ hour long movie watching experience - it's just not as good as 'Wars and Empire. Those two seem much better constructed and, in the end, satisfying.

That being said - I still love ROTJ. I just love it.

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#641080
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What is/was the best SW Game ever, on any platform?
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Ryan McAvoy said:

haraldo23 said:

Best. Game. Ever. Even outside of Star Wars. The only video game that I still proudly own and play about once a year. And it's the sole reason why I'm glad the prequels were made (... kind of) - they spawned this entertainment masterpiece.

Did you ever play..

- Cannon Fodder on the Amiga 500+

- Frogger on the Dragon 32

- Turrican II on the Commodore 64

- Prince of Persia on the IBM PS1

- Goldeneye on the N64

- Blade Runner on a Windows 95 PC

- Dues Ex: Human Revolution on the PS3

...to name but a few. But a general rule would be if it was on the Amiga or the N64 it was probably brilliant!

I've played some of those and I've played a ton of others. However, the cool thing about RC was the fact that it was set in the Star Wars Universe (which I [really wanna] love) as well as this interesting, dynamic sort of brotherly camaraderie that other video games (even bigger ones like Gears of War) just don't have.

The tone was perfect, the story felt very enticing, the goals were clear... The gameplay and variety of levels, and the length of the game - everything about it was perfect. A great, but also different kind of Star Wars experience.

But it wasn't just that. There were also little things. For instance, I liked how it took a huge step away from what [modern] Star Wars fans usually prefer: colorful lightsaber raves and Jedi [who fight and act like anime characters]. The music was it's own thing. And the story - it wasn't some important, game changing, history space occupying storyline that most Star Wars writers strive for - it was just 4 dudes in middle of a war, trying to accomplish their little mission and make it through alive. Some real charming simplicity...

The game also put 'WAR' back into STAR WARS and... you know, while I love violence in movies/video games (and RC did have a good chunk of it) - I liked how you were mostly just killing robots. As action packed as it was, you never really felt like you were being violent and killing a bunch of poor bastards. You were just disarming bombs and protecting yourself and your team from soulless killing machines... for the most part.

Anyways, this reply is getting too fat... So, in short: there are a lot of reasons why I love "Star Wars: Republic Commando" and here you have about 2% of them. And I hope they made sense.

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#572999
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SW Episode III - Reign of the Dark Side (* unfinished project *)
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bobgarcia74 said:

Would the line "Destroy whats left of them" fit that part better? Because the first time I worked on that clip I removed the whole holo, but the amount of time the droids spent standing there feels very wrong. And cutting the clip shorter leaves all the droids standing in very bad spots in regards to the clip before or after.

And I'm looking for a better line for Jar Jar than "This way! Hurry!" I'm sure I can find something better.

Maybe just, you know, redub them as well? Seeing as how their lip movement is out of sync anyway, there shouldn't be a lot of restriction. Plus, I think, anything would be better than those Asian stereotype voices...

As for Jar Jar - you can take a look at Ahmed Best's filmography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078886/, there's a list of episodes he did for "The Clone Wars" (not to mention his work in "Robot Chicken"), maybe you can use some of that stuff?

 

But, again - really excited!

This deal is getting better all the time...