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ray_afraid said:

Ah, ok. Right on then!

My cat, Dresden Lucifer Underfoot, isn't doing well. We've been partners for 11 years now and I'm afraid we will be parting soon. He has some health problems and they are all increasing and there's not much that can be done to help. I don't think I'll have to have him put down terribly soon, but all the signs are showing that we've spent our last full year together.
I love animals, so it's not like this is the first time a pet has passed on, but he is very special to me. All of my friends think of the two of us as a team, even though the guy never leaves my house.
Anyway, I dunno if that qualifies as bitching, but I needed to whine about it I guess.

 It's understandable. I lost my dog a while ago, and it was tough. My coping method was to think about how great of a pet he was, and how the 12 years with him was easily worth the sadness that came with his passing. 

Just bought the four Lethal Weapon movies on blu ray. They all came in the same case and it was only $15 so that was definitely worth it. I also got both the Alien Anthology (Alien, Aliens, Alien3, and Resurrection) with Prometheus for only 20 dollars total so that was a steal

Personally my favorite is Rubber Soul by the Beatles. I don't know anything about music so I can't provide any further explanation. I just know what I like, and that's my favorite

This is constantly changing, but here it is:

1. The Wizard of Oz

2. Star Wars

3. Scream

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

5. Breakfast Club

6. Halloween

7. Back to the Future

8. Heathers

9. Reservoir Dogs

10. Pulp Fiction

Fang Zei said:

I think the '97 version has a better chance of being included than the '04 version (or the '11 version for that matter).

We don't know the details on this 4k transfer, but the evidence points to it being the SE. Presumably, it's the "final" SE and maybe also the basis for the 3D conversions if they are in fact in the works.

If that's the case, then the earlier '11 and '04 versions would be rendered kind of redundant. The 2015 version will probably just redo most of those changes and might even add a few more crazy changes on top of that. Some of the '04/'11 changes could even be reversed. Lets not forget that one shot of the truck going over the cliff in Raiders that was redone digitally for a tv broadcast only to go back to the way it was for the blu-ray.

There's been a lot of discussion here about how "Disney isn't beholden to George's wishes, they bought his company for $4 billion, etc," but I don't think we're going to see a restored OOT release that doesn't also include the "final" version in just as nicely a restored condition, at least not while George is alive and his friend Kathleen Kennedy is in charge.

Also, we can't discount the number of SE fans out there. Y'know, the tfners foaming at the mouth for even more changes with each new release.

The most likely scenario, if we do in fact get the OOT on blu-ray this year, is a two-disc set for each movie with the 2015 version on the first disc and the unaltered on the second.

A more-than-reasonable idea for a "collector's set" would go like this:

Disc 1: The Final Cut

Disc 2: The Special Edition

Disc 3: The Original Version

 I agree that the 97's have more chances of seeing the light than the 04 versions, but I still would be shocked to the point of having a heart attack if they ever actually released anything but the originals and the recent version. I also would bet money that they'll never make any new changes ever again either, unless it's just recompositing or something along those lines because any more changes would piss off the entire fan base because it "disrespects" Lucas' "vision" and it's changing the movies more which pisses off everyone else. 

Danfun128 said:

You used site:originaltrilogy.com/forum right?

 Yes, I think the reason the other thread didn't come up was because the title was ROTJ rather than Return of the Jedi. 

skyjedi2005 said:

The blu ray set made tons of money and the boycott did not work.  The possibility of the real original versions ever being released is doubtful.

There is a market for everything. If there is enough of a demand for the Producers Cut of Halloween 6 that they release that on a blu ray then there is definitely a market for the OT. 

RicOlie_2 said:

Perhaps, but it is clearly fabricated and symbolic, regardless of whether or not it was meant to be taken literally. Which Biblical passages are you thinking about? I can only think of the one where Jesus prohibits divorce, in which his quotation still works just fine if the story isn't literal, and the one in one of the Pauline letters in which the author contrasts Jesus with Adam. That one also still works if the creation story isn't taken literally.

Jesus is traced directly back to Adam in the Luke genealogy. Jesus said that in the beginning God created them male and female, making it clear that man was created specifically by God and not a product of millions of years of evolution. Paul also refers to Adam and Eve and in 1 Timothy writes about the original sin and the order of creation of Adam and Eve. It's pretty clear that they are described as real people and the events of Genesis are regarded as facts rather than myth.

TV's Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

ROTJ is obviously the best Star Wars film, but we all already agreed on that in this thread...

ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!

 I wasn't aware of the existence of that thread. I tried to look around and make sure that this thread wasn't going to be redundant, but that doesn't always work out. 

 Usually a Google search helps.

 I did that

RicOlie_2 said:

imperialscum said:

Frank your Majesty said:

If you don't take the bible literally, you can easily say that God creating earth and life in seven days was a way for people 2500 years ago to imagine how everything started. You can still believe in Heaven and Jesus dying for your sins. That's the essence of not taking something literally.

Of course, evolution is nowhere mentioned in the bible, but neither is electricity and yet, even members of the Westboro Baptist Church use electric light.

Yes I suppose you could twist everything around and fool yourself so that it somehow fits with the modern science. But for what reason would someone then even believe in such nonsense if he accepts science? Why not just take science and forget about the bed-time story level material?

 If you think it's simply bedtime story material, then you display your ignorance of the story. The creation story in Genesis is a carefully crafted narrative that has some clearly symbolic elements woven into it. The order of the things created is definitely deliberate, and not the result of some primitive mind making up crap. The author(s) conveyed theological ideas through the story, and thus it has theological value, if not scientific value.

That being said, I agree with you that it is illogical to reject the latest scientific advances in favour of a primitive story completed only a few millennia ago.

I never got the impression that Genesis was intended to be interpreted any other way than literally. It comes across as a statement of fact, especially given that the Bible is usually very clear whenever symbolic stories are told. Not to mention that everyone in the entire Bible, both Old and New Testaments, clearly take the Genesis creation account to be a literal interpretation of how the earth came to be. 

Ryan McAvoy said:

ROTJ is obviously the best Star Wars film, but we all already agreed on that in this thread...

ROTJ is the best Star Wars film... discuss!

 I wasn't aware of the existence of that thread. I tried to look around and make sure that this thread wasn't going to be redundant, but that doesn't always work out. 

A place to voice respect and fondness for the black sheep of the Star Wars Trilogy. Try to keep the hate to a minimum and focus on the good things about Jedi. 

DominicCobb said:

generalfrevious said:

DominicCobb said:

Yes.

 Can you elaborate for me On your yes?

 I am actually the same age as the guy in Boyhood and yes I found the film to be very accurate in its depiction of youth for those 12 years.

I have to disagree on that one. Kids portrayed in movies taking place decades before my time (Such as Stand By Me for kids and Heathers for teens) felt more accurate to what I remember those ages acting like than the Boyhood kids did. In those older movies they say dated things, but they still feel and act like kids and teens. I'm not saying Boyhood is not a good movie or anything, but I definitely thought the kids acted how out of touch adults would imagine they act. 

It definitely started the trend of making sequels 25 years after the original

I was going through a binge watch of all of the Halloween films recently and watched Halloween Resurrection for the first time in a longer than I can remember. I hated it more than someone kicking the back of my seat on an airplane. I haven't been through such a range of emotions during a movie in a long time. I went from being furious, to annoyed, to bored, to insulted, and then to completely exhausted both physically and emotionally at the end. It was one the most horrific things I've ever seen on a screen, and the whole thing was an embarrassment to everyone involved and was an insult to everything that I hold dear. It was a "living nightmare" as kids these days like to say, and the whole thing was mindnumbingly nonsensical and foolish. I hated the movie. I hate it, I hate slasher movies involving the internet, I hate Busta Rhymes, and I hate the scriptwriter. I wish that rather than make the movie, they would have just taken the money they were going to spend on it and set it on fire. It is the biggest fuck-up in the recorded history of mankind.

Uwe Bol

I have absolutely no self esteem. I always assume that everyone is thinking negative things about me, and find it impossible to initiate anything with the opposite sex because I think that if I talk to them they'll think I'm creepy and weird. I'm at an age where all of my friends have relationships headed straight towards marriage, and as much as I would like to have that, I doubt I ever will.

I surprisingly have great friends though, and love being around them, although when I actually stop and think about it I really have no idea why any of them would want to associate with me. I have started to slowly recognize that all of these things that I think probably are completely irrational and not true, but still have no confidence and fear that I never will.

Ganuine? 

darklordoftech said:

If this article is anything to go by:

http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/How-George-Lucas-Star-Wars-7-Ideas-Were-Used-By-Disney-69271.html

 What?

TV's Frink said:

Was there any grit in True Grit?

 It was pretty good for a PG-13 rating. It was one of the grittier PG-13 films I've seen that came out after around the mid 2000's, assuming you're referring to the remake of course

And yes, a million times yes I miss the grit in movies! I swear, PG-13 means nothing now, and even most R rated films don't get any more violent than Raiders of the Lost Ark, a PG film. PG-13 has become almost completely bloodless most of the time now. Sixteen Candles (PG) would get an R rating in a heartbeat due to the part where the girls bare breast are shown up close, even though it had nothing to do with any sex act. Also I'm sure that a film like Carrie would get an NC-17, and Raiders and Temple of Doom would both likely get solid R ratings in today's MPAA censoring habits. Not to mention that films today just look so clean and pretty. Like Crow said, people who are supposed to be playing characters who should be in bad shape have a perfect physique

NeverarGreat said:

Frank your Majesty said:

We see the probe droid crash. Later we see something crash. It doesn't matter if it's the same shot from a different angle. the way it was used makes it clear that it isn't a probe droid but one of the meteors they talk about. It also makes sense to show a meteor crash to establish that meteors are fairly common and nothing to be too worried about.

 It was never clear to me that the second impact was a meteorite. In fact, since it appeared to be the exact same shot as before but from a different angle, I always (since I first saw ESB when I was five) thought that it was the same probe droid impact, simply edited to show that Luke saw it as well. And it's also never explicitly stated that meteorite impacts are common on Hoth, simply that there is a lot of meteor (not meteorite) activity in the system that confounds sensors.

 I also was under the impression that it was simply Luke's reaction to the same impact. 

Why didn't Obi Wan warn Luke that a lightsaber can cut someone in half? He could have hurt himself. What a plot hole. That ruined the whole movie for me

DuracellEnergizer said:

I live in constant fear that I'll suffer a cerebral hemorrhage or aortic dissection.

 I worry that I'll wake up with my head in my pillow and unable to breathe, but also unable to move because of sleep paralysis. It's happened a lot before and it's a living hell

DuracellEnergizer said:

It's impossible to contribute actual substance to an on-line forum; physical, baryonic matter cannot exist within the realm of cyberspace.

 It's also impossible to contribute much substance to a rumour. This has been discussed so much that there isn't a lot to add until we get more updates. 

After almost constant temperatures of approximately 0 degrees (Fahrenheit) in 2015 we finally got a couple of nice and warm 20 degree days, followed by today, which was a solid 45! Only really needed to wear a hoodie rather than an actual coat