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#120912
Topic
Who are your 10 favorite and least favorite characters from all six SW films?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120912/action/topic#120912
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Top ten (1 is best)

1- Yoda (the OT one)
2- Darth Vader (OT)
3- Palpatine (OT and PT)
4- Luke Skywalker
5- R2D2 (OT)
6- Obi Wan (OT and PT)
7- Han Solo
8- Leia
9- C3PO (OT)
10- Grand Moff Tarkin
11- Chewbacca (OT - because, you know, these go to eleven "spinal tap" joke)

Lousy ten (10 is the worse)

1- Yoda (the PT one)
2- Chewbacca (the PT one)
3- Young Anakin (from TPM)
4- That Ewok that refused to let Luke and Han go even though Leia asked him to
5- The two-headed pod race narrators
6- C3PO (PT)
7- Panaka (because of his name)
8- Grievious (the film version)
9- Boss Nass
10- Jar Jar Binks
Post
#120767
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120767/action/topic#120767
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate "celebrities" who think the world's problems can be resolved by having a music festival. Example, Live 8. Once again, the answer is for everyone to write a blank check...please, please don't pressure the governments who are the cause of the problem, whatever you do...IDIOTS.


But you gotta admit that at least the shows were great...
Post
#120766
Topic
YIYF's Long Bridge Club
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120766/action/topic#120766
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Yoda at the same time you were there, I was driving on my way to pick up someone, listening to live 8 live on the radio, I listened to The Who ("We won't get fooled again", great), and then Pink Floyd... Man that was awesome, and they didn't rehearse at all! I wish I was there to see it...

Did Roger or David say anything after the show? About Pink Floyd? Was that their last?
Post
#120771
Topic
War of the Worlds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120771/action/topic#120771
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** SPOILERS REGARDING WAR OF THE WORLDS AND HALF LIFE 2 **


The movie had some plot holes and some weird incosistences - Boston was not even scratched and the people in that house like the mother, the grandfather and grandmother were dressed for x-mas or thanksgiving or something, like they didn't even know what was going on. BUT... the whole grittiness of the film, the realism and the whole setting was quite well done, it reminded of a excelent british film called "Threads", which shows the aftermatch of a nuclear strike in britain (only it's much more disturbing to watch).

Now, has anyone noticed similarities between this film and "Half Life 2"? The main character dosen't knwo what's going on, and we only see what he is seeing, what he is experiencing. There's a bizarre alien invasion and humans are slaved and/or used as a source of energy, there are gigantic Tripod things that beam up a powerful lightining weapon and you might destroy it with a rocket launcher, the army and people are organizing a militia to fight the aliens... And the whole look of the film reminded of Half Life 2...
Post
#120525
Topic
War of the Worlds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120525/action/topic#120525
Time
OK I've just came back from seeing it, and here are my remarks.


*** SPOILERS ***


War of the Worlds, or: "Signs" meets "Half Life 2" meets "AI" meets "Threads". First, I was expecting a much worse film, and I was quite impressed by it, specially it's first half. Spielberg didn't drag the character development too much as it happens in other disaster movies, so in 10 minutes the whole plot is moving. When the Tripods first atack, there's a sense of catastrophe and bleakness and horror I haven't seen in a movie since "Threads", the whole sequence is very good, I was in awe, BUT... at the same time, it felt like he tried NOT to make it too scary/gory in order to avoid an R rating. I HATE when that happens! I hate when you notice sequences being tamed down for rating reasons! If you're going over the edge, GO over the freaking edge and make it an R movie, make the people explode in gory painful horrible-to-watch ways...!

After Cruise's character meets Tim Robbins' character, the whole thing slows down and gets a "Spielberg summer movie" feeling, a "Jurassic Park" and "AI" feeling... They all hide of the tentacle like the kids from Jurassic Park were hiding from the dinosaurs, Cruise gets captured by the alien spacepod thing that keeps a few humans for "snack" (and he has greandes with him! how convenient!), and the whole Spielbergesque happy-happy-joy-joy ending! If there's one thing I never enjoyed in "War of the Worlds" is the ending. If there's something I don't like about Spielberg is the ending of his movies, with "feel good everyone survives suspension of disbelieaf" kinda ending. I think there was an oportunity to shock the audiences and KILL the main characters, or at least kill the girl by some sort of desease or lack of food or somerthing, at least it would be ironic when the aliens died for that same reason.

All in all, a good movie, I'd rate 6.5 out of 10. Oh, and as I've realized in the worse way possible, it's not really a movie to take a date with.