ricarleite

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Post: #93871
Topic: The Essentials (films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93871/action/topic#93871
Time: 18-Feb-2005 2:16 PM

Yes, Spinal Tap could also be qualified as an "essential".

I don't see how that Kurt Russel movie with exploding chinese people could be considered an "essential" movie, but...

Post: #93866
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93866/action/topic#93866
Time: 18-Feb-2005 2:04 PM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
Bingo.

Bingo!
* removes bingo card from a locker *

(let's see how many catch on that reference)

Post: #93865
Topic: Cannot find old Anime topic thread...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93865/action/topic#93865
Time: 18-Feb-2005 2:02 PM

It does ring a bell. Nice anime by Gighli studio - the producers of "Grave of the Fireflies", which I also recomend.

Post: #93863
Topic: Sequels that should never be...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93863/action/topic#93863
Time: 18-Feb-2005 2:00 PM

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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan

The Spy Who Loved Me (great movie, awful soundtrack)
Moonraker (Did they even READ the book?)

Awful soundtrack? Whaat? Heehe I supposed people don't appreciate cheesy 70s soundtracks as I do.
About these two movies: I can't belive no one mentioned Bond's most memorable vilain/henchman: Jaws!

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Sometimes I wonder how much preferring the old Bond films is based on how good they actually were and how much is nostalgia.

Well, can't one say the same about Star Wars?

Post: #93818
Topic: Sequels that should never be...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93818/action/topic#93818
Time: 18-Feb-2005 7:40 AM

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I did, but until I did, the question was valid. BTW, Day Another Die wasn't that bad really. If they just tookout everything related to Jinks, Miranda Frost, and that white guy who used to be asian...

### SPOILER ###

Both "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day" have surprise plot twists that focus on bizarre, quickly made plastic surgeries to change identities, yet "Diamonds" is good (yet cheesy), and "Die Another Day" is... well, crap.

Post: #93817
Topic: Advice on how to achieve your evil plans...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93817/action/topic#93817
Time: 18-Feb-2005 7:37 AM

There was this website that listed lots of funny tips to evil people who want to take over the world, like "after you capture the spy trying to end with your plans, kill him instantly. don't feed him, and don't chalenge him to a swordfigt." - I'll look for it later and post here.

Post: #93815
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93815/action/topic#93815
Time: 18-Feb-2005 7:33 AM

OK I get it now. Since he needed one more information, that means he had 2 or more answers so far, and the only combination that appears more than once is 13.

Post: #93814
Topic: The Essentials (films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93814/action/topic#93814
Time: 18-Feb-2005 7:04 AM

Jaws is a little bit slow paced for today standarts, but it's a good film. Not great, but good.

"The Exorcist" is another example of a frightening film that, unlikely today, dosen't depend on teenages getting killed by an unknown, irrelevant serial killer; or "scarying" the audience with sudden appearences followed by loud sounds after moments of silence - which I belive is the lowest trick a "director" could do on a film.

Post: #93812
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93812/action/topic#93812
Time: 18-Feb-2005 6:40 AM

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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it..."

"Are there no other countries that use numbers in a license plate?"

That's not what was meant. As far as I know, there's nothing limiting a US license plate to only having the number 13 at the beginning. Your mileage may vary.

Exactly. Is it a lucky charm, that all license plates begin with a 13? As far as I know, there's no such thing.

Post: #93741
Topic: Threepio or Artoo, which droid would YOU rather have?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93741/action/topic#93741
Time: 17-Feb-2005 7:06 AM

Eh? Are you out of your mind?

Post: #93739
Topic: The Essentials (films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93739/action/topic#93739
Time: 17-Feb-2005 6:56 AM

Gah! Jeez, yes, the Godfather! I forgot...

And yes, it includes Spaceballs. Altough I'd recomend only The Producers, Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.

Post: #93737
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93737/action/topic#93737
Time: 17-Feb-2005 6:51 AM

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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it...

And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother... Unles his/hers mother was 7 (the world record) when he/she was born, and 42 (not the world record but impressive) when the later twins were born.

Are there no other countries that use numbers in a license plate?

As for the age in 36,1,1, think about remarriage. I had a friend when I was 11 whose eldest brother was in his 40s. Because his dad was remarried. Same dad, different mom. His dad was in his 60s when he was born.

Hello, and welcome to "Divorce Math 101". I'll be your teacher, I'm professor Kramer, and you'll learn here equations that always end up with small kids suffering and the lawyers taking it all.

Post: #93729
Topic: The Essentials (films)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93729/action/topic#93729
Time: 17-Feb-2005 4:53 AM

OK, first the easy-to-watch blockbuster classics: everything made by George Lucas from 1970 to 1983, everything by Spielberg, Scorcese after 1980, Hitchcock, Mel Brooks until Spaceballs, every Monty Python film, some hong kong films by golden harvest, Exorcist, Alien, Bond flicks... you know, the good classic stuff...

Then moving to more complex stuff:

Pretty much everything made by Stanley Kubrick from "Paths of Glory" to "Eyes Wide Shut"
Orson Welles, specially Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil directors cut.
Kurosawa, specially 7 samurai, kagemusha (cant spell), ran, rapsody in august and yume.
Everything by Fellini, specially Fellini's Rome and Amarcord
Casablanca
Brazil: "O pagador de promessas", Central Station, City of God
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Jerry Lewis's "Which Way to the Front"
Roberto Begnini's Life is Beautiful and Il Monstro
Terry Gilliam: Brazil, 12 Monkeys
Japanese art cinema, like Dolls and Taboo
Japanese anime films, like Grave of the Fireflies, Barefoot Gen, Wings of Haneimase (cant spell), Akira, Ghost in the Shell 1, End of Evangelion...
Harold LLoyd's Safety Last
Chaplin from the kid to great dictator
David Lynch, specially Eraserhead and Elephant Man
Anything written by Charlie Kaufman
Anything by Polansky
Waking Life
Kevin Smith's Clerks

I... suppose that's it.

Post: #93726
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93726/action/topic#93726
Time: 17-Feb-2005 4:33 AM

So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it...

And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother... Unles his/hers mother was 7 (the world record) when he/she was born, and 42 (not the world record but impressive) when the later twins were born.

Post: #93627
Topic: Sequels that should never be...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93627/action/topic#93627
Time: 16-Feb-2005 2:08 PM

My favorite Bonds:

Roger Moore
Sean Conery
Pierce Brosnan
Timothy Dalton
George Lazemby (altough I've seen only 10 minutes of him as Bond)

My favorite Bond movies:

Moonraker (because it's silly and fun)
The Spy Who Loved Me (got the soundtrack!)
Diamonds Are Forever
Goldfinger
The World is Not Enough
Octopussy
Live and Let Die

and others follow...

Post: #93623
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93623/action/topic#93623
Time: 16-Feb-2005 1:47 PM

OK Bossk so that you don't look like a cheater, I demand that you post how did you get to that solution...

Post: #93622
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93622/action/topic#93622
Time: 16-Feb-2005 1:39 PM

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (piano sonata number... 14 I think).

Post: #93621
Topic: Sequels that should never be...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93621/action/topic#93621
Time: 16-Feb-2005 1:37 PM

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Originally posted by: Warbler

License to Kill is (IMHO) the worst Bond movie of them all with Goldeneye coming in a close 2nd.

You obviously didn't watch a monstrosity called "Die Another Day".

Post: #93552
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93552/action/topic#93552
Time: 16-Feb-2005 3:38 AM

That's just horrible! That means I can be robed, violated and killed by one of a siamese twins in the middle of a park ona sunday afternoon, and the cops will just look at it?

I think it's impossible to commit such crimes unless the other brother/sister helped, so both would be guilty.

Post: #93548
Topic: Sequels that should never be...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93548/action/topic#93548
Time: 16-Feb-2005 2:38 AM

I love Moonraker too, mostly because of the opening scene, the funny steteotypized view of south america, and Jaws cutting the sugarloaf cart cables with his teeth.

Brosnan was a very good Bond, so much I'd like so see him again in another Bond movie (just one more). He can't end his Bond era with the silly "Die Another Day".

I heard the next Bond would be... whatshisname... Clive Owen? Is that right? Is that his name?

Post: #93547
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93547/action/topic#93547
Time: 16-Feb-2005 2:18 AM

I find it extremely difficult to murder anyone without waking up your siamese twin, who is, for some reason, sleeping next to you - not only next to you but attached to you. Only if you had a pistol with a silent barrel, and you were on bed with your brother/sister and someone came up to you, and you shot that person. Which would be a very bizarre situation.

Post: #93542
Topic: Riddles
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93542/action/topic#93542
Time: 16-Feb-2005 1:07 AM

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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
He is one-half of siamese twins. It would mean sentencing an innocent man (the brother) to life imprisonment as well.

I don't know why you are smothering people with "wrongs" and "think-about-its". This is an extreme and very unlikely scenario, and is not a conclusion that one can readily come to based on the information you gave. Let's be a little more realistic about our expectations.

I was gonig to say "actor"

, but that's a good one too

. Siamese twins... Although I don't think you could kill someone being a siamese twin without the consent or help of your brother. What does the law say about such case? Does it mean that if I have a siamese twin, I can commit any crime I want?

Post: #93463
Topic: Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93463/action/topic#93463
Time: 15-Feb-2005 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by: Zebonka
I only just realised my icon looks like Freddie Mercury.

It's more like the Village People...

Post: #93462
Topic: What if someone else had played Obi-Wan instead of Alec Guinness?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93462/action/topic#93462
Time: 15-Feb-2005 11:57 AM

If Kubrick had directed it:

* It would be completed in 1987, if so.
* Most actors would quit in the middle of the shooting, Kubrick asking them to re-shoot the same scenes 100 times.
* Luke would go to the dark side, and kill himself afterwards.
* The death star battle would be very slow paced, with Lando getting out of the milenium falcom in a space suit and disabling the death star manually, in a 15 minute silent scene.
* The emperor would be played by Jack Nicholson.
* Long steadycam shots of paralel walls.
* Jabba talking in Nadsat ("Welly welly welly welly well, if it isn't my droog Luke Skywalker in poison!" - "Come on get one in the yarbles, Jabba!")

Post: #93459
Topic: What would you like to see in a scifi/fantasy web site? The time has come for a change...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93459/action/topic#93459
Time: 15-Feb-2005 11:49 AM

All you need to do is to make sure your new forum uses the same database structure, or make sure it can be easily mapped from one to another (so you can stop the server, execute a script that moves from one to another, and startup the webserver again). There are some informations you probably won't need anyway.