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#217764
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World Cup 2006
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217764/action/topic#217764
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The world cup should always be played on USA, specifically the west coast. That way, I'll always be able to watch the games during the night over here, and not too late into the night, so I can go to a pub or whatever and watch it with some friends while getting drunk. Life has gone to that point when you're always finding an excuse to get drunk.
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#217585
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Manga and Anime Fans
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I think that's part of why I have trouble getting into anime. A lot of it is directly adapted from the manga, so the plots drag on and on. Dragon Ball Z is one of the worst, especially in the Frieza saga. (This is actually mostly the publisher's fault. Akira Toriyama had intended Frieza to be the last sory arc, so when they were animating it, they dragged it on and on so it would feel bigger and more epic, and keep the show--and hence flow of advertising money--coming for longer. But then the publisher demanded more manga from Toriyama, so he went back and extended it for two more sagas.)


Incorrect. Toriyama did intend to end Dragonball on the Freeza saga, but the publisher demanded for more. By the time the Freeza saga was aired on TV, the Androids/Cell saga was being published, so they knew what was ahead of them. The reason for draging the story for so long is the pace of the publication and the anime. You had 28 pages of manga and 90 minutes of anime in a month. You do the math. All anime adapted from a on-going manga suffers from this, because the producers try to keep up with the same pace as the manga - which is why I prefer anime created directly for the screen, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Haibane Renmei. (*sigh* yes there ARE manga for those anime, but it was created later - every manga adapted from an anime sucks)
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#217509
Topic
Manga and Anime Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217509/action/topic#217509
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Regarding manga, the best one is still Rurouni Kenshin to me. While it's simplisticly drawn and sometimes with absurd storylines or events, it's one heck of a history lesson and a must-read for anyone interested in japanese culture and history. Plus, it's great fun. Other manga I enjoy, which I used to read until recently, was One Piece - way better than the anime. Very creative, inventinve, and with brilliant plot lines. Although it's mostly "go to a different island, battle a vilain", each story arc is just brilliant. CLAMP has released some nice manga, but mostly visually. They are known for fantasy cliched almost shounen-ai plots, filled with cuteness, something I dislike, although Sakura was readable - X probably is, too. On the other side of the equation we have "Bastard!!", which is this action-fantasy-rock story so confusing it's no point trying to figure it out, but perfectly drawn (the OVAs are good, though). Akira was a classic, unfortunally completely butchered for the western release. Osamu Tezuka's works are works of art, the root of all manga and anime today, but a little bit old fashioned for me, with a western feel into it. Other manga I enjoyed is Love Hina, which is so addictive it's infuriating!

For anime, GAINAX is the best. Neon Genesis Evangelion are three words that have re-defined how anime is done, some sort of a "Citizen Kane" of animation. Every single other work by Gainax, since the DAICON days, is a brilliant work of art, perfect to every detail - maybe Otaku no Video suffers a bit from a broken pace due to the live action segments and is a bit too obscure for people not familiar with anime, who will not get all the jokes, but still near perfect. Cowboy Bebop is also a wonderful masterpiece, down to every single episode, and the complex relations between characters and the futuristic world that surrounds them. Naruto was a good adition to the anime world for the past years, but has suffered a bit with the slow pace required for manga adaptations to the tv screen, and has gone from exciting and fun to dull and silly. Dragonball (and DBZ) has suffered from this too (aka "drag on" ball), but it was the anime responsiblt for the big break over the western market, although a bit too late - it was only really popular after it had ended in Japan and faded away. I still remember the first time I saw the final episode for the Cell saga (back in 1993, briefly after aired in Japan) and I was in awe, I became an anime fan ever since. Haibane Renmei is also an anime that I've enjoyed, beautifully animated, scored and written, and very mysterious. Also, I enjoy old anime, such as Yamato and Future Boy Conan, this last one a masterpiece of the 70s, sadly forgotten. As for anime films, my favorites are Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies), Barefoot Gen, Nadia of the Valley of the Winds (the JAPANESE version, not the butchered western one), and of course, Akira.
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#217360
Topic
The Official Lucasfilm Response
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217360/action/topic#217360
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OK the original trilogy does not exist. My dad was able to restore the 1980 olimpic games opening cerymony out of a deteriorated VHS tape he recorded back them and did a nice clean transfer into a DVD, probably the only one around besides the network's, which I don't belive to exist anymore. And that is my dad, who has little knowledge of video techniques and computers.

Are you telling me that there are no copies of STAR WARS left? Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox, two multi-billion corporations from the United States of America, who produced and distributed the most popular movie in the world, cannot provide ONE SINGLE COPY of the movie in it's original form? They have to resort to a LD because there is NO other way? And he has used the original films to make the SEs? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how it's possible to overwrite celluloid. What did he use to make the 1993 and 1995 sets? It obviously didn't come from an inferior form. Did he BURN it afterwards? Maybe they just burned it as an accident and are too embarassed to say, because that is the only reasonable explanation that comes to mind.
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#217163
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Favorites of all time
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217163/action/topic#217163
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Movie: Can't pick just one. 2001 a space odissey, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Memento and Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind are among those I like

Game:
Multiplayer: Team Fortress Classic, Goldeneye 64.
PC: Half Life 2, Sim City 4.
Console: Every single Nintendo game. For non nintendo consoles, GTA Vice City, Metal Gear Solid (the first one), Shadow of the Colossus, Shenmue.
Arcade: King of Fighters 96, SNK vs Capcom 2.

Beatles Song: Oh boy... Tough one... A Day in Life, Here Comes the Sun, Eleanor Rigby, I Am the Walrus, Hey Jude, All You Need is Love, Strawberry Fields Forever.

Song: Pink Floyd, album Meddle, song Echoes (uncut version).

TV Show: MST3K

Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop

Comic Book: Since there's manga bellow, I'd say Maus, volumes 1 and 2

Wrestler: None

Manga: Rurouni Kenshin, One Piece

Book: Metamorphosis, by Kafka
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#217160
Topic
Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217160/action/topic#217160
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I've heard this one on the radio today:

This drunk fella is walking at the street, at night, with his bottle filled with booze. It's pitch dark and he can't see a thing. He falls to the ground and falls over his bottle. He gets up, and not being able to see a thing, touches his shirt and notices it's soaked wet.

"Oh please God let this be just blood!"
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#216896
Topic
Episode III on HBO in HD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216896/action/topic#216896
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Originally posted by: IrishLuck1980
I just got done downloading Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith in 1080i from a.b.HDTV Unfortunaly, I can only view it on my XBOX 360 through VGA cable. That only goes to 720p. Anyone here see it on HBO in 1080i? How was it? And how much better then the DVD is it?


I'm curious, what was the size of that?
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#216718
Topic
Luke's rope-throwing talents in EP4
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216718/action/topic#216718
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Talking about weird memories about sequences that did not exist: I clearly remember when watching the 1997 SE A New Hope on the theaters, that the shot right after Vader says "Close up formation" was Vader's fighter along with the two Tie Fighters moving from right to left, I clearly remember this, and all the other copies I've seen have this other shot, I don't remember what it is, but I belive it's the imperial fighters moving towards the camera (as opposed to side by side). Am I insane, or could the theater have a mis-edited copy?
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#216712
Topic
The Most Boring Commentator Ever
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216712/action/topic#216712
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The worse commenatry track ever recorded is for "Wild Wild West", by Mr. Barry Sonnenfeld. He kept babling of how he shouldn't have directed the way he did, and stuttered while trying to explain too fast all the visual effects on some shots.

And, ironically, one of the best is also Barry Sonnenfeld's, along with Tommy Lee Jones, for MIB - they had the silluette of both actors over the film by using the subtitles to form the image, that was interesting.
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#216607
Topic
Certificate from Bush
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216607/action/topic#216607
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* ricarleite sighs deeply, grabs his guitar and sings with his Borat accent *

In my country there is problem/ And that problem is those queers/
Always having anal sex/ And hanging out with their peers

Throw those fags down the well! / So my country can be free!
You must grab it by its horns! / And then we have a little party!