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#177921
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Modified from its original version
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Originally posted by: Rokurota
First of all, I never saw that disclaimer until the early 1990s, like 93 or 94. Welles died in the mid-1980s, at the height of Turner's colorization. So the causation seems a bit off.

The SEs came in 1997.


Originally posted by: Rokurota
Don't forget that Lucas also considered David Lynch.


David Lynch refused. Spielberg was willing to direct.
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#177707
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Originally posted by: ricarleite
A terrible, terrible, horrible movie I happen to kind of enjoy: Kung Pow.


Me too! Awful but painfully funny at times. I seriously rarely laugh out loud at movies but during the first big fight in the field, when the one guy tries to escape by throwing the smoke bomb at his own feet... o.m.g.


Kung Pow is a weird movie, because 50% of the jokes are terrible and fall flat like a 10 ton weight, and the other half is very silly yet brilliant, like when they work around stupid lines around the original movie scenes.

(The vilain seeing posters of tigers and birds) "Tiger, tiger, tiger, tiger. Hmn.. Birdie. Birdie, birdie, birdie... I am a great magician! Your clothes are red!"
(Due to a continuity error, one of the characters change clothes colors) "Wow! Do it again!"
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#177684
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Asterix
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About two months ago I purchased Asterix last album, "Asterix and the Falling Sky", the one with the... *sigh* aliens. While is the best looking Asterix album, filled with complex scenery and drawings, and computer colorized, the plot is very weak - I would say it's the "Phantom Menace" of the Asterix albums. I hope Uderzo gets a final album together, something epic and tragic, like "The Death of Asterix".
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#177635
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Star Wars becoming "mainstream" and "popular"
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People, perhaps this is a phenomena that only happened here, where I live, and in the United States Star Wars has always been mainstream, but... I have noticed how lately, with the prequels, people have embraced Star Wars as something "cool", where previously it belonged to fanboys and nerds and geeks - the same happened to Lord of the Rings.

When Star Wars opened here, it was a mild success. There was a lot of talking about it, and references were present at places you wouldn't expect - I own a 1978 local magazine where the letter section was supposedly read by C3PO, spoofing his... uh... personality. By the time the other films got here, it became more of a kid and cult thing, and not really mainstream. You would NEVER find the popular kids in school talking about it. You wouldn't have grownups watching it, let alone discussing it.

After 1983, it was pretty much over. When the movies were broadcasted on TV, it was usually as a daytime adventura-movie filler (the first SW film I've seen, ESB, was on daytime TV on the 80s). There was the VHS set (and in 1995, the faces set), but there wasn't a demand for SW products. There were toys, but they were sold as merely toys for kids, not because it was SW.

When the SE came, there was a brief hype about it, but merely commercial. Stuff like pizza hut giving away cups with the characters, and stuff like that. I remember I watched all three movies (thinking the SE was a limited edition of the films and would not replace the O-OT!!) but the theaters were not packed. There were mostly kids there, and some of them didn't even know those films were made 20 years before.

With the prequels, there was mass media attention and suddenly... Star Wars was mainstream. Kids in school would talk about it, even the "cool" ones who would never be seen with geeks and nerds. Like with Lord of the Rings, in which regular people - who would never even think about reading Tolkien - were reading freaking SIMARILLION, people were watching Star Wars, accepting that whole bizarre galactical universe filled with aliens and lightsaber fights as part of their culture.

I don't belive you guys would understand my point of view on this, kinda hard to explain... But have you noticed also how Star Wars is now among people who normally wouldn't apreciate this kind of thing? Have you noticed something similar with other things, like LOTR, or even Harry Potter? Do you think this is good, or bad?
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#177023
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Military History
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My favorite WW2 subjects are:

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don't analyze them as pro-Japan (as it would be hypocrisy, as I condemn their view on the nanking massacres), nor pro-USA, but pro-life. It was both countries mistake. Also, the history of the survivors is chilling yet fascinating.

Witold Pilecki, a polish soldier and spy, the only known men to have volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz, so he could gather inside information and organize an uprising. Probably one of the craziest and bravest men who ever lived.

Hitler's raise to power, and his strategies and mistakes. of course I am not pro-Hitler, but it's fascinating to analyze his war strategies, not only in battle but in other actions. Did you know the germans had fake money brought in secretly into the UK to generate inflation?

The brazillian participation in the war, the battles fought in Italy and the brazillian air force (senta pua!), and the pilots and engineers who did miracles.

The D day, now that's a whole story by itself.
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#175696
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YIYF's Long Bridge Club
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/175696/action/topic#175696
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
When will you be there Ric, and for what reason?


I belive that in two to three weeks, for about a month, and then again in june, for who knows how long. For business reasons, my current customer is an american corporation.

I just wanted to say, some hours ago I was in my first car accident. I'm fine. It'll just add a small ugly cherry to the top of this painful and horrible chaos-flavored cake that is my life. I am in a stream of bad luck and stress since the beggining of this year, and I belive it'll last until 2007. So, uh, if one day I suddenly dosen't show up anymore, and you hear that a Delta Airlines flight from Brazil to Ohio crashed, you'll know what happened to me.
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#175012
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YIYF's Long Bridge Club
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/175012/action/topic#175012
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Originally posted by: ricarleite
It must be real tough leaving your country, but it's for a good reason, it's to live with someone you love, so I belive it is worth it. Besides, you can always go back and pay a visit to good old London every now and then.

I'll have a US visa interview tomorrow morning. Coincidence.
No shit! That is a coincidence. Good luck man - maybe we will get to meet in person after all.


I'll be in OH. Who knows, might meet someone from here.
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#175009
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Using British Computers In The U.S
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/175009/action/topic#175009
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
After you've switched it, all you have to do is get the appropriate power cord, which you can find at any computer supply store I had a friend come over from England with his Sony videocamera last year. Lucky for him, I have a Clie, so it was just a matter of plugging my power cord into his charger because the switching is done automatically inside the DC converter.


Exactly. The resistance by the powercord must be compatible with it's voltage.