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Post: #163040
Topic: The Watches at Burger King
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/163040/action/topic#163040
Time: 13-Dec-2005 6:47 PM

DON'T buy their burger! Don't! Do as I did, when ROTS was having its premiere and the local Burger King was giving away figure toys with the children burger. I steped out of the line into the balcony and asked for the clerk girl to give me the toy. For free. And I asked repeteadly, threatening to cry in front of everyone. So, she was seeing this 23 year old man wanting a freaking toy so badly, she just smiled and gave one to me (Vader) and told me not to tell anyone. Of course I broke my promise, I am telling THE WORLD now, but still... Please try. If they don't give those to you, just buy the damn burger and give it to some homeless man.

Post: #163038
Topic: Should Stanley Tookie Williams have been executed?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/163038/action/topic#163038
Time: 13-Dec-2005 6:43 PM

What if instead of being executed, the person was made to work as a slave for the rest of their lives in jobs people don't want, like finding explosive mines. OK forget the exploding mines bit, was a joke, but seriously, why waste that person? Put him to work with NO pay into some serious manual labor. At least he will be useful and very cheap.

Post: #163037
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/163037/action/topic#163037
Time: 13-Dec-2005 6:40 PM

Well, for some complicated reasons I don't need or want to go into detail, I didn't have to go. So I'm still here. Oh well.

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
P.S Rik, do you do your routine in Brazilian or English?

Portuguese, there's no "brazillian".

Originally posted by: sean wookie
Add some bad cliches like the airline food!

That's anti-comedy. I'll add that whole business travel bit to my huge "I hate myself" routine. Self deprecating always works.

Post: #162707
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162707/action/topic#162707
Time: 12-Dec-2005 11:50 AM

I do intend to add that bit of frustration I wrote there to my stand up routines.

Post: #162700
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162700/action/topic#162700
Time: 12-Dec-2005 11:11 AM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
What are you complaining about Rik? You are not a person. You are an employee, a number, a cog in the machine. There is no 'I' in team and if you don't like it we can easily find a money hungry young go-getter who would gladly devote his life to the company. Get with the program Rik.

I am not even an employee, I'm a third party consulting, a contractor, I have absolutely no rights. I am below a sub-human (aka employee). I hate this life dedicated to a job that makes you feel miserable instead of feeling good, I wish there was a way out of it that didn't envolve putting a gun on my mouth (which I will NOT do, don't worry).

Post: #162673
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162673/action/topic#162673
Time: 12-Dec-2005 9:08 AM

OK, things I hate. Now this REALLY pisses me off. I work as an ERP consultant, so I never know where I'm going to be, and I eventually find out about trips I have to do LITERALLY one day before! Like "Oh, by the way, here's your plane tickets, your flight is leaving tomorrow at 6 AM, you gotta work for a month at yadda yadda yadda", I mean, JESUS CHRIST people! And to make it worse, I'm terrified of flying, so it's like saying to someone with fear of snakes "Tomorrow we're gonna have you stay at a cage full of snakes. For a week.". And then I gotta get the plane tickets and book the freaking flight myself because I'm a consultant so they supposedly think I ENJOY doing things for my own all the time, and now I gotta run for the visas and stuff, and I don't get paid while doing that! God forbid pay the consulting firm for hours he didn't spend at the office, because he was busy BANGING at the door of the Kuka-Monga consulate screaming "Let me in! Let me in! I need a visa for tomorrow!", and don't they think I have PLANS? I had a lot of things to do this week! And every single time, they let me know about the trip literally at the last SECOND, sometimes really a few hours before, maybe so I won't make up any excuses or something, yeah right, like if I was going to avoid a business trip I HAVE to make. God damn it I'm so pissed. Now I gotta find some tranquilizers or something, because I have this plane fobic thing, I panic in planes, and now I'm afraid secret services dudes will, like, shoot me because I look a little nervous while boarding and that seems suspicious! I swear I'm gonna claim I've worked 20 hours every day, so they PAY me back for this s***t! And if I have to spend x-mas by myself at the hotel drinking from the mini-bar and watching this creepy foreign TV I swear I'm gonna sue their asses!

DAMN I'm so pissed off right now, sorry... It happens EVERY single time!

Post: #162641
Topic: where is everybody?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162641/action/topic#162641
Time: 12-Dec-2005 5:01 AM

I feel like I'm spending TOO much time here... Oh well, next year you guys will barely see me here anyway.

Post: #162640
Topic: obi wans name in ANH
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162640/action/topic#162640
Time: 12-Dec-2005 5:00 AM

He was going by the name of Ben Kenobi because he was hiding, and didn't want Luke to know too much about him - Luke knew him, but as Ben, not as Obi-Wan. Which dosen't make much sense, because it dosen't take too much brainpower to know that Ben Kenobi = Obi-Wan Kenobi. Although it took a while for Luke to figure it out:

"Oh, he's not dead. Not yet."

"Do you know him?"

"Of course I know him, you stupid bastard! It's me!"

Which also brings another interesting question: why didn't Owen rename Luke as Luke Lars, instead of going by the name Skywalker? I mean, Bail Organa named Leia as Leia Organa, right? Maybe because Leia had some brief contact with Vader, and if she was called Leia Skywalker, he would see something fishy there?

Post: #162639
Topic: The all about Harry Potter thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162639/action/topic#162639
Time: 12-Dec-2005 4:55 AM

I have not read any Harry Potter books and have no intention to. I have seen the first movie, but have no intention of seeing all the others. I have no idea how many books there are, and I belive there are four films already, right? So, how far are the movies behind the books, and did the author say how many books are there left?

NOT that I want it to end, though!

Post: #162637
Topic: Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162637/action/topic#162637
Time: 12-Dec-2005 4:53 AM

Originally posted by: zion
MST3K made so many horrible movies not only watchable but immensely entertaining. My flavor of the week is "Space Mutany" which features an Admiral who looks like Santa Clause and a ship that looks like a huge boiler room.

I like Robot Monster, because it's a classic first season MST3K episode, and because the movie concept is absolutely hilarious. Also, "Manos the Hands of Fate", which is considered the best episode by some. The worse movie ever shown in MST3K was "Monster A-Go-Go", which is one of the worse movies I have ever seen, almost THE worse - the crew of MST3K later said they had problems making up the material for that movie, since it's SO bad it's not even good, like in "so bad it's good", it goes BACK to being bad again.

Post: #162635
Topic: Best movies of 05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162635/action/topic#162635
Time: 12-Dec-2005 4:46 AM

Kong opens this friday here (is it showing on the US already?). I might go see it, alone, at a 11pm session, on a tuesday.

Post: #162634
Topic: This Movie must be stopped!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162634/action/topic#162634
Time: 12-Dec-2005 4:43 AM

Originally posted by: Warbler
I think I'd prefer having teeth pulled without anesthesia, to watching her act.

No you don't... what kind of analogy is that?

Post: #162522
Topic: star wars dvd release on 12/6/05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162522/action/topic#162522
Time: 11-Dec-2005 5:09 PM

Originally posted by: Count Dushku
Yes, but do they fix the problems with the 04 dvds? Like the lightsabers colors and such transfer crap?

Cause if they did...heck with it, I'm selling off those dvds and buying the new ones.

Selling which DVDs?

These new releases are the exact same discs, but without the extra discs. Exactly the same. UNLESS you are selling your 2004 DVDs and buying these 2005 editions for less money, so you can have a small profit, there's absolutely no reason for it.

Post: #162487
Topic: The State The Obvious Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162487/action/topic#162487
Time: 11-Dec-2005 1:46 PM

Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
This reminds me of some of the medical reality specials they show on TLC, like the one about the boy from the South Pacific whose face was almost completely consumed by a tumour. Disturbing stuff.

I've seen stuff like that on TV too. Horrible. Bloody sensacionalist media. And they say that they must show "the truth, no matter at what cost", oh come on! That is no excuse to show stuff like that. So, based on their logic, I'm entitled to show porn at any time I want.

Post: #162383
Topic: The State The Obvious Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162383/action/topic#162383
Time: 10-Dec-2005 9:29 PM

Originally posted by: TheCassidy
Just read this on the news:

"Woman who received face transplant amazed to see nose and chin for first time."

You think?

I just saw on a local magazine the before and after photos of that woman... And I got SO pissed because there are kids reading that freaking magazine, why do they do that?! They sometimes put pictures of dead corpses from wars or something, and disfigured people, I hate when they do that. The AFTER photo was VERY surprising, she looks very good. There is an obvious scar, but the whole thing looks pretty good.

Post: #162381
Topic: Richard Pryor (1940-2005) R.I.P.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162381/action/topic#162381
Time: 10-Dec-2005 9:27 PM

I didn't see much of his work. I did see "Brewster's Millions", very funny. I was just watching a 1995 interview with him at Larry King, he didn't look so good 10 years ago... So sad... RIP.

Post: #162296
Topic: Why do they go into exile?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162296/action/topic#162296
Time: 10-Dec-2005 10:41 AM

About the C3PO and Padme's plot hole, those could easily be avoided, had GL had put some thought before writing the prequels. Was it REALLY necessary to have Anakin creating C3PO?! Was it really necessary for C3PO to be on the prequels?! Why do everything GL does is for toy selling? I mean, he had C3PO in 3 different forms, just so he could sell 3 different toys, how stupid is that? And suddenly he faced himself with a HUGE plot hole, Owen Lars OWING C3PO, because I belive he didn't even remember what happened on episode 4. So his solution to it was simply to ignore the plot hole and hope that the fans come up with an answer for it. I'm am absolutely sure that GL thought that we would eventually discuss it and come up with a solution to all those plot holes. How wrong was him.

Now, about the whole exile: I also thought it could be a plot hole, a reason for Obi Wan hiding in Tatooine on ANH and Yoda hiding in Dagobah in ESB. But perhaps they had a reason for it, and all planned out for what Luke would eventually do. Or... maybe it IS a plot hole and GL was just waiting for someone like me to come up with the answer...

Post: #162295
Topic: star wars dvd release on 12/6/05
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162295/action/topic#162295
Time: 10-Dec-2005 10:29 AM

By the way, just to make it clear to newcomers: this DVD set they are talking about is the same DVDs released in 2004, with the latest changes to the movie, but without the extras disc.

Post: #162294
Topic: The Great One: Chuck Norris
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162294/action/topic#162294
Time: 10-Dec-2005 10:23 AM

Is this thing of joking about Chuck Norris somewhat of a running gag or popular joke in the US? Because I've never heard of anything like it outside this forum...

Post: #162092
Topic: The Great One: Chuck Norris
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162092/action/topic#162092
Time: 9-Dec-2005 1:29 PM

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
And Chuck Norris is 64 years old, though he doesn't look it.

No, he looks 74.

Post: #162037
Topic: Ethics
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162037/action/topic#162037
Time: 9-Dec-2005 6:51 AM

You are not legaly obligued to provide pictures or fingerprints in the US? Over here, we must have a personal ID which has photo and fingerprint, and you cannot do anything without that ID. When getting into the US, brazillians (and some other also "non apreciated" nationalities) must take two photos and taken all their fingerprints out (digitally) before getting in. And I don't think that's intrusive at all, I think it's practical. I mean, it's not all crime related: what if I go to the US and get into an accident and lose my memory, get into a coma or die, and my documents are lost, how will they know it's me? If I had to give DNA samples to the government identify me, I would, no problems.

Post: #162026
Topic: Info Wanted & Help: looking for... The lost footage of 2001
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162026/action/topic#162026
Time: 9-Dec-2005 5:58 AM

Originally posted by: shabbyblue
Some interesting news about Malcolm McDowell recording a commentary for a Clockwork Orange special edition:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=247048

This supports what I mentioned earlier in this thread about the rumors of WB planning special editions of Kubrick's films for 2006, with 2001 no doubt being one of them.

Oh great, now that I have half of the Stanley Kubrick colection box... Although I don't own Clockwork Orange and Dr Strangelove, so I would buy those (strangelove is not owned by Warner Bros, but...)

Post: #161904
Topic: The Ghost of Anakin Skywalker
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/161904/action/topic#161904
Time: 8-Dec-2005 6:40 PM

Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Imagine, for a moment, if the old-man-turned-ghost of Anakin had been played by someone like Burt Lancaster or Charlton Heston (and yes, Heston IS an icon of the old Hollywood machine, whether you like him or not); would George Lucas have dared to replace the ghost of Anakin Skywalker then?

Good question!

I'm not sure... I really don't know. Perhaps he would show Anakin as an old man, and later he would morph him into Hayden. That way he would have the "respectful" actor there (as if other actors didn't deserve our respect!), and would have his will of having, for some bizarre reason I don't yet fully understand, young Anakin there.

Now, as you've mentioned Burt Lancaster and Chalrton Heston as Anakin Skywalker (which would be mind blowing for those watching the movie for the first time, specially if Heston said "damn them all to hell" before dying), I'd pick Lawrence Olivier, but... I am not sure if he was still alive in the early 80s.

Post: #161898
Topic: Ethics
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/161898/action/topic#161898
Time: 8-Dec-2005 6:28 PM

Originally posted by: JediSage

In our case, I believe it's Orwellian because the person has already been convicted and punished for their crime. With the DNA issue they're practially taking the presumption of innocence of FUTURE crimes and tossing it out the window. Yes, they have a choice, but if we make the exception of having DNA for "criminals", then it won't be long before we do it when dealing with foreigners and immigrants (to protect ourselves from terrorism, no doubt), followed by children (in the event they're kidnapped). Things like this, and the proliferance of surveillance cameras, mandatory internet wiretapping rules, etc are giving rise to a very scary world.

I think this has the intend of being practical, instead of unethical or "orwellian". An "orwellian" situation would be to monitor that person's life forever after he has been released from prison. By collecting a sample of DNA they are basically gathering one more piece of information that could be use to identify possible criminous, which infact ARE commited by ex-prisoners. How different is taking DNA than taking a photo or your fingerprints? I belive it's not a question of being ethical or not.

Post: #161896
Topic: A Deep, Abiding Emptiness
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/161896/action/topic#161896
Time: 8-Dec-2005 6:22 PM

I understand your feelings, JediSage, but I belive those are in fact good news, as such self-discoveries lead to a further development of our minds. This emptiness, or void, is an ilusion based on how we see ourselves, not of what we own or actually do. What I advise you, at this moment, is to let go of a search for material belongings and to let go of a search for an absolute perfection. That dosen't mean you must just quit capitalism, that means that you will not buy things to fill that void. And it dosen't mean you should resign of doing what is good and right, and instead focus on what you can do. You shouldn't compare yourself to the Pope, as he was, in fact, the Pope, and had a lot of help accomplishing what he did. Try to do something for your local comunity, or even better, for people close to you. Try to make your surroundings better in a peaceful and harmonic way, and you'll see how better you'll feel.