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#152281
Topic
Violence
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/152281/action/topic#152281
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First of all, I want to thank you all for your sympathies and condolences. I'm emotionally ok, but I'm transmitting those kind words to my mom and my cousins and my uncle's wife, who are the people who need the most support now.

Of all the comentaries about violence, the one that I found to be more interesting, is...

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
DAMN, RIC, I'M VERY SADDENED FOR YOU. I HOPE THEY CATCH THOSE BASTARDS AND STAB THEM TO DEATH. I'M A FIRM BELIEVER IN "AN EYE FOR AN EYE; TOOTH FOR A TOOTH."


Now, I have always thought what I would do if something like this happened to anyone from my family, or friends (which I include in "family"), and I always had this idea of revenge and getting the people who did it and torturing them and killing them myself, and now that it happened, I think... what good would that be?

Where were the parents of the people who did it? They were probably absent, didn't give their child enough education and character not to do such a thing. What did they learn in school? They were probably bullies in school, learning nothing but to hate other people and that violence is the way to get thing - or maybe they even didn't go to school at all. Tehy were surrounded by people who had hate in their hearts, who taught that it's important to fulfill one's desires, not mattering the consequences.

I will always belive that criminal behaviour is not part of the human being, it is learned, it is shaped by outside factors. I mean, even if I was starving, living on the street, I would NEVER kill anyone, I'd most probably shoot myself than shooting someone else. Why do I behave like this? Why don't I just steal, or rob, or kill? Because I know it is wrong, because I feel it's wrong, because I know what that would cause to the other people, I know the consequences, I would FEEL those.

People who murder, do they think about it? What is in their minds? What has got into their minds that they have such a bleak view of the other human beings? Don't they think of the consequences? Don't they care? If they don't, why? What has got into their hearts that they don't feel anything? What has been done to their minds and hearts?

I do wish they capture those responsibles, yes, and do whatever is to be done. But at the same time those people are caught, I hope someone out there is caring for a small child and educating this child not to behave like these people did. Now I see that this is the only way to achieve peace, if we step out of this circle of hate and care about each other, if we take our children and show them the right path.
Post
#152197
Topic
Violence
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/152197/action/topic#152197
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Now, let me start this topic with a sad and enfuriating news I got a few hours ago.

My uncle (one of my mom's brother, she has 8 siblings) lives in a small town about 300 miles away from where I live, in which I used to spend vacation times until the late 90s. He is a farm owner, owning several cows, I'm not sure if he uses them for meat or milk, I'm not sure what exactly he did. Although Brazil is an incredibly violent country, that small town had a very low crime rate, people can let their front doors unlocked, walk around at night, and everything of the sort without fear of getting robbed or mugged or whatever.

Yesterday, at night, my cousin (his son) and his girlfriend were coming back to his home a few minutes after midnight, when three heavily armed men with masks surrended both. They went in, and tied up everyone (my uncle, his wife, my cousin and his girlfriend) in the bathroom, while stealing cash and other stuff.

For no reason whatsoever, the burglars stabbed my uncle four times, and ran away. He was taken to the hospital but died.

While everyone from my family is shocked and stunned, and the police is trying to get hold of those resposibles (still no major clues, they found some stuff on a trail a few miles away) - although I do belive it might have been someone who worked for him, or who knew him personally.

Now, I ask myself, why? I don't want any of the political discussions to the cause or solution to violence, that is not the point. What I don't belive is how people can be so mean, so cold hearted, so evil... This sort of thing is getting to be so usual here, that I belive this is how I'm going to eventually die, being murdered...

I could do as some people advised me, get away from this shithole while I still can, but the thing is, violence is not concentrated to this area, it's everywhere. It's on the US, Europe, Asia, it can happen anywhere. There are mean natured people everywhere, even those who don't pull out a gun or a knife might go on and insult people... Or bully... Or yell and curse at the traffic, or talk behind people on work...

Humanity itself sickens me, and it always have, those of you who had the unfortunate bad luck to discuss politics with me know that. More and more my nihilistic point of view proves to be the way to the truth. People don't care about each other, don't love each other, it's all about money, about sex, about getting ahead of each other, about killing before they kill you, it's about injustice, greed, violence...

Do you guys still belive we have any hope?
Post
#151844
Topic
Possible banning of "freemail" addresses.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151844/action/topic#151844
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I would like to refrain using my professional e-mail for forum registrations and such (although I can use it if necessary), and I belive some people have the same issue. Also, for every troll there would be 50 other good posters who would be forbidden of access to the forum. Besides, having a proper domain name e-mail is not that difficult, and those who want to troll around will still be able to. I say it's not a good idea, Jay...
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#151821
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151821/action/topic#151821
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Originally posted by: JediSage
No problemo on asking. I put it out there, afterall.

I should clarify that I have "situational" anxiety. Meaning, I feel fine most of the time, until I...go to work. Or have to go to a social function. Or have to deal with my in-laws. That type of thing. I've never been diagnosed with fully-blown generalized anxiety.


It's more of a social anxiety then, right? I'm a bit like that too, but for other reasons (asperger's) .
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#151820
Topic
ROTS Extras: CGI TPM Yoda
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151820/action/topic#151820
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Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
talking of the Special Features i found this amusing on the commentry.

"they had to go back and film Obi Wan picking up Anakins lightsabre after their duel- he later gives it to Luke in Episode IV- because "we kind of forgot about that"


You GOTTA be kidding me... THESE are the people in charge of Episode 3?!? I didn't watch the disc 1 yet, just the special features...
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#151816
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151816/action/topic#151816
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate having serious workplace anxiety. I'm on medication for it now.


Please do excuse me if I'm being inquisitive, or asking personal stuff you rather not discussed at an open forum, but what would be the difference between a workplace anxiety, and regular anxiety? Is it related and/or happens only to the workplace? (I too suffer from a few conditions, so I know how that is, belive me)
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#151803
Topic
Turkish Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151803/action/topic#151803
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Ah, lemme ressucitate this thread for a while, yes?

Now, I KNOW it is against the forum rules to discuss torrents and other illegal ways of propagating piracy films, but since the turkish films such as turkish et, turkish star wars and turkish exorcist are VERY, VERY unavailable here, and I really wanted to see those films, I was wondering if there was any place I could get those. I've seen those on sale on "5 minutes to live" but after seeing their website, I don't really trust them to pay 20 bucks for each DVD. So anyone got any clues of how can I get those? I am willing to send 15 bucks to the producers in turkey to compensate them, since there's absolutely no way of getting those films (if they still have a listed address, that is...!).

I tried to get that torrent trhough the website Ell the Ewok mentioned, but I was not able to sign up.

If such discussion is not allowed please let me know...


I guess no one knows about this, eh? Oh well... I know the way out...

*Sound of footstpes echoing and fading. Door opening, and slaming *
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#151717
Topic
Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151717/action/topic#151717
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
What is R$45.00 equal to in american dollars?


According to Google, US$19.72.

But the problem is, this is a country where famine is a real problem, where 60% of the people live with US$100 dollars a month or less. Also, you can find a chinese or russian made bootleg easily for US$5.00, I spoted one for ROTS two days before the movied opened! People here don't tend to think that piracy is wrong because it's a crime with no victims, at least no real, tangible victims, they think they are saving R$40.00 and making the billionaire movie industry a bit poor. This mentality is slowly changing, though. The videogame industry is slowly pushing its way to get less taxes and more acceptance between consumers who reject pirate products (such as myself), and the sales of DVDs has been waaaay higher than VHS sale (and back on the VHS era, movie piracy was absolutely non-existent here).

Blaming the piracy for the downfall of the movie business (or, at least, for the lack of profit they actually expected) is totally wrong. There are three main factors involved in this: Hollywood ONLY produces crap, good films are badly distributed on porpouse, and the internet is taking audiences away, NOT through piracy, but because people prefer stay at home and play on their computers and chat and watch dvds instead of going to the movie theater.
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#151710
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151710/action/topic#151710
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I hate bad English dubs of Japanese Anime.


I hate DUBS of anime, period.

Things I hate, I hate the fact that I just bought my copy of ROTS DVD and I can't watch it properly until the weekend, when I'll be at my parents home and watch it on their widescreen TV and huge stereo, at 2 am in the morning, waking up not only them and my brother, but the whole neightborhood.
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#151638
Topic
Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151638/action/topic#151638
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Ric, I don't agree with you entirely. I've got friends who pirate movies because they're too cheap to buy the actual DVDs. I know dozens of people like this. Maybe more.

I would like to think that the reason for piracy would be unavailability, but that's just not the case.


Well, for some reason, I always thought that piracy due to prices were a problem of second and third world countries, specially China and Brazil, not in the US. Now, DVDs are very high priced if you compare to prices of other stuff in Brazil. I also know people who belive that buying bootlegs are better because you're gonna spend R$20.00 less than on the original stuff, but I don't think like this, and this sort of mentality is slowly dropping here, for some cultural and economical reasons. I've never bought a pirate CD or DVD, and I admitt having downloaded films, but only those completely unavailable, like the O-OT or the turkish films (please see my post on general star wars! )
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#151623
Topic
Your favorite Hollywood excuse for 2005's crappy box office returns
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151623/action/topic#151623
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If I feel a movie is good enough to be bought, I do. I had seen Fight Club several times and I bought the DVD nonetheless. People buy DVDs. Internet movie piracy only happens for movies that are unavailable on their country, like "Battle Royale". The piracy is more common here in Brazil through two other factors: movies being delayed and unproperly distributed ("Kill Bil vol 1" was delayed for almost an year and shown in few screens due to admitted incompetence by the local distributor, Woody Allen films usually take 1 to 2 years to get here, and shown on 5 screens over 2 weeks), or the price of DVDs lately. A good DVD may cost up to R$45.00 (fourty five reais), in a country where the minimum monthly wage is less than R$300.00. This is due to over-taxation of electronic products such as videogames and DVDs.
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#151552
Topic
Star Wars named best score by AFI, Empire not even in top 250!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151552/action/topic#151552
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Originally posted by: JennyS1138
I just went on the AFI site and saw that Star Wars had been named greatest film score ever. However, Empire, for whatever reason, did not qualify. That's pretty lame IMO. People can argue its a sequel, so it uses recycled themes and doesnt' count. But almost all the major themes in this film were brand spaning new. I bet most of the people who voted for Star Wars think the Imperial March was in that film. No seriously!

Sorry, AFI, but your lists are jokes.


Maybe they considered Star Wars as a whole, including all the films.
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#151551
Topic
This Movie must be stopped!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151551/action/topic#151551
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
Francis Ford Coppola even went so far to say that star wars has robbed the world of any "good" film george could've made, because of it's monster success. He thinks George should've made the advant garde films like he made at usc and thx 1138, the kind of films they talked about making at american zoetrope.


That is interesting. I wonder what would George Lucas be directing if he never had filmed Star Wars (because if Star Wars had floped, he would be directing porn or infomertials)
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#151549
Topic
Gay Fuel
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/151549/action/topic#151549
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Now would be a perfect time to pick up George Takei as a spokesman.


George Takei dressed in Star Trek:
"Hello, I am George Takei. I used to be Sulu from the Star Trek original series and movies, but now I'm gay. What made me realize my spacial homo-erotic ways and go to where no REAL man has ever gone before? Why, Gay Fuel, that's what! Four hundred mililiters of pure, gayish energetic, that will make you have energy of FOUR village people members combined! With a fruity flavor and a pink color that will make you go wild!"

Announcer, very fast: "Not for sale in Utah, Ohio, Florida and Canada, might cause partial blindness or dementia, will not make the consumer homosexual, talk to your doctor before consuming."

GT: "Gay Fuel!"



By the way, homo = same, not one.