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#566758
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Random Thoughts
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doubleKO said:


My 20 year high school reunion is in a month. I think I would rather punch myself in the face for six hours than hang out with a bunch of people who are nearly 40.


So... if you're punching yourself in the face, does your hand gain temporary sentience so that you get a doubleKO??? Either way you got some company in that department.

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#565455
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Actors/Characters Who Destroyed OR Helped a Franchise
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Bingowings said:

Alice from the crappy Resident Evil films.

Pretty much ended any chance of the films even resembling the games from the get go. 
Not necessarily, the first one can be thought of as a kind of prequel to the games. Alice's name isn't even mentioned at all in the first one. She could be named anything you want just going off of the first film. The sequels really screwed things up though... Beside that the cast commentary track for 1 & 2 is really good. They make fun of the whole thing throughout it. I rented the DVD of 3 once to see if the commentary track was good, but it wasn't :(. They seemed to be forcing the humor aspect of the first two commentary tracks.

Akwat Kbrana said:

CP3S said:
I've only seen the first season of Heroes, and kind of liked it. I started season two and decided I'd continue to appreciate season one a lot more if I were to just stop right there and try to forget a second season was every made. And that is what I did.

Good idea, that. I absolutely loved season one, then proceeded to wade through seasons two and three with gritted teeth before finally quitting in disgust. Pretty sad for a show to jump the shark at the beginning of its second season...
The second season suffered from the writers strike IIRC. They altered the ending because of it. Thusly the built up puzzle pieces of the second season made little to no sense and it never recovered.


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#565298
Topic
In Time
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/565298/action/topic#565298
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I watched this recently. If you forgive the premise for being handled in a rather stupid way, it's a fun chase movie with decent acting. If you see it I recommend just thinking of it as an alternate universe fantasy movie. If you attempt to think of it as a sci-fi movie you won't get passed the things that don't make sense. Plus don't expect a solid ending in any way...

TK-949 said:


Was that Bryce Larkin? Twister?


It's Matt Bomer who played Bryce Larkin in Chuck, yes.


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#564029
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'Why the SW prequels are better than the OT' - article inside
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/564029/action/topic#564029
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I haven't read the article in the OP...

SilverWook said:


Akwat Kbrana said:

Sevb32 said:

How dare anyone else have an opinion that isn't prequel bashing. Because it's a fact that the prequels are bad, not a subjective opinion. ;)

Exactly right. Glad to see you finally figured it out.


<span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">Chances are you don't even remember these words of Darth Maul: "Fear is my ally." One can well imagine that slogan scrawled across the office walls of men like Scooter Libby and tattooed across the back of Dick Cheney.</span>

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't this line never actually make it into the movie? As I recall, it's a line from the trailer, right?

It's from one of the "tone poem" tv ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-_1mqA3_tw


"Fear attracts the fearful, the strong, the weak, the innocent, the corrupt."

Soooo, everyone then. 'Kay.


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#563532
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Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/563532/action/topic#563532
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Thank you all for the well wishes!


TV's Frink said:
Were those thoughts all related somehow, or just a string of random? ;-)


Both! First half is why I've been lacking in posts, second half was about my birthday. I randomly put it together. I thought I was going to get a bird for my birthday, there were hints from my Mom... I got Blu-rays instead.


Bingowings said:Twister, I'd get that checked out my dear, is it a dull ache or a sudden intense pain?

Are you sure it's on the left and not on the right?

Yeah I'm sure it's on the left. It's just standard muscle pain. Shortly after making my previous post here I remembered something I did a few nights back that was the likely cause. It's almost gone now, was still there yesterday though it was less.




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#563520
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Lucas is just trolling now - THR Interview
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/563520/action/topic#563520
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SilverWook said:
I've associated Lucas with Star Wars ever since I saw the making of doc on tv back in the day.


eiyosus said:
Lucas was always associated with Star Wars (at least from the early 80's).  Even as a little kid I knew who he was.


Okay I was wrong. *shrug* It was anecdotal anyway. At that time I just didn't care that much about reading the credits of movies (curiously I've always read the credits of tv shows... odd.). My friends at that time also didn't care that much for reading the credits either. We just liked the movie. . .

Anyway some of my initial point still stands. His constant assertions of "I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it." Yet at the same saying stuff like "Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie." Of course saying those two things are going to keep him remembered. It's contradictory and controversial. I mean if it is "just a movie" as he says, allowing alternate high quality versions to exist simultaneously should be no problem...

I don't know maybe I'm wrong again... I don't care I just needed to vent a little. Reading these interviews just gets me annoyed at the guy who's literally a billionaire, weight gain aside seems to be healthy, and has plenty of die-hard fans. He decides to use interviews to deliberately piss off a portion of his fan base that is mainly telling him about a product we want to buy from him. Oh wait I forgot, it so hard for him because people on the internet are "yelling" at him. Ah geeze, how could I have made such a horrible miscalculation of misfortune that George Lucas is in? Wow you know George, I'll make a deal with you. If you read this you give me 200 million dollars and I'll be your internet defender!!! How about it???

Seriously though I don't know why I even bother reading more interviews with George Lucas. Might be scant hope of the OT being released restored and everything... I don't know seems like a fantasy at this point. It's almost as though you need to deconstruct the english language to make a scientific study of which words are most agreeable to the George Lucas guy. Then fashion them into a pattern where he will finally agree to release the Original Original Trilogy restored. I doubt such a combination exists though...


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#563460
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Lucas is just trolling now - THR Interview
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/563460/action/topic#563460
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Emphasis mine:

zombie84 said:


I think a large part of this has to do with the fact that George Lucas isn't a regular, integrated part of society. The world he lives in is not the same as yours and mine. He can't go check out a movie theatre saturday night, or take the subway downtown. He can't just go with a friend to a comedy club, or take a walk around the neighbourhood when he is feeling restless. He can't go window shop on sunday afternoon with his girlfriend, or take his kids to the local baseball game. He's not going to have a conversation with the guy standing next to him in line at the bank, because he doesn't line up at the bank in the first place, and he can't walk into a comic book shop and see what's out this week.

zombie84 said:


I guess that is the downside of not having to have a care in the world and being able to do pretty much anything.

Those two statements are at odds. Also no I don't see things that way. It's pretty clear he's wanted to be the public figure head for Star Wars since the SEs were produced. He had plenty of time to think about it and he wanted that fame induced lifestyle. I hazard a guess that his life was becoming ever more "average" during that time. I mean when Star Wars was discussed prior to the SEs I as a kid did not care and did not know about George Lucas. I just discussed the characters on the screen with my friends. Sure this is anecdotal, but I ask you prior to the SEs in the early 90s how much did you associate George Lucas with Star Wars?

He essentially had the perfect "out" of the fame burdening lifestyle during that time. He could've just marketed the hell out of the directors of Empire and Jedi. After all Empire is arguably the film that made Star Wars stick in the public eye. If he wanted to he could've praised Irvin Kershner's film. Instead you look at this interview and it doesn't even resonate with the interviewer to interject on his "That whole issue between filmmakers and the studios with the studios being able to change things without even letting the director of the movie know" comment. Just shows how much he expects people to see these movies as all his. He makes that comment so easily and he knows few will actually say "hey wait a minute, you didn't direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi".

Hell what about the marketing for Red Tails? Anthony Hemingway isn't the main person being interviewed for it, it's George Lucas. Sure he directed a few reshoots, but that arguably makes him a second unit director at best. How many second unit directors get the main press coverage for a film?

The way I see it he's a guy who doesn't want to be forgotten. He wants to be a household name. He wants the kind of life where it's difficult for him to do average things. If he didn't he could've faded into obscurity long ago. I mean think about his initial aspirations to be a race car driver. Not exactly the dream of someone wishing to stay out of the public limelight.

Then again I'm tired been up all night, I'm not even sure what I'm typing makes sense... So yeah I could be wrong I admit that.


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#562808
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A completely lost and destroyed story
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/562808/action/topic#562808
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TheBoost's thread reminded me of something that I don't often think about. I was going to post this in that thread, but it doesn't really fit.

Alright so when I was a kid I wrote a short story about a man who was born with a genetic defect. That under certain circumstances he could not feel any emotional or physical pain. His other emotions were also subdued, not completely gone, during that time. So a few years later when I remembered it again I was going to sit down and complete it to hopefully get it published. I was devastated as I looked at the computer that once held my story to find it was gone. Deleted, not in the recycling bin, not to be found after hours of searching on that computer.

I know you're going to ask "why didn't I make a backup?" Well it's hard to explain but I couldn't make a digital backup. I wasn't allowed to. I could've printed it out, but that came with it's own problems... Again hard to explain. I could've rewrote the story, but I wrote that story at a very unique time in my life. Midway in the process of writing it I started to read a dictionary that we had. A big reason why I wanted to read that story again was to see my initial word choice evolving into more eloquent terms. I was also worried that I wouldn't remain true to the original. Which is why TheBoost's thread reminded me of it. Further I still held out hope that I could someday find it on that old computer. That hope died when it got damaged in transit due to a family member. Since then I haven't gotten up the drive to attempt writing it again. I don't know, maybe someday I might...


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#562364
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DILUTED
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Davnes007 said:

twister111 said:

Homoeopathy.
I'm Heteropathic, myself.

Homoeopathy is a backwards thinking practice hiding under the guise of science. In the process you are to take an active substance and mix it with an inert substance 90% more than the active amount. You shake the mixture 5 times horizontally, 5 times vertically. Then taking 10% of that mixture into a new 90% inert mixture repeating the shaking process. Repeat 10 times. The backwards thinking is that the less active substance there is the more powerful it becomes. In average homoeopathic solutions in order to be assured to have a single molecule of active substance you'd have to fill several swimming pools. Some medicines profess partial or full homoeopathic solution as a selling point to those who think it works. Partial homoeopathic solution medication contain active ingredients added afterwards.


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