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Post: #582532
Topic: PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582532/action/topic#582532
Time: 22-Jun-2012 11:17 AM

timdiggerm said:

evan1975 said:

I'm not a religious person, so religious allegories and symbolism mean nothing to me.

In film class, a teacher would point out during a movie, "Note the Christ-like imagery," and I would just shrug while teacher oohed and ahhed.

It just seems lazy to me; a crutch. A director's story isn't strong enough on its own, so let's invoke Jesus. That makes it deep.

If I wanted to watch a movie about Jesus, I'd watch Passion of the Christ or something.

I hope this post doesn't offend anyone; it's not intended as such.

What if the allusions had been to ancient myths or some other religion?

Right.

I am a religious person, but whilst I easily recognize/enjoy themes from my own religious texts and principals, it doesn't stop me from recognizing/enjoying references to the other major religions, or what we call "mythologies" like the Greek, Roman, Norse, or Egyptian.

I mean... I saw Thor and thought it was pretty good.

Post: #582438
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582438/action/topic#582438
Time: 21-Jun-2012 6:32 PM

I also watched that episode. I had a hard time with the new actors playing old characters. Scotty was too much of a goofy impersonation of a Scott (was trying too hard) and Kirk wasn't trying hard enough. And where did they get that faker to play old Sulu?!? Puh-leeze...

However, It was well written and had good production values.

Post: #582410
Topic: Classic LOL Moments in OT.com History
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582410/action/topic#582410
Time: 21-Jun-2012 4:24 PM

georgec said:

Frink is the new OT.com gossip queen. ;)

That's not what I heard!

Post: #582393
Topic: The Prequels as Envisioned by the (Pre-PT) Expanded Universe
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582393/action/topic#582393
Time: 21-Jun-2012 2:56 PM

Heh heh... Welcome to Script Writing/Re-Writing, Anchorhead.

Post: #582355
Topic: The Shifting Tone of Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582355/action/topic#582355
Time: 21-Jun-2012 11:59 AM

Darth Bizarro said:

When the old EU was being developed, the PT era was considered off limits by Lucas since he still held on to the possibility that he would make 1, 2, and 3. Though this did eventually happen, I often wander how well a set of novels by, say, Timothy Zahn telling the story of Anakin's fall to the dark side might have turned out.

It was off limits, but it's interesting what little items the old EU writers assumed and put into their work. See this thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Prequels-as-Envisioned-by-the-Pre-PT-Expanded-Universe/topic/14053/ for some info.

Post: #582350
Topic: Last web series/tv show seen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582350/action/topic#582350
Time: 21-Jun-2012 11:39 AM

Johnny Ringo said:

Tron:U is a bit of fun. reminds me too much of Batman Beyond, though.

I enjoyed the first episode quite a bit. Yes, I agree that connecting the two movies is a bit hard and this seems to be going at making it even more difficult...

Everyone's legs are too long, and I was surprised at the innuendo, such that it was.

Batman Beyond successfully made someone else Batman... who else can claim that?

Post: #582348
Topic: THE ...sigh... THREAD!!!!!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582348/action/topic#582348
Time: 21-Jun-2012 11:31 AM

darth_ender said:

<img src="http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/seismic-charge-geonosis-002.jpg" width="426" height="240" />

*sigh*-smic charge.

(Wait! How can a seismic wave occur in a vaccuum?!?!?!)

Well, there's no such thing as an asbolute vacuum... so...

Post: #582244
Topic: George Lucas leaves Lucasfilm
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582244/action/topic#582244
Time: 20-Jun-2012 6:06 PM

msycamore said:

Mavimao said:

Danny Boy brings up a good question: if there is indeed a copy of a negative of the original star wars, but with recomped special effects and nothing else, would you be satisfied with this version? Or would it still not be THE original film for you?

The truth is, if the original special effects are replaced with new ones, it isn't the original film any longer, no I wouldn't be satisfied with such a version. A version like that is perhaps what most people hoped the Special Edition was going to be.

Don't start that again!

Post: #582243
Topic: PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582243/action/topic#582243
Time: 20-Jun-2012 6:05 PM

greenpenguino said:

Prometheus is about Space-Jesus????

Pfft... That's Bollocks.

Bingowings said:

There are a lot of clues to the Space Jesus angle there's no denying that.

I see no way it's not about Space-Jesus. (Is the "Space-" prepend really necessary? Hasn't Jesus always been from Space/Heaven?)

greenpenguino said:

You might as well say that the film is about the space-french because there's a spaceship that looks like a croissant and there's of people running away from things.

Well done.

Post: #582242
Topic: PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582242/action/topic#582242
Time: 20-Jun-2012 6:01 PM

How about this angle-

Engineers create man, man is good. Engineers create more advanced creations... so far so good. Engineers, due to hubris, create most efficient lifeform ever- oops it kills them.

Man creates lever, lever is good. Man creates more advanced creations (like the hot pocket)... so far so good. Man, due to hubris, creates most advanced machines ever- oops robots take over the universe.

Since the beginning, the Alien series has been about synthetic humans as much as it's been about aliens. Why is that?

Post: #582225
Topic: PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582225/action/topic#582225
Time: 20-Jun-2012 3:25 PM

Comicbookgirl's review/analysis. Not too much new here, but decent.
Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1gX8Kwdg3I&list=PLBF95254D29BEAE15&index=2&feature=plcp

Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=f1gX8Kwdg3I&annotation_id=annotation_565999&v=g4P2WKa1opY&feature=iv

WARNING: Lots of swears.

Post: #582220
Topic: George Lucas leaves Lucasfilm
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582220/action/topic#582220
Time: 20-Jun-2012 1:48 PM

Mavimao said:

Danny Boy brings up a good question: if there is indeed a copy of a negative of the original star wars, but with recomped special effects and nothing else, would you be satisfied with this version? Or would it still not be THE original film for you?

Don't start that again!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/opinions-on-film-restoration-preservation-and-how-it-applies-to-Star-Wars-what-do-you-think-should-should-not-be-allowed/topic/12818/

My thoughts:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/opinions-on-film-restoration-preservation-and-how-it-applies-to-Star-Wars-what-do-you-think-should-should-not-be-allowed/post/498307/#TopicPost498307

Post: #582210
Topic: Blade Runner: The Version You've Never Seen Before (Update: Beta Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582210/action/topic#582210
Time: 20-Jun-2012 1:08 PM

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/130722

Watercolour BR.

Post: #582200
Topic: 1992 Full Screen versions are the best way to watch Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582200/action/topic#582200
Time: 20-Jun-2012 11:52 AM

Oh, man... I wonder how much money we could raise...

Post: #582128
Topic: Dark Knight Rises - Now that we know the cast
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582128/action/topic#582128
Time: 19-Jun-2012 6:32 PM

Gaffer Tape said:

Warbler said:

You do realize that in the comics the villain you talking about come back again and again, right? Would you really have wanted these villains to be in only one episode?

As for your last point, yes, I know that. And that's why I have a hard time reading American comics anymore because nothing is allowed to change in any significant way.

Have you checked into either Marvel or DC recently? Marvel, overall, hasn't had a "status quo" for about 8 years. Ever since Secret War, things have been pretty topsy turvy. People are now complaining about Event Fatigue... but at least not every issue is ending on the bridge of the Enterprise.

D.C. has also been shaking things up. I don't follow them as closely, but it's clear that they can't be blamed for "the status quo above all else!" either.

Post: #582123
Topic: Dark Knight Rises - Now that we know the cast
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582123/action/topic#582123
Time: 19-Jun-2012 6:11 PM

captainsolo said:

I'm going to revisit it tonight anyway and see what I think all this time later. And I still haven't seen Inception, which of course will get me ignored by some people...

IGNORED!

Post: #582121
Topic: THE ...sigh... THREAD!!!!!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582121/action/topic#582121
Time: 19-Jun-2012 5:57 PM

Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone Else In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone Yet Else In This Thread said:

*sigh*

-Girl, look at that body.

Another Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Even Yet Someone Else said:

*sigh*

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Can You Believe it? said:

*sigh*

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Another One said:

*sigh*

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I Work Out! said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Strangely, Not Warbler said:

*sigh*

-Girl, look at that body.

Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Someone In This Thread said:

*sigh*

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Post: #582064
Topic: A Post-ROTJ Trilogy: What's To Come for the Big Three, And More
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582064/action/topic#582064
Time: 19-Jun-2012 11:44 AM

You have my permission to continue. (Yay!)

Post: #582062
Topic: Video Games - a general discussion thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/582062/action/topic#582062
Time: 19-Jun-2012 11:31 AM

TV's Frink said:

I've been playing some android games lately...

Well... it's not pong.

Post: #581990
Topic: 1992 Full Screen versions are the best way to watch Star Wars
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581990/action/topic#581990
Time: 18-Jun-2012 5:53 PM

The "pan and scan has more resolution in the square box than the letterbox has in that same square box" defense is sometimes true. I said this of the DVDs- that the P&S versions had ~3 times the number of pixels for the space... except someone who knew told me that the P&S version was a blow-up of the Widescreen, so that extra resolution was all garbage anyways.

Oh, and if we could only get these '92 P&S VHS versions, I would like to upscale them to BD and make them 3D. Who wants to help me?!?!

Post: #581954
Topic: Random Thoughts
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581954/action/topic#581954
Time: 18-Jun-2012 2:19 PM

Did you kiss him?

Post: #581951
Topic: Things you like/need that they've discontinued
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581951/action/topic#581951
Time: 18-Jun-2012 2:05 PM

Then you haven't been reading this thread. ;)

Post: #581939
Topic: Best Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581939/action/topic#581939
Time: 18-Jun-2012 11:59 AM

:)

This was all too funny. I had to explain to my wife why my belly laughs were shaking the bed.

Post: #581938
Topic: Things you like/need that they've discontinued
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581938/action/topic#581938
Time: 18-Jun-2012 11:57 AM

Bingowings said:

Quatro the drink, not the spunky chanteuse.

It tasted vile but it was unique, especially as a mixer for meths (one imagines).

There is probably a picture of it's distinctive can on the interwebs.

I couldn't be bothered to find one so here is a picture of another carbonated drink :

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4231890702_cea5a28bf2.jpg" width="213" height="500" />

That's it! The Rebels are...

Hey, we've already seen that pic in this thread. And it was posted by a better man than you! Oh wait...

VPN am Bingo sock confirmed.

:(

Post: #581890
Topic: Best Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/581890/action/topic#581890
Time: 17-Jun-2012 11:47 PM

Here's a link for you, you filthy animal- http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Ric-Olie-Observation-Thread/post/383671/#TopicPost383671