DuracellEnergizer said:
Am I the one one who can't see anything after the first half of
spynet315's post?
I couldn't either. You can use Firefox/Chrome or something or you can change your forum preferences to show newer posts first and get around it. (And then switch it back when you're done, probably.)
Just for the sake of completion:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/How-would-you-have-done-ROTJ/topic/10450/
doubleofive said:
Indeed. Well, Mrs. O'Five is my current roommate (if she ever joined, thats the name I'm making her pick). And it is the best member name. I just wish you could see his avatar full-sized. He had posted a picture of himself pressure-washing a roof, so I photoshoped it into a flamethrower, put him on the back of a dinosaur, and had them stampeding through Middle Earth.Leonardo said:
he IS 005's roommate.
Good times.
Post the pic here?
TV's Frink said:
It did. Does it deserve to be on the LOL list?
Sorry- no.
twister111 said:
TV's Frink said:
^You forgot to say "deal with it" ;-)
Fixed ;-)
Ooooooh... now just convince Moth3r or Jay to life the "no animated avatars" bit and I think we'd have something.
In close ups, medium shots, and wide shots?
Well.... that one's not going to win.
I do have netflix (which I can't check from here). It's not on streaming yet, is it?
Well, I don't have cable or dish anymore, so yeah- it's some effort to sample the show.
I thought the clone wars movie was better than the whole of the PT, but that's not saying much for me.
I gave up on this show (the new one) after 3 or 4 episodes and everyonce in a while someone here almost convinces me to take it up again.
But then I read other comments of people that still can't get into it and I think I'm more like them... So back on the fence I go.
I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further!
That is to say that I took Bingowingo's advice and will use a bunch of them. Starting with one I could access from work since most of the rest are blocked.
Though I think Staypuft is going on facebook, to answer that question.
I recently re-read the Thrawn Trilogy and still found it to be very enjoyable. I've been wanting to read the rest of Zahn's stuff, since it all came out after I'd stopped reading EU.
I just finished the Knights of the Old Republic comics. Some might remember some comments I made about them earlier- when I read the part that crossed over with the Legacy comics I was reading at the time. My comments were basically- "It's very goofy, and Alf seems to be a main character". Having read the entire series, I have to say I lightened up on it somewhat... but everyonce in a while they would make references back to the older Tales of the Jedi/Knights of the Old Republic comics and the difference in tone was staggering. Last I read them, the Tom Veitch (and to a lesser degree, Kevin J. Anderson) Tales of the Jedi comics were like a serious film. And the new KotOR comics more like a decent Saturday morning cartoon, not entirely aimed at kids. It pains me to think that these comics are related in any way, so I mostly revert to thinking of them as separate chronologies.
And yes, I did sneak in a fond memory of the Tales of the Jedi series in there. I thought they were really good at the start and to the degree that KJA took over they suffered. But still better than what's coming out now.
It's nice to remember when KJA was my least favourite SW author. Those were simpler times, weren't they?
I too am torn. I think the original original version should be preserved.
But I would rather watch something while mostly original, has the benefits of some modern tech- like matte lines cleanup and the like.
It was low, but it was all we had.
doubleofive said:
The effects were rendered in 3D, but the live action wasn't as DEEP as Avatar was. Kind of cardboard cut-outy, but not distracting unless you're looking to find faults in it.xhonzi said:
(DoubleO/Red)Five-
How was the 3D?
Just out of curiosity- when someone is 30 feet away, how "3D" do they appear to be to the lot of you? Either In Real LifeTM, or in "Real 3D" movies. Because some of my friends *cough005cough* complain about the "Cardboard cutoutness" of characters in the background in converted 3D movies. Not whole groups of characters mind you, but that each individual looks like it's a cut-out. I've never noticed this myself, because either my eyes/depth perception aren't good enough, or I don't have an expectation to see a lot of depth in characters that are relatively far away.
Some of these complaints were primarily made about Avatar, which was shot in 3D, so I don't know what to do with those.
Well... there go the chances of getting a new lady member on the board.
Yeah, I totally screwed that up didn't I? Of course I meant the SEs.
1 year ago:
Looking at our hundreds of movies and trying to decide what to show my young kids next- my eyes lit upon The Rocketeer and my wife and I decided to try that on them. What a great movie! Especially the concept! JETPACKS! My son especially was bitten by jetpack bug. I immediately started shopping on e-bay for a Rocketeer helmet and jetpack, which I never bought. :(
Today:
Dark Void- I really enjoyed Crimson Skies on xbox 1, so when I saw that that team was working on a jet-pack game, I was very much looking forward to it.
Then the reviews. Then the lacklustre demo. Then the $7 price tag. Then the buying of it (by me).
It's about a 6-7 hour game (maybe a tad more) and it's sort of exactly what I was looking for at the time. I've been playing some longer games, and I just wanted something that I could crank through a little quicker. The first hour or two was especially well done. The 3rd person shooter elements, while no Gears of War, are well done. The set pieces are good and the environment is pretty cool. Unfortunately, the middle doesn't fare as well. It's odd- once the full jetpack and the UFO flying segments are introduced- they don't seem to control very well. I have a very hard time with ship-to-ship combat in the UFOs. I say it's odd because it seems like it could have been/should have been ripped directly from Crimson Skies, which I thought handled air combat quite well.
At any rate- not the disaster I thought it might have been. Not as fun as it could have been. Jetpacks are still the best. Hopefully really sweet jetpacks coming to a game near you. (Though it is infinitely better than the Halo Reach pack).
Yes, I had that reaction just the other day. By someone I gave a copy of Revisited to, too. I told him then that I strongly dislike the changes in the prequels. He told me his 2 favourite SE changes were the new Palpatine dialogue in ESB and Hayden in RotJ. He tried the "good man that was Anakin died..." bit on me, but I had none of it.
Anyways, he just sort of smiled and shook his head at me RE: not buying the BDs.
Erm.... Spoilers?
I think she is.
$999?
Doesn't pretty much every horror, suspense, or mystery film (and Scooby Doo episode) have a twist?
Isn't the question more along the lines of: Which twists really caught you off guard?
none said:
Just finished "One of Our Thursday's Is Missing"
Latest in the 'Thursday Next' series. Alternative universe where the main character can travel into the world of books.
by Jasper Fforde: http://www.jasperfforde.com
Slowly starting:
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu
so far it mentions the Skywalker family.
Oh, good, I thought my wife and I were the only Ffordeophiles around.
How did you like it? I'm about half way through... Kind of missing Thursday... though Thursday is a relatively good replacement. All of the wittyness of the Literary world is sort of wearing thin on me... I've just read about the Professor trying to spontaneously create metaphor for several pages... let's get back to the cliffhanger from First Among Sequels already!
Speaking of- I think First Among Sequels might be my favourite in the series. It took a long time to get rolling, or so I thought. I was concerned that it was a mostly unrelated series of mad camp adventures without much of a through-line... But it shocked me with how it pulled everything together to provide a focused plot. Hoping OOOTIM does the same.
Also really looking forward to a Shades of Grey sequel as well.
