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Apple Computers more famous then the Beatles and Apple Records? What a crock of shite. Dude you need to get out of the basement more and see the light of day. The Beatles have fans ranging from 10 year olds to 90 year olds. The Beatles are the single greatest popular musical phenomena of the 20th Century. Only Sinatra, Elvis and Johnny Cash (who just passed away *sniff*) can compare. I'm 27 and when I hear Apple I think of great Albums like "Let it Be" and "Abbey Road", not some useless POS computer like the iMac that only yuppies use because they think they're chic or posh or whatever the hell is "the parlance of our times." Hell, there are far more Beatles' CDs then software for the Mac! For Steve Jobs one thing is clear. In the end, the shit you take is equal to the shit you make!
YES IT WILL ROCK! Wheel chairs are way cooler then mine carts any day! And just wait for Indy's freaky mind trip when the evil Nurse Shultz slips him the wrong medication and he has to beat the antidote out of her with his walker!
Now seriously... I have NO FAITH in GL after the SW prequels. However Frank Darabont wrote some of the best Young Indy installments. Just check out "YIJ and "The Trenches of Hell", "The Phantom Train of Doom", "Oganga: The Giver and Taker of Life" and "Daredevils of the Desert". That last one features Catherine Zeta-Jones by the way...
I really wish Darabont would have done the screen play for AOTC instead of Jonathan Hales. His episodes where OK but unremarkable.
"YIJ and "The Trenches of Hell" is a real good one. Not sure of the writer. The first half does a great war-as-hell story and the second is a nice tribute to "The Great Escape". I only wish the fiercest war episode, set right after was out. As a video release it's was to be the first half of "Demons of Deception" I think.
One other not written by Darabont that is a must-have is "Attack of the Hawkmen" directed and co-written by SW and IJ sound designer Ben Burt who was the editor for the series.
Mystery of the Blues is decent. Best seen for the Harrison Ford bits which are fun.
I will admit it's probably best to avoid "The Scandal of 1920" and "The Hollywood Follies"
Oh and don't judge the series on "The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" which came free with the trilogy box set. Only the second half of that one is good. Not sure why they picked it. I can old think it's because it's the only one that has Indy hunting for an artifact. For action-packed light hearted adventure like the films, "The Phantom Train of Doom" or "Attack of the Hawkmen" are much better picks.
The latter has Indy accidentally blowing up a Zeppelin factory along with the German's new weapon in trademark Indy style. (Letting us know why Belloch (sp?) recognized Indy's handiwork so well at the airfield, he's been doing stuff like that for years at that point...
I'm just pissed that after the first wave of videos they never released the rest as promised. All I can figure is it didn't sell well because of all the jack-off babies who whined like little bitches that it wasn't just some cheap-ass knock of the movies. (This would have gotten old and stupid real fast).
Considering how "family values" types continuingly piss and moan about the lack of any good family shows or shows that have educational value for children, it's appalling they didn't back "Young Indy". Instead they complained about its violent content in its grimmer war episodes.
Ya see Americans love a good war. Give them explosions and they cheer like children hopped up on candy. However, if you show them how war senselessly wastes the lives of young men who join up eagerly only to be sacrificed by politicians who care nothing about them and they just don't want to see it.
*sigh*
Now I'm not saying war isn't nessasary at times. Unfortunatly it is. I'm just saying the American people need to be forced to see the cost that is paid in human lives. The collective American mind has become immune to statistics. Look how many people didn't realize just how horrible the Holocaust was until Spielberg's "Schindler's List" forced them to open their eyes. Ditto with WWII and "Saving Private Ryan". But how soon they forget...
I download videos off the Internet all the time. Mostly (legal) short films such as Star Wars fan films, homemade CGI shorts or current film trailers.
I also download episodes of TV shows I missed or can't see because they're not shown on any local stations (like Enterprise and Smallville).
Occasionally I'll download DVD rip to see if a film is worth buying or a film that isn't being shown in local theaters. And I never have to watch them on my monitor (and don't have a DVD burner.)
Using TMPGenc I can convert any film that's in MPEG, AVI, DIVX or QuickTime format using TMPGEnc Plus, burn it as a VCD or SVCD and then watch it on my DVD player. If a film is in high quality DIVX or QuickTime I can make a SVCD that is near-DVD quality. I've done that with many CGI shorts and Fan Films. -Yoda
The RIAA needs to learn from the movie industry. Any really popular film that's on DVD can be found on Kazza, yet DVD sales are huge. The reason is DVD's contain tons of extras that can't be easily pirated and shared along with the movie.
Even though I downloaded "Weird Al"'s new album "Poodle Hat" even before the release date, I still purchased it. One reason is because the whole CD is great, not just the two singles. However the big reason is it's an Enhanced CD so like a good DVD it has tons of bonus features when you put it in the PC. There's a funny video, a sing-a-long mode for every song and several alternate versions of various songs on the CD.
One reason sales are down is because prices have skyrocketed. Back to the $15-$18 bucks they cost in the late-80s and early 90s. For awhile They where selling most CDs at major media outlets for around $11.99. The CDs themselves cost pennies to produce and the cheaper the price, the more they would sell and ergo the more money they would make. Instead of a 17.99 CD they could sell a $8.99, sell three times as many CD and make 1/3 more profits. Not to mention more sales means more prestige as a good CD goes triple platinum. It's a lesson the videogame industry needs to learn as well.
One other thing... There is a distinct possibility that piracy of movies, music and games actually boost sales since the more popular something becomes the greater the word of mouth there is. Let's say "Joe Blow Big Toe" downloads all the tracks from the new CD by "Jam Master Cheese Whiz" and really digs it, so he tells 20 people how great it is. Out of those 20 people, say 10 go and buy it because they don't know how or don't wish to download MP3s. Then those 20 people tell 20 people each and half of them buy it. So on and so forth.
The same goes for films and videogames. The more people playing or watching it, the greater the word of mouth and great word of mouth always boosts sales. If piracy is stopped altogether then sales of music, movies and games could actually decrease drastically since people who pirate are usually short on cash, while people with a strong cash flow will definitely buy any game worth buying and at least the ones who didn't pay are telling friends who will how great the game is (if it is.)
Bottom line, if it becomes popular, it will sell and the more people praising a product the better it will sell.
Hayden said maybe one line in the whole fucking movie that had any real feeling behind it and he was acting opposite Chris Lee at the time. "I'm a slow learner."
People often blast Mark Hamill's acting in the OT but while he might not have had the nuances of say, Al Pacino in "the Godfather" he did have an infectious enthusiasm that fit the character. If anything him and Harrison Ford overact which is a good thing for a space opera.
Hayden just seems bored (or stoned) as does Natalie. They say their lines with all the enthusiasm of the first cast read-through for a high school play.
Now if only Lucas could use CGI in an AOTC SE to replace Natalie and Hayden with CGI actors who actually seem alive, not like two fence posts stoned on bad weed and also fix that god awful "romantic" dialogue, then maybe it would be a good movie.
I also wouldn't mind an explanation to how Anakin went from a nice sweet, likable kid to an arrogant, asshole shithead who doesn't seem to be the same character at all...
And just why did he wait ten-years to go back for his mother? I know many of you will point out the Jedi required him to but even that doesn't explain it for two reasons.
For one wouldn't the Jedi want to make sure his mom is safe since Yoda foresaw that loosing his mom could be his undoing? Also even if the Jedi did forbid it, why would that stop Anakin? Would you leave your mom to rot away as a slave on a harsh desert world just to avoid "breaking the rules".?
I also wouldn't mind an explanation of how Padme went from an intelligent 14 y/o Queen to an insanely stupid 20-something Senator. She has to leave Coruscant because her life is in danger..
So she leaves Jar Jar, the biggest dumb ass in the galaxy in charge of her Senate Seat??? (Which leads to the creation of the Clone Army - the First step of the Empire) Then she falls in love with a mass-murderer??? I could understand her being OK with Anakin killing all the males in the Tusken Camp since they're warriors and the ones directly responsible for the death of his mother but he tells her he killed the women and children too and all she can say is "You're only human!". Uhhh so the Senate is suppose to care about a pretty much bloodless invasion of her puny hippie planet in TPM yet she's perfectly ok with Anakin killing defenseless women and children?
Alllllllllrighty then little miss perfect! Well fuck you and your whole piece of shit hippie-go-free-free planet!:PPPP~
Oh well at least all the Obi-Wan, Yoda, Jango scenes kicked ass as did the last 30-45 mins. Thanks God for chapter skip when the DVD comes out in Nov.
I think it's been clear thus far that Yoda has made mistakes. By allowing the Jedi to be detached from society they'd lost an important part of their souls since they do not express or feel love in a natural open way reserving it only a repressed parent-child type bond for masters and apprentices. Even Yoda has a very strong bond with Obi-Wan as he did with Qui-Gon. Although Yoda often disagreed with Qui-Gon's rebel attitudes he admired and yes even loved him just as he admires and loves Obi-Wan. Since the main theme of the saga is father-son relationships there is a strong line in the Jedi order with characters we see in the six films. While Yoda is responsible for the training of all younglings until they are taking as Padawan Learners the last Jedi Yoda had as *his* apprentice was Dooku, who trained Qui-Gon, who trained Obi-Wan, who trained Anakin, who fathered Luke and then Luke was trained by Obi-Wan and Yoda. The fact that Yoda trained Dooku and Dooku has become a Sith Lord shows that Yoda while wise and powerful is far from infallible. I think that he also eventually released he should have reformed the Jedi Order per Qui-Gon's wishes, for the Order to become more in tune with the "Living Force" because the Jedi Order had become too focused on science (midichlorians) while neglecting their spirituality. Also with the Order's wish to avoid the powerful emotions and passions that may cause a Jedi to touch the Darkside they have removed themselves from the one thing that separates sentient beings from animals - The ability to love openly, freely and form attachments. Also this distancing from society caused the Jedi to become elitist, thinking that they where too powerful to be defeated and better then "normal folk" (Anakin believes he's better then not only average folk but most other Jedi, including Obi-Wan.) Whatever is suppose to happen in Episode 3 it is clear that something *must* happened so Yoda releases that the Jedi Order in it's over reliance on science, technology and strict doctrines to the point where he rejects all science and technology and decides to embrace the Force as a spiritual entity. Which would explain is why he limps around on a cane in ESB (instead of hovering on that repulser chair) has no electricity, no longer carries a lightsaber, eats only root-stew and wipes his green muppet ass with scratchy leaves. (To be added in version 3.0). Well either that or maybe he just went insane. Perhaps he talks to his gimmer stick when Luke isn't around.:-D Seriously though it is clear that Yoda is a flawed character and that is what makes him interesting.
Don't be dense. Of course he hasn't said it in EVERY movie! I know he didn't in "Dracula" for one but it wasn't just in the Bill & Ted films either. He said both "Woah" and "Dude" in the Matrix I believe ("Woah" for sure) and that was a very good movie. He also said both "Woah" and "Dude" in Lawrence Kasdan's "I Love you to Death" another very good film. I'm sure he has in other films too ("Speed" perhaps but don't quote me.)
However I was just making a joke about his publicly perceived persona. No where did I say he said it in every film. So it is you who seems to be ignorant or maybe just spiteful because you feel I attacked an actor you like, which I didn't BTW I just don't see him as Superman. I actually have many of Keanu's films in my collection, "Speed", "Dracula", "I Love you to Death", "The Matrix" "The Devil's Advocate" etc... I think I may even have the old Bill & Ted video from when I was a teenager. Hey it has George Carlin in it at least!:)
"Fuckwad"? What are you twelve? You know it is possible to disagree with someone and even reply without flaming right? Which is why I have no intention of flaming you back. I've done nothing to you and said nothing that you should find offensive so a little common courtesy would be appreciated or you will find people won't want to discuss things with you. (And isn't discussion the whole point of a forum?)
However I must ask, did you ever read the pre-1989 comics or watch the various animated series based on the look of those comics? (Or see the 40s serial and cheesy 60s TV show) Batman's original costume was the same as Superman's, just tights with an emblem. No rubber chest plate with fake muscles and man-boobs. Those came in with Tim Burton (what a surprise!)
Even the more recent comics are suppose to be his real muscles, not falsies (look at (http://www.geocities.com/lightning_bug808/Bats06. jpg) even if they are overstated (all superheroes are these days, heck they even did it in the Battlestar Galactica comics!)
I recommend you go to a good comic-con and ask one of the artists if you don't believe me. Since Batman has no super powers he has only his natural strength and fighting abilities to rely on (and whatever is on his utility belt.) So the comic book Batman has real muscles. If he didn't have real muscles (like Keaton didn't) he couldn't even take on a rowdy little league hockey team much less several bad guys at once. The fake chest plate is in the movies only.
BTW there is no "real Batman", he's a made-up character created by Bob Kane (God rest his soul!) You know that right?:)
Bruce Campbell might be too old to play Supes but I'd check it out. In fact Bruce Campbell could star in a remake of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and I'd be there. Hey, actually that's not a bad idea....
"You earthlings and your stupid minds. STUPID! STUPID!
*ZZAAPPP*
"Smart... Stupid... I'm the guy with the ray-gun."
Um Steve Reeves was the muscle man who played Hercules in bad 50s and 60s Italian movies. George Reeves is the actor who played Superman in the 50s (and quite well until the show got dumbed down over time.)He was also the one who died tragically either of a suicide or a murder (no one is quite sure which I think.) He wasn't the first live-action Superman however, that was Kirk Alyn in a 1948 serial. Quite good if you can get past his baggy tights and the fact he turns into a cartoon when he flies (kind of a retro-version of Spidey's CGI work) Also it's Christopher Reeve... No S at the end. I make that mistake a lot too and I believe I did in my earlier post in fact. *Hits self over the head with a can of SPAM * BTW Keanu would suck as Superman. I can't picture Superman saying "Dude" or "Woah". How ever he couldn't be as bad as Nick Cage would have been if Tim Burton had his way. Personally I hope they leave Superman alone until a director with vision wants to do it (like a Peter Jackson). Don't just make it to cash in on the super hero craze, please! Richard Donner had vision... Until Clarke gets to New York (grrr I hate it not being Metropolis) then the film gets kind of cheesy. The first hour or so though is brilliant. The second film is very good fun even if it plays fast and loose with the Superman legend but after that the films went to hell. Now if they could get a visionary director who could do a full film to match the first half of the Donner film AND find an actor even half as good as Christopher Reeve... That would be great but I won't hold my breath.
I didn't like Keaton because he needed fake rubber muscles (and fake rubber boobs apparently!!) to be Batman. Kilmer should have been a good Batman but he was too stiff. At least Christopher Reeves (who will always be the definitive Superman) and Tobey Maguire went to a gym and started working out instead of using fake muscles. Heck WB wanted to put fake muscles on Chris Reeves but he told him it would be like lying to the kids who will see the film and he couldn't do that so he called up Dave Prowse (Yes the man behind Vader's mask) to pump him up. He's was a class act then and he's a class act now. I just hope he walks again. Dammit now I'm all weepy...
It was WEAK. VERY WEAK. 7of... I mean T'Pol sucks. She doesn't even lick the shoes of Spock, Sarek and both Savek's. She's another actress cast for her looks and T&A factor to please the undersexed fanboys. I found her acting phony...
In fact I just find everything about her phony, just as I did with Jeri Ryan. The scene with her and Tucker in their undies bordered on soft porn with all those close-ups and her hard nipples poking through the t-shirt.. And Tucker was as hard as a sailor on sore leave. Not that there's anything wrong with soft porn, just seems a tasteless attempt to boost ratings to me.
Archer is a Kirk wannabe. He has the double-fisted action hero quality but I saw no signs of Kirk's intelligence or cleverness. Have to wait and see on that.
Tucker is a Bones wannabe. A down home guy who's best buds with the Captain and is ready to shoot of his mouth with an extreme opinion in any given situation. Oh but he's the Chief Engineer not a Doctor. Wow Now THATS innovation!:p
Mayweather and Reed seemed generic. Nothing (yet) to distinguish either.
The "second hand, third hand" joke is almost as old as Star Trek itself. Heck it was done VISUALLY in Total Recall....
Now I know it's been said but the ship just looks way too 24th Century. They turned a Akira class upside down and gave it TOS narcells... And that makes it retro?
The Good stuff: I like the other ships such as the shuttles and all, the costumes are OK and the sets are outstanding. The FX are excellent for the most part.
I liked Hoshi and Phlox.
Hoshi seems cute and intelligent and I liked how Linda Park played her. Having her be very paranoid about space travel is fun.
I had worried Phlox would be "Dr. Neelix" but he's not annoying, in fact I found him quite funny and disarming.
However that put aside its basically Generic TV sci-fi, so generic it feels spit out by a computer. It also doesn't feel very Trek either, less so then Ds9 or Voyager.
The crummy pop song as the theme doesn't help that either. I had hoped for a stirring theme. A new theme by Goldsmith or perhaps the theme from Generations by Dennis McCarthy would have been much better. Instead we get a generic pop tune for a generic show...
Basically the show reminds me of some women I've dated, nice to look at but not an original thought in its head. Just the fact that they decided not to do a sequel series shows they had no fresh ideas. It also detracts from the feeling of adventure. Sure Archer and co. don't know where they're going but WE the audience do.
Basically I think it's an attempt to appeal to today's audience to save the franchise. Heck the first season of Voyager was much better. Of course I'm only going on the pilot (which I actually liked on paper.) So I do plan to watch it a few times more to see if it improves, but it doesn't look good to me right now. First the X-Files falls apart, now this...
Can our "Fearless Leader" ever give a public statement without having to READ off a paper every two lines?? (Watch him and count, it's like clockwork!) I agree with what he had to say this morning but the way he said it did not instill confidence in me that we have a strong president who can lead the USA...AND the free world through a crisis of monumental proportions. We need an FDR in this crisis, hell I'd settle for Bill Clinton or even H. W. Bush ! W. Bush always looks remarkably like a dear caught in the headlights...
If you didn't know what the hell "Tomb Raider" was about before you saw it your a complete and utter moron. Therefor your congragation must be full of complete morons. It's because of idiots like you that so many people have turned away from God and religion. Geesh.
I bet George Lucas is using this already to talk to ILM. He even might wear a dark robe. I can hear him now: "I am very displeeeeeeeased with your apparent lack of progress."
If you want to see what FPS and PC games can be check out Deus Ex. It's the merging of FPS, RPGs and Action/Adventure. It ranks up with Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid on my all-time favorites list. Sadly it hasn't sold well despite being a major critical success.
I will agree with the slashdot poster on The Sims... It's not in a genre that would normally appeal to me but it is as addictive (and fun) as hell.
I will buy the new W3D if it's a solid RPG, I loved both SOF and NOLF this past year but nothing blew me away like Deus Ex did (and in a whole different way The Sims).
None of the launch titles excite me... There's actually more games for the Playstation coming either out or coming out that look cool.. (Chrono Cross by far whips any DreamCast or PS2 RPG that's out) Plus if I want razzle-dazzle graphics I still have my PC. I'll get the P2 around this time next year. First off by then it and the Dreamcast will be in a major war so the price will drop significantly and second that's when the really cool titles will start rolling out, like Metal Gear Solid 2, Dino Crisis 3, Final Fantasy XI, Syphon Filter 3 etc... Perhaps they'll add the modem and net-play by then too...
-Yoda
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Apple Computers more famous then the Beatles and Apple Records? What a crock of shite. Dude you need to get out of the basement more and see the light of day. The Beatles have fans ranging from 10 year olds to 90 year olds. The Beatles are the single greatest popular musical phenomena of the 20th Century. Only Sinatra, Elvis and Johnny Cash (who just passed away *sniff*) can compare. I'm 27 and when I hear Apple I think of great Albums like "Let it Be" and "Abbey Road", not some useless POS computer like the iMac that only yuppies use because they think they're chic or posh or whatever the hell is "the parlance of our times." Hell, there are far more Beatles' CDs then software for the Mac! For Steve Jobs one thing is clear. In the end, the shit you take is equal to the shit you make!
YES IT WILL ROCK! Wheel chairs are way cooler then mine carts any day! And just wait for Indy's freaky mind trip when the evil Nurse Shultz slips him the wrong medication and he has to beat the antidote out of her with his walker!
Now seriously... I have NO FAITH in GL after the SW prequels. However Frank Darabont wrote some of the best Young Indy installments. Just check out "YIJ and "The Trenches of Hell", "The Phantom Train of Doom", "Oganga: The Giver and Taker of Life" and "Daredevils of the Desert". That last one features Catherine Zeta-Jones by the way...
I really wish Darabont would have done the screen play for AOTC instead of Jonathan Hales. His episodes where OK but unremarkable.
"YIJ and "The Trenches of Hell" is a real good one. Not sure of the writer. The first half does a great war-as-hell story and the second is a nice tribute to "The Great Escape". I only wish the fiercest war episode, set right after was out. As a video release it's was to be the first half of "Demons of Deception" I think.
One other not written by Darabont that is a must-have is "Attack of the Hawkmen" directed and co-written by SW and IJ sound designer Ben Burt who was the editor for the series.
Mystery of the Blues is decent. Best seen for the Harrison Ford bits which are fun.
I will admit it's probably best to avoid "The Scandal of 1920" and "The Hollywood Follies"
Oh and don't judge the series on "The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" which came free with the trilogy box set. Only the second half of that one is good. Not sure why they picked it. I can old think it's because it's the only one that has Indy hunting for an artifact. For action-packed light hearted adventure like the films, "The Phantom Train of Doom" or "Attack of the Hawkmen" are much better picks.
The latter has Indy accidentally blowing up a Zeppelin factory along with the German's new weapon in trademark Indy style. (Letting us know why Belloch (sp?) recognized Indy's handiwork so well at the airfield, he's been doing stuff like that for years at that point...
I'm just pissed that after the first wave of videos they never released the rest as promised. All I can figure is it didn't sell well because of all the jack-off babies who whined like little bitches that it wasn't just some cheap-ass knock of the movies. (This would have gotten old and stupid real fast).
Considering how "family values" types continuingly piss and moan about the lack of any good family shows or shows that have educational value for children, it's appalling they didn't back "Young Indy". Instead they complained about its violent content in its grimmer war episodes.
Ya see Americans love a good war. Give them explosions and they cheer like children hopped up on candy. However, if you show them how war senselessly wastes the lives of young men who join up eagerly only to be sacrificed by politicians who care nothing about them and they just don't want to see it.
*sigh*
Now I'm not saying war isn't nessasary at times. Unfortunatly it is. I'm just saying the American people need to be forced to see the cost that is paid in human lives. The collective American mind has become immune to statistics. Look how many people didn't realize just how horrible the Holocaust was until Spielberg's "Schindler's List" forced them to open their eyes. Ditto with WWII and "Saving Private Ryan". But how soon they forget...
Because I thought it was AOL.
-Yoda
I download videos off the Internet all the time. Mostly (legal) short films such as Star Wars fan films, homemade CGI shorts or current film trailers.
I also download episodes of TV shows I missed or can't see because they're not shown on any local stations (like Enterprise and Smallville).
Occasionally I'll download DVD rip to see if a film is worth buying or a film that isn't being shown in local theaters. And I never have to watch them on my monitor (and don't have a DVD burner.)
Using TMPGenc I can convert any film that's in MPEG, AVI, DIVX or QuickTime format using TMPGEnc Plus, burn it as a VCD or SVCD and then watch it on my DVD player. If a film is in high quality DIVX or QuickTime I can make a SVCD that is near-DVD quality. I've done that with many CGI shorts and Fan Films.
-Yoda
The RIAA needs to learn from the movie industry. Any really popular film that's on DVD can be found on Kazza, yet DVD sales are huge. The reason is DVD's contain tons of extras that can't be easily pirated and shared along with the movie.
Even though I downloaded "Weird Al"'s new album "Poodle Hat" even before the release date, I still purchased it. One reason is because the whole CD is great, not just the two singles. However the big reason is it's an Enhanced CD so like a good DVD it has tons of bonus features when you put it in the PC. There's a funny video, a sing-a-long mode for every song and several alternate versions of various songs on the CD.
One reason sales are down is because prices have skyrocketed. Back to the $15-$18 bucks they cost in the late-80s and early 90s. For awhile They where selling most CDs at major media outlets for around $11.99. The CDs themselves cost pennies to produce and the cheaper the price, the more they would sell and ergo the more money they would make. Instead of a 17.99 CD they could sell a $8.99, sell three times as many CD and make 1/3 more profits. Not to mention more sales means more prestige as a good CD goes triple platinum. It's a lesson the videogame industry needs to learn as well.
One other thing... There is a distinct possibility that piracy of movies, music and games actually boost sales since the more popular something becomes the greater the word of mouth there is. Let's say "Joe Blow Big Toe" downloads all the tracks from the new CD by "Jam Master Cheese Whiz" and really digs it, so he tells 20 people how great it is. Out of those 20 people, say 10 go and buy it because they don't know how or don't wish to download MP3s. Then those 20 people tell 20 people each and half of them buy it. So on and so forth.
The same goes for films and videogames. The more people playing or watching it, the greater the word of mouth and great word of mouth always boosts sales. If piracy is stopped altogether then sales of music, movies and games could actually decrease drastically since people who pirate are usually short on cash, while people with a strong cash flow will definitely buy any game worth buying and at least the ones who didn't pay are telling friends who will how great the game is (if it is.)
Bottom line, if it becomes popular, it will sell and the more people praising a product the better it will sell.
Just my $0.02
Hayden said maybe one line in the whole fucking movie that had any real feeling behind it and he was acting opposite Chris Lee at the time. "I'm a slow learner."
:PPPP~
People often blast Mark Hamill's acting in the OT but while he might not have had the nuances of say, Al Pacino in "the Godfather" he did have an infectious enthusiasm that fit the character. If anything him and Harrison Ford overact which is a good thing for a space opera.
Hayden just seems bored (or stoned) as does Natalie. They say their lines with all the enthusiasm of the first cast read-through for a high school play.
Now if only Lucas could use CGI in an AOTC SE to replace Natalie and Hayden with CGI actors who actually seem alive, not like two fence posts stoned on bad weed and also fix that god awful "romantic" dialogue, then maybe it would be a good movie.
I also wouldn't mind an explanation to how Anakin went from a nice sweet, likable kid to an arrogant, asshole shithead who doesn't seem to be the same character at all...
And just why did he wait ten-years to go back for his mother? I know many of you will point out the Jedi required him to but even that doesn't explain it for two reasons.
For one wouldn't the Jedi want to make sure his mom is safe since Yoda foresaw that loosing his mom could be his undoing? Also even if the Jedi did forbid it, why would that stop Anakin? Would you leave your mom to rot away as a slave on a harsh desert world just to avoid "breaking the rules".?
I also wouldn't mind an explanation of how Padme went from an intelligent 14 y/o Queen to an insanely stupid 20-something Senator. She has to leave Coruscant because her life is in danger..
So she leaves Jar Jar, the biggest dumb ass in the galaxy in charge of her Senate Seat??? (Which leads to the creation of the Clone Army - the First step of the Empire) Then she falls in love with a mass-murderer??? I could understand her being OK with Anakin killing all the males in the Tusken Camp since they're warriors and the ones directly responsible for the death of his mother but he tells her he killed the women and children too and all she can say is "You're only human!". Uhhh so the Senate is suppose to care about a pretty much bloodless invasion of her puny hippie planet in TPM yet she's perfectly ok with Anakin killing defenseless women and children?
Alllllllllrighty then little miss perfect! Well fuck you and your whole piece of shit hippie-go-free-free planet!
Oh well at least all the Obi-Wan, Yoda, Jango scenes kicked ass as did the last 30-45 mins. Thanks God for chapter skip when the DVD comes out in Nov.
I think it's been clear thus far that Yoda has made mistakes. By allowing the Jedi to be detached from society they'd lost an important part of their souls since they do not express or feel love in a natural open way reserving it only a repressed parent-child type bond for masters and apprentices. Even Yoda has a very strong bond with Obi-Wan as he did with Qui-Gon. Although Yoda often disagreed with Qui-Gon's rebel attitudes he admired and yes even loved him just as he admires and loves Obi-Wan. Since the main theme of the saga is father-son relationships there is a strong line in the Jedi order with characters we see in the six films. While Yoda is responsible for the training of all younglings until they are taking as Padawan Learners the last Jedi Yoda had as *his* apprentice was Dooku, who trained Qui-Gon, who trained Obi-Wan, who trained Anakin, who fathered Luke and then Luke was trained by Obi-Wan and Yoda. The fact that Yoda trained Dooku and Dooku has become a Sith Lord shows that Yoda while wise and powerful is far from infallible. I think that he also eventually released he should have reformed the Jedi Order per Qui-Gon's wishes, for the Order to become more in tune with the "Living Force" because the Jedi Order had become too focused on science (midichlorians) while neglecting their spirituality. Also with the Order's wish to avoid the powerful emotions and passions that may cause a Jedi to touch the Darkside they have removed themselves from the one thing that separates sentient beings from animals - The ability to love openly, freely and form attachments. Also this distancing from society caused the Jedi to become elitist, thinking that they where too powerful to be defeated and better then "normal folk" (Anakin believes he's better then not only average folk but most other Jedi, including Obi-Wan.) Whatever is suppose to happen in Episode 3 it is clear that something *must* happened so Yoda releases that the Jedi Order in it's over reliance on science, technology and strict doctrines to the point where he rejects all science and technology and decides to embrace the Force as a spiritual entity. Which would explain is why he limps around on a cane in ESB (instead of hovering on that repulser chair) has no electricity, no longer carries a lightsaber, eats only root-stew and wipes his green muppet ass with scratchy leaves. (To be added in version 3.0). Well either that or maybe he just went insane. Perhaps he talks to his gimmer stick when Luke isn't around. :-D Seriously though it is clear that Yoda is a flawed character and that is what makes him interesting.
Don't be dense. Of course he hasn't said it in EVERY movie! I know he didn't in "Dracula" for one but it wasn't just in the Bill & Ted films either. He said both "Woah" and "Dude" in the Matrix I believe ("Woah" for sure) and that was a very good movie. He also said both "Woah" and "Dude" in Lawrence Kasdan's "I Love you to Death" another very good film. I'm sure he has in other films too ("Speed" perhaps but don't quote me.)
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However I was just making a joke about his publicly perceived persona. No where did I say he said it in every film. So it is you who seems to be ignorant or maybe just spiteful because you feel I attacked an actor you like, which I didn't BTW I just don't see him as Superman. I actually have many of Keanu's films in my collection, "Speed", "Dracula", "I Love you to Death", "The Matrix" "The Devil's Advocate" etc... I think I may even have the old Bill & Ted video from when I was a teenager. Hey it has George Carlin in it at least!
"Fuckwad"? What are you twelve? You know it is possible to disagree with someone and even reply without flaming right? Which is why I have no intention of flaming you back. I've done nothing to you and said nothing that you should find offensive so a little common courtesy would be appreciated or you will find people won't want to discuss things with you. (And isn't discussion the whole point of a forum?)
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However I must ask, did you ever read the pre-1989 comics or watch the various animated series based on the look of those comics? (Or see the 40s serial and cheesy 60s TV show) Batman's original costume was the same as Superman's, just tights with an emblem. No rubber chest plate with fake muscles and man-boobs. Those came in with Tim Burton (what a surprise!)
Even the more recent comics are suppose to be his real muscles, not falsies (look at (http://www.geocities.com/lightning_bug808/Bats06
I recommend you go to a good comic-con and ask one of the artists if you don't believe me. Since Batman has no super powers he has only his natural strength and fighting abilities to rely on (and whatever is on his utility belt.) So the comic book Batman has real muscles. If he didn't have real muscles (like Keaton didn't) he couldn't even take on a rowdy little league hockey team much less several bad guys at once. The fake chest plate is in the movies only.
BTW there is no "real Batman", he's a made-up character created by Bob Kane (God rest his soul!) You know that right?
Peace,
-Yoda
Bruce Campbell might be too old to play Supes but I'd check it out. In fact Bruce Campbell could star in a remake of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and I'd be there.
Hey, actually that's not a bad idea....
"You earthlings and your stupid minds. STUPID! STUPID!
*ZZAAPPP*
"Smart... Stupid... I'm the guy with the ray-gun."
Um Steve Reeves was the muscle man who played Hercules in bad 50s and 60s Italian movies. George Reeves is the actor who played Superman in the 50s (and quite well until the show got dumbed down over time.)He was also the one who died tragically either of a suicide or a murder (no one is quite sure which I think.) He wasn't the first live-action Superman however, that was Kirk Alyn in a 1948 serial. Quite good if you can get past his baggy tights and the fact he turns into a cartoon when he flies (kind of a retro-version of Spidey's CGI work) Also it's Christopher Reeve... No S at the end. I make that mistake a lot too and I believe I did in my earlier post in fact. *Hits self over the head with a can of SPAM * BTW Keanu would suck as Superman. I can't picture Superman saying "Dude" or "Woah". How ever he couldn't be as bad as Nick Cage would have been if Tim Burton had his way. Personally I hope they leave Superman alone until a director with vision wants to do it (like a Peter Jackson). Don't just make it to cash in on the super hero craze, please! Richard Donner had vision... Until Clarke gets to New York (grrr I hate it not being Metropolis) then the film gets kind of cheesy. The first hour or so though is brilliant. The second film is very good fun even if it plays fast and loose with the Superman legend but after that the films went to hell. Now if they could get a visionary director who could do a full film to match the first half of the Donner film AND find an actor even half as good as Christopher Reeve... That would be great but I won't hold my breath.
I didn't like Keaton because he needed fake rubber muscles (and fake rubber boobs apparently!!) to be Batman. Kilmer should have been a good Batman but he was too stiff. At least Christopher Reeves (who will always be the definitive Superman) and Tobey Maguire went to a gym and started working out instead of using fake muscles. Heck WB wanted to put fake muscles on Chris Reeves but he told him it would be like lying to the kids who will see the film and he couldn't do that so he called up Dave Prowse (Yes the man behind Vader's mask) to pump him up. He's was a class act then and he's a class act now. I just hope he walks again. Dammit now I'm all weepy...
It was WEAK. VERY WEAK. 7of... I mean T'Pol sucks. She doesn't even lick the shoes of Spock, Sarek and both Savek's. She's another actress cast for her looks and T&A factor to please the undersexed fanboys. I found her acting phony...
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In fact I just find everything about her phony, just as I did with Jeri Ryan. The scene with her and Tucker in their undies bordered on soft porn with all those close-ups and her hard nipples poking through the t-shirt.. And Tucker was as hard as a sailor on sore leave. Not that there's anything wrong with soft porn, just seems a tasteless attempt to boost ratings to me.
Archer is a Kirk wannabe. He has the double-fisted action hero quality but I saw no signs of Kirk's intelligence or cleverness. Have to wait and see on that.
Tucker is a Bones wannabe. A down home guy who's best buds with the Captain and is ready to shoot of his mouth with an extreme opinion in any given situation. Oh but he's the Chief Engineer not a Doctor. Wow Now THATS innovation!
Mayweather and Reed seemed generic. Nothing (yet) to distinguish either.
The "second hand, third hand" joke is almost as old as Star Trek itself. Heck it was done VISUALLY in Total Recall....
Now I know it's been said but the ship just looks way too 24th Century. They turned a Akira class upside down and gave it TOS narcells... And that makes it retro?
The Good stuff: I like the other ships such as the shuttles and all, the costumes are OK and the sets are outstanding. The FX are excellent for the most part.
I liked Hoshi and Phlox.
Hoshi seems cute and intelligent and I liked how Linda Park played her. Having her be very paranoid about space travel is fun.
I had worried Phlox would be "Dr. Neelix" but he's not annoying, in fact I found him quite funny and disarming.
However that put aside its basically Generic TV sci-fi, so generic it feels spit out by a computer. It also doesn't feel very Trek either, less so then Ds9 or Voyager.
The crummy pop song as the theme doesn't help that either. I had hoped for a stirring theme. A new theme by Goldsmith or perhaps the theme from Generations by Dennis McCarthy would have been much better. Instead we get a generic pop tune for a generic show...
Basically the show reminds me of some women I've dated, nice to look at but not an original thought in its head. Just the fact that they decided not to do a sequel series shows they had no fresh ideas. It also detracts from the feeling of adventure. Sure Archer and co. don't know where they're going but WE the audience do.
Basically I think it's an attempt to appeal to today's audience to save the franchise. Heck the first season of Voyager was much better. Of course I'm only going on the pilot (which I actually liked on paper.) So I do plan to watch it a few times more to see if it improves, but it doesn't look good to me right now. First the X-Files falls apart, now this...
If Trekkies had sex they wouldn't need soft-porn!
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You should try getting laid sometime. :)
Can our "Fearless Leader" ever give a public statement without having to READ off a paper every two lines?? (Watch him and count, it's like clockwork!) I agree with what he had to say this morning but the way he said it did not instill confidence in me that we have a strong president who can lead the USA...AND the free world through a crisis of monumental proportions. We need an FDR in this crisis, hell I'd settle for Bill Clinton or even H. W. Bush ! W. Bush always looks remarkably like a dear caught in the headlights...
If you didn't know what the hell "Tomb Raider" was about before you saw it your a complete and utter moron. Therefor your congragation must be full of complete morons. It's because of idiots like you that so many people have turned away from God and religion. Geesh.
CRAP and I thought it was OK to call them EBEs. No wonder everytime I go up with them they stick stuff up my @$$!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
I bet George Lucas is using this already to talk to ILM. He even might wear a dark robe. I can hear him now: "I am very displeeeeeeeased with your apparent lack of progress."
That should have read "it's a solid FPS" DOH
If you want to see what FPS and PC games can be check out Deus Ex. It's the merging of FPS, RPGs and Action/Adventure. It ranks up with Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid on my all-time favorites list. Sadly it hasn't sold well despite being a major critical success. I will agree with the slashdot poster on The Sims... It's not in a genre that would normally appeal to me but it is as addictive (and fun) as hell. I will buy the new W3D if it's a solid RPG, I loved both SOF and NOLF this past year but nothing blew me away like Deus Ex did (and in a whole different way The Sims).
None of the launch titles excite me... There's actually more games for the Playstation coming either out or coming out that look cool.. (Chrono Cross by far whips any DreamCast or PS2 RPG that's out) Plus if I want razzle-dazzle graphics I still have my PC. I'll get the P2 around this time next year. First off by then it and the Dreamcast will be in a major war so the price will drop significantly and second that's when the really cool titles will start rolling out, like Metal Gear Solid 2, Dino Crisis 3, Final Fantasy XI, Syphon Filter 3 etc... Perhaps they'll add the modem and net-play by then too... -Yoda