Dynaman
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"It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye!" Serious Sam - Just after killing the first one-eyed monster. "AAAARRRRR!!!", followed by "Oh Sh!t" Serious Sam - Killing the first guy that blows up when you shoot him, then LOADS of the exploding guys appear. [EDIT] EVERYTHING the elves say in "Elf Bowling" "Is that all the balls you got Santa" "Higher Wages, fewer toys"
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In those cases, let him have it. But thinking something titled "Day of the Triffods" is not worth following up on is not so bad, the title is right up there with "Megashark vs Giant Octopus" - the fact there is an excellent SciFi story hidden under the title notwithstanding (the excellent story is "Triffods" of course, NOT the shark/octopus...) [seperate Item] Not a remake per se (that I know of), but the way the aliens in "Skyline" snatch up humans looks very similar to the similar thing done in "War of the Worlds" from a couple years ago.
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Your razzing the guy for an opinion? I have not read Day of the Triffods yet either, and there is a good chance I never will (I read a couple books a week - mostly scifi - and there are still so many I can't get to all of them). I have seen the first of the Triffods movies and based on that read a short review of the differences between it and the novel - so the book does sound interesting.
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If you do watch it here is my take. (take it or leave it) The first series is very good, even the star blazers dub is good. I'd recommend either. The First movie, although the Japanese loved it I hate it. Take the first series, chop in the action scenes (not bad) and chop out almost all of the drama (bad). All the drama and plot is told through a voiceover, yuck... Second Movie - One of my all time animated favorites. Second Series - Just as good as the first (in Star Blazers too) Third Series - AVOID the english dub, never saw the Japanese version. third movie - OK Fourth Movie - OK Fifth Movie - I loved it, best quality animation of the entire Yamato franchise (till the latest movie possibly). I'm also a sucker for the alternate ending.
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The dub on that was pretty bad. Misa's VA being the worst, a pity too since the VA had a nice voice - but she did not use her own voice for Misa and it just sounded terrible, kind of like scratching chalk on a chalkboard... The way they pronounce Hikaru is jarring as well, can't these productions play the original pronounciations for the English VA cast so they can pronounce it right?
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Battlestar Galactica Discussion IV with Blood And Chrome
Dynaman replied to 505thAirborne's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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I thought that was nothing more then a joke at best and a rumor at worst. Do you have a link showing where it is confirmed they are dubbing LLA as the side story they were talking about?
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Yes. At the start. Bill Murray's character will be in jail for some swindle. The other two should be in a mental institution. The black guy (can't remember his name either) could be doing a spot on "I love the 80's" - focusing on the GhostBusters. Rick Moranis would be a big shot lawyer now. The receptionist would be the only one left at GB HQ Sigourney Weaver could be a drunken bum (think of the original silk specter) The plot revolves around the baby from the second movie all grown up now - and still haunted. (Other then that pretend the second movie didn't happen). Different note - Favorite bit from the GB cartoon was when three ghosts "Beam" into the scene, one looks at the others and says "We're dead Jim" - and they go away.
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After 5 or so years sitting in my closet....
Dynaman replied to e_jacob77's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
No it is not a remake, it is another take on the Appleseed Manga though. Ex Machina is worthwhile, I like how the cleaned up the character animation (I'm not one of those that hated the 2004 Appleseed animation though, although it was a little jarring). I'm not a fan of John Woo style action sequences - which ex-machina has a LOT of, but I still liked it and would recommend it (unless you really hate Woo style...) -
Sorry, wasn't trying to be snarky.
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I didn't know she had a clubbed foot either...
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I look at the same numbers and come up with a totally different result, but whatever.
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True - but it's hard to imagine anything where a Gerwalk capable aircraft would be more usable then a helicopter (on the one hand) or as cost effective as a jet (on the other). The problem with a Gerwalk capable plane is that any of the parts that need to go from Jet propulsion out the back to downward thrust will require beefing up the components thus making them heavier or more expensive (or both). Even the JSF, which has vectored thrust, is only using the VERTOL mode in the Marine configuration.
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The number just don't bear that assertion out. RT.com and it's other related site only have a couple hundred members that are active, there might be a couple thousand who logged on at one point and never posted anything too. MW has what appears to be 100 or so active users, and there has to be more then 1000 Macross Fans in the English speaking world. So at best the online community is a very vocal minority. RT.com has maybe a dozen active posters, say a 100 daily lurkers, the SC DVD had to have sold 5000+ copies (Can't imagine that would produce fewer then that, the cost to unit ratio would be prohibitive), so by that measure the RT online community is once again a pittance of the RT fandom.
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Birds and Planes fly in very different ways - all the motive power for a bird is in the chest and wing muscles, for aircraft it is the thrust out the back (provided by engines in various spots in various planes). Birds also need the legs for walking on the ground where a plane's equivalent is a small set of wheels. Although it might be possible someday it would never be practical, even the much easier to do tilt-rotor aircraft is only just becomming operational after a decades long development time.
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So - what is one more Retcon the the RT universe?
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I have not seen Wings, I should put it on my Netflix queue. (that terrible TV show from the nineties spoiled the name and good reputation you see) Blue Max - true, but EVERYONE uses EVERYONE in that movie - part of it's charm. That and the hero does some non-heroic things along the way.
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Love Live Alive, unlike MinMei's VA the guy that did Lancer CAN actually sing.
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You have to be baiting me, there is no other way to explain that question.
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I have already said why multiple times. But one last time. [EDIT] - forgot to mention, a difference of opinion is not a refutation. The Script stinks, the plot and characters are shallow and unrealistic (with the exception of Goose), the aerial combat is not as good as everyone who likes the film says (I've seen much better in the two other films I mentioned), the character conflict is forced and childish "I don't like you, your dangerous", "Yeah that's right I'm dangerous" - how can people stand to listen to dreck like that? For me personally it is a Tom Cruise competition movie (along with that racing movie and the bartender movie) and I despise them for being moronic at best, a total insult to humanity at worst. (Give Tom a good script, like Born on the Fourth of July, or Valkyrie and you have something, the competition movies are just an excuse for mindless stunts (or mindless cocktail glass acrobatics) One last edit - Roger Ebert sums up this movie best, and what he says about the character interaction is the #1 reason why this movie is a dog. For my part, I don't agree with him about the arial portion being great, it was good but not great. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19860516/REVIEWS/605160302/1023
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If they paint a pretty enough picture the armed forces would give them a large discount and allow their pilots and planes (Germany has a very good aggresor squadron that uses Mig29 aircraft). Still would probably be cheaper to go CGI. I don't have anything against it either - as long as they keep it within realisticky limits (since movies are never completely realistic...) No - I HATED the movie then and it still stinks today. It was, is, and always will be trash. I'd answer the rest, but we are not going to agree and it's not worth the time just for fun.
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Yes, just replace the word "Fairly" with something I can't say on the message board.
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Item 1 - Get rid of the entire script, it sucked from start to finish. I've talked with a number of real fighter pilots - lived next to one as a kid, and they are not the pyschotic, testosterone filled idiots the movie shows them to be. Item 2 - Forget the Migs and go with something you could get your hands on. Come up with a plot device that requires going against them. (It would be no worse then the laughable, nuclear war would have broken out, attack on a US carrier would have caused shown in the real Top Gun).
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It fails there too - they couldn't even get real soviet aircraft for the enemy aircraft - and as I mentioned before they re-used the ONLY impressive shot twice in the same movie. You want a movie with good flying sequences using real aircraft there are two choices. 1 - Hell's Angels by Howard Hughes, dated script and acting but the aerial shots are excellent. 2 - The Blue Max. Much better version of the entire Top Gun theme of the little guy proving himself and getting the girl.
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Top Gun 2: Electric Boogaloo... Despite it's legion of flaws, Stealth was a better movie then Top Gun. With Top Gun, the most impressive air stunt was used twice in the film, lame. Not to mention all the characters were cardboard cutouts - at least the Stealth plane in Stealth had some character to it (sadly the human cast did not)