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Not violent, but definitely just as harmful as being a violent influence to minds that can't/don't know any better. Movies like 2F2F, 'Gone in 60, etc like to justify felonious, criminal behavior for a "higher" moral ground in the end of a story, allowing its main characters to ignore laws that the society (you, me, law enforcement) believes in and upholds. This basically amounts to an "ends justifying the means" mentality and that is NOT the way accomplish one's goals or desires... Not to mention that every since the original Fast and the Furious came out, every kid with a Honda Civic suddenly thinks he/she is a street racer by weaving in and out of lanes and doing 90+ on the highway during rush hour.

As a coherent story, I think the original TV series is better than the movies. Problem is, if you want it subbed, you have to buy bootlegs with horrid subs. And for the full story, you really have to see the original series, Zeta Gundam, ZZ Gundam, and Char's Counterattack. (Stick with ZZ... it starts off corny, but improves after awhile.) Again, unfortunately, excluding Char's CA, you'll have to buy boots. But believe me, it's worth it... especially Zeta. Aside from those... I thought the 0080 and 0083 OVAs were alright, but 0083 is just a confusing mess if you haven't seen the original series or movies. I didn't care for the 08th MS Team. Just my opinion. The F91 movie was alright... I think if they would have made it the planned TV series instead, it could have been pretty good. I'm watching V Gundam right now, but so far, I'm not impressed. Despite being set in the Universal Century, it's so far removed from the classic stuff that it plays out like an AU Gundam with some of the most boring or lame mobile suits in all of Gundam. As for the AU Gundams, Wing was okay... if you over look all the pretty boy heroes and the fact that it's a retelling of Gundam through Char's CA... and that watching Gundam through Char's CA is more entertaining. And I kinda liked Gundam X. That's all I've seen so far.

Then don't. And yes, visually, Macross Plus and 7 look more like DYRL... but for story purposes, they go with the continuity of the TV series. No Protoculture city on earth, no translating alien love songs. Instead, pineapple salad and blowing up Ontario.

I'm really interested in getting some subtitled Japanese horror films on DVD, but I want to avoid eBay (I've just had a few bad experienced there, and would rather deal directly with a store). Animeniacs.net of all people had the Ring series, Kourei, Kairo, Uzumaki, and Suicide Circle, which is great... but I can't find any of Hideo Nakata's other films (specfically Dark Water and Joyuu Rei). Does anybody know any webstores that have a nice collection of Japanese horror films?

Hey, it shouldn't be hard for Kill Bill to be Tarantino's best work... considering that (in my opinion at least) his movies have ranged from garbage with no redeeming value whatsoever to artsy sort of style over substance kill fest.

Why on God's green earth would I want to forget Need For Speed Underground? Just because Project Gotham 2 came out? Dude, have you actually played Need For Speed Underground? I don't mean to take away from PGR2... it's a very good game in it's own right... but NFSU is just mind blowing. And if I had to reccomend one over the other, NFSU wins hands down. Actually, I feel kind of sorry that PGR2 had to release so to NFSU... a lot of people are going to overlook it in favor of NFSU, and they'll be missing out on a great game. Well, there's always the Platinum Hits...

Why, at the beginning of this thread, everyone's like "oh, he's talking about the Matrix!"? The Matrix trilogy had the same directors the whole way through. Yeah, I guess it's true that if a movie kicks ass, a studio will go for an easy money sequel, even if the original crew doesn't want to get involved. But for what it's worth, I kinda liked Reloaded and Revolutions. And I didn't care for any of the LotR movies yet. The first one was boring, and the second one had rotten pacing.

Screw EB (where the associates are like used car salesmen, and don't know anything more about games than what they read from the company e-mails). We at Gamestop have the Zelda Bundle NOW.

The act of being a prequel and a sequel at the same time is an interesting concept, but doesn't guarantee greatness. And having potential isn't the same as living up to the potential. Now if T4 has the same director as T3, I'm going to have to pass on account of how much I hated T3. If James Cameron gets back on board though, I'll probably see it in the theater. I'm not the kind of person who's going to sit here and compain about lack of original ideas. I'm not predicting that T4 will suck or that T4 will be great. All I am saying is that T3 was an abomination.

Outside of Nintendo first party, I've found the GC to be lacking. Even though you don't care for fighting games, I'd still go with Super Smash Bros Melee, and definately grab a copy of Super Monkey Ball 2. Even if you find the main game kind of boring, the mini and party games are a blast. I think Monkey Billiards is actually the best console billiard game out there, including the stand alone billiard games. GC was lousy for RPGs. The only good one that I can think of is Skies of Arcadia.

Yes... the Compendium is considered the source for Macross information, but no pics. And while I do have a lot of respect for Dave's old site, I'd say that www.mahq.net has a better blend of the canon info and pictures. Check these out: VF-11B VF-11C VF-11D Custom Jamming Bird VF-11MAXL Custom Sound Force Type VF-X-11

Because it was. Not only was it an embarrassment to the Termintor name with the gay jokes and horrible visual gags, the story was weak, the acting was dire and the action was terrible, neutered to almost PG-13 levels. Yes! That's exactly what I've been trying to say! That was the only movie I went to the theater to see and wanted my money back. And I saw Sweet November at the theater! Don't worry, Agent, I'm not faulting Arnold. I am, however, faulting the director, the guy that wrote the lame script, and the actor that played John Connor.

Thanks for the info, but it seems the old forums are down until an IP issue is resolved.

I was bored at work today and I was looking through the PC stuff (I'm more of a console gamer). Anyways, I'm seeing all these packages you can buy to add planes and scenery and new paint jobs and stuff to Microsoft Flight Simulator. They all seemed to be designed for 2002 and 2004. That got me wondering... are there any places to get Macross stuff that I can add to Flight Simulator? And if so, what versions would they be compatible with? I mean, a friend of mine gave me Flight Simulator 98... is that enough, or should I pick up a newer version?

For every 48 people here that like it, 51 love it. Check out this old thread. With Macross, like many other works in life, IMHO, it's best to at least view all the parts of the set, and then decide for yourself which parts you liked and which parts you didn't. The tone of Macross 7 is very different, though, and even the people who love it best admit that it takes a few eps to get into. Well, in other words, I reccommend everything you don't have. You should go to Best Buy and get Macross Plus and Macross II. Then poke around on the internet for the DVDs that haven't been commercially released here (I get a lot of my DVDs at Animeniacs.net, but I'm not sure what Macross stuff they have). Those ones would be DYRL, Flashback 2012, Macross 7 (I do know they have the complete FX set, which includes the movie, encore, OVAs, and Macross 7 Plus bits), and volumes 1 and 2 of Macross Zero. Volume 3 should be out pretty soon. And there's that 20th Anniversary DVD out, too... get that if you're feeling really hardcore.

Why does everyone keep saying that T3 was going back to or reminicent of the first Terminator movie? The first one was not full of cheesy bits like Arnold putting on the girly sunglasses or that whole "talk to the hand" bit. T1 was gritty, for the day. T2 was so gritty that it's still gritty today. T3 was just corny.

I love those designs. But I thought that those designs were around the Macross 7-era (unless my knowledge has been poluted by crappy RPG sites...). Sort of. The only thing we know definatively is that the SW-XA1 was developed after the VF-17, to create a fighter that retained the stealth of the VF-17 but had higher atmospheric performance, so they started the Stealth Wing eXperiment with the basic design of the VF-1, because they had loads of combat data on it. And even then, that backstory is not considered canon. Does it matter if it's around Macross 7's time period? There was a lot more going on then than just what was happing to the Macross 7 fleet. As long as the story is good, I don't care when it takes place or if it overlaps with another story.

Does the special edition include a new version of the movie that didn't suck? I mean, I loved T2, but T3 was the only time I went to see a movie and actually wanted my money back. Not only was it a mediocre action flick full of lame pop-culture cliches and a vet who's tougher than the guy who's supposed to lead the human resistance, but an ending that was a 180 from the theme of the first two films and an insult to the fans who saw them. I'd poke myself in the eyes with a fork before I see another Terminator movie done by the director of T3.

I'm a console gamer too, and while that keeps me from building my own system, I don't use that as an excuse not to have a good computer. My main system is: Sony VAIO PCV-RZ32G 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading Technology 512 MB of RAM 80 GB hard drive Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 nVidia GeForce MX 440 with AGP8X 1 cable (TV cable) input 2 S-Video inputs 1 i.LINK S400 input 8 USB 2.0 inputs A floppy drive A Memory Stick Drive (convenient, since I have a Sony Cyber-Shot digital camera) A Sony DRU-510A DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW burner An LG GCC-4480B CD-R/RW DVD-ROM Giga Pocket Sony 17" LCD monitor. Being that I spend a lot of time on this machine, but my wife likes to play Solitaire, I wound up buying a second cheap machine just for her to play with. It's: eMachines 2.5 GHz Intel Celeron 40GB hard drive 256MB RAM a generic CD-RW drive A floppy drive 6 USB ports Some kind of bulky eMachinese monitor. And that's really all I know about it, since I never use it. If you want to know what printers, the eMachinese has the Lexmark that came with it, but I tossed the crappy HP printer that came with the VAIO and replaced it with an Epson Stylus CX3200 printer/scanner/copier.

Why not use those cool SW-XA series in the next series? I really liked both of those, and maybe Kawamori could cook up an SW-XAIII for it.

OK, so the machines are capable of love/anger/fear/jealousy/etcetera, but they are somehow incapable of lying? uh-huh. I don't think it's that they're incapable of lying. I think it's more that the Architect considers himself above humanity, and thinks of lying as petty human behavior.

Remember how they said that once a mind is a certain age, it's very dangerous to try and free it? I doubt they're going to tell the entire world that they're living in a fantasy world and supplying machines with energy. Hopefully the Matrix online MORPG will explain what really is going to happen since it takes place after Revolutions. I would assume that they'd just do away with the Agents. That is, someone realizes that something isn't right can figure it out and get out. Or maybe people from Zion will still jack in and free minds. But I don't think that the machines will actively tell people that they're living in the Matrix. I'm still suprised that they conceded so much already. As far as I'm concerned, the machines are still holding all the cards.

I just want to point out that the only console that I've ever owned that ever broke or quit working was my original NES. When I first bought a PlayStation (old one, when they still had a parallel I/O on the back), it was defective and I had to take it back. But only my old NES worked, and then broke/quit working. I've had a PS2 since the day they came out, and I never had a problem with it.

Er... who was GC hating? None of the Gundam games are very good mecha sims I think, although Federation vs. Zeon is a fun arcade game with mecha, that you'd probably enjoy. Eh, I might be, but I don't go around advertising it. I haven't decided. I mean, it has some games that I really love, like Megaman Transmission and Sonic Adventure. My problem is that I haven't really cared for Nintendo's first party stuff since the SNES. I guess I just like my Mario and my Zelda in 2D (just like my Megaman, Capcom! So knock it off!). And once you take away the first party stuff, the GC's library is pretty slim pickings compared to the PS2's. As for multi-platform games, I usually go for the Xbox version, since the Xbox has the hard drive and Dolby Digital support. So while I have probably about 20 PS2 games and 15 Xbox games, I only have seven GC games... and I'll probably trade-in Viewtiful Joe after I beat it (I consider the games I currently own on the PS2 and Xbox to be keepers). $20 for the Freeloader? Rip off. It's $9.99 at Gamestop, and you can just go into the store and buy it, and save the hassle of ordering it from the net. On a side note, the GC version of Action Replay has the Freeloader software included, and that runs around $40. Now if only I could find a Gamecube game that I actually would want to import...

I agree with 99% of what you said! The film did feel rushed, and probably would have been better as one long movie than two. While Trinity wasn't too bad in the first movie, she looks like she's in her 60s now, and is kind of discusting. Props for killing her off. And yes, the game was referenced a lot. I'm not sure how bad of an idea it was. I have no idea what the percentage of people who saw the movie was, but I do know that despite horrible reviews, Enter the Matrix actually set records for videogame sales. The Animatrix was probably referenced a bit, too. The ending was a bit of a let down, too. I mean, if you think about it, the decision to make sequels to the orignal, and then to do it as a massive two-part film with animation and videogame tie-ins, they were setting up something huge. Instead, Neo goes to the head machine honchos and says "peace," and the machines just go for it, for some inexplicable reason. It may have worked for the story, but it was still kind of weak. I also side with those who say Smith had knowledge of the fight because he absorbed the Oracle, not because it was the nth time that he fought with the One. And like Keith, I don't believe that each version of the One was Neo. Speaking of Keith, at the end of the film, the Architect says something to the Oracle along the lines of "Those who want to will be released," implying that those that want to can also stay inside the Matrix. 99% sure on that.