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    I was actually wondering that in Jurassic World. Mostly the aerial attack sequence. Both where they stashed that infinite outpouring of creatures in the finitely-sized aviary and why the pterodactyls and dimorphodons hadn't long since killed each other off.
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    So you're saying it's still pretty good, then?
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    Ah, I didn't realize I hadn't watched the theatrical cut. The implication I got was the T1000 didn't work right in the heat of the foundry, for what it's worth. But it didn't need a perfect appearance to call John in Sarah's voice, and I'd give it a pass anyways since they DO demonstrate he's malfunctioning were it not for the fact that the bot DOES turn into Sarah five minutes later and call John in her voice. After letting her get away in spite of her being a termination target. Basically, his machine logic took a flying leap because they didn't want to kill Sarah and they wrote her into a corner.
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    I never understood why it had to touch something either, but that was how it was explained, and it's how the movie illustrates it. My way gives a good reason for the touch. The 1000 gets a detailed survey of the surfaces it's imitating, not just appearance, but also texture, pliability, and warmth. It gives it a way to gather the information needed to make a duplicate that will pass as the real thing. That it's also friggin' terrifying is a bonus.
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    Ya know, I was thinking (while listening to the original Jurassic Park soundtrack), and in many ways the Jurassic World film parallels the Jurassic World park. Both of them are living in the shadow of their predecessor, urged on to ever-larger shenanigans in an attempt to be relevant twenty years after something amazing was done. Certainly, the SCALE of the problem is different, but... The characters in the film say just having dinosaurs isn't enough anymore, and that's equally true for the scriptwriters in the real world. Jurassic Park struck such a strong chord in large part because it showed us dinosaurs as we'd only dreamed them before. Not stop-motion puppets, men in rubber suits with exposed zippers, or upsized iguanas, but as fluidly-moving creatures with a sense of scale and mass, interacting directly with real live humans in all their insufferably tantalizing verisimilitude. I think most of us felt a little like Dr. Grant in that first scene with the brachiosaurus. But it's darn near impossible to recapture that magic and unleash it at will. Thus you get things like Jurassic Park 3's spinosaurus and Jurassic World's Indominus Rex, upping the spectacle for a world that just isn't impressed by a T. Rex running through the forest anymore. I do not envy anyone the task of following that up, and while the challenge is not the ONLY reason they've largely failed at that follow-up, it hasn't exactly helped matters.
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    It's a prototype of a different system, namespace collision aside. Also, I don't think PS1 games have a name encoded for display, given that's not a function available on the PS1. You'd most likely get a "this is for the wrong system" error, since the disk is a CD-ROM, but not an SNES CD game. Incidentally, this prototype was also intended to take "SuperDisk" cassettes, which contained the CD in a caddy with an IC mounted for game saves and production control. Not naked CDs. (Though as with many CD players of the era, an audio disk or foreign system disk could be loaded into a caddy for playback, as evidenced by the CD player controls on top of the system).
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    It's a fundamentally different platform than the PS1. I can basically guarantee it's incompatible.
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    Actually, I was skipping continuity on my last viewing, taking T2 as it's own thing instead of a sequel to The Terminator. T2 doesn't claim time travel only works on organic tissue, so it gets a pass on that. (I know the canon excuse is that time machines work on organic tissue, anything encased in organic tissue, and "polymimetic alloys", but it's an ugly retcon and I prefer to just pretend time machines work on machines.) Though on the subject of busting out of organic tissues... that was something I would've done in the movie sort of, but for very different reasons. While not really a plot hole per se, it doesn't make logical sense that a robot can perfectly copy the appearance of a human being from a single boot print. What I would have done is have the security guard step on the T1000, the 'bot turns from tile to liquid metal... then slides up and "cocoons" the cop for a full-body scan. When done, right before taking the final form, there's a convulsion inward as it smashes the victim into an unidentifiable mass of assorted meats and bone fragments to prevent leaving an identifiable body behind to blow cover. Instead of a corpse in the janitor closet, there's just a bunch of hamburger and fake blood splashed around. Also has the production advantage of putting some horror into a horror movie sequel. The most glaring issue I recall is in the foundry, when the mercury bot is torturing Sarah to get her to call out so he can kill John when he comes to save her. Then lets her go to chase Arnold. Then turns into her and calls John himself, leading to the "two Sarahs" scene. That's problematic on all fronts. He should've killed her immediately, since once he touched her, he could imitate her and call John himself. Failing that, slashed her as he left to chase Arnold. The whole thing is one big "huh?" moment. That said, I did like the way he had trouble maintaining his form in the heat, and how they initially introduced it(and, though it shouldn't have happened, how it paid off in the Two Sarahs scene). It also goes some way towards explaining why the T1000 was still at the prototype stage(non-functionality in human-livable environments). The foundry scene wouldn't take a lot of reworking to make sense.
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    At least 2k monies.But man, if that was mine, it'd be my regular Super Nintendo. People'd come over, be all "the hell is that?!" and Id just be "a Nintendo. Wanna play Mario Kart?"
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    I just remember there were a lot of problems if you view it critically. And MAN, I don't wanna watch it again to index them.
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    As I've said before, it's a movie with plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. But no one cares because they DO drive a truck through them, then blow the truck up, then do it again a half hour later. I've made my peace with T2, but while a fun movie, it is a TERRIBLE sequel to a work that polished every minor to make sure it all fit together perfectly.
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    There is that. Gotta say, whoever got the bright idea to make a fifty-foot chameleon velociraptor was NOT thinking things through. Also: Needs more T. Rex.
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    Well, I've seen it too. It's better than I expected, but really suffers from a lack of focus. Several major plot threads scattered about unrelated to each other, and it feels like parts were left hanging.
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    I didn't, really. Especially that close after his death(I believe I called it "a crass and shameless cash grab"). But it was presented as a documentary, and the people that went likely believed it was.
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    Woz read the script. They asked him to come on as a consultant AFTER writing the script, which tells you how seriously they took historical accuracy. Actually, they asked a few of the early Apple guys to sign on as consultants... all after writing the script. It was a big fat load of hero-worshipping crap with almost no basis in reality, by the accounts of men who were there.
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    Basically Masterpiecing Classics Perceptor, then?
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    Well, that's an... odd... cross-license. Read the comic books. Bam, you're done. Also, that link doesn't work for me.
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    The first of the Bayformers movies?
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    Neo-ADV? I'm sorry. You guys all deserve better.
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    Oh no, not DIO! I think it might be safe to say it's pretty darn hot.
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    Basara as a Symphogear user... The gods themselves would know fear.
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    Pr'ly a big ball o' tinfoil or random assemblage of wires and hydraulics. Those seem to be the trends right now.
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    Wasn't Kawamori involved in AKB0048 anyways? This makes more sense than I'm comfortable with.
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    Was Hikaru in Transformers?
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    HG still has the Macross trademark. And whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not, the threat of them filing a lawsuit is well-known and makes the odds of someone licensing any Macross until such time as HG is put down like a rabid dog very unlikely.
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