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  1. JB0
    That... that's REALLY bad. But a bootmake just means you now have two Universal Soldier 1s as well as 3 Universal Soldier 2s. It doesn't actually fix the problem.
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    That doesn't require a remake of all the previous movies. See: Superman Returns. You can just say "Yeah, those bad movies never happened. This is a sequel to the good parts."
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    Personal thoughts: I can see where the Star Wars trilogy could be tightened up, but... I'm generally against remakes. It implies you have no good ideas, and is almost always a sign of a shameless cash grab that banks on nostalgia more than quality. A remake is a good idea IF the original film had a great concept but was technically ill-executed. I suppose if it's aged sufficiently aged that it looks REALLY dated, and it was a great movie but no one can look past the age. Star Wars is in neither camp. It was well-executed, and it doesn't look dated. There's no real point to remaking it. And I haven't seen anything showing remakes lately are concerned with respecting the original. So no remake.
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    Either way, the Death Stars have gravity by all appearances. The torpedo would happily keep falling down that exhaust shaft straight towards the center. And the sound is actually simulated by the ships' computers based on sensor data, then played in the cockpit to enhance pilot situational awareness. It's not really traveling THROUGH space, it just APPEARS to. Or it's artistic license. Take your pick.
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    Man, after all the effort they expended on the letter of apology... This show! I just don't ever know what to think of it!
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    The INTELLIGENT thing to do would be for Marvel to just cast Peter Parker as they please, and assume at this point in time, pretty much their entire target audience knows who he is and how he came to be known as Spider-Man. Not to re-boot/make/imagine/set the franchise again. If you want a new actor, just change actors. It worked for James Bond, and continues to work for James Bond. It's not like they've painted themselves into a corner here. They can't stop meddling with the script and ruining a perfectly good movie, sure. And they're incapable of recognizing their mistakes, so they blame the actors and directors because "superhero movies are big right now, therefore this should have sold well", fine. But they haven't done anything to hugely inconvenience future sequels like Fox did with XMen 3. They just made a godawful Spider-Film. Again. But regardless of the why, there's absolutely no reason to do ANOTHER origin story. Even if you DO reset the timeline. Peter Parker was bitten by a science-spider and gained super powers. After his uncle was tragically killed due to Peter's arrogance, he learned that with great power comes great responsibility and now fights crime in his pajamas. WE KNOW. Everyone knows. I'm pretty sure the average fetus in the womb knows at this point. Also, it's incredibly backwards that Sony is loaning Spidey to Marvel.
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    Touche, good sir.
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    Cripes, is there anything Sony DIDN'T have on that server?
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    Just as a note: Sega's nostalgia-fueled jet-fighter-'em-up After Burner Climax is going out of "print" on PS360 later this month. If you needed more After Burner in your life and didn't know there was a 21st-century version(first I'd heard of it)... last chance. Unclear if this affects the Android and iVice versions, but why would you WANT them?
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    Thank GOD the writers on the original trilogy were better than that, right?
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    Soccer-bot is a real robot? Color me surprised. Very pleasantly so. Wonder how it works...Still not sold on some of these names. They just don't sound "Star Warsy" to me. I mean, what's next? A farmhand named Luke? Let's get some proper space names in here, like Star Wars is SUPPOSED to be.
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    Macross II is exactly as canon as Macross 7.
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    I was actually getting tired of Totsugeki Love Heart by the end. I know it sounds unpossible, but...
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    Intermittently. I'm still a solo player, so still never gonna be in a raid. Hell, I don't think I WANT to commit that large a time chunk to one map.
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    Also a supermassive black hole. Perhaps even a supermassive black hole that has integrated the constituent particles of the Megaroad-01.
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    I keep seeing "everything wrong with..." videos, and expecting them to just be a rip of the entire movie.
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    You must watch Inferno Cop and Kill la Kill.
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    Man, if they put electronics in him, they need to go all out. Pretty sure that they could fit an ACTUAL GENESIS in him with the modern chip. Sure the connectors would all have to be tiny and nonstandard, but...
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    Welllllllll... they'd argued for a bit right before he left her. I can't swear which one calls to John first, but I want to say it's the Terminator. ANYWAYS... I just watched Salvation for the first time ever. It's... not a good movie. And as with Genesys, it suffers from the trailer spoiling the big twist. I already knew our hero was a robot from seeing the trailers, so the DRAMATIC UNVEIL was totally lost on me, and all the camerawork carefully hiding his exposed mechanics before the secret was out was... well, kind of silly. YouTube tells me this was also a problem with Terminator 2's trailers(which I have no recollection of ever seeing) as well, so... whatever. All trailers are spoilers, Soylent Green is people, and Darth Vader is Luke's father. I did smile when they messed with expectations in Salvation, trying to kill the final boss by dumping molten steel on it. It looks like it's melted down, everything is finished... and then it rises out of the big glob of red-hot steel on the floor and resumes stalking. THAT was mildly inspired, even if little else was.
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    Doesn't change the fact that he DOES copy Sarah Conner later, after leaving her alive so they can do a scene where John is faced with two Sarahs both shouting at him in identical voices. He literally had her pinned to a wall. He could've decapitated her or lanced her heart before he walked off, and then he would've won because John wouldn't have had two Sarahs both shouting "shoot her, she's the robot" at him. ... And I was under the impression he could copy someone perfectly from as little as a single footprint. Which made no sense whatsoever, but...
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    This is probably the first time I'm NOT going to advocate american supremacy on video game names. Megadrive Megatron is just so much fun to say! Genesis Megatron, by comparison... it rolls off the tongue like a thing that doesn't roll and sticks to tongues would.
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    Well, that's kind of calling back to the first movie. Judgement Day will happen. Humanity will eventually win, but at great cost. There's no way to change this. The "self-correcting" future is a way to reconcile that original concept with the fact that Judgement Day DIDN'T happen, and they kinda blew up the company's entire R&D department. Which isn't to say it was a great movie, but it was at least marginally considering some of the original film's themes. Yupyup. I still dislike the T1000, even after having made my peace with his film. I think liquid metal over robot makes more sense than liquid metal over more liquid metal. But neither one should be able to time-travel, since they aren't organic. There could be a low-level "instinctive" routine in each individual node to search for other nearby nodes to combine with until the system is large enough for something resembling intelligence. A distributed computer... much like Skynet is in Terminator 3. I'm willing to grant some of it's more egregious flaws, like suffering system failure in an environment humans operate in, as it being identified as a prototype. Skynet was desperate and sent a machine that wasn't really ready for prime time back. But no, it doesn't make an awful lot of sense. There's a lot of issues with 2 if you watch it critically. It feels to me like they were just throwing every idea into the script without considering how they meshed together. And then in the final scene, the T1000 tries to force Sarah to call John to her so he can kill John. Despite the fact that the T1000 can imitate Sarah and do it himself, which he does in the next scene after forgetting to kill Sarah. Were I trying to defend the film, I'd argue the heat was messing with his systems in more than the obvious "difficulty keeping form" issue, and he wasn't thinking properly. But... it'd be a weak defense. I yell at a lot of films for bad computers. This one was exceptionally bad with computers, though. As the public becomes more familiar with computers, movies should strive for MORE accurate portrayals, not LESS. And, well... I AM a computer nerd. An error on such a massive scale is HIGHLY distracting. (I'm also not sure how the virus got into the wild, with Skynet being disconnected from the network) As a distributed system, every cellphone and broadcast tower T3-Skynet destroyed made it dumber, every routing server and fiber-optic backbone reduced to ionized particles in the air a potentially crippling blow(or even worse, resulted in MULTIPLE DIFFERENT SKYNETS placed at odds with each other). It was in it's interests, short-term at least, to keep infrastructure damage to a controlled level, something nuclear carpet-bombing is not very good at. And yes, it would be bothered by radiation. There's a reason NASA uses decade-old processors and pays through the nose for custom versions of them. Radiation does TERRIBLE things to integrated circuits, and the more advanced they are, the more sensitive they are. So the most powerful nodes of T3-Skynet were also the most at risk on Judgement Day. So the initial strike on humanity would have to be executed very carefully to prevent Skynet lobotomizing itself in the process.
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    Word. Terminator 2, taken on it's own, also has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. But no one much cares because they DID drive a truck through them. And then blew it up. And then did it again thirty minutes later. It's dumb, stupid, incredibly loud fun. Unfortunatly, Hollywood believes a single computer virus can run on a dozen(or more!) different platforms and this is a perfectly rational premise. That's going to greatly hinder any atempts at realistic portrayals. About the only thing that made sense in Terminator 3 was Skynet being a heavily-networked array instead of a single mainframe. Most of it's attempts at explanation had me screaming "computers do not work that way!" at the screen.
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    Why not? It's what Terminator 2 did. Actually, that's the best part of Terminator 2, taking the audience expectations and knocking them on their side. That first half-hour, when they go out of their way to make it look like they're doing the first movie all over again, building up to that moment where both time travellers catch up to young John in the hallway, Schwarzenegger grabs John, and... takes a bullet from the "good guy" for him? That was sheer genius, and everything after it is downhill. I would LOVE to be able to watch it again without knowing that Schwarzenegger is the good guy. The quotes are an extension of that, with Arnold-Terminator stealing Reese's "come with me if you want to live" and saying "I'll be back" as a reassuring statement rather than a threat he's about to make good on. And in that regard, I think this movie works... except they just spoiled the big twist in the trailer. If they hadn't included the part with Sarah being a badass and "Yeah, we already killed the robot, deal with it!". Whoops! THANK YOU! I've finally made my peace with T2, but it took a lot of pointless analyzing, obsessing, and ranting on the internet about how awful it was. My current stance is: Terminator 2 is set in a parallel universe where something LIKE Terminator happened, but it's not a direct sequel to Terminator. Because audiences want happy endings. People were PISSED at the end of Terminator 3. When I saw it, the guy behind me was shouting swears at the screen when the nukes started blowing up. Even the bitter victory of Terminator 1 doesn't sit particularly well with a mass-market. Well, she's known as the woman who taught John to be a badass, so it's assumed. But Conner could've brainwashed Kyle into thinking of Sarah as the ideal perfect woman and make him into an obsessed stalker who would die to protect her over several years. But that would just be creepy(and the plot of T1).
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    Honestly, I think it was a clever move to keep the stormtroopers as faceless, largely silent antagonists originally. They were only painted as real people ONCE, and that was when Obi-Wan was sneaking by to deactivate the tractor beam while the two guards talked about space-cars. It was necessary for the scene that they be shown to not just be all soldier all the time. They had to have a human weakness for the one scene, so it's the only time they've been humanized. Which makes it stick out even more. The sequels actively avoided allowing a stormtrooper to appear human. But even in the first movie, you NEVER see one without a mask, despite the masks being a CANONICALLY bad idea("I can't see a thing in this helmet!"). It helps prevent the audience thinking of them as PEOPLE. It's more fun to mow down an army of faceless suits of armor(literally!) than a swath of real people, and makes them more useful as cannon fodder. The clone troopers were an attempt to take that to the next level and actively assure audiences that they COULDN'T be "real people" because they were clones PROGRAMMED to be warriors and nothing else. They were organic battledroids. And I think the new movie is at a point in the story where they can afford to humanize the stormtroopers. Stormtroopers aren't the fist of the emperor anymore, or likely to be involved with the primary antagonist. He's just some dude trying to make a living and getting caught up in some crazy shizzle, and it's safe to let the audience see that that because this movie won't gun down seven thousand of them.
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