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    Sonic improvements aside, I like the inclusion of some Green Hill Zone footage, actually. (Reminds me of the He-Man movie, which was apparently intended to take place entirely on Earth until the director put his foot down and insisted they had to book-end it with scenes in Eternia.) Sonic also shows a lot more personality here, and... oh yeah, Gangster's Paradise is gone(why was it ever there?). The new trailer looks like it is more a Street Fighter movie than a Super Mario Brothers movie. I mean, the old one was still on this side of the Super Mario line, but it was close. On the other hand... I'm sure they haven't spent all this time shooting new footage based on a script rewrite, so it'll be down to editing and CG changes. Maybe some overdubbing. They can't completely rework a fundamentally misguided project this late.
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    Man, Jim Carrey is one of the PROBLEMS. Doctor Robotnik is shaped like a beachball, Carrey's a beanpole, and the studio didn't spring for a fat suit or even throw a CG stretch filter onto him.
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    /me laughs I know how that goes all too well.
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    No, that was the Wii. The Wii U is like, 3¼ 'Cubes. Maybe even 3½ :P (I DO own a Wii U, actually. 'S a cute little booger, albeit not the most useful platform.)
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    I just rewatched Street Fighter for similar reasons. At the time, I was taking this all too seriously.
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    Great minds think alike. I regret remembering any part of that movie, really. But we all have our cross to bear.
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    Is the GameCube "retro" yet? Because I just fused two GameCubes together. I had a working silver one with no digital AV port, and a black one with a bad drive but a DAV port and matching GameBoy Player. Twenty minutes later, I'd moved the drive from the silver one to the black one. So I now have a black GameCube with GBPlayer, Digital AV port, and third-party component video cables. I feel bizarrely satisfied with myself for what was only slightly harder than swapping game cartridges. Incidentally, removing the DAV port was NOT the only cost savings on the revised model 'Cubes. The space freed up by removing the port let them use cheaper capacitors than the tiny ones on the original board, they rerouted power to save about two inches of wire, there's the removal of a cut, fold, and polish step on the RF shield(since they don't need to open a hole for the DAV port, and in fact needed to NOT open that hole), and they changed the sticker on the bottom of the case to say "Made in China" instead of "Made in Japan".
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    Wasn't that how Nemesis ended?
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    As long as you're okay with being wrong. Seriously, that mostly just means you like action better than horror.
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    We'll have to get tarred together.
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    It isn't a popular opinion by any means. It is just the RIGHT opinion. ... I used to hate Terminator 2, actually. I've made my peace with it. The film has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, but no one cares because they DO drive a truck through them. And then they blow it up. And then they do it again a half-hour later. It is a heckuva spectacle. I suspect I might have different opinions if I'd seen Terminator 2 first(as many did, based on theatrical run profits in a pre-VCR era). We had a taped-off-TV copy of The Terminator when I was younger, and no copy of Terminator 2. So I watched the original several times before I ever saw the second one, which was... startlingly different, and not really meant for someone who'd darn near memorized the first film(well, the parts that hadn't been edited out).
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    IMO, there should be no sequels at all. While Terminator 2 was a good movie, it was a bad sequel. And if we need more controversial statements... The Terminator was a perfect film and no possible followup could do anything but lessen it.
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    That's damning with faint praise if ever I heard it.
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    Groundcars aren't exactly safe to allow for the masses. But we manage somehow, and almost no one drives through people's front walls(though I personally know two people it has happened to), or just up and rams them.
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    We lost flying cars when Marty and Doc changed the future in part III. Marty's a jerk.
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    The Nintendo game Crystalis predicted nuclear war and the collapse of society in 1997.
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    It is kind of crazy how much articulation they managed to hide in there. The design SHOULDN'T allow all those joints to work, just because it is all large bricks jammed against each other. That is some dark magic.
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    The obvious conclusion here is that extended use of the force makes you stupid. It wasn't the prequel jedis' fault everything went horribly wrong, their powers made them inherently incapable of dealing with it and they lacked the adult supervision required to see it. ... That or the movie writers just sucked.
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    Well, it WAS pretty forgettable. I guess I imagined a better film to fill that void(and it was still bad).
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    I could do without a monchrome Shockwave until you got to this part. The purple barrel on Siege Shockwave bugged me from the start.
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    Hey, I didn't even care enough to WATCH Last Jedi and I'm in here.
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    Well, the "rebellion" in Force Awakens was literally a state-sponsored terrorist organization. As I recall the film, the New Republic and Empire signed a peace treaty, and then high-ranking Republic officials started supplying the new Rebellion with funds and equipment to continue the war against the Empire in defiance of the treaty. Meanwhile, the Empire built a combination Death Star/Sun Crusher so they could wreck multiple Republic planets with every shot. Neither side had any respect for the treaty.
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    "A space wizard did it" is half of the actual plot of the films.
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    Honestly? Their whole spiel about how they design the toys, but leave it to the factory to figure out where hinges and tabs and screw holes go left me unsympathetic to them. I'm kind of glad they're gone, just because they WEREN'T toy designers but claimed they were. They were illustrators taking credit, and filing the actual designers as "factory workers". ... Hmmm, taking credit for the work of others... they were a perfect match for Robotech.
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    Why? Is this truly what the world has been crying out for? I thought we were through rehashing the 80s and were on to rehashing the 90s by now. Not really. It doesn't have to get very far from Earth before the Sun's gravity takes it away from us. It still has to get pretty far before Mars can get hold of it, though. And it needs a good kick to give it the energy it needs to rise out to the martian orbit. But you're forgetting to factor in the Death Star's hypermatter core. The explosion CLEARLY sent large portions of the debris cloud into hyperspace along the axis of the visible discharge ring, so they blahblah et cetera. Ah, yes, the good ol' Endor Holocaust. http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html The official Lucasfilm explanation has always been "That didn't happen", with little explanation as to WHY that didn't happen. I think they need to man up and work out a feasible explanation, or canonize the massive ecological disaster. Can't make an omelette without destroying a few inhabitable worlds. This always reminds me of that scene in one of the X-Wing novels where our heroes stumble upon an Imperial Museum exhibit explaining how the rebels basically extinctified a sentient race with their terrorist activities and they get very upset because "that's not what happened". Surely the emperor would have a throne room on the first Death Star too, not just on Death Star Two. ... I think it is actually Skeletor's throne from the He-Man movie, though. How's THAT for a plot twist?
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