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  1. Gubaba
    Ah, I love this one...only in Turkey could El Santo and Captain America face off against Spiderman-with-a-mustache...
  2. Gubaba
    My problem is that I vastly prefer the 1984 "theatrical edition" of DYRL (with the mono sound and the un-FB2012'd ending) to the 1992 "special edition"...
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    "Glad to be home with you, feeling..."
  4. Gubaba
    Not YET...
  5. Gubaba
    So...what, photo-negative Ranka...? What's she advertising...?
  6. Gubaba
    Do we actually get to go into space...? If so, I'M THERE!!!
  7. Gubaba
    Yeah, it's the same.
  8. Gubaba
    Erm...that's Arthur C. Clarke.
  9. Gubaba
    Thank you. You've encapsulated my feeling for the first Transformers movie and explained why I refused to see Parts 2 and 3, in one fell swoop,
  10. Gubaba
    I'll have to consult the midichlorians to make sure, but I think so.
  11. Gubaba
    I can't really argue with this, except by going all conceptual and stating that Star Wars isn't science-fiction, it's science-fantasy. Ergo, you win. Probably.
  12. Gubaba
    I am SOOO there!!! EDIT: As long as Tochiro can buy me a ticket, that is...
  13. Gubaba
    Yes. Now where's the customizer-who-likes-a-challenge who'll make this a reality...?
  14. Gubaba
    I was lucky enough to meet Ray Bradbury four times at book signings, the first when I was 11 or so, the last when I was about 17 (he seemed happy to meet the giddy 11-year-old clutching a paperback copy of "Dinosaur Tales," less so to meet the sullen teen holding a first-edition hardcover of "The Stories of Ray Bradbury"). He was everything you'd want him to be, larger-than-life, totally full of himself in way that somehow felt charming rather than annoying, and a great raconteur. My favorite stories involved him as a kid hanging out around the Hollywood studios, doing things like meeting W.C. Fields (who signed his autograph book and said, "There you go, you little son of a bitch!"). I also loved his tale of writing the screenplay for the film of "Moby-Dick"...he found himself blocked, unable to write anything, afraid of desecrating the novel, until he woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, pointed at himself, and intoned "I AM HERMAN MELVILLE!!" The writing apparently came quite easily after that. I reread "The Martian Chronicles" roughly two years ago, right before coming to Japan, and found that I liked it even better than I did when I was in 8th grade, or in college. I meant to go back to "The Illustrated Man" soon afterwards, but never quite found the time... But anyway...thanks, Mr. Bradbury...you were spectacular.
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    All that said, by going back through the old Macross books, I've managed to find some of the sources, and have definitely concluded that some things (like the "Megalord" being the name of the SDF-2 pre-refit, and "Megaroad" as its name post-refit) as logical inferences based on the material...which would be fine if the material were completely consistent...which it sometimes isn't. But that's for the original series...for Macross 7, I'm still pretty much in the dark.
  16. Gubaba
    RIP Eduard Khil...
  17. Gubaba
    Put them aside. I tell ya, Feast for Crows alone is nearly 1000 pages, and I finished it in, like, a week. Once you start 'em, YOU CAN'T STOP!!
  18. Gubaba
    Oh hey...it's the OLYMPICS!!!
  19. Gubaba
    If you've just been watching the series... whatever you THINK is gonna happen, ain't gonna happen. I tell ya, Book 5 is real game-changer... even more than Book 3.
  20. Gubaba
    Okay, I just finished A Dance with Dragons, and thus I'm all caught up... And uh, Looking forward to Book 6!!!
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    Alas.
  22. Gubaba
    I have to admit, this is why I kinda hate the "DYRL is a movie within a movie" explanation. It sounds fine until you actually stop and think about it for a sec.
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    There are rental stores still...?
  24. Gubaba
    "Manos" is hard to argue with, but I actually liked "Liquid Sky"...totally NOT what I was expecting. But hey, if we're counting "Space Mutiny," what about "Turkish Star Wars"...? That was pretty terrible...
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    Volcano at least had Tommy Lee Jones being Tommy Lee Jones. And unlike, say, Dante's Peak, Volcano had a ton of lava...which is, y'know, what people want out of a Volcano movie. That said, I found it odd that there were no Hispanics in the movie anywhere... Anyway, my choice is Invasion from Inner Earth, which most people will never see, but which I once caught on afternoon TV. It was wretched.
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