artyjeffrey
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Rest in peace Mr Spock. I don't know what else to say, I was shocked. I guess that's when you know someone as a real living legend: I knew he had been sick for a while, and he was in his 80s, but like Ray Harryhausen, it seemed impossible that he wouldn't always be around.
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Aww thanks fellas.
Jay -- I've been okay I guess. Anyways, don't mean to hijack the thread so... On with Star Trek ?
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For me, what makes the CD the winner over LPs is this: each time you play that vinyl, it wears out a little bit more. Every time you play that CD, it pretty much sounds exactly like it did the last time you played it.
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Just in case...
Makes me feel old.
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Toshiba DLP Full HD 1080p + 6.1 Surround Sound + Blu-ray = My home theater
Same thing. Minus the sound system.
I plan on converting our den into a movie theater some day. Some time, when my wife isn't looking.
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Been reading "Two Guys Named Joe," by John Canemaker. Another good Canemaker animation-related book.
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Every time I listen to that opening track, I swear I can hear the shuttle as it drops from the star destroyer, even though my brain knows it isn't really there. Much like how I can always hear Chewie when I listen to the Throne Room track. Shows what a nerd I am.
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As long as Half Price Books stays in business I'm ok.
Well, as all of these stores (including, inevitably, B&N)fall into the abyss, all of their inventory will have to end up somewhere. Of course, the jobs won't.
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Well, Borders has filed for Chap 11 bankruptcy. The death of the bookstore continues.
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My son would rate this movie a 5, but then again he always jumps to the part when the group is afoot in the jungle, searching for Ann.
And then he always stops it when they trap Kong.
I've told myself that one of these days I'm going to do my own edit of this ridiculously overblown movie, and streamline it into a tight and solid one. But then I realize that I'd just be turning it into the original, better King Kong, and so I just put THAT dvd in the player instead.
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I shouldn't have been tantalized by it, but as I pulled the cart across the broken-up asphalt of the parking lot, it made the flaming Howdy rock back in forth, as if he was in the throes of agony. I thought, "This must be what it felt like to be Walt Disney."
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Seriously though, I used to have a ventriloquist puppet and became decent at performing. It's not as hard as I thought it would be.
I too once had a ventriloquist dummy (it was Howdy Doody, actually). He came with a little instruction 45 record. Yeah, apparently they felt I could learn to be a ventriloquist is roughly about 12 minutes.
I had Howdy for many years, secretly of course. Then we were having a pep rally in high school, and our opponent for our homecoming game had an eagle as their mascot. I got the genius idea of making a cage that would sit atop an old radio flyer cart, and I cut out paper feathers and taped them to Howdy's body, so that he looked like an eagle. I was just going to pull the cart through our parade, but then this one kid named Kyle (who was the original Butthead long before Beavis and Butthead)walked up right before the procession and told me he could make this float "kick ass."
He then removed various illegal fireworks from this paper bag, and began to insert them in various places on the float. I didn't know just how powerful these things were gonna be, thinking they'd just be sparklers. No.
And to the trebly, distorted strains of Conti's Rocky theme being played over the PA, I pulled the cart through the evening crowd, and watched in startled dismay/evil pleasure as Howdy Doody WENT UP. Just like Hitler, all that remained was an orange peel-sized portion of his skull.
Deep breath, looking off into the distance...
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Well, Snyder has at least selected his new Superman. Somewhere, Brandon Routh is crying into his pillow. "Blast you, Singer!"
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I'm currently working through Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination and The Music of the Lord of the Rings. Both excellent reads so far!
I just finished A Tale of Two Cities two days ago. For years I'd been wondering where that quote in Wrath of Khan came from, and when I did some research, I'd never heard of it. At first, I was afraid I'd never finish it; the middle part went slowly but steadily (not that I found it uninteresting, but I still didn't find it an easy read). The finale was unexpectedly breathtaking, and after I had given up on expecting any closer parallels to TWOK, they of course did become clear in the end. Not an easy read, but ultimately a very worthwhile one. Not my last Dickens.
Yeah, Dickens definitely takes his sweet time in that book, but I agree the ending makes it worth it.
That Walt Disney book is, in my opinion, excellent. It blows other Disney bios out of the water (in particular, the one by Bob Thomas). It reminds me of "Schulz and Peanuts," by David Micaelis, another very truthful bio.
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Have a lovely Christmas and life in general.
Karol
One of the most perfect cues in movie history, put to perfect use. Merry Christmas you loonies!
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To be honest, I bought the OST years ago... and never listened to it. Can't explain that one. So I guess I'll pass on this one, since it must not be that important to me.
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I like the drawings of Vader's castle, as well as original designs for the carbon freezing chamber, before it became the "disco floor."
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FSM- probably the Blue Box
Varese- Lawrence of Arabia (original short release)
Intrada- Creature from the Black Lagoon
LLL- Batman The Animated Series
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Well, aesthetically, you'll be glad to know that they made sure to match the Making of Star Wars book. The font, the pages, the layout, the thickness of it-- all in keeping with the first book. Crap like that makes me happy.
And like the first book, they seem to have went out of their way to find photos that Star Wars nuts like ourselves have never seen before. In other words, it's awesome so far (visually).
Oh, and there's maybe 3 or 4 pages about the score (but they've got pics in there,too).
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Mine's here! Obviously!
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With all of the cam bootlegs that are downloadable, most people, even if they do like a new release, aren't likely to slap down money for admission to a cinema more than once for a movie that they really enjoy.
I hate going to the movies. I can say, though, that I saw Jurassic Park 3 times. You had to see that in a movie theatre; watching it once it came out on VHS was noticeably less effective.
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I think a few years ago I started a thread exactly like this one.
Star Wars: brown
ESB: blue
ROTJ: red
I think that we're subconsciously influenced by the ad campaigns for the films, or by color schemes of tie-in products. The blue and red colors no doubt are from this (the novelization for Empire had a blue cover; the Jedi logo was usually in red against black).
The Force Awakens: What would you change and how?
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I don't even know which $#&@^ thread to put this in, so I'm putting it here. Just to have a say.
Just got back from seeing it. I was overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed that so much money and "talent" could be thrown together and all that comes out is a rehash of the OT. I wish people would stop being so impressionable and so apt to get caught up in a frenzy, and wouldn't rush out to see these films, because they're just encouraging these goons to stay cowardly and lazy. There are no Alan Ladd Jr.s in the world anymore, apparently.
The music was INVISIBLE, not remotely memorable, and I don't care if you all start peeing your pants over that statement.
I totally avoided any articles about this film over the past few years, so that when I went in, it would be totally original. IRONY-- I couldn't believe how many scenes were derivative from the past films.
Quick question, how does a bad guy, who's supposed to be the new stand-in wannabe Vader, Get pretty much owned by a soul brutha with no training and a desert scavenger with no training (don't give me that "she's strong with the force" crap), both with absolutely no idea how to use a lightsaber? And this villain clown, who didn't need to wear a mask since he's a horsefaced Marilyn Manson lookalike to start with, is the new ripoff stand-in Emperor's right hand man? What a steaming dumb pile of... well you know. And by the way, I could've delivered an open-hand slap on the side of that dude's face, and he would've stumbled off, crying. Not for one moment was I in any way threatened by him.
Oh, and for those of you too young to know, the evil-superior-master-perched-above-on-a-throne-before-his-henchmen and the silver stormtrooper were brought to you by Battlestar Galactica, 1978.
And when I read that good ol' Larry Kasdan was involved, I told myself, "Well Jeff, that dude has had his dick in his right hand for thirty+ years, wishing he could've killed Han Solo, and it looks like he'll finally get to finish off." Predictable.
The reappearance of the old stars just made it more obvious how far things have fallen. I was pretty sure that I was going to see Carrie Fisher die of old age on camera, but alas. And just as I suspected, Harrison Ford probably only agreed to appear as Han just to get that payday. Hell, it was a payday all around, for Disney, for Ford, for Abrams, for everybody.
Except for me, who wasted $13.50 to lose two hours of my life that I will never get back.
I am done with Star Wars films. During the movie, I accepted the reality that I have hit the age when nothing is as good as it once was. Either that, or this movie SUCKED. I need to stop trying to be optimistic, believing that people can do great things I guess.
My wife said, "I'm sorry." And I said, "For what? My name isn't on that shitpile."