Zekiran_Immortal
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Happy birthday!
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I'd hold off on slamming some of them, but even given what I just wrote a minute ago in the Adaptations thread... There ARE some things that just do not need remaking. Can they be called 'adaptations'? Or does the word remake simply conjure something entirely different at times? I dunno.
I loved Westworld. Robots terrify me. Yul Brynner was smashing in that role, and indeed echoes of it - only echoes though - were in the Terminator movies.
hahahaha @ Betty White as God though. That would rule.
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Obviously each adaptation must be taken separately - there's no blanket of "all adaptations are bad because they are adapted".
F'erinstance, I just read Wendy Pini's future-sci-fi-yaoi adaptation of Poe's Masque of the Red Death.
It was *fantastic*. She put a lot of effort into the setting, the back story, and finally delivering the dramatic last blows to what was a very simply written short story from another era.
I am one who will take whatever comes for its face value though: I love both the Harry Potter movies, AND the books - though most folks will rabidly defend the books as being "better". There is no "better" - they're both fantastic and wonderful, and well worth reading AND watching.
The originally made prequel to Silence of the Lambs, horrible on film ONLY because it left out half the book. Was it horrible in and of itself? No.
Simply being an adaptation doesn't make something bad.
Would you say, then, that Chuck Jones' version of opera in What's Opera Doc is bad? It adapts several operas (and is a well-meant parody) and for many kids, was the only time classical and operatic music was part of their lives.
Adaptation is artistry, and some people are better at art than others. I'd say leave it at that. Take each project for what it can be, and if it's terrible on its own, it's not necessarily because it's an adaptation - it's because it's just plain bad. -
Been this way for quite some time now, but there were bugs along the way.
I generally keep mine organized from highest level to lowest. Though whenever I go to another server, the order still gets messed up from time to time. -
Happy birthday!
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What's odd was that years before then, in the Alf Tales cartoon episode of Wizard of Oz, the line, "what are you doing?" "hammering" "oh. I thought you were choking a chicken" appeared. O.o I was all... O.o!
The censoring was awful ... I'm just glad that these incredible shows will finally be seen
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Quote:On regular network tv, Reboot wasn't aired after season 2. It may very well have been aired on cable, but it never made it back onto network viewing after the issues with Hex and such. Hell even I was a bit shocked at the implications of her 'relationship' with Megabyte, as well as the whole episode with her losing it and leaving Bob a bit shaken. My memory may be a bit wobbly on which episodes are in what season, but to my recollection there were none after the end of season 2 that I could watch conventionally.Originally Posted by Nericus
Scratches head.....ok I remember the censorship being a bit heavy handed on this series (and the 90's spiderman cartoon), but I don't recall any episodes that were unaired in the US, unless they were aired later in syndication. Which eps were they?
As for what took so long getting these DVD's out, I think Season 1 and 2's distribution rights were really snagged after the VHS releases, hence only the Season 3 DVD's and Daemon War/My Two Bobs DVD, then Mainframe got bought up and is now Rainmaker, then of course comes all the royalty issues and remastering.
Still a shame that they couldn't produce the episodes meant to wrap up the My Two Bobs cliffhanger and Tony Jay the voice of Megabyte is long gone, sad to say. Also the voice actor of Captain Capacitor is also gone, hence no appearance by him in Daemon War and Two Bobs. Too bad too, he was one of my favorites. -
I was just now playing a mod for the Half Life 2 episode 1 engine, and sure enough in a "tv broadcast" in the game, the Hero side fanfare was the music for it.
Shame the mod stinks, but hey. Recognized the music so it most certainly is merely licensed. -
Man, about time. I own a video tape of a couple episodes that never got aired in the US, but that was from years and years ago. :/ I just loved this series. It was way ahead of its time, in so many ways. It's a darn shame that the censors in the US couldn't bear the thought of an actual plot line in a "kids show".
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Am I late to the party? o.o
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Me too, at least they got the full list of us
I only hope there were plenty of cards coming to them, somehow!
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Awww OCHO!
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Quote:As Furio says, they did two tunes on the original soundtrack, but more than that, this particular song is very, very much 1982-ish in its impact. For anyone (raises hand) who was there as a teen in the early 80s and listened to ANY amount of radio (and in arcades, that would be "all of us") Journey was there as a backbone of the era.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I still don't grasp the significance of this.
Plus, "Separate Ways" is kind of a theme here in this movie. Sorta nice they did that. And Sweet Dreams which was playing moments later, kind of hitting the other side of the musical spectrum of "listenable Rock" of the era.
It really was like stepping into a world which had stopped in 1983-5 and had the dust taken off it. They did a great job of spinning their world straight off from the one they built in the original. Action figures, modern technology, but very clearly they'd gone into the Tron-verse, not "our" universe.
And I have to say I liked the 3d. Anyone who's read my posts about the subject knows that I'm rather hard to persuade to like the stuff, but in this case it was subtle and well done. It wasn't all IN YOUR FACE! like the 3-d advertisements before the movie. Those were just plain tacky. -
Tight-knit. If that doesn't count as one word, then "home" for me too.
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/e partyfavornoise
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Transport to the beginning. I would be able to grow and learn. Might not be fully human by the end of time, but I wouldn't care. I would take immortality laced with bouts of boredom and suicidal inclinations every few thousand years, over 'an hour', any day of the week.
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One of San Diego's first small-time arcades opened up about 1 block from my house, and then another one (different I think) opened about a block away from my high school.
You can guess where I spent most of my time on the way to and from school. (well, from anyway since they didn't open until I'd have been at school.)
The whole scene in Tron though was SUCH a great flashback.
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Now I just wish I knew whether a friend of mine has Steam or not, because I'd so scrounge up that 10 bucks just so he can't complain about not being in COH any more
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The only times I've ever seen them back on Protector is when Freedom is in the red on login. Seriously, just ignorespammer them. And, obviously tell your friends to ignorespammer them too. That's what global channels are for, eh?
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Anyone else remember when there were some Titans and other such Malta (I believe it was? pretty sure) stuck just under the streets of Peregrine? About 3 blocks north-east of the ferry, where the residential blocks start, they'd pin people down and be completely untargetable. very annoying.
Though this is pretty funny. I thought, "time for some pbaoes!" -
Awww happy happy Be, wherever you are
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Happy birthday to you!
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Seriously. This year can kiss my fat butt.
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Heh my tree is kind of occupying the space in front of where I'd usually had the cards, so mine are just all over the place hehe.
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LOLOLOL... slippers.