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QUOTE (PuppetKing2112 @ Jun 9 2006, 06:45 PM) QUOTE (Nunavuter @ Jun 7 2006, 09:11 PM) Puppetking, I am convinced that EMI is about as good a marketer as Anthem. You and I both know what that means. Nah...at least Feedback debuted at like #19 in the US. Aerial was what, 48? Well, yes. But Aerial has sold a million copies. It hit 300,000 copies in a week. VT is where now? This isn't meant as a pissing contest. It is just an illustration of how niche acts that get little support try to survive in the current music industry.

That would be about 1986 or 1987... I like this one. http://gaffa.org/wow/k157.jpg

Video games would fit the computer forum, with just a slight change to the subhead. The computer forum could be a general electronic culture forum, and new wackiness could ensue.

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hey, it isn't like I a downloading the second season online...

Krugs? That's the brilliant name they came up with for their bad guys? They look like the bastard offspring of orcs and Skeletor from the 1980s He-Man cartoon. Well, I guess we should expect a few of these sword and sorcery flicks.

I was going to start a thread on this one, but wisely searched the forum first. Penn & teller are outstanding illusionists, and are continuing in the tradition of Harry Houdini and The Amazing Randi in debunking charletans and rip-off artists. When they turn their gaze toward subjects outside the realm of the supernatural, alternative medicine and other areas where their experience as showmen and illusionists serves well, they can get a tad sloppy in their aim to critique. One example is the PETA episode. I was with them as they exposed the rather crazed philosophy of many in that organization (which seems to think hurting people is OK, because people don't count.) They lost me with that scene where Teller was eating chicken while video footage of chickens being debeaked and beheaded on a conveyor belt were shown behind. The idea was 'who cares? They're just chickens." Well, I think that humane treatment of the animals we kill for food (and leather, and fur) is an important goal. Being desensitized to the suffering of a creature just because it's a farm animal perverts the person who stops caring. Unnecessary suffering should always be prevented. I was disappointed that Penn & Teller didn't draw that distinction. Their treatment of 9-11 conspiracy nuts was right on the money. As Penn asks in the episode: "19 a*****s conspired to hijack airplanes and throw them into buildings, killing thousands of people live on TV. This wasn't enough of a conspiracy for the conspiracy ****s?"

Geddy's best hairdo is the one he has now. He finally found his "look." I'm not sure about the other two. Neil and Alex probably looked their best around RTB.

In addition to the score, Marlon Brando footage will be used for the Jor-El scenes. It is indeed a continuation of the reeve films. Come to think of it, this must be the first time in movie history a long-dead actor has been cast in the role of a long-dead character.

If the new movie can do for Superman what Batman Begins did for its character, then it is worth doing. Some of the Superman backstory will be revisited in this one, as is necessary since there hasn't been a Superman movie in 20 years. As was mentioned above, this movie continues the Christopher Reeve films, rather than re-launching the "franchise." It is set after Superman II, and just ignores the other two that followed. I'll never be the kid I was watching the original ones, but with some luck they just might rekindle some of the wonder. Just a bit of it... I couldn't imagine Superman without the John William's score.

These three have Canadian twists. 1. Andrew Bonar Law, the prime minister of Great Britain from 1922-1923, was the only prime minister of that country who was not born in Britain. He was a Canadian from New Brunswick. 2. The southern parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan were part of the United States for 15 years. The area was included in the Louisiana Purchase prior to the treaty that established the 49th parallel as the boundry in 1818. 3. Santa Claus is Canadian, or at least he lives in Canada. Children can send letters to his address and receive a hand-written reply. In 2004, Santa replied to more than 1,073,000 letters, in 27 languages, plus braille, from children around the world. (I like his postal code.) Santa Claus North Pole, Canada H0H 0H0

QUOTE (Arleen2112 @ Jun 9 2006, 09:34 PM) 2. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. Gotta call you on this one. Chilver: a female lamb. Hirple: a stumbling walk. As for "orange," some suggest "sporange." This is the name of the sac that contains spores in plants that reproduce by spores. However, the word is usually pronounced "spore-rang" or "spur-ranjj" so it is usually disqualified. "Month" indeed has no rhyme.

1. 60 Minutes is the only TV show with no theme music 2. The secret formula of Coca Cola was revealed to rabbis so that it could be certified as kosher. 3. The name 'Idaho' has no meaning. It was made up by a lobbyist named George M. Willing in 1860. Furthermore, the name Idaho was originally going to be used for what is now Colorado. Later the name was recycled for a new territory created in the Northwest.

1) The largest (legal) export of Jamaica is bauxite, used in making aluminum. 2) The only Star Trek series to use real film footage taken on another planet was Enterprise, which used footage of the Sojourner probe on Mars. 3) If it was just discovered now, chocolate would be classified as a mild narcotic.

Puppetking, I am convinced that EMI is about as good a marketer as Anthem. You and I both know what that means.

Have you ever acquired other albums CT? Get HoL and The Dreaming for crissake. You'll kik yourself for having not earlier. chop chop.

In the 1970s and early 80s, DC had its Superman movies, and later, in the 1980s and early 90s the Tim Burton Batman movies. Other than Spiderman, the Marvel comics have been flat on the big screen. The Hulk movie was bad. The Fantastic Four movie...wtf? yeah. So far, it is a wash.

Deckard's photo collection, the unicorn dream (and Gaff's origami hint) and other clues, the opening scene between the chief and Deckard hint at his design: Deckard hates his job, and does not enjoy killing (a safety feature). Deckard's memory implants allow him to believe he is semi-retired, so that he is available to be called back into action when needed, but is otherwise a reluctant cop. He is not equipped with extreme strength, but rather an uncanny ability to track down replicants and the ability to take a great deal of physical abuse. The Chief and Gaff likely know what he is, but like Rachel, Deckard is an experimental model. Deckard may have been scheduled for "retirement" after this job (for all we know he has no actual history of doing it before.) Because he flees with Rachel, this is unclear. However, Gaff might have been scheduled to retire Deckard, but changed his mind because he liked and respected Deckard.

The film looks tasefully done. A quick search at IMDB reveals many films referencing 9-11, the earliest ones dating to 2002. A full feature film was bound to be attempted. My main concern is the use of "a true story" in the promotional material. Even the best efforts to maintain accuracy can fall short in a feature film, with minor inaccuracies and other problems. For this reason I would prefer that the main characters be fictionalized, as well as for preventing any two persons to be singled out for heroic portrayals among the many who died that day.

There was another megalodon-themed movie a few years ago (Shark Attack III: Megalodon) that was terrible. Without top-notch effects, a giant shark just doesn't come across very well. Anyone who has read Jaws by Peter Benchley will recall that the shark in the book was a megalodon rather than a great white. Thankfully, these bastards have been extinct for about a million years (although some finds are claimed to be younger than this.) Fossilized whales are sometimes found with megalodon teeth embedded in them. These guys definitely specialized in hunting whales. (That would be a pretty spectacular scene. Imagine a boatload of whale watchers suddenly see a meg take out a humpback whale.)

Did you go to Frightenfest last year? It was the first convention of fans... just like RushCon in its first year. But there was more booze

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