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a) Come on. You know what a "WW2-era" description means. It means that the backdrop is about a war that is fought for Good reasons against a truly despicable foe, with a loss meaning genocide. To retort that the book happened to be published in 1959 is completely argumentative and ignoring the...

you guys are quibbling over .... small things, to say the least. unequivocably, Dark Jezter is right - it HAS become fashionable to bash Lucas, and say the same tired things about the prequels. Anyone who doesn't agree has not been alive the past few years. And this quote was VERY funny:

WHAT?!? Dude, you have gone off the deep end here. WHO CARES if the movie actually had the balls to SHOW SOMETHING in the scene where the ring is destroyed? Would you ACTUALLY have rather the film NOT show the cause of Gollum falling off? Do you realize how many millions of people would have...

nikolai - you are concentrating on the minutia, and missing the point. Your "summary" just 'happens to' bring up elements that were not in the theatrical releases of the movie. Really - WHO CARES about the minutia of Tolkein's plot other than fanboys? It's not essential to the plot what...

True, buzzard. There are those people who so enjoy the book's themes, that they can't abide what Paul Verhoeven did with the film version. They don't like the changes made from a WW2 era book, to update it with modern-day sensibilities (and with hindsight). They don't like seeing the bugs as...

Also, re: Powered Armor suits. IIRC, they mocked up some suits, and very quickly realized they wouldn't work on screen. A rule of filmmaking is "never cover up the actors faces. It gets in the way of emoting, and the audience loses sympathy/understanding of the characters."

This "review" makes no sense. What does Michael Ironsides "saving everyon'e ass" have to do with it? There was no deus ex machina that I remember in the film. All troop movements were within the realm of believability, including *gasp* Michael Ironside's character. And you went to see Starship...

Hmmmm.... we're close to caught up on this, Umbran, but one thing: KenM said this- then you said: Then I pointed out how you were omitted certain facts in your reply, instead solely concentrating on what you wanted to reply to. (In other words, you made an explanatory post that purposely...

Mentioning Starship Troopers in the same sentence... nay, the same _paragraph_ as Battlefield Earth makes me believe that you didn't see the same movie I (and many other people) did. Most people I know of (other than slavish Heinlein fanboys who can't abide ANY variation from a book they love)...

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. And I am so sick of this Tolkein-fanboy opinion that _I_ could puke. I have a question for anyone who thinks that PJ did a bad job in adapting an unfilmable, meandering, mistake-ridden book like LotR: Do you really think that JRR Tolkein didn't make...

This seems to me to be rather obvious. Why would anyone bother wasting time denying this very obvious generalization? Who cares about the exceptional case, or a flavor choice? The fact of the matter is, and HAS been for years, that 3E armor is badly designed, with obvious optimal choices.

Exactly my thoughts, as well. But I also caught some of what Sigil was mentioning, too (somewhat). That the story succeeded despite not doing it "right". I think that featurette (one of the best featurettes I've ever seen, bar none, BTW) did a fantastic job of showing how the original work did...

Tory and I will leave a message for Barry thru ICQ. If I'm reading you 2 right (and from our mutual interest in the Underworld game that's recruiting), can I leap to the conclusion that we may have 4 players interested in starting up regularly again? If so, that sounds great to me and Tory...

I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark and guess you meant "god"?

re: that link WOW. seasong put an amazing amount of work in that first week or so. 30 times more than what he had to put in to finish the game. Why would he flake out when he was so close to finishing the best Game of Death ever run? Especially after putting in so much good work to get it...

I see that Kitana has started up her In-Character game again. Kitana - I remember you mentioned before that you were going to decide what games you'd keep playing and DM'ing. Could you have time for this game to keep? I see Festy around, but I don't know where Shalimar or Catulle or Helen are...

I'll ask my wife if she'd be interested. She's a sucker for Vampires. (ugh - just noticed the pun) Hello, by the way - What online games have you run? What style of game do you prefer? Posting speed, combat, etc?

ooc: I haven't been completely 'in' to playing online recently, but it fortunately looks like I haven't missed much. yayy! But how many people are playing anymore?

You, my friend, have a wonderful treasure ahead of you to uncover. :D I'm jealous.

Admins - what are your thoughts on this problem? It's after the holidays....