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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Rama on Jul 24, 2006, 10:12:50 AM

Title: Mako dead at 72.
Post by: Rama on Jul 24, 2006, 10:12:50 AM: http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-07-24/#3 (http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-07-24/#3)

You have to scroll down past the parts about Colin Farrell and Kim Cattrall.
Title: Mako dead at 72.
Post by: B E C K on Jul 24, 2006, 12:36:10 PM: LA Times has a good article on him, which is linked over at Toonzone for the interested. I had no idea he had such an impact on the Asian-American acting community. RIP Makoto Iwamatsu.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 24, 2006, 12:48:58 PM: HAHA I LOVE KIM CATTRALL
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 24, 2006, 01:05:05 PM: Hey, respect dead Mako.
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Post by: Merla on Jul 24, 2006, 02:15:52 PM: Oh my god!! NO!! He was the voice of the Uncle of the hot exiled prince in Advatar. :(
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Post by: joe on Jul 24, 2006, 05:32:34 PM: It was the cancellation of Samurai Jack that really killed him.

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What is this, a pun? Do they run a lot of ads during Avatar, or what?
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 24, 2006, 06:12:55 PM: Nope, just a good ol' fashion, turn-of-the-century Rama-style misspell.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 25, 2006, 12:23:06 AM: Tee Hee.... I’m infectious.
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Post by: Merla on Jul 25, 2006, 11:12:43 AM: Quote
It was the cancellation of Samurai Jack that really killed him.

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What is this, a pun? Do they run a lot of ads during Avatar, or what?
DICK! :P
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Post by: Extra Zero on Jul 25, 2006, 10:49:46 PM: What really sucks is that they had just cast him as Splinter in the new TMNT movie... All said, he lived a really long life.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 26, 2006, 12:16:50 AM: Who'll cry for Subotai?
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 26, 2006, 12:29:38 AM: Quote
What really sucks is that they had just cast him as Splinter in the new TMNT movie... All said, he lived a really long life.
Darnit, he hadn't recorded all of his dialogue yet?
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 26, 2006, 01:22:51 AM: From ninjaturtles.com:

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Several people have written in with the tragic news that Makoto "Mako" Iwamatsu passed away this past Saturday. Mako was a revered actor throughout his long career, from playing prominent roles in major feature films to providing voices for numerous animated characters. Mr. Iwamatsu was cast as the voice of Master Splinter for the upcoming computer animated TMNT movie. The major part of his dialog for the Turtles film was recorded, however, the ADR (Additional Dialog Record) was not. ADR recordings are used for any extra lines that writer/director Kevin Munroe might want to add or for retakes of existing recordings. At this time we don't know how they will handle the ADR tasks. Mirage Studios extends our sincere condolences to all friends and family of Mr. Iwamatsu.
Queue the sound-alike, like they do for all those R-rated movies that get broadcast on netwerk teevee. "Yippee-kye-yay, Mr. Falcon." That's right, fake Bruce Willis. Yippee-kye-yay.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 26, 2006, 01:35:24 AM: You know, I seem to faintly remember "calling it", but I have no idea when or where.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 26, 2006, 03:22:48 AM: I believe it was in the thread about Pat Morita's passing. (I tried to find it, but no luck.) I think you said something along the lines of "Who is next? Mako!" and you were right.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 26, 2006, 12:53:03 PM: I remember that and I can't find it either. Maybe it got eaten by the post monster. It also could've been pruned out this one time where I was snipping short threads. I recall feeling a little guilty about typing that out after I did it and may have even edited it out because I was afraid of jinxing Mako.

That being said, I'd like to predict the next Asian to go: Tsai Chin, known for such roles as Madame Lu ("The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer"), Grandma Wu ("Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior"), Chairman Xu ("Red Corner") and Madame Wu (in the upcoming "Casino Royale"). If she croaks in the next eight months, then I shall devote more time to understanding my dark powers, sometimes with hilarious results.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 26, 2006, 07:00:00 PM: I still remember saying that I'd be sad when Rerun died, and like 3 months later he was croaksville.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Jul 26, 2006, 08:31:39 PM: Christ? Who next, Doug?

*waits*
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Post by: IDE on Jul 26, 2006, 09:41:04 PM: I miss the rerun shuffle
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Post by: Rama on Jul 26, 2006, 11:50:18 PM: Quote
Christ? Who next, Doug?

*waits*
Oh don't you know that would be too easy.
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Post by: Merla on Jul 27, 2006, 09:58:43 AM: Hey he hasn't been around lately. Maybe he is all ready dead.
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 27, 2006, 12:38:36 PM: I was hoping no one would bring this up. Don't jinx it! He's probably in Arizona, bitching to his uncle that he doesn't have an internet connection.
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Post by: IDE on Jul 27, 2006, 01:49:02 PM: He'll return reprogrammed as a right wing devout christian
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 27, 2006, 02:05:48 PM: Ha ha, I read that as "right wing devout chicken". I'm hungry.
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Post by: IDE on Jul 27, 2006, 04:44:43 PM: Someone posted an animated .gif of me having sex on the Ass-spank! (Still hungry?)
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Post by: Rama on Jul 28, 2006, 12:15:25 AM: Were you having sex with a chicken?
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 28, 2006, 12:17:42 AM: Fool, by 4:44, I had long since prepared and devoured my meal.
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Post by: Rama on Jul 28, 2006, 12:52:54 AM: Quote
Madame Wu (in the upcoming "Casino Royale")

Totally missed this the first time through. Is Madame Wu going to be a large part? Because I don't remember there being a character of that name in the book. Not that I'd be surprised of they changed a lot. I mean they changed almost everything in movies like Moonraker, The Spy Who Loves Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy. (The short story Octopussy has Bond in a more of a cameo apperance, and While the movie The Living Daylights is almost completely made up...the first half hour is pretty much the short story it is based on, so I let it slide.) And I have to admit that Royale wouldn't make a very exciting movie, but I was really hoping for a Bond reboot where they would be told in their proper order and more true to the novels. I figured it was the only way I was going to get a decent remake of Moonraker (Favorite Bond book, least fav. Bond film.)
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 28, 2006, 12:58:52 AM: Dude, I don't know. I just snagged it from her list of credits, I don't give a rat's ass about that diseased man-whore. :lol:
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Post by: Rama on Jul 28, 2006, 01:01:57 AM: Bah.....BAH I SAY!

You know he isn't such a man-whore in the books. Although he is a racist and homophobe, but who wasn't in the 50s? But I'm surprised he slept around as much as he after the torture he took in Royale. *Shudder*
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Post by: B E C K on Jul 28, 2006, 01:55:58 AM: Well it's obvious why they do that for the movies-- to introduce fresh tail and all, but movie-Bond is all I know. I have to know: who's your favorite Bond?
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Post by: Rama on Jul 28, 2006, 03:21:16 AM: Quote
Well it's obvious why they do that for the movies-- to introduce fresh tail and all, but movie-Bond is all I know.

It does make sense Royale's case, but Moonraker was a very exciting book and would make a great movie. Instead they tried to cash in on the St*r WarzzZZ craze and totally butchered it. And then you have films like "Live and Let Die" and "From Russia with Love." which are much slower, but are pretty faithful to the novels.

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I have to know: who's your favorite Bond?

Brosnan. But there is a lot of bias behind that, as Goldeneye was the first Bond flick I saw in the theater. Goldeneye is also my favorite Bond film. (A buddy of mine swears up and down that Moore is the best and the Moonraker is best film for the same reason.) But I really do think he looks the look based on the book description of Bond.

After Brosnan, it's Dalton, Connery, Lazenby, and then Moore. I'll have to wait and see on Daniel Craig, but I know he is the most Un-Bond in appearance since Moore.