The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: The D on Jun 10, 2005, 03:01:03 PM
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All right, after seeing the majority of this show I believe I can safely review it. G4 finally decided to play the rest of it after showing us Ep 1-13 and then stopping, then 6 months later showing us Ep. 14-21, and now finally the rest. Well, almost. They haven't played the last 2 episodes and decided to start up Gungrave again in the middle of the series. Good job G4, keep on fucking up cable tv.
I've noticed a trend with TV shows. The first episode is usually action packed and the plot has nothing to do with the rest of the show. This is to try to get people interested in the show. After that, the show slows down to do character development bullshit. Supposedly, it's supposed to speed up to a exciting climax by the end of the show, right?
Well, ROD Tv starts out action packed with a bunch of episodes that seem irrelevant to the main plot. But unfortunatly, it doesn't pick up pace but rather stagnates in irrelevance for the rest of the series. Maybe this is supposed to be shoujo with an emphasis on female friendship, because I missed the action and purpose.
Sure, it started out good while the series emphasized on the three main characters and their lesbian friend Nenene, but then at Ep. 14, they had to bring characters from the OVA. Now Yomiko (The Paper) and Nancy (Miss Deep) are hiding out in a library, Drake is working as a mercenary, and their former employer at the British Library, John Christopher (Joker) is now the main villian.
And what is he trying to do as the main villian? Ressurect some stupid old man called Mr. Gentleman. That's one of the worst part of this series. Somehow, we're supposed to care that this Mr. Gentleman will be ressurected, because he's the "reason for the UK's existance" and "He's the next leader of the world, who will bring peace and usher in a new era." Um, I'm sorry, explain to me why the ressurection of this Mr. Gentlemen is supposed be a bad thing because I FUCKING MISSED IT. The main villian's plan isn't to destory the world's armies or kill humanity or take over the world with an iron fist, it's to RESSURECT AN OLD FUCKING HAG WITH BOOKS BECAUSE HE'S SOMEHOW FUCKING IMPORTANT!
Yep. Well, I really don't care. The last 13 episodes suck anyway. All the good guys do is run, get caught, run again, get caught again, run again, get caught again, ect. And the several times they capture Mr Joker and hold him hostage, they eventually have to let him go. Why don't they just slice his head off with paper and save the world?
Other people give this series an average of 8 out of 10. I disagree. I have never been so bored with a plot since Phantom Menace. A 6 out of 10 is better and I'm being generous because the first 13 episodes of this series was actually pretty good. Then they had to fuck it up by making it connect with the OVA.
Edit: Oh, and Anita whines too fucking much. Although this might be because of the dubbing.
Now I'm going to go back to watching Gungrave because Harry just shot Brandon 20 times on an elevator, then kicked his body out the window. Kickass.
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I miss Paper's tig ol' bitties.
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I miss Paper's tig ol' bitties.
I think I remember the OVA, was pretty good.
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You'r e a moron, Doug. I hope one day George Lucas has you killed and served to him in duck sauce.
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I think it's funny Lucas went from being C3PO to Jabba.
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You'r e a moron, Doug. I hope one day George Lucas has you killed and served to him in duck sauce.
I love duck sauce!
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On the panfried dumplings? Delicious.
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I eat it with shrimp, pork, or chicken.
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Dert likes R.O.D?
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Who doesnt?
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Doug, apparently.
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Convicted Sex Offenders don't count.
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What, seriously? I don't follow Dougs of Our Lives, so I'm not really up to date on Doug lore.
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Well I dunno if he's been convicted.... I may have missed a few episodes. My eyes really were on Survivor during sweeps.
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I prefered Lost.
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I was trying to make a difference through the artistic expression of hardcore music when used to promote liberation and freedom for all living creatures. Except humans, all Vegans hate humans.
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I prefered Lost.
I saw that too. Wed, Thurs, no conflicts.
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*shrugs* Im just saying what I prefered.
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Nobody cares, Anakin. You damn homo.
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I don't even know what the fuck ROD is.
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Why does he always have to make such long post?
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Nobody cares, Anakin. You damn homo.
...I'll make you blow up your planet.
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I don't even know what the fuck ROD is.
werd
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ROD = Read Or Die. An anime series.
...I'll make you blow up your planet.
As long as you take both Dennis Franz AND Jimmy Smits.
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NEVER! *breathes heavily*
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Oh boy! Could it finally be the heart attack I've been hoping and dreaming for!?
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o.o;
No. I was just surprised.
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Consarnit!
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Is your voice manipulator malfunctioning?
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No, dagnabit!
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You got the hick texan model. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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You've never even heard a hick Texan before, have you? Turn on "King of the Hill" sometime. No one says "consarnit". That's "crotchety old people" speak.
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Cotton says it, and he's a Texan.
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Cotton says it, and he's a Texan.
You wouldn't know a Texan from your mom if it were wearing a big ten-gallon hat and leather boots with spurs.
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Cotton says it, and he's a Texan.
You wouldn't know a Texan from your mom if it were wearing a big ten-gallon hat and leather boots with spurs.
I run in my room when I see that, because that preceeds the bad sounds.
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Cotton says it, and he's a Texan.
You wouldn't know a Texan from your mom if it were wearing a big ten-gallon hat and leather boots with spurs.
I run in my room when I see that, because that preceeds the bad sounds.
LOUD NOISES!! LOUD NOISES!!
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>.< LALALALALALA!!!
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Cotton says it, and he's a Texan.
That's the point! He doesn't say it because he's Texan, he says it because he's old and crotchety.
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What does one have to do with the other?
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Forget it. It's obviously useless to continue this.
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It's obvious to me that ONLY Texans are intellegent.
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No ROD. Samurai Champloo is my current must-see. :)
And Paranioa Agent, even though some of the characters are beyond disgusting. The guy last week made Carl look hot. :x
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It's obvious to me that ONLY Texans are intellegent.
So what state are you from, so I can make a statement that 'people from ______ can't SPELL!'.
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It's obvious to me that ONLY Texans are intellegent.
So what state are you from, so I can make a statement that 'people from ______ can't SPELL!'.
He's in Texas, too. Way to miss an obvious joke. You fail it.
No ROD. Samurai Champloo is my current must-see.
And Paranioa Agent, even though some of the characters are beyond disgusting. The guy last week made Carl look hot.
Yeah, same here. I only really watch SC for JIn though. <3 PA is too weird to pass up.
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back on topic, am I the only one who didn't like ROD TV?
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I liked the OAV. I was ready for something that wouldn't make me quasi-suicidal after Wolf's Rain.
Yeah, same here. I only really watch SC for JIn though.
Hee - the boy's uke through & through. :P But seriously, wait until Ep. 26. You may want some screencaps. ;)
I can not get into s-CRY-ed at all. I've fallen asleep every week.
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I could go for another season of Champloo. I liked all of it, but I feel like only a handful of episodes truly realized the concept they were aiming for.
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On the subject of PA, what's with the "Lil Slugger" moniker? What's wrong with the original "Shonen Bat", which I understand Geneon uses in the subtitles? I thought we were past all the "send you to another dimension" horseshit in dubbed anime. <_<
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Blame evangelicals. They can't raise their own kids, do they dumb down everything else to compensate. Fuckas.
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Are we talking about CN/AS here, that I stopped watching ages ago?
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American censorship.
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You don't comprehend dark helmet, I mean when they're talking about SC and PA and sCRYed do they mean it's on CN? I don't know as I don't watch it anymore, dubs annoy me to no end as it seems every young female on anime becomes a screechy whiny bitch.
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Doug must have never have seen a female character speaking on-screen in a Japanese dub.
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Not just the women. Japanese Goku could shattered glass. :blink:
And yes, Doug, this is Saturday AS we're talking about.
Silly as it is considering ADV was born here, Houston cable doesn't get Anime Network. Don't know if anyone else here does. I watch Action Channel on Fridays, AZN TV & CN as time & work permit - G4's anime is on at 12:30 AM weeknights here. I don't tape stuff anymore because I never get around to watching it. :joe:
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Well the other reason is because for some reason I don't get CN anymore. Stupid cable company.
Speaking of G4, they're pissing me off in showing anime. They show the first 13 episodes, then stop, replay the first episodes a few times, then start showing episodes 14-20 or so, and then stop at 20 and reshow 14-20, then show episodes 1-20, rinse lather repeat. Then after a while they show Episodes 21-24, then they show 13-24, then 1-24, ect.
Sometimes they stop in the middle of a run to go back several episodes and start from there. Or they randomly decide to start from the beginning again. Even CN's not that stupid.
The dumbasses can't even show a series coherently anymore. I guess this is proof G4 is run by monkeys.
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Not just the women. Japanese Goku could shattered glass. :blink:
And yes, Doug, this is Saturday AS we're talking about.
Silly as it is considering ADV was born here, Houston cable doesn't get Anime Network. Don't know if anyone else here does. I watch Action Channel on Fridays, AZN TV & CN as time & work permit - G4's anime is on at 12:30 AM weeknights here. I don't tape stuff anymore because I never get around to watching it. :joe:
That bitch gets on my nerves! :lol:
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Samurai Champloo really isnt as fun to watch as I thought it would be.
I'm digging Paranoia Agent. I just wish I knew what was going on.
S-cry-eD shouldn't be on Adult Swim.
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It starts picking up in episode 8, Toe. They had to get Jin & Mugen past the pissing contest point. Slows again for episode 12 so don't let that one throw you.
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I didn't mind 12, and I hate recaps. I still think they're worthless in any series, but this one was strangely bearable. Maybe they won't even air it, being a recap and all.
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S-cry-eD shouldn't be on Adult Swim.
It shouldn't be on, period.
Why isn't Zeta on AS, or X dubbed and on AS?
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You should ask Jerry Chu, I'll bet he knows!
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That bastard leaks like a fucking siv. Still, he gave me a free Scrapped Princess T-Shirt at Anime Boston. THANK YOU MAHQ!
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Do you all know anything about these cartoons? I fear Sigma 6 is gonna be worse than those CGI movies
G.I Joe Sigma 6
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Marvel Babies
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Marvel Babies? FTW!? The X Babies would carve them up like a buncha turkeys.
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Sigma 6 looks shit-hot! Can't wait to see it in motion!
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Yeah, why ya worried, looks pretty neat, unless of course they're worrying to much about making it look anime, and not enough about storyline and shit.
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You mean like Teen Titans?
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Have you seen the character designs for the Fantastic Four cartoon? Also shit-hot!
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http://rangerboard.com/gallery/albums/Lice...05/DSC00687.JPG (http://rangerboard.com/gallery/albums/Licensing%202005/DSC00687.JPG)
Maybe if they colored the costumes right.
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Wow. That is so gay, it makes the movie look good.
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No doubt Sam's absense means he's in line for the F4 movie & Jessica Alba. :P
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that poor bastard. :o
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http://rangerboard.com/gallery/albums/Lice...05/DSC00687.JPG (http://rangerboard.com/gallery/albums/Licensing%202005/DSC00687.JPG)
Maybe if they colored the costumes right.
Jesus, just because Thing's fuckin' orange doesn't mean it has to be worked into the costumes. Blech.
I can not get into s-CRY-ed at all. I've fallen asleep every week.
Thank you! That show is raaaaaa~~~~~ Xp That it looks all Gundam Seedy helps nothing. And dammit, it's jerking around with PA's timeslot. Now I have to kill an extra half an hour before PA.
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That's why they stuck it in the middle of SC & PA, trying to force people to watch it. :angry: I set the alarm after SC anyway in case Inuyasha is a snoozer. :P
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I have one of the Dish intergrated DVR thingies now, so I can set a timer to record it and then watch it later. I wish PA would subtitle the signs and stuff. People are staring at stuff in shock and I don't know why. And why did Futurama leave and then come back?
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I think Futurama is their token basic show. Kind of like 99% of restaurants having hamburgers.
Allegedly, PA will have the subtitles going this week, but that was the word last week. It's a favorite gripe at Toonzone.
Thought about getting DVR, but it's the same problem with tapes: I forget to watch it later. Besides, I have fun dreams when I fall asleep to anime. Sunday morning I dreamed I was riding bitch on a motorcycle with Lupin & we went through a plate glass window. :P
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I dunno about you but me and tapes, if I don't watch it, I end up losing it or needing the space for something else. And I have loads of tapes to sort through, some of them with five and half hours of junk and a half-hour of treasure stuck in the middle. I could always copy them onto a tape all-together, but the quality could be vastly degraded because I record in EP/SLP. It's so much easier to scroll through the DVR and find what you need as oppose to shifting through tapes. And it's so easy to program. It's a relief to be free of the headache of programming a VCR and I'm one of those people who can actually program a VCR. If I want to transfer anything to a tape later, I can do that, too. I've had it for less than a month, and I highly recommend it.
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And I have loads of tapes to sort through, some of them with five and half hours of junk and a half-hour of treasure stuck in the middle.
Tell me about it. We could build a room addition with tapes like that. I even have a Beta tape full of Battle of the Planets. But that's good stuff to know, Nur. We'll give DVR some serious thought when hockey season starts, assuming there is one. <_< I'm tired of paying $150 for the NHL package & still having to choose between games.
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Wh-what? Explain how that works and why you have to choose one.
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With the NHL package, we get feeds for all the games on a particular night, each on a different sports channel. Usually at least two will be at the same time or overlapping, so we can pick one and tape the other (and never get around to watching it) or have different games on & run back & forth from the living room to the bedroom. Lazy as it sounds, I think having DVR just a remote button away will inspire us to actually watch what we record.
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That damn DVR things confuses the heck out of me. Nuri seems to really taken a liking to it.
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Oh I see. Here, as long as no one's watching in the bedroom, I can record from the signal there (using the same remote as I use to watch TV in the living room) and watch in the living room. Otherwise, if someone else wants to watch TV I'm stuck watching what I record.
That damn DVR things confuses the heck out of me.
And for that I'm glad, because if you knew how to use it, I'd have to share some of the 90+ hours of recording space. =P
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I checked the logs for orders today. NO VHSs. None-ity none.
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My Beta tape will be like a wax cylinder from an Edison gramaphone some day. :)
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Along with your ABBA records.
Poor Fernado.
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I checked the logs for orders today. NO VHSs. None-ity none.
I thought BB had already gone the all-disc route.
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Pretty much just now. It also never stocks Troma. Viacom, BB's parent company, refuses to deal with Troma.
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Along with your ABBA records.
Poor Fernado.
Fernando
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Yeah, you tell those sweds!
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Double post
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Stupid post.
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No Troma? WTF?
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What the hell...
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Looks like the legions of Blockbuster customers must go elsewhere to get their fill of such classic hits like "Buttcrack", "Actium Maximus: War of the Alien Dinosaurs", "Surf Nazis Must Die", "Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters", "Fatty Drives the Bus", "I Spit On Your Corpse", "Killer Condom", and "Tales from the Crapper".
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I still can't believe the Toxic Avenger got his own cartoon.
Of course so did Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
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And Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ended with the bad guy winning! How Cool was THAT?
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I have never seen that movie. I remember some of the cartoon theme song though. "Tomatoes! Tomatoes! TOMATOES!"
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NEVER SEE THAT MOVIE. EVER. STRIKE FROM YOUR MIND THAT IT EVEN EXISTS BECAUSE IT DOES NOT. IT IS A BLACK HOLE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY, A MERE ILLUSION THAT WILL NEVER BLACKEN YOUR VIEW LEST YOUR MIND FALTER AND BE CRUSHED UNDER IT'S IMMENSE WEIGHT OF EVIL.
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Crazy? Is that you?
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YES. CRAZY BECAUSE I HAVE LOOKED UNTO THE HORROR THAT IS ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES THE MOVIE AND MY MIND IS NOW IN SHAMBLES. AND THE MOVIE BROKE MY KEYBOARD TOO.
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Now you're just making me WANT to see it. It's like a forbidden fruit, litteraly.
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DO NOT BITE. BY ALL THAT IS ILLUMINATED BY THE GLOW OF QUALITY AND HIGH STANDARDS, DO NOT BITE INTO THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT THAT GLOWS WITH THE DARKNESS OF EVIL!
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Wonder if Blockbuster has it.....Hmmmmmmm
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NO! IT WILL CONSUME YOUR SOUL! DO NOT BE TEMPTED BY THE SINISTER SERPENT OF THE GARDEN KNOWN AS BLOCKBUSTER!
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You're kinda making me curious as well. I won't pay to see it though.
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I never rent anymore. Most DVDs can be found really cheap.
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You could probally find it at Wal-Mart or something for a dollar or something. I actually enjoyed it in the same way I enjoyed 'Them,' and 'The Birds,' and 'The Day the World Stayed Still."
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I like the cheesy old Hammer horror films with Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing. You can find compilations with 2-3 on a disc for $9.99.
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I remeber seeing the name Peter Cushing in the original St*r WarzzZZ credits. Christopher Lee I know has reputation for being in hundreds of movies but I can only name like 2. :blink:
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That's because we're not Brittish.
plus, Alec Guiness was gay.
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And how!
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He had group sex in male bathhouses in India, and beat his wife daily.
I now think of Ewan more as Obi Wan. The whole singing thing is alot less gay.
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Ewan McGregor is an Aries.
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But I bet he never engaged in a gangrape in an Indian public rest room.
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He is still young, give him time.
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Ewan will never be Obi Wan. Fucking Alec Guiness 4-EVA!
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He is Fuckin Alec Guiness, FUCKING GAY GUINESS!
But still, he did rock for an old guy, sexual perversions and wife abuse aside.
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I think Ewan did a pretty good job as Obi-wan Kenobi. Hell had Portman or Hayden put half the effort into it that Ewan did I might be able to stomach them in their roles.
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I would like to tie Portman and Christensen together and burn them collectively.
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But she has such a hot tummy!
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Can I have sex with her before you torture and kill her? I'd rather not let such a hot woman go to waste. Tom can have her once I'm done. Anyway, she acted a lot better in the other movies she was in.
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I don't want her sloppy seconds. Gimme ESB Leia instead, before the cigs killed her face and voice.
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I would like to tie Portman and Christensen together and burn them collectively.
I'll get the firewood, if you bring the matches.
And Portman is about as attractive as an ironing board.
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Tits don't do it for me anymore. I don't mind em small, as long as there is something.
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Wow. Something not in the least related to what we were talking about popped into my head when I read that.
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Oh jeez, what came to mind, Rama.
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Can I have sex with her before you torture and kill her?
You do realize she doesn't look like she did in Léon: the Professional anymore....
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O_o She doesn't do it for me either.