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  1. Avast me hearties, today ye the greatest day of the year! It's me birthd...uh Talk like a Pirate Day! So ye scurvy landlubbers better get yer sealegs on before I keel haul the lot of ye! p)
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    Relax, everyone, the movie's in the hands of the guys behind Jonah Hex.

    Actually, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were the ones who ran from Jonah Hex screaming.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arnabas View Post
    I would sit through all 9 of the previous seasons for that.
    Would you sit through House of the Dead? Erica Durance was already topless in that.
  4. The Rocketeer 108 min
    Ghost World 111 min (only 1 minute off the mark)
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 106 min
    Flash Gordon 111 min (also only 1 minute off the mark)
    The Shadow 108 min
    The Phantom 100 min
    Dick Tracy 105 min
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade View Post
    I've always thought that Voltron looked way to bulky and rigid for a fighting robot (and I have the same opinion about the Power Rangers' various Megazords), so I have no objection to slimming it down and making it look more streamlined. Plus, there's also a Star Trek effect going on, where something that looked high-tech to its original audience looks like crap to newer audiences, thus requiring an update.
    I think these are awesome! I look at this in this light, if this was just artwork made by say Alex Ross, or really any other artist, it would be praised to no end even some wishing a movie would look like that. Actually, I've already seen artwork of robots like this elsewhere for arts sake that were praised to no end.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chrome_Family View Post
    Did I forget anything?
    From this new image:



    Looks like Lex (possibly played by someone other than Michael Rosenbaum?) is making a return this season.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pebblebrook View Post
    Or the alleged Cryptic option.

    Budget for 2 years or less, to minimize dev cost...release what you can...expect box sales to pay off that initial dev cost or close to it. Then let the subs pay for the rest of the development.

    That might be working for them since it doesn't look like they're changing that strategy. Though, it might be at the expense of the consumer gaming experience, at least initially.


    (Heh, trying to steer back to the subject of Jack/Cryptic)
    Actually I was talking about Jack/Cryptic. Jack has stated numerous times, he prefers to go the 2nd choice - Make a new game to bring in new audience. It's why he stated Cryptic left NCSoft in the first place, cause they wouldn't let him develop anything more than keep sustaining CoH which would have forced him into option 3 - lay off staff. He didn't want to do that.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pebblebrook View Post
    In a subscription based game, the subs is where it's expected to get funding for future development. One person paying $15/mo is not enough to pay for development, that's why your goal is to have more people paying that instead of asking that one person to pay extra.

    Which is what microtransactions eventually "feel" like.

    If subs drop to the point that it's no longer adequate to fund development, that's still a bad sign for the consumer.
    And a bad sign for the developer. You have either 3 choices at this point to keep your staff employed, either do some so awesome that it brings in or back people, which is almost impossible to get people into a game that they've already written off, or make a new game that brings in a new audience. The 3rd choice is to lay off staff.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    And that's why he has done it twice more? I'd be willing to believe you if that wasn't the case but it is so what you're saying is not believable.
    Because, if you're just supporting a game you don't have the same budget you get for building games. If you want to keep people employed you have to build new games. I would love for CoH, STO, or CO to come up with a ton of new payed expansions to justify the continued employement of their designers, but as CoV, Vibora Bay and in part Going Rogue has shown payed expansions are not taken well by many established players of an MMO...who want to keep getting things for free. Free means you can't make enough to justify the workforce. Oh btw, Jack already announced that NWN that they're creating isn't an MMO. They're creating NWN 3.
  10. Innovator

    Obi-wan Caine

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    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Saw this today, thought I should share.

    Well I laughed.
    I laughed when he said Imperial Stormtroopers were precise.

    It looks like its time for this Jedi....

    \puts on glasses

    To Return!

    YEEEAAAAAH!
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chrome_Family View Post
    New appearances
    10. Cat Grant
    Cat Grant had already been on the show before. She was played by Emilie Ullerup and dated Clark in the Season 9 Episode Crossfire.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    Gah, Haley Berry's ego is its own arch villain.
    As my brother once told me....everyone wants. Whether they get what they want or not depends on what's good for the project and everyone involved in it. You can only take what she, her publicist, or manager says at any point as posturing. The larger role given to her on X3 has more to say about the director, Brett Ratner, than about the actress.
  13. Innovator

    Capt America Pic

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    Originally Posted by SuperOz View Post
    This is the stunt costume. Baggier and loose-fitting for stunts. You could not wear the form-fitting latex as suggested in the promo shots for Chris Evans and be expected to not only handle a motorbike at speed but also do physical stunts.

    Ignore the patterning; it's a visual reference so when you see the guy for the fraction of a second on screen, you go 'oh, it's Captain America's costume'. As another poster correctly pointed out, you have the stunt and 'Hero' versions of movie costumes for all sorts of movies. Indiana Jones even. That fedora and jacket were tailored for Harrison Ford and him only. They certainly used a less weathered jacket and a cheaper hat for stunts.

    Not remotely worried.


    S.
    This. Also the lighter coloring is probably cause this is probably a night scene. That way the colors show up better when the shot is tinted. The only thing I'm not 100% getting is the grey straps, as the concepts show the straps to be much darker. Probably the original dark straps bled into the blue of the suit on the angle they were shooting making it much darker then they wanted. You can't really judge costumes too much when you're looking at shots like this, there's a lot of other things that aren't factored in.

    Edit: As for how Chris Evans will look like in the suit. So far, like this...
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    And a more faithful LOTR trilogy would have sucked balls.
    As would a more faithful Interview with a Vampire.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by NinjaPirate View Post
    I vaguely remember her from her Hong Kong Jackie Chan movie days.
    Vaguely remember her? Maggie Q was friggin' awesome on Live Free or Die Hard!
  16. I have my DVR set to record it. I've enjoyed all the other past versions of Nikita played Anne Parillaud, Bridget Fonda, and Peta Wilson, and I'm looking forward Maggie Q's portrayal.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Manofmanychars View Post
    I have a collection of Giant-Size Man-Things, you know.
    Keep what's in your drawers to yourself, Man.

    Anyway. as for powers I don't want it's probably Zan's power to turn into a bucket of water. As much as sneaking to be Wonder Woman's bath would be interesting, it's pretty useless, plus I'd be constantly afraid of getting drunk....through a straw.
  18. Innovator

    So I saw Machete

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    Originally Posted by DocPhotonic View Post
    When I first heard that Machete was being made into a full-length film, I was excited. The original, faux-trailer looked like great fun, and I was a fan of much of Rodriguez's previous work.

    However, my hopes for the film were violently dashed when the infamous "Cinco de Mayo" trailer came out, depicting Machete as an anti-American, "hate whitey" propaganda piece which advocates for civilian Mexicans to invade and conquer this country. Although Rodriguez later insisted that the "Cinco de Mayo" trailer was only a joke and was not really what the film is about, I still had my suspicions.

    I was planning to go see the film tonight, but I just found a movie review which, if accurate, confirms that my suspicions were correct. I've suddenly lost all interest in seeing this movie.
    I just saw the movie and thought it was frigg’n awesome!

    The reviewer John Nolte got a lot of things wrong.

    * It wasn’t about Mexican’s against Americans. It was about Mexicans against a criminal politician and vigilantes funded by a Mexican drug cartel.
    * The speech that Jessica Alba, who was an American immigration officer in the movie, said wasn’t a call to arms against America, she was saying it to try to get the day laborers, who all knew she was an American immigration officer, to trust her into telling where Machete was.
    * The so called “race war” the day laborers fought against was against criminals Caucasian and Mexican as well as a couple of Chinese girls (though I will give that most of them were Caucasian).
    * The 3-way he talks about was the same exact scene taken from the trailer in Grindhouse, and didn't go more into it than the trailer did. Actually, much of the movie was put together around scenes from the Machete trailer in Grindhouse that he praises so much.
    * I also don’t remember Cheech Marin ever cussing in the movie.

    Wow, this guy is just full of it. I say there is probably more politicaly motivated retoric in that guy's review than in all of Machete.
  19. Innovator

    So I saw Machete

    I'm seeing it tonight. What will bring Machete over Expendibles in my mind would be just being able to see the fights...in which in Expendibles you really couldn't see much of.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warp_Factor View Post
    I don't think the story Scott blurts out is supposed to be actually how it went, most of what he describes Simon Lee doing didn't actually happen in either the animated short or the comic. He's just blurting out something sarcastic because he's pissy at Ramona.
    I know, it's just how it came off to me in the movie.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    "WHY does he have to defeat her seven evil exxes?"
    Gideon ("Ganon") sent them, and they kept attacking Scott. Scott at first was defending himself, but then got pulled into fighting to save Ramona (the Princess). Also, it's not like something he hasn't done before, as told by the story he told Ramona about the time he fought to be with Kim Pine. Well more like blurted out the story...come to think about it, they really should have put in the animated short at that point instead of they way they did it.

    As for why the evil exes are doing it? Gideon explained later that Ramona hurt people so badly after they fall in love with her, it took only 2 hours to form the League of Evil Exes.

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    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    WHY are these girls so hung up on him?
    Knives and Envy because he's in a band. Kim and Romona because he saved them. Scott also comes off as a nice guy at face, and is also confident and persistant. There isn't much more reason needed for why girls go for him. It's pretty much the same reason why all girls I've gone out with had...except I'm actually a nice guy, and that's why my exes aren't evil, and I'm still very good friends with most of them.
  22. Keyboard, Mouse for the most part, though I use a wacom pad for my artwork (I own 3 pads and will eventually buy a 4th). I prefer a controller when gaming, also I usually end up setting up voice control for any computer I have, mainly for quick searches and surfing, and dictation. Yeah, my computers are also made to talk back...what can I say, I'm a major nerd.
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    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    In the original, the "expert" was a late night TV horror host. So the leap to Vegas goth/horror/freaky stage magician isn't all that different. Did you expect them to call TAPS or the Destination Truth guy?
    Well...Peter Vincent was portaying himself as a famous Vampire Killer on his TV show, and bragged about his adventures as if they were real. Charley Brewster was a fan but knew it was an act, but when he found out that vampires were real, and he couldn't get anyone to believe him, he went to the only person that might. Maybe they'll have a good reason for it, I'll have to wait and see, but right now It's kinda hard to picture Charlie Brewster going to a Las Vegas Show Magician for help.
  24. Article Link

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    Originally Posted by Crave Online
    A Peek at David Tennant's Peter Vincent in Fright Night

    Peter Vincent - the character featured in Tom Holland's 1985 film Fright Night - is being dusted off for an upcoming Fright Night remake. And he's unrecognizable in more ways than one. Gone is the old coat and white hair. In comes the Chriss Angel style with his flowing black hair. It's no secret that Peter Vincent is going to be a master of illusion in the redo. He's a Vegas act. One that has a regular show at the Hard Rock apparently called "Fright Night" and, below, you'll find a look at actor David Tennant as Vincent on a banner we spotted recently. Can you even recognize the former Dr. Who in there?

    Directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Toni Collette, Fright Night opens on October 7, 2011.

    I love Tennant, but I'm just not understanding how a Chriss Angel type magician could be mistaken as an expert in hunting vampires.