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Quote:This. I agree that Stoltz has comedic ability but this is simply a case of the movie character not being a good fit for the chosen actor, so he was replaced.Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
I'm sure he felt bad about losing the job, but my understand is he's not hung up or angry about it (like Crispin Glover was/is).
Eric Stoltz is not an unfunny guy, but he would have been a much mellower and laid back Marty, and while they thought they could have worked through that when they cast him, the more daily footage they saw the more they realized it wasn't going to happen.
Kind of like for 2012 there is a theatrical Three Stooges movie planned.....good luck casting those iconic roles. It's easy to find someone to imitate one of the stooges, the trick is find three that work well together as the Stooges did. -
Quote:That was a nice Back to the Future recreation, but it sure looks like in Michael J Fox's closeup that he was really fighting to keep still from his Parkinson's despite his medication.Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Dr. Chang/Halliwax returns in a new Orientation film.
Michael J. Fox recreates Back to the Future teaser trailer
Both promos are pretty awesome!
The reunion should be fun to watch though as I thought he and Christopher Lloyd were one of those rare teams that occur in movies that just work well together. Like Mel and Danny for the Lethal Weapons and Ford and Connery for the third Indy Jones. -
Targetcustomnext caleb
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Quote:A couple of more sayings:Originally Posted by The_Dude73
Some of my favorite quotes regarding Good Intentions:
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey
Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Ben Harper
"the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" Londo Mollari of Babylon 5 pretty much embodies that saying.
"Evil triumphs when good does nothing." -
As far as right and wrong and there being no consequences; let's say you gained superpowers akin to the Hulk (Banner Hulk not that cheap Red imitiation), or THOR or Superman, and then after gaining the powers you hear the latest news of terrorist attacks and finally have decided that enough is enough and that since you have the power you decide to use it.
The mission: go to the Mid East and proceed to crush the terrorists. Take out their bases, camps, hiding areas, insurgent areas, etc.
Would their be repercussions? Sure. Some countries leaders and populations would likely welcome such an intervention but others may see it as an act of war, especially if I decided to wrap myself in the American Flag before going over there. That would surely draw some negative reaction to the U.S. no matter how many times the govt. denied creating such a person or sending such a person there. Also would the local indigenous population of the countries that I hit welcome the removal of the terrorists? Some might, some might not.
Would the world be better off if such a super powered person crushed the terrorists? One would like to think so.
Now let's take this one step further: said super being heads to the mid east and during the act of demolishing the terrorists they happen to locate a certain terrorist leader that is wanted for assorted crimes. What would happen if:
A. the super being decides to eliminate the leader?
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Quote:A Wolverine/Highlander level healing factor would be useful in crime fighting if you plan to model yourself after the Punisher. Get some kevlar and armored helmet that conceals your face as I suspect head shots you receive would still hurt like blazes, get some guns and knives and go start busting the bad guys.Originally Posted by Veritech
you say that as if you think he's wrong. silly GG.
with me it would depend on what the powers were. how 'powerful' the powers are, the nature of them, so on and so forth. are we talking superman? or spidey? Iron Man, or Cyclops? it'd be cool to run around with Wolvie's healing factor, but that wouldn't particularly be a big help to me or anyone else really in regards to crime fighting or world conquering. but if i had Forge's tech powers, or Reed Richards' smarts... daaaaaaaaamn.
Trash a few crack houses, burn the drugs, confiscate the money keeping 50% for your operating expenses and the rest goes to a worthy charity. -
Here's a question: in Iron Man 2, Tony is being ordered to turn over the armor to the military for the "good of the people". Nice party line from the Senator, but the point is this:
Is Tony Stark being evil for withholding the armor from the govt. and military? Since he was captured and his heart damaged thus requiring constant life support he has changed his outlook on the world and the future. He wants to make a better world, and he sees the armor as a tool to that end but also believes based on past misuse of his weapons that the govt and military will misuse the armor. He also is being accused in the movie of being "selfish" for no longer making weapons for the military.
Are the reasons for keeping the iron man armor out of the military correct? Imo, yes. An army of Iron Men would easily become corrupted and could conceivably take over
Is Tony wrong to stop making weapons for the military, knowing that he was the best munitions maker the military had seen in years, thus risking American military lives due to them having sub par weapons from Justin Hammer or other companies?
Is he the one with the right to make that choice instead of say, putting it to a public vote? He built the suit so yes. -
Quote:You mean like Luke Cage, Iron fist and the rest of the Heroes for Hire?Originally Posted by Wayfarer
I'm thinking most people would be neither hero nor villain but would simply seek to profit from their powers without necessarily breaking the law.
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Quote:Define......"better place".Originally Posted by Agonus
Hehe. Interesting article.
If I ever acquired a decent level of superpowers, while materialism is always fun, and I have no problem with fascism as long as I'd be making the rules, I'd actually set out to make the world a better place. The problem would be those that disagreed with my methods.
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Quote:The main thing with Caleb is that even as your team works to spawn him, someone should be checking the skies already in case he was previously spawned and never found. That has happened on some of my Caleb hunts before.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
We recently spawned Caleb, got the message, and couldn't find him. Someone on the team sent a /petition, and a GM showed up, and went looking for him.
The GM found him on Primeva, on the beach south of Arbiter Leary. -
Quote:Star Trek the Motion Picture = FX extravaganza that reunites the crew with a upgraded ship and somewhere they threw in a revised Nomad probe story.Originally Posted by Veritech
I remember rumors coming out before Nemesis was released that Paramount was trying to pretty much kill the Trek franchise at the time. There'd been a management shift and the new folks in charge didn't like Trek, so im not surprised Nemesis ended up being the last one. It wasn't the weakest of the 4 TNG movies (Insurrection. it's not bad, but that doesn't mean it was all that good), but it just felt too much like Trek2, especially towards the end. The fight scenes between the ships at the end did look damn cool, but it was still weak.
Im not a big fan of the Abrahms' reboot, and im hoping the 2nd one is much better. The bright side is that the reboot is still better than the first and fifth Trek flicks, mostly.
Star Trek 2 = best loose end from the original series that they could have used to create a movie. Doomsday Machine would have been cool too.
Star Trek 3 = nice movie but suffers the onus of being the one right after Khan. Any Trek movie would have such negativity.
Star Trek 4 = nice break from the death and life of Trek 2 and 3, plus Kirk needed something to clear his name of the charges. Although charging him with destruction of the Enterprise to me was an error since it was disabled and being boarded by hostile forces. Kirk was still well within the regulations to order the destruct sequence.
Star Trek 5 = nice try. Studio rushing movie to completion combined with Shatner..... still better then the hippies episode
Star Trek 6 = nice send off.
Star Trek Generations: decent start for the new crew into the movies. Lousy way to kill Kirk.
Star Trek First Contact: easily the best of the TNG movies with Khan as the best of the classic crew movies.
Star Trek Insurrection: if only I could stay awake through that movie....
Star Trek Nemesis: ugh. Felt about as bad as Trek 5. -
Quote:No, definitely not Lal. It had to be his mother, created by Soong.Originally Posted by Coin
You are thinking of either his "mother" which was created by Soong or Lal, Data's daughter who was created by Data on the Enterprise and died shortly afterwards of cascade failure in her neural net. (Was actually quite a touching episode)
But yeah, can totally see there being other prototypes out there, just was a bit of a sucky way for B4 to be found. -
Quote:When Data shed tears of joy when he found that his cat miraculously survived the crash of the saucer section. He thought the chip was malfunctioning and Troi assured him it was working fine.Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Was there a single instance of a Soong-type android experiencing strong emotion that had a positive final result?
-np
To be honest, sticking that chip in Data was perhaps the single best evolutionary thing they did for him. -
Quote:And the story will end with the Matrix lighting this current "Darkest Hour".Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Oh yeah I can just see the awesome now.
Optimus Prime slowly staggering down the street moaning "Sparkplugs . . . Sparkplugs" -
Carnage would have to be toned down to keep the movie at PG13 ratings. Remember how he was toned down in the 90's cartoon?
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It's possible that Ultra Mode enabled SLI but I am not sure.
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Well I guess on a good note Space Ghost won't be in this.
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Quote:As the Captain America movie gets closer to release, I'm certain Steve will be Cap again. However his return to the role does not mean that Bucky has to "die" again. Too much work was put into his return to just bump him off again. He'd be more apt to adopt a new identity similar to the Winter Soldier, perhaps even call himself Nomad.Originally Posted by Forefinger_
Me too!
I am happy about Bruce Wayne returning, but I'm dissapointed that he won't be Batman once he returns. For years I waited on Steve Rogers to come back, and now he is, but he isn't Captain America. Steve Rogers IS Captain America and now I have to wait on Bucky to die to see it again. I was hoping that Bruce would resume being Batman and Dick would go back to being Nightwing. Being Nightwing is cool. Why would he want to stay Batman when he could be Nightwing? Oh well. I got sick of Morrison and stopped reading Batman after the RIP storyline so it doesn't really matter to me. Bruce Wayne IS Batman though. -
Omg.......
Ok....granted the Transformers are "alive" as it were, but just HOW does a Zombie virus affect them? I can't even see it bringing back the deactivated/dead TF's........
Zombies in Star Trek.....meh Kirk will use his oratory prowess to give a rousing speech and his patented double axe-handed attack.
GI Joe.....meh, Cobra has raised the dead. Incinerate the zombies!
Ghostbusters: ok this group I can see dealing with zombies more then Star Trek, GI Joe and TF.....
Man this whole concept just reeks of STUPID. -
Quote:THIS. Oh, so THIS! 'Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
I blame Berman and Braga. The franchise was left in their hands way too long and they started doing some crazy **** with it.
Those two clowns ran the franchise into the ground! I think to this day they said that perhaps their biggest error was in how they killed Kirk, or that they killed him at all.
Easily fixed though via the Guardian of the Forever (Sock observes the fight on Veridian 3 and determines the logical moment to intervene to stop Soran and save his friend), but too much time has passed now. Shatner's a bit too old and large to stuff himself back into uniform plus the franchise has been restarted. -
Quote:Heh. TNG suffered at times from either Wesley saving the day or Data saving the day.Originally Posted by QuiJon
See the way they killed off data, but had his prototype inherit his memories and such, i was really thinking that was going to be a device to kinda ungod the character a bit. Data kinda hit that Wesley Crusher level of making every other character insignificant in the cast. So at the time i honestly felt it was done to dumb down the character a bit and take him more back to where he was at the begining of the show.
As to Data dumping his memories, etc. into B4, I was thinking it was more a recreation of that moment in Wrath of Khan when Spock nerve pinches McCoy and then does the mind-meld...."remember".......
It was just a plot device to restore Data at least partially if not completely in a later series or movie, presuming the franchise would have continued and they could afford Spiner's salary.
Of course now that we are in Star Trek Universe "B" for lack of a better name after the Trek XI reboot, it's all moot. Strictly speaking the only series timeline that now exists is Enterprise and the future will be different. -
Quote:Wasn't there an episode, I think the one where they were working with some lady who was Dr Soong's wife or something and it turned out she was an Android similar to Data. When Data discussed the situation with the Dr. Soong message chip on the holodeck, wasn't it stated that there were other prototypes of Data?Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Star Trek shouldn't have dune buggies as standard equipment. 2nd they dipped into yet another Data prototype too many times already.
There's Lore, Data, the woman android (name escapes me at present) and now B4.....so isn't there yet one more out there to be discovered? -
Quote:Or at least give Khelds a few extra enhancement slots for their powers.Originally Posted by Warkupo
Perhaps I should revise my post so that I actually have some reasoning behind my decision.
I would rather see the core powers of the Kheldians revised than the addition of new powers that are meant to replace the lackluster abilities within a Kheldian, specifically the Peacebringer.
After this, maybe add PPP's, but until then it's not where I want the focus. -
Quote:And this would be a bad thing because..........?Originally Posted by Lothic
These kinds of "surprising screen tests" happen all the time in Hollywood.
I've heard about this one several times over the years.
While Lynda Carter is a decent enough actress and probably could have handled being in a Star Trek series I almost think the Wonder Woman thing typecasted her too much for any other established franchise like that. If she had been the captain on Voyager I would have kept expecting her to solve all their problems by spinning into her Wonder Woman outfit and deflecting phaser blasts with her bracelets.
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Forgot to mention: but that scene in the diner at the end of Superman 2 when Clark deals with the trucker for beating him up in front of Lois truly proves that bystanders in comic books and comic book movies are unobservent chuckleheads.
1. Trucker tries to gut punch Clark with all his strength
2. We hear a mettalic CLANK as his fist impacts
3. Trucker staggers back holding his hand in agony as we hear the sounds of cracking bones
4. He then does several RPM's as Clark sends the stool spinning
5. Hefted onto the counter and with one casual shove is sent flying into the pinball machine.....
And NONE of these people with the possible exception of the waitress who has a big smile on her face can do the math and figure out that the local bully just got a beat down from Superman???????