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| 32676 | Inexplicably Inappropriate Vintage Ads | As promised, I'm back. To be honest, these aren't all that "inexplicable"..more like quaint, really. But hey, if posting smoking Santa Claus is wrong, then I don't want to be right.<div><br></div><div><img src="/images/postImages/14831672905289031955.jpg"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="/images/postImages/14831673101021171802674_08_3908275830_9b01be84a6_o.jpg"></div><div><img width="300" height="300" src="/images/postImages/14831677640926083538103_48_13346027415_88d012a696_o.jpg"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> | jkatz | Dec 31, 2016 |  |
| 32675 | Last Movie You Watched | <blockquote rel="echidna64"><b style="font-style: normal;">echidna64 wrote :</b><br><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">The problem with Rogue One was the characters. After 2+ hours, I couldn't name half of the crew. Some of the them like Juan Solo were downright irritating. </div><div><br></div><div>Same for me. I don't think Donnie Yen's character's name was even said at all in the movie. If it was, it was only one line. I think in general, none of the main characters were very well developed. This is probably Rogue One's biggest flaw.</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lots of lines of dialogue were botched. My favorite character was Donnie Yen's monk but he was clearly working with a language coach for each scene and lots of his lines came out confused or misplaced.</span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div>Don't remember this at all. Do you have any specific examples?</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">Another big issue was the story. If you watch the original movies, the Empire Strikes Back you don't see a caption that says "Hoth: Location of secret rebel base" because you know what is going on. In ten minutes, Rogue One has like six cuts to six different planets. </div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div>I don't see the problem with this. It's a quick way to establish the setting. I did think it was a little weird how much they shifted locations at the beginning, though.</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">SPOILERS Hey-o!</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">1. They go to Jedha to get a transmission from Saw who promptly dies</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">2. They go to generic Imperial mine to meet Jyn's dad who promptly dies</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">3. They go to paradise planet where everyone promptly dies</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">What was the point of step 2? Why is Juan Solo upset that Jyn's dad is dead when it was his mission to kill him?</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div>Wasn't he having second thoughts about his mission at that point? Besides, the real question is why didn't her dad just straight up say how to blow up the Death Star? (Answer: because then there wouldn't be a story.)</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;">I like the idea of individual stories set in the Star Wars universe but I did not like this one. </div> <b style="font-style: normal;">-end quote</b></blockquote><blockquote rel="echidna64"><br></blockquote><blockquote rel="echidna64">Rogue One has some problems, yes, but enough to make you write it off completely? I've seen people say it's the best movie since the original trilogy...and I'm tempted to agree with them.</blockquote>Also, :lol: at Juan Solo. | jkatz | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32674 | Carolco Pictures | <span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote rel="Rick Ace Rhodes"><b>Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :</b><br><i> Given that there was a thread about Orion Pictures, why not talk about Carolco Pictures as well?<div><br></div><div>It saw several successes in the 80's and early 90's before going bankrupt in 1995 due to the massive bombs that were Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.</div> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>If it wasn't for Cutthroat Island bombing, we would've gotten that planned Schwarzenegger crusades movie...thanks a lot, Renny Harlin. </span><img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavMad.gif"><img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavMad.gif"> | jkatz | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32673 | Relaxing music | I like Mahler, too. Particularly the ninth symphony:<div><div><div><br></div></div></div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ag18Np_JInY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> | jkatz | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32672 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | <blockquote rel="Rick Ace Rhodes"><b>Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :</b><br><i> <blockquote rel="eddstarr"><b>eddstarr wrote :</b><br><i><br> Sounds like a very good idea. I was on RetroJunk two days ago and saw almost no activity. If the sites goes I wonder if all the content will be saved in archive or only a portion? </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>I'm sure you'll still be able to find stuff on the payback machine.<div><br></div><div>It's a real shame what happened to Retro Junk. I found the site nearly ten years ago, and in less then a decade it went completely downhill. I'm glad Vaporman managed to put together another website for us to relive our nostalgia, but RJ is such a sad story.</div> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>You can say that again. As one of the Generation-1 websites from the birth of the internet, RetroJunk was the first concentration fansites of old TV and movies. <div><br></div><div>By the time I joined in 2008 the rise of Web 2.0 sites was well underway. RetroJunk was being swamped by newer sites backed by corporate media and YouTube/Google.</div><div><br></div><div>All the Gen-1 fansites I had joined merged with new media sponsored sites at the height of their popularity, while they were still valuable. Sites like RetroJunk, whose owners refused to sell out, soon found their sites value drop as users grew-up and grew away to other areas of the web - never to return.</div><div><br></div><div>The excitement of the internet I experienced from 2001 to 2005 was quickly disappearing as "homemade" websites gave way to corporate/copyright pressures. </div><div><br></div><div>Obviously fansites still exist but the world wide web continues to change and I'm not sure what we will experience when Web 3.0 really gets going.</div> | eddstarr | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32671 | Oldies | As you guys know the Christmas Spirit was not very strong with me this year.<div><br></div><div>I would like to make up for that by posting an old Christmas favorite.</div><div><br></div><div>It's called, "The Winter Song", but you may know it as "Look Out The Window":</div><div><br></div> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tlJ2YtXVf7g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> | eddstarr | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32670 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | <blockquote rel="eddstarr"><b>eddstarr wrote :</b><br><i> Sounds like a very good idea. I was on RetroJunk two days ago and saw almost no activity. If the sites goes I wonder if all the content will be saved in archive or only a portion? </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>I'm sure you'll still be able to find stuff on the payback machine.<div><br></div><div>It's a real shame what happened to Retro Junk. I found the site nearly ten years ago, and in less then a decade it went completely downhill. I'm glad Vaporman managed to put together another website for us to relive our nostalgia, but RJ is such a sad story.</div> | Rick Ace Rhodes | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32669 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | Sounds like a very good idea. I was on RetroJunk two days ago and saw almost no activity. If the sites goes I wonder if all the content will be saved in archive or only a portion? | eddstarr | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32668 | Importing Articles From RetroJunk | I did this when I first arrived with my <a href="http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/504">Vor-Tech</a> article. I was planning on doing it with all three of my articles on RJ but never got around to doing them.<div><br></div><div>I think it's a good idea. There were a lot of good articles on RJ from members of this site. I'll do the other two I never got around to. </div> | Rick Ace Rhodes | Dec 31, 2016 | |
| 32667 | Orion Pictures | Too bad. This company could've gone on forever. | Mr Magic | Dec 31, 2016 | |
