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If she didn't want to be in the movie, knowing full well that it would at least be a trilogy from the start, she shouldn't have gotten involved in my opinion. I've heard nothing about that angle to the story, personally. It wasn't that she didn't want to be in it, she wanted to be in it more. She complained of her lack of lines in the second film. All the news I've read points to her simply wanting to play more a role in the movie. She wanted to be even more of a main character than she already was. It seems more like her ego, honestly, as Storm is not all that popular compared to some of the other X-Men in the film, nor has she ever been the main character. No one really is, although it obviously focuses on some more than others. I can't say I feel bad for her reasoning to not be in it as I find it selfish. I don't feel she was suited for the role in the first place and her acting in both films wasn't exactly imprressive. She can go on to make such gems as Catwoman where she wears barely any clothes instead. Lord knows it'll make people think more highly of her average acting ability.

I'm practically perfect in every way. I have no quirks. I type too much and I generally ramble on about music more than I should. Those are two pretty substantial ones in the scheme of things.

Thanks for all the smaller versions, everyone. Bonus points for you. I made a few for random people at OB that didn't have 88x31s. I attached them if anyone wants them.

[quote name='starphish][SIZE=1']Is it difficult finding their early releases or could I find them on, say, Amazon?[/SIZE][/quote] Any decent record store should have them. I see most of their releases at Best Buy on a regular basis, even.

Personally, I think that Evil Dead is just a very well done, albeit cheesy, B-horror movie for its time. I wouldn't say that it's so bad it's good, because in all honesty nothing it attempts to do is that bad compared to other similiar horror films back then lol. Doesn't stop Evil Dead 2 from kicking its *** though. Of course, it also had a much higher budget. [QUOTE=Solo Tremaine][color=#503f86][b]Disney's 'Dinosaur'[/b], hands-down is my number one all time worst film, I think. [/color][/QUOTE] I remember the first previews for this movie and it just looked amazing. The dinosaurs looked great and from what I remember they didn't show any of the mammalian characters at this point. It was just like a few minutes of dinosaurs being dinosaurs along with some orchestrated music. I was kind of looking forward to it. Then it came and the new previews appalled me. Everything was given voices and they all acted like people. The situations and story were ridiculous. What could have been a very cool high-brow film for Disney succumbed to the same ideas that every other Disney-made animated film in recent memory did. Absolutely terrible movie.

I just spend eleven weeks having too much to do that I didn't want to do in the first place. I'm enjoying my spring break by doing absolutely nothing of importance and I'm loving it.

I stopped paying attention to The Ataris quite awhile ago, mostly because I just am not interested in their sound much anymore. I kind of grew out of it, I guess. I'm never in the mood for it. I know they've had some decent hits recently though, considering. They're relatively popular now. Previously their CDs all hit 100,000 copies which is good for a band of their type on a small label. I don't know what So Long Astoria is at, but I'm sure it's more. They've been around longer than a couple of years now, although it's not been all that long I suppose. Look Forward to Failure came out after Anywhere But Here, but it's listed as a 2002 rerelease instead of as the 1997 original release. They've always been one of the best examples of their type of pop-punk, I think. In fact, they were one of the first bands of that type I was ever exposed to. It's nice that they're finally getting more recognition. However, So Long Astoria was just totally unimpressive in my opinion. I don't really like how much they polished up the sound either. Kris Roe sounds almost completely different on that disc than he did when the band was on Kung Fu Records, even just a few years ago. Blue Skies, Broken Hearts is a far better release... especially if you can get that remastered version that sounds a billion times nicer. The whole CD is full of some really great tracks. They put out some live CD that was recorded at the Metro here in Chicago (where I saw Apocalypse Hoboken and will be seeing Muse this month)... I thought that was cool because a couple of my friends went to the show... plus they covered a Misfits song. That's always good.

Just get rid of that "(no subject)" think in comments when people don't type a subject in that box. I find that most everyone just leaves that box blank as it is. It just looks kind of annoying, that's all. I also think it'd be cool if there were other ways to sort the member list page. As far as I know, you can only do it by popularity.

I really don't know what I'd consider to be the "worst ever" movies. There's movies I don't like, but none I hate with a passion. I'll just list three I really just didn't like and leave it at that... I'm sure there are much worse ones. [B]The Outlaw Josey Wales[/B] I admit, I've never actually seen this movie. However, when I was younger, my step-father and his friend were watching it at a rather high volume when I was trying to sleep. Of course, that was incredibly annoying, so I dislike this movie mostly because of that heh. There's a bias. From all I've been able to gather from hearing it for over an hour, it's about an outlaw. His name is Josey Wales. That's the story. That's it. He basically just walks into places and people go "Who the hell are you!?" and he goes "Josey Wales!" and they start shooting eachother. I'm sure it was a masterful tale on paper, but it sucks onscreen. [B]Tomb Raider 2[/B] First of all, I hate the game series. Second of all, I got dragged into seeing this at the theaters. 1 + 2 = me being in a bad mood from the start. However, I don't think it affected my opinion of this movie. The games were obviously inspired by Indiana Jones in some way (even on a minimal level), but nothing really gives that impression as much as this movie does. It tries very hard to emulate the things that make the Indy movies so great, but falls flat on its face in every conceivable way. There's probably more ways it sucks that I've not even noticed yet. First of all, the movie seems like little more than an excuse to string together a dozen exotic locales for Lara Croft to visit. There's little reason for her to even be in a few of them and they serve nothing more than as yet annother excuse. This time it's to do some lame stunt that you've probably seen in another film already. I can't remember any of the characters and there's a reason for that. They were unimportant, uninteresting and shallow. Lara's character randomly spouts out facts about artifacts and temples while trying to put on a sexy face. Every time she appears in a scene, it's like she's making pouty lips. Especially if there's a guy onscreen, regardless of who he is or what his appearance looks like. There's also a guy she was involved with at some time who becomes "evil". Whoopdie-doo. There's one scene in the movie that I feel epitomized how lame everything else was, and that was the underwater scene. Lara apparently feels that she can't make it to the surface quick enough to survive. Generally when you're that low, you want to rise slowly so you don't damage yourself thanks to the pressure. Of course, Lara instead sees a shark and makes it come at her. She punches the shark in the face. Freaking punches a shark. The fact that the thing actually gets scared is ridiculous enough in and of itself. Sharks probably get hit by more force by every other large creature they eat in the sea than Lara could have possibly given in that punch. She's in the freaking water... how much momentum could she have? Then she grabs on and it unexplainably takes her to the surface and leaves her there. Terrible. [B]The Medallion[/B] I suppose you can't see a Jackie Chan film and expect the best movie in existance. However, I found them all at least tolerable and Jackie was always awesome with the stunts. That's why you watch his movies. It's certainly not for his wonderful acting ability. The Tuxedo came out before this and I disliked that as well. The Medallion was about twenty times worse. I don't even know how that was possible. Both had some great action scenes, but these were brought down by stupid stunts that no one could do without wires. Basically, they give Jackie Chan superpowers and hook him up to things to make it look "real". Chan is about as close to a super hero that anyone is ever going to get in real life. Doing this and giving him stunt doubles really just brings all of that down for me. The Medallion also just has an extremely stupid story. There's two halfs of a medallion and each have their own mystical powers. The movie tries to explain the differences between the two on a regular basis, but you never really understand it. This is mostly because by the time the good guys get a half and the bad guys get the other half, they basically do the exact same things. They just keep bringing people back to life, over and over again. Why all this nonsense trying to make them seem different? [B]Signs[/B] I just did not like this movie. When I left the theater I was kind of mixed on it, but after my eyes adjusted to the light outside and I drove away, I realized how dumb it was. I don't really believe in aliens in the sense that this movie portrays them. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy alien movies as much as the next guy. The first problem for me with this film was just the water. It was everywhere. They try to make it a story element, but it just fails because they're constantly throwing it in your face. It's not subtle in any sense of the word. Camera change one, here's some water. Camera change two, here's another five glasses. Camera change three hundred and forty-two... more freaking water! It was made even more lame due to water's role in the ending sequences. The whole thing just feels insulting. As if we'd be too stupid to notice the irony of it all in the end. On top of this we have aliens that are obviously super intelligent. They fly all the way over here. They have cloaking abilities far beyond anything human minds have been able to devise. However, they have no clue that the earth is mostly water, people are mostly water, the atmosphere contains elements of water, it rains on a regular basis... god knows what else. I've been asked how they would even know there was water here in the first place. How could they not? They're super intelligent beings that are more advanced than we are and they can't figure this out? We've never been to most of the planets in our solar system and still have an idea of what makes them up. It's just stupid. One could make the argument that 1) they didn't know they were allergic to water because it's not on their planet or 2) they were so desperate that they didn't care. These two make sense at least. However, for me it just all falls apart anyway. Especially because I felt a lot of the acting was very stilted, the "scary" scenes were mostly laughable and a lot of the cinematography was just too stretched out. I remember the first time one of the aliens appeared. A lot of the threat is taken away because of the situations in which they're shown. At a child's birthday party, everyone is going nuts because they think they saw one. The thing casually walks by and looks into the camera. This is scary? People have told me I think about the movie too much. Maybe I am. However, leading up to its release everything was proclaiming it to be such an intelligent, genuinely scary movie. I'm not supposed to use my brain when I watch it? It wasn't an action thriller. I've had people tell me that it's "not about aliens, it's about a man and his faith". Well maybe they should have tried harder to develop that. There's a billion and one movies like that as it is... throwing aliens in it suddenly makes it fresh and interesting? No, it doesn't. Don't bother arguing against me. I'm not going to be swayed in my opinion on the movie lol. ---------- I did four. Shoot me. I'd put Jeepers Creepers 2 up here too.

I've played quite a few games with what would seem to be diagnetic music or even just sounds. There's been games for well over a decade that have sounds coming from rooms that get louder as you approach, only to peak when you make it into the room itself. Most games nowadays seemingly just refer to this concept as "3D audio" for whatever reason. In terms of immersion, I don't really know. I can get immersed in a game that looks and sounds awful by today's standards. I'm not saying that graphics and sound do not play a huge role in immersion, but at the same time, I have to wonder how important they are compared to things like gameplay. On the other hand, there's games like Silent Hill and The Suffering that try very hard to immerse you graphically and aurally. I think those two games are very successful in that respect. However, they also control well (once you get used to them, anyway) and are interesting from a basic plot standpoint (not getting into the details, even) and I think that's really what keeps them immersive. I could look at pretty graphics for awhile, but if the gameplay was vapid, I doubt I'd stick around much... which would obviously kill the immersive quality. I don't even really know when and how I actually get sucked into a game. Some do it, some don't. I find that I block a lot of other things out entirely, to the point that I don't even notice that I'm watching the game on a TV. It's as if my room and the TV casing disappear and all I see are the images being sent out by whatever I'm playing at the time. That's not to say I'm oblivious of things around me entirely (I know people who don't even hear you when they're watching TV or playing games lol), but there's a definite "zoning out" quality to it. I realize after this that I was really immersed by a game, but I never seem to realize it when I'm playing. I guess that's what immersion is all about though lol. I find that games are really the only form of entertainment that give that effect for me on a regular basis.

It looks like the sprites are at the highest resolution a normal TV can even display... 640x480. It'd be painfully obvious if they were any lower in quality. In that Dry Bones shot, for example, unless Intelligent Systems redrew those sprites at like twenty different sizes there would be issues with blurring and slight jaggedness. I can't see it being that much of an issue in person, because all of those turtles are most likely jumping around like crazy when Mario is in that room. You'd barely notice lol. I have no problem with the backgrounds. The way they are gives me the impression that the simplicity is on purpose and I kind of like it.

[QUOTE=xmystic_silverx][size=1][color=red]Okay! Here we go... The worst game I have ever played would have to be Okage. It just starts out really slow and it has no point what-so-ever. A boy is stuck with the shadow king and its sorta like an RPG but its really crappy. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! ... If you're into simple, pointless, and annoying games then these are for you. But if you're like me and love the gore and action, I suggest that you just forget about games like these...[/size][/color][/QUOTE] If you love gore and action, I don't know why you'd get Okage in the first place lol. Okage isn't great, but it is decent. I don't know that I'd consider it a worst anything, but that's my opinion. There's a point to the game, it's just really goofy. It's like if Tim Burton made a Japanese RPG or something. I liked the idea of a Shadow King posessing the main character and forcing him to try and bring about his own resurrection. It's not the best story ever, but it was quirky. My main issues with the game were really just that the battle system was slightly confusing, the translation was average at best and the loading times were pretty bad... but it's not a horrible game lol.

There's also American comic series that have been redone in some form by Japanese artists and released here in America. Wolverine, for example, appeared in a short run known as Snikt! that was done by a Japanese manga artist whose name escapes me. There's a weird looking manga-ish Punisher series that I've seen around as well. You also have Sandman... A novel of that had all of its art done by Yoshitaka Amano, mostly famous for doing the art for the Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D series. It's obviously not really in either the comic or manga styles, but it's a nice meshing of various styles and cultural backgrounds into one.

Generally, I'd offer some sort of decent advice... but I've also been around here long enough and seen enough of your posts on the subject that I just can't help but be disinterested. It's nothing personal, but you have been dwelling on these same events for so long that they've lost all meaning and are more like obsession than actual "love". There's nothing there to get this upset about. Why? Because there was nothing there from the start. You've taken slight interactions with a girl and somehow twisted them into some bizarre love tale that just never really existed by any stretch of the imagination. How you can become such a mess over a girl that obviously never had interest in something like this to begin with, I have no idea. How can you "loose" her if you never had her? There are other girls out there... And let me tell you, if they knew you acted like this over one girl you never really had -- not even remotely-- their interest in you would be at rock bottom levels. You either move on from this or you're never going to have anything work out in your love life.

Yeah, I've heard about Wu Tang more or less. They have too many solo careers going on. The Final Chamber is their last release as a group, so I figure I owe it to them to finally get around to listening to their stuff. I've never liked Linkin Park. Even before the craze. The music just seems to be getting worse too. I find the beats uninteresting and the lyrics just ridiculously melodramatic. It's not for me.

There's a decent mix of music fans here, I think. In general, I think people seem less receptive to hip hop if they're into rock. Hip hop kids don't seem to hate rock as vehemently for whatever reason. At least based on my experience. I mostly listen to forms of rock, but I do enjoy some hip hop groups. A lot of it I really just don't enjoy at all, but some surpass that. I liked NERD's first release. It wasn't the best, but it was decent. I want to get their new CD that just came out recently, but I've not gotten around to it. Otherwise, I like Outkast and Handsome Boy Modeling School. I've liked Outkast for a few years now. Atliens and Aquemini are my favorites from them, although the last couple of releases were excellent as well. I think Handsome Boy Modeling School has a new disc coming out this year, which I'll definitely get. The first release was great, other than those interlude tracks that mostly consisted of people talking. A lot of hip hop albums seem to have that (the collaborative ones especially)... what can you do though. I also like the small amount of stuff I've heard from Acrobatik... if I even spelled that right. A leaked copy of Wu Tang's "The Final Chamber" was posted on another site I visit. I figure I'll try that out when I get a chance. Everyone who played it makes it sound like its their best material in years. I know nothing about them really, other than a bunch of people seemed to love them back in high school. We'll see what happens lol.

In most ways, I have to agree with Queen Asuka. I don't really know what people expect out of Japan... but you really cannot hope to move into a foreign country as sheltered as theirs and magically expect to survive there. Japan does not exactly welcome foreigners with welcome arms, especially if they try to assimilate themselves into the culture. Getting citizenship here is a cakewalk by comparison. Anime is part of Japanese culture, true. However, if a Japanese person moved here and knew little outside of what they've learned from American sitcoms and cartoons, what exactly would they do in this country? Japan is a real place, just the same as here. It's not a mecca where the world revolves around fun times and robots and knowing a few basic Japanese terms. If you know those, perhaps you also know "gaijin" and how much it affects you out there, especially in terms of national rights and a job. I know people who have lived in or are originally from Japan and all of them really just say the same things. It's an insanely expensive place to live. The housing is cramped. Unless you're already fluent in Japanese, I can't see why anyone would even need you there honestly. You'd serve no purpose. What would you do? Wander around Akihabara buying games and anime? Basically going there is more or less a pipe dream that exists simply because a person likes anime enough to think that they'd somehow fit in there more than they would here. It's not that simple. My ex, Colleen, takes Japanese in college and is hoping to teach English in Japan. To me, someone with actual goals in that country that would actually provide a useful service has a decent reason to be there. If anyone here told me they knew exactly why they wanted to go there, I'd have little problem with it. Wanting to move there because you like games or anime, however, is just a passing phase that will hopefully go away... unless you find something useful to tap that into. I'm reminded of that Simpsons episode where Homer calls the Mr. Sparkle Company in Japan. At first he talks to a normal looking Japanese guy, but he doesn't know English. So he passes the phone to another Japanese man that does know English and the man looks like a complete fool. He basically has thrown all of American popular culture on himself regardless of how true it is to America in reality. He even says "Hello cheif. Let's talk why not." lol To me this is basically what we're talking about here, except reversed (and obviously exaggerated). If you're into that aspect, you might as well just vacation there a few times, I'd say. I'm sure I'm going to get a "don't crush people's dreams!" thing, but I dont care. Maybe it would make people realize that they need to know more about a country than what anime and manga show them. If you have a better reason to go, then that's another story really.

[QUOTE=ScirosDarkblade]Also I don't think DK64 was as bad as, say, a hundred other games on the N64. Thinking about it, there was Battletanks, Turok (Turok 2 was sweet, but the others blew), Ready to Rumble (ugggh that's the crappiest N64 game I've played now that I think about it), Aerofighters Assault (stay away from this one too, folks), etc. Then there's Diddy Kong Racing, which is all good and fun until you remember that Mario Kart 64 exists. And Starfox Adventures on the GCN is worse in my opinion, as well. .[/QUOTE] For me, at least, I think a really anticipated and/or hyped game that turns out to be crap is a far bigger deal. Did anyone honestly even care about Ready to Rumble before it hit consoles? Or Battletanks? Turok was hyped, I admit... but it was decent at the time for a console FPS. It just aged horribly lol. DK64 was massively hyped up until its release. I remember reading so much about it and all of the nonsense that came up everytime Nintendo or Rare would mention the game. Following all that and then playing a game that really just wasn't anything more than mediocre, it was just a far bigger let down than for me to play Daikatana 64 and realize that it sucked... lol. Speaking of N64, has anyone ever played World Rally Championship? That was an awesome game. As for the post above mine... Other than the WCW game and Egg Mania (which, as far as I know, was rental only anyway lol), I just disgree. The rest of the games you mentioned are good in their own ways. I've never understood what could be "gay" about a game in the first place, unless it features scantily clad men thrusting towards eachother.

Radiohead is a band I've always avoided. Pablo Honey was so incredibly mediocre that I just didn't really care what they did following it. I didn't bother to notice how much they changed their sound and evolved until the Kid A days... and I decided I still didn't like them after seeing some music video with what I considered, at the time, an absolutely awful song. Since then, however, I've actually bothered to play the Radiohead stuff I actually owned (I got some of it through Columbia House, but it remained unplayed for years) and while there's still stuff I have little interest in, I've come to realize what an absolute moron I was being about it all. I played The Bends through entirely one day and it's just a really freaking good rock album. OK Computer, while different in its own way, is also incredibly solid and has some really amazing tracks on it. I'm not feeling what I've played of Amnesiac, however.

The strangest thing about Van Damme was the fact that he was cast to play Guile in the Street Fighter movie. A man with an insanely thick accent playing a man born and raised in America. [I]Yeah[/I]... There's a few people in the TV/movie business that I dislike more than I probably should. First up is Bob Saget. The guy isn't all that bad in person from what I've seen and is quite capable of poking fun at himself. However, after Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, I really don't think that I can look at this man as a normal human being anymore. He seems so digustingly nice in those shows that you can't help but want to rip his face off and feed it to a murder of crows. And that's just for starters. It's worse in AFHVs because of his voices. Who told this man he was good at voice overs, I have no idea. Hopefully they were fired from their jobs and live in a gutter somewhere now. If he wasn't doing a horrible voice he was complaining about his evil producers. Second is Rosie O'Donnel. I have no idea how this woman got anywhere in life. She sounds terrible and is just incredibly abrasive. She's on of those types that likes to do anything she can to get her way. Once she had her own successful show there was no stopping her... she could invite guests on her show and be a total ***** and her crowd of 40 something soccer mom's and grandmas would cheer her on the entire time. What I've never understood is how someone can go from R rated movies and stand up comedy acts to being a center of family entertainment. She even kept doing that standup while keeping up her food loving, koosh ball shooting self on people's TVs during daylight hours. Anyway.

Hmm. I only rented Super Mario RPG and managed to blow through it in the rental period. It was a rather easy and short RPG, I thought. Paper Mario seemed to last a little longer. At the very least, I thought there was more quality there for my money. Then again I got it on clearance at Target for $6.90 lol.

Paper Mario is basically the spiritual successor to Super Mario RPG. They obviously have their differences, so I wouldn't say it's a direct sequel... so I suppose a plain, old Super Mario RPG 2 could be made. Personally, I wouldn't want one. I fall in the camp of people who, while liking Mario RPG, really didn't feel that it was all that special. I always felt that a good portion of the Mario charm was just not present in that game. You could tell it was mostly from Square and not Nintendo. That's my opinion anyway. On the other hand, I really enjoyed Paper Mario. The characters were right on, even with the addition of weird paper-thin antics and such. So I'm really looking forward to this. In terms of the battle system, I wouldn't mind more than two characters in a fight... but I really didn't mind the original's battle system to be honest. The pictures seem to only show one character with Mario at a time, so who knows. I'm hoping you can at least play with Luigi.

It's strange that Nintendo doesn't have their teams make more RPGs. The few they do make are arguably some of the best there are. I loved the original Paper Mario and the somewhat related Mario & Luigi rocked too. Some of these screens are really impressive. The characters look great and shots give the impression that there are dozens of enemies onscreen simultaneously sometimes. I hope they keep that thing the first one did with the houses... were the front of the building folded down when you entered it.

The DVD coming out first is apparently bare bones and contains little beyond the movie. I guess after Vol 2 is out they plan on making a set and that would be what you should pick up if you're interested in extras. Eh. I'm looking forward to this movie quite a bit. I loved the first part.

He's gone now. Once I was made aware of the problem we were able to clean it up rather quickly. I will say that I feel rather disgusting now... I was eating when I was shown this... :confused: