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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Aug 8, 2007 18:25:48 GMT -5
TPBM: Favorite snack food? Tortilla chips & salsa TPBM: Favorite Movie Trilogy? |
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Aug 8, 2007 21:28:33 GMT -5
Star Wars.
TPBM: Favorite broadway musical?
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 9, 2007 9:02:09 GMT -5
Star Wars. TPBM: Favorite broadway musical? You know...I don't think that counts because there are six of 'em. Just like next summer Indiana Jones won't be a trilogy any longer. Favorite Broadway musical? I'd say The Producers. The person below me's most hated remake from a different language to English? (Ringu-The Ring, That one movie-The Departed ((obviously not that one)), The Seven Samurai--The Magnificant Seven, The Hidden Fortress-Star Wars, the list goes on.) |
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Aug 9, 2007 12:00:40 GMT -5
Star Wars. TPBM: Favorite broadway musical? You know...I don't think that counts because there are six of 'em. Just like next summer Indiana Jones won't be a trilogy any longer. I count those as two separate trilogies: the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy. Of course, I meant the original. |
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Aug 10, 2007 6:37:10 GMT -5
I count those as two separate trilogies: the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy. Of course, I meant the original. I agree with Zap on that one. Even though overall they are 6 chapters of the same story, pretty much every hardcore Star Wars fan considers them as two separate trilogies, ie: Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy. The person below me's most hated remake from a different language to English? (Ringu-The Ring, That one movie-The Departed ((obviously not that one)), The Seven Samurai--The Magnificant Seven, The Hidden Fortress-Star Wars, the list goes on.) I respectively disagree that STAR WARS is a remake of THE HIDDEN FORTRESS. Slightly influenced by? Yes. Remake? No way. My choice would be when the French film LA FEMME NIKITA became the American film, POINT OF NO RETURN. Bah! Either that, or the original Japanese GODZILLA becoming the American GODZILLA. Double bah!! TPBM: If you could go back in time to any point in world history, what event would you stop or change? |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 17, 2007 14:12:02 GMT -5
I GUESS you could say influenced, but it's pretty difficult to overlook the fact the movie starts off with the two comic relief characters (C-3P0 and R2-D2 in "Star Wars'" case) in the middle of something bigger than them, then leads to a daring rescue of a princess, the infiltation of an enemy fortress, and a daring escape. Lucas took other elements from other things, like the wise mentor, the powerful villain, and such from many other mythologies, samurai stories, and Westerns. Just presenting my case....
But man your question is difficult becuase everything has shaped our world somehow or another and without very disturbing incidents we wouldn't have great art or have furthered on as a species. I don't wanna say it's for the greater good or the end justifies the means, but...you know. I guess I would stop 9/11 since the aftermath has revealed how terribly Americans handle themselves with the rest of the world (if you're not with us you're against us, etc.). That or the publication of "The DaVinci Code."
Taken from the Five Deaths story from "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", which is probably a real one, that goes a captured Indian was given his choice of one of five deaths, from burning to crushing to drowning to hanging to decapitation, and he said he'd take them all. If faced with the question, which would you choose? (Morbid, I know.)
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 17, 2007 18:29:34 GMT -5
Ew, definately not burning or drowning, those are two of my biggest fears. So I'll say...hanging? At least it would be over quickly, but I guess you could say the same for decapitation.
TPBM: If you could change one thing about your life or life choices so far, what would it be?
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Aug 17, 2007 22:12:28 GMT -5
I GUESS you could say influenced, but it's pretty difficult to overlook the fact the movie starts off with the two comic relief characters (C-3P0 and R2-D2 in "Star Wars'" case) in the middle of something bigger than them, then leads to a daring rescue of a princess, the infiltation of an enemy fortress, and a daring escape. Lucas took other elements from other things, like the wise mentor, the powerful villain, and such from many other mythologies, samurai stories, and Westerns. Just presenting my case.... No denying he was heavily influenced by the films of Kurosawa, especially FORTRESS, but as you pointed out, he was also heavily influenced by so many other things, ie: Tolkien, Dune, westerns, the King Arthur legend, religion, mythology, fairy tales, world history, old sci-fi serials, etc., that saying STAR WARS is a "remake" of FORTRESS is really putting it too simply. I could just as easily make a list of the similarities between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz, but I would never call SW a remake of Oz. (The main characters both live on a farm and dream of escaping to a better life somewhere far away...) I guess I would stop 9/11 since the aftermath has revealed how terribly Americans handle themselves with the rest of the world (if you're not with us you're against us, etc.). You wouldn't stop it because all those innocent people were killed? |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Aug 18, 2007 8:34:02 GMT -5
I guess I would stop 9/11 since the aftermath has revealed how terribly Americans handle themselves with the rest of the world (if you're not with us you're against us, etc.). You wouldn't stop it because all those innocent people were killed? Well...that too, but I figured that was a given. |
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 31, 2007 16:35:16 GMT -5
Bumping this one...
TPBM: If you could change one thing about your life or life choices so far, what would it be?
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Post by Quorthon on Aug 31, 2007 23:29:24 GMT -5
I would make better financial decisions, and save a lot more money.
TPBM: If global warming takes hold, would you prefer an ice age or a runaway greenhouse effect?
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Sept 1, 2007 1:25:03 GMT -5
Ice age. But only because it's extremely hot now. If you asked me in the winter, I'd go with runaway global warming. I'd rather neither happen, so people, start driving fuel efficient vehicles; and scientists, get to work God damn it!
But ice age if I had to pick.
TPBM:
What is (was/would be) your college major?
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Sept 1, 2007 7:55:49 GMT -5
English. Creative Writing focus.
The person below me: Who was your childhood hero/icon?
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Post by Quorthon on Oct 5, 2007 12:57:30 GMT -5
One of 'em was He-Man, another was Optimus Prime.
The person below me: Name something needlessly expensive that you purchased "just because you wanted it:"
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 5, 2007 13:43:01 GMT -5
A STAR WARS pinball machine. ;D
(But I bought it "used" so it really wasn't as outrageous as it could've been.)
The person below me:
Your favorite novel in the "Fiction" category?
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