Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

ghostchant

I only saw Back to Earth a couple of months ago, having been warned off it previously. Apart from the godawful Coronation Street scenes, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it! Zero expectations will do that I suppose!

Jack burton

Steve SI wrote: »

Hmm, kind of but this exist in a full encrypted and untraceable network. The "deep net" is still just the internet but harder to find.

When you stop to think about whats readily available from google searches, deep web stuff actually makes me feel really bad for being human. Of course there's some legit stuff there too I'm sure...but I still shudder

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It really is a very obsolete store. Anything you can get there can be gotten an awful lot cheaper on ebay since they are basing all their prices on average prices on ebay, which would be blown out of proportion by chancers selling with high BIN prices. Last time I was in there I asked if they had Megaman on the NES and told me it was very rare and they sold it for 90 euros. It's not that common but hardly 90 euro common. I can get the NTSC version for less than $30 dollars BIN and even then it's overpriced.

The days you could get good bargains in that place went away with Jcoughohny Ultimates copy of MUSHA.

They can keep their overpriced PAL copies.

Cough .. Boxed ntsc snes for twenty blips last week..cough.
They're overpriced quite often, but in fairness you can usually haggle a little ,especially the likes of us who have a rough idea of what things are worth. And having a bricks and mortar retro shop is a good thing...

Steve X2

Haha,

Jack burton

So...Just back from Batman. Being a big fan of the comics and following the character for a long time I can safely say that in my opinion the new Batman picture is quite simply....Batastic!

Everyone go see it. Its fantastic, it just feels like a comic, and definitely one of the best films I've seen in the past few years. Plus if your a fan of the comics, expect to see a few little bits in the film just for you

DinoRex

I only liked about 50% of it and the 50% I did like didn't involve Batman.

Overall I thought it was a very poor effort. Amazing Spider-man and Avengers are substantially better films and don't have any deluded pretensions that they are anything but comic book movies.

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

Amazing Spider-man and Avengers are substantially better films and don't have any deluded pretensions that they are anything but comic book movies.

Could literally not disagree more with that statement. If The Dark Knight Rises is a gem, The Avengers is a pebble and The Amazing Spiderman is the **** I scrape off my shoes (I'm too lazy to make up any other analogy). Deluded pretensions for the win.

The Dark Knight Rises has a few niggling issues, but that it was a thrilling and smart film that pretty much owns any recent blockbusters in terms of execution, ambition and intelligence.

DinoRex

Thrilling? Those were the worst fight scenes ever committed to celluloid!

johnny_ultimate

I thought the action scenes were mostly very well handled, although hardly the most interesting part of the film. I didn't care for The Bat at all, but thought the fight scenes were engaging. The plot, the characters, the visual identity and the depth of the themes explored were far more interesting overall, though. For the first forty five minutes I didn't know what to make of it. From the

stock exchange sequence

onwards, I was hooked.

CiDeRmAn

Well, I saw it this morning with Dino and again this evening, still a cracking film, but please Warner, now Nolan had made his trilogy please don't reboot for a few years, please?
Spiderman and Avengers were both great, Dark Knight Rises was better.
Be interesting to see how Superman fares with Snyder at the helm.
Dredd though, that is going to be fun.
And I've seen The Three Stooges and really enjoyed it, so there!

DinoRex

I quite liked the Man of Steel teaser trailer. It's definitely got a Batman Begins bang off it.

Sparks43

Hate the new Batman

Although it was very well shot:eek:

Steve X2

I know you wont but guys no spoilers please until I see this thing on Sunday night

Also this:

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

After Back to Earth, which may be one of the worst pieces of televisual media I've ever seen, I'm going to assume that X will be steaming pile of smeg.

I'm hoping my lowered expectations will therefore actually lead to a pleasant surprise, and we can purge our collective memories of BtE.

I think people seem to feel every single episode of Red Dwarf leading up to season 8 was brilliant. There were some terrible ones, BTE is easily better than 4 or 5 episodes of earlier seasons.

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

I think people seem to feel every single episode of Red Dwarf leading up to season 8 was brilliant. There were some terrible ones, BTE is easily better than 4 or 5 episodes of earlier seasons.

Yeah there are some dreadful episodes (especially in season 7) but given the years they had to put a script together I thought BtE failed horrifically. I guess I just didn't like the whole meta 'transported to the real world' angle, which had been done several times before in stuff like The League of Gentlemen. Wasn't very funny either, IMO. Red Dwarf has always struggled to keep up the quality after the break-up of Grant Naylor. Hoping lowered expectations will be the best way to approach X

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Red Dwarf has always struggled to keep up the quality after the break-up of Grant Naylor. Hoping lowered expectations will be the best way to approach X

Very true, but people go on about BtE as if it stands out as being worse than any other bad Dwarf episode. It doesn't, it wasn't great for sure, but it was no worse than the likes of Camille or Meltdown...both truly awfully difficult to watch & much more so than BtE.

And in any way, BtE was still better than anything on tv showing at that particular time, hardly high praise for modern mainstream tv.

ghostchant

Damn Camille was just an awful episode. Meltdown was pants but I'd consider it a guilty pleasure for the obvious but still funny hitler/chimney scene.

I do think that modern tv is pretty good on the whole, comedy wise there's been Arrested Development (favourite show ever) Curb Your Enthusiasm and It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia for a start, and a large amount of good 'serious' stuff. Looking forward to finally getting to watch Breaking Bad soon.

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

And in any way, BtE was still better than anything on tv showing at that particular time, hardly high praise for modern mainstream tv.

Can't agree with that! Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Thick of It, Curb, Battlestar Galactica (which would have just been ending at the time of Back to Earth - now that's proper sci-fi!) would have all been showing around the same time, and all far superior to Back to Earth.

I'll give it a watch again one of these days, but I just remember watching each episode in the vague hope it would get better. It never did

Steve X2

Some difference from the DVD and the new remastered bluray edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVK0Y9XBgmA

Still too many sucky episodes in season 1 though and we'll have to wait ages for the later seasons.

CiDeRmAn

I'll wait for it to pop up in .mp4 form and "aquire" it then!
Bwa hahahaha!

Atavan-Halen

Getting mah drink on! Can I officially claim first drunk post in the new thread?!

Atavan-Halen

Bit is ok because in drunk already.

Professey Chin

Steve SI wrote: »

Some difference from the DVD and the new remastered bluray edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVK0Y9XBgmA

Still too many sucky episodes in season 1 though and we'll have to wait ages for the later seasons.

DS9 is still my favourite

Atavan-Halen

Ducks to in I'm
Drunkard!!!!!

Atavan-Halen

Also, Pokemon white 2 is the best game Everett.

Hank Scorpio

uhm...

Anyone know a place to pickup a NTSC snes with decent shipping costs?

Jack burton

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well, I saw it this morning with Dino and again this evening, still a cracking film, but please Warner, now Nolan had made his trilogy please don't reboot for a few years, please?
Spiderman and Avengers were both great, Dark Knight Rises was better.
Be interesting to see how Superman fares with Snyder at the helm.
Dredd though, that is going to be fun.
And I've seen The Three Stooges and really enjoyed it, so there!

Spider was a load of testicle I thought, Really was a rubbish attempt. With a series like spiderman and so so many stories that could easily be put to film they made come big mess of a story that felt rushed and squashed but yet like there wasn't a plot at all.

Dredd is going to be fun though!

pdbhp

Saw The Amazing Spiderman myself last night, was watchable once and only once.
I though it was extrmely pretentious and nowhere near as good a movie as The Avengers which had no story line but lots of action.

Went to 3 seperate shops looking for Spirit Camera in Tallaght yesterday aswell, couldn't find it anywhere which was really disappointing.
Looks like I'll have to head to town today and buy it there totally píssed off over it though as it should be avaliable close to home.

Safe to say I had a good ould moan at the staff over it.

johnny_ultimate

I was baffled at the good reviews Amazing Spiderman received. Really the most redundant film $250 million has ever been wasted on. Liked but never loved the Sam Raimi films (except three), but the new one makes them look like progressive masterpieces!

Myrddin

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Battlestar Galactica (which would have just been ending at the time of Back to Earth - now that's proper sci-fi!) would have all been showing around the same time, and all far superior to Back to Earth.

But Red Dwarf isn't sci-fi really, its a comedy sit com at its heart.

I've yet to embrace Battlestar Galactica, it's on my list & the fact it gets such positive comments is promising.