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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #1142
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Walter White: Pokemon Master

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  • #1143
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Walter White: Pokemon Master

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    Hey yo Tuco!


  • #1144
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Hey yo Tuco!


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  • #1145
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Definite Gordon Freeman thing going on with ol' Walt

    By the by, Ciderman tells lies. The Harry Potter films get worse as they go along, not better. The Order Of The Phoenix? God almighty...over two hours of pretentious convoluted cack. Give me a cd-i anyday


  • #1146
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,613 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The first two films are woeful. The third is the best by a distance. Four and five are only OK, although can't say I even remember much about the fifth :/ The rest have undeniable rough patches (as did the books), but the director really nails a sense of dread and the gothic visuals. The problems lie with the source material in most cases: noone could make the epilogue anything other than awful :(


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  • #1147
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,435 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    You know, I'm one of those people who loves seeing adults doing things which people tend to see as 'for children'. Be it videogames, lego, comics or whatever.

    But whenever I see an adult reading a Harry Potter book, a part of me dies inside.


  • #1148
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,613 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Better Harry Potter than Fifty Shades of Grey, TBF


  • #1149
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    You know, I'm one of those people who loves seeing adults doing things which people tend to see as 'for children'. Be it videogames, lego, comics or whatever.

    But whenever I see an adult reading a Harry Potter book, a part of me dies inside.

    It's like, where do these films fit in?? They're so convoluted a child couldn't possibly sit through them for over two hours. And as an adult it's like, why is this film stretched out this long, it should be wrapped up in 90mins.

    4 & 5 have been terrible to watch, really drawn out beyond belief. Three more & I'm done. Even my son, who's entering the target audience age group isn't enjoying them


  • #1150
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,435 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Better Harry Potter than Fifty Shades of Grey, TBF

    Both as bad as each other really. And at least Fify Shades of Grey is giving oul wans the gift of fappage before they die. What has Harry given us? Hipster Wizards?
    EnterNow wrote: »
    It's like, where do these films fit in?? They're so convoluted a child couldn't possibly sit through them for over two hours. And as an adult it's like, why is this film stretched out this long, it should be wrapped up in 90mins.

    4 & 5 have been terrible to watch, really drawn out beyond belief. Three more & I'm done. Even my son, who's entering the target audience age group isn't enjoying them

    They're being dragged out to allow J. K. Rowling to continue her massive ego fap. It's a shame they didn't release 50 Shades of Grey about a decade ago, maybe she could have used that instead.


  • #1151
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,435 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Everything you wanted to know about Atavan but were too afraid to ask. Now's your chance -

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056736981


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  • #1152
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Everything you wanted to know about Atavan but were too afraid to ask. Now's your chance -

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056736981

    Atavan Carte Blanche


  • #1153
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    RIP Neil Armstrong, I feel privileged to have sat down and had a few drinks in his company a good few years ago.
    That man had many a story to tell.


  • #1154
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    o1s1n wrote: »
    What has Harry given us?...

    I can think of at least one good thing. :-)

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    I thought the last film was fairly decent actually.


  • #1155
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    Steve SI wrote: »
    RIP Neil Armstrong, I feel privileged to have sat down and had a few drinks in his company a good few years ago.
    That man had many a story to tell.

    Very sad news indeed. At least his name will never be forgotten.


  • #1156
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    the groutch wrote: »
    so what is it?

    Katerina Bartikovsky at your service

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    I think Enternow is lying

    Like Rimmer he is Bit crap


    In Red Dwarf-land, virtual reality headsets weren’t just a rubbish 90s phenomenon, like The Bluetones. Thanks to this technology, the Cat became a blinged-up gunslinger called…?

    Misread that and got it wrong i thought it was looking for listers alias:mad:


  • #1157
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Steve SI wrote: »
    RIP Neil Armstrong, I feel privileged to have sat down and had a few drinks in his company a good few years ago.
    That man had many a story to tell.

    One giant loss to mankind

    Rip

    But i bet the funeral will be out of this world


  • #1158
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    I think Enternow is lying

    If I was lying I'd have said 50/50 :)

    Granted I got lucky on two of them, Krytens Liquid Nitrogen drink, Ainsely Harriot as a Gelf, & Danny J Jules' real life single...but I'd good inklings on them. It's fitting that the only one I got wrong was a BTE question, as I've watched that about three thousand times less than the others :D


  • #1159
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,398 ✭✭✭Doge


    After owning the 1541U-II cart for months now, I finally went away and soldered the Tape Extender, to emulate the cassette drive.

    Now I can enjoy c64 games complete with epilepsy inducing loading screens!


  • #1160
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    EnterNow wrote: »
    If I was lying I'd have said 50/50 :)

    Granted I got lucky on two of them, Krytens Liquid Nitrogen drink, Ainsely Harriot as a Gelf, & Danny J Jules' real life single...but I'd good inklings on them. It's fitting that the only one I got wrong was a BTE question, as I've watched that about three thousand times less than the others :D

    Snared:D

    A real dwarf fan would know that it only tastes like a cross between Vimto and liquid nitrogen.


    It was NOT them that the drink was made of

    Engage smugmode

    Smugmode engaged:D

    And tongue tied was from RD Episode Parallel Universe

    It was not Dannys song alone listy and rimmsy san backing


  • #1161
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Sparks43 wrote: »
    Snared:D

    A real dwarf fan would know that it only tastes like a cross between Vimto and liquid nitrogen.

    Yeah that was the question, what was the other ingredient besides Vimto? I said Liquid Nitrogen which was the correct answer according to the quiz :)
    It was NOT them that the drink was made of

    Engage smugmode

    Smugmode engaged:D

    You might wanna disengage it man :p

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    And tongue tied was from RD Episode Parallel Universe

    It was not Dannys song alone listy and rimmsy san backing

    Are you just jealous because my Red Dwarf knowledge is superior to yours? :D


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  • #1162
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Very sad to hear, just now, of Mr Armstrongs passing, truly a man whose name will be known for the rest of human history, god speed...


  • #1163
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    The first two films are woeful. The third is the best by a distance. Four and five are only OK, although can't say I even remember much about the fifth :/ The rest have undeniable rough patches (as did the books), but the director really nails a sense of dread and the gothic visuals. The problems lie with the source material in most cases: noone could make the epilogue anything other than awful :(

    I enjoyed the first two for what they were, kids films, and there was plenty to enjoy in those films, Rickmans performance for one, along with Harris.

    Goblet of Fire was my least fave, and the next was Deathly Hallows pt1.

    Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows pt2, I enjoyed the lot.

    I watched the whole lot again, there last month and enjoyed them even more.

    The epilogue was pretty pitiful, I'll grant you.

    Feels a tad like "too mainstream to be good" tbh, when a vast amount of people have enjoyed the films and continue to do so.

    I have yet to read the books but will wait another year or two and stick them on my Kindle, for when I am done with The Dark Tower series.


    However,
    Compared to the other great media machine of the first decade of the 21st century, that is Dan Brown, we were lucky with JK Rowling.
    At least she can string a sentence together and write a tale.
    Brown can do neither, and as for the two films, I don't want to even type their names for fear I will remember a feature of their bloated nonsense.


  • #1164
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,613 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I'm actually quite fond of Harry Potter on the whole. I grew up with it - read the first two when I was around 11-12, and then followed the series up 'til its conclusion. So I do have nostalgia towards it, and respect the author's achievement. Rowling may not be the best 'writer' (in the literary sense) that ever lived, but heck she can spin an engrossing story.

    The problem with the films is they try to cram so much story in: and if they tried to do anything different, an overenthusiastic fanbase (who could never recognise the series for what it was, and hyped it up beyond any reason) jumped down their throat. Also the books contain so much scene setting and backstory it did not always make for the most compelling screen content. The third film - by a great director and the strongest standalone story - works well as its the most capable of standing on its own terms for both fans and non-fans. The first two films and parts of the later ones suffer with the sheer amount of exposition they have to deal with. Still, I think Yates did a great job creating a dark, oppressive atmosphere in Half Blood and Deathly Hallows.

    But yeah, as far as stories about teenage wizards go, Harry Potter ain't too shabby. Its merits may have been exaggerated to high heaven by many, and its demerits hyperbolised by others: but Rowling has created a rich, oftentimes complex world, and seven great pageturners. They don't have the same depth or force as, say, His Dark Materials, but its easy to see how they captured the public's imagination (even if the less than reasonable fanboys and fangirls probably need to chill out a wee bit). The films were hit and miss, but around half of them IMO do a reasonably decent job at adapting the plot heavy source material.

    Also: I'm not exactly sure what a 'hipster wizard' is? Daniel Radcliffe shopping in American Apparel?


  • #1165
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    EnterNow wrote: »



    Are you just jealous because my Red Dwarf knowledge is superior to yours? :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKlC8ph7mM


  • #1166
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,622 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    'I love tHat David Bowie sOng! Ground control!'
    Taxi man -'Neil Armstrong I'd dead, hence the moon songs. '
    Me - 'armstrongs are
    Getting a Poor day. Four de France. '

    Me ' Buzz is still the solid finest though?'

    Taxi - 'yeah'

    All - ' whose the other lad that stuas I sideparty's

    Me - ' wilie mchat'

    Hah

    So sad though to he's that. RIP.

    O


  • #1167
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    'I love tHat David Bowie sOng! Ground control!'
    Taxi man -'Neil Armstrong I'd dead, hence the moon songs. '
    Me - 'armstrongs are
    Getting a Poor day. Four de France. '

    Me ' Buzz is still the solid finest though?'

    Taxi - 'yeah'

    All - ' whose the other lad that stuas I sideparty's

    Me - ' wilie mchat'

    Hah

    So sad though to he's that. RIP.

    O


    That is like an Atavan post, in it's need to be deciphered before being understood.

    "Armstrongs are getting a poor day"... :)


  • #1168
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    If Box Art Was Made 30 Years Ago for Modern Games.

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  • #1169
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Here's a question more geared toward Mr. U (and probably the film forum). :)

    Have any of you seen the Space Battleship Yamato movie? I've got a copy of the Blu Ray pressing coming to me from Hong Kong and was wondering if anyone knows if the English subtitles on it are good or Chinglish?

    Alas it's the only pressing, apart from perhaps the Australian BR, that has English subtitles so we're not really spoilt for choice.


  • #1170
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Pyongyang wrote: »
    Here's a question more geared toward Mr. U (and probably the film forum). :)

    Have any of you seen the Space Battleship Yamato movie? I've got a copy of the Blu Ray pressing coming to me from Hong Kong and was wondering if anyone knows if the English subtitles on it are good or Chinglish?

    Alas it's the only pressing, apart from perhaps the Australian BR, that has English subtitles so we're not really spoilt for choice.

    Quite a bit of Chinglish and out of sync subs on the bluray but there are revised subtitles online.


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  • #1171
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Quite a bit of Chinglish and out of sync subs on the bluray but there are revised subtitles online.

    Ah ok. Was kind of expecting that. A shame really as it's not a counterfeit (was shop bought in HMV) so you'd expect it to be top drawer.

    Hmm, so the question begs, how do you go about plopping the revised subs on there and yet retain a 1:1 copy? Or are the revised subs downloadable once I pop the BR in to my BR player?


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