Movies in General

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let's discuss about our avatars instead
so what's with your sig steelbird?

haha sorry for hijacking your thread

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bladerunner:
How come I can't find the thread you mentioned? Can you show me?

ravenshield936:
Our avatars? I don't see you have any. Perhaps you can clone one with your genes, make a box, lie in it and take control over the avatar. haha... Here is a mid-air interception, so back to our topic.

At the ending part of the movie, when human tried to bomb the village, the packed the explosive into pallets, transfer it with transportation aircraft and push it out through the launching ramp. What's hell technique it was. Don't human at that era even have a proper bomber or a missile?

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There is a thread already on this, which I shall join this with it.

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SteelBird said:

bladerunner:
How come I can't find the thread you mentioned? Can you show me?

ravenshield936:
Our avatars? I don't see you have any. Perhaps you can clone one with your genes, make a box, lie in it and take control over the avatar. haha... Here is a mid-air interception, so back to our topic.

At the ending part of the movie, when human tried to bomb the village, the packed the explosive into pallets, transfer it with transportation aircraft and push it out through the launching ramp. What's hell technique it was. Don't human at that era even have a proper bomber or a missile?

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in fact with all the ballistic missiles we have and moabs and fuel air, war couldve much "easier"

but then i guess they couldve also have activist groups at their times, so they didn't really do that

Re: Movies in General/ Star Trek etc etc

China's box office roars
Boosted by major holidays, quarter takings double
By CLIFFORD COONANThe Year of the Tiger got off to a roaring start for Chinese cinemas, with the box office more than doubling during the Nov. 20-Feb. 20 quarter to 3 billion yuan ($440 million).
This is a major quarter in Chinese cinema as it includes big festivals and holidays. The big boost to earnings during the period, compared to the previous three months, came from two Hollywood films -- "2012," which has taken $67.5 million, and "Avatar," which has taken $180 million so far.

The state-run China Film Group said there were 30 new pics screened during the period, and January's B.O. take was a record $170 million.

Local highlights include Teddy Chan's "Bodyguards and Assassins," which took $11 million on its opening weekend. Jackie Chan road movie "Little Big Soldier" scored $12.3 million during the Spring Festival holiday.

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I wonder how much the Chinese distributor paid to Hollywood to show Avatar.

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I had read a while ago that the next Transformers movie was going to be filmed on locations around the world other than China this time. I guess with 2012 putting an emphasis on China in the story and how it paid off at the box office breaking Transformers 2's record in China now they're going back to China. But I doubt it's going to be an intrincal part like in 2012.

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James Cameron is trying to make this into a movie.

Battle Angel Alita



I also heard one of his scriptwriters might be working on an adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

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Just saw Clash of the Titans...

Hmmm... Louis Leterrier... did the Incredible Hulk, an entertaining comic book movie. Expected Clash of the Titans to be entertaining... NOT!

Typical remake formula these days. Use the name and just update the visuals and action and rearrange things to make it seem different from the original... oh and don't bother with any sense of story. It's a Greek myth! You'd figure they would care. No love for Andromeda as for the motivation for all this. This one Perseus is just pissed off that Hades killed-off his mortal family that adopted him. That seems the only motivation in this movie. At least the original may have been campy, but everyone had a motivation for their actions. Here, people just do things or show-up out of nowhere to connect the dots and move the "story" from scene to the next scene.

Well if you just go to see movies for visuals and "action" then this is probably wil be okay for you.

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Would you believe that the Olympian armor used in the movie Clash of the Titans was inspired from the anime Saint Seiya?

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crobato said:

Would you believe that the Olympian armor used in the movie Clash of the Titans was inspired from the anime Saint Seiya?

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HHmmmmmmmmmm, After watching a host of Japanese CGs in the video games I thought it would have been vice versa. All the characters are europeanised looking as well.The only giveaway being the Japanese male characters are in most instances rather feminate looking pretty boys almost wimpy, while the Westerners like the male character to represent the players alter ego, a mans man... tall rugged powerful etc.

Saw"Shutter Island" a few weeks ago, not too bad if you like suspense..

I never like "Alice in Wonderland" as a kid but I might take myself off to see the 3D version of it.