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Re: Don’t Forget: 24 Season Six Premieres Sunday Night!

Kettlebells — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:32:33 -0000

Oh, sure, I like that feeling too. I just don't like waiting an entire week for the resolution. I want it NOW!!!

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Re: James Cameron’s Avatar: No Pressure, Eh?

Kettlebells — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:21:53 -0000

Now that's funny... I never knew Lucas said that. Oh, the irony... ;-)

Gotta disagree with you on "Titanic", I thought it was very entertaining, although DiCaprio didn't quite work for me in the role.

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Re: James Cameron’s Avatar: No Pressure, Eh?

Kettlebells — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:58:23 -0000

Cool, thanks for the link to the interview. Cameron seems to know what he's doing (duh, right?) and I *really* liked what he had to say about how the protagonist needs to come across onscreen in regards to believability that people would follow him in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Rudyard Kipling.

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Re: Fantastic Four 2 Trailer: Cool If You Don’t Think About It Too Much

Kettlebells — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:40:04 -0000

"make a few compromises for the same folks who are entertained by a WWF Match"

Oh my gosh!!!! LOL!

Thanks for the laugh, Matt. :-D

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Re: Fantastic Four 2 Trailer: Cool If You Don’t Think About It Too Much

Kettlebells — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:49:11 -0000

Yeah, I suppose you're right. Zipping around the universe with it's vast expanses of nothingness could get pretty boring. How often do you run into a guy who bursts into flame AND flys? It would be entertaining. :-)

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Re: Transformers Trailer: Wow

Kettlebells — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:10:19 -0000

Heh... now see that? I wasn't aware it was originally from the U.S.!

Re: Verdict: Updated Classic Star Trek Is Great!

Kettlebells — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:03:56 -0000

Couple of things:

1. I just grab them on Tivo. Don't even know what the Xbox Live service is. :-)

2. I'm hearing rumblings that these WILL be coming out on HD-DVD (or Blu-Ray or whatever the heck the next format is).

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Re: Rejected Iron Man Movie Armor Concepts

Kettlebells — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:12:34 -0000

I think the movie will be faithful to the CONCEPT of the original story, but actually quite different since they're doing it present-day. I think that the "Extremis" story arc by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov will be a big influence when it comes to look of the armor and origin.

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Re: Rejected Iron Man Movie Armor Concepts

Kettlebells — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:38:40 -0000

Skully, I hear ya. That's the Shellhead I grew up with, but the problem is that today's audience is more (hack, cough) sophisticated and setting that level of ultra-high tech in today's time just wouldn't come across as "realistic".

Sure, we're using the terms superpowered characters an "realism" in the same sentence, but to suspend disbelief there have to be compromises made. Now if Iron Man was based in the 24th century, sure. But for now it's going to have to look a bit more feasible.

I've seen some concept designs and if they go with what I've seen I think it'll be a decent compromise.

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Re: Paramount To Longtime Trek Fans: Screw You

Kettlebells — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:42:34 -0000

Joe,

I'm sorry but I think that "Nemesis" was a travesty. Terrible, terrible execution. In concept, who knows? In better hands it might have worked, but as it appeared on the big screen it was awful.

I don't think that "going backwards" is necessarily a bad thing. Trek fans absolutely LOVE knowing the background and workings of the Star Trek universe and the pre-Enterprise days have never really been explored. If done RIGHT, it could be great.

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Re: Rick Berman Not Involved in Star Trek 11

Kettlebells — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:31:28 -0000

Justin I'm with you 100%. I think it's a REALLY bad idea to bring in well-known actors to play screen icons.

Besides, at this point isn't Damon about as old as Kirk was when he was Captain???

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