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I'm not really sold on Bruce Willis as Dr. Kersey. He seems like an action hero. Admittedly Charles Bronson had a similar problem with respect to the original adaption being a classical cowboy type but, imo, to a lesser degree. The original book is - from what I've read about it as I've not read them - not really about action or cathartic/exploitative violence but hopelessness and desperation. The first Bronson film gets a bit of that, the later films not so much. (Can't speak to the Kevin Bacon led, James Wan directed adaption of the second book DEATH SENTENCE).
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RIP Mr Gaspur. There's a crowd funding sort of thing to help his wife/son out, if anyone is interested.
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Movies You've Seen (or would like to see) Recently
Amentep replied to Rosbjerg's topic in Way Off-Topic
It may be his finest hour, but what about the other 29 minutes of the film? Its a fun film if you don't get too distracted by Moore's mustache. -
Consistently Crashing
Amentep replied to TTARKENTON's question in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
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He was in the 1979 PBS adaption of The Scarlet Letter as Arthur Dimsdale (Meg Foster was Hester Prynne) which is my first encounter with him as an actor that I can recall. Saw him in many things over the years though, (Cat People, C.H.U.D., and a number of TV guest appearances like Law and Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, The Equalizer and Miami Vice off the top of my head)
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Movies You've Seen (or would like to see) Recently
Amentep replied to Rosbjerg's topic in Way Off-Topic
DeHann is 31. I liked the film, but I do think that Valerian's character doesn't seem to quite work. Not really sure its a casting problem a conceptual problem within the script itself. -
Ready Player One:
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She's probably been the most popular "___ Marvel" at Marvel for some time. About time she got the promotion. It really seemed like the only reason Marvel had the previous Captain Marvels was to keep DC from using it for Shazam Every so often the comic companies will trot charters out to renew trademarks. That said none of the replacements have sold greatly, but Carol has a strong core following
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Arguably Dutch Engstrom in The Wild Bunch, assuming there's no more definitive earlier example. Didn't stick as it was a stunt. Spider-Man is still Peter Parker. Ultimate Spider-Man (a different continuity) was Miles Morales who took over after that universe's Peter Parker died (and who is now in the regular Marvel U post the destruction of the Ultimate Universe). Note that Doc Ock was Peter Parker as Spider-Man for about two years, so these kind of soap-opera drama changes are par for the course for modern comics. IIRC there's a myth story where Loki turns Thor into a woman temporarily; also the alternate history of the Earth X stories had Thor being turned to a woman by Odin, both pre-dating Jane Foster-Thor. Captain Marvel was made a woman when Monica Rambeau took the name over in 1982. Its passed between men and women (including the original Captain Marvel's genetic son and daughter and a Skrull impersonator) until Carol "formerly Ms. Marvel" Danvers took the title. And as mentioned John Nathan-Turner teased casting a woman since he took over the show, and series producer/former head of the BBC Sydney Newman suggested that casting during the "cancellation crisis" during Colin Baker's tenure. It was more an inevitability than a possibility, I think.
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I loved the ending, I just wish a sequel could have been made that took off straight from there. The problem with the end (and otherwise I think the Burton POTA is a fine film) is there is literally no explanation for how time got changed on Earth when they're not on Earth for most of the film. A twist end like that has to have some foundation in the film and as many times as I've watched it, there wasn't one.
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The Weird, Random and Interesting Things That Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Amentep replied to Blarghagh's topic in Way Off-Topic
What was that one Pompeii guy up to? (Warning, somewhat mature and juvenile content) http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/04/is-this-pompeii-victim-really-having-one-last-bash-scientists-have-their-say-6754791/ -
This game was not ready for release
Amentep replied to dereks16's question in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
Having been around for a couple of big patches, it also seems that major updates occasionally will have some new code that unintentionally nullifies fixes for old bugs. I think more than once I've seen reports of bugs returning that way. -
Split Health/Stamina
Amentep replied to desel's topic in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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I've also found a platter of a variety of cheeses and crackers can also work in a pinch.
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Stan's health hasn't been great the past few years, anyhow. So there was already worry.
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Actor Skip Homeier passed away June 25th. He was in a number of movies (The Gunfighters with Gregory Peck and the 1954 noir film Cry Vengence, for example) and he was on TV often (he played the Judge in the 1976 TV-Movie adaption of Bugliosi's Helter Skelter, was in Mission: Impossible, Alfred Hitch**** Presents, and a lot of the late 50s westerns like The Rifleman). For sci-fi fans he may be best remembered for two roles on Star Trek, Melakon in "Patterns of Force" and Dr. Severin in "The Way to Eden" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skip-homeier-dead-tomorrow-world-star-trek-actor-was-86-1018507 Not quite a celebrity in her own right, but well known none-the-less, Joan Lee, wife of Stan Lee has also passed away. She was also an author of one published book, The Pleasure Palace: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joan-lee-dead-wife-marvel-comics-legend-stan-lee-was-95-1018951
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I understand what you mean, but for me TNG lacked kind of the explorer's adventure element that responded for me watching TOS as a kid. A friend who was also dissatisfied with it at the time described it as "The Enterprise Taxi Cab Service" which might be a tad unfair but I understood what he meant - a lot of episode set ups were "take person A to place B and complications ensue". That doesn't mean it was bad, but after a rough start and a few years of being regular viewing I kind of lost interest so large parts of the later seasons I may have only seen an episode or two.
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So much crashing, you guys...
Amentep replied to Johnny Chronicle's question in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
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PC version on GoG?
Amentep replied to samm's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: General Discussion (No Spoilers!)
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That would be the first Star Trek pilot "The Cage" with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Pike (a character who shows up again in TOS) and John Hoyt was Doctor Boyce. Hunter was probably best known for playing Jesus in King of Kings and turns in Westerns like The Searchers and The Great Locomotive Chase. Hoyt was a Television regular from the 1950s to the 1980s. Susan Oliver played Vina, the only survivor of the previous planetary expedition. Oliver was another TV veteran, possibly most identified for her role on the TV adaption of soap opera Peyton Place. Majel Barrett features as the emotionless second in command (only called Number Two). She'd go on to voice the computer on various Star Trek productions and played Nurse Chapel. Nimoy's Spock is full of emotion in this story as well. After the first pilot failed, Roddenberry was given a chance (somewhat unprecedentedly) to do a second pilot. The network wanted Spock out and Number 2 softened; instead Roddenberry fused the two into one character. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" has Paul Fix (another veteran TV performer but perhaps most identified as Sheriff Micah Torrance in The Rifleman) as Doctor Piper. Also in it are Gary Lockwood (who was in Roddenberry's earlier series, The Lieutenant), Sally Kellerman (who went on to a big film career in the 1970s) and Paul Carr, another veteran TV player who you'll see all of 50s to 70s US TV. DeForest Kelly's Dr. McCoy shows up for the first filmed episode of the series, "The Corbomite Maneuver". Because of broadcasting though, McCoy was first seen by audiences of the time in the first aired episode, "The Man Trap". Dr. Piper shows up without explanation two episodes later and fans had to wait until the 1980s to see "The Cage" and Dr. Boyce. While I look forward to re-watching TNG, I didn't find it at the time anywhere near as interesting as The Original Series. Be interesting to find how I see it now.
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What if the American Revolution Never Happened?
Amentep replied to Guard Dog's topic in Way Off-Topic
I'm of the opinion that its such a big change to events as we know it that it'd be almost impossible to truly categorize the fallout as it would change so many large and small things as it wouldn't just eliminate events but it'd change the way people thought. That said, I can't resist a couple of "what-ifs": French expansion led to the Natchez War which had left much of Mississippi and Alabama under Choktow and Chickasaw control (and maybe Creek?) The desire of the State of Georgia to shore up its claim to the "Yazoo Lands" (even though the Natchez War had ended with the Yazoo tribe wiped out) was only really possible post-Revolution and possibly one motivation (the return of Florida to Spain post-US Revolution) would be removed. Without the Yazoo Land Scandal, there would have been no call from Washington to control 'Indian affairs" and thus no Treaty of New York; as such there'd have been no need for the British to support William Bowles (a colonial loyalist) to form the 'state' of Muscogee unifying the Cherokee, upper and lower Creek, Chocktow, Chickasaw (covering most of North and Middle Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi) which challenged various land treaties, including those of the Treaty of New York British controlled Florida doesn't go back to Spain; without the US, there is no Creek or Seminole Wars Which leads to the big question, given that the UK backed Muscogee and seemed to somewhat back the Seminoles (they denounced the Seminole Wars, IIRC) would Britain have negotiated (and kept) agreements that gave those two groups their own lands had there been no US Revolutionary War? -
WRONG QUEST MODE REWARDS MEGATHREAD
Amentep replied to jumpthegun's question in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
Have you emailed obsidian support with it? Or just posted here?
