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I'd concur with that too. I'm pretty agreeable.

I concur with your assessment of the situation.

Hmmm, I would have never thought to look four pages in a NWN2 thread for the answers... :(" Thanks to you and The Artist Now Known As Quixotic (TANKAQ).

As near as I can tell there isn't another thread here to explain what happened to the "house". But perhaps I missed it? As far as I know, there isn't an explaination. No one seems to have heard from Mistress about the lair. But I could be wrong...

You should embrace your 2000 posts, Roshan. Hug them! Each and everyone! :cool:

I didn't really like Hollywoodland, mostly because it hamstrung itself with a split narrative that doesn't do justice to either main character (Reeves or the fictional detective) That said, I don't think the movie really gives us more information on Reeves; it in fact has - from my understanding - some serious factual problem, mostly because they don't present an accurate representation of where Reeves was at that time in his life. Instead, they present the single idea he was washed up, bitter and strugling to find work (which was only ever put forth by his fiance, Leynore Lemon after his death). At that time, George Reeves had agreed to do another season of The Adventures of Superman in 1960; in fact the production had already approached Pierre Watkin, who played Perry White in the serials (as Noel Neil had Lois Lane) to replace the late John Hamilton (who had died after the 1958 season) from what I understand. His role hadn't been cut in From Here to Eternity, nor was there a screening with people screaming out "Superman" as shown in the movie; both the writer and director for the movie have said that Reeves filmed what was written for his part and its all in the film. Add into that that Reeves was scheduled to shoot a film in Spain and was Hitchc ock's original choice for Detective Arbogast in Psycho (and had been cast in that part) and that Reeves was scheduled for a wrestling match the day after he died and you get a very different picture of where Reeves was at that point in his life from what the film presents. Add into that the fact that the film ignore several other possibilities on his death, that Reeves - who had a very high blood alcohol level - could have accidently shot himself while screwing around with his gun or that Reeves' earlier car crash and injuries may have had a dramatic effect on his personality and you have a movie that is really about creating an account of Reeves built on the "myth" of his story, and not the reality.

Watched the Japanese film Noroi no yakata: Chi o s

^Who looks to movies for historical accuracy anyhow? :-"

I have no particular interest in it (heck a Godzilla RPG would be more my line anyhow... ), I don't think it would necessarily be a bad thing if done well. That said I'd personnaly rather a lot other types of RPGs before a Transformers one. But I can see with the movie set to be made, Transformers are probably going to be more in the publics mind, I imagine there will be games. Probably action games, but games none the less...

I dunno, given that it seems all of mine and Blue's discussion over V for Vendetta seems to have been blocked out (about the movie, about the comic and about othe dystopian future movies like 1984, Brazil and so forth that I'd hardly consider spoilerific), it seemed a little more than a request, thus why I kinda thought some clarification was needed.

I totally agree with you there...definately not a good film, albiet not quite as dissapointing to me as High Tension was.

That's not a problem, but part of the discussion that appears to have been edited was about the comic book, which is over 20 years old; do we have to put a spoiler tag on *everything* no matter how old it is? Or is it simply because the movie is only six months old (I notice several older film discussions - including the end to the original Poseidon Adventure haven't been edited)? Again if that's how things operate here, that's fine and I'll try to [ spoiler ] all recent film discussion, but almost every board I've ever been to has a statute of limitations on such things which has usually only been a few months after a movies release (but I can understand tightening this up since these forums only have one movie discussion thread and spoilers are harder to avoid).

Poking around a bit, it looks like Jackson is producing the film, but not directing it. Which I hadn't heard.

No they did originally say he was making the Hobbit with them. And then Jackson said it was the first he'd heard of it. Which then I think turned to a "clarification" from MGM. MGM owns the distribution rights to the Hobbit while New Line owns the rights to make the film, which means no film will be made before MGM and New Line agree to it, which will have to happen before Jackson hopes to get involved, if he wants to do it. Blue - the Dambusters story was proven false, AFAIK; Jackson's not remaking it. The Lovely Bones he's doing on spec (he wants to have a script done before presenting it to a studio to be made) which word is he'll do with Temeraire as well. Halo afaik he's only producing.

Peter Jackson seems to have optioned Naomi Novik's Temeraire novel(s) (aka His Majesty's Dragon) Yahoo's news report Haven't read the novel myself but it sounds interesting. This would theoretically be Jackson's movie after The Lovely Bones. Which puts more wonder to MGM's announcement Jackson was making The Hobbit with them...

I really like both "12 Monkeys" and "City of Lost Children"...at the moment I'm blanking on really good dystopian films... :"> (12 Monkeys is more post-apocalyptic to me anyhow, but I'm not sure genre matters too much).

Perhaps its not as downbeat as, say, the original end to Brazil; I was merely pointing out the irony of calling something a "comic book" ending when the comic ended differently.

An amusing assertation since they changed the ending of the movie version of V for Vendetta rather drastically from the ending of the comic book... :("

Its still going; its called the "Vs" system from Upper Deck. They have both Marvel and DC lines (and I believe they're adding Hellboy early next year).

Sorry, both Doc Savage and Superman have "Fortress of Solitude"s built out of Ice in the artic...first thing I thought of... :">

A real "Fortress of Solitude"?

Watched The Call of Cthulhu a independent adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft story; one of its main conceits is to try and present it as a movie of the time (so its a silent film made in a "German Expressionist" mode). It looks good and has a couple of effective bits, but there are some things that happen in it - possibly due to budget - that hamper its ability to build the kind of malicious dread that exists in most Lovecraft stories. Still its an interesting attempt to do a different kind of Lovecraft adaption and I admire the creative forces behind the film for that.

The Watchtower in the Justice League cartoon was a satalite (not unlike the one the JLA used in the 1970s in the comic book). The Watchtower in the 90s comic (begining I believe with Grant Morrion's JLA) was a moonbase. It however was recently destroyed and I'm under the impression it won't be back...

I dunno, I never got used to it. And ultimately the VMU(?) mini-games weren't all that interesting either, making it seem to be a waste of space. But maybe I just didn't get the right games; I got the Dreamcast out of my love of Sega games, but it never was as good a console for me as the Saturn was.

Yeah Barcelona was fun...I played that several times through. But once you get past Barcelona - to me at least - it was like the game wasn't finished (or balanced either, but then I might just suck at action games like this too). Loved Barcelona, but to me the game needed some more time in development (I seem to remember that it was dumped without it being finished because Interplay needed the game out and wasn't going to give in on the release date anymore, so that kinda makes sense).