Paladin D Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Sorry to ask, but who's in the shower scene? I'm assuming that woman pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jrob8503 Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Starship Troopers is a movie I love to hate. There's some nasty gore in that film, but can't help laughing at some of it's over-the-top drama. Like that scene were Dez takes down that huge bug w/ the grenadeand turns her back to celebratethen they all say " NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! " in the slowest of slow motion. Ugh . The first Matrix was great, maybe my favorite sci-fi film next to Empire Strikes Back. Enter the Matrix was one of the most god awful games ever. I spent too much $ on Animatrix because I felt like buying something. It was good, but I really wished I hadn't bought it. As with everything Hollywood, the mentality of "throw money at it" took down the Matrix Revolutions. The cgi was vastly overused. I was one of the few who acutally listened to the dialogue to figure out the plot. I'd miss a line and have no idea what they'd be talking about later on. Then they have to release Revolutions within the same year. This leaves no room for any improvement over the subpar sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 (edited) Starship Troopers is pretty corny in some areas, and the music could've been done better. Yes, unfortunately some movies these days have WAY too much CGI. I have to admit it, but Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is one of them. Yet again, most of the set scenes are actually hand-crafted models, with some CGI touch ups. Making skyscraper models, tunnels, and/or rooms that have a lot of detail, is much easier and faster to make; than with CGI. With Episode III, 98% to 99% (no joke) of the scenes have been filmed in a studio, or done completely by models or CGI. That's more than AOTC. Edited November 6, 2003 by Paladin D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jrob8503 Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Everyone else has done a better job with the Star Wars licencse (since RotJ) than George Lucas. There is a videogame called Knights of the Old Republic that has a better plot and better acting than both the prequels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notbilln Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 The shower scene of starship troppers takes place at marine boot camp. The intergender platoon of soilders shower together. Nothing really happens between any of them. They just shower and discuss why they joined the marines. It only shows them from the waist up. Regardless of morals or religeous beliefs, I think that just about every one would agree that intergender showers are a bad idea. It just seems so thrown in, and not neccisary. They could have had that conversation anywhere else and it would have been fine, but in the shower together naked? Please, that was a cheap excuse to show some skin. Personally, I love the matrix trillogy. However, I don't know how to explain why I love it with out being insulting those that don't like it. As if I didn't just do that. So you can have your opinion and I can have mine. I have a strange taste in art. I'll admit it. I can only say that I understand why many people won't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 (edited) Everyone else has done a better job with the Star Wars licencse (since RotJ) than George Lucas. There is a videogame called Knights of the Old Republic that has a better plot and better acting than both the prequels. I wouldn't say the actors are bad (maybe the exception of Hayden). Most of the scenes they've done in AOTC, were around blue screen. In TPM, the acting was better. However, the Prequels have been viewed as more of a "visual based" story. While the Classics have been viewed as more of a "character based" story. So while the Prequels may have the neat and amesome visuals, they are lacking "character". People grew more attached to the characters, vehicles (like the Falcon), and etc. Probally because all the ships were actual models, so it was like "they really physically existed". The new generation of SW fans that are now growing up with the Prequels, will inDouche become great Star Wars fans. But there perceptions may or may not (depending on each person) be different. Since the older fans grew up on the classics, while the newer ones grew up on either both, or just the prequels. If the Prequels (TPM was good, but could've been done better), had more a character based story, it wouldn't be so "blah". Note: The plots are good, it's the way some are presented. AOTC was pretty rushed, but George Lucas only has had two movies to fit all this stuff in. (TPM was slower and explained things more, like the Classics). Edited November 6, 2003 by Paladin D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notbilln Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 IMHO, I think Lucas has done a horrible job with the prequels. granted he has a limited amount o f time to tell the story, but he really could have done a better job with the story line. I wouldn't mind the bad acting, visual style as much, if the story line was better. I think he's lost it. Or maybe he never really had it. The matrix is a gazillion times better, even with Keanu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 IMHO, I think Lucas has done a horrible job with the prequels. granted he has a limited amount o f time to tell the story, but he really could have done a better job with the story line. I wouldn't mind the bad acting, visual style as much, if the story line was better. I think he's lost it. Or maybe he never really had it. The matrix is a gazillion times better, even with Keanu. Little fact. George Lucas directed only A New Hope. He hired two other guys to direct Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He's a good writer, but he isn't thee best director. Heck, if I remember correctly...he didn't write the script for RotJ, just the screenwriting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 I just found this article from Envoy about the Matrix: Envoy Article Some quotes: In the first segment, “the Call,” we’re introduced to the protagonist, Neo, whose name is an anagram of “One” (as in “the One”) and means “new” in Greek. He’s asleep at a computer screen filled with news of Morpheus, thus foreshadowing what will soon be revealed: He is in a dreamworld. After an interesting computer screen conversation, Neo assists a character named Troy, whose three-minute role serves to tell us who Neo is: “Hallelujah, you’re my saviour, man, my own personal Jesus Christ.” Neo soon meets Trinity, who warns him of impending danger, and tells him that Morpheus, whom Neo is looking for, will find him. Neo is given a new cell phone through which Morpheus, acting as his guide, calls him, warning him that agents are even now searching the building for him. Neo is told to “get on the [window-washer’s] scaffold and go to the roof,” a reference to the scaffold of the cross upon which Jesus is raised. He refuses to follow this guidance and is consequently captured by three agents, who subject him to a trial. These three persons interrogate him and plant a tracking device on him. During this interrogation, we discover that Neo’s full name is Thomas A. Anderson. Most viewers would recognize the doubting Thomas reference, but only the careful viewer knows “Anderson” means “son of man.” The New Adam The story now enters the “New Adam” sequence. Our doubting Thomas is told to go to Adams street, where he meets Trinity under a bridge from which water pours in sheets. Together, they pass through the water and Neo agrees to meet with Morpheus. Trinity is able to remove the tracking device and they enter a building with chessboard tiles where Morpheus meets him. We hear Duke Ellington’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light” play in the background. In an unusual amalgam of Alice’s Wonderland and Adam in the Garden of Eden, Neo is asked to eat a forbidden pill in order to move to the next level. As he contemplates his choice, the first part of Gnostic philosophy is revealed to him: “The world has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. . . . You are a slave, born into bondage. . . . How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 I just got back from seeing The Matrix: Revolutions. I hafta say, even though it wasn't really what I expected I did like it. Matt didn't like that they left it a little open at the end, but I didn't really notice it. It all made sense to me, but apparently it left some people in the dark. As we were leaving the kid walking behind us kept saying "What the hell was that about? Will somebody please tell me what happened? I don't get it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 There is also a prayer card of St. Therese of Liseux in Spiderman. Hey! I didn't know that! Where???? I love X-Men. Nightcrawler is a really cool character. I heard that someone actually formed an official Jedi religion in the united kingdom. Yes, there would be a problem with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TempleofVesarius Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 I AM NEO WORSHIP ME :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 I AM NEO WORSHIP ME HA! Whatever! I'm your big sister! I'm not gonna worship you! Obey your elders! You have to do what I say! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin D Posted November 7, 2003 Share Posted November 7, 2003 I AM NEO WORSHIP ME Never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TempleofVesarius Posted November 8, 2003 Share Posted November 8, 2003 hey now, somewhere floating around northern new york are about 20 pictures of me posing and handing out candy to little children at the mall on halloween seriously people actually asked me to have my picture taken with their kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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