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  1. 15 hours ago, Big s said:

    I think you also have to think about it in terms of when the original came out. I’d definitely watch a bad episode over most shows that were on back in the day and especially when the show was in syndication. The show had the best looking effects that rivaled movies at the time

    I remember it stopped being a must watch for me somewhere along the line after the first few episodes and I am not sure that I have seen them all to this day.  Yes the initial FX were great but after that there were very few new FX shots, mostly recycled shots over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

  2. On 1/21/2024 at 2:07 PM, Thom said:

    Well, it is stated several times as a reboot, and I'm of two minds on that. My favorite version is the original, as I feel it had far more heart and hope than Moor's ship full of a-holes. It was also a far simpler story, rather than the confusing mess that didn't know where it was going half way through. 

    To be fair - the original was going nowhere after the first few excellent episodes.  The last few episodes, where the Cylons found them again were good too, the batch just before that were abominations.

  3. 13 hours ago, sketchley said:

    A decade or so ago, there was a pilot on a Discovery show that said something along the lines of: modern air combat is firing missiles at beyond visual range and then bravely retreating. 

    Before that it was generally shooting down some poor slob that did not see you and then bravely running away.  Dogfighting is what happens when things go wrong.  (Which granted, happens a bunch but most aces throughout history were good at choosing a target and getting an early advantage - if they could not they hit the road to come back another day)

  4. 3 hours ago, jvmacross said:

    Now they need to get rid of park reservations...

    For most people they are already gone.  Only passholders have to deal with it anymore and I think even for them it will be gone by the end of the year, either by "good to go days" being nearly all the time or just outright going away - but Disney seems intent on making things more complicated then necessary.  As for why by the end of the year?  That little construction project a competitor is finishing up in 2025 - when Disney doesn't have anything new in the pipeline (only new stuff they have had the past few years was due to being WAY behind schedule on Tron and Guardians,  all they have in the pipeline now is reskinning existing attractions).

  5. Closest I had to anything like no movie at all was having the projector (or something) go out when watching Colors.  We were given passes to come back and see the remaining 15 minutes or so (well, and the rest of the movie again).  I never have gotten round to watching the rest...

  6. If you can prove they did not show the last 20 minutes you can send your case to the BBB (or something like that).  Not showing the entire movie is theft (or the equivalent, they did NOT provide what you paid for).  Proving it will be the hard part of course now that you have left the theater without demanding then and there that they refund.

    As for torrenting - AMC won't care one bit if you do that, the only ones hurt by that will be whatever company you would otherwise have streamed it from and the makers of the movie.

  7. Finally watched it last night.  The big bad was hardly that big or bad (really a missed opportunity there considering the hype for the character).  I really like the new Doc already and the twist that goes along with him.  I'm also looking forward to possible spinoffs from this.

  8. 2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

    Dunno....Lucasfilm these days seems hellbent on pretending people like everything they do

    Not according to Iger's recent comments.  Plus Mutt is gone due to the backlash that film received (no official word on that I ever heard but if that movie had done better or Mutt had been better received I firmly believe we would have seen more of him) and that film did better then this one.

  9. 5 hours ago, jvmacross said:

    They just need to bring over the Haunted Mansion Holiday and I can cross off Disneyland, CA from my to-do list....

    That and the holiday overlay for It's a Small World.  Small World is actually enjoyable with the decorations.  I feel that DL does a much better job of decorating for the holidays then DW has done.

  10. On 11/26/2023 at 7:50 PM, Big s said:

    They still aren’t accurate

    the word "accurate" being in quotes means that they are still not accurate.  But an example of the difference is the Alamo with John Wayne vs the one from a decade or so ago.  In The Duke's time accuracy be darned!  We want our heroes to be heroes!  (and not have the Alamo taken since they fell asleep and didn't have a proper watch posted).  Since I think both films were not big money makers that may not be the best example.

     

  11. Historical films needing to be "accurate" was a relatively recent thing.  At least through the fifties and a good bit beyond (not going to get lost in the swamp of deciding when/if things changed) a film about a historic event or character being historically accurate was pure happenstance.

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