Cmdr. Grant

Yes, the whole song is there. And I think my Winamp was incorrect with the 5:35 length. I think the 4:28 is actually correct. H 363785[/snapback] God bless you guys! Thank you for both sending and hosting that song!

I'll buy it from you on disc if your game.

Damn. Anyone else?

Does anyone have the complete or almost complete version of "Love Drifts Away" as heard on "Flashback 2012"? Or can someone direct me to where I can aquire this song on disc. Have exhasted my options. Anyone have it for download?

Were both OVA series done by US Manga. I saw one that may be an OVA set but it the text wan't specific.

The Hong Kong subs lick donkey balls.

Whoops! I screwed up there. I meant decently subtitled (fair to decent translation). The movies were excellently translated (Spatula I agree. Patlabor II is an anime masterpiece) but I'm looking for the OVA's not the movies or the television series. Someone has to have a decently subtitled version of those.

Saw the television series there but not the OVA's.

Any one know where I can find decently dubbed Patlabor OVA's? I'm fairly fed up with the Hong Kong specials that seem as if they were dubbed by a first year high school English student. Can anyone help a fellow Patlabor fan?

Is the uncut version of "Love Drifts Away" on this set? The one in Flashback 2012. If not where can I find it? And lastly where can I buy this 3 disc collection you guys are writing about?

Heh. I agree with you that Spike Lee is a racist hypocrite. On the other hand I'm black and haven't been offended by anything Gibson has put out yet. What are you referring to in that last part of your post. People will cry bloody murder over a film that involves any ethnic or religios group whether the story is right (most of the) or wrong. Hell even if the flick doesn't invole some hot topic someone's gonna bitch. Back when SW Episode I came out some cheezballs accused G. Lucas of offending blacks and taking a stab at the chinese becuause Jar Jar's (Forgive me for mentioning the name) speach pattern and the Trade Federation was some sinister metaphor for the chinese. Oh yeah the Trade Fed guys seemed to talk with chinese accented english too! Pure B.S. They weren't mad at the fact that he pissed the new movie away but they found plenty of time to devine some strange racial and political B.S. out of a sci-fi movie geared largely towards kids.

Yup. Ian McDirmid solidified this flick (it's a criminal act to have cut his other scene). Ewan was excellent as well. Especially when he confronts Vader after he had strangled Padme. Despite all the sabre fights this movie had only one, the Windu/Sidious fight had any real passion in my opinion. Sure the Vader/Obi-Wan fight had a lot of flash and bang it was only toward the end where it seemed to draw you in. Mace and Sidious despite the relative slow pace brevity of their duel had some supense. Those two had a lethal chemestry that made the fight all the more interesting.

I thought she was around twenty. Makes a little more sense.

Well I'm not exactly sure comparing the dialogue tracks between the old and new movies is exactly a good way to compare movies, since both and meant to be watched and acting is as much about facial expressions and body language as it is about annunciating lines from a script. At any rate, my experience has been the exact opposite... I'd rewatched the trilogy a little bit ago to make sure that it wasn't just nostalgia that made me think the originals much better movies. It wasn't. The dialogue, while campy in a few places, was delivered in a much more compelling, convincing, and entertaining manner (then again the OT had the benefit of Ford's ad-libbing). The writing, while not academy award stuff, was simply tighter and better. It wasn't that much longer after that I saw Sith, and although I enjoyed it as Star Wars themed fluff, I ended up groaning and rolling my eyes in more places than I cared to. The two shouldn't produce such different reactions from me when they're see so close together and in context of each other. I'd also shown A New Hope to a friend who actually hadn't seen most of the OT before and even he could see the differences and why I might enjoy one more than the other. The actual differences between the PT and the OT isn't illusion or nostalgia. Nostalgia and familiarity do make us react more strongly when we spot those differences... but there have been too many reasonable critiques and too many well-argued comparisions of the two films for the differences to be explained away glibly as being just a figment of our imaginations. -Al 341985[/snapback] I concur. While I do enjoy the prequels the kiddyfication of the first three episodes greatly reduces movies that (with better direction) could have equalled or bettered their predecessors. The younglings bit I can get over. The lame dialogue is livable too(hey it's Star Wars) but battle droids making smart alleck comments when Greivous (funny how he was more intimidating in the clone wars series) snatches the sabers, or screaming in terror as two Jedi slaughter them, and R2 roasting two super battle droids (mercifully ending their tinny kiddy voices) these items served to weaken an already badly directed film which had the potential to be the best of all six.