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imagine, this kind of dedication put into something like medicine or automotive? a few guys like this and we'd all be in tip top health driving cars that get 100 mpg with no emissions.

i dunno, the game resets the exact same way when its played, it could be possible to just remember where everything is and fly through it. for the most part i believe this is what he/she did.

compaired to space, nothing is very big.

!!! see, i knew i wasnt' the onlyone who used this word, i said it the otherday and everyone looked at me like i was a mutant. "... what's asshatery... "

it is entirely possible that the creators of the show simpley created the aircraft to fufill the need of the plot with out putting much serious thought into the military advantage of the vehicle itself.

11 minutes. MY GOD

global does kick ass, you have any pics?

Samurai would have wives so they could raise children, but samurai tended to LOVE other samurai, no nesisarily their wives. the thing i read didn't mention the level to witch sex was involved in their "love"

What a load of sentimental drivel. Fighting was the reason for the existance of samurai pretty much up until the Tokugawa took over. It was then that they were turned into a true social class and stuff like honor codes were created to keep them in line. People "became samurai" all the time based on their fortunes on the battlefield, at least until laws were set saying who and who wasn't a samurai. Doesn't say much for lifestyle when a lot of samurai had been farmers living on millet a few years previously. Nor does the large amount of betrayal and backstabbing that occured during the sengoku say much for beliefs. We aren't talking about some guys who just practiced marital arts. These were thousands of men who did little more than drain resources off their society. The ones who did know how to fight were useless against anyone else except peasants. There were very few jobs they were allowed to do, by law. They couldn't own land. The few who could afford it sent their kids to school to become beurocrats. Some with wealthy enough lords (a minority) lived off their stippend. The rest lived hand to mouth and not more than a few turned to crime. Most of them weren't. Some had read the righting on the wall years before and gave up their status to become farmers or craftsmen. Most of the rest just cut their top-knot off when the time came and joined the modern world. It was only a few stupid ones who required gunning down. There are few things I hate more than people who try to idealize the past. Things like chivalry or bushido are what later generations come up with to make their anscestors sound like the good guys. The truth is that the past was dirty and smelly and it was fully of shitty people who did shitty things for their own shitty, selfish reasons. You're right on every point, i'm an idiot, thank you.

something about true love only being between two pure beings, since samurai were forbidden from touching anything dead, they're all thats pure i guess. women could handle dead stuff i think. i wonder if that means samurai were vegitarians

Another great book is: SECRETS OF THE SAMURAI it has beautiful artwork too.

i'll wait for avp to come out before i bad mouth it, i WANT it to be good. but reality is, it probably won't be. the predator movies, much as i liked them, were pretty close to being bad B movies at times. honestly, a cool pred movie would be one about the 1715 musket. seeing some colonial era guys take on a Predator (i'm asuming with some of its weaponry removed) with mussle loaders and hand to hand weapons could be cool.

whew, lordy that thing is ugly, what serise is it from??

See, that to me sounds hilarious. By the time period of the film, the samurai were little more than a joke. There hadn't been a war in over 200 years. These guys had no real fighting experience (duels were even illegal by this point). The ones who hadn't found jobs in the beurocracy were little more than societal leeches who couldn't be productive even when they wanted to be. They're only usefulness was in putting down the occasional peasant uprising. Against a real military they'd be completely ineffective, as history proves. Sad my ass. There is alot more to being a Samurai than just being able to fight good. It's an entire lifestyle and beleif system and culture that had lasted for hundreds of years that was "phased out" in a decade. calling them a joke simply because there hadn't been any wars in the recent history is rather unjustified, like telling a black belt he's wasted his time by learning to fight when its unlikely he'll ever really need it. sure they wern't a viable military option anymore, but that doesn't make it a good thing that a man whos devoted his whole life to a dicipline should be gunned down on the battle feild buy a guy with a few months of fire arm training.

intresting, thanks

I agree completely, i just think that a movie that is shot as well as Last Samuri and with set design, costume design and a full cast of unknown, yet tallented japanise actors, i think it would be a shame to not see it simply because Cruise is an idiot. i just feel bad for the rest of the cast and crew when they did a fantastic job but wont get the credit they diserve because the guy on the poster is a hack. ah well.

Go rent Seventh Samuri.

i actually thought it was a pretty good film.... ON ITS OWN but it didn't fit the alien seriese at all. for starters, alien was a great horror flick scary, the works.. aliens was an awsome action movie. the right amount of scary parts, but for the most part it was a shoot em up! in my opinion, a good step because its hard to be scared of something the second time around. Alien 3 fails because for one, it starts out with a bunch of in-consistenceys with the second movie. IE the Sulaco suddenly had diffrent hybernation pods, its no longer gritty and had gotten some weird lady with an accent to voice computer functions, no explination of how the face hugger got on board (the queen ripped off of her egg laying thing, and beliveing one of those little buggers crawled allll the way up from where it had been layed only to attack mid flight home is a little far fetched.. just dont' make no sence.) and they killed off hicks and newt, wich was a serious cop out. all of these things made sure that the movie started out on a seriously wrong foot. now. if you can get past all that, wich is asking alot from a fan base that throuoghly enjoyed the first two, the movie really isn't all that bad. it brings the serise back to its horror roots and does a relatively good job of it. seeing bishop again was one of the highlights for me, dillan was an intresting character, i would have liked to see more screen time for him. the unlikely heros of a bunch of space prisoners worked pretty well. it was a decent movie on its own, but in the trillogy it fails: what disappoints people i think is that it DID go back to previously treaded ground. we know the alien can kill unarmed people, we saw it already. we know the alien can be fought, though ineffectively by the marines. we know the company wants the alien. lets move on to the next step, what ever it is. had the first two movies never existed, this one would have been well liked i think the third alien movie is probably where the alien vs predator step should have taken place, there just wasn't a whole lot they could have done that would have been intresting in the third movie. anyway, those are my opinions on alien 3, a OK movie grouped with a couple of EXCELLENT movies. it brings down the first two and for that it gets flack. As for your opinions on Ripley being a victim, i have to disagree, in EVERY movie she has fought back and won (saved her own life and destroyed the aliens anyway) she never breaks down and wimpers like an idiot for some man to save her. personally i think she is a hugely overlooked icon for womens strength portraied in movies. she succeds where everyone else in the mostly male crews have failed, a victim would have simply given up and said "we're screwd, lets just die and get it over with" she never gives up in the movies, even in the thrid one she only kills her self to protect man kind from the aliens. i'm not going to get into the 4th movie, your on your own if you want to defend that thing.

can someone post a pic of one of these chobits figures? i did a search on google and only got drawings, no figures. thanks.

its ok, the japanise actors are the real stars, in my opinion, its a little heavy handed on the tom cruiz stuff though. i would say, its worth while to see it for the samuri gear, battles, and fighting. the story is beliveable from a very sad time in japanise history that will probably leave anyone regretting the loss of a lifestyle that had to be destroyed in the name of progress. to all the cruiz haters out there, remember there are hundreds of people who work on these films that don't get paid the big bucks who feel it hard when their movie tanks (unlike the stars who usually get their money anyway) so if you think you could enjoy a film on atleast a few levels, give it a chance.

Military functions being scripted by non-military people, things get mixed up.

High G's are deadly no matter how they are reached.

One of my favorites is the zentradi guy who gets vaporized when max's valk overheats and blows up in the TV serise, that was awsome. a close second is in the first or second episode, the guys in the patrol choppers, if you watch closely you can see them burning to death in the cockpits. trippy.

i... i meant april... oups.

I preordered one, guess it won't be here till august?? oh well, i'll let you guys know how it is when i get it.