Dyko

Now that I can't download this update due to MegaUpload being shut down, ther is nothing I want more than to download this update. Bah. I actually haven't tried any of your real-world updates yet (been kicking a couple of ones from Greydog around forever),but quick question...in terms of set-up/pic packs...currently I have an obscenely large folder of ones done on the "CW Saton" background. They are all pretty much named with simple wrestler names "Chris Jericho.jpg", as far as people have seen, should this match up with the data-set? I've had issues with a few scenarios, based on "Chris_Jericho.jpg" filename set-ups. Again, I haven't been able to grab the files yet, so haven't seen the picture set, but ideally I would love to sort of keep going with the one I have been building. Excited to try this one out (I always end up making up a few Australian and Mexican promotions anyhow, just to flesh the globe out a bit, so interested in seeing some legit companies out there). Cheers, Dyko

I have nothing to add to this conversation, other than the fact that the reason I clicked here is because of the awesome update that came up on the main page under recent updates: "Adrian Chiles Ordered To Shave by Inspector Gadget" Dyko

This is absolutely awesome. I'd imagine there's a slim chance of it ever airing here, but I'm sure there are "other means" of viewing this once it is out. My fiancee got me into Pratchett by letting me borrow Sourcery when we first started seeing eachother, and has finally calmed down now that I've bought all of his books, and will no longer be putting in mass orders to get the right ones delivered in time for me to finished whichever I am working on currently. I've always pictured Terry Gilliam as being perfect for a film adaptation of any of the discworld books. Also, personally, I imagine either John Cleese or Billy Connoley as the perfect Ridcully. Has anyone seen either of the animated Discworld movies that have been released or played either of the PS1 games? I am curious about those...

That's it. That was driving me insane. As far as I've found after looking it up, this show is actually a US version of "A Young Person's Guide...". It was an awesome show. I loved all the quick cuts and fast jokes and all that. Quality show. The wedding one was awesome, but I really liked the one that I mentioned where they ended up in some small town at a fair. I remember something with the guitar chick being really horny, and everything she looked at would switch to slow motion and become really sexual. It was definitely a great show for what it was. Sucks about the single season, though.

Slow day at work + randomly remembering images from a show = Crazy Dyko I am trying to figure out the name of a show that used to be on Much Music up here, and probably on MTV as well. It was on years ago, and was about a band travelling around, trying to make it big. I remember details, but can't for the life of me come up with a show name. Random Details One of the first episodes had the band's drummer playing football, and ending up in the bottom of a pile-up, face down in a puddle where he died; they hold auditions for a new drummer A girl joins the band and plays keyboard. Her and the lead singer have a thing The band's manager is a criminal or something, and can't cross the border, lives in a safe-house, and sends them out to crappy gigs constantly The guitarist has red-dyed hair, always wears a toque, and is really sarcastic. At one point, she gets a side-job teaching kids karate (with hilarious results, naturally) They travel around in a piece of shit van that in one episode breaks down and they end up going to a potato festival It used to be on at like 10:30 or something during the week on Much. I realize this is stupidly obscure, but I've been looking like mad all afternoon, and I'm sure my boss would very much appreciate anyone helping me out!

I've been to a few shows, actually...all within the last couple of years: Metallica (I later found out that while I was having a grand time seeing my favourite band, my friend who was there with me was almost passing out due to a high fever) Iron Maiden System of a Down The Killers Disturbed Nine Inch Nails Green Day A Perfect Circle Trans-Siberian Orchestra Out of those, the most amazing had to be Metallica (show and awesomeness-wise), Disturbed (quality-wise), Green Day (over-all awesome show from start-to-finish). The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a tough one to call, because the show was absolutely fantastic, but it's really more of a stage production than a concert, so it wouldn't be fair to rank it against straight-up bands. As for festivals, I've only been to one, but I feel it's the only one that matters (to me, anyways): Summer Sanitarium Right now, other than Iron Maiden, Metallica, or Greenday again, the concerts that I'd like to see are Our Lady Peace, Tool, Mathew Good, and Rob Zombie.

I read somehwere that Boll has a lot of financial backing from a number of German companies. They back his movies, becvause they are always pretty much guaranteed to be a loss, which the companies get to write off. It's like giving to charity. I have no respect for Uwe Boll at all. He does what he wants instead of what he is preassured into doing? That would be fine if what he wanted wasn't slow motion shots every 25 seconds, and a Matrix Effect whenever he wakes up in the edit suite and remembers to kick his editor's chair. 5 minutes of scrolling text that explains the entire backstory of a movie is fantastic. His movies are all 100% get-drunk-and-laugh-your-ass-off movies. Around when Alone in the Dark came out, SomethingAwful.com had a special segment on Uwe Boll. It was a bunch of emails submitted by one of the people who worked on the script re-writes for the movie, and Boll seriously has no idea what he is doing. I'll try and find it, but he spends half the time talking about how he wants Slater's character to have less backstory, and be more like Neo or The Crow. Gotta love a director who's direction includes explaining which popular movie characters his protagonist should be more like. Uwe Boll movies are why movie piracy exists. I also love the way he only makes B and C level game movies...like not that the games were bad, but none of them are particularly huge hits or anything... Also, "the biggest desaster on earth - but not for me - for AMERICA" is probably one of the best things I've ever read. That should be Postal's tagline. Word-for-word.

I totally agree with Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver. It was the first one out the series that I played, and it just did such an awesome job of explaining the entire world that the game is set in. That series is one of the best for cinematics, acting, storyline, and all that. Other than that, I agree with the quality of MGS2's opening as well. The cinematic style, music, and effects all just work so perfectly together, making it seem like it could totally be an actual movie. One that hasn't been mentioned yet is the opening to Onimusha 3. The big battle with all the undead is just amazing. i've started a new game a couple of times just to see that. I'm also a huge fan of the opening to EA Sports games. I've only played the NHL ones, but the highlights set to the music always get me really into playing the game. I know that one doesn't really count, since it's the same type of thing you'd see on TV before a game, but I still love them. Honorable mentions go to the Resident Evil and Silent Hill Series.

I like the movie a lot. I have the DVD (there are a couple of versions out, one bare-bones, and one with commentary), and the final scene in the courtroom is one of my favourite monologues of any movie I've ever seen. The whole "some day, you will look behind us and see we three..." thing is just bloody awesome. DaFoe describing the shoot-out as it happens was fantastic, too. If you liked (or didn't, for that matter) the movie, try and check out "Overnight"...it is a docuemtnary that strated off being a documentation of Troy Duffy's sudden rise to fame with the movie, but then it turned into a movie showing what a dick he really turned out to be...telling off his brother, close friends, etc, and just generally letting the movie thing all go to his head, convincing himself that he was the new big thing in Hollywood. Great movies, both of them.

I didn't see anyone mentioning the ending of Braveheart. Basically the entire movie from the Wallace's final battle righ up until the ending credits is sad, but the whole "Freedom!" thing makes me just lose it every time. I agree with Last Samurai. I got quite teary when, at the end, in the battlefield, Katsumoto tells Cruise "I will miss our conversations". That, and pretty much the entire battle there at the end got to me. There are a bunch of things in Lord of the Rings that get to me. Boromir's death scene, Faramir's suicide charge towards the river, Theoden's final scene...all so great. The Boromir scene is one of my favourite scenes in a movie, ever. Another one from Edward Scissorhands that really, really gets to me is Vincent Price dying before he has a chance to give Edward his hands. To be honest, Vincent Price, in general, makes me really depressed in the movie...him reading to Edward, the death scene, everything. EDIT: I forgot to mention it, but a few scenes in Road to Perdition...when Tom Hanks finally confronts Paul Newman while he's getting into his car...where Newman just has that look like he knows exactly what is happening. That, and the ending. I'm being as vague as possible, because if anyone hasn't seen this movie, they really should, and I don't want to ruin anything.

The saddest things I can remember seeing on TV were, aside from things already mentioned, the last episode of The Office (before the special), where David Brent absolutely breaks down. That was brutally hard to watch, since he's really such an ass for the entire series, and then just seeing him basically just begging for his job since it is all he has got me really, really down. The special rounded things off nicely, though, which was great. Also, there was an episode of ER with Ray Liotta in it that actually got me full-on to tears. I can't remember the details, but Liotta is an ex-con drifter who comes into the hospital...he's in really bad shape, and when given the option of going on dialasys for the rest of his life, or dying, he decides to refuse treatment. At one point, they contact his only relative, his son, and put him on speaker phone in the OR so that Liotta can talk to him, and while everyone is standing around, the son basically tells his dying father that he has nothing to say to him, and hangs up. That was avsolutely brutal, and one of the saddest things I have EVER seen.

I've never read any of the books, and I managed to follow it and like the movie just fine. Like mentioned, I've mostly heard that people having major issues with the film are those who have read the books, due to stuff that was changed and what-have-you. After seeing it and thinking the movie was pretty good, I'm actually considering looking into picking up the books as soon as I'm finished up with what I'm reading now.

I wrote a bunch of scripts for school, one of the most awesome (in my opinion) being a zombie movie set in teh trenches during WWI, where both sides get decimated by undead, and the survivors end up having to come together, despite not having a common language, in order to survive. I actually managed to justfiably have it "inspired by a true story," as I got the idea when I thought about that story of the English and German soldiers coming out of their trenches at Christmas to play football, only to return after finishing the game, and exhcanging gifts. The prof loved it, because I was one of the only people that actually went in a totally fictional, creative direction, while the majortity of people wrote about estranged fathers/sons/daughters being brought together by tragedy, or people meeting after not having seen eachother for years. I also wrote a damn fine (if I do say so myself) script for out final 20 minute drama for school. It basically starts off with and proceeds to show a man, washing his bloody hands while more and more detailed and gruesome news reports talk about murders and a possible serial killer working in the area. As the movie goes on, you see the man having sort of psychotic episodes, where he hears voices telling him details about people, only to be followed up with news reports of those people being found dead. You hear more and more of the voices clearly as the movie goes on, and in the end, the big twist reveals that the voices are actually telling him when someone is going to be murdered, and his link to all the crimes turns out to be his failed attempts to save the people. The last person he tries to save ends up being his estranged girlfriend (she left him because he was always being so secrative etc, so she assumed he was having an affair). She stabs herself (Shakespeare-style!) seconds before he arrives at her place, and he ends up staying with her until the police come (he's spotted breaking down her door by a neighbour), since at that point, he doesn't have anything left to live for, and evidence at each of the crimescenes points to him. I give it a definite ***3/4!

I love standard CSI, and have never really been able to get into Miami or NY. I can see myself liking Miami, but when NY first started, i gave it a best-of-5 to impress me, and ended up seeing them using some triangulation computer like twice, and two different crimse were solved by some variation of the suspect's name or initials being written on something. Not a fan, sadly. My favourite CSI opening ever had to be one where it starts off, like all of them, showing a crime or something, the Grisham at the scene, looking around, and as always, having some sort of cool one-liner before they go to opening credits. This time, though, he delivers his line, the music starts up for maybe a second, then his phone rings, and he ends up going to another crimescene. I just thought it was really well done, the way that they kind of tossed that in there so randomly. Oh, and one thing that always makes me laugh on the show...don't get me wrong, awesome show, but just the way that there is an entire team of specialists, whom I assume all went to school for years, studied criminology and all that, yet they always explain stuff to eachother in such dumbed-down ways! It reminds me of that episode of Futurama with all the Star Trek folks, where Fry explains that he'll come up with an overly complicated plan, then someone will repeate it using a simplified metaphore ("just like over-filling a balloon with air!"). That's what I loved about ReGenesis (a Canadian show that was out in the fall, and one of the best written/acted/produced shows I've seen in a long time)...they worked in a science lab, were all scientists, and would actually talk to eachother like they were EQUALS! They'd start drawing shit on the whiteboard, and talking about how the new strain of a disease goes after the reverse-transcriptase process and things like that. They actually very cleverly incorporated a character working along-side them that was NOT a doctor, so that any time explanation was needed, it would be her (understandably) needing the clarification.