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Finished Phoenix Wright: Justice for all again last night. Finished the first game last week. All to lead up to me finally getting to play Trials and Tribulations, which I started last night. The first case, which I am still playing through, has been a very good surprise thus far.

Words cannot describe how badly I want this game. But I don't have a PS3 or a 360. My friend/roommate from college has one, but I will buy a PS3 before school starts back up. So I hope to God you guys are still playing this in August.

It sucks because del Toro would have been perfect, but I can't blame him. Six years is a long fucking time to commit to a movie (or in this case, movieS) or a single project.

Is anyone watching the prelims on Spike? I ask because of a humorous moment a few minutes ago between the first and second round when the censor misfired and let "fucking" make its way onto TV. It was glorious.

Thanks Zero and others =D I'll knock the cable off. It was optional. Should I replace it with the Sony headset or just leave that alone for right now? Or go for a cheaper headset?

$500 for everything I listed, including sales tax and shipping. I priced out the components individually and the bundle still beats it. $500 is cheaper than the individual components by about $17.00, and I'm not sure if Wal-Mart will honor the "online price" in stores. I'm pretty sure I'll end up getting this, though, but I'd love an opinion on the game I should choose from that first spoilered list.

Well, I already have one that's offbrand that's not being used for anything essential (it's currently attached to the BluRay player that got bundled with my TV. The HDMI cable was an optional thing that added $40, but I could just switch that for the headset for the same price, or just ditch both things all together and save that amount.

I need some advice. I really want a PS3. I have a nice Sony Bravia HDTV, but my current HDMI cable is shitty. I can get (from Walmart), a bundle that includes: -A 120GB PS3 -A second wireless controller (Sony) -Two Games (One from each list) -An HDMI Cable (Sony) or Bluetooth headset (Sony) All for $500 (shipping, tax, everything). EDIT: Just realized that the nearly $40 shipping cost plus the fact that most of the games on the first list are $30 bucks at most means I could buy a new, full priced game for that cost alone. Are the 120 GB consoles good enough? From those lists, I'm mainly eyeballing Red Dead Redemption and Little Big Planet. I'm pretty set on RDR, but I'm open to being talked out of it. Is the bundle worth it? List One (Spoilered for Huge) List Two (Spoilered for Huge)

I want this game really bad, but I am without an XBOX360 or a PS3. I haven't bought a game console in a while, so I'm thinking about a PS3 to go nicely with my HDTV I got last February. This would definitely be a game to get when I get around to it, but unfortunately, I'd have to wait until like August, and I bet all of the fun will be over already =(. Glad to hear it's so good, though.

I will stand by The Screenwriter's Bible as a pretty awesome way to start out because it covers pretty much everything. As for me, I just started writing a crime drama, but we'll see how it goes.

That article is pretty ridiculous. According to this link, the MIB's name was Samuel in the script. Source: http://lostmediamentions.blogspot.com/2010/05/someone-from-bad-robots-take-on-finale.html The important thing I take from that is the discussion of the ending being the ending that JJ Abrams had written (started when Jack touches the coffin, ended when he closes his eyes on the island), which explains why Ben wasn't in the church and why there were mostly Season 1 Losties in there.

Dharma Food Drops: 1) Maybe they handled the food drops in a similar fashion to Daniel's test with the missile. We know there's some sort of "lag" involved with getting things through the time bubble or however it was explained. Maybe they exploited this. 2) I'd have to go back and rewatch, but there were still people in the Hatch (Desmond) that needed food, so maybe they kept dropping food for the Hatch people. 3) Did they even know the purge actually happened? 4) A Writer's Perspective: Because it'd be fucking boring having to have the survivors forage and hunt for food.

I think we got as much of an explanation of the island as we'll ever get or need when Jacob had the corked bottle of wine when he was talking to Richard. That metaphor is WAY more of an explanation than why the MIB became the Smoke Monster.

Not necessarily where I thought they were going with it, but as I think about it, I'm becoming more and more okay with the fact they did. I'm personally not bothered by what was essentially 2.5 hours of hands off as far as answering mysteries goes, but I understand some people will be. EDIT: It should be extremely clear when the deaths occurred, though. Christian explains it to Jack verbatim, and we see Jack die.

I'm guessing the stuff on the beach was prior to the end of this episode though? Actually, the stuff on the beach from the Season 5 Finale HAS to be after the entirety of last night's episode because the MIB on the beach says he wants to kill Jacob, but he has NO REASON to want to kill Jacob at any point in time during last night's episode until AFTER

My current biggest problem is that the plane is either a giant red herring, or the show is somehow going to magic that plane into being able to fly again. After all, the plane, in its landing, probably fucked up its landing gear, which would more or less screw with its ability to take off again. That's assuming that what served as an okay enough of a runway for more or less a crash landing can serve well enough for a take off. Oh, and the fact that the plane is missing part of, if not all of, its windshield.

but it also created a hell of a lot more questions Exactly, every "answer" just raised another question: But there's not much longer to hold onto. They've got 16 hours to answer every unanswered question of the last five seasons, and probably a dozen+ more they'll raise along the way, that's a lot of loose ends to tie up. Don't get me wrong, I liked the premiere, Lost is the only show that can cocktease me for two hours and still keep me coming back for more, I'm just worried they're not going to get to everything. I was just reading a snippet of an interview with the writers. Basically, if the characters on the show don't care/aren't affected by the mystery/question, then it's probably not going to be answered. As an example of what they meant, they said that we're not going to find out who the statue was built by. And that's perfectly fine with me. They'll tackle the big mythology questions of the show. I don't think they have an obligation to get to every little thing, though, because the fans have picked up on "things" (aka questions) that the writers may not have intended to be "things" in the first place. For example, I don't think there's an overwhelming impact on the show as a whole that Libby gave Desmond the boat. A lot of "questions" I've seen tossed around that people are wanting answers for seem to fall into that category. I'm confident they'll deliver big on the important stuff involving the things everyone was dying to know early on in the show.

I highly recommend you find the comparison of Avatar to Cameron's treatment/script hybrid for the movie called Project 880. With the kind of story the movie had in the treatment, I have high hopes for the inevitable Avatar sequel.

I have all three of those that you added, and I think I mentioned them. They are ALL fantastic books. The Bible is pretty good for formatting and general things like story formation. The Screenwriter's Manual helps with some formatting issues where one may be unsure of how to format. I haven't used The Hollywood Standard as much, but it seems helpful enough. These books mainly focus on the technical, format side of things for the most part, except the Bible which really helps you through the entire process.

Call me crazy, but the Na'vi were pretty small in comparison to the rhino beasts. I don't think herding them would happen. Think of it this way: if they weren't already being herded, I think it would be next to impossible to do so on the relatively short notice that they had when they were amassing their warriors, etc. That, and I think the way that played out in the end battle helped reinforce the discovery of the nature of the planet.

Technicly they raise the contrast and overall brightness to save the colores. Avatar is the only movie I've seen in 3-D that has appeared to have had the colors/brightness altered. Up in 3-D KILLED the colors.

When the dust settles, I'm afraid that others are right: While the technological/visual aspects make this film deserve any comparison to Star Wars, I don't think it will hold up story-wise as a movie after the dust settles. This film deserves a place in film history on the merits of its visuals and the technology behind them and on the world that Cameron has built, but I think that the OTHER movies that will employ this technology have a better chance as far as story goes. That's not to say that Avatar's story is outright shitty. On the contrary, it goes through its story incredibly well, but it's a familiar story. The movie was pitched to Fox as being Fern Gully in Space and that doesn't even get into comparisons with Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves, etc. But the dialogue is pretty bad in places. But those things don't detract from the movie overall. I can't wait to go see it again on the IMAX. It's really fan-dabi-dozi, and I want to see it as much as I can in 3-D on a big ass screen as it was meant to be. Panasonic is getting ready to roll out a line of 3-D HDTVs to coincide with Avatar's home release, but it just won't be quite the same, assuming the tech pulls it off in the first place. I cannot urge you enough if you are on the fence or even in the camp of not buying into 3-D to go see it and see it in 3-D. It's not the gimmicky shit that My Bloody Valentine 3-D and The Final Destination were. It helps to immerse you into the movie. And I will say that the film lives up to the hype it was supposed to, which was on a visual/technological level. Many esteemed film critics are acknowledging this when they review this film, and they're pretty much dead on.

This. Except I felt the same about The Dark Knight as well To a certain extent, I would agree that The Dark Knight felt the same way, but I think The Dark Knight suffers from having continually compounding action to the point that the climax didn't seem like much of a traditional climax while Avatar has a very traditional climax.

It is the most visually stunning movie I have EVER seen. The story may not be the most original story ever, but unlike others, this is the only movie of its length that I haven't felt like I was watching a nearly 3 hour movie because I found it all to be engaging.

Please do yourself a favor and see a Disney/Pixar animated movie or Avatar in 3-D as soon as possible.