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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: July 01, 2010, 03:05:39 PM »

Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

That lady complaining about how it is supposed to be a Disney movie is probably the same one who bought Conker's Bad Fur Day for her kids because it was a 'Nintendo game'. LOL, the ratings are there for a reason. Are people really that daft or are they just naive in thinking that in spite of a higher rating that it will still be kid friendly miraculously just because "it's Disney"?

I think it's a little of both.  Pirates was unique in that it was released as a PG-13 'Disney' film, the first one actually, instead of one of the other film companies that people don't realize actually ARE Disney, but release films not aimed at children and families.  I guess in a way it's like Nintendo releasing M games?  It's just unusual.  But yeah, then you get people like that family who think Disney means light-hearted fun, and not undead pirates.

And in keeping with the theme of the thread, yesterday I watched Meet Joe Black for the first time.  Odd film, not sure how I feel about it, but overall enjoyable, if you like to cry.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

« on: June 30, 2010, 05:28:27 PM »

Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

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TalkBack / Re: Pixar Worlds A Possibility for Future Kingdom Hearts Games

« on: June 23, 2010, 05:28:07 PM »

If they make a Toy Story 3 world, I wonder if they could put Totoro in it, since he's in the film after all.  Too complicated with all the figuring out of who owns who and can do what with it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 22, 2010, 01:33:36 PM »

I just don't find taking turns to be immersive, I can absolutely understand the origin of play and the reasoning behind it, but I play games to enjoy the story and get lost in it, and taking turns is disruptive to my reality in the game.  I have no problem that such games exist, or that people enjoy them, I don't even think they're bad, I just don't enjoy them, personally.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 21, 2010, 10:33:42 PM »

I think it's more like what you think, if it were a REAL fight, you wouldn't be standing there waiting your turn, you'd be in on the action.  I always figured if I wanted to wait my turn, I'd play a board game.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 21, 2010, 09:02:21 PM »

I was just curious. I think it's a series that is worth trying one of the games (watching does tell you something of the game, but playing is still recommended), though which one would be tough to say since many of them are so different. I don't really like Final Fantasy myself, but one thing I do, that I encourage others to do as well, if possible, is make a point of owning at least one game in every established series. Whether or not I actually like/play it is another matter entirely. But that's just me, I like to be experienced in a wide array of games, even ones for which I don't much care.

I think that's a fair assessment.  Here is my main problem with Final Fantasy, and please remember I  know next to nothing about the series so I'm not sure this is the case, I do not understand turn-based fighting (and no, never played Pokemon either).  If something is illogical to me, I have a hard time motivating myself to be interested.  The other thing I don't really care for is how you can be going along, and then suddenly get sucked into a battle.  I don't like that, I like to know what's coming, I find being pulled from my course to be very jarring to my gameplay experience.  And also, Final Fantasy has always struck me as rather angsty, and I have enough people in my life who are angsty without adding to it in my games.  So, there you have it, my justification for never having played Final Fantasy.  I own a Playstation 2 entirely for the existence of KH1 and KH2, and also Okami.  Aside from that, it's a DVD player.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 21, 2010, 07:11:20 PM »

You haven't ever played a Final Fantasy game? Do you not like RPGs?

I guess I like them, FF just doesn't look appealing to me.  I've watched people play a few of them over the years but have never really been inspired to try them myself.  Why, do I get thrown out of the club now?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 21, 2010, 06:40:29 PM »

Do you suppose that's because the Disney universe, such as it is, is fragmented in KH?  In Epic Mickey it's all one world and all the characters are together and interacting.  In KH every one is in their own world and unaware of the others.  I know that's why KH felt 'off' to me, in that sense.  I still enjoyed it, but I felt the game was very isolating of the Disney characters.

That was part of it. I think it was a combination of that along with my general disdain of post-FF7 styles and characters. I felt they gave an off vibe to the actual Disney stuff. I would have rather played as someone else, like a young Walt Disney trying to save his worlds from as opposed to Sora & Co. No non-Disney characters outside of the heartless. Sora & Co didn't fit in my opinion.

Hmm, interesting thought.  See, I've never played a FF game, so all the FF stuff that KH payed homage to was completely lost on me.  To me, it was just a Disney game........with a bunch of other people in weird outfits.  The whole different worlds thing was strange to me, but I think it was because if you go to a Disney park, everything is all mixed together, Pirates is next to the Haunted Mansion is next to the Jungle Cruise is next to the Enchanted Tiki Room, and so forth.  So to me, Disney characters not knowing about each other was an impossibility, they're neighbors!  They do parades together, they do meet 'n greets together. One of the reasons I'm so excited for Epic Mickey is they tried to pack in so many details (so it seems) from parks and Disney history, much moreso than KH.  On an unrelated aside, some of the best costumes I've seen at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party are groups dressed as characters from KH, but they're always the FF ones.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 21, 2010, 08:46:49 AM »

Do you suppose that's because the Disney universe, such as it is, is fragmented in KH?  In Epic Mickey it's all one world and all the characters are together and interacting.  In KH every one is in their own world and unaware of the others.  I know that's why KH felt 'off' to me, in that sense.  I still enjoyed it, but I felt the game was very isolating of the Disney characters.

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TalkBack / Re: IMPRESSIONS: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:19:58 PM »

I'm lefty as well, but I figure it's not worth getting upset over until the game exists and I try it and see how it goes.  I already know I'm bad with a sword in my right hand, because I used to fence.  The only 2 things I can do with my right hand is cut with scissors and use a can opener.  Other than that, I'm a useless righty.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 17, 2010, 01:36:52 AM »

I saw Clarabelle COw too, in black and white, but they called her Henrietta. Maybe that was an early incarnation I don't know about.

Hmm, me too, I'll have to look in my Disney Encyclopedia in the morning to see if that was an earlier character name.  I'll always think of her as Clarabelle though.

Never mind, found part of my answer I think.  She does appear in Steamboat Willie, but as an unnamed character, same as Minnie Mouse who was also as-yet-unnamed in Steamboat Willie.  Not sure still where the name Henrietta was chosen from.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 17, 2010, 01:31:06 AM »

Epic Mickey Demo - IGN Live E3 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C8WY_A9Nks

Fantastic, there's Fantasia brooms.  Also ABCDE tickets and also Disney pin collecting, they're really trying to cover all bases of Disney history here.  Count me as one of those hardcore Disney fans who's going to play there Where Did That Come From? game, already doing that with my friends and the concept art.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Kirby's Epic Yarn

« on: June 17, 2010, 01:04:16 AM »

I really like the look of this game, but I've never played a Kirby game before, so wasn't really sure if this was a departure from the norm or not. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 17, 2010, 12:54:02 AM »

From the videos I saw Smee, Gremlin Gus, and in an interiview, Warren Spector Mentioned Horace Horsecollar.

Well, where there is Horace, there is Clarabelle Cow as well.  I think I've seen her in one of the videos or screenshots somewhere.  Then of course there's Pete in the Steamboat Willie part, since he is the oldest Disney character in use (yep, older than Mickey).

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 17, 2010, 12:30:15 AM »

What's so good about this is that it's still an exclusive to the Wii.

That, and it doesn't include any emo characters from Final Fantasy.

That is why we have Warren at the helm and not Square. This is really what Kingdom Hearts should have been.

So true, and I hope this game is successful enough that we will get more games like this with the other old Disney characters.

I would love more games with old characters, and old style Mickey!

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TalkBack / Re: Warren Spector Discusses Disney Epic Mickey

« on: June 17, 2010, 12:29:10 AM »

Watching this interview makes me all the more confidant that he really 'gets' the Disney history that he's portraying in the game.

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TalkBack / Re: Disney Epic Mickey E3 Trailer

« on: June 17, 2010, 12:16:00 AM »

Even with no gameplay footage, I absolutely love this trailer.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 15, 2010, 10:31:02 AM »

Now that you mention 'It's a Small World', I am excited to see this games interpretation of both the ride/theme and any musical remixes. Remixes of that song would be pretty sweet.

I agree, I'm really curious to see how much of the game world is like the parks, since that seems to be what all the art is showing.  If they do use the park music, I wonder if it will be altered enough to be recognizable still or not.  They do this on the Haunted Mansion ride, the whole ride there is only one song, played at different tempos, but you don't usually realize it unless you're listening closely.  The other thing I wonder is if they're going to use the parks as inspiration, which park are they going to be mimicking?  They're laid out similarly, but there are differences.  I also wonder how many of the rides they're going to be able to at least show, some of them are so popular (like the Mansion) that we've seen them several times in the artwork, but other rides (such as Snow White's Scary Adventures) probably won't appear, I would guess.  As long as the Mansion and the Jungle Cruise appear, I'll be pleased.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 14, 2010, 11:01:41 PM »

Ah, okay, much clearer castle now.  It's really tough to say which castle that is.  It's too tall to be Sleeping Beauty, and the turrets are the wrong shape to be Cinderella.  It actually looks the most like Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant which is the castle in Disneyland Paris.  Quite possibly it's meant to be a mash-up of all the current castles.

The red photo that you say could possibly be Town Hall, if you look to the far right of the building with the columns, you can see the round greenhouse that's to be found on the right side of the Magic Kingdom Haunted Mansion.  So that image could possibly be a mash-up of both Mansions.  It's a little unclear from that one if the round greenhouse is attached to that building or not.  I can't really tell.  The next photo with the ship in the background, but still red, that actually looks like a mash-up of Disneyland Mansion and Phantom Manor, the Mansion of Disneyland Paris.  Disneyland Mansion has the columns, but Phantom Manor has the Victorian style with the tower.  The pirate ship and Mansion appearing together makes sense because in Disneyland they are in the same land, which is New Orleans Square.

I love the last image with the tea cups!  Most especially cause you can see Oswald to the right, and then Mickey running off to left, over by the clock tower and the infamous It's A Small World.

Fantastic photos.  I am so excited for this game!!!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 14, 2010, 06:34:03 PM »

Are you SURE that's a castle in that one?  Looking at it, I see a warped Mattherhorn, which again would be Disneyland.  Disneyland has Sleeping Beauty Castle and Disney World and Tokyo Disney have Cinderella Castle.  I'm curious to see the others when you have them up.  I'm such a Disney nerd that it's like a seek-and-find game trying to figure out what they've twisted around.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Goldeneye Wii

« on: June 14, 2010, 06:27:36 PM »

Won't it already be different because it's a different Bond?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Goldeneye Wii

« on: June 14, 2010, 06:25:09 PM »

Yeah I watched it a few minutes ago as well, and to be honest I didn't believe it was real for most of it.  The first part threw me off.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Epic Mickey - Wii Exclusive

« on: June 14, 2010, 06:11:11 PM »

I'm intrigued by the Partners statue with Mickey instead of Oswald.  I've seen that statue more times then I can probably count, and it's just so odd to see it without Mickey!!!

Also, looking at all the images, I would venture a guess that this is ALL Disneyland, and not Disney World.  It's tough to see from the small images, but most of the items they're seeming to depict are from Disneyland.  For example, the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland is very different than the one in Disney World, theme wise.  The picture in the Epic Mickey banner is Disneyland's mansion.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Trauma Team Thread

« on: May 24, 2010, 09:15:28 PM »

Pretty fun so far. Some parts seemed to be trickier than they should be.

LOL at the superhero parts.

Glad you're enjoying it Stratos.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Trauma Team Thread

« on: May 24, 2010, 04:54:42 PM »

I think I understand. Move right doing missions that appear then go down a level and work from left to right again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Yes?

You got it.  I'm a little off myself because I was just going in numerical order at first. Surgery #1 First Response #1 Endoscopy #1, so on and so forth.  Then I rather cottoned on and understood how to go in order, but my timeline is still a little wonky currently cause I'm ahead in a few areas.  It's alright though, the storyline is still disjointed because I'm only halfway, so I don't think I'm too far off.