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• 6/5/2011 4:30 PM Coors wrote:
  In Futurama it was a buverian cream filled hotdog that was self microwaving. Not attacking you but I just watched that episode.
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• 6/5/2011 6:45 PM Vincent Dawn wrote:
  You can get ms.45 uncut on DVD now, the french release (with English audio) restores all the missing footage, not sure if it's still in print.
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• 6/5/2011 9:44 PM angelique_sp wrote:
  Big thanks for the love you're giving to Rankin-Bass' Hobbit.....adored it since childhood (the art style in particular). It's right up there with The Last Unicorn and Watership Down.
  As for changing scenes/movies, I'm usually pretty mellow.....but there is one that burns my ass-- when they released my fav 'Love at First Bite' and changed out the song for the big dance scene. They removed 'I Love the Nightlife' with some no-name B.S. song....oh, HELL NO! Not buying that.
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• 6/5/2011 11:35 PM lunatic wrote:
  The same happened to Doctor Who "Revelation of the Daleks". Some 50's tunes were used and the copyright gestapo cracked down on them and dropped them faster than a Burmese whore!
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• 6/6/2011 12:00 AM Polygon wrote:
  I remember that every release of Beavis and Butthead, even back on VHS excluded the music videos, which always took something away from the show. From what I hear the most recent DVDs are still missing them.
  
  In a similar vain, Daria had all of its music replaced both on DVD and when it airs on Logo now (Why they're showing it on Logo, I donno). I really don't care about most of the late 90's pop music they used originally, but it's still clear something is missing from the show when you watch it now.
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• 6/6/2011 5:59 AM Cosmin wrote:
  Regarding episode 23:
  
  The NES game you are talking about is Silent Service.
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• 6/6/2011 9:37 AM FodgreyOh Legend of the Kirby wrote:
  PIERRRRRE F*CKIN' KIRRRRBY!
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• 6/8/2011 12:07 AM Jeffrey Gray wrote:
  The Kirk skydiving scene was not in any released version of Star Trek: Generations. It's only in bootlegs of the workprint.
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• 6/8/2011 7:08 AM Jani wrote:
  Interesting that Star Trek Generations had a different initial theatrical version, because when I saw the film in a theatre when it got here to Finland in 1995 (incidentally, the first Star Trek movie shown theatrically here since Star Trek 4 got a late 1989 release for some reason - particularly since neither Treks 2 or 3 got one), I can confidently say that the Kirk skydiving intro was not in it. So it must have been excised at a very early time before the film ever reached distribution elsewhere (or at least here), and the subsequent VHS I bought of the film was exactly the same as what I saw theatrically. Gotta say it's interesting as I never even knew such a scene was supposed to be there. Probably all for the best, though.
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• 6/10/2011 5:42 PM Pisthetairos wrote:
  The way I see it, a graphic novel is to a comic book what a movie is to a tv show. It's longer, self-contained and released by itself. Of course both terms are used mostly as a marking of waters for advertising and carry little meaning to the actual content. I don't really get why there is even a controversy regarding the terms. Will Eisner popularized the term Graphic Novel with his stuff, and Alan Moore rejects it mostly out of a dislike of its abuse in advertising. Watchmen, for example, while originally serialized as a 12 issue minisseries, reads like a self-contained book on its own, and that's how it reached most of its readers, so it's understandable that people would call it a graphic novel. This would be akin to a 3-episode miniseries being released as a movie on DVD. Of course, none of that really matters, they're just terms that evolve with time, and while there are pretentious people on both sides of the debate, we should remember that a story's merit has nothing to do with what words are used to describe its medium, but rather with content.
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  1. 7/12/2011 10:39 PM PhantomousJ wrote:
     Your post is awesome, man. I'm a person who is trying to make some "graphic novels" or "big comic books" or whatever you want to call them myself and really I don't care what they're called. I just want to make "sequential art books" (and I'm not sure if there's a controversy behind that term as well) and do what I want to do. Lol.
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• 6/13/2011 8:49 AM Tony wrote:
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• 6/16/2011 9:42 PM octo7 wrote:
  Josh I agree so strongly on the 'graphic novel' bullshit. Alan Moore said that some 'genius' in DC's marketing department came up with the term in order to make grown-ups feel unashamed to read comic books. I'm a huge comic book nerd and have always loathed the 'graphic novel' term. In fairness though 'comic' isn't really a suitable term to describe a lot of these works either.
  
  They are comic books though, not graphic novels. One of the few I have read that could be justifiably called a 'graphic novel' is Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum. Most so-called'graphic novels' are just a collection of 6 to 12 issues of a comic book series collected into a trade paperback.
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• 1/14/2012 10:13 PM lokiduck wrote:
  I agree Josh, the whole graphic novel bullshit is stupid however... Priest is based off of a manga which are often called japanese graphic novels even though from what my friends have told me Manga just means comic in Japanese.
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