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    • MarianM Offline
      Marian
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      I think this is one is the best... 😆

      http://vulcanstev.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/robin_hood_men_in_tights2.jpg?w=201&h=300

      ahh Russel Crowe in tights.....what a gay thought

      http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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      • soloS Offline
        solo
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        http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/20/article-0-048CF943000005DC-561_468x645.jpg

        http://www.solos-art.com

        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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        • DanielD Offline
          Daniel
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          @marian said:

          I think this is one is the best... 😆

          http://vulcanstev.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/robin_hood_men_in_tights2.jpg?w=201&h=300

          ahh Russel Crowe in tights.....what a gay thought

          LOL....Robin Hood and his "merry" men running around in the woods .... surely someone has made a gay parody of this tale.

          My avatar is an anachronism.

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          • david_hD Offline
            david_h
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            ***We're men, we're men in tights.
            We roam around the forest looking for fights.
            We're men, we're men in tights.
            We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!
            We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!
            We're men, we're men in tights,
            Always on guard defending the people's rights.

            We're men, MANLY men, we're men in tights.
            [Gay voice] Yes!
            We roam around the forest looking for fights.
            We're men, we're men in tights.
            We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!
            We may look like pansies, but don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights.
            We're men, we're men in tights
            [High Voice] TIGHT Tights
            Always on guard defending the people's rights.
            When you're in a fix just call for the men in tights!

            WE'RE BUTCH!***

            If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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            • david_hD Offline
              david_h
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              I guess the thread really hasn't changed course because correct me if I am wrong. . .don't the tall naked Blue people in AVATAR shoot bows and arrows too? 💚

              If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
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                Only arrows, Davit (withthe bows) 😉

                Gai...

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                • W Offline
                  watkins
                  last edited by

                  Solo,

                  Alan Rickman an obscure actor? Not in the UK!

                  A clip from the superb Truly, Madly, Deeply with Juliet Stevenson. Rickman plays a ghost.

                  Regards,
                  Bob

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                  • david_hD Offline
                    david_h
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                    My children knew him as Professor Snape. But for me it is his Star making turn as the baddie Hans Gruber in DIE HARD. He stole the show from Bruce


                    Alan-Rickman-Die-Hard_l.jpg

                    If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                    • soloS Offline
                      solo
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                      Watkins, my referance to him being obscure comes from my exposure to American Television, we/they only really see him in small rolls like the Sheriff in Robin Hood, the villain in Die hard, the cheating husband in love Actually, etc.
                      But I'm sure he does a lot move work in the UK, I watch a lot of BBC dramas on Netflix instant (My wife is a BBC drama addict who strangely enough thinks he is hot, but then again she also thinks Willem Dafoe is hot)

                      I heard that he was supposed to be the main character for the BBC detective Drama ' Wire in the Blood' but refused it in the end, I think that role would have been perfect for him.

                      http://www.solos-art.com

                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                      • david_hD Offline
                        david_h
                        last edited by

                        My wife loves him because he was the Dashing Colonel Brantley in Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility.

                        If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                        • K Offline
                          kwistenbiebel
                          last edited by

                          I saw the movie last week and it was fabulous....not just the 3D but also the modeling is superb.
                          Makes Sketchup look a bit pale 😄

                          A friend asked me if she would be able to see the 3D effects as she has only 5% visibility in her right eye (virtually blind on one side).
                          I forgot to try and close 1 eye to check if the 3D would still be there.

                          So if one you guys here go and see it, could you check that for me?
                          Much appreciated.

                          It would be a pitty to drag her along to the movie theatre when she can't fully enjoy it.
                          My guess is that she won't be able to see it, as the 3D probably works by projecting two different images on the two eyes (left and right, 90° rotated shutterglass),tricking the brain to interpret it as 3D.....

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
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                            Hi Chris,

                            I had cataract on both of my eyes. One was operated in 2006 (actually, when on sick leave, I got acquainted with SU) and the other one this last December (on this, I was almost completely blind already, too).

                            I know that my space feeling was very bad with one eye and I did not forget to check it out closing one eye what it would have been like before the operation.

                            Not only you cannot see the 3D effect at all but although these glasses are not those old, cheap ones, when you watch the movie without them or just one eye, the edges are hazy and some weird coloured still. So it is very bothering also, not only she couldn't enjoy the extra.

                            She could watch it in a "traditional", 2D movie however.

                            Gai...

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                            • Chris FullmerC Offline
                              Chris Fullmer
                              last edited by

                              Yeah she could see it in 3d with only having vision in one eye, and it won't be blurry or appear as a double image or anything (as long as she wears the glasses). But it will appear as 2d only and it will be slightly dim and dull for the colors. But she could see it in a 3d theater just fine. But I would recommend just seeing it in 2d for the best results for her.

                              Chris

                              Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                              All my Plugins I've written

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                              • W Offline
                                watkins
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                                Dear All,

                                Perhaps this will help explain how the glasses work. At the end of the article there is a link to how 3D graphics work too. Isn't science great.

                                Kind regards,
                                Bob

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                                • IdahoJI Offline
                                  IdahoJ
                                  last edited by

                                  I sometimes wondered if Cameron would surpass his success with his other big films like The Abyss and Titanic...

                                  Avatar, for me at least, ranks right up there with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. In LOTR I've always immersed in the world of Middle Earth, but Avatar takes it to the next level on Pandora.

                                  Cheers.

                                  "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

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                                  • EscapeArtistE Offline
                                    EscapeArtist
                                    last edited by

                                    Just got back from the IMAX theater to see Avatar. I found the world visually stunning, and the thought put into all of the life forms and how they interacted was impressive. I could go on and on about the computing power, imagination and skill it took to put this world together - you just need to see it to believe it.

                                    As far as the story goes, it was "Last of the Mohicans" meets environmentalism, and didn't seem all that original. I liked the new Star Trek movie better as far as the story goes. I guess for me, the big thing was that the aliens weren't "alien" enough - I "saw" (re: the film's use of that word) them immediately and I think that took some of the interest away from the film for me. Maybe that's a sacrifice that needed to be made in order for the audience to relate, but is sure made what was going to happen in the film pretty obvious. That could partly because I'm a big science fiction fan, and I like my aliens to be alien, not like Star Trek DS9 where an "alien" was just someone with different makeup on their nose and maybe a couple of neck ridges; in this case it was a bigger blue body. I also found that the name that the antagonists used for the resource they were after was quite interesting, I forget where I heard it before - somewhere in an old SciFi book.

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                                    • soloS Offline
                                      solo
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                                      unobtainium 💚

                                      Larry Niven's 'Ringworld'

                                      http://www.solos-art.com

                                      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                      • M Offline
                                        museummaker
                                        last edited by

                                        I finally got to see it in 3d IMAX

                                        Visually stunning

                                        Plot.... not so much

                                        Seem's that folks are taking it a bit to seriously 😆

                                        Follow the link to read "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible"

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                                        (via Boing Boing)

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                                        • R Offline
                                          rocksplit
                                          last edited by

                                          Enjoyed Avatar - better then expected

                                          You guys got me going: Thank you!

                                          Special effects are stunning.. easily could have lingered longer in some landscapes

                                          Looking for a great plot with depth... a classic like Tarkovsy's Stalker is rewarding. Anyone seen it?

                                          Daniel

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                                          • W Offline
                                            watkins
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                                            For thos ewho would like to watch Stalker in 10 minute bites

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