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Matt Close
Expert Film Handler

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From: Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 11-05-2002 01:51 AM

Another good point I found ...... America MUST change it's emergency number! ... How offensive it must be to have to dial 911 for emergency services .... emergency service crew perished in the '9/11' attacks .... you must change the number now!!

*raises eyebrows & shakes head in dis-belief*

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 11-05-2002 03:16 AM

Speaking of movies that changed thier names for one reason or another..

Star Trek 7:Generations.. was originally titled NEMESIS. It was changed to generations because they felt that the main bad guy didn't really feel that evil, and they wanted to play off of the fact that it would have the old and new generations...

STar Trek 8:First Contact.. was originally titled NEMESIS. They changed it to RESURRECTION until the fourth alien movie was announced and then it was changed about nine times and fell upon FIRST CONTACT.

Star Trek 9:Insurrection.. Was originally titled.. guess what... NEMESIS. It was changed because they really felt that the name didn't feel right to the movie.

Now we have star trek 10:NEMESIS. I was SURE that they would have changed this title. I hate this title. They have been toying with it for ten freaking years and NOW they have to use it. I hope to hell and back that they finally found the right movie for this name..

Problem is I viewed a film called NEMESIS and it was 83 minutes of pure hell. Some french action guy, Oliveir Grunier or whatever. It is the longest 83 minute film in history, feels like 4 hours.

What the hell am I talking about? Damn I got lost again.

Dave

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Brad Miller
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posted 11-05-2002 03:24 AM

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"Another good point I found ...... America MUST change it's emergency number! ... How offensive it must be to have to dial 911 for emergency services .... emergency service crew perished in the '9/11' attacks .... you must change the number now!!"

DEFINITELY! If we're going to let all these fragile people control everything, then we simply MUST get rid of the 911 emergency service number. Political correctness has really gone too far over the last several years.

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Thomas Procyk
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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-05-2002 12:06 PM

Personally, I'm offended by 7-11. How dare such an insensitive corporation name a chain of convenience stores after the date two months before (or ten months after) such horrible attacks!! And they serve a flavor of "Slurpee" colored RED?!? THEY have gone too far, not political correctness.

And let's not forget Milton Bradley's game of skill and determination, "JENGA"! How dare a "game of skill and determination" involve a "tower" of blocks "collapsing"???

=TMP=

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 11-05-2002 12:47 PM

We must just get rid of the 9/11 date altogether. I propose just skipping that date, and adding a 31st day to the end of September. How dare we allow a month to include a date with such horrible memories.

We've gotten rid of the 13th floor on all the tall buildings, so this shouldn't be any harder than that.

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Steve Scott
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posted 11-06-2002 11:21 PM

While we're at it, let's digitally edit out any building over five stories from every movie ever created... And let's ban "The Towering Inferno" from being sold on film or video. Cause you know if we are all totally considerate of everyone's feelings, terrible things will never happen ever again....

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Gordon Hedges III
Jealous of everyone not me

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From: Severn, MD
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 11-06-2002 11:42 PM

Here's another bit of interesting "I Can't Believe They Would Do That?!?!?" contribution.
here

Supposedly, someone was offended by this picture.

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Jacob Huber
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From: Evansville, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-07-2002 02:09 AM

"Many, however, feel that if any depiction of two similar, side-by-side objects taller than they are wide is now going to be considered an unacceptable reminder of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, then "sensitivity" has run amok."

So this is what we have become, a society of frightened children? It doesn't help the cause of reason that the companies responsible for these "horrific" ads are giving in to these sensitivity mongers. If one major company accused of delibirate offensive advertisement would stand up and just say no, people would take notice. Sadly, these companies are too afraid of losing face and losing a few dozen customers to stand up for logic. If this is the way we are going to act from now on, running in terror at any resemblance of something that was meant to stand as a source of power, stength, and liberty, then the terrorists truly have won.

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Thomas Procyk
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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
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posted 11-07-2002 12:23 PM

Not to mention, that flying dragonfly looks like it's taking dead aim at one of those refreshing-looking towers....err....beverages.

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 11-07-2002 12:53 PM

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"Another good point I found ...... America MUST change it's emergency number! ... How offensive it must be to have to dial 911 for emergency services .... emergency service crew perished in the '9/11' attacks .... you must change the number now!!"
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hmmmmmm maybe they should change the emergency number to 666 because I am like what the hell!

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John Wilson
Film God

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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 11-08-2002 08:09 AM

OK,

So I'm not on here to post too often anymore but I just had to say that this thread contains the funniest contents since the original joke-yak thread.

Thanks guys

Always nice to end the day with a good belly laugh.

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"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage." Indiana Jones

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Matthew Bailey
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From: Port Arthur,TX
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 11-08-2002 06:55 PM

This may be off topic. If they made a theatrical movie on the WTC
disaster would they have SFX crews using mock-ups,etc.
of various floors between floors & ceilings such as flame machinery
& other things to give audiences a view of what happened inside during the plane collisions & during the collapse of the buildings?

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Gordon Hedges III
Jealous of everyone not me

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From: Severn, MD
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 11-12-2002 12:02 AM

And so it ends.

Looks like the "TWO TOWERS PROTEST ORGANIZATION" has lost their page.

Maybe we'll see the "R-rating Protest Organization" in the future, but that is a different story.

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