51 2014-05-12 22:05:58
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
52 2014-05-09 07:31:41
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
53 2014-05-06 22:33:31
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
54 2014-05-06 07:53:59
Re: A Song of Ice and Fire (BOOK READERS ONLY; MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) (303 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Overheard at a party, about a year from now...
"Hi, I'm George R.R. Martin."
"Valar Morghulis!"
55 2014-05-01 23:23:36
Re: Cool vids...again. (1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)
This forum should be right smack in the middle of the demographic they are going for.
56 2014-04-24 21:32:04
Re: A Song of Ice and Fire (BOOK READERS ONLY; MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) (303 replies, posted in Off Topic)
57 2014-04-23 00:03:11
Re: A Song of Ice and Fire (BOOK READERS ONLY; MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) (303 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Again, I fail to see the controversy around this sentence:
A character who shoved a child from a window, murdered his own cousin with his bare hands, fathered three children with his twin sister, also committed rape.
I have no problem if all that stuff is too much for you. Everyone has a line. But the character has a subteranean level of morality (in both book and film) and to be outraged by one aspect of it, is insane.
I agree (both with you and the points Tray makes). We who have also read the books also know that Jamie is soon to do "the right thing" as well as confessing to maybe his worst betrayal.
Jamie is a damaged character, he had a sense of honour and like we all fails to live up to his own standards.
But until I'm proven wrong I firmly believe Jamie will be there for the final battle against the white walkers, and maybe then he will find redemption.
58 2014-04-18 20:20:39
Re: Game of Thrones (TV Discussion | SPOILERS) (349 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Can't blame the guy... I also need coffee to get through these dreadful affairs.
59 2014-04-12 16:53:54
Re: Reddit's AmA Surveillance Thread (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I am James Cameron. AMA
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2 … meron_ama/
Hi Reddit! Jim Cameron here to answer your questions. I am a director, writer, and producer responsible for films such as Avatar, Titanic, Terminators 1 and 2, and Aliens. In addition, I am a deep-sea explorer and dedicated environmentalist. Most recently, I executive produced Years of Living Dangerously, which premieres this Sunday, April 13, at 10 p.m. ET on Showtime. Victoria from reddit will be assisting me. Feel free to ask me about the show, climate change, or anything else.
60 2014-04-02 21:16:46
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
61 2014-03-22 22:54:19
Re: Cool vids...again. (1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)
So last night I was drinking beer and hanging out with friends and I confessed that this video has been in a heavy rotation for me for the last few days. I can watch this over and over again and for some reason I love it little bit more every time Turns out another friend of mine had the exact same reaction to it and had been watching the same clip obsessively.
Ladies and gentlemen… the musical stylings of Jim Rash
62 2014-03-19 22:48:40
Re: Dogma (30 replies, posted in Episodes)
However, note that some branches believe that Mary miraculously REMAINED a virgin her whole life.
Bleh... I know plenty of dudes that believe their mothers to be a virgin. Italy I'm looking at you!
63 2014-03-16 20:23:48
Re: Groundhog Day (26 replies, posted in Episodes)
Well played Netflix, well played!
64 2014-03-16 06:43:34
Re: Looper (124 replies, posted in Episodes)
A Christmas Carol. Sci-Fi or no?
Scrooge never interacts with anybody in his travels. His consciousness observes but is not seen, heard or touched by anyone.
There are many examples from religion and myths about people traveling forward in time but travelling back in time in literature is a relatively new or at least rare. First books with time travel going back into the past are popping up probably somewhere around the same time when Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
65 2014-03-15 12:22:48
Re: Passing the Torch (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Yeah I'll take Star Trek as one but it is so rooted in TV that it's not a pure example of what I'm thinking about.
But I'll give Star Trek that it did it well.
Star Wars seems to be heading down that road and like Ghostbusters I have a bad feeling about it.
One meta example a friend mentioned to me was ‘After Earth’ where Will Smith was going to pass the action hero torch to Jaden. What a mess that turned out to be.
66 2014-03-15 01:32:53
Re: Looper (124 replies, posted in Episodes)
Well, I for one sure liked that movie!
67 2014-03-15 00:10:07
Topic: Passing the Torch (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
This trend the studios/filmmakers sometimes try to squeeze more money out their properties by "passing the torch" to a younger actors like what they tried to do with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Dumb and Dumber comes to mind (Dumb and Dumberer) plus a some of other Jim Carrey movies that failed a well (Mask, Ace Ventura)
The Ghostbusters 3 was/is supposed to be handing the torch over to a younger generation. Now this sounds terrible to me. But my question is. Why do the studios keep on trying this? Has there ever been a successful "Passing of the Torch" in cinema? TV seems to be a bit better suited for it but has any movie franchise ever successfully pulled it off?
The only example I kind of liked was a tongue in cheek meta "Have fun" scene early in The Rundown.
69 2014-03-14 20:55:29
Re: Reddit's AmA Surveillance Thread (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Really, the title of this thread should use "AMA" instead of "IAmA;" because all IAmAs are AMAs, but not all AMAs are IAmAs.
I fixed it... here's hoping forum members start using the thread now that's cleared up
70 2014-03-13 16:36:51
Re: Reddit's AmA Surveillance Thread (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'm Terry Gilliam. I don't care what you ask me.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2 … ou_ask_me/
When it comes to bowel movements I'm Superman! I have complete control over them! ~ Terry Gilliam
71 2014-03-11 07:44:02
Re: True Detective (199 replies, posted in Off Topic)
1) Tone
2) Philosophy
3) Performances of Matthew and Woody.
4) Editorial (admittedly biased)
5) Dialogue
6) Set design
7) Michelle Monaghen (She does a lot with a little)
8) Narrative Structure (i.e. flashback device)
9) Errol's performance. You can voice cast an entire pixar movie with just him.
10)Watching the internet shit it's pants because the finale didn't butter it's toast and tuck it in at night.
Before Cotterpin asked for the top five I had already put down 4 things that I take away from the show.
I think it tells a great deal about people and their priorities what you take from the show. We are informed by so many things that make up who we are and who we think, wish, would like we are.
What I took from the show is what I take from most visual storytelling.
1) Cinematography - I am in awe of the mastery of the camera that was put on a display for us in these 8 episodes. The compositions of the frame just blew me away.
2) Story (Narrative) - I liked both but I understand that some might have issues with both elements. For me they both worked but for many they were lacking. But then again I've never been after the "perfect" story. I come from a more mythology/folklore background and am more interested in themes, motives. Fragmented storytelling has never been a problem for me. I have also said here on the forums before that I'll take a story that says something to me over a "perfect movie" that check's all the boxes but does not speak to me. I would prefer them to be both but I take emotional, thought and discussion provoking stories before technically well made that have little to nothing to say.
3) Dialogue (and performance) - For me it was poetry, others did not like it. So it goes. A show can't be all things to all people.
4) Tone - Loved the tone of the show, writing, editing and DI work came together for me. Other opinions are available. It does not bother me that other people did not like it.
p.s. Are we not all waiting for the they died in the end a la Taxi Driver rhetoric to begin? Now that will bother me to no end when such nonsense begins.
72 2014-03-06 23:17:36
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Lupita Nyong'o photoshopped as Storm
The Original
73 2014-03-06 01:53:45
Re: Behind The Scenes (Bandwidth Warning) (87 replies, posted in Off Topic)
God, I miss models.
You and me both, you and me both.
74 2014-03-04 19:14:00
Re: The cool photos thread (Bandwidth Warning, Yo!) (956 replies, posted in Off Topic)
75 2014-03-03 21:43:54
Re: House of Cards [SPOILERS MARKED] (58 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Am I the only one that was hoping up until Frank Underwood spoke to the camera in the first episode "Did you think I’d forgotten you? Perhaps you hoped I had." that it would be Claire that would be breaking the fourth wall this season?