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I ditch the 35mm, travel into the future grab a super HD digital camera with a 100 terabyte hard drive (or whatever happens to be powerful in the future). And then go wild.
Personally I would probably fill it with lots of ancient ruins in their heyday. Giza Pyramids being high on the list. Travel around europe for a while. Definitly check out a gladiator show. Hit up the silk road for a good time. Head down to south america, check out Machu Piccu in all it's glory, probably hit up a human sacrifice or two. And finally I'd wrap it all up with a tour through histories greatest beauties
Same question, since I'm curious... and I cheated.
So I decided to finally check out The Pacific. I just finished the first episode...and I know it sounds bad to say this about something like this, but I assure you I mean it purely in a filmic way...I don't give a shit.
I have no clue who any of these people are, barely understand why I'm supposed to care, and I'm just generally disinterested in everything that's happening. And let be clear, I fucking love Band Of Brothers, I usually love everything about that era of war (Strictly...you know in a historical, and appropriate way) but somehow The Pacific has managed to over ride all that and make me not give a shit.
Is it just me? Can someone please assure me that it does at least get better? I'm just sitting here in a pool of my own disappointment trying to make sense of it all.
Let's be honest, people are essentially cattle. Better to use them to achieve something great, whether by their labour, greed, or their insatiable need for "stuff". Using their otherwise small, meaningless lives to build an empire, country, or company is only logical.
Well by that logic. Sauron does turn a horde of dissorganized, in-fighting, tribal orcs and goblins* into a polished image of an industrial society on the forefront of technology.
*I'm assuming here, but I think it's safe to say they didn't exactly have high ambitions
If you have everything and know everything and there's never any time limits and everything is perfect, then what the hell (pun intended) is there to do? A Charlie Sheen lifestyle... forever?
Biggest Jenga game....ever! Like we're talking like Burj Khalifa level shit here.
Acres upon acres of twister games.
Battleship... with real battleships!
Heaven has a certain infatuation for board games...just fyi. (The kerplunk set is kinda terrifying come to think of it)
But it's not about being the messiah or the savior, or being revered. It's about "I am a god. Shut the fuck and bow bitches."
I'm not saying it's the best plan. But it's Loki's plan.
EDIT: I don't know. I don't claim to know what the personification of all evil plans to do with his empire, probably watch it burn for a while then start anew with him as a god in the middle of it. Who knows.
And yes, as humans it would probably suck pretty hard once we got it, but Sauron is a long way off from human.
By that analogy, if the aliens wanted to rule (rather than just exterminate), then they should hijack the existing political infrastructure. Turn the existing rulers into puppets by showering them with gifts and protecting them from threats (real or perceived), and most of the population will go along with it. This has been the tactic from at least Roman times, if not earlier.
The aliens didn't want to rule. Loki did. The aliens were merely the payment the other promised in exchange for the Tesseract.
Think of it this way.
Loki=Viserys Targaryen Tesseract= Dany Other= Khal Drogo The alien horde= The Khalasar Earth=Westeros
That's pretty much the way I read it. Loki doesn't want to subtly infect the human governments. Fuck that, he's a god. He marches in and says this is mine now.
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That kinda bugged me in Lord of the Rings when you see that map of Middle Earth stained by the spreading armies of Sauron and the voiceover saying something about darkness destroying everything in its wake. What's the point of that? That's victory? Sauron sits on the throne and gazes over a devastated, smouldering landscape? Pyrrhic victory anyone?
Honestly. I think that's exactly what Sauron wants. He is the personification of pure evil remember. He wants to be the biggest, baddest and have nothing else in existence to challenge that. It's a very simplistic way of looking at it, but Lord Of The Rings is all about that type of simplistic morality.
At first I was like "Damn," because I want to do a short film about Aurors.
But then I was like "Phew," because the main thing I want to do it for is to make a cool(er than the films) wand duel, and AUROR'S TALE seems to do wand duels the same way the films do. It does a very good job of emulating the feel of those, though.
Did you see the fake trailer for an Aurors TV show that got released a while back? I would still love to do something like that. Obviously with better duels that the...ugh...movies.
Dave is that a re-creation of one of the chambers from portal 1? It kinda looks like it but I can't be certain.
EDIT: Also, since we are talking Portal here. If you want a crazy series. Check out Decay. I just played it, took me over 2 hours with the vast majority of that filled with various swears. Crazy hard puzzles but some kick ass custom animation and visuals. My play through should start going up tomorrow.
And to be extra clear to anyone who misunderstood: I never wanted to see Cap. inherit Thor's powers. Just to showcase that he is not someone who craves power, or anything close to that. But, he is clearly someone who intends nothing but the best. He is absolutely a good guy. There is no evil in his heart.
Honestly I would have loved to have seen that in Thor's standalone. It would have emphasised Thor douchery and maybe made him go "Oh shit, this guys actually a good guy. Maybe I am kind of a douche." Or something. Of course that would have meant completely swapping the order of the movies and somehow getting Cap into Thors path. But the idea would have been nice to see.
I honestly can't even remember the first time I watched most of this stuff. It's just always been there. Although weirdly enough, I never actually saw any of the live action non-muppet movies (meaning Labyrinth and Dark Crystal). I finally saw labyrinth I think last year, and I still haven't seen dark crystal.
I don't know if anyone outside canada would know this show, but when i was really little, like toddler age. I watched a lot of Sesame Street, and Mr. Dressup, which was little CBC production with puppets and this one older genteman, named Mr. Dressup. ANd it was you know, your typical kids fare, but it was funny because the actor (Ernie Coombs) looks EXACTLY like my grandfather. needless to say that led to some very interesting confusion in my early years. lol.
Man I haven't thought about this stuff in years. wow.
Well doc...you'll be happy to know it took me a solid 20 minutes to get v2.1 figured out. Granted mostly cause I was being an idiot and dying a lot. But neverless, nicely done. Video will be online tomorrow.
I ha all those other things, like Star Wars was there but it was never...OHMYGOD Fucking Star Wars. And I had Ghostbusters and back to the future. But growing up they were mostly just the movies that my dad really liked and wanted to pass on, and I liked them but they never impacted me the way they did with a lot of other people.
TBH, the 2 things that impacted me the most growing up were The Muppets and Harry Potter.
I grew up with the Muppets, it sounds cliche but it's really true. When I was really little it was Sesame Street, and then my parents started showing us (Me and my sister) the Muppet movies and then when the new Muppet movies began to come out I fell in love with those (I was born the year before Muppet Christmas Carol was released) and they really informed a lot of my childhood. And then as I got older I started watching the Muppet Show and re-watching the movies and seeing the things I never saw in them before.
The muppets are probably the closest thing I have to the Star Wars or Star Trek level of impact that a lot of people around here have. I can honestly say, I wouldn't be here or the man I am without the muppets.
I read that almost as Odin taunting Thor or at trying to get him motivated. Because he's basically saying you are no longer worthy to be Thor. Anyone else wanna give it a shot? And yes, it is just a spell to make sure Thor can't pick it up and regain his powers until he's worthy.
It's basically a combination of Hercules and Arthurian legend. The gods remove his godhood and turn him into a man, and he needs to prove that he can be a true hero before he can lift the sword from the stone and become a god again.
I'm also not a fan of the whole you just have to be really strong to pick up Mjolnir thing. It kinda undermines that whole otherworldly powers thing that asgard has going on. I've always seen it as Thor having some sort of deep seated almost magical connection to Mjolnir, which is why he can call it to him at will, and it can make him fly etc etc.
I love doing it.
