2,751

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books … at-83.html

http://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sendaks-where-the-wild-things-are.jpg

You will be missed dear sir.

2,752

(64 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Like I said. It needed something more.

2,753

(64 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I wow dude...I don't even know how I can communicate with you. You're like some sort of alien...

/pokes Doc with a stick/

2,754

(198 replies, posted in Episodes)

Same goes for Nolan really. Not quite sure what else there is to be said about him that wasn't covered in Prestige, Dark Knight or Inception.

I guess memento, but I think they kinda get into that in inception don't they?

Although that list reminding me of Ridley Scott. I'm so pumped for Prometheus. Thats gonna be a helluva thing. Might be a good time to bring up the career of one Ridley Scott. It is only a month away.

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(64 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Ewing wrote:

Loved it but I have one issue. Nick Fury says the world needs remarkable people to come together to fight battles. Tony Stark is one of these people because he has a suit of armor more advanced than any other piece of technology on the planet.

It was never about the suit. He's there because he's fucking Tony Stark. As the line goes.

"Take away your suit what are you."
"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist."

Rhodey is none of those....though I guess you know the first one is kinda the important one.

Anyways, now that that's outta the way.

(Prepare for random stream of random thoughts)

I got to see this today (So the honeymoon is still on but I'm not gonna apologize for that), in ultraavx 3d and whatever else they want to add on to the end of it. Blew 18 bucks outta my bank account, got crammed at the end of a row (Assigned seating) in a roughly half empty theater (It was a noon showing. I moved). I had probably the most annoying audience ever, I'm fairly certain 1/3 of the movie was covered by people walking in front of me, in and out of the theater. But it was worth every fucking cent and hassle. Dear goods this was amazing.

First off, the introduction of Hawkeye was brilliant. We meet this character who we really only know from the trailer (Where he's doing awesome good guy hero stuff) and we instantly make him a lacky for the bad guy...so I'm already like...okay...wtf...and this is gonna be cool.

Side note. Was I the only one kinda thrown off by seeing Stellan Skarsgard and a dude who looks frighteningly like Daniel Craig in the same shot without one of them hanging by the neck from the ceiling on a chain? Anyways...

Opening action sequence was awesome. Robin in that suit, dear gods I can die a happy man. And she surprisingly really holds her own through the entire thing, I was impressed.

My feelings for Scarlett throughout can be summed up as: "Honey you fucking earned and deserve that shot." Every single fight scene she had I loved (Although this is true of practically every fight scene in the movie...so it's nothing horribly specific to her) and she actually kinda felt like a real person, which was awesome.

I am so fricking pumped for the Hawkeye movie. Amazing how we haven't had his setup movie yet, he spends the first 1/3 of the movie as effectively a bad guy, and he still works just as well as any of the others. Joss man, hats off dear sir.

Maybe it's just where I got put, but all the stuff in the other world was freaking me out with the 3D, my brain was warping the hell out. And not in that weird bad 3D way, it just felt like something completely out of this world. So cheers to whoever made that work.

Gwyneth Paltrow in shorts shorts...pretty much sums that one up. I love their relationship. I wanna see Iron Man 3 just for the 2 of them now.

Maybe I was just predestined to buy into it all, but I never really got the sense that the invuls (Thor and CA) weren't in danger. And I mean they can take a hell of a hit, and hit back just as hard. But the thing is, that wasn't the point. For all of them it's about saving earth. And it doesn't matter if they "can't die", if the world is torn down around them, and that's where they're vulnerability comes from. Which is EXACTLY where Joss needed to take the Avengers to make it work. And well, the results speak for themselves.

The one piece of fridge logic (Well...fridge logic I got immediatly after he said it, I forget if we have a word for that) was Hulks, "I'm always angry" thing. Maybe I just don't understand Hulk, but if thats how he's been managing to contain Hulk for a year and a half, (except when he falls through the floor?) shouldn't he ALWAYS be the rage hulk that emerged on board the ship? It might have worked stronger with more of a focused character thing, or maybe I just missed something. Someone please fill me in.

The council. Um what? (I havn't seen CA, so if it's explained there, my bad...but seriously, where the fuck did that come from?!)

And that end of the credits Schwarma thing is amazing. I was dying laughing through the entire thing. It just kept going and going and going. I kept waiting for something to happen and then black. It was amazing. An awkward pause Craig Ferguson would be proud of.

Also, I see Mike somehow managed to get his credit at the easily locatable end of his section. Nicely done sir.

Anyways, I think that's everything I wanted to say.

To close. We really really really ought to be giving Joss Whedon way too much money way more often.

EDIT: I was wrong.

I finally saw the Battleship trailer in front of this movie.... I need to see that. I don't even care. I need to see that movie.

Also in front of my screening was the trailer for Frankenweenie. Which I didn't even know was being made, but looks amazing.

And also also in front of my screening was the last TDKR trailer. AMAZING on the big screen with full surround. The quiet first half was one of the most amazing things I've seen in a theater, so intense.

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(5 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I'm confused... so basically they stuck a laser in a tube and they're calling it a thing?

2,757

(569 replies, posted in Creations)

Er...yeah, sorry, my bad. I'll be acting, they'll be driving.

2,758

(569 replies, posted in Creations)

Teague if you need a third replacement let me know, I think I can have someone who can help.

2,759

(44 replies, posted in Episodes)

Fido, you know you can just click on the video feed and it'll take you through to the Justin.tv page that doesn't have a chat on it right?

2,760

(20 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I believe that's only in Soviet Russia sir.

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http://www.cineplex.com/News/Director-P … ils_Fourth

Not really a trailer (Though there is a lot of footage in the video at the bottom), but stop-mo makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, so it gets posted.

2,762

(20 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Я все еще могу копировать и вставлять.

You wanna translate the poster for me then smart guy?

2,763

(20 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I don't however know how to type in russian....so yeah. Screw you dude.

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(956 replies, posted in Off Topic)

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/chive-dar-26.jpg?w=500&h=373

Yes.

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(20 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Am I back up to second? Nice, Zarban was beating me there for a bit, but I guess I passed him again.

(< Doesn't mention that he also disappeared for 3 months and didn't post)

tongue

But alright, let's do the math on mine.

1211posts/2.5years (roughly)=484.4

484.4/52weeks=9.3 posts a week

9.3/7= 1.3 posts per day, every day for 2 and a half years

Holy crap I kinda talk a lot don't I?

EDIT: Although in reality, I think it's probably closer to 2 ppd, since we were on the old forum for a while before we moved and lost everything hmm

2,766

(20 replies, posted in Off Topic)

19946/238=83.8 posts per user

Over 3 (technically less, cause we migrated servers and lost everything) years?

That's on average 27.9 posts per user per year.

Color me not impressed.

I think what we've learned from this, is that DiF has a TON of creepers on the forum.
tongue

2,767

(198 replies, posted in Episodes)

I'm rather partial to the Doctors explanation.

2,768

(9 replies, posted in Creations)

Heehee, I git it.

2,769

(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Anyone who knows about my obsession with Starkid will understand why this turns me into a giddy little schoolboy.

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(956 replies, posted in Off Topic)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m370bn22Tk1qzlt9yo2_250.gif

The joy of Felicia Day and Supernatural.

2,771

(4 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Owen Ward wrote:

Great White Sharks Can't Jump

clap

2,772

(569 replies, posted in Creations)

Wow, James Cameron, Brent Spiner. This project is really taking off.

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(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

fireproof78 wrote:

Contrary to that, all the positive reviews about a movie I am not interested in will actually push me further away from a movie.

This confuses me. Is it just some sort of ingrained urge to rebel against authority or do you just hate finding new things to be interested in?

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(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL

Stupid no all upper case...gruble grumble..fukin commies

2,775

(40 replies, posted in Episodes)

I finally got to see this one last night (well...I finished it like 6 hours ago...so however the terminology for that works) and I..really fucking enjoyed what was there, but I'm dissappointed by what wasn't there, even though it doesn't detract from my enjoyment of what is there. Wait...Let me explain.

I'm one of those guys that has been following Cabin in the Woods for about a year and a half now. And as such I've had a lot of time to develop my own...shall we say, theories of what it would actually end up being. Although most of those were just blurry vague ideas, but when they released the poster image, thats when a lot of my ideas came into focus. Specifically I'm referring to this image...

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/cabin-in-woods-poster.jpg

Looking at this, my brain immediately went towards the much more mystery, puzzley type ideas floating around. Namely because well...the Cabin is a fucking rubicks cube. So out comes the trailer, which does nothing to dissuade my ideas of a very mind fucky, twisty, what the fuck type movie. Pair that, with the tagline "You think you know the story." and you get BDA walking into the theater thinking/hoping that this is going to be some sort of real intense mind bending take on the traditional cabin in the Woods/Evil Dead type thing (Er...well I would have had that walking into the theater, if I hadn't kinda had it spoiled that it wasn't going to be that) where it starts off as a very run of the mill literal take on that whole thing, and then it slowly unravels and falls apart as it progresses until we find the elevator and ride it down and discover the larger forces at work.

Enter BDA sitting in the theater. BAM, right fucking in my face, here's the ENTIRE larger forces at work shoved down your throat as the FIRST scene in the movie. (Which yes, you couple together a title sequence of nothing but human sacrifice images, a group of scientists, in some sort of high tech bunker, with the image of the elevator from the trailer and I basically have the rest of the larger picture plotted out, including the old gods element (Although that one might have been more me hoping...because I love the idea of the old gods in modern times...you notice I almost always use the plural "Gods" when talking...anyways)).

So...I'm confused...slightly disappointed, but hopeful. So I let the rest of the movie unfold and slowly allow myself to get re emersed into it, and by the time they hit the gas station I'm into it, I get what they're doing, and the rest of the movie goes off great, and I love every moment of it.

So yes, while I would have loved to have seen the movie that I thought CiTW was going to be, but I also love what it actually was...after I adjusted my mental settings in the theater.

Anyways on to specific stuff...

Fran Kranz...I LOVE this guy, he is easily on my list of actors I would sell very personal things to work with one day. He is among the...I'd say top 3 things, I love most about Dollhouse (Although this is coming from one of those apparently few humans alive that actually really likes Dollhouse.), and he was my favourite character in CiTW (well tied with Dana...it's the redhead, I'm useless against it tongue)

The ending... First off, I gotta give props to the audience I was in, when Sigourney appeared the entire audience was filled with laughs and woots, it was awesome. Secondly I love the ending just the way it plays out, through the entire thing I was sitting there going...please don't wimp out, please don't wimp out...holy shit....oh gods...they're actually doing it! Cut to black. BRAWWWM. I very nearly lost my shit.

The ending was an amazing refreshing change for me, it was really nice to see a movie that put itself into that position and went, yep, we're doin this. And not pull out with some sappy bullshit ending of "Oh, I guess I'm going to have to kill myself so the rest of- blah blah." No, fuck you guys, and fuck this, we're just gonna sit here, get high and let it burn.

It's one of the most human things I've ever seen a couple of characters do.

Although that may say more about me than anything else hmm

As you can probably tell, I obviously didn't have the issue of not connecting with the characters at the end...I was a little confused about where the hell Weaver came from though...does she just live down there or something? Bunk buddies with the old gods? And when she first appeared I coulda sworn it was going to be a thing where she was a manifestation of the old gods, and then the sacrifices and the gods were going to talk, and it was going to be really cool...but nope. Oh well.

Anyways...I have more to say, but long post is already long.

EDIT: I knew there was something I really wanted to talk about. I'm surprised none of you brought it up in the episode. But there is definitely a conversation-ish to be had about the visual effects. Specifically those ones that were so gods-horrifyingly-aweful, that I was thrown out of the movie for a minute before I remembered...oh right, they're doing a whole schlocky horror thing. Namely I'm thinking of the bike jump just before he hits the forcefield, the weird shuffly floaty cell system, and when the elevator doors open for the first time and the entire room literally explodes with blood.

I don't really have much to say aside from that, but did you guys notice it to or was it just me?