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The live action stuff pretty much breaks the story. It succeeds in being funny and heartwarming, but destroys the stakes and changes the conflict. It could have worked (better) tho if Dad decided to role play Lord Business WITH Son, and we dive back into the story, conflict intact. Then no silly "You're special, Lord Business" speech fom Emmet, and Lord Business is defeated fair and square, with over-the-top, defeated-maniac dialog from Farrell.

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This thread should've been called "Best sports movies". That would've kept him out.

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This was a lot of fun, altho absolutely frenetic and a bit rambling. Will Ferrel is hilarious, but the whole cast does a great job.

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Yeah, when your meat options are severely restricted by isolation or war, even canned spiced ham can become a treasured treat. It goes the other way, too. Things that Hawaiians take for granted seem exotic to us: hula, volcanoes, human sacrifice, etc.

Ron is almost never nice to Hermione. He's rarely even a good friend; we mostly see him jealous of Harry and Hermione's successes. And the few times he tastes success himself he's kind of insufferable. Hermione is almost never anything but frustrated with him.

Me.

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Damn.

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I listened to this ep the other day. Lots of fun. My feelings are pretty much the same. There's so much to like about this movie, and then the ending just goes to hell. Not only is the time travel stuff stupid, there's no conflict. Lex Luthor has no reason at all to contact Superman in the first place. It's crazy. The writers just have these two completely separate stories going at the same time and then mash them together for no reason in the third act because, hey, something's got to come to a climax.

Ugh. That guy got lucky and then big-headed and now sucks so much he's probably only making $1 million a picture. HAHAHAHha ha... ha..... *laughter becomes tears*

*tears become rain*
*fades into nonexistence as a force of nature*
*passes into legend*
*becomes subject of terrible M Night Shyamalan movie*

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I feel like that's a very common thing in short films these days. It's possible to do amazing things with effects, which leads nerds to create sci-fi and fantasy worlds for their film but with no time to explain anything about them.

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I lurved it. It made me larf.

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Meh. It seems to me that the pilot season gets a lot of free advertising. Cable shows don't benefit from that and so have to create their own buzz, which I suspect is pretty expensive.

But I fully agree that pilots shouldn't be rushed. That's just dumb.

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Drew wins, but it was a bit of a trick question because the photographer is pregnant, so I'm afraid that negates any wagers.

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A quiz....

One niece, recently out of college and needing to get her car fixed, got $500.

Her sister, a married part-time photographer, got $100 and a hard drive loaded with family photos (digital from the last few years as well as old photos that were scanned).

Which one cried that she was less loved?

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Back on topic:

These nuns, observed Cardinal Cabot,
Are too friendly, he said to the abbot
  There's nothing amiss
  With a celibate kiss
But they shouldn't get into the habit

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