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(26 replies, posted in Episodes)

Well, arguably, they did:

However, they decided to redefine the Doctor as a human inventor instead of an alien, so the movies are sooo not canon, as well as being pretty lame.

Yeah, it's a characteristic feature of most enduring franchises, such as James Bond or Indiana Jones or Doctor Who, that Our Heroes already arrive fully formed, and stay that way throughout the story.

They might be put through an emotional wringer, or dangled from a succession of precipices, but neither Bond nor Indy nor the Doctor are generally on a Hero's Journey, yet that doesn't harm the success of the stories that can be told, when a good writer is involved.

By the way, did you notice the colossal number of different How to write a ... guides you can buy, and the unbelievable number of "advanced worksheets" you can also buy?

Or that, some time during February 2009, the method that you cannot write a successful screenplay without suddenly blossomed from 188 stages to 510+ without so much as a fanfare?

It almost as if the author is so busy writing about writing successful screenplays, that he hasn't hadn't time to write any successful screenplays.

"You cannot write a successful screenplay without it."

O RLY? How about all those successful ones that you're, let's call it, analyzing that predate your, let's call it, method? And 510+ stages? That's about one for every line of dialogue in a script. It's amazing there's any variety at all in successful movies if they're all trying to follow some elaborate, pre-determined structure.

I agree with paulou, it seems to me to be just fast-talking, selective, uninsightful bollocks, dressed up with scrawly arrows, mild condescension and the world's longest web page.

I find nothing of interest or merit here at all, although the FAQ page is amusing in its barely-contained frustration at how clueless and unskilled the reader is.

Additionally, this page may well contain more PayPal buttons than every other web site in the world put together.

454

(1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Cross-wind jumbo landing.

455

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

If no-one's made a movie called Race Condition yet, well, they should, for that is what it going on here.

Also, sixty-second delays between responses doesn't help. :-)

456

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Rats.

457

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

The Passion of the Christ.

And then, mine again :-).

458

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

American Beauty

The Misshapen Fellow from a French Cathedral

459

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

When will those of us, not usually on the continental US, get a chance to see RotLA:TA? Dare I say, I'm quite stoked to see it (no offence, Trey)?

460

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

The Secret of NIMH

That which punches, as an acronym

461

(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

If it counts when you try to watch a film, then give up through sheer boredom after an hour, I'll mention Sucker Punch, which was showing on a flight I took on Friday evening.

Now, I didn't make it to the conclusion, but it seemed to me as if someone had taken the ending of Brazil, and padded it out with about seventeen hours of boss fights, skimpy clothing and miscellaneous other 14-year-old-boy dreams. Some of the visuals looked quite good, but if I wanted to stare at visuals for two hours in want of a story, I'd just run the iTunes Visualizer and tape my nose to the screen.

It could be the case that I've foregone a really compelling narrative by not bothering to find out what the hell happened to a bunch of, let's call them, characters that I didn't give a monkey's about bouncing around inside Scott Glenn's retirement plan, but I think I'll take the risk of never finding out.

462

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:

Action, Butt, and Dual Fuming Muzzles

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Velocipede Purloiners

463

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?

Actually, that's not what I was thinking of at all, but I think it's a good-enough answer. (I was thinking of On the Buses, which I can only hope you've never heard of.)

464

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Soul Surfer.

Aboard numerous public transport vehicles.

465

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

ITYM 'World War II'.

466

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:

... but taking the -ing off "seeing" isn't helping me any. Italian CI Hounds?? Romantic Dalmatians??.

Think Roman numerals.

467

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:

Good, because FCW's doesn't have a verb to remove the suffix from, so I don't know where that's going.

Is '-ing' not a verb suffix?  (Arguably, it's on an adjective, but I didn't think calling it an adjective suffix would be as obvious. Not that it was obvious anyway, apparently.)

468

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Fertile Ground?

If so,

Spotty seeing-eye dogs from Rome, without the verb suffix.

"New York, New Yooork, a helluva town!
It's all made up in the bladders of clowns,
Who pee it all through a hole in the ground.
New York, New Yooooork,
It's a fictional toooooown!"

If NYC is only in the movies, what's physically there in his world? Gotham City? An active volcano? A huge bathplug?

What else is "only in the movies"?  iPhones?  Velcro?  Ejaculation?  Pizza?  Nipples on your chest where your USB ports are supposed to be?

Is the movie called "Purple Rose of Cairo 2: Recursive Boogaloo"?

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(81 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Well, I didn't buy my MacBook Pro because of the exclusive availability of FCP, or any other Apple-only application, so I won't be switching away because of FCPX. I know a pile of other MacBook Pro users who also couldn't care less about FCP.

472

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:
fcw wrote:

Pan-prepared unripe fruits at the on-demand station's brasserie

Fried Green Tomatoes 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Close enough for government work.

473

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Zarban wrote:

//no idea about Phi's riddle

Google 'dog toy', and you'll see why it's King Kong.

As it happens, until I did that, I didn't know about that brand, either.

474

(21 replies, posted in Creations)

I presumed 'magic', because the movie features floating mountains in an area where gravity still works the way it does elsewhere in the vicinity; waterfalls fall down, there aren't huge winds caused by differing air masses, etc.. Already, whatever the laws of physics are for us, they're different in the movie. Maybe those mountains don't have a mass of a million tons, but only a million grams.

Plus, not wishing to sound like a Baroquen web developer, but what happens to the mass-times-distance economic argument when some bugger invents warp drive, and we get to short-cut 99.9999% of the way?

475

(207 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Oh, also: King Kong.

Pan-prepared unripe fruits at the on-demand station's brasserie