Not really.

You ever know one of those obsessive audiophiles?  Hell, given the community here some of you might BE obsessive audiophiles, the types that agonize over which cables to buy and debate the qualities of several thousand dollar sound systems, insisting on only the purest sound quality for everything from home entertainment to portable headphones, and insist that MP3 is a horrible format for music because it ruins the original studio sound quality?

I'm not one of those people.  Sure, music sounds good in those 300 dollar noise canceling headphones, but it sounds adequate in 30 dollar headphones too, and I could probably live with 3 dollar headphones.  Point is, I'm kind of the same way with picture quality.  I grew up with Star Wars on VHS, and to me DVD is more than enough.  Hell, some movies I keep a VCR for because the little VHS imperfections add to the charm somehow.  It's shitty quality video and the sound occasionally does that warpy thing, but I'm down.  DVD is more than enough if I want to watch something on my computer, which is where I do most of my movie viewing.

Granted, I don't have a 72" TV and if I did, maybe I'd be more willing to invest in a blu-ray player and some discs to feed it, but that goes against my sensibilities too.  Hell, my house finally got a 42" flat screen (the first of its breed in our abode) this year because a relative wound up in a nursing home and didn't need it anymore.  Until then I made do with a 30something inch CRT (or whatever it's called in TV-speak) and never really saw a problem with it.

Am I ignorant and old fashioned and missing out?  Probably, but I don't notice and it's kind of nice.  Cheaper, too.

Russel Crowe
3:10 To Yuma- Christian Bale
Batman Begins- Morgan Freeman
Wanted- James McAvoy
X-Men First Class- Kevin Bacon

And if you want to continue to Stokes,

Apollo 13- Tom Hanks
The Polar Express- Trey Stokes

However, just to make it hard on myself, here's this game using ONLY DIF episodes.

Russel Crowe
Master and Commander- Paul Bettany
Iron Man- Stan Lee
Spider-Man 2- Alfred Molina
Raiders of the Lost Ark- Harrison Ford
Return of the Jedi- Phil Tippett
Starship Troopers- Trey Stokes

Goodnight everybody.

I haven't seen season 4 because my only means of watching the show is on Netflix.  That said, this show is awesome, I shouldn't have held out on it as long as I did and once again Ewing is right about awesome TV.

Though he does like LOST and I have serious doubts I'll ever successfully enjoy that show.

We were talking not too long ago about how awesome a Dexter/Breaking Bad crossover would be.  I might write that fanfic.

I suggest we would all learn something if we were less snarky.  Nobody here is quite retarded enough to have shorted their keyboards out from drooling on them, so I think we can safely assume that any solecisms or barbarisms that appear within our collectively expansive lexical knowledge are merely booboos.

Yeah, bolt ons aren't very fetch.

Ahem, just so Matt or Eddie doesn't have to do this again.

Army is hooah.  A clever backronym for it is H.U.A- Heard, Understood, Acknowledged.  It basically means anything and everything except for "no."   As I understand it nobody can figure out precisely where the hell this utterance originated or why, but there's some colorful speculative stories.  Not unlike the "Hoosier" thing in my home state in that respect.

Navy, if I remember correctly originating among the SEALS, is hooyah.  I have heard some AF units use this as well but that's lamesauce. 

Marines is Oorah, it's a more barky thing.  This is similar in use to the other two, but I usually hear Marines say this when something is shot, something is blown up, or they are particularly excited about the potential for either of these things to occur.  This is perhaps because Marines can and do often end sentences and respond to any kind of statement or question with phrases like "Semper Fi" or "cleared hot" or "kill, kill."  Yes, that last one is real.  Marines are also prone to occasionally just... barking.  Devil dogs and all that.  I love Marine jargon, it's not necessarily more plentiful than army speak or navy speak, but it's generally way more colorful.  Oorah also has slightly fuzzy origins, but the story I usually hear is that it evolved from an imitation of a submarine klaxon- AHUGA.  I'm going to stop talking about it now because I could do this all day.

Al Pacino seems to be more of an ooAH.  But that's more of a Ralph Garman thing than a Pacino thing at this point anyway.

I humbly suggest DIF take "Dooyah."

If it is indeed to be his exit, then it would be hard to argue that it won't be a classy and in some ways triumphant one.  There are far worse circumstances under which to take your bow.

I am firmly a PC, to the point where sometimes I really wonder how rational human beings can defend the purchase of a Macintosh computer.

That said, Jobs has always struck me as a good guy and he's definitely given us more awesome than suck here on earth (as Zarban handily pointed out).  I don't own an iPad or an iPod or an iPhone to worry about the future of, so I'm mostly just happy to see him take some of that weight off his shoulders.  Upon his health, I will refrain from commenting, but in a perfect world Steve deserves to enjoy long and happy retirement.

You know what would be cool?  Get someone who can draw to do DIF versions of the movie posters in question.  Nostalgia Critic does something kind of like this, but slightly more crudely (IE, a drawing of himself cutting the head off a care bear with an axe).

I'm thinking like instead of having the Jaws poster as the icon for the episode, it's a drawing of Trey looking up with his mouth wide the fuck open, a little tiny red headed man in a bikini treading water unsuspecting above.

Not really HELPFUL, but it would be pretty funny, it'd be unique, and it might prevent retards (I'm keeping that word, bleeding heart scum) from leaving reviews saying "DURR I THOUGHT IT WAS DA MOVIES!"

But that's the point.  Nobody is saying that picking up a series cold and choosing to not keep watching if the pilot isn't impressive is irrational.  What I'm trying to say is that if someone ELSE decides to forge through and says "investing your time and thought into these characters will pay off for you later, I promise," then that's not a silly opinion to consider.

Say you're dating a girl I used to date, and things are going well for a few days, then she gets in your pants and gives you a really grabby handjob that just isn't all that impressive.  So you come to me and go "man, that... that wasn't all that."  If I tell you "Yeah, that part isn't exactly anything to write home about but if you stick around afterwards she'll fuck you so hard you'll think she signed some kind of deal with the devil," you wouldn't say "Nah, fuck that, the handy sucked.  I'm out."

Or maybe you would.  I'm just saying, Teague, if you want Game of Thrones to make you blow your load so hard your eyes cross and stay that way for a week, you kinda have to deal with the grabby handjob it's gonna give you first.

When people say "give it a season," they're telling you that even if the pilot doesn't make you jump out of your chair and start licking your monitor, you should stick around because it's worth it.

Because they've seen it.

How much does it piss you off, Teague, that I refuse to watch Firefly because the first episode bored me so much I shut it off in about fifteen minutes?

That's kiiinda what you're cheering for right now.

I agree that those things aren't very OG Jason, but you have to admit that once he was actually doing his thing in those movies (murderous mayhem), it was pretty rad.

And I'm a diehard Friday fan too.  At least it was better than Manhattan or X.