851

(9 replies, posted in Episodes)

Let's hope that Jennifer Lawrence and Halle Berry bring their Oscars to the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past so that Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart CAN SEE WHAT ONE LOOKS LIKE.

I watched Little Shop of Horrors with my 10-y-o niece and nephew this weekend, and they loved it. It's so great to see a film thru a kid's eyes. They loved the chorus girls and remembered Rick Moranis (and Bill Murray) from Ghostbusters.

It's surprising how long it takes to get to the man-eating-plant, but boy when it arrives it ARRIVES. It is just awesome. I had to explain that it wasn't done with computers because that wasn't possible yet. It helped to explain who Frank Oz is.

853

(72 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I love the fact that the thing that set O'Reilly off in that video is the phrase "play us out". He didn't know what it meant for a music video to play out the rest of the show's time after the host's sign-off. It was something that Entertainment Tonight did all the time.

854

(569 replies, posted in Creations)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W8woygtf9ls/UGpa96spujI/AAAAAAAAB6U/aH_NaU15u7k/s1600/freddie-mercury-drawing-photo-u1.jpg

855

(70 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Die Hard 9 - McClane's ghost comes back and coaches a Jack on kicking some more ass.

Nothing is forever, Trey.

Nice analysis. It's nice to think that the film makers recognized they might have a theme on their hands and not just a series of gags.

And don't we ALL have to kill the old boyfriend and eat his brains? Don't we?

857

(70 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I fucking loved that Return of Bruno album. I listened to that bastard for hours while shooting baskets in my driveway.

I destroyed a lot of baskets with that shotgun....

858

(36 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I used a sculpture effect on the bottom layer, desaturated, with the original on top at 65% opacity and cranked up the saturation to get some color back. You can soften the faces by selecting them with lots of feathering and then deleting them from the sculpture layer, leaving a soft hole.

http://www.zarban.com/pics/comic-book.jpg

For Cap, I also pulled the curves down on the sculpture layer to bring back contrast.

http://www.zarban.com/pics/comic-book2.jpg

859

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

johnpavlich wrote:

Well, you called Felicia Day ugly in so many words (lots of people look like Monkeys, and for good reason!). Does my strong opposition to your opinion of her dictate we can't "hang out" anymore? smile

Okay, I admit, there are some pictures where Felicia Day looks cute.

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_4077a_small.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/10/article-2245683-166F99E3000005DC-573_634x462.jpg

Look at her little face there. It's adorable.

860

(9 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Lamer wrote:

Also Craig looks stupid with the Walther PPK. He's a big guy and the gun looks like a little toy in his hands.

You know, I thought the same thing watching Quantum of Solace the other day. They could have gone with the larger PP instead, and only IMFDb would have noticed.

Squiggly_P wrote:

I think QoS was a better example of a typical "bond" movie, moreso than Skyfall, which is what some of the reviews seem to suggest.

QoS would have been a fine entry if it had had just a LITTLE MORE of the stuff Bond is supposed to have: fast cars, sexy women, cool gadgets, cheeky humor, bizarre henchmen, and theatrical villains. Seriously, who said, "You know who would make a great Bond villain? Roman Polanski. Get someone like that, only less creepy."

Squiggly_P wrote:

I guess people just didn't buy into the whole Quantum thing. The idea that a secret group of powerful people would be able to stage a coup and take over a small country with a hidden and quite valuable natural resource seems pretty likely to me

Quantum was pretty cool. I was intrigued about it right up to the point that nothing happened.

861

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

johnpavlich wrote:

I link to this because the other CM material I've shared in the past has been more on the obnoxious/angry/loud side. I wanted to balance things out with one of his quieter and well thought out reviews.

Oh, Rihanna. You have got to quit that man.

Again, my name is Brian Finifter. I live at Brian's house in the city, county, and state of Los Angeles.

862

(12 replies, posted in Off Topic)

You people don't know her like I do. When we're alone, Vanessa is a really sweet girl.

She just has expensive taste, is all.

863

(12 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Fun fact: The US Navy has decommissioned all its actual battleships. The biggest gunboats now are cruisers which, like destroyers, mostly shoot missiles. (They do have a gun for old time's sake.)

The rest of the navy, more or less, just supports aircraft carriers.

http://www.promoboxx.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2012/10/the_more_you_know.jpeg

864

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

When someone acts like an asshole in the first 10 minutes, I'm not going to listen to the rest of his opinion.

If you like listening to him, that's your business. Don't act like everybody really needs to listen to this guy's ignorant rants. Nobody owes Matthew a hearing out.

865

(9 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Like License to Kill, Skyfall was good, but it wasn't a good Bond film. In a way, it really felt more like an Austin Powers or Johnny English movie. The gay villain; the shit about not using gadgets; the hacker bullshit; the idiotic Moneypenny reveal; the baffling return of the tricked-out Aston-Martin that's almost 50 years old....

MI-6 is its own worst enemy Show
With all the insider villains in Judi Dench's tenure, if she didn't die, she'd have to resign.  Alec Trevelyan... Elektra King (a personal friend)... Miranda Frost... Vesper Lynd... M's Bodyguard... Silva... The woman's a walking security risk!

866

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

Oh I think Wanted got everything it was due.  big_smile

867

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

Cotterpin Doozer wrote:
Zarban wrote:
Cotterpin Doozer wrote:

as a frequent listener of Confused Matthew, I had to overlook much of what you guys said about him specifically, since you admitted to knowing very little about him before placing him at the nadir of your film criticism spectrum.

Wait, so it's not okay to sample something, conclude that it's worthless, and denounce it in a public forum? Maybe you should tell that to Confused Matthew.

If the DiF guys want to place themselves higher on the film criticism spectrum than Confused Matthew for this reason, then it's not cool for them to do the exact same thing.

But it's not the exact same thing. That's the joke. Confused Matthew isn't a film. DIF gives every film its full due when they analyze it. Confused Matthew doesn't.

My problem with Confused Matthew is that he gets really angry at movies that are doing their best to entertain him. The Last Samurai isn't a hack job. It just doesn't quite work. Wagging his finger at the writer and saying, "Too obvious, John. Too fucking obvious." isn't film criticism. It's something else.

868

(26 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Million Dollar Baby took this kind of a major turn. I loved it at the time, but I have no desire to revisit the film.

869

(15 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I was talking about this today and said, "It's basically Animal House with real animals." And then I thought WAIT—THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

Most of the characters would just be their nicknames: Otter would be an otter. Pinto and Flounder would be a horse and a fish. Stork would be a stork.

Bluto could be a bear. D-Day could be a bull. Neidermeyer could be a lizard. Mandy and Babs could be sexy bunnies. And Dean Wormer would be a worm!

870

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

Cotterpin Doozer wrote:

as a frequent listener of Confused Matthew, I had to overlook much of what you guys said about him specifically, since you admitted to knowing very little about him before placing him at the nadir of your film criticism spectrum.

Wait, so it's not okay to sample something, conclude that it's worthless, and denounce it in a public forum? Maybe you should tell that to Confused Matthew.

871

(70 replies, posted in Episodes)

Oh great. So he's lurking here and knows I hate him? Now he'll show up at my house or something. He's not a well man.

EVERYONE TELL HIM I'M BRIAN.

872

(359 replies, posted in Off Topic)

redxavier wrote:

I think it's been clear for a long time, ever since Cumberbatch was cast, that he's not playing Khan.

My problem is that it looks like he's playing Nero.

fireproof78 wrote:

I never said his hate is OK.

Yes, you did. You tacitly acknowledged that it's okay when you previously stated that you had used arguments like those in his editorials. And just now you excused his bigotry with "his means of expressing his opinion is radical". NO, his opinions themselves are hateful, and his arguments supporting them are demonstrably invalid.

fireproof78 wrote:

I just get tired of the Card bashing that must happen once he is mentioned.
He believes that same-sex behavior and marriage is wrong. He expresses his beliefs and acts upon them. People disagree with them and work against his actions because of their beliefs.
Great-no dialogue, no discussion, just mud slinging and maligning.

Well, let's all fan ourselves and sigh over the incivility of these uppity types on the Internet. It's getting so man can't publicly denounce queers in multiple editorials anymore without getting called names.

fireproof78 wrote:
AshDigital wrote:

Update on the Orson Scott Card thing...
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/orson-s … versy.html

Let the flaming begin...  hmm
I get that Card's means of expressing his opinion is radical and I don't completely agree with him. Its just the quick turn towards hatred that I see happening that concerns me.

But HIS hatred is okay, tho?

The dude's arguments are WEAK. Most of his arguments (in the links posted a few weeks ago) against same-sex parenting also apply to single parenting and interracial parenting and are therefore flatly invalid.

And his arguments against same-sex marriage could be applied equally to ANYTHING outside the social norm: if science doesn't prove that X is inborn and of equal social benefit as the social norm, then you have no innate right to do X. It's ridiculous.

875

(15 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Cars is interesting. The story is fighting with itself and can't come to a really satisfying resolution. It kind of half-asses both major themes into an ending and then goes, "TA-DAAA!"

Monsters University seems like a title looking for a story. "Let's make another Monsters, Inc. movie. It has to have a similar title. Monsters Hotel? Monsters Hospital? Monsters.com? USS Monsters? Monsters vs Aliens? No, no, no. Never mind. Monsters University? Yeah, that's good enough."