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Trey is spot on. As a matter of fact, season 1 of Torchwood is abysmally horrid ("Oh, we are ADULT, see - bring on the nudity and gay sex for... wait what, do we need a reason"?), and Children of Earth is the Pinnacle of it, and can be watched by itself with no more knoweledge than abve.
And for Trey: The good part about Smith as the doctor is that he goes even more loopy. But I think you should bathe in a little more Tennant first 
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It should be pointed out that the Japanese often couldn't do the "crap the Japanese did in the 70's with guys in suits that looked COMPLETELY ridiculous..... but actually done so it looks AWESOME" well. The 80's and 90's Godzilla movies LOOK great, really.
No they don't. Well yes they are aeons beyond the cardboard set early things, but they still look very very very dated and simple.
I dunno, maybe I had a weird upbrining, but I always saw small flashes of the Godzilla vs.... (or even - shudder - "power rangers") fly by in my peripheral vision. I never watched the whole thing, coz It was always horribly cheesily done (often seemingly intentional, with the horrid glaring colors etc.) and I just thought "there is something exciting in there, deep inside, about massive mountainous things colliding in battle where whole cityscapes just topple over like incidental damage". And I have since wanted to see that to the level that I could trivially *imagine* it for my inner eye.
Kinda like the mountain fight in teh Hobbit. But with less Hobbits and Dwarves, and more metal.
As much as I love "Gentlemens Duel" for the humor, it's sad when that is the best around for this thing...
I dunno... it's just one of those "things" that "I am still waiting for it done right". Kinda like Avatar is kinda 70% there to something I can clearly imagine "done right" in my head, but isn't on the screen.
Oh well. I'm excited somehow.
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Right. So I was super-surprised everybody was going "yeah, they only make these movies these days".
Huh?
No they don't. NOBODY has made such a movie. They all kinda lamely flirted with being close - but nobody actually whipped out their balls and ACTUALLY made one.
Transformers? Nah. Robots, not Mech's, only a few actually "giant", and zero monsters
Battleship? Neither robots nor monsters, and nothing is actually Giant.
Real Steel? I love that movie, but those robots are hardly even robots, they are remote controlled toys, and while large for toys, not very "giant". Oh yeah, no monsters either.
Robot Jox? LOL. I said "good effects". Plus it lacks monsters. Nice try, tho
What else? I dunno.
I could go on and on and on, and only Avatar I can even think of coming close, but it's more like "sort of medium large mech fighting odd extraterrestrial animals", which still doesn't qualify neither as "giant mechs" nor "monsters".
Basically, what we all crave, is that crap the Japanese did in the 70's with guys in suits that looked COMPLETELY ridiculous..... but actually done so it looks AWESOME.
THAT. Done with 2013 level vfx.
Which is what Pac Rim seems to be.
And to my knowledge, hasn't been done before at all.
But I havn't seen every movie so feel free to correct me if I am wrong?
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So i am one of those people excited for Pacific rim since it is *finally* s "robots punching monsters" with modern high quality effects.
You guys, tho, claim that many movies have been made that are like this.
Really?
Name a single "giant robots (or mechs, really) punching giant monsters with modern effects" movie please.
Just wondering.
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So how about a working RSS feed? I'm still on the old one, link on front page goes nowhere. Nobody uses that iTunes crap so don't even come mentionind dat shite
EDIT Oh never mind, PocketCasts just magically finds it by auto-magic, no RSS needed. There then. Move along. Nothing to see here..... 
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Was I the only one that caught how Clara totally smashed the continuity from "The Doctor's Wife"? If you recall, there was this exchange between The Doctor and Idris (the TARDIS in humanoid form):Idris: Did you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago?
The Doctor: I chose you. You were unlocked.
Idris: Of course I was. I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.Yet, in this season's finale...Clara is the one who chose which TARDIS the Doctor took. What was a really intriguing little exchange that created a sense of mystery and connection between the Doctor and the TARDIS...nevermind!
Inserting a character 20+ seasons into a storyline that is now magically supposed to have "always been there" throughout the entire show is audacious enough, but as soon as she hip-ly stopped the 1st Doctor was like "Hey, take this TARDIS instead!", I about threw something at the TV. The Doctor's Wife was one of the best Smith episodes, if not one of the best modern Who episodes...and to just piss all over one of the most mysterious and interesting plot points created in that episode just...ugh. *shakes head*
Well...
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I hate you.
My method has always been the same - it's the exact one MasterZap described. But I don't think it allows me to get it done in under 2 minutes most of the time. I couldn't follow your method, Teague, but it seems very different. Could you describe it a bit?
Same... it ends up at around 2-3 minutes generally... so it's not the most efficient technique. But remember I had this thing when it was a *new thing* and was part of the "first wave" of solvers, so clearly we didn't figure out the "most efficient" method back then; Teague is clearly doing something in principle different which does "more things at once" somehow.
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By "Layers" I mean you solve the "top" side first (including the edges around it - super-rookies thinks they have "solved one side" just coz it is all red, but it isn't "solved" unless the edges around it have all the right colors too). Then you solve the 2nd "row", and then you solve the bottom (generally by first solving the corners and then the middle pieces)
The techniques I use are probably not "the best" but are stuff me and my friends came up with ourselves in school, oh, 30 years ago.
Here's my rough step-by-step description. I have only like 4 "moves" I know, and I can't explain them, coz they are all muscle-memory, and every time I've tried to EXPLAIN to someone what I do, I inveriably end up doing slowly (to show it) and holding the cube "wrong" compared to my muscle memory, so I screw up doing the "move" ... so no, you won't get details, just a principle:
Step 1: You do the "top", well, you just do it, it's simple enough to just figure out, you need no special "moves", but make sure it color matches all around the edge too.
Step 2: Align the center squares under the right color of the "edges" of the top side.
Step 3: Fix the non-center parts in the 2nd "row". There is only one "move" you need to know to do this, it's a "move" that switches place of 2 middle pieces. You just align the piece you want in the right place on the bottom side, and do the move sequence... what used to be on that particlar spot in the bottom is now in your "middle row" instead. Repeat this until "middle row" is done.
Step 4: Rotate bottom side so that the corners have the right POSITION (so the colors of the sides matches the colors that EXIST on the corner - ignore the rotations of the corners). If that is impossible, you need to swap two corners. If so, you need to use the "swap two corners" move.
Step 5: Now the corners are in the right place, but probably rotated wrong. You use a move that "rotates three corners" to do this.
Step 6: Now your corners are rotated correctly and in the right place. Only bottom side "middle pieces" are wrong. You use a variant of the "middle piece moving" thing from step 2, only when used on the bottom it actually swaps place on 3 "middle pieces", so you need to be mindful of orientation and sequence to do the "three piece shuffle" until things are in the right spot.
I could make a video, but you wouldn't be able to follow it due to the Muscle-memory thing.
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Enders game would PROBABLY work best as a cartoon / anime thing... or full CGI... but who would spend the $ to make such a dark, violent and death-of-innocence-of-an-8-year-old thing? Nobody.
Stick to the book. But make sure pick up the book used or download it illicitly, unless you want to sponsor Orson Scott Cards latter day homophobic insanity. 
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I never managed to solve a rubik's cube back when they came out, although I could solve two sides. I think I COULD solve the pyramid puzzle, which just had four sides. That one was also easier to take apart and put together, iirc
This is the beginner error: You do NOT do "side by side", you (generally) do it layer by layer.
There are some more holistic methods, but I never learned those. I've never really timed myself doing it.... should try that.
These days I keep rustily misremembering my "moves", particularily for the bottom "layer", so I keep mixing up the "swap two corners" with the "rotate three corners" and it takes me a bit of extra time when I snafu that.
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Squiggly_P wrote:The author has said that there's no romance subplot, and that that's the reason it took so long to get made - that the studios kept insisting there be a romance plot (in an adaptation of a book about an 8 year old, which is kinda creepy TBH...) - but even if there's NOT a romance sub-plot, they've got the hugging shot and the fact that they've upped the ages to fourteen - sixteen. Idiot kids who don't follow movie news will see this and assume there's some kind of romance thing going on.
Having read the books, these aren't the things that bug me. Making everyone older is pretty standard for movies (see every high school movie ever). I prefer them to get slightly older kids who can act over 7-8 year olds who can't. And in defence of the hug, it's between Ender and his sister. His strong (platonic) love of his sister is pretty central to his character.
Having Kingsley in Maori-face is a bit weird. And I'm not sure why they're focusing on the adult POV when it should probably be primarily interactions between the kids. I guess to give Ford and Kingsley more trailer time.
It's funny, I just re-read Enders Game in the form of an Audiobook. Orson Scott Card has this whole self-important schpiel in an afterword about how he refused to give out the movie rights unless Ender was being AT THE OLDEST 12. How he would NEVER have Ender played by a 16 year old. And Asa Butterfield is.......... 16.
Kinda funny.
So this looks completely how you NOT do this book, sadly.
Damnit.
It's such an insanely awesome book, all relying on you NOT knowing a particular thing..... ....and they seem hellbent on spoiling it from day one?
Wow.
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Honestly, I'm guessing they are cheating with some form of frame / box below that. No way you'd make it that straight and nice out of *just* balloons. Or?
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Project for Teague
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Are you my Mummy? Are you my Mummy?
"Shark Brain" (two syllables) had been better.
Just say'n
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So I totally loving the "Friends in your Head" bit.
Not sure I'm a big fan of the "What Are You Doing, Movie?" name, probably coz it's too multisyllabic. DIF was three syllables, this is SEVEN.
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'scuse me lads, but it was Richard Roxbororoughghghg that married one of the witches, not the director... no?
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I love that Strax and Madame Vestra w. Asskickery Ninja Wife in Victorian London seems to be a reccuring thing.
Are we.... are we.... preparing for a spinoff? Coz I'd watch the HECK out of that one!!
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Just FYI: Things that still say "DIF" not "WYDM" or "FIYH":
- That link Teague just posted on Facebook. Yes I know the link itself is to FIYH.com, but the text still says DIF. Dunno why.
- The feed at feedburner
- The chatroom and the live stream thingy at /live
Just FYI, jus ttrying to help, not trying to be a donkey nor mule nor ass.
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THAT was an awesome episode. I loved how the "flashback" was done old-timey with tinny piano and the lot....!!
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Can you hear yourself justifying crap? Please listen to yourself!!??
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Oh the 1000-suits at the end was just another layer of shite. The movie (and trailer) made this BIG DEAL out of all his suits being blown up - the only suit he had left was that mark 42 thing he was dragging across the snow... THAT WAS THE POINT.
Then, suddnly, totally out-of-the-blue and deus-ex-machina, he SUDDENLY had 1024 majikally autonomous suits, that he still could majikally jump into? Bollox. [Not to mention the total inconsistency between the suits being driven by his ARC reactor when *he* wears them, but magically not when other people (or nothing) is wearing them]
Shite.
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Iron Man 3 was pretty much all shite. Not as much shite as Iron Man 2 - but fairly close. Nonsensical plot, unrealistic villains.... where do I even start? The level of ridiculousness was through the roof from frame #1.
The only bits that were even remotely cool was Pepper donning the suit, and Pepper kicking ass at the end (tho I hated Guy Piercings fire deamon henchmen crap guys), plus the Mandarin fakeout (love that).
Soooo much stuff made Noooo sense. What's this stuff about Tony having Anxiety attacks... that went exactly NOWHERE!?
Holy hell.
Oblivion was the better movie BY FAR.
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Need. More. Dynamo.
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