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1,177 2014-05-08 02:23:50
Re: Walking It Back? (42 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Doctor Submarine wrote:
Definitely walking back on Avatar. It's incredibly well-made, which I didn't give it enough credit for at the time. My complaints really boiled down to "the story is derivative," and while I'll have to revisit it to be sure, that's not enough reason to hate a movie.
Avatar should be looked at like a really awesome genre twisted cover of that one song you really loved in college. There's a sense of familiarity to it, but it's infused with this whole other vibe that has it's own thing going on, and they blend really well and give it a new life.
I still love Avatar, my opinion has never changed on that.
Probably the closest I can think of in recent memory would be MiB2, as I recounted in the last movie you watched thread. I never really had any super strong feelings about it, it was just kinda not very good and generally worth forgetting as a whole. But on my latest rewatch, there was a lot of baby I'd thrown out in the bathwater (Can I just say, how horrifying a saying that is?). There was a lot of really good moments that got overshadowed by how meh some of the other components were. On rewatch I walked away having, for the most part, really enjoyed it.
1,178 2014-05-04 01:08:12
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Alright Red, it's your thread, I think we've got enough of a vote here for a permanent rule change.
1,180 2014-05-01 02:44:43
Re: #44 - Disney Buys Lucasfilm (473 replies, posted in Episodes)
Bathilda wrote:
Maybe Andy Serkis will play a female alien. That would be cool.
Oh god, my brain hurts from the mere thought of even glimpsing the almighty torrent of hellfire and anger that would rain down from the internet if that were to happen.
1,181 2014-04-30 02:15:32
Re: Zangrethor Digital (114 replies, posted in Creations)
The final installment of the saga of the Geriatric Supers!! I am so damn proud of this thing, it's not perfect but for the restrictions I was working with, it turned out so great. Parts 1 and 2 are here for context:
Pt1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMZJUFgEa6Q
Pt2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMmmGTQybYU
The stats for those curious:
Arrive on location to out of location- 5 hours (While I was pretty debilitatingly sick, I was pretty much pure green by the time we loaded out)
7 days for edit. (Shot on monday night, finished tues the week after)
Huge thanks to Aural for doing the narration!!
1,182 2014-04-29 17:18:38
Re: #44 - Disney Buys Lucasfilm (473 replies, posted in Episodes)
Snail wrote:
Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow were nice surprises.
Very much so! I gotta say seeing the photo of them all at the reading gave me a little bit of a jolt in my gut, there maaay be some small hints of excitement lying somewhere deep inside.
1,183 2014-04-28 14:55:00
Re: Transcendence (21 replies, posted in Off Topic)
avatar wrote:
Doctor Submarine wrote:I'd rather a good sequel/reboot than a shitty "original" film.
Another 15 Marvel sequels coming up... Iron Man 6, Thor 4, Captain America 5, Avengers 7, Whatever 3
Just think by the laws of probability at least one of them HAS to be good 
1,184 2014-04-26 13:55:03
Re: Transcendence (21 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Oh wait, today is one of the days where we're taking Rotten Tomatoes reviews on blind faith??
Shit, my schedule must've gotten mixed up, according to mine today we're supposed to be Damning them for not being blind fools incapable to see the obvious greatness of that thing we all love. And then NEXT week using Rotten Tomatoes as the ultimate bible for what a movies worth without ever seeing it.
Sorry, sorry, my bad.
1,185 2014-04-26 06:24:05
Re: Disney rebooting the star wars EU (13 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I don't see how anyone could be surprised or shocked by this. As Fire said the EU has always been viewed as something outside the canon, it's own beast (The George Canon effect). But I mean that's just the technicality they utilizing to be able to do this. I made the joke that "OMG JJ Abrams abandoning and wiping away decades of world-building of a popular cultural icon, never could have seen that one coming." And while yes, JJ has absolutely nothing to do with this, I'd be willing to bet the conversations at Lucasfilm are the exact same ones JJ was having with Paramount execs.
There is SOOOOO MUUUUCHHH god damned baggage when you step into a franchise like Star Trek or Star Wars, I mean the EU practically has a million years on either side of the canon movies mapped, planned and written out. If you say you are going to play inside those rules the only thing you're doing is hamstringing yourself creatively, and giving the fanboy's a gazillion opportunities to nitpick your movie without impunity. But you say, nope, all of that, not a part of this. Boom you have blank slate, pie in the sky ability to tell the story the way you want to/it should.
Granted that does sort of rely on the film-makers actually capitalizing properly on the opportunities that presents, but hey we have a full commentary and a couple dozen pages of conversation to speak to how we thought that went last time.
1,186 2014-04-24 00:28:32
Re: April Fools // "Tokes and Stokes" (115 replies, posted in Episodes)
Well, back in myyy day.
But actually, no seriously, in my really early days I used to use my grandpas old Hi-8 camera. And to get that shit into the computer. I had to go to the college's library where they had 2 machines set up with a VHS/Hi-8 transfer box (looked like a VCR). So I would have to transfer the Hi-8 to VHS (In real time), and then transfer the VHS into whatever capture program they were using...in realtime again.
You don't know pain.
1,187 2014-04-23 23:52:21
Re: Your Random Creations (670 replies, posted in Creations)
This was a project I did almost exactly a year ago. The first "real" anything I did with my GH2 and set-up, it's rough, there's a lot I would do very differently and definitely doesn't accurately represent what I can do now (Hence why it's going here and not in my official Zangrethor thread, also I wasn't technically Zangrethor back when I did this, it was just me doing a thing, so myeh). But it just got released semi-publicly so I can share it now.
Personally it's kinda painful to watch, but such is the way of these things.
1,188 2014-04-23 22:43:35
Re: A Bit Of Bullskit Comedy! (22 replies, posted in Creations)
Part 2 of the geriatric superhero adventure!!
1,189 2014-04-21 23:35:23
Re: Cool vids...again. (1,649 replies, posted in Off Topic)
And an entire plethora of film ideas just poured into my brain, holy crap that was cool.
1,191 2014-04-21 22:30:44
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
redxavier wrote:
All the characters wear plot armour and after the nth time they've escaped unscathed from encounters with the Germans (whilst simultaneously winning everything), I realised the lack of danger had robbed the film of almost all of its drama. What remains is a rather cringe-inducing romantic subplot with the Maverick pilot, a wasteful subplot about the squadron commander drinking alot (I say wasteful because it has little to no bearing on his flying performance, sure the film wants us to think it caused an accident by it doesn't), and the 'oh noes aren't White people racist' theme that despite the caricature level probably lends the film its best moment by far. There's also this scarred and blond German ace who likes to shoot down the American bombers [that are trying to kill German civilians] and is sort of developed into an antagonist, but since he doesn't actually do anything of import (like, say, shoot anyone down), he too ends up just being a caricature.
It also suffers from that rather unpleasant African-American movie tradition of having virtually every black character be wise-cracking, loud and arrogant.
Oh, wait, wait...I think i can guess this one...uhhhh. Cars 2??
/yes, if you've been around this thread long enough, I will absolutely berate and make fun of you for not making sure your picture works and having the title
1,192 2014-04-21 14:30:35
Re: What Are You Playing? (58 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Owen Ward wrote:
Yup, I made this thread a while back
Lol, last post was when I STARTED playing Borderlands, no wonder I couldn't find it.
1,193 2014-04-20 18:25:32
Topic: What Are You Playing? (58 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I could have sworn we already had one of these, but I couldn't find it.
Same rules as the What Are You Watching Threads, but for games! Board, video, mind, take your pick, what are you playing?
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I managed to snag a Beta Key for the Closed Beta that was happening this weekend for WildStar, so I spent some time yesterday and today playing and recording (let's play, for those that don't know that about me) for about 4 hours in total.
WildStar is an MMO due to be officially released on June 3rd. I've never been an MMO guy, I never really understood the appeal, but most of that was based on WoW and the community/RL mythos around it and just never having it be a part of my life. I tried Guild Wars 2 during a free play weekend they had a year or so back, but wasn't really impressed and just kinda forgot about it. But I gotta say after just the little I played this weekend, I am thoroughly surprised. I had sooo much fun. The style of it is great, the humour is awesome without being too intruding, and looking through a couple of minor glitches (it is still beta so to be expected) the gameplay and mechanics are all great.
I started off saying I would probably play it for the weekend and then forget about it, and ended saying I could see it being a regular feature for my channel I was enjoying it so much. I still don't understand the whole idea of getting addicted to an MMO, I don't really get how that happens, but that's probably just my personality type more than anything, but it was definitely very fun and I could see there being a lot of great stuff coming in it.
If you're curious (They do have a pre-order avail.): http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/
And if you wanna check out my LP for it the first episode is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fhN2IxzTI
1,194 2014-04-17 16:50:57
Re: Blast From The Past [Curated] (30 replies, posted in Episodes)
Rob wrote:
It's interesting that baseball seems an easy sport to understand because people often say that it's one of the hardest to play well--hitting a round ball with a round bat is harder than it looks.
Well that's not really anything earth shattering.
Here's a metal stick and a little white ball. Hit the ball into a hole a couple hundred meters away.
Easy to explain, less so to do.
1,195 2014-04-14 12:35:03
Re: Zangrethor Digital (114 replies, posted in Creations)
A while back I had the great pleasure and fun of making a new opening video for Bullskit Comedy season 6. This was designed to play at the front of every show. Shot super down and dirty, with a super quick turnaround I'm reaaally happy with how it turned out.
1,196 2014-04-12 01:46:03
Re: What Are You Watching - TV Edition (164 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Buffy has always been one of the major blank spots on my nerd-cred-checklist, so I said screw it a couple weeks back and started watching. This was greeted with many cheers and warnings that one would need to power through the first season but then it gets amazing. So I prepared myself for the worst and jumped in.
Season 1
At the outset I was first and foremost surprised at how little powering through I had to do. The first season, for the most part, is a really nicely built little mini series surrounding Buffy and this new enemy The Master. Personally it was incredibly smart to have the first season be a self contained story that could introduce us to the characters and get us invested in the world, without leaving us with a possible cliffhanger if the show got cancelled, so good job them.
Now that said, there is definitely some stuff to contend with. The action is bad bordering on cringeworthy. But this is easily chalked up to SMG being 19 and learning as she goes, and the general not-big-budgetness of the entire show. S1 is definitely a 90's show, there is just 90's slathered all over this thing, the clothes, the hair, the degrassi style teen angst, the computers...oh gods the computers, so from a modern standpoint that's definitely something you've got to power through. And it still, despite there best efforts, suffers from that 90's tv thing of having one off and bottle episodes in the middle of the arc not really connected to anything.
I can't say I'm a huge fan of the Vampire make-up, it feels very try-hard, like they really really want you know these bastards are evil, which i get, but it alternates between looking goofy and just plain impeding the natural performance based evil, although it did start to get better by the end of S2, so maybe they sort that out down the line.
But ultimately for season 1 I was very impressed, not nearly having to suffer as much as I was expecting, I love the mythology and the world, SMG is amazing (I was blown away when I realized she was like 18 when they started), Alysson Hannigan is epically cute and awesome as always, Anthony Head wasn't singing and chopping out people's organs which threw for a loop for a minute, but then I remember I wasn't watching Repo! and the world righted itself again (He's awesome), Nicholas Brendon channels just a little to much Bruce Campbell at times to be entirely comfortable, and David Boreanaz is as dreamy and charming as ever.
Season 2
Now S2 is where things got tricky for me. Everyone had been telling me repeatedly that season 1 was a grind but then it got AAAAMAAZING, so I went in to season 2 expecting something pretty cool, and what I got was...well not quite. The best way I can describe it is that it feels as though they had this great little miniseries idea for S1 with the master and everything, but then when they got picked up everyone was just kinda shocked and didn't quite know what to do with this beast of a show they just realized they would have to write. So the season starts off with just a series of one-off, monster of week episodes, just one after the other after the other. And without a whole lot of anything else going on, at least on a macro scale, there was obviously still a ton of character development going on individually, but there was no larger hook, nothing dragging the story forward in any meaningful way, just monster shows up, Cordy screams a bunch, they kill the monster. So by about a third of the way through the season I was reeeaaally feeling the grind, and I actually posted in the chat asking if it does stop being this, and become something more. And I think Faldor poked me forward and kept me watching. Which I did, and it kept being that for a little bit more, but then something really weird happened about halfway through the season, it felt like an entirely different writing team took over, the show very very rapidly became ABOUT something, it got darker, more twisted. I think the scene where very very suddenly realized this was when Buffy and Angel run and hide after the Judge battle and there together alone and suddenly the mood was suddenly very very mature, it felt like 2 adults together in this very intimate moment. It was this very sudden smack in the face that this was not the same show I'd been watching up til now. And then from there the show really got going and basically powerslid into home plate at the end of the season. I absolutely adored evil Angel, although as much fun as I was having with him I really wanted him to either go full boar or get turned back, he was just sort of floating around this middle area tied down by the whole Spike and Dru thing. Speaking of, Spike is just amazing, I love me a snarky British self aware demon, and Dru is just wonderfully creepy, although in that respect I really prefer her in her weakened state at the beginning of the arc, she reminded me so much of a greek oracle, just totally out of her demented fucked up mind, but she's fun in her restored state as well, if more traditional arm candy-ish less "Holy fuck my skin is crawling and my heart is attempting to implode itself, but I'm so turned on right now."...but maybe that's just me. So long story short, I am super psyched to get into season 3.
So, season 3 here I come. And if any of you spoil anything for me, I will resort to drastic measures to get my revenge. -glares-
1,197 2014-04-11 04:05:05
Re: Last movie you watched (2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)
MadBadCoyote wrote:
Finally had a little bit of time to look at my backlog of stuff to watch.
Didn't know anything about this before watching. Friends just kept recommending it to me (I was a bit reluctant, as they often recommend crap), and I had a blast with it. May have been my sleep deprived brain, but I thought it was well made and a lot of fun
I've actually had that one recommended to me alot too, the Phil Lord and Chris Miller attachment is a huge boost though. It's been on my list for a bit now, I'll have to check it out eventually.
1,198 2014-04-07 12:29:23
Re: Fun things happen in the chat. (4 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Further adventures of the Kitten Lizard franchise.
[04/07/14, 12:16 pm] Faldor: Ha!
[04/07/14, 12:09 pm] BigDamnArtist: I mean thank god they got the funding to do part 2 with puppets.
[04/07/14, 12:09 pm] BigDamnArtist: Dude, have you ever tried putting prosthetics on an indignant lizard?
[04/07/14, 12:06 pm] Faldor: The thing I never got about the kitten lizard / lizard kitten thing is why the ones in the original films didnt have bumpy foreheads
[04/07/14, 12:03 pm] BigDamnArtist: Er...sorry guys, spoilers
[04/07/14, 12:03 pm] BigDamnArtist: I mean granted there was that whole fight scene at the end that was really cool where the Lizard Kitten mechazoid from Lizard kitten part 16 reappeared and just mowed down the place..
[04/07/14, 12:02 pm] BigDamnArtist: It wouldn\'t have been so bad, except half the movie was Lizard Kittens sitting in giant chamber halls debating civil policy.
[04/07/14, 12:01 pm] BigDamnArtist: /Notbitteroranything
[04/07/14, 12:01 pm] BigDamnArtist: And one of the other authors down the line saw that and was like hey I can do something totally stupid and derivative with that
[04/07/14, 12:00 pm] BigDamnArtist: Yeah I mean they kinda back tracked into the mythos, it only really exsists because the original author did this whole compiling of decades of notes into a compendium thing
[04/07/14, 11:58 am] Faldor: That sounds like something from one of the spin off novels, the later spin off novels
[04/07/14, 11:54 am] BigDamnArtist: Pretty dull reading all round, but they can get a little touchy about it, so just fair warning.
[04/07/14, 11:53 am] BigDamnArtist: But in lamens terms it\'s mostly an internal syntax thing within the Lizard Kitten/Kitten Lizard society dating back thousands of millenias to the great Syntax war.
[04/07/14, 11:52 am] BigDamnArtist: I mean it\'s subtle and really only a 15 year degree in interdimensional interspecies biology would give you any inkling of how to tell the difference.
[04/07/14, 11:52 am] BigDamnArtist: Although just a point of order, there is in fact a difference between the Kitten Lizards and the Lizard Kittens.
[04/07/14, 11:38 am] BigDamnArtist: This is true... despite their lizard nature they can\'t handle the heat
[04/07/14, 11:22 am] Faldor: It\'d be the last place the Lizard kittens would look
[04/07/14, 11:20 am] BigDamnArtist: I know I say I\'d like to get out of Red Deer, but that\'s a little too extreme for me
[04/07/14, 10:59 am] Faldor: On here?
[04/07/14, 10:12 am] Dave: We\'re selling the house. Now to find a buyer ...
1,199 2014-04-07 07:10:13
Re: Fun things happen in the chat. (4 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I... have no words to describe how proud I am of what we accomplished here.
1,200 2014-04-06 07:06:30
Topic: The "Help Me!" Thread (54 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The place for random one-off questions that you want help with.
No judgement.
There are no stupid questions.
If you can help with a question posed, quote the question in your response and help!
I'll start us off.
Recommendations for a good office chair with proper back support for someone of a generally larger proportion?
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