If nothing else, Battleship is definitely better than Transformers 2, if for no other reason than because it's about a half hour shorter. Seriously, tho, I kinda enjoyed the hell out of it. By the time they were at the 'grid' part of the movie I was giggling pretty much nonstop at just how completely insane every aspect of the movie was.

Sometimes that shit works. Troubled productions gave us Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner and Brazil. Also, Heaven's Gate, Alien 3 and apparently Green Lantern.

For the record, I didn't hate MIB 2, aside from the incredibly stupid plot stuff in the second half. The weird / awkward comedy made up to me for that, tho. I dunno why, but watching Will Smith try to fight his way off those plastic tubes for five minutes made me laugh. It just did. I've only seen it a few times, but each time I found myself wondering if that was done on purpose of if he just couldn't get the fuck off them and never broke character, thinking he was just clowning around for the crew at that point in what was obviously going to be a bad take... but then they used that take. It's also the only time I've ever laughed at that dude from the Daily Show.

Damn, that looks a lot better than I thought it would. I might actually watch that, and I don't (as in do not ever) watch TV. Hopefully it'll end up on Hulu or netflix or something...

Beatles.

Personal preference, but mainly because Abbey Road and White Album. I am one of those rare people who despises Sgt Pepper's with every fiber of my being. I even like their earlier stuff. As for the Stones, a lot of their music sounds very samey to me. Their newest albums sound like their first albums but recorded with better equipment. On one hand I think it's awesome that they still have the same vibe, but on the other, they haven't really done much experimentation that I'm aware of. The beatles, on the other hand, played the same stuff for a couple albums, and every subsequent album was a bold experiment of newness.

I don't listen to much of Sgt Pepper's, like I said, but that album was amazingly different and fresh when it came out, and remains a pretty unique sounding album even today. Even the album I hate is something I respect a great deal on a musical level. Not to mention the fact that the Stones were and are all about sex drugs and Rock, while the Beatles ended up being more Peace, Love and Grooviness, which is a philosophy I dig a hell of a lot more.

I love the Beatles.

You have a 35mm camera, a single role of 35mm film (24 exposures) and a time machine. What do you do?

The Goon movie really pisses me off. That video was posted on youtube two years ago. On that account, at least...

The shorter version of that trailer existed in 2007 or 2008. There was an article with screen shots in a magazine I read probably around 2005. I dunno if it's still in production or what. Everything I've seen of it has been in that bar sequence. The early shots were there, this trailer, the previous trailer, a parody PSA they did, some early test animation stuff... Nothing new has been said about it or released for it in a couple/three years. I think it's dead. I think it was never really alive.

I think The Goon is just David Fincher trolling everyone.

Or they could do something bold and scrap the whole "individual movies" thing and go for a series of mini-avengers movies that feature multiple characters.

They actually kinda teased a bit that Hulk may show up in the next Ironman movie, having Tony offered him a job and then having them both drive off together. I can't remember if Cap dorve off with anyone, but Hawkeye and Black Widow have some obvious history that could make for an interesting film.

This is an issue in the comics as well.

As far as Thor...  I'd never seen it before the live show. The movie felt really ass-pull-y. It didn't even pull that much stuff out of it's ass, it just felt that way. The robot fight at the end was set up, but it still felt like it came outta nowhere. The random book grabbing stuff...

Also, there's a great bit in the comics I hope they use in one of these movies. Thor's fighting Loki, Loki gets the upper hand, but Thor grabs the back of his head and basically says "Knock it off or I call my hammer through your fucking skull". I'm paraphrasing, tho. That line would only happen in Tarantino's Thor.

Now I wonder what would happen if you gave Tarantino a superhero movie...

I can totally understand why people love ID4, but I can't. Almost every scene in that movie has something in it that makes me nerd rage so hard. The worst thing, for me, has to be the scene where they're looking for new pilots.

They're looking for pilots to go fight the aliens and doing impromptu interviews to see what everyone's flight experience is. They get to Russel K. (Kay?) and he's all "I flew in 'nam, but now I do crop dusting" and the guy's like "cool, that's useful I guess..." and he's about to ask the next guy when Russel says "Oh BTW I'm glad I'll get a chance to get some payback for the time they abducted me and did strange alien tests on me and shit".

Everyone in the group looks around at each other with these "Oh, this dude is fucking crazy" looks on their faces. The audience laughs and shit, cause Russel K's being oh so goofy right now. Problem:

YOU'RE RECRUITING GUYS TO GO FIGHT THE FUCKING ALIENS!

I saw that in the theater and even the audience was laughing like "LOL he's so stupid!" But he's not stupid. He totally got abducted. The roswell crash was real, aliens have been abducting people...  The president literally said that they were doing that a couple scenes ago. It's just a stupid joke in the movie, but their reaction should have been different. Maybe laughing at first, but then going "Oh...  wait..." and getting serious about it. Or have his kid literally say "why are you laughing at my dad? You're going to fight aliens!" That would have not only hung a lantern on it, but also been a little character relationship moment where you can see Miguel now has a totally different opinion of his dad, etc.

There's a thing like that in just about every scene for me. Some of the jokes work, some of the effects are amazing, but the little problems add up.

Dammit, Trey. Now all I'll be able to think of during the film is goatse.

Here's another random thought about games:

What happens when you remove all the numbers, aside from those that tell you how much of a thing you have. Ten gold, three potions, two pairs of pants, etc. Remove stat points, remove health bars, remove experience bars, remove the damage rating for weapons, the armor rating for armor. Your choices are now based on your intuition and how something looks. Replace the numbers with visual / audio cues.

With swords, for instance, you could tell the player if it feels heavy, if it feels sharp, where it's balanced, etc, and they could judge whether it was better than what they already have based on that. For health, you could have an icon system that would let the player know how badly they're hurt and where, and maybe have a better damage model that would allow for limb wounds to affect combat / movement / perception of the world (permanent deafness / blindness?). Also, in a multiplayer environment, remove the chat and player names and replace with speech balloons or something similar. You can only 'hear' people nearby. Have whipser and shout commands so you can speak softly to nearby players only, or shout that will let people 'hear' your speech bubble coming from farther away.

Would the lack of other numbers shift the focus to getting lots of money as opposed to leveling your character or finding the best gear? Would people still play WoW or Skyrim if they had no idea how much damage / experience / level / health they had? Would that sort of chat and lack of knowledge of other players encourage more actual roleplaying and draw players in, or would it repel them?

Would you play WoW, or The Elder Scrolls Online if it were set up that way?

Sorry, I'm posting in a lot of threads today cause I've been offline for like three days and just got my shit fixed

I don't get the Angry Birds thing either. I mean, I get that it's a fun game, but they've built a fucking theme park in europe based on it. There's a giant-ass Angry Birds standee at my Best-Buy for no discernable reason. It's just there. They're not selling the game. The game is a fucking dollar to buy, or free if you get certain phones. Zynga tried to buy the company out for something like 2 Billion dollars. For fucking angry birds! What the hell?!

I had angry birds on my trs80 back in the day, minus the physics and instead of birds and pigs it was two monkeys throwing bananas at each other. That game and variations of it has been around for three decades. I'm wondering what other early 80's puzzle games one could rip off and apply physics to.