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YES LOVE THIS SHIT
I'd watch this every Sunday night when it was on. Oh man that intro, so great. I wrote a couple of specs for it, I'm sure they were garbage but I was proud of them at the time.
I still reference The Deprogrammers a lot when talking story with folks.I can't remember specifically what makes me bring it up, but any opportunity and I'll talk about it. Such a great piece of sci-fi and just fucking brutal. Probably the number one episode for me, though Trial by Fire is pretty indelible too. I also reference Stream of Consciousness a lot.
This was so much fun I kind of wish I could go back and do it again. 
At least we'll always have the audio.
I agree with Zarban. Enjoyed the movie and laughed a lot, not on board with the live action, theme is confusing.
I could almost sympathize with his anger at being under constant public scrutiny -- something any celebrity might grow tired of -- if not for the fact that he's mainly just mad it meant he couldn't get away with plagiarism.
redxavier wrote:That's a terrible Forrest Gump analogy, but maybe you were just trying to make a funny.
Usually a safe assumption. I'll be an asshole even about things I like if I think there's a good joke in it.
At this point I'd much rather hear a commentary from someone defending TMFE than spend 90 minutes growling at it. Half of you guys have podcasts too, have at it.
It's like FORREST GUMP, it there were no flashbacks, and he wasn't retarded but his story was.
Great review. Though I thought your Twitter estimation of "hot garbage" equally to the point.
avatar wrote:If you freeze frame his Powerpoint slides and actually read them, they're full of lies, but it's all too much for Bill Nye to handle in real-time given the time constraints of a formal debate.
This is a technique known as the "Gish Gallop" and it's what creationists do in every debate.
The 14,000 year old man is named Oldman (Old Man). It's exactly that kind of on the nose superficiality that permeates the entire film. Combine that with the poor production value, clunky dialogue, and laughable dinner-theater performances and you've got something I found frankly unwatchable.
Let's be honest, it wasn't handled with any particular elegance in the books, either. His interest in her just suddenly appeared in HBP.
Yeah, exactly. You don't even need to see it and you already understand the problem.
Heh. I haaaaaaaaated THE MAN FROM EARTH. I wrote a mini-review a few years ago when I tried to watch it.
The problem is, as Zarban pointed out while we were doing the Malariathon, over time Ron became a useless character. Ron and Hermione's skills initially complimented each other, and together they complimented Harry. As time went on, though, especially in the films, Hermione complimented Harry all on her own, and the third leg of the stool became the third wheel. So by the end, he was really only around because Harry liked him. Interestingly, between the Malariathon and this revelation from Rowling, this article came out which I think nails the issue:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/erased … on-weasley
Even Hermione’s book smarts cannot make up for Ron’s practical know-how, a kind of intelligence that often gets no credit at all. More to the point: you cannot be a whiz at chess and be an idiot.
I've always loved Ron, and I think Rowling did too as she was writing it. That made it easy (for both of us) to overlook the fact that she was steadily forgetting to put in objective reasons Ron was lovable and worth having around.
Jp12x wrote:When Harry drinks the felix, the color is almost normal.
So normal. Very color.
It might have been cool if they HAD done that, but alas.
Oh my god, Verhoeven's ELYSIUM.
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If ELYSIUM is trying to be some kind of satire, it's doing a poor job of it. If it's trying to be serious, it's doing a poor job of that, too.
If they had any motivation at all it would have been vastly better.
But that ISN'T real life. In REAL LIFE resources are limited and people hoard them and cling to their possessions because they see it as a zero-sum game. To reduce it to "dicks for no reason" makes the movie NOT an exploration of our real world circumstances, which makes it a failure of science fiction.
EDIT: I mean, the example given of "Sure, sometimes you get a Bill Gates or Warren buffet, but" -- but in ELYSIUM the one guy setting up this system is all you need. There were NONE of them on Elysium? Can't buy it. Stories are about the human experience, you can't populate them with completely inhuman characters.
The thing about it is that in ELYSIUM doing the right thing literally costs them nothing. They don't have to give up their 50th Ferrari, they don't have to pay 1% more taxes, and they don't have to give up their own personal medpods. They could help and they have the resources and infrastructure to do so, without any of them actually having to do anything. It took one terminal command to activate this completely automated system. Which means they were being dicks for no reason at all. Not even "greed" makes sense as a motivation. The best villains are the ones who have a point - which makes ELYSIUM's villains the worst.
I appreciate what he was going for but the world he built breaks the allegory.
Lupinpatronus wrote:Most Attractive
Just a personal side note. As someone who falls under the category of “interested in gentleman,” my pick for most attractive cast member (despite that I very much like Daniel Radcliffe) goes to Christian Coulson (a.k.a. Tom Riddle in “Chamber of Secrets”). Have you seen that guy? Dang, he still looks almost exactly the same. I’ll never understand why they recast him for “Half-Blood Prince.” If Shirley Henderson can play Moaning Myrtle at 30-something years, Coulson could’ve definitely still convincingly played Riddle in this film. Also, he plays for my team. So, ~*yay*~. ‘Cause, you know. I totally have a shot at that.
I assume they recast him less because of his age (though that is the reason given on IMDB) and more to match young Voldemort to Ralph Fiennes.
Also, how you doin Christian Coulson.
Also, Freddie Stroma dancing in his underwear.
You know that thing where you wake up and you think you've got a college class you forgot to study for and you're panicked for a minute? That happens to me with the Malariathon.
Around these parts we call that "bringing your own concrete."
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