WTF, I wrote a long post in tihs thread and it's gone?

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...which is probably *more* accurate, especially since Swedish accenting is much more similar to Japanese accenting, in that there is not a big phat "emphasis" on some syllable like English speakers insists to append to our names/words, all three syllables in "Stor-ma-re" has the same emphasis, with a very light additional emphasis to "Stor"... but light, damnit, light.  [Also, the "R" lives in the last syllable, so for Zarban style (spoken in "English" but pronounced with correctl syllable splittage and emphasis), it would actually be more like "STORE-may-re"]

This is actually the main reason I'm known as Zap - the English speakers complete inability to properly pronounce my name (or even spell it, since it contains an "å"). It's that combined with the "å" not surviving original 7 bit email the way it was back in the 80's I never actually use my "real" name anywhere, and nobody but my mom actually uses it

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As much as you are a fan of the (Swedish, btw) actor Peter Stormare, when are y'all gonna learn to pronounce his name properly?

It's a three syllable surname, it is not "stor-mare" it's "Stor-ma-re", roughly pronounced "Stoohr-Mah-raeh"

I can record an audio schnippet for you if you like

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This movie was already done, and was named "The Pacifier"

(Now THERE is an actual bad movie. I can't take this drawing in the dirt the beautiful world of Riddick no mo')

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Love "Wanted". Sounds like I will enjoy "Sucker Punch" then.

I mean none is needed, just like no explanation is needed for "the empire is evil", "the uruk-hai are nasty", "trade federation is evi..." okay that one needs to be explained. An explanation can trivially be imagined, with the explanations provided. It lends texture to the universe without spoiling it with "overexplanation".

EDIT: Matt... man. *hugs Matt virtually*.

I couldn't agree more; it's like the entire panel wasn't paying attention. The comparision w. Teague being accused for not "paying attention" to Dark City is really apt. Sorry Teague

It is absolutely explained; Necromongers will "Convert or Kill" because the road to the Undereverse can only be travelled when EVERYONE ELSE IS DEAD. It is in the freakin' DIALOG. Heard of it?

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Sorry, I will not apologize for loving Riddick. It's over the top, yes. But it thrusts me head first into this beautiful-to-the-point-of-absurdity world *without* going all tounge-in-cheek about it (fifth element, I'm looking at you), it's unapologetically operatically over the top, and doesn't flinch about it. I wish more movies were like that.

Heck, I even like the acting, and would NOT place dame Dench on such a pedestal as y'all do here. Sure, she does her job, but you guys seem to be of the impression she is the only one able to act here? The whole POINT of these operatic-to-the-max things is that it SHOULD be the battle-of-the-poseurs, FFS!

Yes, I saw Riddick before Pitch (notice how - at least in this part of the world, there is no "Chronicles of Riddick" labeling on Pitch Black?) and this colors my opinion. I understand you guys are confused and shell-shocked by that transition. I get that.

But come-on?

Isn't this FANTASTICALLY operatically over-the-topically glorious?

Also, the Necromongers aren't aiming for a "specific point in space"; but the underverse, which seems to be some kind of afterlife-ish thing/parallell dimension-ish/magical realm-ish, which completely explains why they need followers (perhaps you need a belief-quotient-density greatrer than 62 hail-mary's per cubic inch of space to warp space-death-time enough to pass over?)

You guys lack imagination

/Z (I still love you, tho)

You have never been wronger than in this commentary, guys. Chronicles of Riddick is an *awesome* movie. The biggest error you made is watching Pitch Black first, and trying to make a connection. I did it right, and watched Riddick first, thinking, when I later watched Pitch Black, "what freaking B-movie ripoff of alien is this?".

Riddick rules. End of discussion.

This bodes well though; I will probably thorougly enjoy Sucker Punch ! (After all, I love Hudson Hawk)

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Thank god I'm not the only person going "this movie is stupid". I agree with every syllable on the podcast, really. There was potential to do something cool here, but I literally DO NOT CARE ONE IOTA about ANY PERSON IN THIS MOVIE.

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I may misremember the movie (it's been a while) but I don't recall this being said out loud. The baby can still be "the saviour of the human race" or "the one who will bring peace to humanit" or "the thing that casues X" (colocuially said as "the thing that *does* X") without being the active agent, but rather just the catalyst. I.e. the baby needn't have any active involvement, just it's existance is enough.

With this interpretation, the baby is "doing stuff" by enticing Michael to "rebel" against God (or course, this is then supposed to be Gods plan all along, i.e. it the whole thing was a test of Michaels character, or perhaps more importantly, a Flunking of Gabriels character).

With the view you can take the "coda" with the guns in the car as an "uh-oh, they didn't get that the important event already occured", as in "humanity is still destined for shit coz they didn't 'get it'" sort of thing.

Having said all THAT, it doesn't make any of the icecream-zombie-grandma-gun shit comprehensible in any way, so don't mistake this for me defending the movie overall!

...or that it all was a test of Michael/Gabriel all along.

...which I interpreted as a display of how "humanity still is problematic" as per above. Or something. I dunno. That's the most favourable interpretation I can give it anyway

EDIT: Oh but wait, I forgot about the "instruction manual" magic-O-tattood on whatshisname.

Hmm. Which gives you a point. So sure. Point taken....

But still... maybe the baby is needed to be a beacon of light of some way. Still, I don't really see that as the *important* job of the baby. The truly *important* job it had already performed, by causing the Michael/Gabriel faceoff.

Or the screenwriters (or lack thereof) just f'ed up

Interesting.

Not unlike how most movies get done nowdays

Also; I'm surprised you guys can't drive stick. Then again I'm a tad older than y'all. And I think the penetration of Automatic drive isn't as total here (we have two cars, a stick shift Toyota and an Automatic Ford) I guess.

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Who said the guest wasn't Jewl Staite or Nathan Fillion

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I was always infuriated with ANY of the spiderman movies. The tone was wrong, Tobey was doublepluswrong, some of the f/x were cool FOR THEIR TIME but man, such wastage of opportunitocity! ARGH!

Three is by far the worst, though. Of the three, I say two is "least bad" coz at least Molina saves his bit. It's just he was given such a crummy and illogical bit to save, but save it, he does.

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