Also, it has some of the worst looking greenscreen stuff I've ever seen.
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177 2013-11-01 16:19:10
Re: Suggest an Episode (262 replies, posted in Episodes)
I saw a turd of a movie last night that is absolutely perfect for a dissection in the same way as Cowboys & Aliens. The film in question?
The dumbest plot twist I've ever seen. It's unfathomable.
178 2013-10-31 10:08:14
Re: The Road Trip (55 replies, posted in Creations)
The fact that this finally got completed and released after all this time gives me hope that one day we'll actually see The Day the Clown Cried.
179 2013-10-23 16:31:58
Re: Misleading Movie Titles (42 replies, posted in Off Topic)
On the other side of the coin...
Sharknado is exactly what I expected.
180 2013-10-21 20:58:46
Re: Every FCC Complaint against the Simpsons & Southpark from 2008-2012 (10 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Is there any chance we can get some 97-99ish complaints for South Park? Back then it was a cultural phenomenon and far more in-your-face offensive than it is today. I'd love to hear some of the shit parents were writing to the FCC when it debuted.
181 2013-10-20 23:56:43
Re: Misleading Movie Titles (42 replies, posted in Off Topic)
fireproof78 wrote:
Tomahawk wrote:IT had nothing to do with Information Technology whatsoever
Not even joking. I was thinking of this last night.
And what about How I Met your Mother? Probably the most egregious offender to date as we have NEVER met the mother and should have been called How I slept with a bunch of girls and got all these STDs. Don't do this kids
No, the correct title is How I Settled For Your Mother.
182 2013-10-20 12:31:43
Re: Misleading Movie Titles (42 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Faldor wrote:
As a mild enthusiast of artificial bodies of water I couldn't have been more disappointed to discover that Reservoir Dogs was set almost entirely in a warehouse.
Not to mention the severe lack of canines.
183 2013-10-19 22:56:31
Topic: Misleading Movie Titles (42 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'm getting really sick of movie titles lying to me. Just off the top of my head:
Blade Runner wasn't about a marathon track made of razor blades.
The Dark Knight wasn't a sequel to Black Knight starring Martin Lawrence.
Rain Man wasn't about a man who could control the weather.
A Clockwork Orange wasn't about a citrus powered time machine.
Space Jam wasn't about cosmic fruit preserves.
Heat wasn't about a hot day and contained no references to Dwyane Wade, LeBron James or Chris Bosh.
Inside Man wasn't about a colonoscopy.
To Kill A Mockingbird wasn't about the correct way to hunt and kill Northern Mockingbirds.
500 Days Of Summer wasn't about global warming.
Cool Hand Luke had nothing to do with the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker's dismembered hand in the Cloud City ventilation system.
What about you all? Any movies that you felt criminally lied to you with their misleading titles?
184 2013-10-10 23:28:10
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
AshDigital wrote:
185 2013-10-10 23:24:02
Re: Godzilla (2012) (100 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'm in total agreement with Squiggly_P with everything except the part about making a good Godzilla film for the modern age. I think it's doable and I'm so glad this movie is playing it like a horror/disaster film instead of whatever the fuck the 98 film was shooting for.
186 2013-10-09 12:41:39
Re: What's your verdict on GRAVITY? (*SPOILERS* are likely) (130 replies, posted in Off Topic)
In a time where everything is CGI, Evil Dead decided to go the old school route and use practical effects for like 98% of the material in the film. That deserves to be recognized.
187 2013-10-09 06:03:50
Re: Godzilla (2012) (100 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I made this thread 3 fucking years ago. FINALLY, the trailer is out.
http://www.mediafire.com/watch/80t812mp … Vishnu.mp4
It looks glorious.
188 2013-10-09 06:02:41
Re: What's your verdict on GRAVITY? (*SPOILERS* are likely) (130 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Doctor Submarine wrote:
Gravity is the surest lock on the planet for a nomination. I can't imagine anything else winning. Here's what I'm guessing the other nominees will be:
- Desolation of Smaug (Seems like the most obvious non-Gravity choice. That big ol' dragon alone will get it a nom.)
- Iron Man 3 (How many Marvel movies HAVEN'T gotten a nomination here?)
- Pacific Rim (This is the only big-robot-destruction movie this year, and those almost always get nominated.)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (This takes the Life of Pi/Benjamin Button slot. More traditional Academy favorites that happen to have fantasy elements that allow for great effects.)
Where the fuck is Elysium? Also, Evil Dead needs some respect for going all practical.
189 2013-10-04 19:36:31
Re: What's your verdict on GRAVITY? (*SPOILERS* are likely) (130 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I'll never forget the Supernova trailer. By far the worst music choices I've ever seen.
190 2013-10-04 18:56:26
Re: What's your verdict on GRAVITY? (*SPOILERS* are likely) (130 replies, posted in Off Topic)
http://www.nyfcc.com/2013/10/space-junk … ond-white/
Here's his full review. Fucking hilarious that he said the movie where the director tried to have his name removed from it was better.
191 2013-10-04 17:39:39
Re: What's your verdict on GRAVITY? (*SPOILERS* are likely) (130 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Too bad Gravity’s fanboy audience is conveniently ignorant of richer space dramas like Walter Hill’s sexy-scary Supernova and Brian DePalma’s Mission to Mars (remember that astoundingly witty Ennio Morricone score?) which entertainingly combined psychological and visionary pondering with sci-fi agape. Hill advanced the genre with tense, erotic, metaphysical characterizations. Nothing in Gravity compares to Mission to Mars’ extraordinary orchestration of passion and dread among a team of astronauts attempting to forge a lifeline in outer space. DePalma created an unforgettable, breathtaking sequence of love and loss. His great tragic humanism was more powerful than Cuaron’s tepid “hope.”
Cuaron plays with philosophy in a shallow, juvenile way, the same as he misuses technology—he even throws in a 3D teardrop. His teasing, tormenting style is just green-screen busyness; though set in space, Cuaron’s Earth-bound “Esperanza” in Gravity could be anywhere, nowhere.
SPOILER 
192 2013-09-30 04:18:18
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
The final bit of the episode was Jesse's fantasy, just like the woodworking. In reality, Walt took the M60 to the safehouse to bust out Huell instead, the two then skipped town to go find Kuby for a round of beers.
Deal with it.
193 2013-09-23 13:57:49
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Friendly reminder, I called the Granite State / Gray Matter thing.
194 2013-09-22 20:23:00
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Those are, more or less, the series’ racial politics in a nutshell. Walter White is not a racist, nor is he really a misogynist (though he’s said misogynistic things to his wife and Gretchen).
Apparently, saying "fuck you" is misogynist. I had no idea.
Also, to add, black men are the stupidest. Like historically, black men are the dumbest people. Ever.
195 2013-09-22 15:24:37
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Doctor Submarine wrote:
Ewing wrote:I just read the absolute worst article ever written about Breaking Bad, To my complete lack of shock, it's from Salon.
Oh boy. Here we go.
The article absolutely nails Walt's character arc and makes some good points about the show's treatment of Latinos. VanDerWerff is a really smart guy and a great writer.
VanDerWerff is a fucking idiot who doesn't even pay attention to the show.
From the pilot on, the quality of White’s output has driven the show’s narrative arc. As a careful midgrade cook with DEA connections, he could have flown under the radar in a community overrun with the stuff and taken care of his chemo costs and family just fine.
Except they would have never made a penny if Walt's product wasn't superb.
The idea that people will always pay more for purer or small-batch products makes a lot of sense to demographics used to paying more for quality gimmicks — conveniently, the same demos advertisers pay a premium for. But it doesn’t make sense for the consumers Breaking Bad so sparingly depicts.
People definitely pay higher prices for a better high. That's how drug dealing works.
Gus, as a Chilean-American immigrant, realizes that the only way he’s going to keep from revealing that he’s a villain is to hide in plain sight. So his public persona becomes Ward Cleaver-esque. He’s involved in the community. He runs a small fast-food chain. He has a lovely home and children. Gus, too, has his monstrous side, but he keeps it locked away far more tightly than Walter does, careful not to expose himself, perhaps knowing how much farther he has to fall.
Gus claims he has kids, once, but they are never mentioned again, or even seen. It's very likely it was a cover to gain Walt's trust. This writer, like everyone else on Salon, is far more about preaching their political agenda instead of analyzing and dissecting whatever they're talking about and most of the time they're utterly clueless about the subject. For example, check out this gem of a line from another article on Breaking Bad:
“Breaking Bad” has always had a firm sense of right and wrong.
Source: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/15/the_two … aking_bad/
Which is akin to saying something like "Game of Thrones has always been tame about portraying sexual intercourse and violence". You couldn't possibly be more misguided and outright wrong about a show. But they don't care about that, they just want yet another soapbox to stand on and preach about whatever the hot topic is at the moment. And that is what really bugs me. These people can't just watch something, like/hate it, and evaluate it as a series; everything has to be taken as a political or social statement about everything. Someone could make a perfect show about the hopelessness of the War On Terror, and Salon would find a way to publish articles about how it's racist/misogynist/classist/hateful/wrong in someway or another.
But hey, I'm just an evil privileged white male so my opinion doesn't matter.
196 2013-09-22 13:42:40
Re: WORST match of character and actor? (14 replies, posted in Off Topic)
George Lazenby as James Bond. Nothing else even comes close.
197 2013-09-22 13:10:59
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
I just read the absolute worst article ever written about Breaking Bad, To my complete lack of shock, it's from Salon.
198 2013-09-21 04:27:52
Re: Breaking Bad (77 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Dan Houser, the overlord of GTA, has said he doesn't watch Breaking Bad, The Wire, or any other crime series because he doesn't want to imitate it and seem hokey.
199 2013-09-17 08:55:42
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Being an asshole who clearly knew what you meant but decided to point it out anyway, fixed.
Why now? I don't know. I'm still hoping the Gray Matter stuff comes back into play in the final two episodes. That could have something to do with it; maybe. What if Elliott is in cahoots with the Nazis? The final antagonist and the very first antagonist of Walt's life align and he's back to destroy them once and for awhile? Little cheesy, but I'm just brainstorming.
Edit: Just did some googling and came across this:
"I know that the Granite State refers to New Hampshire but don't you think...
Granite State = Gray Matter?
Granite/grey
Matter/solid state "
200 2013-09-17 08:45:31
Re: A Breaking Bad Conversation Thread w/ *SPOILERS* Up the Wazoo (297 replies, posted in Off Topic)
Walt has ALWAYS been about pride and getting proper credit. It's fueled his mistakes over the course of the entire series. I really think he's back in ABQ because of his pride, not his family.
Unrelated, I love that Todd is the bizarro world version of Jesse. Articulate, calm, collected, always thinking on his feet, but his moral compass is nonexistent.
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