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So, uh, on the one hand, no film has ever pissed me off as much with its incompetence (even the choice of camera angles made me angry) as Catwoman did, but...
having said that, I think the villainous conspiracy, on paper, was a solid beginning for what could have been a genuinely excellent and truly feminist superhero movie.
It's sad, and I've gotten really used to hearing your voices, but of course, y'all owe us nothing. If you feel like not recording any more, don't record. Simple as that.
I'm glad there'll still be an archive of shows, and that the forum is staying open though.
Thanks for the thousand-or-so hours 
Pretty sure it was 28 Days Later. The Boys used it to describe the way a film that's doing one thing suddenly takes a turn and does something completely different, if I recall correctly.
(Though, I really like what 28 Days Later does. To me it was completely in [thematic] synch with the rest of the film. But, anyway.)
I don't know why, okay? It just popped into my head.
The real question you should be asking is: velocipractor, or chiroraptor?
What Teague said.
For me, what's incredibly important is to give my brain the opportunity to disengage and get used to thinking in ways different from the current project. Honestly, rather than working 10 days with diminishing returns (you don't feel it at the time, but when you look back, you'll see how much less you got done than expected), you're better off doing 4 good days, a 2-day break where you do something non-project-related, and 4 more good days.
2 days less work, but overall better quality. I have been having the laziest weekends lately (before, i used to try and work) and I've gotten so much more weekday work done.
And really, in the office, I like to make it known that I'm available to help others, 'cause it gets me away from my desk and lets me solve different kinds of problems. Keeps me fresh and helps me avoid tunnel vision. If you have the means to do that, I recommend it highly.
It's really nice that the Indiana Jones films didn't just have one kind of god. Raiders/Crusade had the Christian (and by extension Muslim) God, Temple of Doom had gods (plural!) from Hinduism, and they had also written a script which they'd intended to film, but definitely didn't, in which aliens were real.
My only hope with the possible continuation of the Indy franchise is that they continue to validate different cultures' gods. I guess if they made a 4th film, that Egyptian gods would be a logical one. Or maybe something Austronesian. That would be nice
They did! It's called Outland and stars Sean Connery.
Oh. "Pander". Never mind.
Intermission episode: when is cynicism (as opposed to fatalism and pessimism) justified? when is hope?
Etc.
Really?
I goddamn WISH a remake or prequel or sequel or whatever WASN'T trying to just cash in cheap points by playing the "hey! remember this?!?" card.
But come on.
Prometheus? Bollocks.
Thing prequel? Bollocks
Star Trek into Darkness? Things only happened so they can reappropriate Wrath of Khan quotes, not because they organically served the story.
I just do not understand where the hope is coming from.
How depressing is it that every single "visionary" filmmaker that's come out of the gate in the last decade has been dumped onto working on a franchise film sequel or reboot. Blomkamp, Drew Godard, Rian Johnson, Gareth Edwards, Duncan Jones.
Oh god it's true.
It's been a pleasure posting here, everyone. I wish you all the best.
*walks calmly into the ocean*
We had 2 good Alien films and one that has severely divided people.
Between Resurrection, AvP and Promethearse, the franchise leans heavily towards crap.
Let's be honest, here. The first two films have an awesome creature. If the creature alone was enough to make a good film, we wouldn't have crap sequels. Scott and Cameron caught lightning in a bottle, and told a nicely wrapped up story. Scott tried worldbuilding with Prome"It's just gonna share some DNA with Alien"theus. It was bollocks.
Reboots and remakes and prequels, in this day and age, are nothing more than "HEY! REMEMBER THIS?!?". Every now and again, there are very rare exceptions, but past a certain point, there is a nonexistent line between hope and delusion.
Great episode. I'm with Brian on this, as far as "i like it just fine, but don't be an asshole about it". Anyway, this episode was hilarious. Well done, all.
Gosh! I am so glad that Better Call Saul has lived up to my expectations. Great stuff, already really excited to see the rest of the season 
I finally saw The Grand Budapest Hotel. I generally enjoy Wes Anderson's movies (even though I can't explain why), and can understand why they wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea. But I can immediately see why this one was so well-received by most people. I thought it was absolutely lovely
(And I immediately bought the soundtrack. Haven't done that in yeeeears.)
This is assuming best-case scenario, because let's be honest, there are a thousand more ways to do these wrong than do them right:
For Sci-Fi: Iain M. Banks books set in the 'The Culture' universe would be interesting.
History/real events: if they ever make the documents openly available, you could make an amazing, say, 6-part series on the 90s RAMPART scandal (absurdly corrupt L.A. cops, inspiration for The Shield).
Actually, what was interesting, is that the producers hosted a discussion about what they thought they did wrong there. Interesting, but a lot of technical talk too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGIdYl2oN74
That is excellent! I always get a huge kick out of seeing people talk really frankly about the projects they've worked on. Thanks for sharing that!
Heh, I've played the first game about a half-dozen times. That is a stone-cold classic! Really loved Human Revolution, thought it was amazing, but have only played the 2nd game once. Remember liking it well enough, but being annoyed by the ending (which really smacked of "getting close to release date, let's just throw everyone into one arena and just let them shoot each other until the cutscene"). But whatever, I got a hell of a deal and I'm looking forward to doing the whole trilogy again!
Last week, Steam had a preposterous sale on Square Enix games, which meant all 3 Deus Ex games for under $10, and all 11 (!) Tomb Raider games for under $20.
So I've been playing the original Tomb Raider (1996... oh my god) and you know, it's still perfectly playable and enjoyable.
And also playing the Tomb Raider reboot (2013) which, my gosh, that is a really good game. Definitely recommend it.
It was fun to just load them up in order of release and play a minute of each of them, just to see the progression in graphics (nice infographic here) . It's amazing how far we've come. There's more polygons in Lara's 2013 hair than in the entirety of 1996 Lara.
Hey y'all. This came up in the chat, and I decided to fuck around with it and see what I could do:
So, the IMDB Top 250 seems to lean disproportionately towards recent films, so I decided to see if I could account for this somewhat. Disclaimer: It's a Saturday and I have been drinking, so I've not been super-rigorous about this, but hey, fuck it, what do you want from me?
So, here's the top 25, as of today. Here's the post-2000s:
Dark Knight (2008) at number 4.
Lord of The Rings (2003, 2001) at 9 and 11, respectively.
Inception (2010) at 14.
Lord of The Rings (2002) at 16.
Interstellar (2014! wtf?!?) at 20.
City of God (2002) at 22. (I do really like this one, though.)
Okay. If you take the 250 and do a histogram by years, you can see that there are a disproportionate number of post-90s films. Obviously, there's a lot of reasons for this, and one of them is that Gen-Y and Millenials are more internet savvy so are going to be voting for more recent movies. Since a movie's score is weighted by the number of votes it gets, it will tend to bias films with more votes (i.e. recent ones).
Disclaimer: So, there actually isn't a significant relationship (linear regression) between year and score, which is unexpected. However, this is complicated by the fact that all the scores are bound between 8.2 and 9.2, and that there are 94 years worth of movies (among other issues). Let's just continue as if this bias was detectable.
There IS a significant relationship between year and the frequency of appearances on the list, with a slope of about 5%.
So, year has a 5% contribution, to some extent. First attempt is to adjust the score of the film, by weighting it by year. Oldest film (1921) retains its whole score, newest films (2014) get only 95% of their score. I tried this linearly.
Slight improvement. Only 3 post-2000 films in the top 25, this time:
Return of The King dropped from 9 to 10.
Dark Knight from 4 to 13.
Fellowship from 11 to 19.
Exponential weighting. Look, I'll be honest with y'all... dealing with exponential distributions when I'm sober and focused is bad enough as it is. It's trial-and-error at the best of times, and I don't really understand this "vector of quantiles" malarkey. I have been drinking. So I just fucked around with the numbers until the curve and the axes looked reasonable. It's not perfect, and I would've liked the penalty on post-2000s to be higher, and the slope on the pre-2000s to be shallower, but, whatever, fuck it.
Hmm. Your mileage may vary. I think it could do better with a different exponential weighting, but I can't be arsed. The Dark Knight and LOTR are still too goddamn high, but, whatever.
The important thing is that 12 Angry Men is closer to number 1.
Disclaimer: I'm a professional, but not at - oh shit, wait, I am a professional at this. When I'm sober. I'm not a professional right now though.
Not yet, but I saw your recommendation on twitter and I'm definitely going to go see it. Disproportionate criticism makes me deeply suspicious, so I'm gonna go make up my mind for myself.
edit: is it worth seeing in 3D, or just regular?
Hahaha! Oh wow that takes me back. Saturday (?) nights: Gladiators, Blind Date, and The Generation Game. Nostalgia attack!
Looking forward to this. Cap doesn't stand a chance.
Yeah, eventually it's just gonna be a grab puddle.
I hope the next one is just you guys telling boastful stories about living in L.A., just so it could be called: Grab Bag 7: Brag Gab.
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