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Changed, Doc. Remember to add the space when logging in, too.
Anyone else want a name tweak?
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WEEEEEEEE! תודה טיג!
Sorry, when I get excited I start speaking Hebrew. I think it has something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding my Bar Mitzvah...
Zarban, I expect that to be in my character outline.
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Back to Pitch Black, since I have no idea what is going on...
I honestly have not watched the movie all the way through, but listening to the commentary made me want to watch it again. I personally prefer Chronicles of Riddick to this film, but as Brian mentioned, I may respond to Vin Disel as an actor, while some may not.
I look forward to the next Riddick commentary, where I will probably be one of the few Vin Disel apologists.
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Teague wrote:
Have a treatment on my desk by tomorrow. We'll make an audio drama out of it.
Ya'll are gonna need to find microphones.
Ooh, I'd like to, but I've just embarked on my latest opus, Sharkitect: Builder by Day, Destroyer by Night.
On the Pitch Black thing... I got this weird Tremors vibe from it. Not that it's a comedy or anything, just... I don't know, the general structure.
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In both they put the monsters where they couldn't be seen (in the dark/underground). I'm sure others have done something similar. For example, in Friday the 13th you never see the killer just his camera POV until the end, but that was done for surprise ending reasons and not budget.
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Invid wrote:
Getting back to the actual movie, I was surprised there was no mention of the theory presented in an earlier episode that Pitch Black was based on a rejected Alien script.
I believe I brought that up in Alien 3 (one of the many things I'd have brought up if I'd been around to record these).
fireproof78 wrote:
I personally prefer Chronicles of Riddick to this film, but as Brian mentioned, I may respond to Vin Disel as an actor, while some may not.
I look forward to the next Riddick commentary, where I will probably be one of the few Vin Disel apologists.
I prefer Chronicles as well, and not just because of Vin. I'm not sure if I'd call myself a Vin apologist, but I do tend to enjoy his performances (Fast/Furious, Riddick, xXx). I saw Fast Five yesterday (in lieu of Thor), and I think it's his most compelling portrayal in the series. (The film itself is pretty good too btw; I really like what Justin Lin and Chris Morgan have done with the series. There were certainly a few wtf moments, but between the strong "family" theme, and the (admittedly absurd) action sequences, I spent most of the movie with a big ol' grin on my face.)
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Okay, I'm still listening to the commentary, but here are my notes so far:
Herr Doktor Professor Trey's anatomy lesson was slightly mistaken: your shoulder doesn't float completely; the scapula (shoulder blade) articulates with your clavicle (collar bone), which, in turn, articulates with your sternum (breast bone). Your collar bone is the only solid connection between your arm and the rest of your skeleton, but without it, you couldn't do push-ups or suffer the excruciating pain of a broken collar bone.
Here in non-America, we have a legal minimum number of vowels we must use in most words. Hence, we do actually spell 'specialty' with two 'i's, as 'speciality'. See also: 'jewellery', 'aeroplane', 'diarrhoea', 'moustache' and 'belowjob'.
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I think Vin Diesel's best role is the Iron Giant in 'The Iron Giant'.
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The Dark Ages (in terms of intellectual progress) were more like 2000 years long, rather than 500 years. The height of the Greek philosophical inquiry was about 400BC with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.
And the Enlightenment didn't take place until the 18th century. You could argue there were earlier moments of western civilization waking up e.g. Columbus' 1492 discovery of America surpassed ancient wisdom, as did Copernicus' heliocentrism in 1543, and Galileo with his telescope in 1609. The Renaissance is regarded as late 15th/early 16th century, but that time was more about recapturing lost knowledge, rather than surpassing it.
So it's closer to a 2000 year interruption, not 500 years. Without the Dark Ages, we'd be effectively now living in the year AD4000, for better or worse. Imagine the traffic jams.
And yes, you guys are right, Christianity bears much of the blame for why the Dark Ages were so protracted. Why care about the real world when you can study the Holy Scripture?
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