Mark's Down On Your Syntax

Dek Rollins said:
I wouldn’t say the examples you two gave of your own are really comparable to having memories of whole scenes existing that are missing from the official cut (all of which are actual scenes that were filmed, not figments of imagination).

I can see what you’re getting at, Dek. The “size” of the memory really isn’t important though because it’s still a faulty mechanism that’s creating it to start with. The fact that the memories are of things which exist in one form or another actually reinforces the false memory.

The Jabba scene didn’t really come into the general consciousness unti the lead up to the Special Editions in 1996/97 and I’d be very suprised if cinebird’s memory of the scene predates that time. A briefly glimpsed photo, a half-remembered magazine article, a story told in an interview could all have combined into creating an impression of what the scene was and later solidified and cemented when the actual footage of the scene was shown in a 1997 documentary. Add to that the amount of times cinebird has likely seen the CG Jabba scene in the past nineteen years which further ties it into the rest of the movie and affects, by association, his “memory” of the initial, and likely most emotionally resonant, experience of it.

Have you heard of the Mandela effect, Dek? It’s worth reading about if you haven’t! (At least, I remember it being worth it.)

My house is still full of twigs and this friendly tortoise I seem to have received in error has eaten all my lettuce. This whole Brexit thing has been a disaster from beginning to end. Pfft.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

The CAM rips are just dead pixels.

I beg your pardon?

yhwx said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TESB spans several months, almost a year.

I’d say a few weeks at most.

Could you both give more details about how you see the time passing? What makes one of you feel like it’s months and the other just weeks? This is really interesting.

False memory syndrome is a real thing. There’s a lot of threads on this site where people discuss things they remember but didn’t (and in a lot of cases, couldn’t).

I can distinctly remember an X-Wing flying into the Death Star shields and exploding in Return of the Jedi when I saw it in a triple-bill showing nearly 30 years ago. I remember it happening and it’s a real memory. But it didn’t happen, ever.

As much as we human beings can rely on our memories we simply can’t trust them. They don’t work like video recordings and even established details in genuine occurrences are able to be changed, reordered or just plain invented after the fact.

Try remembering what colour socks you wore that day, exactly how many other people were in the theatre or how much the ticket cost. Try remembering practically anything from back then with as much absolute certainty as “human jabba was in the movie”.

I’m not saying there’s no chance you’re right - you could be, I wasn’t there - I’m just saying there’s a reeaaally strong chance you’re probably misremembering.

I searched for “horror movies full” on YouTube and skimmed the results until a thumbnail tickled my fancy. I watched the movie. Then I clicked the next recommended video that was a full length movie. This is how I roll. I am living life to the fullest here.

First up, YouTube told me it was called “Unnatural” but the title onscreen was “Maneater”. It was made in 2015 and has the plot where a genetically engineered animal escapes and eats people, until it gets stopped. This one was set in the snow. They somehow managed to get James Remar, Graham Green, Ray Wise and Sherilyn Fenn to star in this. Poor Sherilyn has succumbed to the ravages of age and, owing to the fact that I’ve seen her in nothing but early to mid 90’s stuff before today, she was the scariest part of the entire movie.

I give it 1 Botox injection out of 5.

Next, a steaming pile of fetid putrescence masquerading as a movie - “The Hollow” (2015).

Three Emo teen sisters (or whatever Emos are called nowadays) go to live with their aunt on an island after their parents die. “It’s Halloween, and there’s a storm coming!” a worried local helpfully warns. The dialogue is expositional and stilted and the plot is belly-button fluff. The whole thing is bad and it’s about 40 minutes too long (a lot like this post.)

Despite clear evidence that the threat is supernatural everybody runs around with guns and shoots at it. Bizarrely, some of the locals survive by hiding in a large freezer - because apparently the vengeful spirit of a murdered witch just can’t deal with refrigeration equipment. A dog dives through a car window for no reason! EVERYTHING IS A JUMP SCARE!! The three teen leads are actually very good actresses and deserve better work in their careers than this tripe.

It’s so bad it’s actually kinda fun though so I’ll give it 2 and a half Canadian-tax-breaks out of 5.

What a wild Saturday night that was.

Mike, when you said you put the phone upstairs to eat I totally read it the wrong way, “Why doesn’t his phone eat at the table?”, I thought.

I hope your birthday, at the very least, doesn’t entirely suck and if you can grab even a moment of calm then you damn well consider it a happy day. Don’t dwell on it when you slip or when you’re fighting the urges - dwell on the times when you don’t. It’s not about beating your problems or being fully in control it’s about not letting them rule you ALL the time. One second of time when you’re not giving in is worth a day full of slips.

Please keep fighting, Mike. There’s a lot of people here who care about your wellbeing.

That is good news! Well done!

With all that space we’re all invited over to visit, right? I think it’d be rude not to.

Bloody lawyers. They had a real opportunity here to embrace fan creations and get a two-way relationship going. But they obviously decided that the “we make, you buy, we make again, you buy again” model was the way to go.

No matter how many fan films or edits or YouTube compilation videos are out there it’s never going to stop fans seeking out, and purchasing, the official versions. The more people are talking about something, original or not, the better for the brand it is.

The people who make knock-offs or try to make a profit selling fan creations aren’t going to stop because they have no compunction about breaking the rules to start with.

Oh that’s a lovely accent, very melodic. I’d describe it as “Jovian”. But have you ever tried reading written Jupitarian? They put rings around everything.

I live in England, where we seem to be stuck in this frustrating mix of metric and imperial measurement.

We use miles almost exclusively for long distances (no road signs have kilometres) but feet and meters interchangeably for anything shorter. Depending on who you’re speaking to, and it really doesn’t seem to an age or class thing (at least where I live), you have to adjust which you use because people tend to get a bit funny with you if you use the “wrong” one.

For example, when people buy tobacco the vast majority ask for it in imperial weight - even though the packaging is 100% metric. It’s a very odd combination of ways of measuring and must be even more confusing for the young’uns.

Don’t even get me started on what happens when you go from Northern Ireland to Southern Ireland - daftness.

It doesn’t really matter which you use but I wish they’d just pick one and run with it.

YHWX!!!

Do you mean southern Canada or southern US (or southern anywhere else)?

“Child’s Play 3” (1991)

I’ve never seen a Chucky movie before and this was on the telly so I thought I’d give it a watch.

It wasn’t as bad as I imagined it would be. The character of Chucky is actually rather charming and self-aware. It had a ridiculously convoluted load of old twaddle driving the movie forward at an entertaining pace. It had cute little Justin Whalen from Lois and Clark in it. It had some really awesome visual effects too.

I was amused and had fun, and I’d happily sit through another one. How many of these did they make?

I give it 3 demon dolls out of 5.

This thread is called "Beautiful Women" not "Sexy Pieces of Ass I Wanna Tap".

It could be about beautiful animals or flowers or clothes or anything! It’s people sharing their opinions on what they find attractive. Honesty, have you been around the Internet, YHWX? The fact that everybody here just posts a picture and pays a compliment in a respectful way says a lot about the general character of the people we have here.

There’s far worse places on the net (which you can easily find) to start asserting yourself against what you think you’re seeing here.

People like things that they find attractive. You like things that you find attractive too. It’s perfectly okay for you to not advertise or share your tastes regarding other human beings but it’s very rude and, dare I say, self-righteous, to repeat a contrary opinion that wasn’t asked for in this thread over and over.

There is no difference between a thread where we express a preference for a movie and a thread where we express a preference for a lady. There just isn’t!

I like you, YHWX, you have a good sense of humour and you’re clearly intelligent. I hope you stick around on this site, because heaven knows we need people like you here, but I wish you’d use a bit more tact sometimes.

All said with a happy face though, it just doesn’t sit well with me when I see people picking the wrong fight 😃

Is there a thread for people who missed the joke the people they’re linking to in the missed the joke thread are making?

Because ^^^

JEDIT: Ric even used a winky face for crying out loud. A winky face!

yhwx said:

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

Darth Id is okay.

No.

That first line was only there to make it rhyme, sweetie 😃

Darth Id is okay.

But he’s no Easterhay.

A report from the BBC Crimewatch programme about the theft of a Star Wars collection. My heart goes out to this guy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z0trl

Anybody who shops on internet auction sites (or frequents the dark side of the web) please keep an eye out. Whoever stole these has got to be trying to sell them somewhere!

I’m going to try your suggestion, Frink, but in all honesty it sounds a bit complicated.

TV’s Frink said:

http://www.podcasts.com/we_hate_movies/episode/episode-92-the-raven

Thanks for the link Frink. I’ll give it a listen but I’m bracing myself for negativity! 😮

+1’s all round for the above!!

Somebody, sometime, on a thread somewhere on this site was using something to run two versions of the movies and this thing, whatever it was, pointed out visual differences between them. It showed up as different colours and it looked quite odd.

I remember that the changes to the roofs were pointed out there, along with a few other tiny alterations - an explosion or something had been tinkered with.

I really don’t remember this very well but I swear I didn’t dream this…

I wish there were a way to ignore Avatar.

The Raven (2011)

A period serial-killer thriller with Edgar Allen Poe as the hero? Why not! And it kind of works too. It’s chock full of historical that-didn’t-happens but I’m sure Poe would’ve approved of his life being used to make such a nasty, dark work of fiction.

John Cusack is brilliant as Poe and so is Luke Evans as the obligatory “policeman who really, really wants to catch the bad guy”. Alice Eve is enchanting as ever but is little more than a damsel in distress. Brendan Gleeson is in it too, playing the exact same character he always does, but he’s as good as ever so it doesn’t matter.

These sort of films are ten-a-penny in modern (American) cinema but it was a neat twist to see things moved back a century and a half. It’s a worthwhile watch if you’re in the mood for this sort of thing.

I give it 3 pendulums out of 5.