TV's Frink said:
EyeShotFirst said:
TV's Frink said:
EyeShotFirst said:
All in all, it raped Avatar.
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I will stand by that statement until I die.
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I really want to see Predators. Wasn't expecting much, but was holding onto a slight bit of optimism. It is really nice to hear plenty of good things being said about it (not that the reviews are bursting with praise, but they have been positive enough to make me want to see it in the theater). And I am still dying to play the new AvP video game, looks pretty brilliant... maybe after I finish Bioshock 2 I can justify picking it up.
Avatar totally sucked and was ridiculousy over hyped, if it wasn't for the whole 3D thing, it would have just been another silly mainstream action flick... I'll stand by that statement until I die... or am raped... or whatever...
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
C3PX said:
Avatar totally sucked and was ridiculousy over hyped, if it wasn't for the whole 3D thing, it would have just been another silly mainstream action flick... I'll stand by that statement until I die... or am raped... or whatever...
I'm assuming you read my "reason for edit," correct?
Err... uh... no? :\
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
You aren't sure?
Hmmm, it seem to be being taken quite seriously, so I am just going to give a "no" as my final answer and hope for the best.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Still confused, so I'll just assume you meant "no."
In that case, I'll repeat it - my facepalm commentary was meant for the use of "rape" rather than the opinion expressed about Avatar. Using "rape" in such a casual manner really sticks in my craw, much the same way the casual use of "Holocaust" or "Hitler" sticks in my craw.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
Whoa! You've got one sticky craw! ;)
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Actually, I am not a fan of it being used lightly either. I was merely referencing Eyeshotfirst's comment.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
TV's Frink said:
Don't confuse bkev like that.
Hey! I can read roman numerals! ...At least, most of them, I think.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
I watched Unthinkable today. It was pretty fucked up. It seems like a typical Samuel L Jackson movie, but it is just a whole new level. I really can't say much about what I got out of it. I give it props for sticking in my mind. This and Shutter Island are the only films of now that have done that.
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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bkev said:
TV's Frink said:
Don't confuse bkev like that.
Hey! I can read roman numerals! ...At least, most of them, I think.
I meant analog. See, since your a youngin', and analog doesn't exist anymore*, and...
...again, they can't all be winners.
C3PX said:
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And I am still dying to play the new AvP video game, looks pretty brilliant... maybe after I finish Bioshock 2 I can justify picking it up.
Did you try the AVP demo? It's just MP, which didn't thrill me. I wanted to try the SP game! At any rate, people have been pretty down on AVP, including our own 005 and Mrs. 005.
Can I interpret your BioShock comment to mean that you are actually playing it again?
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Did the video game thread get merged here?
watched Rocky IV and V last night, guess what I'm watching tonight?
Rocky VI?
Frink opined:
Did the video game thread get merged here?
Hold on a minute, I think I need to savour this moment for a couple of seconds.
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Did Frink, the king of derailment, the engineer of going off the tracks, just complain about a minor topic wander?
Well, if that isn't the epatome of hyperbowl...
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
Frink opined:
Did the video game thread get merged here?
Hold on a minute, I think I need to savour this moment for a couple of seconds.
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Did Frink, the king of derailment, the engineer of going off the tracks, just complain about a minor topic wander?
Well, if that isn't the epatome of hyperbowl...
Epatome of hyperbowl? I don't even know where to start.
I read back three pages and I couldn't find the CP3S quote, nor could I figure out what your post had to do with anything in the thread, on-topic or not.* So that's the difference. Nyyah!
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Last-movie-seen/post/425256/#TopicPost425256
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
I said I read back three pages...I never said anything about this page...
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You win.
xhonzi said:
Rocky VI?
technically incorrect. The name of the movie is actually Rocky Balboa. Why they didn't call it Rocky VI is beyond me.
xhonzi said:
Can I interpret your BioShock comment to mean that you are actually playing it again?
Funny story... through some strange turn of events I... uh... Ah! To make a long story short I lost all the contents of my 360 hard drive... including my BS2 game sames...
With that, I decided it wasn't worth my time to start from the beginning and try to beat it again (already half way through the game on hard with vita-chambers off and all the audio-diaries collected. Blah. Don't have the heart to do it all over again. So, I decided to screw it and not even bother. Like I said before, I just can't get into single player games anymore, I enjoy playing with other people, but when I have time to kill alone there are other things I'd rather be doing. So, I had given up on BioShock 2... forever!
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And now with that said, oddly enough, through another strange turn of events, I discovered that my USB drive that I use to transport my profile from console to console had, by some random chance or divine intervention, my BioShock 2 game saves on it! I never remember copying them there, or see why I would have had any reason to have copied them there, but yet, there they are. No other saves on the drive, except for my BS2 saves, the only saves I really mourned the loss of. Pretty weird, right? Miraculous even! Very exciting stuff. Well, I go to copy them back on my hard drive and notice that they are associated with "unknown profile" rather than my profile. They are my saves, they are right were I left off, so I am not sure what is wrong with them. When I try to copy them to my hard drive, it tells me that if I copy them they will become associated with my profile but achievements will not be available, since the file is from another profile... wow... I went through a lot of work beating that far on hard with the vita-chambers off and collecting all the diaries, and now it is all for nothing... So, with that, I once again gave on BioShock 2... forever!
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Then through another strange turn of events, I discovered that you could actually hack game saves and change the owner. Turns out a lot of losers do this in order to get lots of achievements. They simple download a save game file from the internet, edit it so that it has their profile name associated with it, load it and every single achievement in the game pops. Ridiculous! The whole fun of getting achievements, to me, is actually having gone through the challenge of having done it. Beating Bioshock on hard or getting all the achievements on Fallout 3 were a thrill and now I have the achievements to prove I did it. Getting achievements in this manner is extremely lame. It is like going to your local thrift store, buying all the old used trophies you can find, and going home and putting them in a trophy case in your living room. You didn't earn any of those trophies, so they are just dumb chunks of rock and plastic that you tell people you won yourself in order to feel good about yourself (because in reality, you suck and could achieve anything on your own). Very sad...
So... Where was I? Oh yeah, so, deciding to use these evil powers to recover my game saves allowing me to beat BioShock 2 once and for all and ease a tremendous weight from my shoulders-- I went online, figured out how to do all this crap, edited them so they once again belonged to me... plugged them back into my console and sure enough, they worked! Phew! After becoming really excited at recoverying those lost hours of my life, I decided to sit down and play it for a bit... about two minutes later I got really bored, turned off the console and read a book. Yeah, I don't know if I will ever beat that game. Just not feeling it. Maybe something really bad will happen to me in the following months and I will need to turn to the xbox as a coping device and will finally finish the thing. You never know. ;)
Phew! It is hard work derailing threads this badly... hope it stays off track for a bit.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
What, did this thread get merged with the video ga--
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...oh no, I'm not falling for that again.
Right. To bring this thread back on topic ...
I saw Inception last night. Holy fuckballs. Easily my favorite of the year so far.
The thing I love most about it is that the whole thing feels so damn different, even though it uses a lot of familiar things. At its core, it's a heist film with a lot of gun fighting and chases. But it adds another layer on top of this one, supremely different from anything that has been done before in film. The meld of the two keeps it from being inaccessible by including those familiar elements, while changing these familiar elements into something fresh.
It also really works your brain, because the movie really feels like three or four different stories overlaid on top of each other, and trying to keep track of all these stories - while far from impossible - really works your brain in ways it probably hasn't had to work before, certainly not from any summer blockbuster.
If Nolan keeps up this formula (make one hugely-successful "studio" movie, then make one for himself), he'll be the Ridley Scott of our generation that could do something Scott never could: Make both the "studio" films and his personal films wildly successful. And keep the studio heads from fucking with his movies.
10/10. If he never makes Batman Begins III, I'll be fine with it as long as he keeps making movies like Inception.
Urm, i really want to see inception, but im no good with filums that work my brain. Im still messed up after Jacobs Ladder and Momento from years ago.
ChainsawAsh said:
Holy fuckballs.
One of the things I love about this place is I never know when I'm going to hear a curse I've never heard before :-)
TV's Frink said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Holy fuckballs.One of the things I love about this place is I never know when I'm going to hear a curse I've never heard before :-)
Would you like me to try some more?
Probably not.