Random Thoughts — Page 376

The R rating is probably because of the hardcore orgy scene Jackson threw in.

If you've ever wondered what a Perils of Penelope Pitstop/Wacky Races live action movie would look like. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcnsRrXzBC0

Love it :D

DuracellEnergizer said:

ATMachine said:

The SE of THX 1138 was rated R in 2004, though the previous versions had been rated PG back in the 70s (and that was back when there was no PG-13 rating!).

Yes, well, with all those stupid digital effects shoved in, that version of the movie deserves to be restricted. =P 

 Unfortunately, that wasn't the reason for the change in rating. ;P

One of the most baffling changes in the 2004 recut, to my opinion, is the recutting of the scene where THX makes an error that almost leads to a nuclear meltdown before someone else stops it.

It's abundantly clear in the 1978 cut that the scene in question involves a Louis Slotin-style criticality accident, but the recut CGI'd version (though it adds the element of the droid production line from the novelization) makes it nearly impossible to tell what exactly is going on.

Did GL think people in the 21st century wouldn't understand the idea of nuclear reactors?

I had a few weird dreams last night.

In the first dream, I met Lily Tomlin. No points for guessing what I asked her. (Her answer was a blunt "No.")

In the second dream, I was watching "Where in the World is Carmon Sandiego" despite having never saw the show in my life (I knew of the show, thanks to TV Tropes and specifically the "Unintentional Period Piece" page.)

The third dream was the weirdest. My family was living in a different house, and my parents decided to take away both of the family cars and replaces them with cheap pieces of junk just to prove a point. Oh, and our family got a Boat in the process. One of the Alledged Cars started rolling down and "crashing" into the house. The reason I say "crashing" in quotation marks is that it didn't really crash, there was no (additional) damage to the "car".

ATMachine said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

ATMachine said:

The SE of THX 1138 was rated R in 2004, though the previous versions had been rated PG back in the 70s (and that was back when there was no PG-13 rating!).

Yes, well, with all those stupid digital effects shoved in, that version of the movie deserves to be restricted. =P 

 Unfortunately, that wasn't the reason for the change in rating. ;P

One of the most baffling changes in the 2004 recut, to my opinion, is the recutting of the scene where THX makes an error that almost leads to a nuclear meltdown before someone else stops it.

It's abundantly clear in the 1978 cut that the scene in question involves a Louis Slotin-style criticality accident, but the recut CGI'd version (though it adds the element of the droid production line from the novelization) makes it nearly impossible to tell what exactly is going on.

Did GL think people in the 21st century wouldn't understand the idea of nuclear reactors?

 I find Robert Duvall's eyes rolling back into his skull like a cartoon character disturbing and physically impossible.

I forgot about that thread, but since I already made my post, people might as well comment on it :P

Pace Pythagoras, I am not a number; I am a free man.

Danfun128: It wasn't something about whether she knew Odin's words whispered to Baldr's on his funeral pyre, was it? ;)

Also, a more generally random thought:

There was a silence. The old man did not move in his chair. At length Gandalf spoke. ‘Hail, Théoden son of Thengel! I have returned. For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed.’

(JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers, "The King of the Golden Hall")

"Stop chaos? The Elders thought they could. Now they know better. So should you."

"If we can't stop the chaos, what CAN we do?"

"The only thing for us to do is embrace it, and turn ourselves into creatures of shadow... or plan our escape!"

"Escape? To where?"

-- LOOM (LucasArts)

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,
And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence: throw away respect,
Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,
For you have but mistook me all this while:
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me, I am a king?

-- Shakespeare, Richard II (3.2.145-177)

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that.

-- Shakespeare, Hamlet (5.1.190-202)

DuracellEnergizer said:

In the first dream, I met Lily Tomlin. No points for guessing what I asked her. (Her answer was a blunt "No.")

Well, she is a lesbian in real life ...

WHAT?!? No. Just...No...

That had nothing to do with what I asked about.

ATMachine said:

Danfun128: It wasn't something about whether she knew Odin's words whispered to Baldr's on his funeral pyre, was it? ;)

No.

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I'll give you guys a hint. The question I asked her had nothing to do with her personal life.

"The ball has opened."

-- Not Abraham Lincoln

"I find that if I just sit down and think..."

"Whooooooaaaa!"

"...a solution presents itself!"

-- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Yeah, I'd say that's a real chock of monkey snot.