Speaking of Dante's Inferno, I was in a book store today and saw a copy of the actual literary work bearing the cover art of the video game... and a little part of me died inside.
xhonzi said:
It's sort of too serious for a silly take on Batman and too silly for a serious take on Batman.
Yes! Couldn't have put it any better myself. It is really dark and thinks it is taking itself seriously like the first one, but it is extremely goofy. And I absolutely can't stand their take on the Pinguin... some disgusting dirty freak who lives under ground and digs through peoples trash. That would be almost as bad as a Superman movie that decides to reinvent Lex Luther as some crazy homeless guy with a head full of shaggy hair.
I can't say it is my least favorite Batman movie, because I think I hate all the sequels to the '89 film the same, it was definitely the begining of the end for the poor series (not that I ever felt Tim Burton's Batman was anything really special to begin with, though no where near as bad as its sequels).
Hmmm, I sense the need for a Xhonzi vs. Fink thread, where our two class clowns can duke it out.
It seems like a month or two ago Xhonzi used to crack a lot more joke, but lately Fink has really steped forward with the silliness and usurped Xhonzi throne as "the local funny guy". Yes, we definitely need a thread where the two can fight it out and discover once and for all who deserves to be reigning campion and hold the belt.
Ah, I like Gauguin's sense of humor (or at least, what I perceive to be humor).
See how much prettier the post-impressionist stuff is, Fink? Now you are going to watch as this thread falls from real art to paintings of smurfs and all sorts of stupid crap, and it is going to be all your fault. All. Your. Fault.
Dude! You totally just turned my topic from cool and specific to extremely lame and general. Screw you Fink! Screw! You!
I am now going to post a little bit of non post-impressionist boobage just to spite you, Fink! HAHA!
No.
So... PROBATION!!! HAHAHAHA!!!... Right, Fink?
Oooooooh, ooooooh!!! Yay, finally my turn!!! Let me think... Uhhh... uhhhhh...
Ah-ha! Yes! I got it! This thread is now about...
Post-impressionist art!!! Woooooohoooooo!!!
Ripplin said:
I'd love to get me some B.O.C! Nice find. :)
It is like the cowbell is right there in the room with you!
captainsolo said:
and how can you not like Batman Returns?
Holy shit! Did he just list Batman Returns alongside Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, and Blade Runner? I think I am going to be sick...
Went on a vinyl hunt today at a couple of thrift stores and and came back with a few new ones.
I found:
Petula Clark's Greatest Hits
My Fair Lady sound track
Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Ink Spots Greatest Hits
and several classical music compilations. Beyond the Ink Spots and some of the classical stuff, none of them are anything I was particularly dying to get my hands on, but for a buck a piece, I really can't complain.
As I was sifting through the stacks of albums, I couldn't help but notice how hot many of the covers were. Kind of ridiculous, you walk down the CD aisle at your modern store and you are bombard with images of scantly clad female singers, yet they can't hold a candle to many of the fully dressed women gracing the covers of albums from the sixties and seventies. Wanted to buy some of those albums I had never even heard of just for the covers. More evidence in my long held suspicions that I was born several decades later than I should have been.
The first Bioshock is a pretty unique experience (err, unless you played System Shock 2...), Bioshock 2 on the other hand is more of the same, with a great deal of new features. I think more of the same is what a lot of us wanted, I for one really like dropping back into the world of Rapture and picking up where I left off. It is very familiar, but yet there are plenty of surprises. Not been there done that familiar, but pleasant nostalgia familiar. There is plenty of new stuff in there, and an entirely new storyline. This is more of a fan adventure/mystery story than the dark dystopian novel like story of the original, but I think they did a really good job making it a fresh new tale from the world of Rapture, without making it feel like they it had to be tightly woven to or live up to the first games story (from what I have seen of it so far, anyway). Rapture in the first game was a huge place that felt like it had many tales to tell. BS2 definitely fits into this.
However, talks of turning it into a trilogy of games and even a film on some back burner some place makes me a little leery. They stand a good chance to really beat this poor franchise into the ground and severly cheapen it. I think a sequel was a great idea, but I don't think they should take it any further, at least not for many years down the road.
Wow, Ripplin tried to pull this thing off topic on its third post. Jerk! ;)
Fortunately, Olie was having none of that and kept the ship right on course. However, I must say, the "enjoy your weekend" pictures are not half as amusing when "week-end" is not hyphenated.
Looks like that port of Perfect Dark that was announced for Xbox Arcade last year will be coming out in March and cost 800 ms points. There are plenty of screen shots for it floating around out there, and it looks absolutely beautiful. Definitely my next (and last for a good long while) game purchase.
Anyone else here playing Bioshock 2? I have only been able to clock a few hours on it so far, but I am really enjoying it. Seems like it is another game the general population has decided not to like before even playing it, which has been the case for ever game I've bought over the last six months (ODST, L4D2, and now BS2). Maybe I just have crappy taste in games and am not get the full gaming experience the modern world has to offer.
At the end of the day I am really not that into games. The field fascinates me, I am really into the history and the business side of things more than anything (probably a result of reading the book Game Over in my late teens). I just like to come home from work, pop a disc into the Xbox and unwind for thirty minutes or so, shut it down, and go do something more productive. FPSs serve that purpose really well, and these days some of, what I feel, are the coolest stories are told through sci-fi FPS games. The Half-Life series including Portal, and Bioshock are some of the most entertaining sci-fi stories I have come across in a very long time.
I am also not the type that likes to talk on the phone much, I am too antcy to sit still for any period of time without multiple types of or no stimulation. Having one part of my brain working minimally while the rest sits idle drives me half insane. Since a couple of my close childhood friends have 360s, I find it a real treat to be able to stay current with them while killing zombies/Covenant invaders together, it feels more like we are in the same room together, and provides me enough stimuli to keep comfortable. Before I got my 360 the extent to which we kept in touch was an email or a phone call every six months or so, so Halo and L4D have been a real treat for me for that aspect alone.
Aww, thanks Olie.
vote_for_palpatine said:
I have watched seasons one and two, and this show is as good as advertised.
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ChainsawAsh said:
A Clockwork Orange. I absolutely love the book. The film? It made me want to hunt down and destroy every copy of it, anywhere.
Full Metal Jacket. Just not good after the boot camp part.
A Clockwork Orange is another movie I needed multiple viewings of to truly appreciate. I think it is because it is just so different, that during the first viewing your mind is overwhelmed and gets hung up on some things. During later viewings, knowing what to expect, you can process things better. But yeah, the book is better.
Full Metal Jacket. Kind of funny, I don't care a whole lot for the bootcamp bits at all. To me that part just feels like an incredibly long prologue, yet that is usually the only part of the film people ever remember about it. I think the film gets a lot better after that point. The final sequence with the sniper is one of my favorite things ever put to film.
TV's Frink said:
doubleofive said:
Bladerunner wasn't as awesome as I hoped, but I can't say that I "hated" it.
I agree with this. I thought it was meh.
Honestly, I didn't like it at all the first time I watched it. For some reason I got the urge to watch it again a year or two later, and found it to be a really enjoyable experience in a way that most movies are not, but yet, I still was not sure I really liked it. Now when I watch it, it is similar to the experience of reading a poem that you have fallen in love with or enjoying a really good glass of wine.
I have yet to meet anyone that I know of who really liked that movie upon their first viewing. Not saying everyone would absolutely love it after multiple viewings, but that it is perhaps more of an aquired taste. As it stands now, if I was told I had to throw all my DVDs away and was allowed to keep only one for the rest of my life, it would without a doubt be Blade Runner. After my first viewing of the film I could never have imagined hearing myself say that.
EDIT:
HAHA! I read this post after I made the above post. So I am not the only one who has experienced this exact same thing.
ChainsawAsh said:
Blade Runner gets better the more you watch it. I thought it was "meh" when I first saw it - now it's my favorite film of all time.
She is ten years old in that picture, if she did it for you, I'd be a bit concerned.
canofhumdingers said:
C3PX said:
auximenies said:
It's hard not to turn this into a "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" thread...
canofhumdingers said:
Bladerunner
Wah? Aaaah! Eeeerr! Errr! Grrrrgle! Choke! Cough! Grrrrrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Gasp! Gaaaassp! Choke! Grrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Grrgle! Gasp! Small choke! Gasp! Thud...
Narration: In an attempt to avoid uttering the words "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" C3PX seems to have bitten his tongue so hard that he choked to death on his own blood.
I knew that one would give some the same reaction seeing Lawrence of Arabia in this thread gave me... But yeah. I really wanted to like it. Heard lots of good things. But just couldn't get into it.
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auximenies said:
It's hard not to turn this into a "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" thread...
canofhumdingers said:
Bladerunner
Wah? Aaaah! Eeeerr! Errr! Grrrrgle! Choke! Cough! Grrrrrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Gasp! Gaaaassp! Choke! Grrrgle! Choke! Gasp! Grrgle! Gasp! Small choke! Gasp! Thud...
Narration: In an attempt to avoid uttering the words "WHAT?? YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MOVIE??" C3PX seems to have bitten his tongue so hard that he choked to death on his own blood.
Oh man! All these years while I was watching Star Wars I have been watching people! Aw, I am gonna be sick!
TV's Frink said:
Of course, since this was a rare time that the thread was open and you weren't currently on PROBATION, you could have set the topic. But you didn't.
Thread is still open....
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! What a rare opportunity for me, and I failed to realize it was staring me in the face! I was too busy thinking about how much I loved my old watch, and how sorry I am that it eventually got thrown out of a car window (long, sad, violent, and kind of upsetting story...). I still have the watch, but its metal band is broken and it is severly scuffed up. Surely, I will never love a DVD player as much as I loved that watch.
Gaffer Tape said:
I haven't collected toys in quite a long time, but, in my opinion, it's actually kinda sad to judge these people on their hobby. It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with it. And I would be quite satisfied if the ladies who don't find it a "turn on" would please get the sticks out of their asses.
I think it is more the obsession with something so lame and pointless. I don't think it is really judging them as in "Oh my, he collects toys! What... a... LOSER!" but more of a realization that their priorities are in such an unfamiliar place that it would be difficult to relate to them. What provoked the woman to make this comment was watching two grown men freak out about a store not having some new toys that were just released that day. I'm not a collector of toys or anything, but I have my fair share of silly nerdy crap decorating my place, but I too found those guys to be kind of pathetic. To be so excited about little children's toys that you HAVE to have them the first day they are available and are not afraid to go through great effort to obtain them.
Honestly, if the shoe was on the other foot and it was a girl who was obsessed with something like that, I would probably find it a huge turn off as well. On the other hand if she just had a couple of display cases on her walls and liked to add to the collection from time to time, maybe dropping by the toy section to browse the hot wheels cars sometimes while grocery shopping, that wouldn't be a fraction as weird and off turning as "OMG! A new line of hot wheels cars was released today! I've got my checklist printed off and I am going to dedicate the day to tracking down every last one of them!"
I dunno, maybe I have a stick up my ass too, but no matter how hot she is, that sort of thing would give me a hard time getting it up.
Forrest Gump
BarBar Jinkx said:
my watch is pretty sweet it updates the time 4 times a night with a satallite so it is absolutly accurate & it is charged by solar power so it never runs low on power.
I had a solar power watch. I really liked it. It has a recharagable battery so it could still function in the dark. One time while working overseas in the winter time, I spent so much time without power and with consistently overcast weather that the damn thing just flat out died. I tried to keep it under a lamp, and after a few hours it get going again, but it would only go for a couple of hours before dying again. I finally gave up on it for the remainder of my trip, put it back on right before catching my flight. While on the airplane I heard a weird grinding noise coming from beside me, took me a moment before I thought to look at my watch and discovered it was setting itself (it was analog digital, so the hands had to spin around fot it to set itself). Even though it spent a couple of weeks appearing completely dead and not displaying anything, it still retained the time.
And just to save Fink the trouble...
PROBATION!!!!!