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Because I want to know if animals resembling well known dictators is evidence for reincarnation.

Why is it that when I Google "Hitler cat", this image shows up in the results:

This is clearly an Ernst Röhm cat!

^Oy, the sensory overload! Now I know how Ray Milland's character in this movie felt every time he sat down to watch TV!

TV's Frink said:

I know I'm in the minority here but I find most calls for color correction to be highly unnecessary.  In general, this need to make things look "realistic" is something I simply don't care about.  I'm watching a film, not walking around outside.

I don't really care about realistic colours myself -- Hell, I'd love to see more non-natural colour gradings experimented with. I just hate how overused teal-and-orange has become.

hairy_hen said:

I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 

I really like it.

 

What!? You go to the effort of double-spacing just to say "I really like it"?! No specific thoughts on the book?! No details?!

I'll never understand the logic behind teal-and-orange colour grading.

Hollywood likes to use it because the two colours are ostensibly complementary, that they make the screen pop when they're put together. However, the complementary colour of teal is coral, not orange. Hell, I'll bet teal-and-coral grading would actually go over better than teal-and-orange since coral's closer to natural skin tones than orange is.

Hollywood is run by colour-blind idiots.

Harrold Andraste said:

I've read the first two issues of Tales of the Jedi (the introductory mini-series is called Golden Age of the Sith).

Pretty good so far. I know Anderson gets a lot of flack, but I'm no sure why yet. Here's rooting for Jori and Gav!

JFTR, Frink gets his panties in a bunch when anyone brings EU stuff up here, so any future thoughts you have on the EU should go here. 

^Hello, goodbye. It wasn't nice knowing you.

Yes and no, depending on the movies/TV shows in question.

I've read that bear tastes like a cross between venison and wild boar.

This thread is odd

Why doesn't a mod

Declare this thread

Officially dead

(Of course I jest

This thread is the best)

Tobar said:

Star Wars premieres in China four decades late

Poor China, deprived for so long and you know what version was likely shown. =(

Just more incentive for me to travel there and set fire to Mao's corpse. 

Possessed said:

Rolling your own cigarettes is a good way to quit smoking, because it's so damn infuriating you won't even feel like smoking.

Hasn't impeded my dad any. 

Possessed said:

Beer>Chocolate Milk.

My beer tooth rotted and fell out before it even punched its way through the gum, I'm afraid. 

While I was finishing off a jug of chocolate milk which I got almost two weeks ago, I noticed it had a funny taste. Checking the "best before" date, I saw that it had expired four days ago, but I finished drinking it anyway.

Oh, I eventually got it. My proclamation still stands.

...

Just be happy I rate it higher than the first one.

And that's why they lost the Cold War.

That treat wouldn't happen to be $1000000, would it? I'd certainly watch the premiere if that's the case.

Superman II (1980) -- C

Skeleton Frolics (1937) -- B

Stand and Deliver (1988) -- B

Rob Roy (1995) -- B

The Others (2001) -- B

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) -- D

Garfield Goes Hollywood (1987) -- C

If it weren't for me posting a link to this thread in Random Thoughts, you never would have found it.

I want $100 from you, too.

Akton said:

*"The Dark Side's" real-life equivalent in this case being, of course, lots n' lots of cocaine.

Let's not forget the booze. 

Alright, then -- I pick Superman and Superman II.

First things first, I'd have all that pseudo-messianic garbage Jor-El drones on-and-on about completely excised. Kal-El is a Moses figure, not a Jesus figure; Jor-El's purpose for sending him to Earth is to save his life, not to make him mankind's guardian angel.

All that shitty dialogue Jor-El mumbles during Kal-El's voyage through the void would be removed.

Any scenes of Clark displaying powers as a child would be removed, making it clear that his powers slowly developed over time as he grew older.

I'd have more scenes with Jonathan and Martha Kent added to the story, making it clear that Clark's human upbringing shaped him into the man he would become.

I'd remove the entire sequence with the Fortress of Solitude's creation and Jor-El's floating head brainwashing Clark for twelve years to turn him into Superman.

I'd cast Carrie Fisher as Lois Lane.

I'd tell Chris Reeve to play Clark as an average "boy next door", not a clusmy dork, making it apparent that Clark is his "real" identity, not a disguise of Superman's.

I'd have Lex Luthor written as a dangerously serious, corrupt billionaire, not a goofy con artist.

I'd have Otis completely written out of the story.

I'd have that stupid real estate subplot excised.

From here on out, Superman would be merged with Superman II.

I'd have Zod, Ursa, and Non written as more serious foes, removing all the campy characterization and dialogue.

Since there's no Fortress of Solitude, Clark can't take Lois there or use its technology to remove his powers. To keep the "powerless Clark" subplot in there, though, I'd have Luthor expose him to a form of red kryptonite which would strip him of his powers.

Clark, now powerless, would reveal to Lois that he is Superman.

I'd have a subplot added to the film where Luthor, using the red kryptonite as leverage, enslaves Zod, Ursa, and Non into doing his will for him.

Now powerless and unable to stop Luthor and the Kryptonian villains from taking over the world, Clark (with Lois by his side) returns to Smallville, where he finds the green crystal that came with him in his ship. Now is when he goes up north and has the Fortress created, allowing him to learn of his Kryptonian heritage and use the Fortress technology to restore his powers.

Working together, Lois and Clark manage to steal the red kryptonite from Luthor and lure the Kryptonian villains to the Fortress, where Lois exposes them to the red kryptonite -- stripping them of their powers -- and Clark sends them back to the Phantom Zone. From there, Luthor then would be arrested and incarcerated, awaiting trial.

To preserve the relationship and trust that has developed between Clark and Lois, I'd totally toss out that stupid amnesia kiss.

Oh, and finally -- no Clark flying around the Earth at FTL speeds to reverse time. This -- and all other Silver/Bronze Age-type feats -- would be removed to make it clear that the character has limitations and isn't all-powerful.

YES

And now that I've done your homework for you, I want $100.