DuracellEnergizer

Hal 9000 said:

I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy right now, as everyone says this is the more important. I like it so far; he seems to understand the characters. Afterward...

The Dark Empire comic series. Because why not.

I, Jedi - I'll read this one in place of the Jedi Academy trilogy for efficiency.

The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy

The Corellian trilogy

New Jedi Order - An abbreviated run of just five entries: Vector Prime, Star by Star, Traitor, Destiny's Way, and The Unifying Force

I would appreciate suggestions of which are the essential reads of the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi serieses. They're recent enough that I haven't found a reliable description of which ones are the barebones essentials.

The last movie I saw was Soylent Green. Suffice it to say, I liked it.

^Ugly as sin.

Friday the 13th Warrior

Analyse This Stargate Mission to Mars Where the Wild Things Are Evil Dead Grease Gremlins

The doll's trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me.

Leonardo said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

When you look at this image

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does it inspire fear or does it inspire love?

Profound disgust and dry heaving. I'm not even joking, I'm all for bad taste and all, but could you kindly take that down?

Bingowings said:

Ne sen la helpo de tradukisto.

TV's Frink said:

I refuse to participate in this alternate-language-on-an-English-webzone stuff.



SHUN!!!

Words more often then not fail to work well for me, so I'll let imagery speak for me instead.





























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FanFiltration said:

"Murder by Death" (1976)

What a racist film this is.

Darth Solo said:

Heather now has 2 strikes about slagging off the classics with Alien and Dawn of the Dead. If you say Nightmare On Elm Street is actually good, then your dead to me.

^QFT

When you look at this image

JEDIT:Explicit image removed. Post a link and a warning about the content next time.

does it inspire fear or does it inspire love?

^QFT

If I ignore the aspects that conflict with the original film and imagine that it takes place before the film instead of after, I can accept Highlander: The Series as semi-canonical.

Oh, baby do you know what your soul’s worth?
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth
They say in Hell, love dies first
We’ll make Hell a place on Earth
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth

When the knife falls down
I put weight on you, as your eyes spin around
And the world’s alive
With the scream of kids getting shot outside
When you straddle the bride’s groom
You pull the noose closed and start to moo
And your brain’s spinnin’ as the stars fall from above
And you throw up
Devoid of love

Oh, baby do you know what your soul’s worth?
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth
They say in Hell, love dies first
We’ll make Hell a place on Earth
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth

When I need a bone, you reach for my cooch and make me cum
When you drench me with pee
My hair turns course, and it smothers me
In this world we’re just beginning
To understand the spectacle of screaming
Baby, you thought you were afraid before
You’re gonna feel so much more

Oh, baby do you know what your soul’s worth?
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth
They say in Hell, love dies first
We’ll make Hell a place on Earth
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth

In this world we’re just beginning
To understand the spectacle of screaming
Baby, you thought you were afraid before
You’re gonna feel so much more

Oh, baby do you know what your soul’s worth?
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth
They say in Hell, love dies first
We’ll make Hell a place on Earth
Oh, Hell is a place on Earth

CP3S said:

What??? How have you guys never known what the word "bugger" meant? Its even made its way into American pop culture:

"<span>Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. </span><span>My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy."

Most people here probably recognize this quote. If not, it is Dr. Evil's speech from the first Austin Powers. I hear Americans quote that all the time. It means his dad really liked engaging in anal sex.

Less antagonistic version of jerk or douchebag??? It is a really crass word. Even Webster's American dictionaries list it as vulgar slang.

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)

If killing off Jim and the stupid idea that Jake Busey was the reincarnation of John Ryder hadn't destroyed all chances of this sequel turning out even halfway decent, then the retarded duel between the tanker truck and the plane at the end surely would have.

On the bright side, I did like Busey's performance.

High Plains Drifter (1973)

God, I love this movie. I don't know what it is - the cinematography, the performances, the score, the supernatural angle, all of the above - but everything just falls into place wonderfully and clicks like the Flash trying to fire an unloaded pistol.

Daughter of Horror (1957)

This film is a perfect example of just why I love B&W cinematography so much. The mood, the atmosphere - there's just so much you can do with B&W that can never be achieved through colour.

As an aside, I'd just like to say I wish I could see the original unnarrated version that was released in 1955 until the title Dementia. Unfortunately, the only version I could find available to watch online was this later version.

Un chein andalou (1929)

Incredibly amusing, but not the greatest mindfuck I've ever had.

Alien (1979)

As I've mentioned before elsewhere, I'm not really a fan of this movie; I found the characters bland and uninteresting, and the performances of the cast were just merely adequate to me.

In spite of that, I do think this film was excellently made on a technical level, and the universe this film initially presented was very interesting, held a lot of potential, and was ripe for further exploration/development (suffice it to say, I don't think any of the sequels/spinoffs I've seen fulfilled that potential).

Jaws 2 (1978)

Not a bad sequel, and it could have been just as good as the original. Unfortunately, the characterization and atmosphere of suspense was severely lacking, and far too often it felt like I was watching a slasher flick with a shark as the antagonist.

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Not a bad movie - Costner was good, William Hurt was better - but it lacked a little something that could have really put it up there. Also, I wasn't fond of Demi Moore in this film - her presence was distracting, and I think the role really should have been played by someone else (preferably someone who isn't an A-list movie starlet).

Day of the Dead (1985)

Much to my surprise, I actually liked this movie. IMO, this had everything Dawn of the Dead completely lacked - a good story, compelling characters, and decent looking zombies.

The only aspect I didn't like too much was the idea that the zombie epidemic had lead to the near-extinction of mankind; again, IMO, I think it's a little far-fetched that humans couldn't have learned how to adequately contain the zombies, and I find the scenario presented at the end of Night of the Living Dead far more plausible.

Zardoz (1974)

I expected this to be one of those silly "so-bad-they're-good" Star Wars/Mad Max knockoffs that proliferated the 80's, but I was surprised by how beautifully made this movie actually was. The homoerotic red undies aside, I think this is an incredibly deep, emotional movie that is unfairly mocked for no good reason and is criminally underrated.

Anyone who isn't able to understand and/or appreciate the nature of non-linear/surrealist/Dadaist/absurdist films probably will think I'm just pulling their leg here, but this is my honest-to-God opinion on the film.

Bingowings said:

34 Jedi went in, they ignored everyone.

doubleofive said:

darth_ender said:

He was, and got a nice severance package so Two-Face could go from black to purple/white, IIRC.

Yeah, it was something about BDW taking the role for 89 specifically to eventually play Two-Face in a sequel. He had a "pay or play" written into his contract so that they would have to pay him even if he wasn't in the movie.

Yes, they paid for BDW to NOT be in Batman Forever while also paying TLJ to be in it.

If the taste of sugar is detected in an individual's urine, and it is known that artificial sweetener has not been consumed, this may be a sign of diabetes.

I wonder if that painting was modelled after this one.

I wonder if EnergizerDuracell made it onto JediTemple34's ignore list. With him banned, I guess we'll never know ...

darth_ender said:

I have never heard of that expression meaning anything like that before today, nor do I know the etymology of that particular definition