RicOlie_2

captainsolo said:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Finally got around to seeing this. OH MY GOD! Murder, Death, Madness, Obsession, Alcoholism, Alienation, Science, Morbid humor, 50's underwater photography, Technicolor, serious plotting, an actual narrative scope, three of the screen's finest actors and GIANT SQUID.

This is MY kind of Disney film. Wow. Walt's desire to do something serious and dramatic paid off in dividends. They managed to do the novel straight, come up with new effects to do so, photograph in Technicolor Cinemascope in its very early usage with the problematic lenses, and sell it to children!

This is magical! Honest literary adaptations for children? You can do this and provoke actual deep thoughts? And they let you?

Admittedly the opening 15-20 minutes or so is very slow  but as soon as the Nautilus attacks the film just takes off.

4 balls out of 4.

New all time favorite Disney productions ranked:

1. Pinocchio

2. 1950's Zorro series

3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

4. Everything else.

That was a really good rendition of one of my favourite books! I liked how it was faithful to the story and also thought it had good photography. I also thought Captain Nemo was well cast and played. It had very good special effects for a 50s movie, IMO, and I would probably rate this 4.5/5 for story and 4/5 for overall enjoyment.

Thanks Ryan, both for the help and the compliment. I'll see if I can get those pictures to display properly now.

Which dragon king? You've got one on one on 7d and one on 5e.

Regardless, my move is B-10d+

This thread never really caught my attention before, but I think I'll be brave enough to share some of my artwork (sorry that the pictures aren't showing up. I'm not having any luck making them display properly in the post, so you'll have to right click and select "Open Image in New Tab" if you want to see them).

EDIT: Fixed photos.

^Sorry it's so dark. The pics I took of it with a flash didn't turn out very well and I had bad lighting. I might replace it with a scanned image when I can get a scanner working. This was my first oil painting, and I have since begun a second. This is the incomplete monochromatic:

I also do a lot of drawing. This is a typical drawing of mine. I believe I did this particular one when I was twelve:

I don't usually use a reference when pencil drawing, but draw whatever comes to mind when I'm drawing (well, not whatever, but you get what I'm saying) and incorporate most of my mistakes into it.

I'm also into photography. I'm just beginning to learn specific techniques, but I've taken some decent photos while experimenting. I have a good camera, which helps, since the automatic mode is more advanced than in other cameras. :)

Below is a link to my main Flickr page. I usually focus on fish in my aquariums, other living things, sunsets, and clouds. All my photos are unedited except for cropping (I tend to edit photos far less than my posts here :P). And I know I somewhat blew my anonymity (for most of you) but I'm honestly not too concerned if you know my first name (it really doesn't mean anything anyway, especially since it's so common).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99262306@N05/

Just to be clear, I'm not ashamed of my large family at all, as I quite enjoy it. I think my life would be far more boring if I didn't have so many siblings. I was more embarrassed about implying that I had a "look over here, I bet your family isn't this big!" attitude in a couple posts I made.

Having read through more of the rules, that might be a good idea. Some parts are good, but others take a bit more work to decipher or could have a couple possible meanings.

DK-6i

I see it now. I'll play your suggested move...

Ln-8k

I've made up my mind to check my continuous revisions to my posts regardless of whether or not I say something embarrassing here. I have the bad habit of trying to erase awkward moments or phrasing from my posts, but I should really be more humble about it. :P

Well...I tried to let it disappear onto other pages, but Frink brought it back. ;)

However, if you don't think there was anything wrong with it, I'll keep it up. Most people decided to be silly and not actually say anything about their families, so I took that to mean people weren't willing to volunteer that information and therefore felt awkward about asking the question...however, maybe I should just be humble about it and not expect people to be serious. I think it's just the mood I'm in today... :P

May I ask why Ln-8k is my only option? I don't want you to give away your strategy, but I can't see what's wrong with S-8k. :S

Yes, Google Translate has improved enormously in the past couple years. It still isn't perfect of course, but it's good enough that you should be able to use it to translate the page with some grammatical corrections.

B-7g

OK. I've only noticed it a couple times, and if I remember correctly, it happened when the post was made at the same time I clicked onto the Off Topic forum. If that's the case, it obviously won't be much of a problem, because I will be able to see that there was a new post. I just thought I should mention it though, just in case I could find out what caused it. If it happens again, I'll make sure to check to see whether the pattern continues or if I'm remembering things incorrectly.

Ky-8l

DominicCobb said:

Is Ric Olie 2's family bigger than yours? Hint: Probably not.

 STOP IT! ;)

Are you making fun of me? Just because I made a dumb thread...

Anyway, my family is bigger than yours.

SM-11j

Got it, thanks Dominic! ;)

^Hey, how'd you get a GIF of me!

Once again, I don't feel like Googling an acronym.

NSFW = Not Safe For...Watching?

Watching doesn't seem to fit though.

*sigh* I thought I was covered. Sorry, I'll try to put my lion in harm's way less frequently. :P

Ln-6k

Please reference the latest title change and figure it out. I decided that this thread would be what the rest of you peoples wanted it to be...

:P

P.S. Basically, I'm trying to [REDACTED]. ;)

You could use this as an opportunity to make fun of bad photography (something along the lines of zooming in and in and in, mocking unnecessary zooming). Or you could go with a camera shake, but then again, if you don't want the shot to stand out too much, it might be better to do a normal effect.

What if we could merge two or more consecutive posts in a thread (they would be our own posts of course). This would allow for double posts to be deleted (by merging the posts and editing out the duplicate text) and it would also allow people who accidentally post something and then make another post right after it to merge it into one post after they did that.

It could be done so that this could only happen for the last posts in a thread, or you could allow it for posts in the middle of a thread and have the post count read "Post a-b of c" or something like that.

I don't know how feasible this is, but I think it would be a nice option to have and one I would likely make use of fairly often.