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Warbler

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7-May-2003
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28-May-2021
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#903544
Topic
Random Thoughts
Time

Warbler said:

according to bluray.com, if you play my whole bluray collect one right after another, non-stop, it would take 21 days, 21 hours, and 30 minutes to play all of them.

well something is weird with their stats. I just realized I forgot to add a blu ray to my collection. The length of the movie is 88 minutes. Logically therefor, the run time for my whole collection should now read 21 days, 22 hours, and 58 minutes. But it reads 21 days, 21 hours, 58 minutes. It is missing an hour. Weird.

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#903112
Topic
Ranking the Alien films
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Bingowings said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

I think that Prometheus has the same plot as Alien vs Predator (expeditioners go to a remote place in search of something new, with a second in command who is female, and then they find themsleves in trouble, people die, at the very end a new type of Alien is introduced) but is done infinitely better.

How?
In AVP the characters all have jobs which the do before being overwhelmed by experiences beyond their experience.
In Prometheus every character is an arsehole only the droid is following his programing.
As I say it looks good.

And yes Aliens is tatty (wrong aspect ratio, ugly titles, variable model effects, recycled score from other Horner movies, lousy rear projection) and lazy.
It’s by the numbers. Almost every lever of the plot either comes from the first film where it made sense (decompressing the Narcissus made sense because it was a small ship and Ripley is wearing a space suit, doing the same thing with the Sulaco would tear the ship to pieces and kill everyone in the landing bay) or it’s painfully cliche… Screaming child in peril…(yawn) look at how the Feral Kid turned that old chestnut on it’s head. Making Bishop a good droid deserves praise though.

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#903109
Topic
Ranking the Alien films
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Bingowings said:

Once again I feel duty bound to throw my hat into the ring here.

  1. Alien (5balls) perfect film.
  2. Assembly Cut of Alien 3 (3balls) too much swearing and some of the effects are dated but very atmospheric. If only they had just left Vincent Ward alone to make the film they had paid him to develop and direct.
  3. Aliens (2andahalfballs) one of the best action films of that decade and quotable but tatty and lazy.
  4. AVP (2balls) much better than it should be given the premise but still very silly and unnecessary.
  5. Alien Resurrection (1andahalfballs) some good ideas but the tone is way off. The only good thing to come out of the project was half a season of Firefly and Serenity.
  6. Prometheus (a ball) the same plot as AVP only making less sense but with even more stupid characters. Looks nice though.
  7. AVP Requiem. (infinitenegativeballs) 80s style Friday 13th rip-off with the worst lighting in any film. One scene actively subverts the best scene in the first film by making pregnant women the victims instead of John Hurt’s unwelcome pregnancy. Offensively awful.

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#903108
Topic
Ranking the Superman films
Time

Bingowings said:

Superman the Movie (5balls)
Superman II (4.5balls)
Superman Returns (3.5balls) criminally under-rated.
Superman III (2balls) only really worth watching for the bad Superman scenes.
Superman IV (1ball) watchable in a train wreck sense, so bad it’s good in places.
Man of Steel (0.5) ball. Only worth watching for the scenes set on Gallifrey and for the fraud in the Supersuit getting his boobs out.

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#902371
Topic
The only proper viewing order for Star Wars
Time

Wario64I said:

Attack of the Clones
The Empire Strikes Back
The Force Awakens
Rebels - Season 1
The Clone Wars - Season 3
The Phantom Menace
Holiday Special
A New Hope
The Clone Wars - Seasons 1-2
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The CLone Wars - Seasons 4-Legacy
Rebels - Season 2
Nestlé shorts
Spaceballs
Wrath of Khan
Judgement Day
Rise of the Machines
Citizen Kane
Prisoner of Azkaban
Forrest Gump
Pitbull’s music videos
Doctor Who - Sixth Series
Tommorow Never Dies
1# Top Rated Daily video on P-hub
Zookeeper
Predator 2
The Incredible Hulk
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spiderman 3
The Mummy Returns

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#901553
Topic
The "101 Ways to Improve Off-Topic" Thread
Time

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

I suspect VFP has passed away if I’m truthful.

I hope not.

Sadly I think you’re right. I had another suspicion based on a PM exchange we had, and it’s still possible, but I would have expected him to come back by now if it was that. Or not, who knows?

We also need to bring back xhonzi, Gaffer Tape, ferris…

and C3PS, Chaltab, Bossk, Motti_soL, Shimraa, Luke Skywalker, GundarkHunter, RRS-1980, and ricarleite.

C3PS was already mentioned. The rest of those sound boring. :p

But seriously, Luke Skywalker? What a lame user name.

believe me, I think you’d like some of those people, especially Bossk. He’s a Cubs fan.

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#901089
Topic
The "101 Ways to Improve Off-Topic" Thread
Time

DuracellEnergizer said:

Warbler said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Off-topic’s been coasting on fumes for ages now. What do you feel is needed to refuel the tank?

As for myself, I feel we need to:

  1. Bring back Bingowings(which will probably result in Warbler having to leave)

  2. Bring back darth_ender

  3. Ban DuracellEnergizer

fixed.

*non-copyright-violating sigh alternative*

I wish you two could learn to get along or, barring that, just ignore one another. This either-or mentality just leaves me shaking my head.

I have tried to get along with him again and again, and failed each time. As for ignoring him, that didn’t work even when we had an ignore button, now we don’t even have that. Sorry.

Post
#901025
Topic
The "101 Ways to Improve Off-Topic" Thread
Time

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

I suspect VFP has passed away if I’m truthful.

I hope not.

Sadly I think you’re right. I had another suspicion based on a PM exchange we had, and it’s still possible, but I would have expected him to come back by now if it was that. Or not, who knows?

We also need to bring back xhonzi, Gaffer Tape, ferris…

and C3PS, Chaltab, Bossk, Motti_soL, Shimraa, Luke Skywalker, GundarkHunter, RRS-1980, and ricarleite.