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ChainsawAsh said:

Bingowings said:

Fans of the books please bear with me, I haven't read them but usually villains (even cruel sadists) have some feature of interest which makes them compelling to watch or read.

Young King Joffrey is just a nasty little git.

There is nothing interesting, redeeming, or entertaining about him at all so far in the series.

He isn't a love to hate character he is just a vile piece of work and I can't see how any death, no matter how imaginative would work as narrative payback for what he is.

He is like one of the monsters from Salo.

This is why I take issue with the scene of him with the prostitutes this week.  It's not in the books, but it's not a necessary addition either - you don't learn anything new about him, except maybe that he's even worse than you thought.  But we already thought he was a monster, so it doesn't significantly enhance our understanding of the character.  It's just unnecessarily off-putting.

Overall, though, this season's been fantastic, even though it's less faithful to the book than season 1 was.  This is really the only non-book thing so far that I don't like.

I don't think it was totally unnecessary.

For one, I couldn't have been the only one thinking that a teenage king is a horny king, and this kid, unmarried as he is, should be taking advantage of his status to fuck every beautiful woman in the seven kingdoms. I think the scene proved that his proclivities are of the unusually sadistic, non-sexual kind. It almost makes one wonder if he has any interest in sex at all.

Secondly, up until now, we've seen Joffrey behave as a tyrant prince and king, but one could rationalize his decisions as cruel necessities to assert his new authority over the threat of every other house coming for the throne. This scene provided a contrast, as the only one in which his cruelty extends to private affairs not associated with ruling.

Finally, using whores is a distinctly Tyrion means of trying to appease the boy, and if Joffrey can't quite bring himself to harm his uncle, the scene at least showed just how much he'd like to.

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CP3S said:

Ahhhhh! That damn picture getting reposted every single post has ruined this page of this thread.

NEW PAGE!!!

 

 

TROLL LEVEL: ANDROGYNOUS

Tricia Helfer, anyone?

Anchorhead said:

Bingowings said:

one is a space truck and looks dingy and older and the other is a science vessel/corporate ambassadorial/store window ship and looks flashy and new.

My car probably has the same technology as the finest limousines used to cater to diplomats and I would bet garbage trucks do as well.  Technology isn't limited to dog & pony show vehicles.  It's driven by cost of manufacture, cost of maintenance, and usability.

It's really not fair to compare it to the differences in cars you can buy today. The Prometheus is not a ship intended for mass production. It is a one-off, specially-designed, money-is-no-object vessel from THE most technologically-superior company on the planet, the equivalent of a top-secret aircraft built at Area 51, or a concept car several decades ahead of what can be found on the show-room-floor today. Compare that to an aging Mack truck, and now we're closer to the difference between the Prometheus and Nostromo.

Keep in mind, there is no company today that can be compared to Weyland Corp. You'd have to think of it like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, MIT, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Area 51 were all consolidated into one company. That company would basically decide how technologically advanced our civilization is, and can hold us back while it races ahead into the future to ensure that it remains the source of all electronic, aerospace, and biotech advancements for the next hundred years. The Prometheus is the pinnacle of Weyland's capabilities, and so it looks like a car 100 years ahead of what is available for purchase by the average consumer.

ray_afraid said:

I wanna point out that from what I know about the film, people who are interested in this only as a set up to Alien are in it for the wrong reasons and will be disappointed.

I think this is a great point. I have to keep reminding myself this is not a prequel to Alien. It is a side-story, an EU tale.

As far as the visual look is concerned, I've come to think of it the way I approach folk tales, myths, and legends, which were packaged and repackaged over the generations to suit their audiences. Hollywood was not the first to do this.

The story matters more than the wrapping, and as long as the filmmakers respect that hierarchy, than I can look past differences in the visual representation of certain elements like computer screens, which are just embellishments by a storyteller addressing a new generation.

Nils Frahm - "More"

Bingowings said:

For starters the premise is slightly hamstrung by the inability of the film makers to secure rights to the genuine horror film monsters.

If this was properly negotiated it could have been the Roger Rabbit of horror films.

I couldn't disagree more. It would've taken me completely out of the film if it were full of recognizable horror monsters. I liked the idea that the horror monsters seen in actual Hollywood films are based, subconsciously, on these elemental archetypal creatures seen below the cabin. In a way, that's what happens in real horror films, they use tropes and monsters that have been part of folklore for hundreds or thousands of years.

Do you know for certain that Whedon and Goddard were ever interested in securing the rights to genuine horror monsters, or is this just an assumption?

Beach House - Myth

Thanks again, none. I think I may have ruined it in the freezer, but I'm going to just put it aside like you said, and see what I can figure out. Luckily it was just music, most of which I can re-rip or download. At least it wasn't anything irreplaceable.

^ Name the system!

Thanks, Bingowings. I got the freezer tip from there, actually. The only club I belong to is the Too Lazy to Back-Up Club.

I posted a thread in Off-Topic, but none recommended that I post a thread here for you technical-minded folks.

So, I dropped my 500 GB external hard drive where I store all my music, while it was plugged in and I'm pretty sure music was playing off it at the time (I'm not positive, but it's possible). Now it just clicks when I plug it into my Windows laptop.

What I heard when I picked up the drive off the floor was a slow clicking noise like something was stuck. I turned the drive off, unplugged the power and eSATA cables. I open the case to make sure nothing had come loose, but everything in the enclosure looked fine. I plugged it back in, this time connected through USB. My computer recognized that a USB drive had been plugged in, I heard a couple clicks from the drive, could feel the drive spinning when I touched the case, and once in awhile it would make that noise old HDDs make when they're trying to read data. My laptop would not pick up the drive.

I have the drive in the freezer right now. I don't know what else to do. Google is pretty much useless for this shit these days, every link is to some hard drive recovery service masquerading as a "repair guide". Can anyone give me some clear advice on what my options are? Even if it's something risky to try. At this point, I don't have $1,000 for a data recovery service, so I'll take my chances.

none,

Thanks for the reply.

I had Winamp playing at the time, but the volume was down because I was on the phone, so I don't know what was playing at that precise moment, it's possible it was a song on my laptop I hadn't backed up to the drive yet. 

What I heard when I picked up the drive off the floor was a slow clicking noise like something was stuck. I turned the drive off, unplugged the power and eSATA cables. I open the case to make sure nothing had come loose, but everything in the enclosure looked fine. I plugged it back in, this time connected through USB. My computer recognized that a USB drive had been plugged in, I heard a couple clicks from the drive, could feel the drive spinning when I touched the case, and once in awhile it would make that noise old HDDs make when they're trying to read data. My laptop would not pick up the drive.

I have the drive in the freezer right now. I don't know what else to do.

Dropped my 500 GB external hard drive where I store all my music, while it was plugged in and I was playing music off it. Now it just clicks when I plug it into the laptop.

I doubt there's anything I can do, but Google is pretty much useless for this shit these days, every link is to some hard drive recovery service masquerading as a "repair guide". Can anyone give me some clear advice on what my options are? Even if it's something risky to try. At this point, I don't have $1,000 for a data recovery service, so I'll take my chances.

Thanks.

Alison Brie

Bingowings said:

 less attractive women

Theon's companion on the ship and his sister certainly qualify, I think.

I'm confused. 1,000 years later than what?

Bingowings said:

More Harry Butthurt.

OUCH!

Meet Dave (2008)

Seriously, negative balls. -10 out of 10 balls. I hate you man-who-replaced-the-real-Eddie-Murphy.

Captain Antilles said:

Bingowings said:

It's always April 1st somewhere in the universe

Indeed. Here on the East Coast of the US, we've still got about three hours more of April 1st. The West Coast has got six more hours! Perhaps Ady took this into account when planning his April Fool's joke. The fact that it would be the same joke as last year would, I think, be to his advantage--who'd expect the same joke two years in a row?

I thought last year's joke was Ady getting banned from OT.com after a huge argument with Jay?

DuracellEnergizer said:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 5.5/10

Why?! Deserves at least a 7/10. Explain yourself! :)

MrInsaneA said:

Bingowings said:

Tangental to that point, I wonder if the DVD prequel deleted scenes were ever completed in HD (some were never truly completed).

It was a bit suspect they weren't on the blu-rays, they have been used a lot in fan edits.

I guess Lucas sees the OT deleted scenes the same way he sees the OUT (not worth the effort).

I also doubt if he has much in the way of sources to mount a proper restoration of the deleted material (some of which the company denied existed, probably because they could be bothered to look).

Is it possible for someone to restore the original Prequel Deleted Scenes? Or at least make them appear to be in better quality?

Is it possible to take this to a thread about the prequels or deleted scenes, please? :)

ChainsawAsh said:

Tobar said:

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Definitely liked this more than Valley of the Wind.

I love Castle in the Sky.

Me too. But then I love everything Miyazaki has been involved in. I even loved Ponyo, which I still say is one of the most beautifully animated films of the 21st century.

I haven't sat down to watch a feature-length film since Hanna last week. I watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog for the fifth time the other day. Does that count?