xhonzi

ABC!

Dang, too late.

Hmm... do you think it'll stand up in court?

cutnshut said:

thats great but its still 5 acts :p

It's true.  It's 5 segments.  But, as far as I understand the 3 act structure, it makes sense to call them prologues and epilogues, because the central 3 Acts ARE the 3 Act structure.

And then you sign your name at the bottom.

Leonardo said:

hahah I fell like WESHALLPRESERVE :P

a bit windy luckily :D in the last weeks we've been suffocating, but you know, can't expect anything else in the summer from this place. people are fearing august now

thumbs up to C3PX for having attended physics and remembering that important principle! have a granita:

 

and Shonzie thought I was a redneck! lol :P

Shonzie said:

Just watch out for mistakes you make when you're drunk.  They may have very long last consequences for you, the girl, and any kids that may spring up in the middle of it.  There are mistakes, and then there are mistakes.

I can almost hear "Dueling Banjos"

 (no offence intended to southerners, obviously, I'm a southerner myself!)

What?  Dueling Banjos would be appropriate if I had said... "consequences for you, the girl or guy or whatever, and any kidlings that may be fixin' to spring up..." 

I think people of all presuasions are likely to conceive life changing (ruining) mistakes when they're horny and drunk.  I'm equal opportunity like that.

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

doubleofive said:


She doesn't like watching movies like that after she knows what was really going on.

Am I reading that wrong, or is your wife really weird?  Does this mean she only watches movies that leave the viewer in the dark?

What I meant was that she doesn't like watching mindbending movies that she already knows the answer to. Memento was the example she gave last night as another movie she liked but wouldn't watch again.

 Ah, yes... you said, "like that" but I read your statement too quickly.  To answer my own question, I was reading it wrong.

Which reminds me... my wife has never seen Memento.

C3PX said:

xhonzi said:

I'm a little ticked/glad (is that possible?) to hear you say that.  I've only played the first scene and the start of the second in L4D2 (and the demo level) and I have to say that I wasn't blown away in any way by L4D2 when compared to L4D1. 

You said it in your post, but I it- I do like the variation in the finales so far... but with all of their variation, they seem to be less epic than the big finales of L4D1. 

...

But if I had to choose the 4 in L4D versus the 4 new ones in L4D2, I think I'd stick with the original ones.

 

 

I thought you said you bought L4D2? I am surprised to hear you have as of yet still only played the demo.

Yes, I did buy it.  You must have read my post wrong, I said the levels I'd played so far were all of the 1st, the beginning of the 2nd (of the retail game) and the level that was in the demo.  MY ticked/glad sentiment works like this: One of the reasons I hunkered down and bought L4D2 was on your recommendation that it was, and I loosely quote from my faulty memory, "So much better."  So I'm a little upset to see you reverse your opinion here.  But maybe I'm just remembering wrong... but then I'm glad to see that opinion... because I didn't really see a HUGE improvement in 2.  At least, not yet.  The levels I played (with the new survivors, the new special infected, and the new weapons) most certainly could have been DLC to the old game.

We need to play sometime. I temporarily have a lot more free time now.

Alright, let's talk turkey.  Is Friday or Saturday a good night for everybody who wants in on some L4D2?

<snip> The L4D2 finales were just as hard and just as big of a deal, but somehow the first ones felt really climactic, and the second ones not so much.

The only finale I've played is the gas can one.  I didn't think it was nearly as hard as the L4D1 finales... I concentrated on filling the tank and my 3 compadres fought the z's.  I ran all over the stairs finding gas cans and throwing them down to the 1st floor.  And then filled the tank pretty quickly.  I think we'd nailed it in about 3 minutes flat or so... not the 10-15 minutes (at least it feels that long) that the 'survival' focused finales were.

When you say the 4 in L4D o versus the 4 new ones, I have to assume you either mean levels or survivors. There are actually five levels in L4D2, so I imagine you mean survivor characters.

I actually meant the Special Infected.  I thought 'SIs' was maybe common lingo for them, but I also didn't think MOD2 was a good nick for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.  Shows what I know.  I think the 4 original Special Infected are superior to the 4 new ones, but seeing how the new ones are just added to the original 4, I guess it's alright.

If that is what you meant, I really agree. There is no character I really care that much for in L4D2, and none of them seem likely to be the sort to survive the zombie apocalypse.

In L4D1 we have:

a muscular biker

an old war veteran

a officer worker who happens to be a survival/outdoors enthusiast

and a college age video game fanatic

All the above seem likely enough to survive by their own means long enough to run into other survivors to team up with.

In L4D2 we have:

a dirt stupid mechanic

an overweight football coach

a news reporter

and a con man

I guess the con man is likely enough, the news reporter is believable but unlikely, and the other two just make no sense at all. Especially the mechanic. The group just doesn't work as well to me as the classic group.

However, I really agree with this too.  I like the original characters more.  Your analysis is spot on.

doubleofive said:

Dark City is pretty good. I love Kiefer Sutherland in it.

Definitely.  Love Dark City.  That one, however, fails my wife's "evil little kid test".  She just can't stand it.

Probably why she can't get into BioShock either.

doubleofive said:

<snip>

She doesn't like watching movies like that after she knows what was really going on.

Am I reading that wrong, or is your wife really weird?  Does this mean she only watches movies that leave the viewer in the dark?

Also watched Sherlock Holmes. It was fun, and I could really see where the show "House" got its relationship between House and Wilson.

H & W... House and Wilson, Holmes and Watson... coincidence?

I guess I liked the RDJ Sherlock Holmes.  There wasn't much I didn't like about it, but I felt rather 'meh' about the whole thing.  Strangely enough, I felt excited to see a sequel after it was over, despite the ambivalence I generally felt towards the movie.

I made my wife watch Shutter Island with me.  Good movie.  A few inconvenient parallels to Inception, given that we watched them a couple weeks apart and that they're both DiCaprio movies.

C3PX said:

xhonzi said:

"When, oh when, will it be Wednesday?"

That translation really made me laugh.

That's from my friend's first Albanian rap, "Kur kur kur, do të jetë e Merkurë?" because Wednesdays were the day we got to write letters home, go grocery shopping, or play ping pong at the church.

I don't want to read about you boosting any of your female demographics... but I bet Darth Solo does.

XHONZI (big noly)
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

FRINK
Why wasn't I sent a script?

XHONZI
You weren't sent a script, because then you'd know that we'd planned on you derailing every thread, and then you wouldn't want to do it, and you'd try to derail the thread by not derailing it...

FRINK
...

XHONZI
And nobody wants that.

That must be a feature of your web browser.  I don't get a red squiggly on IE 7/8 with or without Google Toolbar.  Google let's me run a spellcheck on any page, but I don't have that installed at work.

FRINK
That wasn't much of a roast.

XHONZI
Well, you're not much of a...

Xhonzi is visibly flustered.  He's not sure how to finish the taunt.

XHONZI(cont'd)
um...

XHONZI(triumphantly)
Yeah!  Eat it, eat it with!

*oh snap!*

For he's a four-fingered yellow, for he's a four-fingered yellow!

Which nobody can derail!

The forum software has a spell check?

The Empire Strikes Bank... I'm still laughing at that title.  Seriously, these people aren't paid enough punney for the work they do.

CompMovieGuy said:

People are not asking the right questions.......


Where did they get the print
Who owns the print
How can we get in contact with the "right" people about this print, and possibly other prints as well

I think we can assume this was not LFL sanctioned, so it must be a privately owned print

Screw "the right" people!  Get me in contact with the wrong people.

Hurray!  We won!

If you google "xhonzi" it asks, "did you mean xhonsi?"  Which I personally find offensive and hilarious.  So maybe Slugoo has his auto-spellcorrection turned on.

doubleofive said:

 

 Dogma's where its at.

 Dogma is Dogsh**.

Tell me you know that quote.

Warbler said:

xhonzi said:

C3PX is right, Warbler.  You're only going to get out of your single-man duldrums if you pull yourself out... no one else is going to do it.  Take your fate into your own hands, go and rob a bank if you have to (maybe that could be your date... it doesn't cost anything as far as I can tell) get some cash and start asking.  The worst they can do is say no.  And laugh at you.  Or maybe stab you...  But they'll probably say yes.

Get started today!

As long as you see Inception.  ;)

he maybe right, but right now I think finding a job needs to be the first priority.  I also need to diet and exercise.   Once I have job and am in shape, then I will pursue a girlfriend. 

Well get on it already!  Inception won't be in theatres forever!

Seriously though, get your job, start a diet and/or exercise... but don't necessarily wait for certain results.  As they say in Albania, "Kur, kur bëhet kurrë" or "When, oh when, will it be Wednesday?"  Actually, nevermind, but a series of "when when" becomes "never".

And I didn't really mean for you to rob a bank... this is you, right?:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297087/The-Empire-Strikes-Bank-Armed-robber-dressed-Darth-Vader-demands-cash-daring-raid.html

Lance Henriksen has some shockingly direct comments that play during the closing credits to Alien3 on the commentary track.  He basically says, "I'm not sure who the audience is supposed to root for in this film.  The murderers and rapists don't really earn, or deserve it."  That does seem, to me, to be the major flaw.

Aliens, in 3 Acts

Let me give this a shot.  I think you're right, there is some stuff before the real story starts, but lets call that a prologue and not act 1.

Prologue- Ripley is rescued and goes back to Earth.
Act 1 - Ripley joins the Marines' mission, all characters are introduced, and Marines land on LV-426 and find Newt.  THE PROBLEM: Aliens have taken out the colony.
Act 2 - The Marines find the hive with the colonists, the aliens attack and kill half of the force.  The rescue/kill the alien mission is scrubbed and they decide to tactfully retreat.  The aliens attack the drop ship and it crashes.  They decide to set up the antenna to remote pilot the other drop ship planetside.  THE PROBLEM GETS WORSE: The Marines can't just shoot the all of aliens.  There are too many of them, and they are unprepared for the assault.  They lose half of their team and decide to retreat.
Act 3 - This begins when Newt is taken by the aliens and Ripley decides to rescue her.  Against unsurmountable odds, Bishop is able to bring the shuttle down, and Hicks, Bishop, Ripley and Newt escape the planet.
Epilogue - The Queen is on board the spaceship.  Ripley kills the Queen once and for all, and they all go into stasis for the journey home.

Please submit your disagreements.