Gaffer Tape said:
Um... there's always room for Jell-O?
Pretty sure this is a GB2 quote as well...
At any rate:
Frink, allow me to put you down:
You're short, your belly button sticks out to far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother.
I normally get home from work at 5:30-6:00ish, and on Wednesday's my wife works with a youth group at church from 7 to 9, so I put the kids to bed at 7:30 and have an hour and a half or so to play xbox.
I was really looking forward to it last night, as I'm in a good place in Batman: AA. Also, my quest for level 40 in BioShock 2 is going alright as I've achieved level 20 last weekend. But alas, it was not to be. I got stuck at work until 9:30 and didn't get home until 10:30.
:(
Give me a break! (We're both lawyers!)
C3PX said:
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And I am still dying to play the new AvP video game, looks pretty brilliant... maybe after I finish Bioshock 2 I can justify picking it up.
Did you try the AVP demo? It's just MP, which didn't thrill me. I wanted to try the SP game! At any rate, people have been pretty down on AVP, including our own 005 and Mrs. 005.
Can I interpret your BioShock comment to mean that you are actually playing it again?
He slimed me.
I liked Rocky Balboa well enough. It was odd- just like all of the Rocky movies or the Jaws movies- it exceeds pretty well at taking a movie you've already seen, changing almost nothing, and making you feel like it's an all new movie.
Is the Rocky'a'thon a 4th of July thing, or is the Americana-ness of it unrelated?
Only on the face on an analogue clock.
I would go to Ace or other such places... but their inventory, while different, is usually even smaller than HD or L's.
And why do they need a "slighty" rounded corner, and a "more slightly" rounded corner anyways? Can't Rounder/Square be good enough? For the inside of a hinge, why do we need rounded corners anyways?
I also just replaced the air filter in my car. There are appx 1 billion different makes of air filter, and I had to go to a parts store after checking the Air Filter aisle at the supermarket and not finding it there.
Can't there be "small", "medium", and "large" air filters and if the large isn't good enough for you... maybe use 2 large ones? Why isn't there more of a standard? Year to year, model to model, make to make... is there some sort of achievement unlocked for creating so many subtle variations on a theme? Can I track their score somewhere?
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Warbler said:
Rocky III
Can I presume that Rocky IV is next?
TV's Frink said:
I'm guessing this led to your revival of the "Act Break" thread.
Thanks for reminding me of the last thing I had to say about the movie. I've edited the post to include that precious thought.
We watched 27 Dresses last night because my wife got it from the library. I remembered getting it from Netflix 2 years ago, but then sending it back unwatched- though I didn't remember why. After watching (somehow all of it) I now know that someone or someones must have told my wife and me, "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE PLACED IN FRONT OF THIS MOVIE!"
But we must have forgotten that advice. It's nice to see James Marsden finally get the girl (notice that he's pretty much "the other guy" in every movie he's in?) but man, this movie sucks. The dialogue is horrible, the jokes are unfunny, the acting is pretty much bad... but those things are easy to do wrong... The thing that really got to me is how unnecessarily "edgy" the whole thing is. Lots of hard PG-13 cursing, including the dreaded "mofo" bomb. Lots of "edgy sexual references. So, of course, it came to my surprise that the movie was written and directed by women. I know that my wife wants romantic comedies to be full of sailor talk and crude innuendo. (<---SARCASM)
It had the extremely predictable "and now they've broken up" moment 2/3s of the way into the movie. I turned to my wife and said, "I guess we've officially entered act 3."
Please see my revival of the Acts thread for more on that.
And I'm done talking about it.
The most 'rote' of all movie formulas, I think we can all agree, is the Romantic Comedy. I read an article somewhere that defended this, saying that women liked the comfort of knowing the formula and didn't really want any surprises or unexpected twists and turns.
At any rate, the Acts usually break down like this:
Act 1: The two romatic characters meet, often under some sort of a false pretense. The threat of the false pretense, or other force working against the couple, is also introduced, but is not a serious threat in this act.
Act 2: The couple come together, at least momentarily, and every thing is going well. The underlying threat of the false pretense being revealed culmiantes until the end of the second act, when the couple splits.
Act 3: As soon as they are broken up, you know the third act has started. Whatever the damage was that ended the 2nd act, must now be quickly resolved- possibly through a montage of some kind.
Epilogue/Act 4 - The Wedding or equivalent. Often in slow motion, or with just light piano music in place of dialogue. Roll credits.
This fits this general theme, but at least it has a happy ending:
The Door from the House to the Garage (hereafter TDftHttG (why doesn't this door have a catchy name like "Front Door" or "Garage Door"?)) stopped shutting on its own about a month ago. I've been yelling at the wife and kids ever since to try to keep it shut to avoid air conditioning the garage as well as most of Thornton and parts of Westminster. Eventually I decided I just needed to fix it, so I took a look at what kind of spring hinges were already on the door. I took one off and looked up the serial number.
It was classified as a 4" Rounded Corner Spring Hinge. Apparently there are 2 variations on "rounded corner" and this was the more roundier cornery one. So off to Home Depot I go! And they have some 4" Spring Hinges, but only square cornered ones. I think: why, oh why is it always like this? I head over to Lowes just to confirm my fears: Lowes carries the exact same 5 hinges as Home Depot, and none of them are the 4" Rounded Corner Spring Hinge that I need. BUT: The square cornered ones are about a buck and a half cheaper than the 'depot, so I buy one there. Sales attendants at neither store can tell me if one spring hinge is enough to close my door, but I decided to chance it.
At any rate, it wasn't a big deal to chisel out the corners, and the new hinge closes the door like a dream... BUT WHY IN THE WORLD IS IT SO HARD TO FIND the EXACT SAME HINGE THAT MET SOME STANDARD of COST vs FUNCTIONALITY vs AVAILABILITY when my house was built? Why is that so hard? This problem seems to be the norm when replacing parts like this.
AND what's the point in having the two largest hardware store chains have exact same inventory? I have never found something at Lowes after not finding it at Home Depot. Like a fool, I keep trying. But it does seem they have some pact to carry the exact same inventory so that "it's fair."
STARCRAFT IS JUST an ALIENS vs PREDATOR RTS!!!
miker71 said:
"No new models or sets were created for Return of the Jedi. A portion of the full-scale ship was used for a scene cut from Return of the Jedi "
I immediately took this out of context and thought it literally said: No new models or sets were created for Return of the Jedi.
I find that hard to believe!, I says to my self.
NotSafeForWork
When did the whole bold rule start?
It's sooooo hot.
Agreed. Somewhat, at least. Naked Palpatine Clones using lightsabres against Luke in DE never bothered me the way that Palpatine having one in the PT did.
But you could say "X in the EU never bothered me quite as much as Y in the PT" about almost anything, so I'm not sure that was worth being said. ;)
Frink, I assume you would be there to derail the conversation whereever possible. So, I wouldn't presume that you had seen or thought about the movie in question.
You should really go see Prestige right now. (This seems familiar... did I say this in the 'recently seen' thread too?) I mean right now. If you're in class or something, just stand up and leave and go see the Prestige.
Voice-only would probably be best to start off with, but my ORIGINLA VISION (TM) for this is to have video as well.
I've never done it, but I think you can record audio+video multiways with Skype.
And shame on you Gaffer, you've been spending all of your time thinking about MMPR instead of eagerly anticipating Inception.
Inception should be billed as "From the Writer/Director of the Prestige" since I think Inception will have more in common with that movie than his Batman work.
Today's page (93) is about the 4 second establishing shot of Yoda's house on Dagobah. The Dagobah set was also destroyed and had to be rebuilt. I never thought of it before, but it must have been relatively painful to build such a detailed set for such a short portion of the film.
Kinda makes the "digital sets" make a lot of financial sense when you are doing multiple sequels over the course of several years.
So, the wife and I are celebrating our anniversary this weekend and we'll be out seeing Inception. Since we don't see a lot of movies on opening weekend (or even in the year they're released, sadly) I figured it might be the perfect time to have the first MacGaffer Group Skype Telecon.
The people that have expressed interest in being in it, at my count, are:
MacGaffer
xhonzi
005
bkev
VFP
and probably
Frink (though I don't recall you ever actually saying "I'm interested!")
The problem might actually be that Inception is a movie you don't want to talk about. Let me rephrase that- It's probably a movie you don't want to talk about to people that haven't seen it yet. So, do you do an episode where only people who have seen the movie will want to watch it?
What other topics should we cover? I'm afraid I'm totally unequiped to cover Anime or Power Rangers, I don't see new movies in theatres very oftern, and I'm always at least 6 months behind on video games.
Also, as far as format, I listen to a lot of Podcasts and 4 man teams seem to provide the best balance. I've never done a conference call in Skype, but I believe you can do it- though the lag might increase with each participant... So I think we should try 4 people.
Thoughts? Requests?
Taft said:
You guys are hilarious. I was kidding! I should've put one of those winking smiley face things.
" Kidding" is not allowed in off-topic. Pay-pal me $20 as penance.