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You guys need a Sherlock thread...

I liked 13th Floor quite a bit.  I remember seeing the trailers and thinking it looked inferior to, and on the coat tails of, The Matrix, which is one of my favourite movies...  But when I got around to seeing it, I actually quite liked it.  I can't recall it perfectly since it's been years, but I don't remember thinking that the storytelling was totally overt or that it was dumbed down.

Maybe I'll have to give it a spin again.

By the way, what did you think of the final 2 seconds of the movie.  I thought it was particularly awesome, but I'm not sure if everyone has the same interpretation as I do.

I feel like Burnout is sort of a "Desert Island" game.  Or, if you could only afford one game, then BP would be a great buy.  As is, I always feel compelled to play games that I can "finish" when I get some time.  I've very much enjoyed the time I've spent on Paradise Island...  But when I get an hour, and I can choose between finishing a game I've been playing, or tooling around in BP for a little bit... I almost never choose BP.

If Heavy Rain is too much like Indigo Prophecy (Farenheit) then I'd probably skip it.  I know a lot of people love love loved Indigo Prophecy, and they were the most excited for Heavy Rain (loose sequel)... But I didn't really care for IP...

I came up with what I think is the perfect analogy for the six seasons of Lost.

It's the plot of one episode that's in just about every family/teen based sitcom ever... You remember the one. That one episode where <the kid> wants the popular kid to come to his birthday party, so he lies and says that <insert cool band name here> will be at his birthday party... and the popular kid believes him and is excited to come to the party, and then the whole school hears about the <cool band>. The day of the birthday party comes up and <the kid> starts to freak out, because everyone will know he's a liar. Instead, he gets his older brother's garage band to make an appearance and maybe people will be pretty happy with that... And then the birthday party happens and <cool band> is nowhere to be seen. Everyone gets upset and goes from thinking that <the kid> is the coolest person at school to thinking that they are the most full of crap person at school.

That is what the show Lost now is to me.

Get 2.

bkev said:

 

I never liked this one.  Saw it twice in theaters,

 lol.

Sorry, bkev.  Something about that really made me laugh.

She is killed off like 20 years afterward, right?  I mean, all of the characters have to die sometime.

Not that I've read any of that storyline.

There might be some hate for the prequels here on this site somewhere... maybe... but you'd have to look pretty hard for it.  It's very "between the lines" if you will...

I too had been thinking of what a Nolan Riddler would be like.  To fit in the Nolan universe, I thought that perhaps E. Nigma could be a CSI Rock Star kind of guy.  A guy who has been the king of his own little CSI-Gotham and he starts to get really jealous of the public acclaim that Batman gets for what he considers to "kindergarten sluething."  To prove that Batman couldn't solve some of the tough cases he's had to solve, he would go back through his files and find the hardest ones, and then recreate them.  At first, probably not by taking the lives of any new people... but as Batman IS able to solve the crimes, the Riddler escalates the complexity of the mysteries he expects Batman to solve.

Something like that.  I'm not sure of the definitive origin of the Riddler, but I thought this one was probably "close enough" for a translation into the Nolan 'verse.

At the risk of Johnny Depp being in everything, I heard once that he was being looked at to play the Riddler and I thought he would fit the Nolan'verse pretty well.

Han Only Shoots, is how I prefer to say it.

I'm more thinking along the lines of this, which is a pretty loose interp:

Backwater Planet that hasn't been involved in the war.  Obi-Wan is hiding out on it, along with several other Jedi who just want to stay uninvolved.  Then the war comes to the planet somehow.  Maybe the enemy is setting up a canon or something on the surface, and they've started to somehow threaten the peace of the locals.  Anakin, perhaps a recon pilot in the Republic Navy, is shot down, and then finds out what the enemy is doing.  He enlists the help of Obi-Wan, who is at first slow to react, but then he and the other 6 Jedi reluctantly get dragged into the conflict.  During the movie, Anakin and Obi-Wan form a bond so that when Anakin leaves at the end to return and report, Obi-Wan and maybe a few of the other Jedi go too...

Or not.  I actually have an outline that I should post on here sometime... (maybe if this forum ever takes off) and that's not in it at all.  But the outline I have is all from scratch, and I've been locked in on the ideas in for a long time... I was trying to think of completely new angles to look at an Episode 1 and this was one of them.

You mean, watching several versions/sequels of the Magnificent Seven isn't good enough?  ;)

So... Panaka's going to lay a trap for the Traitor Olie...  Should he:

A) Get Trap Master Ackbars help in laying it?

or

B) Have it all set up and Olie about to walk into it, only to have Ackbar detect it and warn him off at the last possible second?

Yea, verily.

~or~

Is that what ye thought? 

When did 'ye' become shorthand for 'yes'?  Is three letters too hard?  And, if ye, then why can't he just use 'y' as shorthand for 'yes'?

I'm pretty sure 'meh' is in Panaka's vocabulary, and within his character.  Or were you already counting him?

I think Yoda greatly added to the Star Wars universe.  I have a friend, though, that disagrees...  She thinks that Yoda (in ESB and onward) is the most ridiculous facet of the series.

Sluggo said:

That new actress for Loraine in BTTF:2.  That was impossible to take the rest of the franchise seriously after that fiasco.

Erm... What?  Upside-down George was played by a different actor, but Lorraine was played by Lea Thompson, same as parts 1 & 3.  Her breasts in the Biff'85 were definitely from a different actress...  but that's another story altogether.

vote_for_palpatine said:

Here are some high(low)lights from the Fridge Brilliance page:

I just noticed something about the titles of the Star Wars films. Compare:

• The Phantom Menace - A New Hope, both refer to a person of importance.

 I'm still of the persuasion that, should a movie entitled The Phantom Menace actually exist, that the "Menace" in question does not refer to a 'person' so much as a 'threat.'  The 'threat of invasion/occupation' to Naboo was the fake threat ~or~ Phantom Menace that set events into motion for a much more serious threat to the Galaxy to take place.  Sort or like how some conspiratists think the Bush administration engineered 9-11 to get the political power to go to war in the Middle East.

Or, in the words of a very wise fish/man, It's a Trap!

I just have a wealth of knowledge of a lot of stuff... it's not like I specialize in... that.

Agreed.  (Wow!  It's really nice talking to you outside of the Politics forum!  ;)  )

I used to think as you do, Warbler.  But I think the amount of damage Jar-Jar did or could do to Star Wars is miniscule compared to the amount of damage Anakin, Emperor Palpatine, and Yoda could and did to it.

I'm pretty sure they're bananas.  Does that change anything?

What, we're not getting little arrows telling us who is who in that animated GIF?

Billy Dee- lookin' smooth as ever!

Before the 'revelation' that Leia was his sister- I think this, Boost, is a critical reason why Luke ends up on the 3rd side of the Han-Leia-Luke love triangle.  Sure, Han and Leia had great love/hate chemistry, but Luke and Leia were both leaders.  She was a political leader/ruler on Alderaan and then again in the Rebellion.  Luke was a war hero, a powerful Jedi, and a true believer in the Rebellion.  But he was also 'unavailable'.  His destiny (through the end of RotJ, at the least) was all-consuming and left him unavailable for much of a private life.  On the other Han, (see what I did there?) Han was sort of a "nobody" with a fast car and hot hands.  He was much more available and that can trump everything else.

After RotJ, especially if Luke decides to run some sort of Academy for most of his life, I think he'd definitely want and have the oportunity to settle down.  And, if she's capable, they can go off on adventures together.  The part of Survivor's Quest that I liked and can remember was just that: a Mr. and Mrs. Skywalker Mystery Adventure.

Wait, I thought you said I came up with it?