It's looking like I at least got 2nd place! Which is higher than I wanted when the contest is "How Well Do You Know TPM?"
I also saw my own movies!
Iron Man 2 - Pretty fun! I think I liked it as well as the first, though I admit it could have been more awesome. I think my favourite bit in the first was when he flew over to the Middle East and laid down some smack. They talk a lot about how Iron Man protects the populace general and how he's "privatized world peace" but you don't really get to see it.
Where the Wild Things Are - Weird. Part of me liked this movie (the dirt clod scene was awesome) and the other part sighed a general 'meh.' I had hopes I think that this movie didn't live up to.
Lovely Bones - My sister said she really liked Stanley Tucci in this movie. I think my sister needs help. It did two things for me: made me think about how much better I need to be in teaching my young kids how to stay safe... and think about how great Heaven is, even for people that don't deserve to die.
Okay, I think that's it.
Warbler said:
I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie. I didn't like it that much. It just didn't seem like the Holmes I know and love from the books. Well, atleast it was better than that horrible USA movie a few years ago that tried to depict Holmes as a ladies man. That was so bad, I had to stop watching it. Sadly, IMHO, no one has ever done truly accurate version of Holmes. The early Jeremy Brett years were about the closest anyone got, they were still a bit off(imho).
So much of what you and I think of as Sherlock Holmes is not actually in the novels and short stories. The deerstalker, etc. are additions to the character that Sir Arthur had nothing to do with... and I think we, as modern readers, have a hard time forgetting all of those things when we sit down to read the original books... so we sort of think they're always in there.
i.e. The book might say, "Holmes and Watson walk down the street." And in our minds eye, we see the classicly dressed Holmes walking down that street. Or it might say, "Holmes removed his hat." Sir Arthur might have meant a top-hat, or a bowler, or whatever his minds eye would have seen... but in our mind it is only the deerstalker- despite the fact that that was never his intention...
But on the other hand... I didn't really care for it myself. I was looking forward to it, but it simply failed to engage me. My wife asked, "What didn't you like about it?" and I couldn't really come up with anything in particular. It was an enjoyable way to pass a couple hours, but I didn't rush out and buy a T-shirt. It left me more "neutral" than anything. I might have enjoyed it more had it been an original IP as opposed to claiming it was Sherlock Holmes.
My wife later quoted me as "having hated it." Ah, well...
My favourite "Sherlock Holmes" movie is Zero Effect. Which I saw 3 or 4 times before I realized it was a Holmes movie.
I did not!
sean wookie said:
I like guns (pretty much the result of playing video games).
Do you watch Chuck? An episode in the past couple of weeks had Morgan at the firing range- assuming he'd be awesome due to all of the hours he'd logged in Call of Duty. First squeeze of the trigger and the gun flies right out of his hands.
Classic.
In other news: I'm a BIG believer in gun rights, and somewhat less so in actually excercising that right personally. However, my wife has been convincing me that we need to buy one before it's any harder to get one legally... Our "gun friend" suggested that for home defense (our desired application)- a shotgun is really best. It's scary, it doesn't require good aim...
What do you all think about that?
Boost said:
3. Burn the world.
Burn the world?!?? But... it's yours now. I mean... I guess burn parts of it you don't like... but the whole world???
Sluggo said:
Bwhahahah!
Fink is spending too much time on the TMZ. Octomom may be a good choice to start repopulating the earth, but all Chuck Norris is good for is giving Fink roundhouse kicks to the head. I'd pay to see that.
So, it looks like our three survivors are: Frink, Sluggo and Chuck Norris. Frink realizes that there is no woman around with which to repopulate the Earth and sinks into some kind of depression. Then Sluggo robs a bank and pays Chuck $5 per roundhouse kick to Frink's head.
It's good to be Sluggo, I guess.
Frink:
Wait, why is it ok for TheBoost and Warb to bring family but not me? I'm stuck with Chuck and Octo?
I would leverage the same questions to them about brining 2 family members. I mean, you want at least a little variation in the gene pool, right?
Yes, tell us!
I get the sense that HotRod dumped his fifth of scotch on his head, slicked back his hair and straightened his mustache before he sauntered up to the ladies there..
What's a 'sizzler' version? I'm still ticked my softcover version is missing 20ish pages (or whatever) from the hardcover.
TV's Frink said:
I'm not sure why I'm arguing the counter-point, because I love the OT.
But everyone loves the OT? The few that love the PT loved the OT first? I don't buy it.
But the question is: are there enough of these people that are motivated enough to get the OT discs on ebay so that you can buy them?
There might be a few of these people around, but I think the argument is that there are more people who would like the OT only...
TV's Frink said:
Er...you guys think there isn't anyone who would buy the 6-movie boxset and sell the OT? There's more than one reason to show your kid the OT before the PT (if you are showing them the PT at all, obviously).
To be clear here, I'm not defending these people. I just think they exist.
Would they be in their right minds to do this? I think that was part of 005's question.
Would you reliably be able to find enough of these people on Ebay, craigslist, and through rummage sales and used book stores that you could pick up just the OT though it was released exclusively in a 6 movie set?
TV's Frink said:
Well, fine.
1) Wife and daughter. What the hell would I do with a second daughter, however? Yikes.
I understand the emotional attachment to your family, and for the future of the human race... it's good to see a woman capable of childbaring on your list. Do you think you wouldn't need any other help to provide for your family in this brave new world? I mean, is your infant daughter a better choice for all of humanity rather than another strong adult you can depend on to ward off the possible demon-zombie hoard?
3) Quit my job.
Obviously. Then what? (And really, to whom would you submit your resignation? Isn't it more likely that your job had quit you? (In Mother Russia, the IRON PUMPS YOU!))
005 meant: What person would purchase a boxset of all six films, and then resell the OT because all they wanted was the PT?
The Market for just the OT exists, but probably not one for just the PT.
Okay, here it goes...
Scientist guy has a fiance. They are mugged- she is killed. He spends the next several years (decade?) inventing a time machine so he can go back and change it. He builds it, he goes back. He finds her before the mugging and takes her away from the park where it happens. After he distracts her for a while, he decides the mugging has been averted so he prepares to leave and go back to his own time. He walks away, and she gets run over by a run away cart and is crushed to death. He realizes that he can change the circumstances, but not the outcome of her death. (Movie makers potentially should have had one more attempt at doing this (or a montage!) because I doubt he would have concluded this without further attempts) He doesn't know WHY he can't change the past- simply he knows that he can't. He decides that maybe they know in the future why you can't change the past... so he goes forward in time and finds the height of society and scientific understanding. They don't know so he gets in the timemachine and ends up a quadrillion years in the future with the Morlocks and the Eloi. This is the part of the movie that sucks, IMHO. He eventually talks to the leader of the Morlocks who has stolen the time machine and wants to use it for AWESOME (I mean EVIL). He tells the timetraveler why he couldn't change the past:
Actually you can change the past. BUT you can only change it in ways that don't create paradoxes. Since the time traveler was only ever motivated to invent time travel to avert the death of his fiance... that event MUST ALWAYS occur or else he wouldn't have created the time machine with which he changes time.
As in Warbler's Terminator example... if Skynet invented Time Travel with the sole purpose of undoing its defeat at the hands of the adult John Connor, their change to the timestream (killing Connor) would create a new timeline where they aren't defeated and therefore have no reason to invent time travel. Therefore it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented, and they don't change time so they are defeated by Connor so they do create time travel, so they aren't defeated by Connor, so they have no reason to invent time travel, so it is not invented...
MY HEAD ASPLODE!
So, in conclusion, the one thing you really want to change in the past is the one thing you can't change. Really, you can probably only change things by accident. So, going back to the past sort of sucks.
OR
B. Invent a time machine now so you'll have it BEFORE you need it.
I shall go with B. See you in a few thousand years, suckers!
That picture always gets me... HOW DOES HE DO IT?!?!?!?
Alright, I fixed my typo... now you answer the question, dang it!
So… here’re the questions. You are one of three of the last men/women on Earth.
1. What two companions would you choose, assuming you could, to be stuck with?
2. What two companions would fate stick you with, assuming you couldn't choose.
3. If you went to bed tonight and woke up tomorrow to find yourself in this condition… what would you do?
I never knew the world you're talking about Boost. All of my friends, cousins and whatnot were always Star Wars and, to some degree, Sci Fi fans.
My garage door opener is apparently opening my neighbours garage at the same time it's closing mine.
Step 1: They're both closed.
Step 2: I use the wired opener in the garage to open just my door.
Step 3: I get in the car and pull out of my driveway, pressing my wireless opener to close my door.
Step 4: My door closes. His door goes up.
Step 5: This happens two days in a row, so I start to get suspicious.
Step 6: I sit in front of our houses realizing that there's no way to get both of our doors shut without getting out of my car.
Step 7: I give up and go to work.
I wonder if his opens my door or what the deal is.
I'm afraid Sunday nights are totally dead for me, for always.
But feel free to play without me... I'll just have to find Fridays or Saturdays where my wife doesn't expect me to pay attention to her. :) Or maybe I have to get her to play like yours does, 005. I wonder if that dramamine is still good...
I'm confused why the lurkers aren't joining in bulk with name opportunities like this!
Yes... pick it up so we can play firefight... after we play some L4D2 sometime...
Warbler said:
xhonzi said:
Warbler said:
two words: time travel.
Time Travel is awesome.
I suppose it can be, but its always screwed up. Take Terminator for example. The whole plot of the is thing is that the machines in the future are beaten. Their only chance to win is to send a machine back through time and prevent the resistance leader from being born(or in 2, killing him as a kid). If the machine had been successful, John Connor wouldn't become the leader of the resistance. If he hadn't, the machines wouldn't know to send a machine back in time kill him(or his mother). see the problem? This type of paradox happens with time travel all the time.
Have you seen the 2001 version of The Time Machine? They offer an interesting solution to that problem. The movie itself is kind of 'meh', but I found their time travel science to be good.
Hmm... sounds like you're not trying hard enough. What's wrong, aren't you dating geeks that know how special you are?
Found some:
http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Foss-Chris/dp/9063325711/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198750341&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Foss-Chris/dp/9063325711/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198750341&sr=1-2