BafflingBeerMan
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Quote:IronWorks is a subdivision of Stark IndustriesOriginally Posted by Exodus_V
No Stark Industries or Man cards? There are some great cards on that list!
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Quote:That's my boss's.Originally Posted by Terwilliger
Yours is middle-right, correct?
I made the unfortunate mistake of ordering my business cards after a day of product testing.
Incidentally, I now use the cards as an icebreaker at my AA meetings. -
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Quote:This is Lost, where everyone thinks something or someone matters, is vital to the story, about to reveal a secret, until the show tells you it doesn't!Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I think part of what goes with a cheapshot defeat is that you'd actually expect something more for the character, like they deserved a more respectable beating/death, in which case I think Widmore qualifies but the others don't really matter.
Plus, Arzt/Daniel Roebuck was a red herring in Season 1, in that there was a rumor that the show was introducing a new character who would have a major impact on Season 2 at the end of the first season, and here comes Arzt. Of course, it was really Ana Lucia/Michelle Rodriguez and she was only seen for like a minute in the finale
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Rylas,
I know you are looking for music recommendations. Well, I just came across this on the net (and immediately found out that the S6 soundtrack is coming out next week!):
The orchestral piece that played over the final scene of Lost
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Quote:You say cheapest, I say funniest!Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
If you're going to bring up Lost, surely Artz had the cheapest death ever.
"Dude, you got a little Arzt on you..."
Yeah, Widmore's death was cheap, but Lost has always given its secondary characters cheap (and sometimes hysterical) deaths: Widmore, Arzt, Naomi, Island Tina Fey, Cesar... -
I don't think he is saying that games shouldn't evolve and implement new features, but rather, whatever the game is viewed as when it first launches, that will, regretably, be the thing that most critics and gamers not already playing will see the game as.
And that makes sense. Y'know, with the rule of first impressions and all. -
J. Jonah Jameson might be my favorite side character (aka, normal character) in an animated superhero show ever, beating out Alfred from B:TAS.
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Quote:I read that there was supposed to be a longer final fight sequence, but Tarantino changed it for some reason.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Also, how about Bill from Kill Bill?
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Quote:Like I said, it is an emotional return and the movie was driving to that point...but still...shotgun blast out of nowhere!Originally Posted by Balanced
I have to disagree on this one. In my view, the whole movie was driving toward that point, and his appearance at the crucial moment tied it all together. In one sense, it looks like a cheap shot; in another, it's the natural conclusion to a fight that started decades before. On the whole, I consider it a rather clever and interesting fight scene in addition to a solid emotional scene.
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When you get to "Across The Sea," watch it with commentary on. I haven't had the chance to yet, but it is done by Damon and Carlton, and, according to EW, they discuss some of the mysteries and give vague answers (that may or may not be canonical. But I would guess they are "semi-canonical").
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Just rewatched the series finale. Still got choked up with the reunions/epiphanies.
Have a new theory: when MiB went into the Light and emerged as Smokey, part of him merged with the Island and gained some mystical powers. That would explain some of the bad weather that accompanied bad moments on the Island (like during the final confrontation between Flocke and Jack) and some of the visions. -
Hey, you got Terminator in my Matrix!
Hey, you got Matrix in my Terminator! -
BACK AWAY FROM THAT THING YOU SENT US!
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Bwahahaha, go Team Coco!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Terwilliger
The crest! THE CREST!
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Dennis Quaid taking out the serial killer in the "future"/present in the movie "Frequency".
Yes, it was an emotional scene, but I hate it when the big bad is defeated by a character who, up until that point, was off-screen. -
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I'll TAKE THE CASE!
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Portal Corp has discovered another world, one even more evil that Praetoria....
WAYNE'S WORLD!
Party time, excellent!
EXTREME CLOSEUP...OF DEATH! -
Quote:And various exes say that they want to control Ramona's love life. Matthew Patel's email even implied as such and that's what got Scott in trouble in the first place, he just skimmed it. It is an analogy to real life where sometimes your new significant other's past shades the current relationship.Originally Posted by Mandu
Actually at the confrontation with Gideon it is explained why Scott is fighting the evil exes.
Ramona is literally the girl of Scott's dreams. We see that. That's why he feels moved to love her.Quote:Originally Posted by Ironik
By contrast, Scott Pilgrim doesn't even have that. There's no undercurrent to the film: it's all surface, no depth. Scott has to defeat Ramona's evil exxes in order to date her. There's nothing to be learned from that for Scott or for the audience. That's just how it is. There's no reason given for anything else that happens, either. Why is Scott in love with Ramona? One can see why he's attracted to her, but *love*? Why is Ramona willing to date Scott? Why are all the other girls so hung up on him? There's nothing intrinsically interesting or compelling about him, because the story doesn't offer any reasons.
Also, there is character development/"deepness" to the story, though it is a little glossed over. The whole final fight with Gideon, when Scott realizes he needs to fight for himself, and Scott subsequently apologizing to Kim, along with Ramona saying earlier that Scott will just end up another evil ex, is pointing out that Scott was a jerk in his previous relationships. But Ramona and fighting through her skeletons in the closet shed light upon his own past and forced Scott to become a better man (earning the power of self-respect). What the audience and Scott are learning through those fights is that everyone has baggage, but you can't avoid it. It is symbolic.
Scott isn't Ramona's Knight in Shining Armor in the beginning, but at the end, he has matured enough to be different from her previous relationship in that he recognizes his own faults and even before that Ramona considers that Scott is "nice" (her words). If you remember her stories of the previous exes, she and them was always doing something violent or disrespectful (Matt and her beat up jocks, The Vegan punched a hole in the Moon for her, Gideon completely ignored her). Except for the actually fighting of the exes, Scott and Ramona, together, are "normal." That's what attracts Ramona and when Scott reveals his cheating ways to her and Knives, that's what threatens their relationship in the climax. But Self-Respect Scott apologizes, something that I am sure the Evil Exes would never do.
As far as why Scott would be attractive to women? Well, the women are young, he's confidant, he's in a band...I would say the same reason why young women are attracted to those sorts of guys in real life are why they are attracted to Scott. Before things turn sour with Knives, we see Scott acting charming with her, playing games and introducing her to music. Maybe they just don't know any better. I mean, none of the characters are exactly wizened old sages. It's youth. -
The poor box office isn't going to retroactively prevent Scott Pilgrim from being made. And since it doesn't need any sequels, it won't prevent any future big screen Pilgrim movies from being made.
And Hollywood will continue to go to the geek well. -
Quote:I will have to reread the comics at some point, but I thought he was called Orpheus at certain points, because while I knew Morpheus was the name of a sleep god from reading the philosophy behind The Matrix, I found it weird that Dream was being called Orpheus in the comic.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I think you mean Morpheus.
Looking at some cursory info, there was a spinoff comic with a son (Daniel?) of Dream in which the son was called Orpheus. But I never read that. -
Quote:Orpheus was an alternate name for Dream in the comics. I felt like being formal about itOriginally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
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Yes, but that post was clearly made during the time when Orpheus was trapped in the basement of Roderick Burgess and hence, my perception was out of whack.
