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Anyone else see this yet? Just got back from it and I thought it was pretty neat. Good fight scenes and the guy playing Abe seemed to fit the part pretty well.
I may be crazy, but for those of you who've seen it, was the guy at the end who I think it is? -
Any signs of gigantic robots so far?
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I just realized that Andrea, Carol, and quite possibly Dale, from The Walking Dead were in The Mist with the Punisher.
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Quote:Stelios!Originally Posted by Starflier
Only just now, while watching the movie, realized that Michael Fassbender was in 300 (Stelios). Not entirely surprising since it came out a few years before he made the big times.
Persian: A thousand nations of the Persian empire descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!
Stelios: Then we will fight in the shade
Stelios Cantos!
Oh, it's over. He's running so far away. No, he's just building up speed! -
Quote:Nah, I'm thinking more along the lines of George Carlin's bit about walling off States and dropping our more...eccentric...citizens within.Originally Posted by Nericus
Now coming to a theater near you: Kurt Russel starring as Snake Pliskin in Escape from Florida!
Think about it. We wall off Florida and drop all our non-hilarious loonies and prisoners into there. Throw in some zombies just for fun. Set up cameras everywhere. Make sure the coasts are patrolled so that the prisoners aren't building rafts to escape. -
Could we just, ya know, wall off Florida? It's not like there's much happening there besides zombies and hurricanes...
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Quote:It was season 6 I think. Basically, it was an Anthology of Interest-type episode, but with holidays.Originally Posted by Nericus
Ok, I'm having a memory error here: what episode was he waiting for the crew to turn into oil? I havent seen all of Season 6 or this new ep yet
This is Bender we're talking about. He would be in his most favorite company...himself. Doubt he would shut himself off. His head was also able to last for 1000 years in the New Mexico desert.Quote:As to hiding in the limestone caverns beneath Planet Express, I would imagine that he would simply shut down with a subroutine in place to reactivate him at a specific time. He kept coming back up from the caverns the instant after he left so I suspect he was turning himself off and waiting.
But wouldn't that Bender have ended up in the cavern and been crushed? Time travel makes my head hurt. Blanking on the specifics of that.Quote:Also, I don't think any episodes after the movies have dealt with this yet but Bender should still have the time code in his memory. Yes the scammers erased the code from him when they were done with it, but at the end Bender had to reread the code to go back and stick the code on frozen Fry. So unless he had another erasure he still has the time code. -
Quote:Backup power supply? He was able to survive for <x> million years while waiting for the crew to turn into oil and however many years he spent in the cavern beneath the Planet Express building with his swag.Originally Posted by Nericus
Quite true, but it still asks the question: if robots are powered by alcohol why would Bender have a nuclear pile?
Not to mention all the times Bender has been damaged or smashed to pieces and there is no nuclear explosion
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Quote:They did, however, make Godweiser or something like that. One of Bender's "miracles" was to reflect light onto the crops used to make his booze. He ended up setting them on fire.Originally Posted by Nericus
Also when Bender was Lost in Space the tiny life forms accessed his nuclear pile and made bombs.
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Quote:That's not exactly something that's never been used before. The episode where the robots rebel (and the Prof gets some hot, dry love with Mom) had Greeting Card stating that alcohol will be banned in the new worker's paradise. Then there was the time Bender got religion and decided that mineral oil would replace his booze consumption.Originally Posted by Lucky666
Oh come on the chick robot was against alcohol, yes you read that right the very thing the show has stated to power robots from the very start. It just felt like who ever was writing that episode had no idea about the world it was based on or the fans who watch the show.
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The only real criticism I had was the selection of VA for Bev in the first episode. I am not a fan of Wanda Sykes.
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One hour season premiere tonight at 9pm Central. Let's hope that it's better than the stumbling, IMO, of season 6.
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Quote:LV-426 could stand for "Landing Vehicle 426". Namely, the place where vehicle 426 landed, rather than a system directly. The actual planetary system for 426 is in Zeta Reticuli and 223 is in Gleise 86.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
That's the thing. We have no idea how they are naming these things. LV-something and LV-somethingElse could be on the opposite ends of the galaxy, or it could be a clerical error and they are really the same place. We have no way to know.
We can assume that the writer wants us to think it's 'Somewhere Else' since he chose to call it something else.
Oh, and while we're on the topic of assumptions, I also think it's fairly safe to assume the Engineers didn't crash-land on LV-223 (not counting that one time they got rammed by an Earth spaceship.) But hey, for all we know LV-223 could be an abandoned junkyard. If they forgot one of their own in the trunk, that'd explain why he's so pissed when we let him out. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Oliin
I don't really think that's exactly the case though. I think it'd be safer to say that critics also enjoy movies other than what the 'masses' like.
Last year is a bad example (lot of high-grossing horrible movies) but let's look at it any way. Out of the top 10 highest grossing films of the year (Harry Potter, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Twilight, Mission: Impossible, Kung Fu Panda 2, Fast Five, The Hangover part 2, The Smurfs, and Cars 2) four of them were well received critically (65 or higher on Metacritic/Rottentomatoes) and only The Smurfs had overall negative reviews. Everyone else had a mix of reviews that ended up being average. Currently Prometheus has generally positive reviews as does The Avengers, Men In Black 3, and Madagascar 3.
Critics a lot of the times seem to generally enjoy the movies that are popular, the issue is that a lot of them also really like movies that are challenging or dull or simply interesting from a film standpoint and those are usually not popular with the 'masses'.
Let's just say that I'm going to disagree and leave it at that.
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Quote:It goes to the nature of the critic system and kinda what Scythus was getting at. The stuff that the masses enjoy tends to be 180 degrees from what the critics deem as "good".Originally Posted by Oliin
That was Ebert. Or at least most famously it was Ebert. I'm not sure what that has to do with liking being bored though. Just looking through his 'Great Movies' list shows a large number of action and comedy films. Sure he likes his share of dull 'artsy' films (and I do too to be honest), but he also seems relatively fair towards 'mindless' action movies too.
He's been pretty fair towards film even though I disagree with him a lot of the times. I'll just ignore anything he says regarding video games since as you mentioned he obviously doesn't know much about them. -
Quote:I would settle for a powerset respec. I've got a scrapper I made back in Issue 2 that would be much better as a BS/Shield rather than the BS/Inv he currently is, simply for thematic reasons. I don't want to delete him, since he's got all those Anniversary badges and whatnot.Originally Posted by Hqnk
*TWITCH*
*TWITCH*
I think I'll just throw my wallet at you so-n-so's. This is what I've been waiting for!
EDIT: Okay,one of the things I've been waiting for.
The ultimate thing I'm waiting for is a for-pay AT respec. If you're reading DEV's I am willing to give you monies for this. I tried it on a competitor's and OMG...
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Quote:Just look at Ebert (? one of those critics anyways) that said video games can't be "art", despite knowing next to nothing about the medium.Originally Posted by Scythus
And yet I've seen critics praise the "unengaging" films and most of them even win Oscars for Best Picture*, and I'm like "wut?" Clearly critics and the Academy enjoy being bored to death.
*Mind you, I'm not saying all Best Picture Oscar winners are "unengaging," but a good 80% percent usually wind up to be. -
Quote:Exactly.Originally Posted by Scythus
Well, for me, fun is probably the most important aspect of an entertainment medium. For example, a movie could be the "best," most "artsy" film ever, lauded for its camera shots and dialogue, etc. etc., but if I feel like I'm about to doze off while watching it, it's not a good film in my opinion.
In cases like that, I think people try to call the movie a "film" and "good" so that they appear to be more intellectual than the plebian masses that enjoy something like AvP or Shaun of the Dead. Whenever I'm tricked into one of those arthouse snobbery movies, I find myself wanting to yell, "Someone throw a pie or something!".
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Quote:Well, if they had toned down the lens flares to sub-Liefield levels, the Star Trek movie might've been tolerable...Originally Posted by Oliin
Oddly I significantly disliked the recent Star Trek movie in spite of its being very well-done. It just seemed a mass of action beats thinly strung together with small bits of plot ... in other words very much a modern action flick. Unfortunately for me that's not what I generally go to a Star Trek film.
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Quote:Well...the Engineer that was alive didn't exactly seem like he wanted to sit down and have a cup of tea with the crew of the Prometheus. His first instinct is pretty much, "EXTERMINATE!" with little regards to anything else.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
But, as you point out, we only have character assumption. We don't know if they actually want to destroy mankind. That assumption was based on, well, what Dr. Shaw bases all of her assumptions on: Nothing.
Now, maybe he was just grumpy from a 2000 year snooze and needed to go to the bathroom, but these little hairless apes are running around his feet and trying to talk to him. Heck, I know I would be a little grumpy, but not to that extent.
Or maybe it was a religious thing, them not showing proper deferential treatment. Maybe David called his mom something...bad. We'll never know, but the first response is a killer. -
Throw in some Orion Slave Girl lap candy with drink trays and pizza and you got yourself a deal!
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Quote:Took me about 5 minutes. I'm not a rabid fan of the universe, but I can see how they could potentially tie everything together with minimal discontinuities.Originally Posted by Scythus
See? I knew someone out there was creative enough to come up with something.
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Quote:I have got to add "Foot-Type Leg Ending " to my everyday phrase usage.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
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Quote:There's two companies, Weyland Corp (Peter's) and Weyland Industries (Charles'). Charles died in '04 and Peter was born in 1990. It is possible that Peter is Charles' son (maybe born on the wrong side of the sheets, maybe not). The boy starts his own company, possibly to fulfill some item in Charles' will. If his was successful, the two companies merge at some point in the future.Originally Posted by Scythus
It's true.
Nevertheless, I'm sure some obsessed AVP fan is feverishly working on a way to explain the Peter Weyland vs. Charles Weyland and associated timeline conflicts.
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Quote:Don't lie...you're Adam Warren, aren't you?Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I'd rate the first movie about as memorable as
I just got Empowered Volume 7 and there's a reference to this movie in it. I've never heard of MegaForce before you posted it and now there's two.