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Quote:As someone who makes his own beer, I'd love to find a recipe for a good Coffee Stout.Originally Posted by Frostbiter
Buzz Beer! I miss the Drew Carey Show.
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Quote:I'm waiting for them to unearth some of Picasso's work in about 8000 years.Originally Posted by Warkupo
Wait until they find my stick drawings in 1,000 years.
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Quote:And if you can't trust the scientific analysis of the son of an actor with absolutely no background in anthropology whatsoever, WHO CAN YOU TRUST?Originally Posted by Ironblade
How can you all be so dismissive? Look at this quote from the article:
"I certify that this monument presents no characteristics of Maya, Nahuatl, Olmec or any other pre-Hispanic civilization," he wrote. "It was created by an extraordinary and superior civilization with awesome knowledge of which there is no record of existence on this planet."
The dude CERTIFIES it! It MUST be true!
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Quote:That's probably my favorite Muppet Show clip that didn't involve Statler & Waldorf.Originally Posted by Attercap
Personally, I just wish he'd make a return performance with Angus McGonagle.
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Quote:It's like all those cave drawings that anthropologists suggest were ways of ancient man trying to tell their histories, or whatever. How do we know the kids didn't doodle those for fun?Originally Posted by MentalMaden
It's funny how they make the argument that these ancient carvings don't have native features, yet nobody ever considers they may have just been really bad artists. Give me crude 3000 AD tools and I'd make you think we'd been invaded by ameobas.
In millions of years, after our civilization has been scoured from the planet and some other sentient lifeform evolves, I wonder what they'll think when they find any of our cultural art and gaze upon it with their 7 eyes. -
Quote:Because clearly humans didn't look like large pieces of carved rock. Duh!Originally Posted by Frostbiter
I fail to see how a 7000 year old rock carved with human features is proof of aliens.
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Quote:It also tastes way better than Diet Pepsi. Do I feel more manly for drinking it? Not really.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Yes... and dumb.
Also, Pepsi Max was a tad more subtle about it, but it was clear that it was marketing a Diet soda to dudes and not women.
Pepsi MAX > Diet Pepsi
Coke Zero > Diet Coke
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Quote:Yeah, there would have been blood if that hadn't been #1.Originally Posted by 8_Ball
*Goes right to #1 because if it isn't what I think it is there will be hell to pay*
Yep...this list is alright
Have to agree with the OP in switching #4 and 5...Superfriends might have paved the way, but JLI was amazing.
Glad "The Tick" made it on there. If only they could ever release The Tick vs. Season 3 on DVD.
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Quote:Higher pitched and too Joisey.Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
I believe he's said it before.
But they can find a facsimile. Whoever does Harley Quinn in Arkahm City is close enough to Arleen Sorkin that it works out just fine (even if she is slightly higher-pitched, which I didn't think possible).
I'm sure I'll get over it, but it was kind of jarring in that first scene with Harley. -
No. If I'm going to go down, I'm taking everyone with me.
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Quote:Newsflash: "Europe" is actually made up of many different countries, all of which have their own varying and different laws regarding the giving away of prizes. Some of these laws are far more restrictive than others.Originally Posted by Jagged
Except its not even an American company and has offices in Korea, Japan and England. If its capable of running competitions in America in can run them in Europe.
They should also avoid any competition that requires you be a member of BookFace.
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Without Jobs, Pixar Animation would not be what it is today.
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Quote:It'd be even better if they sparkled in sunlight.Originally Posted by Lothic
Not only are they not in a parallel universe but we'll probably learn there's some secret way for people to go -both- ways through the portal. That's probably why Commander Taylor needs the "meteoric iron" from the Sixers because it'll be used to build the portal machinery on the Terra Nova side of the portal.
I loved how we saw that touching scene with his 2149 girlfriend and how he was all upset he would never see her again then 10 minutes later (almost literally in real time) we see him getting "involved" with a new girl in Terra Nova. I guess the only thing that doesn't make it totally laughable is that I suppose today's typical teen-aged boy only has about a 3 second attention span anyway.
The extra special funny thing about this nauseating teen angst is that we already know that in about 4 or 5 more episodes we'll find out his old girlfriend won the Terra Nova lottery and ends up there to be the awkward third member of teen love triangle. God the idea of it just makes my stomach turn.
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Quote:That's what I got from it, too. They sent a probe through the rift equipped with a beacon and a chronometer. If it landed in the past, on Earth, they would know where it leads to and how far back it goes.Originally Posted by Aquila_NA
Yes
Also, as to the ELE that killed the Dinos: They somehow (because their probe couldn't be located?) decided that the rift actually went to a parallel time-line. So no "step on a bug, kill your mother" shenanigans were possible.
The probe was never found on Earth so it has to be an alternate reality/timeline/dimension or something. -
My initial thought when I saw promos for this series was, "Why would anyone be dumb enough to go back in time to create a new society to a point before everything bigger than a house cat would be wiped out by an asteroid?"
But I'm glad they answered that convincingly enough.
The Good:
--Dinosaurs!
--That dude from Avatar was a good bit of casting.
--Since the portal is still open there's no limit to the number of red shirts they can send through to become Dinosaur Chow.
--The Probe (see above).
The Bad:
--Dinosaur chows down on kid's leg, and it seems to be mostly okay after they rescue him.
--"Let's throw 200 subplots and mysteries out there in the first two hours and see what sticks!" Don't writers remember the art of building a mystery slowly? "Lost" actually managed to get this right, even if they didn't answer half the questions the series eventually posed.
--The giant centipede scene was kind of dumb.
--Girl runs through dinosaur-infested woods, gets attacked, but somehow makes it.
The Ugly:
--The giant centipede.
--The old "we ruined the earth" cliche. -
It's heartening to see a show about a philandering starship captain could be so beloved and successful over the years.
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Maybe the second one can be good. Don't get me wrong...it wasn't a horrible movie and I'm glad I watched it, but for all the star power and the attempt to make an 80s-style action movie, there were just no memorable lines in the whole movie.
Jet Li was awesome (he typically is) but the whole subplot (and the ending) with Dolph Lundgren's character really drove a stake into this movie for me.
Yes, it delivered on the 'splosions and violence, which I was okay with. It just needed something more to make it memorable. -
The Saint of Killers survived a nuclear blast in the pages of "Preacher," towards the end of the "War In the Sun" story arc. His comment: "Not enough gun."
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Quote:That was sadly missing from the list and was far funnier than many of the shows on the list.Originally Posted by Rainbow Avenger
If it wasn't "WKRP in Cincinnati" it was wrong. -
Quote:I didn't really care for Mars Attacks!, but I would not have included it on this list. A lot of Burton's movies tend to bug me as he tends to not focus on story and just works on designing something weird. I saw what he was going for with Mars Attacks! and just didn't care. "Big Fish" stands out to me because he had to actually keep half the movie grounded in reality, but still had the areas of the film where he could stretch his creativity (and pulled it off brilliantly).Originally Posted by Lothic
I wasn't really trying to suggest that Mars Attacks! was as good or better than something like Ghostbusters or Bettlejuice. But I also don't consider it anywhere near bad enough to be a canidate for this "worst movie" thread either.
Mars Attacks! was clearly a Sci-Fi parody with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. I don't even really consider it to be in the same class as something like Ghostbusters and wouldn't have really compared the two, but for the type of spoof movie it was I thought it was fairly entertaining. *shrugs*
Now, if you want a Burton movie that probably deserves to be on this list, I'd say "Planet of the Apes" belongs. -
Quote:Sacrilege! Hudson was the best character in the movie.Originally Posted by Chairman Moth
I'd probably add another vote for Aliens 3 for this thread had I seen it all the way through. I remember sitting and watching it for 20 minutes on TV and thinking the whole time that it just had to be a straight-to-video release.
Staying on topic of the Alien franchise , was I the only one a little put off by Bill Paxton's performance in Aliens? The lines "Game Over, Man!" and "It's a Bug hunt!" were better uttered by Tom Servo and Crow on the "Manos the Hands of Fate" episode of MST3K.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie, but I was SO glad when his character was killed off.
True movie fact: Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien in his movie career.
Also, without that performance, Sam Rockwell would have had nothing to channel when he filmed Galaxy Quest. -
Recent:
Thor: Simonson Omnibus
Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
The Strain, by Guillermo del Toro
Current:
Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin
Kind of anxious to get back into some Pratchett Discworld stuff, but might finish out the first four volumes of "A Song of Ice and Fire" first. -
Quote:I think in 5 years you'd be more likely to see some sort of military application of this. Consumer-level technology would come afterwards.Originally Posted by Lothic
I never assumed we could run down to Best Buy and buy a pair of these tomorrow.
But I'd be surprised if it takes more than say 5 years before some version of these become retail-level technology. -
Quote:I used to really like "The Untouchables," but upon a more recent viewing it's a movie that has aged very poorly. This is rather unusual for a period piece. There are parts of it I still enjoy (the train station scene), but as a whole it doesn't work all that well for me any more. I don't think I could put it on a "worst" list, though.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Beyond what I already said about the movie, you could say my biggest gripe with the film was that they set out to tell a story about a certain era, but apparently didn't realize they were allowed to make the movie in a contemporary style, aside from the violence. Therefore, it was more like watching a caricature of the story due to the bad dialogue, subpar performances, and directing style. Again, besides the violence, you could probably watch that movie in black and white and think the actors jumped into a time machine to make this film, and there's a reason people starting making movies differently.
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Quote:That was what I got out of it, as well. And I do consider Scientology L. Ron Hubbard's greatest work of science fiction.Originally Posted by Local_Man
My understanding was that it was a Travolta vanity project due to his devotion to the Scientology "church." The book, oddly enough, was actually a pretty entertaining (if somewhat silly) read -- rather simplistic and very similar the the kind of "pulp" fiction popular when L. Ron Hubbard first became known as an adventure writer, long before he fabricated the Scientology "church."
And I found Travolta and Cage enjoyable in "Face/Off" simply because the two of them, once they switched places, managed to pick up on each others' mannerisms and chew scenery through the whole movie. So Travolta IS capable of a decent performance (see also: Pulp Fiction).
When I checked out "The Visitor" on IMDB.com, there was something like 30 entries with that title. I didn't check back further in the thread to see which one you'd been talking about.
Movies missing from this list: just about anything by Uwe Boll. He always seems to manage to get good actors for his movies (i.e. Ben Kingsley in "Blood Rayne") and then film an absolute stinkfest of a film. The man has absolutely zero filmmaking talent. He's this generation's Ed Wood or Bert I. Gordon.
