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Tantz Aerine wrote:Hopefully the breaks, not the teeth!
Going to try for the umpteenth time to get back in the groove of posting on these forums. I miss it. But somehow I keep getting turned off by the little things :(
Also, broken teeth suck. I'm hoping mine will be history after this week.
I broke one a couple weeks ago. I have some cavities too. I'm going to be drilled on Monday for half of them.
Ok, I'll post stuff, because I like this thread :)
I tried to watch Inception last night.
I couldn't get through it all because I started watching it quite late and I needed to get up for work the next day…
Anyway, I got almost all the way through and was fairly disappointed. It had such an amazing reputation but the storytelling is bog-standard "heroes journey", and I mean to the point of ticking boxes! The story itself is just a pastiche of a typical William Gibson story without the brand fetishism. Exactly- travel around the world, lots of action, cyber-punky computer stuff (albeit with the "dream" idea).
The shooting, hitting, kicking, punching action/editing was really fricken annoying and made it hard to focus on the story, like trying to listen to what someone's saying and having an idiot yelling in the background.
It just seemed to be an exercise in writing a movie around SFX- a story made to show off their clever computer graphics…
Maybe it all comes together better at the end, but so far it just seems a film about clever SFX, really stupid and totally illogically silly ideas about dreams… sort of wanted to be a David Kronenburg film but just getting scared and whimping out.
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I don't mean to sound elitist, or pretentious, or "too cool for school", or hipsterish, or whatever, I was just really genuinely disappointed. People all said this was original and actually clever so I was looking forward to it, but so far it isn't at all. It's just the usual Hollywood fare in every sense.
At least it does have those good effects.
Actually, the vast majority of the effects in that movie are apparently done the old-fashioned way. Not that I'd know for sure since I have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to sparkly, effects driven movies like that. I can only focus on a shoot-'em up movie for about 15 minutes before I start daydreaming.
And I'm just stopping by to say hello/goodbye in between my last job and heading to the training/deployment for my new one. It's been about a month since I last had a real internet connection outside of my phone, so the internet is like a magical wonderland all over again with a whole bunch of stuff I've never seen before. That, unfortunately for you all, means that I'm going to spend the next 6 days before I leave doing nothing but reading Cracked articles, webcomics and blaring nerdcore until my neighbors complain, instead of socializing. I haven't even gotten to listen to the interview to find out how much of a total dork I sound like, getting all excited over fonts.
Yeah, some effects weren't CGI, but many were, like folding an entire city overhead, a whole bunch of skyscrapers collapsing into the ocean, everything in the street exploding out before people's faces and not harming or touching them… all obvious CGI stuff.
Come back to DD. Cracked is cracked! I remember when they were just a cheap knockoff comic that was a copy of Mad Magazine.
ozoneocean wrote:Back in the day I'd buy Cracked just to see John Severin's art and in the 1980's their parodies were less stale than Mad's.
Come back to DD. Cracked is cracked! I remember when they were just a cheap knockoff comic that was a copy of Mad Magazine.
But no one is in the same league as the Onion.
The other day I sank into youtube and watched Weird Al videos for over three hours. I'd forgotten just how much I love Weird Al.
Bum Hair, Bang Busses, and Big Bangs! Where IS everyone?
Well news from me since everyone else seems to have died in the zombie apocalypse…
- I moved my home office last week! Yayyyyyyy! :D
It's in my nice and never ever used lounge-room! With all the nice art on the walls that I've collected over the years… and painted myself as well… and there's my hussar jackets and big fluffy hat displayed as well, so nice :)
With all the art and the wood furniture, wood floor, and antique hats and things it looks very gentlemanly in here. I feel suddenly very refined!
I'm here…. at least in spirit.
So for now almost for two months straight, there have been 12 hour shifts during the macerel/herring season here in my fish factory. Last month I was on dayshifts, but two weeks ago we switched. I actually have the worst job title there is: "Assistant to Baaderman" Baader is the brand of the machines used to cut the fish down but no one in the right mind would call me that 'cause the unofficial-real title of my job would translate to "Squirtle" actually XD. So my job is basicly going around the machines, cleaning the floor and some hatches on the machines with a high powered water pistols. Come to think of it, if I was 10 years old this would be my dreamjob… okay I admit, I'm not that much of an adult I claim to be XD
Eww! WHat's that smell? Why, it's Gullas the squirtle fishboy!
^_^
Good to see you back Gullas, I hope you're earning a lot! Don't spend it all on booze!
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I watched the new Tron movie the other day, it was great!
Then I rewatched the old one… it wasn't so great :(
I loved it as a kid and it was groundbreaking and clever for the time, but it does NOT stand up now- of course the effects are very basic, but while some are extremely clever, others are just really, really simple geometric airbrush paintings that have been animated in a very simple, very old fashioned way. And the actors were acting to empty sets with almost no props on them, interacting with non-existant eveything… and not doing so well. It's perfectly routine now-days and actors know what to do and do it well, but they didn't do so well in Tron.
So, amamzingly, the new film was actually better in every way than the old one.
I'm a staunch conservative traditionalist when it comes to these things, so this admission doesn't come lightly.
I've been packing, unpacking, checking and repacking my gear for the last 4 days straight. Pretty much doing the "do I have it all, do I ned this but not that" thing most guys like me seem to do right before leaving for a long period of time without the chance to replace anything. So I'm being pretty hardcore neurotic about it. And I haven't done anything else at all really. So this is going to be my last post for a couple months at least. There's no internet where I'm going. I'm not even sure they have cell phones or electricity there.
So I'm watching an old Star Trek episode called "The Doomsday Machine". And here's the part that piques my curiosity. Upon beaming to the Enterprise and encountering The Doomsday Machine, the Commodore takes command of the Enterprise and attacks the monster. Now this guy has just suffered his own trauma; he lost his entire crew. But instead of trying to save everyone he can and get away from the machine he tries to destroy it, endangering the crew of the ship he just took command of.
Now I wonder… is there some kind of rule or regulation in the modern military that prevents traumatized officers from immediately taking command unless they can prove they're emotionally fit for duty?
Lonne- who's to say they're traumatised?
You'd need a specialist psychiatrist there, who was trustworthy enough and with enough power to make the call…
But generally I think you have to follow the chain of command.
I'm pretty sure there are rules in place for situations where an officer is suspected of being "unfit" for command though… at least that scenario is played out in hundreds of TV shows and movies! :)
But it makes sense as a safety measure. Then there are "unlawful orders", but that's slightly different.
Either way you'd probably have to justify you actions to some sort of tribunal or disciplinary committee afterwards.
Hahahaha, I dunno, all that just sounds like the plot of a gazillion movies I've seen… I'm thinking of stuff like Horatio Hornblower, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Caine Mutiny…
The Caine Mutiny is a really good film, you should watch it!
The officer has to have a medical type release him for duty. But if he pulls rank and just takes over like Decker did then the other officers take to the ship's doctor questioning his fitness for command.
In other words, Star Trek was surprisingly accurate as far as such militry niceties go because so many in the production staff were former military. They'd also ask serving military for their opinions. Or at least according to the production notes.
Just saw Sucker Punch.
I didn't love it, but I did think it was pretty cool.
Live action anime style thing with great music. Very groovy. (Babydoll's outfit was HORRID though, creepy, creepy).
In many ways it was cleverer than a film like inception, at least it was a lot less pretentious while plumbing similar territory.
And best of all I saw where all those costumes came from that I saw girls dressed up in at comic con last year, as well as the mecha Gentle Giant… and realised how amazingly close to the actors those cosplayers managed to look- plus the mecha looked better as a real life constructed prop than it did as a digital creation in the movie.
Tantz Aerine wrote:No, horrible would be having fallen asleep and then drowning out the sound for others.
I tried watching The Dark Knight Rises.
I got so bored I nearly fell asleep. Does that make me a horrible person? XD
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