Sometimes it takes a dinosaur to spot a dinosaur.
her: "My only regret is that I'll never lose my virginity"
guard (non-nonchalantly): "Oh I can take care of that for you"
her (off-screen): "Oh great! I really appreciate it!"
guard (non-nonchalantly): "Oh I can take care of that for you"
her (off-screen): "Oh great! I really appreciate it!"
If you've read Prudie much,you'd know there is a long tradition of sending her BS questions. It's actually one of the things I most look forward to in the column. I don't know if she answers them anyway because they usually are the ones that get a lot of hits, or if she is a clueless as she seems (A lot of us like to think she's clueless because it's fun to laugh at her).
That is by far the best way to remember the story, but actually if you were unfortunate enough to follow the viral stuff (I have no idea why I did), the explaination was that a japanese satellite had a soft-drink liquid in it (sluggo, or slurm or something) that go irradiated, fell in the ocean and somehow mutated a fish into the monster.
Like I said, a monster from space is a much more satisfying explanation.
Tron: Legacy is actually one of those rare movies that gets better with repeat viewings. Not that it ever gets great, but because of circumstances I watched it 3 times and by the 3rd time I really enjoyed it for what it is. I think I and a lot of people had much too high of expectations for it.
Interesting, I thought the old fasa guys bought the mech-warrior rights back from Microsoft. I wonder if this will be MechAssault in a different universe.
There are plenty of social analysis topics that are worthy of study, but I know that it's easier to simply generalize me. But honestly, there must be somewhere where even you draw the line. If your kid told you that they were going to spend the next four years of their life writing a dissertation on cereal box tops, wouldn't you say something? Or is every single intellectual (and in this case I use the term very loosely) pursuit worth spending years of your life on and going thousands of dollars in debt for? No matter how trivial and ridiculous it is? I saw plenty of smart, academically driven people hide in grad school after college because it was easier (at least most of them got law degrees). I find far too many people who consider themselves intellectuals forgive people studying some of the most ridiculous stuff because they lack the courage to judge. I would guess that this woman's life would be better in every measurable way if she had not wasted her time doing this. She would be happier, she'd be wealthier, she be more intellectually stimulated, and all because no one told her, "Really? Do you really think this is worth you spending the next several years on? You're a smart person who can write, why don't you spend some time thinking of a more worthy topic for what is suppose to be one of the intellectual achievements of your life? Not many people have the talent and resources that you do to be able to pick a topic to add to the intellectual capital of the world, because that's what a PhD dissertation is and should be."
#itsnotaboutyou
#itsnotaboutyou
Great post. Looks like you and I got regulated out of the forum! Success! Far too many of these people don't realize that it's not movie or lit criticism in general that's ridiculous, it's someone doing a doctorate on rom-coms! #itsnotaboutyou
I really hate to tell you this, but those of us in the hard sciences and creative fields are laughing at you. All of you. Hard. And please don't call me anti-intellectual because I think a field of study is a waste of time, I have the utmost respect for a vast majority of intellectual pursuits. I just do't have much respect for pap.
I really hate to tell you this, and hopefully someone who you know, love and trust will tell you this soon, but, YOU'RE WASTING YOUR LIFE. This dissertation will add absolutely no value to your life or the life of any other person on Earth.
It's not even original. That rom-com with hugh jackman and Ashley judd is filled with meta-voice overs about relationships.
How would people felt if it wasn't earths moon? Is that core to the concept? Using Earth's moon just seems so hard to keep plausible. What if it was the story of them setting up a staging base on Phobos for a planned colony on Mars and then discovering that Phobos much of the interior is artificial. Cut to them hopping around the galaxy. Still a moon, but it seems much more plausible to me. No impact on Earth, I could imagine a machine that large required for FTL. Then you can have issues of them learning how the ship (Phobos) works and the planet of the week. The more I type this the more it sounds like Stargate Universe, but using the moon just makes the plausibility so hard, and I'd be happy with Phobos instead (as long as we have Eagles!). I'd love to see some exploration of a future science like in Moving Mars (where they also use one of the moons of mars as a space ship - sorry for the spoiler!)
This movie is going to get so ridiculed in the media that it's going to set back the cause of making good sci-fi/fantasy movies a solid ten years.
Almost every video game kickstarter project I've seen (and I look fairly often - so ~50) offer a copy of the game at a price comparable to what you'd expect it to sell when complete. In many ways, in the game space, you can think of kickstarter as a way of pre-selling games that protects the creator from lawsuit (since really pre-selling a game has many legal issues). Along with a way for selling high-priced "collectors editions" for a premium.
This guys (rightfully) points out that your article sucks and you ban him because of too many punctuation marks. That's some great community building your doing here! (Just one, I swear.)
Totally agree, I think Raimi actually had everything in place to do 6 very good movies:
1) Same
2) Same - John Jameson is set up to go into space and find the symbiote, Dr Connors is set up
3) Sandman only, so powerful that Spider-man needs Harry's help to defeat him
4) Dr Connors -> Lizard, Peter saves John Jameson and meets the symbiote, symbiote helps defeat Lizard
5) Symbiote becomes bad, Peter and Mary break up, Harry begins to deteriorate, Peter and Gwen become closer
6) Harry goes completely crazy, becoming full on goblin, Peter and Mary get back together, Harry kills Gwen, Peter defeats (kills?) Harry
1) Same
2) Same - John Jameson is set up to go into space and find the symbiote, Dr Connors is set up
3) Sandman only, so powerful that Spider-man needs Harry's help to defeat him
4) Dr Connors -> Lizard, Peter saves John Jameson and meets the symbiote, symbiote helps defeat Lizard
5) Symbiote becomes bad, Peter and Mary break up, Harry begins to deteriorate, Peter and Gwen become closer
6) Harry goes completely crazy, becoming full on goblin, Peter and Mary get back together, Harry kills Gwen, Peter defeats (kills?) Harry
While I agree with you about Spider-man of today's comics (where I think of him in his early 30s), the Spider-man of the movies was still in his early 20's, so I don't think of him as being quite the hero he becomes. But events like the ones that transpire in SM 2 really go a long way toward propelling him forward to becoming that kind of hero.
And I completely understand that 1 & 2 had some problems (3 goes without saying), I just don't like people who are excited about 4 (is that what we're going to call this, or B1?) trashing the original trilogy. 3 had real problem thanks to Sony's involvement, but 1 is good and 2 is a great superhero movie (93% on rotten tomatoes).
Come on. You can do better than that. Adding the "Unlike Tobey Maguire" you are definitely making a (incorrect) dig at the original set of movies and how canonical their portrayal of Peter Parker is. If you want to be excited about this movie, that's fine, I'm excited about it too, but Raimi's Spiderman 1 and 2 are excellent movies (I think Spiderman 2 is one of the best superhero movies made) and you don't need to make up flaws in them to try and make this movie seem better.
"Peter Parker making his web shooters. Unlike Tobey Maguire, this Peter Parker is a bit of a whiz kid."
I'm getting really sick of this mis-remembering of the Raimi Spiderman films. Peter was portrayed as extremely smart in the previous films as well.
As much as I understand it is cannon, there are a lot of reality problems with the Peter making the shooters (they are so incredibly powerful he should really give the design to the police).
If he throws a dummy as a prank before he jumps I will drink red bull exclusively for the rest of my life.
