BafflingBeerMan
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Quote:Hey, you can create the thread. It just may not stick around that long!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Except the creator of a video game discusison thread here on the forums
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Quote:Odd, I thought any director's commentary on this thread would be found on ChatRoulette, not Skype.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Fair enough. By the way, you aren't on Skype. I have director's commentary on this conversation, but you need Skype to hear it.
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Quote:You can be anything you want, if you set your mind to it!Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Wait, then am I a llama or what?
I need to add the back issues to my already copious issues. -
Quote:I am not sure if he said it was the reason he came up with crazy theories, per se, but he did say he became "Doc Jensen" and quasi-obsessed with the show to cope.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Me thinks ol Doc Jensen put a serious dent in the cannabis supply before pulling those "theories" out his rear end.
He was seeing patterns that just weren't there. I'm glad none of that stuff really happened.
SAD (BUT ULTIMATELY UPLIFTING) STORY:
If I recall correctly, his wife was diagnosed with cancer sometime during the second or third season. Before that, he and his wife were merely casual fans of Lost. However, when they found out the news, Jensen sorta retreated into the show. His wife joined him in that foray, but ultimately found it too tiring to devote the amount of time Doc was giving the show. Eventually, this caused Doc to take a step back (I think before or at the end of the 5th season) and tone down his devotion and theories. Lo and behold, before the last season, the cancer was beat and Doc returned to his "persona" and still put out his theories, but now with a more sense of humor to them.
I was a fan of his for a while, but yeah, reading his crazy theories got tiresome after a while because it was pretty clear they would never actually be true. This season he still had some insane thoughts (The Smoke Monster is Daniel Faraday), but he acknowledged how crazy they were. -
Quote:I'm more of an ear, nose, and throat market sorta guy.Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas
Now I fee ike starting a Back Market.
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But I want a longer version of Loser!
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Quote:Donna?Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Chief?
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Quote:I have never heard of Jack Chick before.Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas
Have you been reading too much Jack Chick parody? Because this reminds me of that...
It is just my natural sense of humor and self-deprecation. Which comes from my dad, as evident by this conversation we had after watching "The Day After Tomrrow:"
ME: So would you trek across a frozen tundra to try and save me?
DAD: I wouldn't make it.
ME: I understand. I'd probably be one of those guys that die in the first wave of a disaster anyways. -
Quote:It's aiming higher that gets side characters like me killed!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
You should aim higher than that
I can only hope for a noble death, sacrificing my life to save the Hero and his family. Not an ignoble death, like thinking it will be perfectly safe to go for help, at night, alone, when there is a psycho killer in the woods. Without wearing pants. -
Quote:I have long come to peace that I am the comic relief, the plucky sidekick who gets killed so that the Hero has more motivation to take out Evil.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Wait - are you both desperate for a position that means you'll be killed in a rebellion?
I would be the first to die in any horror movie, not make it to the end of a disaster movie, and may squeak by unharmed with only superficial injuries in an action movie. -
Yeah, Doc Jensen's theories became more and more crazed as the season went on. And more nonsensical. But some of them were sorta true:
4. The show really did end up revolving around Des and Penny much more than you might think. After all, it was because of Des they crashed, and because of Penny's search for Des that they got rescued. And, of course, the epiphanies/salvations in the Sideways Universe were driven by Desmond after he reunited with Penny in that world.
5. The Island as a tuning fork actually was partially true, if you believe what Jacob and Mother said about the Heart of the Island and what it could do for and against humanity.
8. Through time travel, Sawyer and Locke were able to observe events that occurred during their original 108 days on the Island. Sawyer even stuck his head in between some bushes and saw Aaron being born.
9. The Ben and Locke dynamic certainly had a tinge of stolen/substitute destinies. Especially when it ended up that Flocke manipulated Ben into killing Jacob.
10. Kinda true with the Sideways Universe being created. Except the knowledge of what happened was momentarily hidden and it was not created by Jacob.
11. Can still be interpreted that way if you think of the show as centered on Jack, coupled with what we see in the Sideways universe.
12. Can be considered true by the fact that in the long list of names on the cave wall there were the names of some of the Dharma folk (Goodspeed, for example). And we know someone high up in The Others' chain ordered the Purge (I think it was MiB posing as Jacob. MiB felt an ideal candidate was rising in the Dharma ranks and wanted to kill him). Actually, in my Lost Dissertation (Season 3 will be psoted tomorrow!) I say that the Dharma Initiative was the scientific side to Jacob's spiritualistic side.
Point is, most of these "cool" theories actually have a basis in truth as far as the storytelling of Lost. And the fact is you can intepret parts of these theories as true. And guess what? That is the beauty of Lost. Instead of saying "Oh, this is so much better than what they actually said," the show allows itself space for the viewer to place their own theories and still have the show work.
Besides, some of the other cool theories Jensen has come off with would be nigh impossible to pull off, even if the show set them up as the payoffs, and would have been seen as even more insane and disappointing. -
Quote:Originally Posted by BlackArachnia
Cloverfield was ok. Unlike Godzilla, it failed to be a great American monster in popularity due to the fact that in was unlikable. Nothing about the monster made you feel for him. Perhaps with a standard filming we could have gotten a sense of the monster.
Even the American Godzilla had more personality.
So we have a movie with uninteresting monsters, (The poison sea crabs were.... weird and not needed.) unlikable characters, ( I had no desire to see any of them survive.) and shaky cam to make things more frightening.
Could have been better, could have been worse. A sequel makes no sense though.Exactly why I feel like it was meta-commentary on how in most monster movies you end up rooting for/liking the monster over the humans (as BlackArchania points out). Cloverfield was like "Well, if you take away the omnipresent camera that sees all and can follow the Monster every where and stick with the actual humans, this is what you would get. You end up rooting for the Monster anyways. Better to not even give the characters lipservice then."Quote:Originally Posted by Father Xmas
No I enjoyed the characters. They are exactly the kind of mid 20 somethings who often portrayed on TV and in films that after only 3 years out of college they will be making mid six figure income and living in an enormous lofts in SOHO and own $1000 state of the art digital camcorder with 100:1 zoom.
I enjoyed watching them die, one by one, as their artificially constructed view of how the world revolves around them is torn down. -
Quote:I nominate Bella too, because any good coalition needs a real female, in addition to the ambiguous one that The Llama sometimes isOriginally Posted by Marcian Tobay
The llama has a title. Unfortunately, it is written in ancient llamanian tongue. To know it is to glimpse onto the backside of time. It cannot be understood by anyone that perceives time as a straight line, even subconsciously. Sometimes unworthy llamas attempt to say it. This results in a expulsion of the mispronounced title. A spitting, if you were. It is thus that what is seen as llama spit by others is, in reality, an unworthy attempting to sing my praise.
Also, I'd nominate Kali/Bella if only to see ManOf and Bella on any form of counsel together.
Can I be a member of the uppercrust, like a duke? Y'know, someone who has no actual power, but loves to throw lavish parties, spend frivilously, and be the first killed in a rebellion? -
I love you, Sho.
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Quote:With that red jacket, looks like Linus crossed with Marty McFly in 2015.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Is it just me, or does that photo of Rivers (the one with him and Hurley) look eerily like a young Ben Linus?
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The Prisoner!
Though I do love Brisco. Especially since Carlton Cuse, its cocreator and co-showrunner of Lost, pops up a few times in the episodes as the painter. -
Quote:That's the fine print! No one reads the fine print! That's how I collect souls.Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas
Read my location: Not living in Arkansas.
Wait, this resembles Arkansas? Odd. -
Quote:Kinda hard to dispel that notion when you are claiming to be Lord of a land that is eerily similar to it.Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas
Kansas is ok, but not Arkansas. Too many people think I'm from Arkansas.
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Quote:Why?Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas
I hate Arkansas.
It's Kansas for everyone! Everyone owns it! -
I do think it is a make-or-break period for the (sub)genre. If the movies continue to evolve like Iron Man and the Nolan Batmans, then it will survive because they have reached "respecticality." Which, in turn, will allow for more brainless fare. But if they relapse into too much action, not enough depth (whatever you may define that as), then it may go dark for a while.
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Quote:Even with that comparison, the superhero genre would still be around, though maybe not at the current output. I don't think it will ever go defunct.Originally Posted by wei yau
Hmm, not sure if I agree with the comparison here. Action and drama are much broader than superhero. A better comparison would be to westerns or sci-fi films. And we've definitely seen those genres come and go in terms of popularity. I don't see why superhero films should be any different.
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Quote:Whose to say at some point he won't? Or that he absolutely would never do such a thing? Since the comics are now defunct and the general storytelling in game is kind of static (or at least, trudging along), we may never see it.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
But he could govern it if he wanted too - he's as powerful as Tyrant, and there are enough Vigilantes around to support him if he wanted to take over.
By the way, the quote I said comes from The Dark Knight and it is from Harvey Dent remarking upon Julius Caesar becoming Caesar and ruling without challenge from then on. And how did he become Caesar? He seized control after the city was being threatened and never let go. You don't think Statesman (or Superman, or any God-tier hero) would protect his hometown from disaster and then maybe hold on for a little too long? That's classic storytelling. Once you establish the hero, he or she will eventually be tempted to the darkside. The capacity is there. And, of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. -
With those L's you are going to turn the rulers into ruers!
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Quote:People have the same low opinion of "Brainless" actiom movies (see: people's response to the Transformers movies)Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I think they are different because of the generally low opinion some people have about comic books and super heroes apart from the most famous guys.
The superhero genre, one that can have multiple hits, is still a fledgling subset. I think it will stick around, but that doesn't mean there won't be bumps. Soon.
