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Quote:Originally Posted by starphoenix
When your neighbours start drinking Tim Hortons, going to hockey games, and ending their sentences with eh, then run as fast as you can from civilization since the Canadian Invasion will have begun. It will only be a matter of time before everyone is Canadian.
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Stuff I liked:
- The Bond-style pre-titles explodery sequence
- Bill Bailey (however briefly)
- Nods to HalfLife and Halo -
Geeky stuff: just a couple of graphic novels this time around - Dresden Files "Welcome To The Jungle" and Serenity "Those Left Behind" - yes, I didn't have it yet, try not to faint - plus a random dollar store present of a Buffy Stake Your Own Adventure book...
Other than that, just a two-foot-wide Laughing Buddha statue, a Sephora makeup artist's box set and new boots
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Ulysses 31. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
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The lesser-known Zamboni Apocalypse, which will leave America shiny and fully playable for us Canadians to enjoy, eh?
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Sounds a lot like the BBC's Outcasts - which used stasis ships instead of the time warp, and Mysterons instead of the dinosaurs - but was also epically preachy, cheesy and astonishingly poorly acted and directed.
The BBC are known for giving shows time to pick up, but this was nuked from orbit after a contracted eight-episode run. From the episodes I've seen, TerraNova deserves no mercy from FOX...
...whereas they could have kept this much cheaper little show called Firefly going...
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I may have to kill Alec Baldwin for slaughtering "I Love Rock'n'Roll" (personal anthem and first single ever bought,age six,Andy's Records, from the Re Releases rack.)
But he shall have a beautiful end and a warrior's pyre.
UPDATE: had it confirmed over Twitter by screenwriter Chad Darnell that this was an unapproved cut and has been leaked - the almost imperceptibly different approved one should also have been an iTunes exclusive...
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Knuckleheads, all of ya.
Sean Hayes is uncanny in mannerisms if not build. But frankly some gags in the trailer would never have made even the laziest of the Stooges' reels: and after the Hanna Barbera cartoons, the assorted other replacements and revivals, they should be left to rest peacefully. -
Oh sweet gods of metal.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/rock-of-ages-trailer
(RE-RE-EDIT: yet another link up)
...could be terrible. Could be awesome.
Awesomeness:
- Alec Baldwin doing jaded and cynical in a Joe Elliott wig.
- Adam Shankman (Hairspray:The Musical:The Movie) directing.
- CZJ channeling Palin/Bachmann.
- Paul Giamatti being eeeebil.
- Tom Cruise... rocks.
- Tom Cruise's monkey.
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Here's another take on it... works wonderfully well with the low-end bass CRANKED and tempo up 10% in a Goth club. (Samuraiko may also need to borrow the gloriously overblown intro and chorus segments..)
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Donna was written largely to fit with Catherine Tate's existing comic personae. If you're not keen on her like this, you probably won't enjoy watching one of her full shows.
But she gets a chance to properly shine in Turn Left - and in the final episode of her series, whereupon RTD pulls a major Telephone-Pole-Through-The-Chest-Level Move Of EVILNESS (+5) on her. -
Tried watching the original GI Joe on a recent transatlantic flight - gave up after the somewhat Team America Parisian sequence, though Chris Ecclestone's utterly shameless scenery-chewing helped me through the early bits. It's still more than I managed of Transformers DOTM.
As someone said to me recently over a lovely dinner, no-one in Hollyweird ever got rich by overestimating the public's tastes. Dwayne and Bruce's charisma should help lift it a bit and they might have afforded some better writers this time around.
TBH I had the same expectations of Captain America and was very pleasantly surprised by how bloody good and rich it was, so source material shouldn't always be an issue... -
Here's a little industry thing for ya. Every year, lots of Hollywood producers draw up one of the very few things they'll easily agree on without lattes and insults flying.
The Black List throws together all the year's unfilmed scripts (and formalised pitches where there isn't a half-decent draft yet) that are actually pretty damn good, regardless of who's attached to them, who wrote them, or whose backside you have to embrace to get hold of them. Nomination and voting is by invitation only but rigorously anonymised.
And this is one blacklist you really want to get on, as if you make the list one year, odds are good they'll make your movie next year.
Here's the top of the list...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movi...e-top-ten.html
...and instantly I'm drawn to Imitation Game, (an Alan Turing biopic possibly financed by Google), Ezekiel Moss (sounds interesting) and Chewie (Spinal Tap-esque mockumentary chronicling the making of Star Wars from the point of view of Peter Mayhew, who played the big walking rug.) -
I can only say: "Excellent." /em airguitar.
Personally I'd make that into a full-on dudeathon with Bogus Journey, Point Break and Big Lebowski.
By the way... a strange thing I found via Twitter that made the inner teenage me desperately, joyously happy.
There really is a magical place called San Dimas, CA: and they really do have most excellent waterslides.
One day, I shall make pilgrimage there. Who's with me? -
There have been a lot of attempts to get classical music a wider audience of late, mostly with wacky synth crossovery things or artists chosen for their physicality rather than virtuosity (looking distinctly at Wild / Escala / Il Divo here..)
This little vid, however, blends a rather gentle and haunting take on Orff's Carmina Burana with some Top Gear-esque imagery, and is well worth a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpx4YqMkrfc
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Quote:...this. So very very this. *FLEES IN TERROR*Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Can't sleep. Gary Oldman'll eat me.
Can't sleep. Gary Oldman'll eat me.
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There is a boys' night out version of this too...
http://mimi-na.deviantart.com/art/Do...-Boys-58481472
...not 100% surprised to see Jack and Turlough next to each other. Hmm. -
I think a freedom of the city/state would have been better. Sounded more like an intern position created for some DC politician's dumbwit offspring? "Special trade representative to Nunavut" would probably have been better...
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Leroy is oooold news. We now have a new and more accurate meme for a slight case of overherding...
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Not entirely sure what the point of WHY someone would do this is, since all the best arcs in COH are between about 20 and 40.
I can rack up 150mill inf in 60 minutes - spread over 4 days - simply by ghosting Hero/Villain Merit missions, selecting a Numina Regen/Recovery and flogging it off to desperate minmaxing scrappers. Something I could easily repeat across all my toons.
Samuraiko's video holds equally true for any other game. Sure, you could shell out $50.00 for X number of million ISKies on EVE, only to get your ship scrapped and your backside podded by a gate sniper. Who will then harvest your remains, flog it, and then probably sell off those ISKies to you for your next character.
I play CoH as, y'know, a game. For fun. It's not something I'm ever going to win commendations for, get a job with, make the papers with or change the world with. I do those things as I stalk the night sky of Norwich, protecting the weak and dealing out slinky leather-clad-justice as...
...but I digress. You buy from spammers, you (a) deprive yourself of cash (b) deprive yourself of your credit card details and (c) deprive yourself of the fun of actually playing the game itself as a game. -
Forget your science fair volcano... how about playing with microgravity?
http://youtube.com/spacelab
Seriously, I was halfway through cooking up an idea before I saw it was for under 18s only. Prize list is great and open to all countries:
- flights from anywhere to DC to meet Proper Scientists and astronauts
- trip on the Vomit Comet
GRAND PRIZE:
- trip to Baikonur where your experiment's launched on an ISS flight (which hopefully won't explode) and performed in space
- custom cosmonaut crash course if you're over 18 by the time your experiment's actually performed -
Quote:Quite. See also: Sasha Grey (Entourage).Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
...and then there's Traci Lords.
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Quote:Sister P definitely needs a makeover. Not a rig I'd want to be wearing around a port area after dark. Particularly not if my major power was mind-reading.Originally Posted by BrandX
And really, I like Numina and Sister Psyche, but I think they could both use some new outfits!
Who DON'T I want to buy it?
BAB (who's had a tough time of it on most arcs), Manticore, Sister P, Numina, Synapse, Posi.
Who DO I want to buy it?
That snot-nosed Atlas Park cheerleader type, or her grandad.
Who's LIKELY to buy it?
Let's leave aside the ones like Citadel who can't technically die, unless they do a Data/B4 cop-out. Personal bets are (in order of implementation difficulty):
- EASY(ish): Brawler, who's now zoneless and has no TF to be written out of. Too d**n easy, in fact.
- EASY/MEDIUM: Manti - these self-sacrificing emo types, I ask you. Will still be blaming himself for [SPOILER].
- MEDIUM/HARD (preferred option): Statesman and Recluse - leaving Brawler as the most senior of the Surviving Seven, and possibly even inheriting a chunk of States' power. It also leaves a power vacuum in the Rogue Isles that triggers a civil war - and maybe the Coming Storm...
- HARD: ALL OF THEM. Leaving YOU in an increasingly desperate battle to save Paragon against raids from an emboldened Arachnos.
- REALLY HARD: hero of your choice buys it, reshaping the rest of the world around that choice. Any time you replayed the arc and chose someone different, then the world would change again, using the well known universal mechanics of wibbly-wobbly timey... wimey...... stuff. Probably needs an Ouroboros-based contact. -
If you happen to be in Los Angeles,sell any spare body parts - yours or otherwise - to get a ticket for the THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR, with quite famous people mucking about doing an old-time radio show for a live audience.
I mention it because part of the latest show was recorded for Nerdist: Sparks Nevada, Marshal On Mars, and features one Nathan Fillion as Cactoid Jim,King Of The Red Frontier. (Nathan Fillion in a space western? Novel career choice there..)
http://www.nerdist.com/2011/11/thril...acters”/
Anyhow,are there any old radio serials you've heard or would recommend?
If you can get hold of it, find The Goon Show, starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. It's pretty much a direct inspiration for Python, though instead of Gilliam they had to rely on their highly esteemed Radiophonic Workshop (and a lot of their inventive techniques wound up being used on Zep's, Hendrix' and the Beatles' albums, as they gave it all away for free in journals).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXbwu6IZvZY
So,anything else that can be heard out there? -
Waiting for the Pentium "PenTim Taylor".