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Quote:So true. Until the magnetic poles flip, then civilization crashes and burns and we all diiiiiiie.Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
I've said it before, but thank the gods for the Earth's spinning iron core.
It makes life so much easier.
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Arthur C. Clarke once said that Jupiter's core may be a diamond the size of the Earth. In other news, one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta has already had a ring designed for it. -
Quote:Not "myself" but a whole team of my alts. Man, that's a blast.Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Get your mind out of the gutter.
I just made a new AE arc to replace my original one (made that one back when we first got AE), and about half the missions my main character is there playing along with the player. When I went and did the test run, I just found it incredibly fun playing alongside myself, and was wondering how many (if any) others were arrogant enough to put themselves in their own arcs.
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Quote:"Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!"Originally Posted by james_joyce
Black Pepple, apparently.
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Quote:He's not, really, since he can't speak. Werner Herzog is going to read his review at the end o the episode.Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
I can't believe this guy is getting a new show.
Which is kind of a critic's job. I disagree with most of his reviews (he hated A Few Good Men and Die Hard... wth Roger?) but he's the only mainstream reviewer that is a fan of science fiction.Quote:Honestly I've always felt he was pretentious and rather "holier than thou" even for a professional critic but as he's gotten older I feel like he just goes farther and farther into left field with this sort of assumed moral superiority and acting like a general know it all.
His wife is black, so he's overly sensitive about things on that topic.Quote:His little "I'd rather be called the N-word, than a Slave" thing being the most recent example. -
Quote:That's awesome.Originally Posted by TonyV
Because of all of this, I hope to be able to stay in the City for quite a while longer!
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Who was that one doofus who badmouthed and griefed people in PvP to write some paper about bad behavior in MMOs. I'll bet that's who PP is.
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Quote:That makes no sense, man.Originally Posted by Erudin
If you do know, That is just the suit for the stuntman to wear and it is not yet fully design yet. The offical look will be shown in the movie and worn by the actor.
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Well, it's the solid gold fittings that do it. People think Fort Knox is the gold repository but it's actually a toilet manufacturing plant.
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Die fledermouth.
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Quote:Agreeance. Costume fail.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
I officially don't like the new suit.
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Quote:Beeeeeep.Originally Posted by The_Dude73
I just died a little inside.
Clear!
K-zap!
Beeeeeep.
Clear!
K-zap!
Buh-deep, buh-deep.
::: whew :::
Not that you're stabilized, I quite agree. The whole point of Richard Benjamin is that he wasn't an action hero, just a regular guy caught in extraordinary circumstances. I'd cast Steve Carrell. -
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Weird, I didn't even know it was still on the cover. Looking at Superman 703, there it is. Quite tiny, but still. Apparently I just overlook things like that.
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"You *are* Chris Knight aren't you?"
"I hope so. I'm wearing his underwear." -
Being of Italian descent whose dad is from Brooklyn, I find these nicknames hilarious and dead-on-balls accurate. (It's an industry term.)
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Yeah, I've had a hard time logging on to the forums too. A couple days this week I wasn't able to log on at all. (Which gives the Moderators a break, because I seem to be able to violate forum rules without even trying.
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I'm not sure what sales figures would prove, but Marvel is generally outselling DC. And as far as the "using old ideas" thing goes, DC's biggest hit in 2010 was yet another retelling of Superman's origin. Which is weird, because one of DC's best-selling miniseries of 2009 was yet another retelling of his origin. That's not even "ideas", it's idea, singular.
As for movies, you can't count Green Lantern because no one's seen it yet. (But it does look incredibly lame.) Watchmen was sort of a faithful adaptation of the comic, but was lifeless and dull. Constantine was nowhere near as good as the comic and while I personally liked V for Vendetta, you're going to get a lot of push-back on its quality. -
Around these parts we were just talking about movies being adapted into musical stage plays and then turned back into musical movies.
bad -> good -> good
Little Shop of Horrors -> Little Shop of Horrors -> Little Shop of Horrors
good -> bad -> bad
Auntie Mame -> Mame -> Mame
good -> good -> good
Hairspray -> Hairspray -> Hairspray
good -> bad -> terrible
Phantom of the Opera -> Phantom of the Opera -> Phantom of the Opera
good -> good -> good
Roxie Hart -> Chicago -> Chicago
good -> bad -> bad
Pygmalion -> My Fair Lady -> My Fair Lady
Which then spiraled into a discussion of books and other things being adapted into plays and then into films, musical or not. (Annie, Oklahoma, Oliver!, The King and I, Show Boat, etc.)
Basically the consensus was that it came down to the talent of who was doing the adaptation and how closely they hewed to the basic theme of the original piece rather than getting all the fiddly little details exactly the same. I think Kubrick's track record was better than most, for example, with a couple exceptions. -
Quote:I think all Edgar Rice Burroughs works are in the public domain now. Tarzan, John Carter, Pellucidar, Land That Time Forgot, etc.Originally Posted by Nericus
Well I think it's been awhile since there was a Tarzan movie, and who knows who owns the rights to that now.
Lethal Weapon doesn't need a reboot and Oh, God is best forgotten.
I liked Oh, God, but I think the Almighty movies (Bruce & Evan) did a fairly decent job of being new versions of it.
Westworld doesn't really need an update, in my opinion. Despite its dated appearance and tech, it has a basic story that holds up well and has been done quite a lot. (Tech gets away from us! People die! Not again!) -
Quote:::: steps quietly away from Cowman :::Originally Posted by Cowman
Most likely some dame. They're always makin' a mess of things.
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Quote:Well, "adaptions" actually *is* a word. It's not the *right* word in this instance, but it does exist.Originally Posted by Traegus
angry nerd rage rants are better served with correct spelling, adaptions isn't a word.
As for adaptations, it's like anything else: you can't dismiss them with blanket statements of "they're all bad." Especially not Queen of the Damned because, seriously, there's no way to make that book worse.
As for other specific adaptations, I think The Shining is a wash, because both book and film have pluses and minuses. Full Metal Jacket was way better than the short story collection The Short-timers. Jaws the movie is way better than the book. The Lord of the Rings movies are worse than the books, although both have the same "why didn't you just use the giant eagle?" problem.
And of course this topic can't be considered complete without discussing Adaptation, which is one of the weirdest and coolest movie adaptations of a book ever made. It's not even an actual adaptation of The Orchid Thief but rather an examination of the adaptation process itself that somehow manages to get quite a lot of the pertinent information about the book across. -
Clancy himself (I presume, hard to say when the ghostwriters took over) ignored his own world's history fairly soon. I think it might've been the second book after Ryan became President where I was reading it thinking, "How could this possibly *be* if Congress was wiped out?" We've seen what's happened in real life when lesser attacks against America occur, even imaginary ones (the explosion of the Maine). Wiping out Congress and then a city would've started WWIII, no questions asked.
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Quote:I always felt that Michael Whelan's take on the Pern dragons was pretty attractive.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Since when have giant fire-breathing lizard monsters been attractive?
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This is a new QoL improvement that was accidentally left off the patch notes. It's called "Tailor Time Saver." You should see the numbers of Crey cycling through Indy Port's tailor.