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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Windrunner on January 26, 2004, 06:31:52 am
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I just saw this trailer and the movie looks really promsing. And of course the musclemoutain Vin Disl is in this movie.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thechroniclesofriddick/
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*whatch*
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Yeah, it's the prequel to "Pitch Black." It's supposed to explain how he got his eyes (how he can see in the dark) and his fall from grace/entry to prison.
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A movie about a lone warrior against a religious cult bent on converting or killing every human everwhere.
Seems familiar somehow.
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I saw the trailer for this in the theatre. At the beginning of the trailer, it looked promising, but after the first 15sec, I was like, "WHAT IS THIS ****E?!" Some of the special effects shots made the ones in Event Horizon look good, and that was the worst movie I've ever seen, bar none.
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Event Horizon was one of my favorite movies :(
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We all love Event Horizon in this house. Granted it's cheesey and cliched but I'm shallow when it comes to cinema. Also, don't forget that it's (apparently) 'cool' no to like EV. Shows you've got taste in movies, I'm told.
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Event Horizon whooped ass. Nuff said.
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
We all love Event Horizon in this house. Granted it's cheesey and cliched but I'm shallow when it comes to cinema. Also, don't forget that it's (apparently) 'cool' no to like EV. Shows you've got taste in movies, I'm told.
It is? It does?
Bah. I don't like EH on its merits. I don't give a damn about being cool or having taste. The writing was bad, the acting was bad, and the special effects were the worst of all--particularly in scenes where CG objects were shown composited in over live action (think tools spinning in CG). The only redeeming factor of EH is the design of the ship. THAT looked great. Everything else was garbage.
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I've always thought the EV was reminscient (not sure about the spelling there) of the Hades.
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Mikheal, is there anything you like? Maybe you're not an armamentphile, you're a nihilist. ;)
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Scorpionkingsaywhat?
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Originally posted by Shrike
Mikheal, is there anything you like? Maybe you're not an armamentphile, you're a nihilist. ;)
I like lots of things and the reasons I like them aren't always clear. I dislike lots of things, and the reasons I don't like them aren't always clear.
Movies:
I liked The Last Samurai.
I liked Cold Mountain.
I liked Under the Tuscan Sun.
I liked Lord of the Rings.
I did not like Timeline.
I did not like Event Horizon.
I did not like Independence Day.
I liked Armageddon AND Deep Impact.
Ships:
I like the Aeolus.
I do not like the Orion.
I do not like the Deimos.
I like the Mara.
I like the Medusa.
I do not like any bomber in Freespace.
Authors:
I like Susan Matthews.
I do not like Piers Anthony.
I like George R. R. Martin.
I do not like Mercedes Lackey.
I like Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind.
I do not like David Drake or David Weber.
See, there's lots of stuff I like and dislike. BTW, why would I like weapons systems? I don't like things that kill people unless they're in a video game where they belong.
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Originally posted by mikhael
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Movies:
I liked The Last Samurai.
I liked Cold Mountain.
I liked Under the Tuscan Sun.
I liked Lord of the Rings.
I did not like Timeline.
I did not like Event Horizon.
I did not like Independence Day.
I liked Armageddon AND Deep Impact.
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[color=66ff00]I thought event horizon was very cool, independance day was pure eye candy but it was entertaining and that's all I expected from it so I thought it wasgreat in that respect. Armageddon is much the same as ID4 in my book and deep impact was quite good too.
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I used to work at the art studio where they made many of the props for The Chronicles of Riddick. (All I did was sweep floors, clean casting equipment, etc., for a bunch of artists who suffered a deep psychological aversion to putting their own tools away, but I worked there.)
However, I also know that the people who made The Chronicles of Riddick are rat-bastards who decided to fire the whole shop with one day's notice and move production to a new location, which meant that I also lost my job and had several weeks without an income.
I am, therefore, ambivalent about whether I ever see the movie.
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Why? Think if you don't go they'll go backrupt? Yeah, that'll really show'em. Sesqui is my new role model.
Seriously now, I think I'd probably rate til rental. I liked Pitch Black, but not enough to have seen it at the theater. This one looks way over produced.
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Originally posted by mikhael
I like the Medusa.
I do not like any bomber in Freespace.
So you're logically inconsistent?
F everyone's I:
armamentphile - one who loves armament (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=armament) (weapons of war)
nihilist - one who believes in nihilism (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nihilism) (the philosophy of nothing)
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The Medusa is a bomber? *heh* I didn't know that. I never flew one, only looked at the model. So, lets amend, shall we:
I do not like any bomber in Freespace except he Medusa.
If the Mara turns out to be a bomber, I like it to, but I don't think it is.
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How could the Medusa possibly be a fighter? It's got a rear turret, and two HONKIN' HUGE missle pods. Kinda obvious :D :p
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I only found out that some fighters had turrets when Narol pointed it out. Also, just because a fighter has big ass missile pods doesn't mean its a bomber. Hercs have a pretty decent secondary payload if I remember right. And if we remember other games, like, say Wing Commander Prophecy, there was a fighter with giant drumlike missile pods and it was an interceptor.
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Originally posted by J3Vr6
Why? Think if you don't go they'll go backrupt? Yeah, that'll really show'em. Sesqui is my new role model.
:wtf: You are a very strange fellow. It isn't a matter of revenge, it is a question of whether it is worth spending the money when it is unlikely I'd enjoy it much.
Incidentally, I think you are a bit confused about the meaning of the word ambivalent (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ambivalent).
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No, I know the meaning of ambivalent but thank you for the vocabulary lesson :) If you'd read your post again (although I'm sure you know what you wrote), you said that since you got fired from there, you were ambivalent whether you were going. No comment was made whether or not you thought the movie was going to suck poo. My razor edge logic would tell me that it was because of you losing your job and not your taste in cinema that you weren't going. Hence the sarcasm in my post.
*exhales* I need to pee.
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Hope you remember to wash your hands, then.
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Originally posted by J3Vr6
No, I know the meaning of ambivalent but thank you for the vocabulary lesson :) If you'd read your post again (although I'm sure you know what you wrote), you said that since you got fired from there, you were ambivalent whether you were going. No comment was made whether or not you thought the movie was going to suck poo. My razor edge logic would tell me that it was because of you losing your job and not your taste in cinema that you weren't going. Hence the sarcasm in my post.
No, you were right that the reason I am unsure whether I'll see the movie is the personal history involved. Your error is on two other points.
1) I said I was ambivalent, not that I knew I wouldn't go see it. On the one hand,I have some personal connection with the movie (they were our props), which would make me inclined to want to see the movie regardless whether it looked like a good film or not. On the other, the personal history would probably set me in a bad mood the whole time long. So I have two factors pulling me in opposite directions, and thus I am unsure whether I should spend my limited cash on tickets.
2) You make a faulty assumption about the connection between the personal history and the ambivalence. You thought I wasn't sure if I'd go or not because I wanted to get revenge by not giving them my $15. But I have no interest in vengence. My only thought is that awareness of the personal history might overshadow my ability to enjoy the movie, making it a waste of my money. That's all.
What bothered me in your post was that you assumed I was being petty, and on that basis ridiculing me for being so ineffective at accomplishing what you thought were surely my goals (some sort of revenge). To have such false assumptions made about oneself is never a nice experience. Think before you speak, J3Vr6---not everyone in the world is filled with spite.
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It's not that I have to think before I speak, it's that you have to gauge the validity of the statement before you actually reply. Something so blatently out-there as my comment shouldn't be taken as anything more than humor.
You spent waaaaay too much time trying to explain yourself, Sesqui. My comment was sooooooo overly overboard to be taken for anything more than a joke; I would think by seeing your other posts that you would have more credibility than to not see a movie as vengeance of losing your job . But apparently this struck a chord with you.
Now this will go back and forth because your ego was apparently bruised, so I apologize if you took my comment to heart so much that you felt you had to explain yourself.
If this keeps up I'm going to have to go cry and may wet my bed.
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In impersonal communication, particularly on forums, it's often hard to judge tone simply by words. There's no body language, and there weren't even any smilies in your first post. It is the responsibility of the poster to make sure his tone is conveyed correctly. Absolving yourself of the responsibility for your own language and insisting that others bear the burden of figuring out what you meant strikes me as rather arrogant.
Sesq is only interested in making sure that his opinion was conveyed accurately. Don't malign him for merely trying to make himself understood.
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Gah. I hate Vhin Deisl with a passion. Hell, I've crapped out pieces of turd that are more talented that that little prick, and better looking. I honestly don't see what people think he is such a good actor, him and The Rock. They both blow at acting.
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Jesus, I knew this was going to go back and forth. People definitely read too much into things. How does anyone read a book without smilies or a picture next to it to convey sentiment?
Goober, he said I should think before I speak, which I explained otherwise in my defensee and I think I explained it rather succinctly. You may consider it arrogance, but I was making an observation.
And how did I "malign" him for trying to make himself understood? I apologized to him for the misunderstanding. I even explained how the joke shouldn't have been taken as anything more by expressing my respect for his maturity in his other posts. Did you want me to jump through hoops and spin a bottle on my nose, too? If anyone is seeing malice or evilness in my apology then people are definitely reading too much into things and not looking at it in a level of sincerity and honesty in which it was posted.
Seriously, guys, this is waaay too much for something like this. I'm sure everyone has more things to do with their time and enough things in the real world to bother with all this. Did we also forget this was about a movie?
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Originally posted by Dough with Fish
Gah. I hate Vhin Deisl with a passion. Hell, I've crapped out pieces of turd that are more talented that that little prick, and better looking. I honestly don't see what people think he is such a good actor, him and The Rock. They both blow at acting.
In the movie business, lack of talent is no barrier to success.
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I can't understand what peoples fascination is with the Rock, either. But then again, many people can say that about Arnie and Stallone.
Vin Diesel isn't that bad of an actor. But the only movie I really liked him in was Boiler Room and maybe Pitch Black (very big maybe).