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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 28, 2010 4:17:51 GMT -5
We've all laughed at "serious" scenes in movies. When I say serious, I don't mean movies like The Room, where there was an attempt (even though the director tries to act differently). I mean legit scenes that most take seriously, and you could possibly as well, but you had to laugh sometimes.
For me, I remember laughing really hard (like alot I've realized) at the scene in Meet Joe Black, when the guy gets hit by a car, and bounces into another oncoming car. Everyone watching it acted like I was terrible, but come on...he bounced into a SECOND car.
Oh, and one that I can take seriously, but still laughed at, is probably one that could possibly offend someone. But it's the part in Malcolm X, when his dad is thrown onto the train tracks. Its the way it shot, really. Looks really weird and almost amateur. Great movie though.
Anyway, time to end this post with an ellipses...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 27, 2010 4:32:40 GMT -5
...yeah, guys. I just came out of the back, and someone s*** on the coats!
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 25, 2010 20:57:33 GMT -5
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Saw 3D
Apr 25, 2010 3:18:54 GMT -5
Post by -Lithium- on Apr 25, 2010 3:18:54 GMT -5
^As to the Spoiler: YES. I gotta see this one in the theaters.
I think it will be alright, especially considering they have to tie everything up. I mean, as far as a movie goes, the best "6" movie in a string of sequels is SAW 6. Its not saying much, but alteast they still put alot of effort into the series. You can't even say the same for the first sequel in alot of the "classic" 70s-80s horror series. Alot will be put into 7 and I think it'll be worth it...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 25, 2010 3:08:06 GMT -5
OK now for the harder choices. Do you kill Darko? Now I said at the beginning that there was one exception to the kill or spare rule. Darko is that exception. Basically Nico has spent the last 12 years looking his revenge. He has chased Darko everywhere, and blames Darko for ruining him, and destroying his life. Normally Nico has a heart but Darko is the one person he can't forgive, and he brutally executes him. After killing Darko Nico tells Roman that he feels empty inside. This is important leading to the final choice of the game Revenge, or Deal? Now I know that a lot of people choose revenge because Roman lives, but I think its pretty obvious that deal is the "proper" way to go. For starters when you choose revenge you go and kill Dmitri this leads to Jimmy Pegorino becoming the final boss that Nico faces. That doesn't really make sense, and isn't all that epic since Dimitri has been antagonizing Nico the whole game while Pegorino doesn't show up until near the end and up until he kills Kate Jimmy really has no beef with Nico. The deal on the other hand makes perfect sense both from a game play point of view and from a dramatic point of view. After killing Darko Nico talks about how empty he feels after getting his revenge. That feeling of emptiness is what allows Roman to convince Nico to give up his grudge, and make a deal with Dimitri in hopes of putting everything behind him. Of course Dimitri double crosses Nico which leads to an epic finish with Nico killing Dimitri in front of the statue of happiness. Honestly I think they should have just made the above scenario the solid storyline instead of trying to cash in on the choose your own path genre. Especially since after you play through the storyline a few times things just aren't as impactful or epic. Personally I played through a few times before I made the choices above, but once I did it was like everything clicked, and the story flowed perfectly. Its a shame I didn't get that on my first play through when I chose revenge and the ending seemed so disjointed. Anyway what do you guys think? Think I got it right? From a storyline/writing stand point, that's easily the best way to go. That was pretty much my exact thought process. If there wasn't a "Choose" mode, its clearly the storyline the GTA IV writers would have gone. Atleast if they were still going with the more realistic/depressing story...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 23, 2010 20:54:01 GMT -5
Who voted 22? You bastard...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 22, 2010 4:21:07 GMT -5
I really like this version, too. Especially 3:25.
But yeah, great cover and great show. Fitting "end" to Nirvana (even though they still had Live and Loud the next month, which was a great show). Really legitimatized them for the last time (as if they needed it), and showed that they were a great band, and not just some loud noise or whatever rotating criticism people wanted to throw out there...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 22, 2010 0:40:10 GMT -5
I'm gonna post a similar, but different Shawn/Taker promo. It's a little shorter, but it's concise, and has one of the most fitting songs ever used in a promo. Yes. WWEs put out some amazing promos, and they will continue to, but I don't think they'll ever be able to top that. I've never said that about any match promo. I'll add a couple though, also involving Taker. Survivor Series 03 - Taker vs Vince - Buried Alive. The first one is kind of like a match promo, but its really just Takers video promo before the match. I think its one of his best ever. The second has the real promo in there. "...the realization is: Vincent Kennedy McMahon...is being buried alive.""There comes a time when you have to be held accountable for your actions. Even if your name...is Vince McMahon."I love both of those lines...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 21, 2010 19:33:15 GMT -5
When the shows are good, they can be in the 4's. In 06, they were consistently at the low 4's for the first half of the year. In early 06 they were in the mid 4's. It wasn't due to cheap fixes either, just consistently good shows and storylines. I say it alot, so much to the point to where I say that I say it alot, but that was the last good run the WWE (alot of it RAW) had. The show's actually seemed to have some inspiration behind them. So obviously the more casual fans can still be brought it, but its not gonna be due to this Guest Host crap. Just put some actual effort and creativity into the shows...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 21, 2010 2:56:59 GMT -5
What's Miranda Cosgrove's ethnicity?
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 21, 2010 2:03:22 GMT -5
I've watched Training Day too much. I saw this title and immediately though of Ethan Hawke saying that during the Poker Game, in that movie...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 17, 2010 21:24:53 GMT -5
H20 easily. Mainly cause it had Jamie Lee Curtis in it. The other ones dont come close for actual hype...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 14, 2010 3:44:52 GMT -5
I knew the thread would be about this.
But, the pants, without the pants, the belt would just be some thing sitting on the floor. Pants have survived without belts for years!
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 13, 2010 1:35:06 GMT -5
Sublime can do no wrong. Maybe that's cause they transcended genre...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 13, 2010 1:33:35 GMT -5
It still blows my mind that we no longer have George Carlin. At times, I wonder how he didn't go sooner. The man had three heart attacks between 1978-1991, and had a fourth which led to his death just two years ago. Cocaine abuse will do that to people, plus Carlin had some well-publicized bouts with alcohol addiction, mostly wine, in his later years. Going by the greatness level of Carlin, his age of death should have been at 38, at the latest. We're lucky that unlike most geniuses (with a hard drug problem too) that he didn't go way sooner...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 11, 2010 4:29:49 GMT -5
My god. I thought there was some rule, that they separate important leaders of a country on different flights, just in case something like this happens to one plane. To minimize damage as much as possible. I was about to post this. You'd think they'd fly on different planes...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 10, 2010 1:27:11 GMT -5
Huh?
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 8, 2010 22:44:53 GMT -5
"I thought to myself"
You can't think to anyone else...
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 7, 2010 3:42:12 GMT -5
YOU GON' CRY!?
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Post by -Lithium- on Apr 7, 2010 3:38:29 GMT -5
Though I wasn't happy with the way 2007 was going, I remember the couple RAWs before Vengeance being good. Especially the last RAW main event before the PPV, at least if I remember it right. I seem to recall Orton getting tagged in without Lashley seeing, and he rolls under the bottom rope, and RKOs Lashley for the win. Was good.
I think I remember just checking WWE.com, which is weird, cause I don't think I've ever found out any big news on that site, or any wrestling site other then WC. After reading it for a while, I kind of thought that maybe Nancy had killed Daniel, and Benoit killed her in anger, then killed herself. That would have gone along with the "Double Murder-Suicide" thing.
Then later I found out what actually happened. I remember my friend was over here, and once I told him what happened, and how Benoit hung himself, he made a joke (which I wrote here originally but didn't wanna leave in to the more serious nature of the thread). As messed up as it may sound, I did laugh. But that's cause that's how I usually am with bad things. Maybe its how I deal with it. I can feel empathy to a degree, and totally understand how bad things are, but news like school shooting or terrorist attacks or any tragedy never seem to bring me down.
I'll be honest, though, this was an instance that came really close. This was one of those things, kind of like Eddie, but in a much more intense way, would just hit me over and over and over. I'd not think about it for a while, or not think about it in detail for a while, but eventually I would be reminded about how bad it was and is. I just hope I or any wrestling fan has to ever go through anything like that again...
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