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kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 0:04

Grim... wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Didn't we do a Thing-based MafiaScum? Or was it just something Grim... and I spent ages discussing?

Considering I only watched it for the first time a few weeks ago I doubt it.

Hmm! I don't remember that either, obviously. Going to look quite silly if it turns up, and I played in it.

Anyway. Perfect for it. I will do it if it's not been done.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Dimrill wrote:

Nah, it's much better than Alien because it didn't spawn a slew of shitty sequels each shittier than the last. And James Cameron wasn't involved at any point.

Aliens>>>>Alien>>>>Alien 3>>Hitler>Boosh>Alien Resurrection

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:21

Meh. Alien = lovely brooding atmosphere. Aliens = a clump of whooping Jeremy Clarksons being insufferable for two hours.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:16

kalmar wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Didn't we do a Thing-based MafiaScum? Or was it just something Grim... and I spent ages discussing?

Considering I only watched it for the first time a few weeks ago I doubt it.

Hmm! I don't remember that either, obviously. Going to look quite silly if it turns up, and I played in it.

Anyway. Perfect for it. I will do it if it's not been done.

I believe it was discussed on the forum as a potential theme, and someone (Craster?) said it was one of the more popular variations.

We've not done it, though.

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

Dimrill wrote:

Meh. Alien = lovely brooding atmosphere. Aliens = a clump of whooping Jeremy Clarksons being insufferable for two hours.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:13

kalmar wrote:

I've been meaning to get around to seeing 'The Thing' for years

I can't believe you've only just seen it! Glad you liked it, it's one of my all time faves.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:20

I watched 'Evan Almighty' last night. It wasn't terribly good.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:21

Zardoz wrote:

kalmar wrote:

I've been meaning to get around to seeing 'The Thing' for years

I can't believe you've only just seen it! Glad you liked it, it's one of my all time faves.

Now also one of mine. I'll see if I can find Dimrill's other recommendations too.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:23

MaliA wrote:

I watched 'Evan Almighty' last night. It wasn't terribly good.

I watched "The American" last night. It was surprisingly quite good. Very high scoring on the Craster scale too (1).

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10092

I watched Kung-Fu Panda 2 last night.

I was a second Kung-Fu Panda film.

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 13:56

Zardoz wrote:

kalmar wrote:

I've been meaning to get around to seeing 'The Thing' for years

I can't believe you've only just seen it! Glad you liked it, it's one of my all time faves.

Haven't seen it myself yet. I should probably do something about it.

Watched Source Code yesterday. That wasn't bad, although I'd have just preferred the

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

using memories of the past to affect the future (which itself is a fair old stretch anyway as when Colter gets off the train and tracks down the truck of the bomber, the details of which wouldn't have been in any of the passengers' memories) bit rather than the creation of parallel universes and all that.

Still... I enjoyed it and it was a nice touch to have Scott Bakula playing Colter's father.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 14:03

BikNorton wrote:

I watched Kung-Fu Panda 2 last night.

I was a second Kung-Fu Panda film.

I was an aubergine. I got better.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 16:05

I saw 'Megamind' the other day.

Surprisingly good.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 23:43

Repost, because it's still fantastic (like the film, wrong-uns):

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markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16570

Cor, looking forward to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpA6TC0T_Lw

Film about the "Tuskegee Airmen", flight sequences look awesome.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 17:50

That looks awesome.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16570

It really does. I generally haven't liked any CGI dogfight sequences I've seen before but that looks splendid. Decent director at the helm too, he did some of The Wire.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Also, cast:

Quote:

Bryan Cranston as Col. William Mortamus

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

This seems like a better use of time than that (apparently shelved) Akira remake.
http://youtu.be/i-M5Qx57_UU

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

LewieP wrote:

This seems like a better use of time than that (apparently shelved) Akira remake.
http://youtu.be/i-M5Qx57_UU

That looks really fucking good!

LaceSensor · **Joined:** 2nd Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3137

LewieP wrote:

This seems like a better use of time than that (apparently shelved) Akira remake.
http://youtu.be/i-M5Qx57_UU

thanks for poiting this out, looks really good.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:06

LewieP wrote:

This seems like a better use of time than that (apparently shelved) Akira remake.
http://youtu.be/i-M5Qx57_UU

Don't need to watch the film now after that trailer.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Oh yeah, that was being advertised all the time on telly when I was in Spain.

It looks more Abrams than any actual Abrams film.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 21:06

I watched Twilight on the train today.

I thought it was good.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Goodness, really? It's appalling. The story's vaguely OK, but the characters of the two 'heroes' have to be the least likeable people I've ever seen.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

And not deliberately unlikeable, either.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 21:36

They certainly like standing an inch apart from each other having whispered arguments while doing soap opera face actering.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 22:09

I liked it, but then I do seem to have a much higher emo threshold than other people (I also had no problems with the later seasons of Buffy or BS:G).
I didn't expect to like Twilight, and there's a lot wrong with it, sure - the girl could do with cracking a smile during the first 80 minutes, and it was (like every other film in the last decade) too long, but other than that it was fine. I loved the baseball game - that's what vampires should be like - fucking strong, fucking fast and dripping with cool. Not some long-toothed dicks that can be kicked in by a girl that knows a little Kung Fu (take note, Blade 3). The lack of any vulnerabilities was a little grating, but I can live with that.

Will probably watch the next one now.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Grim... wrote:

The lack of any vulnerabilities was a little grating

Other than love poems and moonlight walks, I assume you mean.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 22:23

No, vampires should be fucking evil horrors like in From Dusk Till Dawn.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 22:27

WTF!!!

Ok, I admit, I didn't think it was all that bad. The next one is properly tedious rubbish though.

Buffy works because it's well written and funny, and this isn't that.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38483

Fucking hell Grim... even MaliA has his limits.

pupil · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 22:39

I watched 30 Days of Night last week, the film was ok but the vampires in that were fucking badass!! That's how I want my vampires please!

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 23:04

Dimrill wrote:

No, vampires should be fucking evil horrors like in From Dusk Till Dawn.

Or this. Although they were still a bit weak.

Craster wrote:

Grim... wrote:

The lack of any vulnerabilities was a little grating

Other than love poems and moonlight walks, I assume you mean.

I don't think there were either of those things. Maybe they're in a sequel?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

The Mormon sexual politics in Twilight are quite interesting. And discomforting. Read this: http://www.cracked.com/article_19582_if ... onest.html

...on second thoughts, don't. It has spoilers for the last film (the third, I think?)

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 23:47

GODDAMNIT I'VE BEEN ON CRACKED.COM FOR LESS THAN 60 SECONDS AND I HAVE FOUR TABS WORTH OF THE DAMNED THING OPEN

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14365

kalmar wrote:

Ok, I admit, I didn't think it was all that bad. The next one is properly tedious rubbish though.

That's how I often sum up the first one, but Twlight 2? It has an hour of the mongy looking woman just being sad in her bedroom. Awful, awful, awful.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 0:18

Grim... wrote:

GODDAMNIT I'VE BEEN ON CRACKED.COM FOR LESS THAN 60 SECONDS AND I HAVE FOUR TABS WORTH OF THE DAMNED THING OPEN

Two stories to go. You dick.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:13

I hate you.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:19

This one is particularly sciency and nerdish. Very satisfactory.

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:25

Grim... wrote:

GODDAMNIT I'VE BEEN ON CRACKED.COM FOR LESS THAN 60 SECONDS AND I HAVE FOUR TABS WORTH OF THE DAMNED THING OPEN

Heh. I've just read this one and can't fault it.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:26

Good lord. The female thing in Black Eyed Peas voiced Patty in Peanuts. That blows my freaking mind.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:44

Gods in various heavens.

this wrote:

Kevin Smith was brought in to write the screenplay, but he had to work with the ridiculous conditions imposed by producer Jon Peters: Superman could not be seen flying, couldn't wear the classic costume (Peters insisted on a black suit) and somehow, someway, had to fight a giant spider at the end.

Peters and Warner Bros. wanted the villain Brainiac to punch polar bears at Superman's Fortress of Solitude, presumably to work in a Coke sponsorship. Due to the success of the recent release of the original Star Wars Trilogy, Peters wanted Braniac to have a robot sidekick -- "a gay R2-D2 with attitude" -- and Lex Luthor to have a space dog, because "Chewie's [Chewbacca] cuddly, man. You could make a toy out of him, so you've got to give me a dog."

TK-421 · **Joined:** 27th Feb, 2009 **Posts:** 244

Dimrill wrote:

this wrote:

Kevin Smith was brought in to write the screenplay, but he had to work with the ridiculous conditions imposed by producer Jon Peters: Superman could not be seen flying, couldn't wear the classic costume (Peters insisted on a black suit) and somehow, someway, had to fight a giant spider at the end.

According to Kevin Smith, Peters was obsessed with having a giant spider in a movie.

It's almost funny how he was a producer on Wild Wild West a short time later.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:15

Dimrill wrote:

Good lord. The female thing in Black Eyed Peas voiced Patty in Peanuts. That blows my freaking mind.

Same here. I'm astonished.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38483

I only visit cracked if I have a few hours to spare. It sucks you in with the power of a dozen snopes.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Re: Twilight this and this have recently made me laugh. The first one plays into the stuff the Doc mentioned about the none-too-subtle sexual politics of it all. Note that, if you're actually watching these things (you sad-sack motherfucker) those are probably spoilery as all hell.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:33

myp wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Good lord. The female thing in Black Eyed Peas voiced Patty in Peanuts. That blows my freaking mind.

Same here. I'm astonished.

Far more astonished about Uncle Phil being Shredder, personally.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:39

Grim... wrote:

I watched Twilight on the train today.

I thought it was good.

Fucking Hell Grim...

Even when he does his fucking glitter shit in the sun and not burn to a shrieking fucking crisp? Even the lead totty is a dull looking, boring twat who couldn't smile if she shat winning scratch cards.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

DavPaz wrote:

I only visit cracked if I have a few hours to spare. It sucks you in with the power of a dozen snopes.

See also: TVTropes. Or don't, because it'll eat your whole day and sit there laughing.

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