JunkerSeed

Sure, ya sold me on Xavier's as long as ya give it a good description. I'm not idealistic enough to think that a million people that think comic books are for kids are gonna come and see the light when they come to the forum. I mean, sure, they'll come out of this forum saying "hmm, they're speaking of great writers and the intricacies of characters... maybe this could be considered art..." then they go to fight club and see "superman would kill ironman cuz ironman is too busy fuckin a sheep to fight lololroflmaohahaha ironman fucks sheep hahahahaha" and that art thing just kinda flies out the window in a haze of buggery. I like the idea tho, so go ahead.

shhhhhhhh.... but yeah.... the whole scene is gonna be one big ass 3 minute take so all stupid people will be background...um, tell you what, if you're smart and you're in the background because we have too many people, I'll give ya a distinguishing characteristic to set you apart. (ie you'll be holding a potato, drinking something green etc) (realizes he will now have to give fookin everyone a distinguishing characteristic) That suitcase will be first on my list right after I get my new computer...

awesome, so far we have a decent number of people comin so it's for sure happening on friday night, I'll call ya up for details. We're gonna have most of the smarter people there doing something, so you may get to do something cooler than being a background person. And I hope it resembles a good film... we decided to make it a comedy cause everyone else in class is either doing an "avant guard" movie with no narrative or some really pretentious movie about a boy coming to terms with his sexuality or somethin.... our film has the protagonists eating someone at the end.... that'll show em

Me and a pal need to make a movie for independant film class, and we're shooting a scene on friday. The scene we're shooting is a big choreographed party scene where the camera will follow a buncha people through a party. So we need a bunch of extras and everything else. My friend literally lives across the street from FIU on coral way, so if anyone isn't doing anything on fri. you're welcome to be an extra, you'll all get free drinks after we're done. And speaking of drinks.... To do the scene we obviously need a bunch of empty bottles to use as props, and we need liquor to pay off the actors & extras, so if any of you 21 and over folks would be willing to help me obtain some drinks that would be appreciated too. We're planning on buying the liquor, emptying it into jugs so that we can use fake liquor for the movie, then serve the real liquor to everyone when we're done. I could get stuff on my own, but it's a pain going from liquor store to liquor store in dirty miami springs.... :shoot: :scared: It'd also help if anyone has empty liquor/beer bottles I can scavenge. So, go ahead an PM me or post here if ya wanna show up or help in any way. oh, and if you're wondering what the movie's about, it's about two guys that sleep through the apocalypse after the big party. :thinking:

Yeah but we're talking about characters, not actors. Micheal Keaton isn't really a dangerous looking guy but I certainly wouldn't fuck with batman. ::dodges easy christopher reeve joke:: Character wise, the pikey jus' wins.

It's a good old-fashioned single player game. Proves that not everything these days is a newfangled MMORPG.

*#$@!!! Dammit MLB you had to remind me about the son's room..... That goddamned thing is only playing in the beach over here where traffic sucks and parking costs your firstborn son... I guess I'll have to make the excursion out there to watch it soon. It'll be out of theaters within like two weeks I bet. As for who's up for best foreign film, sons room aint on there because I don't think it came out in time, it counts for this next year. Nominees this year are Amelie (which ROCKED), Lagaan, No Man's Land (which I was dying to see but nowhere shows it), and a couple i've never head of "Elling," and "Son of the bride."

Hmm, best? Very hard to say.... I guess it would be either In the Bedroom or Monster's Ball.... I guess in the bedroom if I were at gunpoint. Oh, and Amelie is still showing at a scant few theaters. So if you feel like going to coral gables or sunrise (yes, sunrise is in fort lauderdale), that one is probably my favorite of the recent ones. That one and Royal Tenenbaums which sadly is no longer playing. If ya wonder how I find these movies in obscure theaters, try out fandango it helps me find obscure shit in movie theaters I've never heard of.

Once the oscars are given out they're gonna take a bunch of great movies out of theaters so I figure I'd post the few I've been hyping up that are still in theaters. In the Bedroom - Dammit, this one was good. Sure, not a feel-good movie, but great acting and direction, about how people deal with loss. Sounds boring but it had me glued to the seat long after the credits were over... (PLaying at town and country ans sunset place over here in Miami) Monster's Ball - Why is Halle Berry up for an Oscar?... Cause she had the best damned performance this year, thats why. Another one that isn't exactly a ray of sunshine, about two poeple that are too damned miserable to care about race and everything else... Looks great, and written and acted better than anything I've seen for a while. (also playing at sunset and T&C) Gosford Park - Bear with the clusterfuck of characters and you get a great movie about the upper and lower class set in an Agetha Christie-style whodunnit plot. Very funny. (Playing at Kendal 9 down here) A Beautiful mind - I don't really have to say anything about this one. Forget about all you're hearing about it and Russel Crowe and all that crap. Just watch it. Great acting, really interesting and uplifting story. (Playing damned near everywhere.) Black Hawk Down and we were soldiers - Great war movies, very differant from one another but I'm typing too damned much as it is... just watch them Other than that I can tell you nothing reliable because these theaters are switching movies by the week. Currently I'm trying to see if anything is showing Italian for Beginners, the bicycle thief, khandahar, and lantana. So watch those if you find em, they're sure to be pretty good. ::shrugs:: Also looking for "Monsoon Wedding," one of them "bollywood" movies from bombay... I know, they are pretty much musicals, but this goddamned bollywood thing is supposedly a bigger industry than our hollywood, so I'm willing to give it a chance. Post about it if you know anything about those. 'nuther one of those that's supposedly good is "lagaan" which is on video, I'll rent it soon, sounds interesting. Just thought I'd put some titles out there, so if one person sees Monster's Ball instead of Resident Evil my life will be complete.

Year one ***WILL*** rock. Darren Arronsofsky, one of my favorite new directors is making it and miller is writing it... if it isn't the best batman movie yet I'll end my life on the day it opens. :werd:

That almost makes me want to pick the institute... but really, who's going to read into it that much? People dont spend their time here analyzing the forum names... Something more immediately likeable I think would work better.

It's gotta be Pitt in Snatch in a fight. The entire point of his character was that he had this mythical ability to kill somebody in a punch.... norton's character was just really mean and curb-checked people at gunpoint. American History X was a great movie tho, forgot about it comepletely till you mentioned it... Checked up on teh director and it seems he's coming out with something soon about teh cocaine trade. Works for me. So this one boils down to another "doesnt matter whos the better character, this one can beat the other up" poll for me.

Nah, I understand, when you're a fan of anything out of the ordinary, you tend to get defensive when it seems that someone is criticizing it unfairly.(I've been know to belt out "COMICS ARE STUPID!?? Frank Miller writes better than john "I write for hollywood" grisham any day!!!!!") I know a million people that think Anime and RPGs are immature, yet they go out and watch whatever movie the TV is telling them to. Lets see, Ghost in the Shell is about man & machine and evolution and "Bones" is about snoop dog killing people.... gee, I wonder which is more mature.... So I understand about having to defend something you feel strongly about when a million people are usually badmouthing it. Probably shoulda been more clear on my definition of "cartoon." And I'm not saying I wished the storyline was more "adult." damn... I mean, imagine if the whole thing would have been about the mammoth's past and the genocide as humans took over the world... My sister would have been crying her eyes out, and the movie would pretty much cease to be funny... While I still strongly think they need to make one without speech (a 45 minute movie about the muskrat!!!! Dammit why not?) as long as they make traditional animated movies, uncomplicated storylines like this are just fine with me. Sure, it could have been better, but if you want every movie to be the Godfather (of in this case, want every CG movie to be Shrek), you might as well not watch anything. Glad to clear stuff up and still say it was fun, which was the whole point of watching if I remember right.... "Come on kids... get out of there, you can play 'extincion' later"

Ack, seems I struck a nerve. You got me all wrong, and you put a hundred million words in my mouth, I never ever said that everything animated is for 10 year olds. I said that THIS movie is for kids, not that everything animated is for kids. I am one of the adults that watches anime and plays video games. But I will tell you that this particular movie was a cartoon and it was pretty much made for kids. In this one, the storyline was indeed nonexistant, I could tell you everything that was gonna happen from the minute each character opened his mouth. The characters were cookie cutter types you've seen in a billion other movies before (the tough loner who's really a softie inside, the comic releif, the ***SPOILER (if ya didn't see it coming for some odd reason....*** bad guy who sees the err of his ways). They just threw in some generic plot so that they could spend their time getting some good jokes in. This movie was pretty fun and worth watching but in no way does it rank up there with the classic stuff. Shrek had jokes intended for adults ("eat me!") and poked fun at fairy tales, and noone I know is dumb enough to call anime immature. I didn't mention if the story line was good or not because the storyline was certainly not the point of the movie, the laughs and visuals were, and I thought that they worked well enough. I didn't judge this one with the standards I use for other movies, because it would be unfair. Other animated movies are made with adults in mind as well as kids, this one wasn't, IMO.

Check this preview out. It's part 1 of two but gives you a good idea of the gist of the game. I mentioned this one in my rant about stuffI wish more RPGs did. This one's looking to be badass. The ultimate in non-linear interactive stuff. This one's part of a series, the previous one (daggerfall) was one of teh most interactive games I've played. Every single object on every shelf could be taken and examined. Every book on every bookshelf could be read (and not 1 page worth of big text that tells you a hint, entire short stories and manuals in each book), and there was over 100 towns to explore. This one promises to do the same, with an engine that puts your FPSs to shame, and less of a cookie-cutter feel since it'll have a system of culture and politics to it. This is on the top of my list for reasons I'm getting a new computer.

It's a fookin' cartoon. If a character's motivations didn't seem clearly defined or if they thought the storyline wasn't beleiveable that's cause it's a movie about talking prehistoric animals made for 10 year olds... gotta just lighten up sometimes

Hmm, since we're mentioning little know stuff I figure I'll put up a little list of more little known stuff from each director worth watching. Hitchcock - The trouble with harry: Dammit, noone has seen this, and those who have didnt know it was hitchcock. It's Shirley Mcclain's first movie, and Hitchcock's funniest movie by far. Hilarious dark comedy about a bunch of people who find a body and need to bury it. [The Captain and Miss Graveley have afternoon tea together] Captain: A real handsome man's cup. Miss Graveley: It's been in the family for years. My father always used it ... until he died. Captain: I trust he died peacefully. Slipped away in the night? Miss Graveley: He was caught in a threshing machine. Scorsese - King of Comedy: I didn't know this one was so little known.... it has de niro and jerry lewis in it for crissakes, and ironically de niro is the weird character and lewis is the serious one. Oliver Stone - Salvador: Story about a sleezeball reporter who goes to El Salvador to get some greusome pics of teh civil war to jump start his career, based on a true story and all that, great movie. Tim Burton - Short films on the nightmare before christmas DVD: Heartless mentioned em, two great shorts, one about a kid who wants to be vincent price, the other about a kid who reanimates his dog. - Ed wood: Great movie with Johnny Depp about the worst director who ever lived, made plan 9 from outer space if you've ever heard of that. Wes Anderson - Bottle Rocket: Anotehr really funny one about wannabie criminals, highly reccomended. 'bout all I can think of at the moment, feel free to add on Plus some other directors worth checking out: Milos forman - Did One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon, and People vs. Larry Flynt. Good at making movies about outcasts obviously Sean Penn - Yeah, he directs stuff too. I've seen The Crossing Guard and The Pledge, both are about jack nicholson going crazy. But not "Here's Johnny!" typical jack crazy. Both of them are easily Nicholson's most subtle performances ever. You can tell that an actor is directing, both of them are character-study kinds of movies driven by the acting. James Cameron - This guy doesn't get nearly enough credit. He does GOOD american action for chrissakes! Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies. Since the first terminator he's made nothing but great movies. Yes, I'm including Titanic in that, sure it didn't deserve all the insane amounts of hype it got (hell, Godfather 2 doesn't deserve that much fuckin hype) but now that everyone is just plain sick of it, and you're not hearing that goddamned song over and over again, you can go back, watch it, and see it was a fine movie. Sure it's his worst since terminator, but fuck, the worst among certifiable classics, ain't too shabby.

For Arcade (mame and such), Sega Master System, and Neo geo games I go to fileplanet.com, just go to classic games, and they'll have a bunch of stuff. It's a pain in the ass to get anything else nowadays, I'd actually be interested in where to get good NES, SNES, and genesis stuff too.

I just finished seeing this one with my sis, and it was pretty cool. The muskrat thing was definately the highlight (which furthers my point that animals that dont talk are FUNNIER), utterly hilarious. Other favortie part for me was the Dodo army "protecting their way of life." hehe. Oh, and a correction, I noticed Ice age is by 20th century fox, not disney's pixar.... that kinda messes up some of our conversations... ??? Still good stuff tho. Oh, and this does belong here in anime, I forget when but we specified a while back that this does include american animation too.

Yeah, go ahead and get morpheus or Kazaa, I use Kazaa personally, been working just as well as napster did for me, if not better since you can get software and video too.

Ah, good timing for this topic, when I get to Orlando em and my friends were thinking of each learning to play something and forming a really shitty band. I've wanted to learn guitar for a while. What would be a decent, cheap way to start? From the way the thread is going I can see acoustic isn't the best way to learn, so what do you all think is a good starter, and around how much should it cost me?

Oh, I played long enough. Last I heard my character descended into madness after god knows how many levels worth of hunting mummies (which come about once every ten minutes and give like 2 exp when you were my level) in the same damned ten game spaces of the crypt. "Hunt higher level stuff" you say, "group up!" I would have if bad luck and pretentious role players hadn't have gotten in the way. See, after that one instance in the history of GS3 where two characters had the same name (cloud), my name was sullied with stories of me saying dumb shit on that crystal network thing (which I spoke on once to sell a sword or something, and that went well as far as I can tell) Then there was the cooincidence that the name cloud is also the name of one of the most dangerous things in the game. Doesn't help when my name appears in bright red on the screen. And other than that bad luck, there were the holier than thou "the only good fantasy is contained in 9000 page books" people that just hated me cause my name was from FF7, I even tried to roleplay it off and say i was named after a legendary hero or something. No, FF7 was too "mainstream" for these people. So mike telling me that I'd get cool spells in 6 more levels and that they are gonna be implementing cool stuff for level 80 rangers didn't lift my spirits much. I ended up spending half of my time collecting toys and pastries. My warrior named after sepiroth fared a little better, tho he still got bitched at for his name, but the warrior class wasn't interesting enough for me to keep playing.

I voted for link, because see, first max will walk up to link, smack him, then freeze in one place. As max waits for link to be done with his turn, link, having no concept of turns, will pulvarize him and throw a bunch of bombs on him till he dies. :sly:

ooo, there's a damned bunch of great thing that RPGs have done that noone caught up on. The first few come from one of my favorite RPGs of all time, fallout. One great thing it had was a "perk" system. As you level up, about every 4 levels along with your stats increase, you would get a perk. This could range from getting +2 chance of stealing stuff, or being able to see and enemies hit points and inventory. It was a good way to keep your character interesting, and give you a vastly different character every time you play the game. Speaking of vastly different characters, another thing it did really well was to be able to do everything in the game in very different ways. For just about every challenge, there was a way to get through with combat, diplomacy, stealth, and usually also one that any character, no matter how shitty can do, but it's usually the hardest. More games should do this, in fallout your intelligence matters even if you're a plain fighter. Make it too low and all your character can say is stuff like "you ugly" (actual quote) and you find yourself getting into a fight with half of the people in the game. Another thing I like, is to be allowed to be evil. In fallout, at first you can just be an ass by screwing people over (ie "some of my cattle (which are two headed) are lost, save them!" and you proceed to find them, then slaughter them, along with the few that weren't lost....) or just by picking insulting speach choices. When I got good enough though, I found myself taking over towns, killing every living thing within a mile radius. In fallout two you can even make money by capturing people as slaves for a slave trading company. In your stats you even earn fun ratings like "child killer" and "lunatic." At the end of the game, you get a round up of each town's fate, according to whether you decided to help them or not. I know you can have an evil alignment in other games like baldur's gate, but it that game it means not being able to finish the game. In fallout you can save your people, but be a real asshole doing it. Oh, and from the makers of fallout, there's another great one called arcanum, that i haven't bought yet but played the demo and it has asome great ideas in it too. When you create your character, you can optionally choose some traits for him to have. They all have strengths and weaknesses. For example, you can choose to be butt ugly, of course, this makes people react more negatively to you then they normally would, but all the beatings you got as a kid increased your endurance. You could also be a book worm, which increases intelligence related stats but makes you damn near blind from staring at text, and so on. I just love any new way to customize your character. 'nuther cool thing about that game is there's a dichotomy between magic and technology. Since technology uses the rules of physics and magic breaks them, they can't coexist very well. For example, a gun will constantly jam in a mage's hand, and a demolition's expert will have to heal with potions, because spells will rarely do much to him. However, you don't pick classes in the game. You start pretty much neutral, and as you go along, you can choose to stay neutral and be decent at both tech and magic, or specialize. It creates a cool world where the magic people and tech people resent each other, the magic folks sticking to the old ways and the tech ones embracing the industrial revolution. Straying from the makers of fallout and their insanely innovative non-tolkein-esque games, a game called daggerfall (also on the pc) was basically the ultimate in non-linear gameplay. While it was flawed (bugs galore, vague plot) it did some great things. One was letting you make any damned character on earth. If it wasn't part of the huge class list, you could make your own class. Everything was an option. Sunlight, water, different types of metal, could hurt you or heal you if you choose them to, you could be healed or hurt by killing a certain type of monster ( or person) etc etc etc etc etc. The same company is coming out with one called Morrowind which will have the same basic concept and hopefully more polished gameplay. But I like the idea of there being, for all intents and purposes, an infinite number of different characters to play as. More games seem to be going in this direction (like the superhero mmorpg) so that makes me happy. I'll stop rambling now, but those are good examples from games I know not all of you have played.

Thought I'd jump in on this. predictable coming from me, yes, but it's an incredible album with great art. The most underrated cd I can think of. Great black and white photography used in the booklet and cover. People who call the pumpkins "those 'rat in a cage' guys" need not apply And brought to you by our favorite optomistic ball of sunshine, trent reznor... couldn't see the thread run it's course without this one. I can't say enough about this cd, radiohead is too damned good heh, very cool cover to a very cool cd Sure, joshua tree brings back more memories, but this is their coolest cover if this one doesn't bring back memories, I dont know what does.