Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

first post, daaaamnit -_-

on a completely random note, I wonder why Frodo and his ragtag fellowship just fly on the giant eagles straight to Mount doom and drop the ring in the volcano like that, cut out the Two Towers and ROTK

Also what I don't get, sorry if someone's already mentioned it, but how come aragorn goes stabbing and slashing all the blood riders and setting them on fire, then they all get washed down the river by a tidal wave, and aragorn's all like ohh they can't die... Then all eowyn has to do is stab the witch king in the face and he dies?!

Because Eowyn isn't a man. They can't be killed by men. That's why you get the cheesy "I am no man" line.

But Arwen couldn't kill them and she's an elf..

Think it had something to do with Merry attacking him first (as he's not technically a Man, but a hobbit).

Without him being attacked by Merry, it seems Eowyn wouldn't have been able to kill him.

If we're mentioning great British t.v., I think Peep Show certainly deserves a mention. As does The Office.



Extras was good, but I do feel it was eclipsed by The Office. As for Spooks, I didn't like it beyond the first two seasons. Already, at that point, it was endlessly repeating the same 'countdown-to-save-the-world' scenarios.


I've only seen sporadic episodes of The Sopranos, so I can't judge. The Wire is, however, phenomenal. Likewise, Seinfeld could rightly be called the forerunner for most sitcoms (especially Friends).

But Arwen couldn't kill them and she's an elf..

Ohhh so if they hadn't broken the rules and gone out to war then theoden would have been eaten by the nazgul because everyone else was men. Cool!
But then in that case, frodo could have just killed him on weathertop rather than just flopping on the floor xD my friend and I had a very heated debate the other day about whether or not frodo is a wuss because compared to the other hobbits, he actually does very little. I argued that he did save sam once and he killed gollum, buuut then again...

Pirates 4 really grossed that much? what the **** O_o looks like Pirates 5 is guaranteeed

Stakeland, now that's a film I wanna see

I badly need to watch senna, the beaver and perhaps I'll try bridesmaids 0.0. Has anyone seen any of these films? I also really need finally see Hanna, confessions and black swan. I know I'm behind but there is no cinema in my town.

No.

You know, before I read Twilight, I was firmly convinced that people have the right to enjoy whatever they please. Many would heap scorn upon my obsession with Star Wars, and every argument I would make fell upon deaf ears. As such, I felt a peculiar kinship with these people; they liked something outside of the norm, something not everyone would be on board with. Why did they deserve so much crap for liking something that didn't fall in line with most other people's interests?


Then I read the book.

Every poorly-constructed sentence, every instance of Edward and Bella looking longingly at one other, the climax that exists solely because you can't have a vampire novel without someone getting ****ed up led to everything negative everyone said being wholly justified.

I will never forgive the lady in question for subjecting me to that, I will never forgive Ms. Meyer for writing it. I will never forgive the publisher for thinking it might be something someone might want to eventually read. My faith in literature, art and humanity was destroyed completely.

I might not like the films of, say, James Cameron, but I can at least respect the craftsmanship, and that even if his pictures are essentially cliche-ridden nonsense, something important happens whenever he directs a film. Meyer contributes nothing to anything. She documents her sex dreams and sells them by the ton.

There, there. Go read Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace will make everything better.

Haha. Sorry all, that was a fairly drunken, idiotic, rambling post.

I do want to read some David Foster Wallace, but I've ordered Cloud Atlas because people keep banging on about it and I have to get through that first.

I think Infinite Jest may be the best book I've read so far and that says a lot since I've read a lot.

I don't like the name. People need to stop quoting Hamlet in titles, it's annoying as ****. But I have some marathon flights coming up and will need stuff to read after the Mitchell book so I will buy it. If it's not the greatest novel I've ever read -and it almost definitely won't be- expect a vicious rebuke.

I like the "points" system that operates in Battlefield. The fact that I can sit behind a teammate's tank, as an Engineer, and repair it for a consistent slew of points and then get into the tank and take down the enemy with the tank's machine gun. I thought the addition of your own 'squad' within the team was a great feature too, as helping them earned you three times the points and you could use them to spawn on. The downside of this was the difficulty the server often found in selecting me a squad.

I thought it died because he'd stabbed in the mouth? Quite how a puny little sword would kill something that size is beyond me though. :hmmm2:.

You're forgetting the golden rule of POTC: anything that kills thousands of people, is legendary for how fearsome and devastating it is: Blackbeard's magic, Calypso, the Kraken, the crew of the Black Pearl, is only able to slightly scare and inconvenience Jack Sparrow.

No.

You know, before I read Twilight, I was firmly convinced that people have the right to enjoy whatever they please. Many would heap scorn upon my obsession with Star Wars, and every argument I would make fell upon deaf ears. As such, I felt a peculiar kinship with these people; they liked something outside of the norm, something not everyone would be on board with. Why did they deserve so much crap for liking something that didn't fall in line with most other people's interests?

Then I read the book.

Every poorly-constructed sentence, every instance of Edward and Bella looking longingly at one other, the climax that exists solely because you can't have a vampire novel without someone getting ****ed up led to everything negative everyone said being wholly justified.

I will never forgive the lady in question for subjecting me to that, I will never forgive Ms. Meyer for writing it. I will never forgive the publisher for thinking it might be something someone might want to eventually read. My faith in literature, art and humanity was destroyed completely.

I might not like the films of, say, James Cameron, but I can at least respect the craftsmanship, and that even if his pictures are essentially cliche-ridden nonsense, something important happens whenever he directs a film. Meyer contributes nothing to anything. She documents her sex dreams and sells them by the ton.