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Pilchenstein posted:So the books are as bad as the show is what you're telling me? Worse.
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Organza Quiz posted:I watched Snowpiercer on Netflix the other day. I got  Irrationally Irritated by the gunfight between the two guys as the train went around a bend. First off, the train is moving at high speed down a slope around in a circle-- that's got to be a hard as poo poo shot to land with really weird leading, particularly for someone who has never once had the opportunity to fire a weapon. Of course, both sides get a symbolic headshot on the other.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:27
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Pilchenstein posted:So the books are as bad as the show is what you're telling me? People keep saying that but honestly I don't see it. The books aren't anything particularly special but they're a reliable way to kill an hour every time a new TBP comes out. The show on the other hand literally would not survive if it weren't the only big-budget "no frills" zombie apocalypse show on TV.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:28
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It has like 11 million viewers. It could afford to lose 2/3 of that.
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mind the walrus posted:The show on the other hand literally would not survive if it weren't the only big-budget "no frills" zombie apocalypse show on TV. Yes that's the only reason why its the highest rated show on cable.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:41
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes that's the only reason why its the highest rated show on cable. At its core, yes. It's the only game in town for a genre that has never been represented on TV before and has the full weight of AMC's marketing behind it.
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Nov 17, 2014 19:48
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MariusLecter posted:The "Things often go over my head and that makes me angry" thread? Explain how eating something that could contain the blood of an undead person isn't a big risk, instead of just being an rear end in a top hat.
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Nov 17, 2014 21:36
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Henchman of Santa posted:Explain how eating something that could contain the blood of an undead person isn't a big risk, instead of just being an rear end in a top hat. The impact is from no one being able to explain it. They don't loving know and it gets them killed.
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There was one part of Interstellar that really bothered me. Not so much that it happened, but that they seemed to have done a lot of homework on space and physics, while the one scene they talk about biology was complete nonsense. They say that our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and only about 20% oxygen, so it's not really all that great for us because more oxygen would be better right? The blight can breathe nitrogen, so it's going to do a lot better than us. Except we're adapted to a 20% oxygen atmosphere and higher levels can be toxic. Plus nothing can or would ever breathe dinitrogen gas, since it's an incredibly stable molecule that takes a ton of energy to rip apart. It's so annoying because a 5 minute phone call to somebody who knows the first thing about respiration could have fixed it and they could have just as easily said "the blight is consuming a ton of oxygen while destroying the plants that produce more."
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Eibon posted:There was one part of Interstellar that really bothered me. Not so much that it happened, but that they seemed to have done a lot of homework on space and physics, while the one scene they talk about biology was complete nonsense. They say that our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and only about 20% oxygen, so it's not really all that great for us because more oxygen would be better right? The blight can breathe nitrogen, so it's going to do a lot better than us. Except we're adapted to a 20% oxygen atmosphere and higher levels can be toxic. Plus nothing can or would ever breathe dinitrogen gas, since it's an incredibly stable molecule that takes a ton of energy to rip apart. It's so annoying because a 5 minute phone call to somebody who knows the first thing about respiration could have fixed it and they could have just as easily said "the blight is consuming a ton of oxygen while destroying the plants that produce more." I assumed they meant that the Earth wasnt perfect and life just adapted, so another planet doesnt have to be perfect either but it could still work.
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What bothered me more is that blight seems like a much more simple problem to solve than interstellar travel and colonization.
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Evilreaver posted:I got Oh man seriously. I'm not a TFR nerd but I swear that scene made no sense, they were like half a mile away.
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Not to mention that only one of them is using a gun that's good for anything more than a few dozen feet, and there's a drat snowstorm at all times.
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Eibon posted:There was one part of Interstellar that really bothered me. Not so much that it happened, but that they seemed to have done a lot of homework on space and physics, while the one scene they talk about biology was complete nonsense. They say that our atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and only about 20% oxygen, so it's not really all that great for us because more oxygen would be better right? The blight can breathe nitrogen, so it's going to do a lot better than us. Except we're adapted to a 20% oxygen atmosphere and higher levels can be toxic. Plus nothing can or would ever breathe dinitrogen gas, since it's an incredibly stable molecule that takes a ton of energy to rip apart. It's so annoying because a 5 minute phone call to somebody who knows the first thing about respiration could have fixed it and they could have just as easily said "the blight is consuming a ton of oxygen while destroying the plants that produce more." The blight isn't alive.
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Aphrodite posted:The blight isn't alive. Then what the gently caress is it?
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Aphrodite posted:They're not going to be alone. He's just going there early so she doesn't have to be alone. The rest of humanity are in stations around the wormhole getting ready to move everyone. It's heavily implied that he goes there for love, which doesn't make a lick of sense.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Walking Dead is obviously full of irritating moments, but one that always bugged me and made me quit watching was the episode in first season where a guy has "visions" and digs graves all day making everyone upset and they tie him up to make him stop, only to find the dead invade the camp and they need to bury people (plus why they have cans tied to strings on only two sides of the camp is retarded). Wouldn't they have to dig graves anyway? Why dedicate an episode to someone being "crazy but omniscient" if they'd have to do the same thing regardless?
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Tunicate posted:Then what the gently caress is it? Blight is a real thing. I guess yeah it's technically alive but not the way he was thinking.
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I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes.
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Mans posted:I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes. I read somewhere that Season 2 was written as events that took place in about 2 weeks, but the way it was paced I thought it was supposed to be over the span of a few months. By the end, when they opened up the barn, I may have said "Oh thank god, the kid is dead, they can stop wasting all their time now".
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Nov 18, 2014 11:59
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Mans posted:I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes. Because it's a fun way to spend an hour with friends on a Sunday night before everyone goes back to work on Monday. Season 2 was weak, but the last couple have been good.
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Mans posted:I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes. 
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Season 4 was so bad. Nothing happened. Everything was just a bunch of character studies while the show teased you with the advent of Terminus. Here comes Terminus, guys! It'll be really cool when it happens in season 5 The only thing that was remotely interesting was that girl who sympathized with zombies, and even that seemed a little too absurd to take seriously.
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Mans posted:I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes. Because it changed showrunners and became a much more entertaining show. They seem to have finally found the right formula in season 5.
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Mans posted:I don't understand how anyone kept watching that show after they spent a whole season arguing whether to leave a farmhouse or not with barely anything happening during hour long episodes. The comic has been doing that for over a hundred issues. They find a place, stay there until Kirkman mines every last bit of drama from it, kills a bunch of people and then they find a new place.
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Seventh Arrow posted:The only thing that was remotely interesting was that girl who sympathized with zombies, and even that seemed a little too absurd to take seriously. Len posted:The comic has been doing that for over a hundred issues. They find a place, stay there until Kirkman mines every last bit of drama from it, kills a bunch of people and then they find a new place.
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Pilchenstein posted:I laughed my crabs off for a week when she killed that other little girl. They clearly meant it to be this huge moment that would shock people and it was so predictable and stupid - they clearly think they're making The Wire or Breaking Bad or something but they're so pedestrian it hurts. Like the episode the other week with that lass in the hospital - you know from the very start it's going to turn out to be a rapey hospital because they've done cannibals and psychopaths and rape is next on the big list of shocking things they're working from.
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Pilchenstein posted:Say what you like about Walking Dead, it's better than Sons of loving Anarchy. I started watching that because for some reason everyone raves about it, but gave up on it after the first three episodes. Does it get better after that, or is the entire thing "we are *~lone wolfs~* who are free to do as we like, including trafficking hookers, I guess they're not all that free but don't pay attention to them, this show is all about us"?
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Stottie Kyek posted:I started watching that because for some reason everyone raves about it, but gave up on it after the first three episodes. Does it get better after that, or is the entire thing "we are *~lone wolfs~* who are free to do as we like, including trafficking hookers, I guess they're not all that free but don't pay attention to them, this show is all about us"? At some point, IRA people appear, at which point it becomes awesome or incredibly bad depending on who you talk to.
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All I've heard about Sons of Anarchy is that it's Hamlet on motorcycles. If it's anything like other FX dramas I've tried (Rescue Me, The Bridge), it's conceptually cool but isn't quite executed well enough.
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Henchman of Santa posted:All I've heard about Sons of Anarchy is that it's Hamlet on motorcycles. If it's anything like other FX dramas I've tried (Rescue Me, The Bridge), it's conceptually cool but isn't quite executed well enough. With Interstellar I was a bit irritated at the fact that the lady scientist is the one who succumbs most to sentimentality and THE POWER OF THE HEART. McConaughey's character gets sentimental and schmaltzy too, but for the most part he's the paragon of cold logic alongside the guy who gets blown up by Matt Damon. I mean, I'm not usually this kind of dude and it's probably irrational, but I was kinda like "For real?". I get that they're all under extreme pressure but the scene comes off kind of like McConaughey has to talk down this irrational sentimental woman and her rejection of logic. The fact that she was right didn't really change that. It's like the idea that Hillary Clinton wouldn't make a good president because she'd be, I don't know, blushing because Vlad Putin took his shirt off or something, or she's unable to be firm under pressure. Also maybe the great perfect astronaut guy Matt Damon stubbornly trying to jam himself into an explosive decompression situation like it's a vending machine claw game, apparently unaware of the fact that "this ought to about do it!!!" is an extremely dangerous way to dock in outerspace. I mean, Hathaway scientist knew it was a bad idea but Matt Damon is just like "Shut up, shut up, I've almost got this!! Just JAM UP IN THERE, I'm sure this isn't dangerous!!!!" I guess I'm more amused by the scene than angry at it though, it's excusable by saying they updated docking procedures since he's been gone and/or Matt Damon was just survival instinct/space crazy.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:At some point, IRA people appear, at which point it becomes awesome or incredibly bad depending on who you talk to. Ha, that's the point where I lost interest in the show. lovely local chapter goes on wacky hijinx in Ireland! I hear it only gets worse (or better if you're so inclined). First few seasons weren't half bad though. Instead, watch Justified.
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mng posted:Ha, that's the point where I lost interest in the show. lovely local chapter goes on wacky hijinx in Ireland! I hear it only gets worse (or better if you're so inclined). First few seasons weren't half bad though. I had to give up on Sons of Anarchy around season 4 because it got so bad, then I jumped onto Justified and it was so much better, although Boyd Crowder is by far the more likeable character over Raylan Givens and feels more like the protagonist to me now. Season 5 was a little weak but I'm hoping they're saving their best till last.
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Jerusalem posted:I had to give up on Sons of Anarchy around season 4 because it got so bad, then I jumped onto Justified and it was so much better, although Boyd Crowder is by far the more likeable character over Raylan Givens and feels more like the protagonist to me now. Season 5 was a little weak but I'm hoping they're saving their best till last. I should rewatch season 5 before the next season, but yeah I agree it was a bit on the milder side. I'm not sure if I miss Raylan shooting a bad guy every episode or not Boyd 'Crazy Hair' Crowder is great. In fact, anyone with crazy hair on that show is great.
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Murphy Brownback posted:My favorite mistake in Gladiator is the dude walking around in blue jeans in the background for a second or so during one of the earlier scenes, where Russell is petting a horse or something. I guess something like that is easy to miss if you aren't specifically looking for it, but you'd think they'd be extra careful about stuff like that for a "historical"/period movie. The thing that irritates me most about Gladiator is the fact that Hollywood refuses to get the thumbs up/thumbs down thing right.
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Gordon Shumway posted:The thing that irritates me most about Gladiator is the fact that Hollywood refuses to get the thumbs up/thumbs down thing right.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Because it changed showrunners and became a much more entertaining show. They seem to have finally found the right formula in season 5. So you only need to sit through 3.9* seasons of dreck to get to the good stuff? Sign me up!  *the first episode of the first season was good, and all I've seen of it. I'm ok with this.
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In The Walking Dead, where the gently caress are all the flies? Every zombie should be full of maggots. For that poo poo, the gently caress are all the animals? Dogs, cats, loving birds?
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Cowslips Warren posted:In The Walking Dead, where the gently caress are all the flies? Every zombie should be full of maggots. For that poo poo, the gently caress are all the animals? Dogs, cats, loving birds? As for the maggots and flies that's just a SFX budget thing. Pretend they're repulsed by the same magical conditioner that the characters use on their hair or the fantasy wax that keeps their Hyundais shiny and polished all through season two (where it became a running joke for me and my friends).
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Well which is it in Gladiator and how is it supposed to work? Thumbs up means you DO want the guy to die and thumbs down means you don't? I think the Hollywood version is more...cinematic, if that's the case. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the closest the romans had up to thumbs up/thumbs down was holding out your hand with the thumb either tucked inside the fist (pollux compressed or something like that but more latiny) or with the thumb extended out. The thumbs up/down idea is an invention of much later artists. It was probably an episode of QI, and I'm probably misremembering it at least a bit.
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