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skasion posted:To be fair, TOS has two and a half main characters, so even that was a pretty big step up Yeah, but then the TNG movies came along and it turned into the Picard & Data show.
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In some parallel quantum dimension, there's a really awesome TNG movie that is mostly about Riker, Geordi and Dr. Crusher.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Yeah, but then the TNG movies came along and it turned into the Picard & Data show. The average American Movie Goer can't comprehend more than 2 main characters.
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Met posted:The joke is that Uhura is black. Well done. The joke is that he's so stupid he thinks the south are the ones who decided slaves should only count as 3/5ths of a person.
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Kitchner posted:The average American Movie Goer can't comprehend more than 2 main characters. Nah, there's been plenty of good, successful movies with more than two main characters. It's a failure of the writers.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Nah, there's been plenty of good, successful movies with more than two main characters. It's a failure of the writers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films 1. Avatar - Main dude and blue lady, everyone else is the bad guy or extras 2. Titanic - Irish dude and rich bitch 3. Jurassic World - Star Lord and the woman 4. The Avengers - OK you win this one 5. Furious 7 - Haven't watched this but I'm going to guess there's a guy and a love interest 6. The Avengers 2 - Same as last time 7. Harry Potter 6: 2 - Harry and Voldemort 8. Frozen - Two sisters 9. Iron Man 3 - Iron Man and his wife/PA 10. Minions - haven't seen this either, do individual Minions matter? That's like 7 out of 10 with two main characters.
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Kitchner posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films 3. Kids were in half the movie 5. There's Dead Guy, The Rock, and love interests, 7: Hermoine and Ron are bad guys and extras. 10: There's 3 main minions
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Hans has just as many lines as Elsa and Anna.
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With a score of 9 goonfats out of 10, smuglord has defeated the idea that there are plenty of good movies with multiple main characters by successfully obscuring his eyes with cheek fat when somebody tries to use the word "plenty" to mean "not on the top 10 list of highest grossing movies" Also, apparently Hermione Granger wasn't a main character. Neither were any villains whatsoever. Actually, it sort of looks like "main characters" can only mean "the two with the most screen time" so I sort of wonder why anyone even got in the ring with the one fat idiot on earth in charge of defining this poo poo, right? Anyway, Smuglord's thesis, that normies are all stupid and he's not, remains fixed to the earth like it weights three hundred and thirty pounds, until the Day of the Fatal Sleep Apnea. congrats bro Tujague fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Tujague posted:With a score of 9 goonfats out of 10, smuglord has defeated the idea that there are plenty of good movies with multiple main characters by successfully obscuring his eyes with cheek fat when somebody tries to use the word "plenty" to mean "not on the top 10 list of highest grossing movies" your posts should be hauled away as gaaarbaaaaaage
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The other thing to mention is every single one of those films is that they make use of a lot of big effects, CG or action scenes, too. Going off that list, the first films that sort of 'doesn't' fall into that category is The Lion King at #24, maybe, but it's still animated which I don't know... The last year where a non-animated, non-heavy action/FX film was the highest grossing film of the year appeared to be 1990 with Ghost.
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Tujague posted:With a score of 9 goonfats out of 10, smuglord has defeated the idea that there are plenty of good movies with multiple main characters by successfully obscuring his eyes with cheek fat when somebody tries to use the word "plenty" to mean "not on the top 10 list of highest grossing movies" Why are you so very angry You were mean to Terry Dax and now you're mean to whatever the gently caress people You should relax. Get your peenie slickled.
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I'd be friends with any one/any thing named "Terry Dax".
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Tujague posted:With a score of 9 goonfats out of 10, smuglord has defeated the idea that there are plenty of good movies with multiple main characters by successfully obscuring his eyes with cheek fat when somebody tries to use the word "plenty" to mean "not on the top 10 list of highest grossing movies" Man if I knew that post was going to trigger you so badly I'd have posted it sooner.
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shadow puppet of a posted:I'd be friends with any one/any thing named "Terry Dax". Im sure the Dax symbiont would immediately wriggle out the abdomen of anyone called Terry. Terry sounds like a London taxi driver. Looks like Dax will just have to wait for a hot woman or autistic engineer to become available....although having an encyclopedic knowledge of London's roads would be valuable knowledge that would enrich the symbiont and also be useful to pass onto the next host
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Sadly, according to Facebook, the only enriching that real person Terry Dax will provide is how to sit around in camo and get real thrilled about the murder a wild turkey.
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Tujague posted:With a score of 9 goonfats out of 10, smuglord has defeated the idea that there are plenty of good movies with multiple main characters by successfully obscuring his eyes with cheek fat when somebody tries to use the word "plenty" to mean "not on the top 10 list of highest grossing movies" I know that hyperbole is all over SA, but there's one part of this post that is completely reasonable and accurate and not exaggerated. 
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Also its a bit off topic but lol, just lol if you think Ron loving weasley or Hermione "hot in the later movies so make sure you watch in the right order" granger were ever a "main character" and not a ginger bitch and major nerd respectively.
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It's like saying that Scotty was a main character in a show that almost exclusively featured Kirk and Spock.
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I've yet to find a way to work in a good long bellow of "The higherrr... The fewerrrrr" into my life and its causing me distress.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i mean on TNG they went from a main cast of nine at the beginning to seven by the end of fourth season, and i don't think they ever considered adding anyone. I'm trying to think of who the ninth character was, is it Wesley? I never considered him really a main cast character.
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Kitchner posted:Also its a bit off topic but lol, just lol if you think Ron loving weasley or Hermione "hot in the later movies so make sure you watch in the right order" granger were ever a "main character" and not a ginger bitch and major nerd respectively. More main than loving Voldemort was. That's like saying the giant flaming vagina was a main character in Lord of the Rings. Kitchner posted:It's like saying that Scotty was a main character in a show that almost exclusively featured Kirk and Spock. And McCoy just as much as Spock if you ever tried watching it. The balance of those two and Kirk was kinda the whole point. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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MikeJF posted:More main than loving Voldemort was. That's like saying the giant flaming vagina was a main character in Lord of the Rings. We are just talking about the very last HP movie here, Voldemort was definetly the second main character. He was in a whole ton of scenes. quote:
I have watched it and yeah McCoy is definetly there but I'd say he's in third place. Calling him a main character on the level with Kirk and Spock isn't accurate in my view.
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shadow puppet of a posted:I've yet to find a way to work in a good long bellow of "The higherrr... The fewerrrrr" into my life and its causing me distress. Sounds like you need to have more conversations about economics.
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MikeJF posted:More main than loving Voldemort was. That's like saying the giant flaming vagina was a main character in Lord of the Rings. McCoy is less of a main character than Spock, but definitely still ahead of Scotty and Uhura and way ahead of Chekhov and Sulu in terms of screentime. I love the crazy old coot but he is pretty much an afterthought that Kelley created out of thin air, who got more screentime as the series progressed because he was really good at bouncing off Shatner and Nimoy and most writers saw how their three-way clash of personalities could be fun. He doesn't even get a place in the opening credits at first, he never gets a backstory in the same way Kirk or Spock do, and though he frequently takes a supporting role, episodes are only very rarely centered on his character (the only ones I can think of are The Man Trap and the one where he gets space cancer but gets cured by the asteroid people). I don't want to call him a comic relief character because he has some good dramatic material as well, but his character is generally lighter and more whimsically drawn than those of heroic, moral Kirk and brooding, rational Spock. I don't think he is a main character in the same way as those two.
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EngineerSean posted:I'm trying to think of who the ninth character was, is it Wesley? I never considered him really a main cast character. Picard Riker Data Dr. Crusher Troi Yar LaForge Worf Wesley Denise Crosby left in the first season. Wil Wheaton left in the fourth season. Gates McFadden left after the first season because producer Maurice Hurley was sexually harassing her. Diana Muldaur came on for second season as Dr. Pulaski, and then she left and McFadden came back starting the third season.
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It works for TOS but I don't think it's exactly accurate to say that TNG as a whole has main characters. Some are certainly featured more than others, but it's better to consider each episode individually.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Gates McFadden left after the first season because producer Maurice Hurley was sexually harassing her. Watch Shatner's new documentary on Netflix to see interviews with this shithead. Also a bunch of people poo poo talking Gene's rear end in a top hat lawyer and rejoicing at his death, complete with offensive caricature 
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Mondian posted:Watch Shatner's new documentary on Netflix to see interviews with this shithead. Also a bunch of people poo poo talking Gene's rear end in a top hat lawyer and rejoicing at his death, complete with offensive caricature Is that that bridge show about "fans" being really mad that they made next generation? I should have known that dumbass would be responsible.
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Yeah, Chaos on the Bridge. The whole thing is just bitching about how awful Hurley and Maizlish were and how they were just firing people left and right and rewriting scripts and going through like 30 writers in two years or something? Then they all hosed off and the show became watchable.
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Mondian posted:Yeah, Chaos on the Bridge. The whole thing is just bitching about how awful Hurley and Maizlish were and how they were just firing people left and right and rewriting scripts and going through like 30 writers in two years or something? Then they all hosed off and the show became watchable. Yeah. It has to be admitted, Berman absolutely saved Trek, pulling the production out of that mess. He was a good producer, he was just an awful creative.
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Mondian posted:Yeah, Chaos on the Bridge. The whole thing is just bitching about how awful Hurley and Maizlish were and how they were just firing people left and right and rewriting scripts and going through like 30 writers in two years or something? Then they all hosed off and the show became watchable. An hour ago I didn't know this existed. I knew the show had a rocky couple of years, but I had no idea it was that bad. Great Documentary, for someone who doesn't like Star Trek, Shatner always does insightful stuff about it.
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I like that they kinda alluded to Roddenberry being a creep but not saying that because probably financing legal issues. Where can one learn more about his weirdness perhaps in documentary form or a short read thats not a complete biography?
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From wikipedia: In the late 1980s, Roddenberry was likely afflicted by the first manifestations of cerebral vascular disease and encephalopathy as a result of his longstanding recreational use of legal and illicit drugs, including alcohol,[160] cannabis, diazepam, secobarbital, methylphenidate, Dexamyl, and cocaine (which he had used regularly since the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture).[122] He had routinely used stimulants to work through the night on scripts, especially amphetamines.[161] The effects of these substances were compounded by deleterious interactions with diabetes,[160] high blood pressure, and antidepressant prescriptions. Gene was on a lot of stuff.
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No wonder he balked on Ellison's drug dealin' Scotty* script. *(Yeah, I know, it wasn't Scotty...)
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wasn't he a huge womanizer too?  truly the 23rd century is the place to be
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I just saw "Measure of a Man" for the first time. Data is cool, Picard is cool, Ryker and his beard are cool. This 2nd season of TNG is noticeably better than the first, and it becomes so quickly.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:wasn't he a huge womanizer too? he banged every female guest star there's a theory that he assaulted Grace Lee Whitney and that's why she stopped appearing on TOS
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