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Hedrigall posted:All progressive diapsids welcome their bird cousins to family gatherings. And a selection of side dishes.
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I'm gonna need someone to bite the bullet and see Boss Baby for a trip report. Because hating this thing is the only joy I can receive from its existence. I don't know why this movie in particular irks me, but it joins The Lorax, Ice Age 3 and Turbo in doing so. I just... loathe it so much.
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Apr 2, 2017 08:56
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So it's the Baby Geniuses of today? 
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Apr 2, 2017 09:10
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scales are basically feathers hairs are basically scales feathers are basically plate mail i am a cluster of minerals and chemical reactions and so are you
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Apr 2, 2017 11:44
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Is Boss Baby just Jack Donaghy: The Early Years?
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Apr 2, 2017 12:04
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shadowvine118 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMcZv9YM7k This is so completely unrelated to Swan Princess now. What absolute dreck. I bet it sells like hotcakes!
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Apr 2, 2017 15:55
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The_Doctor posted:Man, I remember when the first trailer for that came out, and it heavily implied there were going to be no voices, just a natural story told through the creatures' actions. Ah well. Until you posted this, I thought it was exactly this which is why I never watched the movie since that sounded unbearably boring to child me. And adult me but at least I could respect it.
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Apr 2, 2017 17:05
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Schwarzwald posted:That's mostly unrelated. Dinosaurs genuinely have several differences from reptiles. Dinosaurs (which birds are nested within) are archosaurian reptiles along with crocodilians. While they have a bunch of derived characters that distinguish them from other groups of reptiles like lepidosaurs (lizards) and turtles, they're still nested within that grouping.
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Apr 2, 2017 17:52
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plz dont pull out posted:Dinosaurs (which birds are nested within) are archosaurian reptiles along with crocodilians. While they have a bunch of derived characters that distinguish them from other groups of reptiles like lepidosaurs (lizards) and turtles, they're still nested within that grouping. While that is all factual, having the categories be that broad is not necessarily useful. Dinosaurs (and birds, and mammals) have notable differences from reptiles that make such a distinction informative. Conflating them together is rarely helpful.
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Apr 2, 2017 18:02
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Reptilia would never have existed if cladistics started out knowing what we know now, but it does so now it gets to include a bunch of transparently dissimilar animals whose lca was almost half a billion years ago
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Apr 2, 2017 18:07
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Schwarzwald posted:While that is all factual, having the categories be that broad is not necessarily useful. Except these groupings are based on evolutionary relationships, not superficial characteristics. A whale doesn't stop being a mammal because it doesn't have fur. Sure dinosaurs have characters that distinguish them from other clades within Reptilia, but they still share a host of ancestral characters with that group. Trying to place them as separate is misleading. Knowing that birds are closely related to crocodilians is useful, for example, because we can use traits seen in both to infer aspects of dinosaur biology and behavior.
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Apr 2, 2017 18:54
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plz dont pull out posted:Except these groupings are based on evolutionary relationships, not superficial characteristics. A whale doesn't stop being a mammal because it doesn't have fur. Sure dinosaurs have characters that distinguish them from other clades within Reptilia, but they still share a host of ancestral characters with that group. Trying to place them as separate is misleading. Knowing that birds are closely related to crocodilians is useful, for example, because we can use traits seen in both to infer aspects of dinosaur biology and behavior. The original cladistic schema of which reptilia is an artifact absolutely WAS based on superficial characteristics. It's become increasingly convoluted with subgroups and reclassifications and controversies because it's not the kind of system you'd build from the ground up with genetic evidence as your base. Like, birds and crocodiles are more closely related to each other than either to, say, lizards, but their lca was 300 million years ago and birds have gone through multiple dramatic evolutionary fluorescences in the meantime, while crocodiles not so much. You can say well, they're archosaurs and we've always considered crocodiles reptiles and so forth, but the classical conception of reptile is effectively being replaced with a new definition that isn't based on totally different principles. Neither birds nor dinosaurs would fit what Linnaeus or your fourth grade teacher in 1994 would consider "reptiles", so the problem is the incompatibility of the system with the evidence.
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Apr 2, 2017 19:22
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I've been asked to carry along a message on behalf of Pick! She wants to know if y'all think she should see Boss Baby. And then make a Bee Movie-style thread about it. Okay, I made up that last part but  .
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Apr 2, 2017 19:57
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ConfusedUs posted:The cowboy T-Rex family was the absolute highlight of the movie. I wish the rest had had even some of that heart and imagination. I am really tired of the retreading Pixar's been fond of lately. That said, if they announced a spin-off featuring the T-Rex family I would be there day one.
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Apr 2, 2017 19:58
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I had a dream this morning that Tony Jay rose from the grave to reprise his role in a live-action version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Just thought this might amuse/weird out some people in here.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:34
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Das Boo posted:I've been asked to carry along a message on behalf of Pick! She wants to know if y'all think she should see Boss Baby. And then make a Bee Movie-style thread about it. Yes. Could you also ask Pick if she is ok? I sometimes read GBS :/
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Apr 2, 2017 21:46
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Das Boo posted:I've been asked to carry along a message on behalf of Pick! She wants to know if y'all think she should see Boss Baby. And then make a Bee Movie-style thread about it. YES. 
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Apr 2, 2017 23:10
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I want her to go see it and then come back with her head hanging low when she says she ended up enjoying it 
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Apr 2, 2017 23:30
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Das Boo posted:I'm gonna need someone to bite the bullet and see Boss Baby for a trip report. Because hating this thing is the only joy I can receive from its existence. I took the daughter to go see Boss Baby today, because she's been suckered in by all the ads. It was ... okay. The animation was fun, lively, and colorful. The story was dumb and frenetic. Alec Baldwin earned a paycheck. I've been dragged to much worse (Norm of the North!) and honestly, if it's the worst movie I see all year, I'll take it. Besides, before the movie they played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbolz7UZCQ Why yes, they *are* turning a simple, beloved children's classic into a 90-minute slapstick fest with John loving Cena as the voice of Ferdinand.
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Apr 3, 2017 00:21
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John Cena is cool, that's not bad casting.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:27
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:John Cena is cool, that's not bad casting. As someone who does not watch wrestling, I appreciate getting a wrestling star to play a bull who does not want to fight. Its a cute choice and his voice work is pretty good. It may just be good directing, but his bit in the china shop is fun. "You will bullieve" is unforgivable though.
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Apr 3, 2017 01:42
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Crazy Ferret posted:"You will bullieve" is unforgivable though. I can't bee-lieve they're using that lovely pun for the tagline.
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Apr 3, 2017 05:30
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I love puns because they make people really angry instead of laugh
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Apr 3, 2017 05:43
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Making goons angry is my raison d'être
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Apr 3, 2017 05:59
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Macaluso posted:I love puns because they make people really angry instead of laugh Puns are cool and good and I'll never understand why people scoff at how sophisticated the English language is.
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Apr 3, 2017 06:22
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Puns are the lowest form of humor meant for imbeciles and degenerates. That is why I love em.
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Apr 3, 2017 07:24
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Hedrigall posted:Making goons angry is my raison d'être Well now I wanna hug you out of spite. RE: The Ferdinand trailer: I found it really odd that they went all in on this awe-inspiring, really tug at your heart strings approach to selling the film, only for the visuals to look like it's adapted from a Loony Toons short. Like, it feels really weird to say, but I'm almost disappointed they didn't go for a gag-heavy Dreamworks style trailer that seems tailor fit for the visuals presented. As for the film itself, I try to remain impartial until the final feature is released, but the trailer doesn't really inspire any enthusiasm to believe it will be great. I don't think it will be bad, but maybe particularly middle of the road like Sing or something.
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Apr 3, 2017 07:25
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And that's no bull! *Dusts off hands* Another hard day's work finished!
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Apr 3, 2017 13:34
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I like the Disney adaptation all right. It's mercifully shorter, as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NwYL-fxyus
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Apr 3, 2017 14:39
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So Boss Baby was number one at the box office this weekend, huh? Dreamworks sure is great at making posters with movies attached to them. (I'm being too harsh, animators work hard and I'm sure there's some merit there)
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Apr 4, 2017 16:24
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It's mostly because it was March and there's not a lot else going on.
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First animated movie since rock dog, first major studio animated movie since LEGO Batman and first directly family friendly movie since Beauty and the Beast is your answer to the question "how the gently caress did Boss Baby already make $50m"
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they wisely picked a slot where they're not competiting with a lot, also never underestimate the bad taste of the viewing public, why else would epic movie exist?
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Robindaybird posted:why else would epic movie exist? To give Crispin Glover a paycheck so he could make more bizarre art movies.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMnV_eL-D7w Invader Zim is coming back!
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Apr 5, 2017 05:51
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Samurai Jack is back Hey Arnold is getting a new movie Invader zim is coming soon. Is this 2002 part 2?
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Wasn't there talk last year of Rocko's Modern Life coming back too? Fingers crossed for Angry Beavers next 
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I wonder what's been spurring those recent cartoon revivals. Is it due to studios looking at the crazy money Hasbro's been making with My Little Pony and figuring they want a slice of the pie as well? Or is it another outgrowth of the nostalgia wave Disney's been riding with its recent live-action remakes?
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I'm gonna swim against the current here and entertain the thought that there's a possibility that Boss Baby might not suck (?????) I haven't seen it and won't get to for the forseeable future, but Alec Baldwin is pretty great and I loved Storks without expecting to, so maybe another CGI baby movie can also be good.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I wonder what's been spurring those recent cartoon revivals. Is it due to studios looking at the crazy money Hasbro's been making with My Little Pony and figuring they want a slice of the pie as well? Or is it another outgrowth of the nostalgia wave Disney's been riding with its recent live-action remakes? all the kids who loved those shows and bugged their parents to buy the merch are adults with spending power of their own now
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