Facebook Aunt posted:King may be a solid exception to the rule that the books are better than the movie. His books are an absolute slog where nothing happens in the first 100 pages. A decent screenwriter cuts it all down to a solid 90-120 minutes of good times. Hell, as bad as "Secret Window" was, even it was better than the novella, mostly due to the ending. While the bad guy winning and getting away with it is a lame ending, it's still magnitudes better than an insurance claims investigator (who was only in one scene previously in the whole story) showing up out of nowhere to save the day and explaining everything.
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dee eight posted:The best ever book/movie match is "Dark Star". The film came first and the book is pretty much a mirror of the movie with filigreed bits in the paragraphs. Both are entertaining as heck and well worth the bother to both watch and read at least once. 2001 is an interesting book/movie pair, both were developed collaboratively and in tandem. Kubrick deviated from some of Clark's ideas that he had felt strongly about (like the dimensions of the monolith, Clark wanted it to be a perfect 1x4x9, Kubrick changed that so it would look more dramatic. Kubrick also moved the last monolith from Iapetus' north pole to being in orbit around Jupiter because he couldn't make it work visually within his budget). The fun thing is when Clark wrote sequels he based them on Kubrick's version, not his own.
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Feb 24, 2020 07:01
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The Godfather breaks two rules, the sequel (2, not three ugh) is better than the original, and it's better than the book.
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Feb 24, 2020 08:05
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dee eight posted:The best ever book/movie match is "Dark Star". The film came first and the book is pretty much a mirror of the movie with filigreed bits in the paragraphs. Both are entertaining as heck and well worth the bother to both watch and read at least once. Dark Star is one of my favorite films. And "Benson, Arizona" is a very catchy song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wbzJxXxhIQ&t=47s
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Feb 24, 2020 08:27
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I don't feel like "The book is better" is such a truism at all. Obviously a blockbuster risk averse movie based on an excellent book is never going to be as good as the book, but there's plenty of examples of excellent movies based on good but not great books and also a lot of movies where the book is mediocre but a filmmaker was able to pick out the good parts and make a great movie out of it.
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Feb 24, 2020 09:25
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:if a supercriticality of roller derbyists dwell within the same area, it becomes by default a Burlesque House. Elviscat posted:Mods? Name change pl.... wait never mind. I've been inclined to grant these "mods please" wishes lately, to the extent that I can (which is to say, title/av changes) so y'all are warned
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Feb 24, 2020 12:35
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How prevalent was that argument about books always being better than the movie before the 80s? I wonder if it was just Shining backlash that made that a cliche.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:05
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Burlesque is one of those things that everyone's forgotten the original associations of aside from being old-timey and generically racy and thus ends up attracting the terminally twee. Like with steampunk.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:07
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dee eight posted:The best ever book/movie match is "Dark Star". The film came first and the book is pretty much a mirror of the movie with filigreed bits in the paragraphs. Both are entertaining as heck and well worth the bother to both watch and read at least once. The majority of Dark Star is a straight lift from a Ray Bradbury story called Kaleidoscope. Dan O'Bannon just added a bunch of comedy to it.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:11
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Baron von Eevl posted:How prevalent was that argument about books always being better than the movie before the 80s? Very but just because books are inherently better than movies and also they let coloured folks in the movie threatres!!!
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Feb 24, 2020 14:39
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Pastry of the Year posted:so y'all are warned Mods, name change pls
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Feb 24, 2020 14:41
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Chichevache posted:Mods, name change pls God dammit
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Feb 24, 2020 14:49
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On the subject of raising Quail and their proclivities towards sudden (often self-inflicted) death;hallelujah posted:when this all started, about six years ago now, my intention was to "tame" a colony of japanese quail. at the time, i had little to no experience with birds of any kind and i was picturing them like sitting on my shoulder and following me around in a line like ducklings. now i've realised that when these things are "tame", which means 100% acclimatized to humans and happy to go about normal life routines in their company, they revert to their natural status, which is wandering holy fool spreading the love from town to town, meadow to meadow hallelujah posted:they don't actually want to die. they're quite upset when it happens. that's what makes them such awful, inadvisable, existential despair type pets
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Feb 24, 2020 15:32
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Pastry of the Year posted:I've been inclined to grant these "mods please" wishes lately, to the extent that I can (which is to say, title/av changes) so y'all are warned Pastry of the Year, I request you have a cool day.
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Feb 24, 2020 15:37
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Pastry of the Year posted:I've been inclined to grant these "mods please" wishes lately, to the extent that I can (which is to say, title/av changes) so y'all are warned Pastry of the Year, I request that you find inner peace and happiness. Also, i would love a name change to y'all are warned but I suspect the single quote/italics combo might be the last straw for the forums code. Mods? thepopmonster has a new favorite as of 17:08 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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Feb 24, 2020 15:44
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Mods please give me a billion dollars and a small private island off the coast of Greece.
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Feb 24, 2020 15:46
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:From what I can gather he lived alone in a dilapidated doublewide with just a bunch of cats for company. He had a small garage where he worked on his latest project until sundown every day because the lights in the garage didn't work. He had to run a long line of extension cords from his house if he wanted to use power tools.
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Feb 24, 2020 17:05
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Are the cats OK?
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Feb 24, 2020 17:26
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haveblue posted:Are the cats OK? I'm not sure. Maybe we can raise awareness and get them adopted. Celebrity cats, very exclusive
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Feb 24, 2020 17:36
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hockey jockey posted:This snake I can respect. He is determined to guard those condiments to the last drop of poison in his fangs. Duck toilet paper holder has no dignity. LifeSunDeath posted:DON'T SEASON ON ME! 90s Cringe Rock posted:Yes, we know it's for white people.
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Presented without context:Dungeon Ecology posted:hahahah of course yospos is trying to calculate the optimal pants-change:fart-filtration ratio
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Feb 24, 2020 20:41
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If someone makes a gif of the Mods?! button being clicked like  , I'll buy it as a smiley. Don't obscure the text.
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On the subject of Mad Mike Hughes:Azhais posted:Parachutes are hard, even Boeing can't get them right poisonpill posted:Not true. Boeing’s exiting executives all have fully functional golden ones.
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Feb 25, 2020 00:47
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Jedit posted:The majority of Dark Star is a straight lift from a Ray Bradbury story called Kaleidoscope. Dan O'Bannon just added a bunch of comedy to it. No poo poo? I was in a play of Kaleidoscope in high school. I was about 25 minutes into Dark Star when I turned it off. I had no idea it was gonna go that route.
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Feb 25, 2020 03:23
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Dark Star is so loving great. you goddamn heathens
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Feb 25, 2020 03:37
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Pick posted:Dark Star is so loving great. you goddamn heathens Same. (fans only: Be sure to catch Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star documentary, it's on Youtube.)
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Feb 25, 2020 05:22
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Syd Midnight posted:Same. (fans only: Be sure to catch Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star documentary, it's on Youtube.) It's on the BluRay also.
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Feb 25, 2020 05:28
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luxury handset posted:i mildly hosed up with my new boss, an older man, when he came in one day wearing a brimmed hat and trench coat and i said "ah, the detective is here to make me answer for my crimes" but later that day he compared my appearance to an npc vendor in world of warcraft so i feel like i came out the worse in that exchange
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Feb 25, 2020 10:37
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Pick posted:Dark Star is so loving great. you goddamn heathens Don't call me a loving heathen, I've stanned for Memoirs of an Invisible Man. You say Jesus was a carpenter; I say Carpenter is my Jesus. 
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Feb 25, 2020 14:11
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I highly recommend everyone watch the Mad Mike launch video for the comedic effect of his parachute deploying on launch and a lady going “uh oh” https://www.tmz.com/2020/02/22/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-dead-dies-rocket-crash-land/
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Feb 25, 2020 14:45
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Pastry of the Year posted:I've been inclined to grant these "mods please" wishes lately, to the extent that I can (which is to say, title/av changes) so y'all are warned so is there a way where you could change someone's name and automatically send a password reset email, which would contain the user's new username?
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Feb 25, 2020 16:06
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:so is there a way where you could change someone's name and automatically send a password reset email, which would contain the user's new username? Only admins can change usernames and I'm given to understand that that is not something done lightly.
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Feb 25, 2020 16:07
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Every single time I have cried mods I was completely serious, because my current username is a shame to me
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Feb 25, 2020 16:15
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oh yeah, had i actually read your whole post or paid the least bit of attention i would have noticed that. huh.
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Feb 25, 2020 16:17
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:oh yeah, had i actually read your whole post or paid the least bit of attention i would have noticed that. huh. Whoever redtexts PHIZ please include a link to the post that you're quoting.
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Feb 25, 2020 16:25
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AFAIK an admin name change does not generate any kind of notification to the user. So if you're logged out at the time you won't be able to get back in until you figure out what your new name is (and that your name being changed is the reason you can't log in in the first place). I'm not sure if it will immediately invalidate your session if you are logged in, the last time I had it done to me was long, long ago. I have only ever seen it done either in response to an entirely unambiguous request (e.g. posting in a namechange thread) or as a big gently caress you to perennial problem posters.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Whoever redtexts PHIZ please include a link to the post that you're quoting. I wanted to on that one but I had to pare it down enough as it is, it’s from the r/relationships thread though. E:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3910844&perpage=40&pagenumber=32#post501755619 It’s hard to get a full post link into the 300 character text limit with all the other formatting. Ugly In The Morning has a new favorite as of 16:41 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Feb 25, 2020 16:33
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I usually find redtexts to be obnoxious but those are pretty endearing.
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Feb 25, 2020 16:42
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RandomFerret posted:Every single time I have cried mods I was completely serious, because my current username is a shame to me I vote it gets changed to SpecificFerret
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I usually find redtexts to be obnoxious but those are pretty endearing. PHIZ KALIFA has a way of using some turns of phrase that are so good it’s worth using the 10 bucks to enshrine them next to all his posts for a few months.
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