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MisterBibs posted:My Marvel understanding is suspect, but I recall reading that Galactus is inherently anti-Celestial because Celestials are seeded into the cores of planets as part of their development cycle, and G's inherent need to consume planets basically keeps the Celestial numbers down. I think that's just in the Earth/Universe/Paradise X series which isn't necessarily the marvel universe as we generally know it. And which starts out interesting but sort of disappears up its own arse.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Yes, the movie will also have an invisible ghost that writes terrible fanfiction. Your Ghostwriter reboot sounds poo poo, to be honest.
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Mar 13, 2015 14:25
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Zaphod42 posted:He doesn't? He very clearly isn't aware of everything. He has a dream of a woman kinda luring him that way but that's all. When they first get to the EH he goes crawling in the air ducts / jeffrey's tubes around the engine in order to fix some circuit that shorted, and he gets stuck alone in there and he starts hallucinating like crazy and he's very clearly disturbed by it. He's just going along to rescue his project ship, which has been missing for years. This is his first chance to find out what happened to his dream project. I'm pretty sure his wife killed herself prior to the film and wasn't anywhere near the ship.
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Apr 9, 2015 16:23
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Rurea posted:It didn't happen, sassassin is just a lovely poster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_One_More_Day Totally did happen, was poo poo. Edit: Answering a guy asking about daredevil with info on a lovely spider-man storyline, I am the worst. Fil5000 has a new favorite as of 16:16 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 16:05
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Zaphod42 posted:I kinda miss radio plays. Sometimes I leave the TV on when I'm tired and lay down and just listen to it, but you miss certain details. http://www.bigfinish.com/ do a lot of radio play type things. They're best known for their Doctor Who stuff (which is the bulk of what they do), but they do a ton of other stuff now.
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Apr 21, 2015 16:22
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah I definitely multi-task my TV watching most of the time. Is that just because most police procedurals follow the same plot every time anyway? Crime -> Clues -> Interview -> Red Herring -> Interview -> Damning Evidence -> Chase -> Arrest -> Quips?
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Apr 21, 2015 16:26
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Taeke posted:I don't know if I'd say "based on" because I think it's more like convergent evolution. Different starting points (in this case real tech and sci-fi tech) getting to roughly the same point through different paths. That doesn't mean that current technology like tablets is based on Star Trek, but rather that the creators of Star Trek were imaginative enough to take things to a logical conclusion and the real world did the same, without the two being directly connected enough to say that one was based on the other. I like that in Trek they got the right idea with tablets but they sort of missed the point by having Picard sat there with huge stacks of them on his desk.
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May 13, 2015 21:31
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Agents of Shield introduced the main cast by having them invite a bunch of south american militares into their base, only to be shocked when this plan turned out poorly. Then one of the main characters was raped and nobody seemed to really mind. Hang on, where did that happen? I mostly watched this while doing other things so wasn't giving it 100% attention but I don't remember THAT.
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May 15, 2015 14:26
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My Lovely Horse posted:Thanks for the reminder that there will never be a nextwave movie You think it'll be a Netflix original series then? I mean come on, the theme is already written. Also no Vinnie Jones as the captain is from loving Brooklyn.
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May 20, 2015 18:54
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Dr_Amazing posted:There was that young Indy show in the 90s. I've never seen it though. I don't know if it was any good. I don't remember it being particularly action oriented. It's stuff like him meeting George Gershwin and learning to play the trumpet jazz style. And it's set in the 1900s-20s so it's well before any cool OSS stuff.
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Jul 21, 2015 13:11
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LeJackal posted:Oh gosh, I could list about a thousand movies and tv shows where lazy writers ignored the notion of fail-safe ystems and just made every single thing fail-deadly. The best thing about Star Trek in this respect is there's one episode where they note that Data bypassed seven separate safety interlocks to cut off the oxygen supply to the bridge. Yes, every single console on the bridge is wired to an explosion generator, the inertial dampeners don't work properly, the transporters can sometimes kill you or duplicate you, but we septupled up on the oxygen security.
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Jul 26, 2015 08:37
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Jedit posted:To be fair, you can cope with falling over when the ship turns a lot more easily than you can breathe in deep space. Yeah, but maybe if you're going to make sure you can always breathe you could also make sure the equipment your bridge crew have to sit next to are plugged into surge protectors.
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Jul 26, 2015 12:56
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Actually it is a very progressive movie because the marines don't care about gender when they gently caress Arcturians Apparently that was improvised as well.
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Aug 28, 2015 13:02
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Gremlins: More importantly when does "after midnight" end? Sunrise? 6am?
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Aug 28, 2015 15:37
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Pixeltendo posted:Crime TV shows that never bring backup for the important bits. It's funny that the csi pilot goes the other way on this and has one of the csi's get killed by a suspect that was hiding in the scene they were processing. Because later on every csi is carrying a gun and showing up to serve warrants.
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Sep 11, 2015 12:12
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I dunno, I thought I saw some astonishment from him after he discovered that Shaw had performed her...unexpected medical procedure. And he seemed to be beaming with pride when he said "Hi!" to the grumpy alien. Though I suppose that could just be programming: "Humans will expect you to behave this way when you see something amazing so pretend to be surprised ok" The point is that he clearly DOES have emotions but the crew (and douchebag archaeology man in particular) either a) think he doesn't or b) don't care because he's a machine so they treat him like poo poo.
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Oct 29, 2015 13:53
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oldpainless posted:Prometheus's main problem is there were no likable characters. If you didn't like "accordion playing space captain who slacks off to have sex with charlize theron" then I dunno what to tell you.
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Oct 29, 2015 14:37
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AnonSpore posted:Did they ever explain why she had sex with Idris Elba I dunno, I can't think of a reason why two hot people might want to have sex.
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Oct 30, 2015 12:52
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syscall girl posted:If you put cancer or 9/11 references in you get an extra 45 minutes. Does that mean if you put both in you can run all the way up to three and a quarter hours?
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Nov 19, 2015 15:08
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There was a wookie in the thrawn books that had a speech impediment that made him easier for non wookies to understand. That was pretty dumb.
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Nov 22, 2015 15:23
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EmmyOk posted:Right but my point is more that he worked on all these massive longterm projects all in the same 10 year span or w/e. It's the sheer quantity of them rather than that they all happen to connect to them. I think I wasn't expecting a formulaic serial I thought it was a bit more highbrow. I don't mean in a pretentious way I just mean I thought it was a different type of show, I like loads of serials! It moves away from the formulaic stuff partway through season 1. It's worth persevering.
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Nov 24, 2015 20:23
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Marathon Man is William goldman I think.
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Dec 5, 2015 20:37
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Slime posted:I think the idea was to basically use them to kill everything on the whole drat planet. Presumably the xenos would die after they killed everything, or W-Y would develop some sort of control system to kill them off once they were done. Genetically engineer them to have limited lifespans, or make a virus or something that they all carry that kills them at a certain point, something like that. One of the comics shows that they'll self parasitise if there's no other life forms so waiting for them to die off will take a gently caress of a long time. Everything else results in the experimenters getting horribly murdered by aliens.
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Dec 13, 2015 19:23
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I mean I guess you could synthesise useful hazmat gear out of whatever their bodies are made of given they resist acid so well, and the face hugger can synthesise oxygen somehow so that's useful. There's all kinds of useful poo poo you could extrapolate from their biology but oops everyone's dead because uh life uh uh finds a way.
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Dec 14, 2015 14:00
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Get a face hugger, infect someone, catch the chest burster (as they're small enough to not be a threat) and plant a small bomb in its skull. Then drop it on a planet, let it kill everyone, and then detonate the bomb. Except a single alien won't be able to murder everyone in the world. gently caress, it didn't manage to murder a ship full of truckers. That's even if you ignore the eggmorphing stuff from the directors cut. It's loving hilarious how many different ways the various corporations decide they're going to somehow use the aliens in the comics and everyone just gets eaten and face hugged.
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Dec 14, 2015 17:24
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syscall girl posted:I always thought it was odd that they'd send a giant space navy vessel like the Sulaco to make *holds pinky to mouth* millions of dollars. Giant space navy vessel with roughly 15 people on board as well.
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Dec 14, 2015 23:00
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TheKennedys posted:I actually stopped watching one episode into S5 because it went from cool pseudoscience X-Files with alternate universes to dumb boring dystopian future and it was incredibly jarring. It felt like it should have ended at the end of S4 when they stopped the universes from shattering but nooooooo, had to keep going and make the Observers evil or some poo poo and it just stopped working for me. S5 gets kinda fun when the crew start using all the fringe science stuff to be terrorists and basically become David Robert Jones .
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Feb 23, 2016 18:54
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Throwing Turtles posted:No she told him to kill half of everybody to prove his love for her, he took a shortcut by getting his hands on the infinity gauntlet and wishing half of everybody dead. This doesn't impress her so he decides to turn of omnipotence for a giant melee against all the still living super heroes. Death is truly the Shania Twain of the Marvel Universe.
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Mar 21, 2016 10:09
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Speaking of head trauma, didn't they do a fire extinguisher on some mook's head last season? The cracks and crunches in season one frequently made me wince. The sound design is solid.
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Mar 22, 2016 20:21
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Uncle Ben travels back in time to prevent his own death but loses his memory, becomes a robber and murders himself. This breaks the universe and so it resets itself and the cycle begins again.
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Apr 9, 2016 21:47
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:How has that not already happened somehow in the comics? It probably has. Everything ELSE has. Spidey sold his marriage to the devil to save aunt may from death and Gwen Stacy birthed the bastard twin offspring of Norman Osbourne for fucks sake.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:21
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm partial to Edward Nigma. Didn't they go back and change that one? Fake Edit: Yeah, wiki says they revised it to Edward Nashton. gently caress knows why, dude wears a bright green suit covered in question marks, who cares that his real name is dumb?
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May 9, 2016 13:53
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Jerusalem posted:
The fact that Brosnan was talking it up as being a real character piece for Bond makes it all even worse. Poor guy, he got the same number of good films as Dalton but he did twice as many.
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May 18, 2016 08:55
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bobkatt013 posted:Moore had live and let die aka the most racist and rapey bond. Thunderball is the rapiest Bond, without question. In Live and Let Die he tricks a woman into sleeping with him with a loaded deck of cards. in Thunderball he threatens to get a woman in trouble over something she didn't do unless she lets him gently caress her in a sauna. ITT we discuss which Bond is objectively the worst human being.
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May 21, 2016 15:07
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Indeed. That scene and the awful hillbilly sheriff aside, Live and Let Die is a fun ride. At least Moore isn't sleepwalking through it like Connery was in his last few.
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May 21, 2016 16:42
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Gorilla Salad posted:Oh yeah, there's a loving irritating moment - that redneck hillbilly sherrif they thought was so goddamn funny, they brought him back for another movie. SE-CRIT AY-GENT? OHN WHOOOOSE SAAAHD?!
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May 21, 2016 17:07
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Did Brosnan have any rapey moments? I'm pretty sure Dalton didn't. Unless you count him tearing off a woman's blouse to use her boobs as a distraction for some guards.
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May 21, 2016 17:39
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Screaming Idiot posted:Actually, he's Finnish. The entire concept of "Korea" was actually invented by the media as part of a marketing campaign for a failed sitcom. Nobody remembers the sitcom, but in an ironic twist, everyone remembers the fictional country made to market it! I'm pretty sure everyone remembers After M*A*S*H, dude.
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May 22, 2016 11:26
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Batman Forever managed to hit the really weird tone it was shooting for and still be entertaining. It's a shame Batman and Robin missed it entirely.
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:How does Burke get the facehuggers to Ripley's sleeping quarters in Aliens? They look pretty heavy, and I don't think any of the marines would help him. And how come they didn't attack him when he released them? I'm 90% sure there'll be a comic or novel somewhere that explains this.
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