Last one to post wins the internets (archived)

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Originally Posted by Snee

Assuming that "no" in fact means "me" in the post above, I went ahead and wrote something in that waystation between the internet at large and the BT section where the crackheads like to post about how they've watched twilight/the hangover/some other crap, and now have no thoughts left in their heads, or something.

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I could lie and say that I seem to be getting stupider at an alarming rate but truth is I've always been this stupid I just took more care to cover it up.:mellow:
Anyway good to see that you got something out of the movie and that it didn't end up a total waste of your time.

Something else I read in criticism of it and maybe you engulfed in nostalgia could look past it but it's been reported that the film suffers from being almost too literal a translation of the source material, Rice Burroughs not having the imagination of things extraterrestrial as say someone like Jules Verne.

Welp.

Did the low-gravity jumping seem a bit off to me? Yes. Could Mars have looked more exotic? Yes.

Otherwise, I can't say I'm much bothered by any lack of imagination in the movie. The aliens were no worse than, say, the Baku of Star Trek: Generations, or indeed most aliens in Star Trek period.

Also, they'd covered for Burroughs a bit, I thought. The original Carter is apparently an immortal to begin with, and takes trips to Mars by astral projection, iirc.

The movie skips the immortal bit, more or less, and puts him there by means of technology. The scenario may be a bit forced, but I'll take it over the original.



TBH, from what I've read about the original Barsoom novels, the problem isn't lack of imagination as much as that it reads like a teenage fantasy, complete with the alien princess strolling about in the buff.

Also, you're no stupid. You're just addicted to really experimental grammar.

Some stuff I've got coming through the mail this week:

Should get here tomorrow:

A Clockwork Orange (Blu-Ray)
Alien - Anthology Box (Blu-ray) (6 disc)
Pandorum (Blu-ray)
Conan the Barbarian (3D Blu-ray)
Firefly - Complete series (3 disc) (Blu-ray)

Later this week:

http://www.cme-pro.com/en/product-de...p?product_id=3 (oshit, there's a pink version. Why'd I order the gray one :()

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Originally Posted by Snee

Some stuff I've got coming through the mail this week:

Should get here tomorrow:

A Clockwork Orange (Blu-Ray)
Alien - Anthology Box (Blu-ray) (6 disc)
Pandorum (Blu-ray)
Conan the Barbarian (3D Blu-ray)
Firefly - Complete series (3 disc) (Blu-ray)

Later this week:

http://www.cme-pro.com/en/product-de...p?product_id=3 (oshit, there's a pink version. Why'd I order the gray one :()

:smilie4:

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Great list right up to the Conan the Barbarian 3D bit......srsly? :blink:

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Originally Posted by Snee

Some stuff I've got coming through the mail this week:

Should get here tomorrow:

A Clockwork Orange (Blu-Ray)
Alien - Anthology Box (Blu-ray) (6 disc)
Pandorum (Blu-ray)
Conan the Barbarian (3D Blu-ray)
Firefly - Complete series (3 disc) (Blu-ray)

Later this week:

http://www.cme-pro.com/en/product-de...p?product_id=3 (oshit, there's a pink version. Why'd I order the gray one :()

:smilie4:

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Things I just learned about Snee:
He's getting soft on idiots.
He's into movies set on poorly lit spaceships where things morph and people die.
He's rich as fuck.
He likes the colour blu an uncommonly lot.
He posts links to broken websites.

Did I win?





-n00bs

He likes big muscles :idunno:

Fuck ... I wonder how many times that has been asked over the years ...



-doobs

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Originally Posted by Artemis

Great list right up to the Conan the Barbarian 3D bit......srsly? :blink:

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You only say that because you're gay.

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Originally Posted by brotherdoobie

Fuck ... I wonder how many times that has been asked over the years ...



-doobs

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It's more of a statement than a question but, yeah, I get it a lot.
I think it's muh smexy avatar.

Chow, bbl.



-doobs

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

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Originally Posted by Artemis

Great list right up to the Conan the Barbarian 3D bit......srsly? :blink:

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You only say that because you're gay.

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I'm sorry if you were offended when I called you stupid.....I thought you already knew. :idunno:

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Originally Posted by Artemis

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

You only say that because you're gay.

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I'm sorry if you were offended when I called you stupid.....I thought you already knew. :idunno:

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Try to think things through better ,if I'm that stupid how could I possibly be expected to know?

The new Conan isn't that terrible, actually.

Ok, it kind of is, but it's also sort of funny in an unintentional way. And anyways, it only cost me lyke 6 squid :idunno:

I've not posted any broken links, tho :snooty:

Alrite, flowe. The link was fecked when you posted it but has now come back to life.

nice keyboard :unsure:

I should have listened to my nephew when he told me you crashed the car and smell like poo :no:

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Originally Posted by Snee

Some stuff I've got coming through the mail this week:

Should get here tomorrow:

A Clockwork Orange (Blu-Ray) - meh...
Alien - Anthology Box (Blu-ray) (6 disc) - are you buying all of these?
Pandorum (Blu-ray) - meh...
Conan the Barbarian (3D Blu-ray) - wha? why?
Firefly - Complete series (3 disc) (Blu-ray) - hellzyeah

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Up in the cumulonimbus.

I'm just trying my hand at shortcut replies at the expense of others.

Idrk what people have against Conan, tbh.

It's one of the best comedies I saw last year.

My favourite scene is the one after they've been ambushed on the boat, and Conan, standing surrounded by the corpses of his friends and enemies, raises his sword and goes 'YEAAAAH'.

That's good writing, that is.

Also, the Alien collection is a package, like.

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Originally Posted by Snee

My favourite scene is the one after they've been ambushed on the boat, and Conan, standing surrounded by the corpses of his friends and enemies, raises his sword and goes 'YEAAAAH'.

That's good writing, that is.

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I think the problem is that such wit pales beside Arnold punching a camel. Movie goers are known to be discerning like that.





Actually I thought the new Conan, though flawed, captured the spirit of that sort of stuff pretty well.

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Originally Posted by Snee

Idrk what people have against Conan, tbh.

It's one of the best comedies I saw last year.

My favourite scene is the one after they've been ambushed on the boat, and Conan, standing surrounded by the corpses of his friends and enemies, raises his sword and goes 'YEAAAAH'.

That's good writing, that is.

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Spoiltard.

Now everyone will know that he kills loads of people and wins out in the end :no:

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Ohai.
I was talking to your uncle-son the other day and he said that for his birthday he wants a tight fitting blu t-shirt with 'CONAN FAN' emblazoned upon the front and a pre-politics Arnold bicep, glistering with sweat beads, portrayed on the back.
In 3D if possible.

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Originally Posted by ckrit

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Manker eventually reduces everyone to smashing their forehead into the keyboard. :yup:

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Originally Posted by manker

Ohai.
I was talking to your uncle-son the other day and he said that for his birthday he wants a tight fitting blu t-shirt with 'CONAN FAN' emblazoned upon the front and a pre-politics Arnold bicep, glistering with sweat beads, portrayed on the back.
In 3D if possible.

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Was that meant to be a bad thing?

Cos that would be fantastic in an ironic sort of way. Perhaps in combination with a pair of oversized sunglasses, worn upside down and askew, as is his wont :smilie4:

agreed with the fantastic thing. I was writing it and thinking that it would be the kind of thing i'd wear to footie
does the pronoun there refer to arnie or uncle-son :ermm:

I've never seen Arnold wear sunglasses that awesomely :unsure:

Me either.
I thought I'd better ask a conan-fan to be sure, though.

Shouldn't that be 'neither', or have you gone american :ghey:

I lay the blame firmly at the door of The Vampire Diaries.
It's insidious.

but zomg stefan is good again after being bad and damon is trying to pretend he doesn't care about elena but he does rly and something cool is about to happen with alaric and klaus made a dick move last week and i think this week's episode will be the best evar.

Idk. I'd harsh you over that, but I've just had a female coworker visit my office and stay for a chat about footie and cycling, which she initiated, and now I'm a bit shellshocked from the magnitude of it all.

Totally.

Burds don't sport.
She must have been interested in your cawkal area :smilie4:

This one sports, I'm reliably informed.

Do you reckon it's a man, rly?

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Originally Posted by Snee

I've never seen Arnold wear sunglasses that awesomely :unsure:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8whTM5hE6A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9lSnCfoKo

no reason...

I see that Walking Dead thread in movieworld is pretty active.
I've been watching it and really like it but I'm not up to date with it. I have six episodes til I catch up completely.

Thing is, I really want to see what people are saying about it but I don't want spoilers.
Teh missus keeps making me watch Fringe and Vampire Diaries and Spartacus and Supernatural and Nikita .. but there are no active threads on those.

Sort it out, Idol.

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Originally Posted by manker

I see that Walking Dead thread in movieworld is pretty active.
I've been watching it and really like it but I'm not up to date with it. I have six episodes til I catch up completely.

Thing is, I really want to see what people are saying about it but I don't want spoilers.
Teh missus keeps making me watch Fringe and Vampire Diaries and Spartacus and Supernatural and Nikita .. but there are no active threads on those.

Sort it out, Idol.

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OK I'll report and suggest that from hence forward all topics in the Movie/TV Section be broken into clearly labelled and separate spoiler and spoiler free threads.
I'm sure the staff will see the obvious wisdom in that.

Haven't antagonised Dave in a while. Feel as if I should, but I don't feel the need when he's such a fucking tetraplegic. Oh, all right then.

Hey, Dave, you're a fucking tetraplegic.

Ha ha. :smilie4: