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    posted a message on Walking Dead Season 4
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    1) The new actors are terrible save for the tyresse love interest


    All...one of them? Because I'm pretty sure the new faces all existed just to die.
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    2) we magically have livestock and crops now?


    What the hell do you think they've been doing in the time between seasons? Huddling in a corner weeping? The virus didn't kill the world, it killed the people. There's still plants and animals in the world, they just had to go out and find them. Stupid argument.

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    3) Michonne farts unicorns and rainbows


    What? Because she was away for a while and people were happy whe she returned? Wha...?!


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    4) People just magically turn in to zombies now


    Maybe. Wouldn't it be terrifying if there was a new way for the virus to spread? Afterall, guess what, that what real viruses do! On top of that, every freaking thing about the virus in this show is magical, making people turn for (seemingly) no reason isn't any more of a stretch than the virus itself. Plus, we don't know the reason the kid turned, yet. Maybe there's an actual reason for it. And, since this was the show opener and they need to give people a reason to keep watching then that was an interesting lead for viewers to follow...except for you, I guess. Slant

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    5) a 10 ton military helicopter doesnt collapse a roof, but a 60 lb zombie does


    There's this amazing thing called "physics". When you spread weight out over a large surface area that is weak it can hold it but an amount of weight concentrated over a small surface area will break through...

    On top of that, the roof had slowly been wearing out over time (over a year now since the outbreak, right?) and all it needed was a little push.

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    6) the nerdy kid who magically turns......no one talks like that


    No one in any TV show or movie talks like real humans. Nit pick much?

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    7) Clara was a complete wast of everyone's time. Its like they had 30 mins worth of script and said "quick, how can we kill another 15-20 minutes"


    I don't know who Clara is...

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    8) Carl's acting seemed "off"


    Yeah, he's a kid. I'll give you this one, but I forgive him because he's a child actor growing up on TV. His acting will skill will change from season to season.
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    posted a message on Ben Affleck is the new Batman
    Patton Oswalt's opinion:

    "No matter how many times you post your stupid "Fire Ben Affleck from Playing Batman" petition, I'm going to delete it and block you. Take a deep breath, and think for a second:

    Yeah, the dude's made some bad films. Every actor has. Every actor does. Every actor will. It's a huge, arcing career and NO ONE has cont...rol over where it goes. Movie to movie, year to year, you're collaborating and trying and risking and, sometimes, yes -- failing.

    Plus, everyone seems to forget that he had the world dropped in his lap when he was YOUNG. And, judging by how other suddenly-famous youngsters do in the same situation, he fared pretty well. Even when it went wrong, he seemed to keep a self-deprecating, long-view philosophy about the burning freak carousel he'd found himself on.

    And then what happened? I mean, he'd fallen from a HEIGHT. You know what happens to 95% of people who weather a descent that steep? They come apart, fray at all of their sanity nodes, and give up.

    But then there's the 5% who embrace crushing defeat and see it for the gift it is. And here's the gift: when you fail, and fail UTTERLY, you wake up the next morning and see that the world didn't end. And then the fear of failure is gone. And you're free. You're free to proceed on your own terms and pace -- if you have the ego that permits you to.

    Ben brushed himself off, realized he'd kept his eyes open on the movies he'd done, and started directing. And he's become a damn good one.

    A Batman portrayed by someone who's tasted humiliation and a reversal of all personal valences -- kind of like Grant Morrison's "Zen warrior" version of Batman, post-ARKHAM ASYLUM, who was, in the words of Superman, "...the most dangerous man on the planet"? Think for a second and admit that Ben Affleck is closer to THAT top-shelf iteration of The Dark Knight than pretty much anyone in Hollywood right now.

    I'd write more, but I have to go work on my post about how an overweight 44 year-old comedian with bad feet and insomnia would be a bold choice for The Joker."
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    posted a message on The Countdown to DOOMSDAY (December 21, 2012) Thread
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    What was weird is that since today nobody really talked much about another Mayan Calendar that predated the one that expired yesterday by 500 years which goes beyond 2012 A.D. by 7,000 years. Just like in Y2K before it, the mainstream media wanted to rile up people into believing that mankind would perish just to make a profit off of fear mongering and scare tactics. They even do this crap with the idea of a "Zombie Apocalypse" and I'm sick and tired of them force feeding it down our throats.


    Wait a minute. Who in the media was feeding off of fear mongering and riling people up?!? I haven't seen a single "serious" news report on the topic and all the informational ones have explained full out that the idea came from a misinterpretation. This whole phenomenon has been a grass roots, internet spawned thing. There's no media to be blamed for this; just idiots with computers.
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    posted a message on Breaking Bad
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    Does anyone remember the episode "Fly" from the earliest seasons? Back then I thought it was a pretty boring episode, nothing more than a filler, but now I'm not so sure, since a new fly appears in this episode too. The fly has to represent something, especially since we saw a diagram of it on the wall, but I can't figure it out. Maybe it shows that Walt sees everyone as flies? He kills people as if they were flies? Walt is the fly? I don't know, but it's definitely interesting.


    The fly in the episode Fly represents Walt's guilt (and to a larger degree, his overall humanity), IMO. If you remember, it was in that episode that Walt apologized to Jesse, or tried to anyway, for what happened to Jane as well as all that he had put Jesse through. Walt used the fly as an excuse to not cook, but it was his own insecurities and guilt that was the real hang-up.

    The fly in this most recent episode could be interpreted a couple of ways. Maybe Walter does see himself as larger than the rest of humanity. Maybe everyone else is nothing but flies to him. Maybe his guilt over Jesse has returned. Why else would he bring him huge bags full of money? Or, given the fact that flies have a short life span, maybe the fly represents Walt's own mortality. Perhaps Walt realizes that his life is as fleeting as the life of the fly...but that's just me waxing philosophical. Grin
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    posted a message on The Dark Knight Rises
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    I always hate when people say this. Just because you didn't enjoy the movie/music/video game/media doesn't mean you suddenly stop having the right to discuss it.


    His words:


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    It's a disappointment. I won't use stronger terms because the movie doesn't inspire stronger emotions. I simply feel nothing towards this film. I won't berate it, I won't attack it, I'm not angry or outraged towards it. I just... don't care. I don't really feel like there's anything to discuss about the film.


    I thought it was just as good, if not better, than The Dark Knight.
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    posted a message on The Dark Knight Rises
    ^^^I thought you didn't care about this movie. Maybe you should leave this thread alone?
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