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Post by Webber3000 on Jul 16, 2016 13:50:43 GMT -5
I hope that if there are lawsuits, Pokemon Go wins. P.S.: Congrats on your first win, Excellent... On the 69th race, no less.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 16, 2016 14:34:50 GMT -5
Thank ye, thank ye. XD
I always told myself that if I didn't win at 70 tries, I was done with this thread!
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Post by Webber3000 on Jul 16, 2016 21:15:24 GMT -5
Congrats on 3,000 posts also. It's a pretty solid number, if I do say so myself. Moving on, my post in the top tens thread made me wonder: are any of you guys into riddles or trivia?
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 16, 2016 22:54:55 GMT -5
Damn straight! I was thinking about it, and it took me 7 years to get 1200 posts at Sony's forums. Here, it took me about 6 to get 2.5 times that number. That's like going from a 171 post average per year to a 500 post average per year. It makes sense though because in the early 2000's when I was in middle school and high school I would go to my grandparents' house to use the computer. In my adult years (when the proboards formed) I use my own and I guess that accounts for the boost in numbers.
With regard to riddles, I'm a little lazy. Brain teasers maybe? There's sort of an overlap. Trivia's fun.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jul 17, 2016 0:26:06 GMT -5
Speaking of trivia, I've gotten into Jeopardy now that I live in the US. It's pretty fun, though my knowledge varies wildly depending on the category.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 18, 2016 2:33:15 GMT -5
Jeopardy's cool. I enjoy watching it with my grandma when I visit.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 18, 2016 3:56:20 GMT -5
Double post time: I was watching Guardians of the Galaxy today. I think it has been close to a year since I last watched it. Anyway, the movie is extremely quotable, but one of my favorite parts is the scene in the prison where Drax is going to kill Gamora. It's the scene where Drax gets confused about the symbol for slitting someone's throat. To my surprise, I saw something today that makes the scene even funnier. In that scene, there's another inmate who's afraid of Drax and offers his knife to him as a sort of piece offering. Quill looks to the inmate to confirm the meaning of the finger on neck gesture. At first he shakes his head yes, to confirm quill's explanation, but when Drax looks at him he shakes his head no as though he doesn't know what it means because he's afraid Drax will be offended. In the scene prior though he's using that exact same gesture toward Gamora when she enters her cell! hahaaa!!! I love it.
Also, this is totally random but in the escape scene Gamora does this super jump to take out the guards. In it, she reminds me of Kermit the frog. If you've ever seen Muppet Treasure Island, Kermit has a scene where he's sword fighting this Dave Matthews looking guy and he's hopping around. Just the way it looks, I can't help but draw comparisons. Her being green certainly helps the comparison, and funny enough Gamora does become a space pirate of sorts.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 18, 2016 18:01:56 GMT -5
I feel the same way about Spider-man 3. Spider-man 2 was a high point, so anything even remotely disappointing was going to look terrible at first glance. It's definitely a let down, but not on the scale of Green Lantern. Just a series misstep. Hell, even the Uncle Ben story didn't bother me that much. Plot wise it's contrived, but the way it was acted and shot was actually kind of well done. This was a huge arguing point I had at the Sony forums because everyone felt it was heresy, and that everything about it was subpar and mediocre because it wasn't true to the source.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jul 18, 2016 19:19:49 GMT -5
Spider-Man 3 isn't all bad, but it's mostly bad. Looking past its couple embarrassing cringe-worthy scenes, its main flaw is how much it tries to accomplish. There are way too many things going on, and while each one of them could have been alright, together they just steal each other's screen-time and wind up feeling confused and confusing.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 19, 2016 17:54:32 GMT -5
I split my viewing of Guardians of the Galaxy into 2 days. Such a good movie. Whatever my initial ratings were (after having seen the movie in theaters 3 or 4 times), I came off of this one feeling as though it's a 10/10. Now, I'm not trying to argue that it was perfect in every sense, but rather that my experience was everything I could want out of it. It gave me the same feeling I get when I watch the Back to the Future movies. Every moment of the movie is entertaining and charming, every one. I definitely love the confidence the movie and the studio were oozing. Normally with these Marvel movies they'll tell you "[so-and-so] will return" at the end of the credits in that specific white colored font. With this one, you don't even have to wait through any of the credits, they just tell you "Guardians of the Galaxy Will Return" in that bold gold lettered font. Straight flexing. I remember being at comic con in 2014 to see the Age of Ultron panel. Marvel's presentation was running like 30 minutes late and people started chanting. One of the first things they announced was a sequel to Guardians, and the movie hadn't even hit theaters yet. Then they showed a montage of all their films leading up to AOU, which included scenes from Guardians which caused people to lose their minds. James Gunn and Chris Pratt even filmed a funny little clip specifically for the convention.
On another note, my wife and I started watching Dead of Summer, which plays on Free Form (it's one of the ABC channels or something, we're watching it on Hulu). We're super into it. I guess it qualifies as so bad that it's good, but honestly, it's just entertaining. Is that acting bad? Kind of, though I blame the script writers more than the actors. Is the setting completely modern but pretending to be 1989? Definitely. Are the characters annoying? Yes. There's something about it though, it definitely sucked us in. I mentioned the script being bad earlier, but the overall direction of the story is good, so maybe it's not just the script writers. I don't even know if I recommend it to you guys, but it may be the exception.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 20, 2016 3:07:08 GMT -5
I only remember the hate, but I could have missed that early wave of optimism. For my money, I think it's an okay movie that could've been worse, and I don't actually consider it bad. There's plenty of cringe worthy stuff in it to be sure, but I don't think Raimi let the movie fly completely off the rails. The train was pretty freakin rickety, but it wasn't a total disaster. Like all movies these days, no movie can live up to its bad hype unless we're talking about The Room or Troll 2. Spider-man 3 was my first experience with movies of this sort. The type that get bashed beyond any reasonable critique. These are frustrating films for me, not only because they're bad, but because I feel I have to defend them even though I myself don't think they're all that good. Other movies that fall in this category are the last 2 Twilight movies, Daredevil (2003), and even X-Men 3. X-Men 3 may have shit the bed when it comes to characterization (which is what offends people the most, myself included) but people putting it in league with movies like Superman 4 are being ridiculous.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 21, 2016 19:14:28 GMT -5
Anyone here a fan of Disney's Gravity Falls cartoon? It was cancelled and only had 2 seasons, but my wife and I like it a lot. Lots of magic and myths and fun stuff. Finally got my brother started on Firefly. That pilot episode is a monster, a little hard to get through because they're covering a lot of ground. You get through the train job episode though and you're good to go. I really love the show would have gladly swapped the movie for more seasons (assuming the seasons would have been good, since the movie was actually good too).
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Post by BackinBlack on Jul 21, 2016 21:57:17 GMT -5
Anyone here a fan of Disney's Gravity Falls cartoon? It was cancelled and only had 2 seasons, but my wife and I like it a lot. Lots of magic and myths and fun stuff. Oh dude you have no idea. One of Disney's best shows in recent memory and all time. Funny. Scary. Dramatic. Emotional. Great characters. It had everything. I don't think there was one bad episode. It wasn't actually cancelled though. Two seasons was the plan. But I get the feeling there's something else coming.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 21, 2016 23:28:34 GMT -5
Awesome! Glad to know it wasn't cancelled. My wife and I just started season 2, but our friends have been giving the show their highest endorsement for the last couple years so we've been flying through it.
EDIT: I originally posted the following in the Marvel Netflix thread, but deleted it because the comment started a new page and hid all the trailers BIB posted
That Luke Cage trailer!!! aaaaahhhh!!!! *excitement*
As usual, I can't remember the source for the comments I'd read, but the creators did an interview some time back and they talked about how the music factors into this series in a really big way. I was definitely feeling the music in that trailer though. I'm liking all of what I see, some stuff more than others. The Daredevil trailer didn't really do anything for me, but I'm glad to see an official announcement. The Iron Fist trailer was not as modest but definitely didn't put a lot out there to be excited for (if you don't have any knowledge of Iron Fist). I'm confident in it for now though. That Defenders trailer was definitely exciting, and I appreciate that they took the Dark Knight route with it.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 24, 2016 23:41:51 GMT -5
So, I’ve been on a comic con hall H binge for the last 3 days. Very excited about all of the news that has come out. Lots of talk over who “won” comic con this year, as there always is. This is especially the case when both Marvel and DC show up. I’ve been in Hall H three times, back when my first time was in 2010. While there’s nothing like a Hall H panel from the WB to start things off, Marvel has been running the hype game for so many years. My question to you all is, what has been the biggest thing or things to come out of comic con this year?
For me, it has to be Wonder Woman. Following a close second is Luke Cage. I actually think this will be the strongest thing Marvel puts out this year, and hope that it sets a new standard for Marvel Netflix. On a non-comic book related note, I really am excited about that Valerian movie. When it was first announced people were sort of skeptical, and I myself didn’t know what to think. The funny thing is, the fact that Dane De Haan was attached gave me a lot of confidence in it. The way I see it, he’s a great actor who is going to be very cautious about any sort of franchise that he goes into from here on out. If he believed in this enough to jump on after TASM 2, then there’s gotta be something to it. Who knows? This movie certainly took a lot of people by surprise and changed some minds. Will it be Luc Besson's next The Fifth Element, or 2017's Jupiter Ascending?
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