K wrote:Is it weird that I'm a huge Hobbit fan, but I don't want to watch any of it until I can see it all at once?
Nah. I've been waiting to see if Game of Thrones ever finishes before starting to read that series. I can empathize with not wanting to be stuck waiting after having your appetite whetted.
I'm probably weirder in that I don't care if I read books/watch movies completely out of sequence. I don't know why, but it doesn't spoil a thing for me usually. Given the choice I read things in order, but it's not a deal-breaker for me to go other ways.
Totally understandable. Waiting a year between installments can be a pain.
But I like getting excited about stuff coming out, which is why I buy Dresden books the day they come out. A few other authors get that treatment, too.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Saw Les Miserables today...blew me away. I've seen it on stage, but this movie has ruined any stage production for me. Magnificent performances by almost everybody...Russell Crowe's was merely "good" (but still not bad by any means). I've heard some people don't like the way they did the singing, but I thought it made many of the numbers much more emotional; non-stop punches in the feels.
Anne Hathaway I particularly enjoyed...I was pretty much weeping almost any time she was on the screen.
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Les Miserables has great music as always, but the movie itself was a train wreck of bad decisions. The cinematography was incredibly dull. It was like the director was being paid per close up. The number of musical numbers that completely ignored all camera work and the fact that you are a movie dwarfed the number that actually did not. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables was sung by Marius in an empty, burned out cafe. He sits in a chair looking distraught the entire time. Valjean's entire blocking for his soliloquy is "pace back and forth." The camera did not once leave Fantine's face for literally the entirety of I Dreamed a Dream; it was an uncut and dull shot of Anne Hathaway's face the entire time through. Stars and Javert's Suicide actually used the camera to aid the storytelling, with Javert literally toeing the line in the former, and slipping into the abyss at the end of the latter, but I can't remember a single other piece that did so. This blocking wouldn't fly in my high school theater class. At least my high school theater class did the thing in Empty Chairs with the ghosts. The movie, despite being way better equipped to do that, decided to do something far more boring. Marius barely even moves for the whole song. Cinema is a visual medium, you can't carry a scene just on someone sitting in a chair and staring.
This is on top of the fact that a limited runtime meant that they had to cut a lot of songs really short. Attack on Rue Plumet was cut down to just about nothing, and while I never understood why the most tense song in the production was given to a dilemma by a secondary character with little impact on the main plot, it was still one of my favorites. Castle on a Cloud was cut short. Dog Eat Dog was completely omitted.
And of course there's holes in the Les Mis' story in general that need addressing. Cosette is a plot device with a cardboard soul, which makes Marius and Valjean's obsession over her in the second act kind of hard to swallow, and seem fairly shallow, especially in Marius' case. Any "I have fallen completely in love with this person I met last Tuesday" story is going to ring hollow unless, like Romeo and Juliet, the story has the decency to point out that it is a really stupid, short-sighted relationship. It's particularly a slap in the face since Eponine is both a very good friend and extremely understanding of Marius, whereas Cosette is just pretty. This is exactly the opposite way of how I want the story to go, and then the story expects me to be happy for Cosette at the end, when the girl who actually did stuff and was a good person is rotting in an unmarked grave.
The music is spectacular, but music doesn't make a movie. It makes a soundtrack, which has always been the best way of experiencing Les Mis to me.
I haven't seen the movie. Valjean loves Cosette because she is his adopted daughter and he raises her for nine years. I really don't think his strong feelings about her need much in the way of explanation. Marius and Cosette decide that they have fallen in love with each other before they have actually spoken to each other, literally kissing and confessing love in the same encounter where they tell each other their names. So that's just sort of dumb.
Chamomile wrote:And of course there's holes in the Les Mis' story in general that need addressing. Cosette is a plot device with a cardboard soul, which makes Marius and Valjean's obsession over her in the second act kind of hard to swallow, and seem fairly shallow, especially in Marius' case. Any "I have fallen completely in love with this person I met last Tuesday" story is going to ring hollow unless, like Romeo and Juliet, the story has the decency to point out that it is a really stupid, short-sighted relationship. It's particularly a slap in the face since Eponine is both a very good friend and extremely understanding of Marius, whereas Cosette is just pretty. This is exactly the opposite way of how I want the story to go, and then the story expects me to be happy for Cosette at the end, when the girl who actually did stuff and was a good person is rotting in an unmarked grave.
Agreed. Also, the woman who played Eponine was incredible. Seriously, she's so much better than essentially everyone else in the movie (except for maybe Anne Hathaway, who I liked a lot, but she's gone an hour before Eponine appears) that it's a little disconcerting.
My favorite part is the score system at the end. Also, I missed only one. Basically because everything that is D&D I knew except one, and if it wasn't a D&D I knew, then it must be indy band.
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Oh wait, that piece was serious. Sorry about that.
I never understood why anyone would think that the people who are too lazy to use the democratic tools at their disposal to change their system would be ardent enough to actually fight a revolution. I think if Obama starts seriously rounding up the guns 99% of the NRA membership will complain about it but ultimately comply.
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So Americans are allowed to kill people who try to take your guns? So if the police tells you to drop your guns, you're now legaly allowed to shoot them?
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Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
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ishy wrote:So Americans are allowed to kill people who try to take your guns? So if the police tells you to drop your guns, you're now legaly allowed to shoot them?
Whatever wrote:Fuck no, but crazy people be crazy.
Don't listen to Whatever; the cops are asking for it if they try and take your guns away. Because guns don't kill people, people kill guns.
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Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
ishy wrote:So Americans are allowed to kill people who try to take your guns? So if the police tells you to drop your guns, you're now legaly allowed to shoot them?
Whatever wrote:Fuck no, but crazy people be crazy.
Don't listen to Whatever; the cops are asking for it if they try and take your guns away. Because guns don't kill people, people kill guns.
Evidence would suggest that Graendal and Demandred held the Shadow's entire supply of complete badassery. The two of them are justifying pretty much all of the Forsaken's reputation by themselves. Much ass is getting kicked on both sides. Also Mat remains himself.
Also, I wish to inform everyone that I fucking called something:
Demandred is in charge of Shara.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
