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- 2013-04-27 05:42am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
- Replies: 277
- Views: 73407
Re: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
You know I think it's fair to subscribe to 'as long as it succeeds at entertaining who cares' as a judgement metric, but I really do think it's kind of sad when a franchise which, even when it failed really often, was still ideally guided by a certain philosophy, and tried to tinge adventure with mo...
- 2013-04-23 06:57pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
- Replies: 277
- Views: 73407
Re: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
Everything I hear about this film as more information rolls out validates my initial disdain.
Turns out if you put a smug hack who still doesn't know how to end his fucking movies in charge of your franchise, Frankenstein fanservice is what you'll get.
Turns out if you put a smug hack who still doesn't know how to end his fucking movies in charge of your franchise, Frankenstein fanservice is what you'll get.
- 2013-04-17 07:38am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Man of Steel Trailer #3
- Replies: 61
- Views: 9180
Re: Man of Steel Trailer #3
I really do not mind a Superman Flies Into Space scene if they keep using that palette. Goddamn, nothing in the previous work of the cinematographer here (Amir Mokri) has impressed me much, but this looks like they combined Wally Pfister's stark aesthetic sense with Zack Snyder's understanding of co...
- 2013-04-17 04:16am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Man of Steel Trailer #3
- Replies: 61
- Views: 9180
Re: Man of Steel Trailer #3
This is the only big-budget franchise picture coming out soon that I'm actually looking forward to. Every trailer I've seen really makes it look like something different and well-thought-out.
- 2013-03-25 01:07am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
- Replies: 277
- Views: 73407
Re: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
Literally.
- 2013-03-06 09:46am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Is 'Tree of Life' One of the Greatest Films Ever Made?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3262
Re: Is 'Tree of Life' One of the Greatest Films Ever Made?
i'm late to this thread because i barely go on sdn anymore and I really need to get to fucking bed but stark prodded me so I thought I'd add what thoughts I have that aren't already summed up here i will take my absolute bone tiredness as license to be as pretentious as i fucking like and i won't ed...
- 2013-02-06 05:36pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: More than 50 countries helped the CIA outsource torture
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3490
Re: More than 50 countries helped the CIA outsource torture
Austria helped? How? By only lodging a formal protest when US airplanes crossed our airspace with detainees, while lying about the true cargo and intentions? Which they did because we denied them access to our airspace when they asked for permission to do that? This article is crap. No. The primary...
- 2013-02-06 02:16am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: More than 50 countries helped the CIA outsource torture
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3490
More than 50 countries helped the CIA outsource torture
In the years after 9/11, the CIA ran a worldwide program to hold and interrogate suspected members of al-Qaida, sometimes brutally. It wasn’t alone: The agency had literally dozens of partners that helped in ways large and small. Only it’s never been clear just how many nations enabled CIA capture ...
- 2013-02-05 11:11pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Zero Dark Thirty
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10686
Re: Zero Dark Thirty
So I've seen the movie now, and I have mixed feelings over this whole brouhaha over its moral qualities or whatever. On the one hand, the movie isn't 'Team America Justice Yes Brigade' in any sense. The climax has no triumphal qualities; the SEAL team kill a grieving, unarmed woman without hesitatio...
- 2013-02-02 02:25pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: French Troops Intervene In Mali
- Replies: 61
- Views: 9564
Re: French Troops Intervene In Mali
According to an informal al-Jazeera poll, 96% of Malians surveyed are in favour of the intervention.
- 2013-02-01 05:57pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: The Most Vexing Scientific Debate of Our Time
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7580
The Most Vexing Scientific Debate of Our Time
President Obama's handlers failed to alert their boss to the most clever question he was asked on Reddit in August: "Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?" Staffers with more Reddit savvy could've prepped an answer. Last autumn, New York Times columnist Nic...
- 2013-01-17 06:32am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Zero Dark Thirty
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10686
Re: Zero Dark Thirty
Isn't that, just, like, normalization?
- 2013-01-16 07:01pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Zero Dark Thirty
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10686
Re: Zero Dark Thirty
For a long time, measuring more years than I care to count, I thought the movie that became "Zero Dark Thirty" would never happen. The goal, to make a modern, rigorous film about counter-terrorism, centered on one of the most important and classified missions in American history, was exci...
- 2013-01-15 05:03am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Death by Degrees
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3294
Death by Degrees
In 605 CE, a year after murdering his father and seizing the throne, the Chinese emperor Yang Guang established the world’s first meritocracy. Weary of making bureaucratic appointments solely on the basis of letters of recommendation, Yang set aside a number of posts for applicants who performed we...
- 2013-01-15 05:01am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Confessions of an Ex-Moralist
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6700
Confessions of an Ex-Moralist
The day I became an atheist was the day I realized I had been a believer. Up until then I had numbered myself among the “secular ethicists.” Plato’s “Euthyphro” had convinced me, as it had so many other philosophers, that religion is not needed for morality. Socrates puts the point characteristical...
- 2013-01-04 02:35pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3933
Re: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
I don't know what the hell "it's part of the political litmus test of ideological correctness for some people to demand you accept it is a genocide" is supposed to mean, but some quick googling turned up an op-ed written by Uygur where he flat out says it is a complete lie made up so Arme...
- 2013-01-04 04:58am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3933
Re: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
There's a surprising amount of debate in academia over whether the Armenian Genocide was a genocide as such (not that I think the distinction between genocide and ethnic cleansing is really particularly substantive or important, and very few people who dispute the term disagree that it was an ethni...
- 2013-01-04 02:55am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3933
Re: Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV
There's a surprising amount of debate in academia over whether the Armenian Genocide was a genocide as such (not that I think the distinction between genocide and ethnic cleansing is really particularly substantive or important, and very few people who dispute the term disagree that it was an ethnic...
- 2013-01-03 04:24am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Drone warfare vs manned spacecraft in sci-fi
- Replies: 113
- Views: 17035
Re: Drone warfare vs manned spacecraft in sci-fi
i shouted out 'who killed the kennedys'Stark wrote:Hey I think I just found out where all those amazingly boring scifi battles come from!
but after all
it was you and me
- 2012-12-13 07:52pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Calvin and Hobbes vs Finn and Jake
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1868
- 2012-12-12 08:09pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Man Of Steel Trailer #2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 7727
Re: Man Of Steel Trailer #2
I think the last Superhero trailer that made me this interested was The Dark Knight's. I think this looks really cool and since Zack Snyder is in charge of the direction and not the script I have very high hopes for it. Not everyone enjoys his style but I sure as hell do.
- 2012-12-09 06:17am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Has anyone played the re-release Baldurs Gate?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2105
Re: Has anyone played the re-release Baldurs Gate?
Man, replaying BG after a decade+ of other Bioware RPGs is a bit of a trip down 'I completely forgot games were like this' lane. For one thing, and I don't know whether it's coddling or a quality-of-life improvement in games since then, but the actual lethality of combat really jumps out. 5 paces ou...
- 2012-12-07 04:15am
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
- Replies: 277
- Views: 73407
Re: Star Trek into Darkness - Synopsis
The answer is always no.the atom wrote:Am I the only one
- 2012-12-06 05:06pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Game of Thrones Season 3 casting news (minor spoilers)
- Replies: 133
- Views: 24670
Re: Game of Thrones Season 3 casting news (minor spoilers)
This seems to indicate Daario will be boringly-haired.
- 2012-12-06 03:54am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Game of Thrones Season 3 casting news (minor spoilers)
- Replies: 133
- Views: 24670
Re: Game of Thrones Season 3 casting news (minor spoilers)
The books aren't really specific on races. Aside from the fact that Summer Islanders are black, the people of Ghis are olive-skinned (so probably Mediterranean, but I like to imagine some of them with South Asian features), and the people of Qarth are extremely pale, there's nothing set in stone and...