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by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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 ...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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?
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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

Stark wrote:Hey I think I just found out where all those amazingly boring scifi battles come from! :lol:
i shouted out 'who killed the kennedys'

but after all

it was you and me
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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 atom wrote:Am I the only one
The answer is always no.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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.
by Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba
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...