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    Huh. I may buy a 3DS XL once the Circle Pad Pro-integrated version hits stateside. ... Even if it does look like a REALLY crappy analog nub.
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    I'm with DuelGundam here. Some of my favorite movies have had terrible trailers. And while this looks to be abusing Dracula pretty hard... eh, so has everything else. I find it hard to be particularly heartbroken by THIS SPECIFIC abuse of Bram Stoker's creation. ... Even if he DID just punch an army with his giant batfist. That crap's hilarious.
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    Trufax: My sense of humor is difficult to over-ride. I was very much not serious.
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    Or me, truth be told. I do try to keep it under control these days.
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    One is a science-fiction epic, masterpiece of dramatic writing, and one of the greatest products of the modern era. The other is Mass Effect.
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    Starscream et al was kinda terrible, even by standards of the line.
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    It's certainly a heck of a brand.
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    I like Armageddon. It's stupid fun.
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    People keep talking about Resident Evil's tank controls, but I still don't see it. I mean, you have to have two sticks for tank controls!
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    A1 and Keith's... flirting... is making me think of doorknobs for some reason.
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    So earlier today, the New Horizons space probe hit it's last major milestone before the Pluto flyby next year, when it crossed Neptune's orbit. No pics, Neptune's in the wrong place. NH is actually closer to Pluto than Neptune right now. In a helluva coincidence, this ALSO happened to be the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2's Neptune flyby. Keep on truckin', NH! Don't let the "not a planet" haters get you down!
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    How does her top stay on? I can't quite figure out- Oh.
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    Much like the locked door in every JRPG ever. "Wait, I can throw fireballs, summon lightning out of a clear sky, and call the fury of the gods themselves down onto the heads of my enemies, but a WOODEN DOOR is insurmountable? My sword strikes with the literal force of an atomic blast! I could raze this entire ramshackle cottage to the motherloving BEDROCK with a single finger! But I can't get through the DOOR?!" Yes, I've spent far too much time thinking about this before.
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    But a bad movie kills faster because 2x the factors! ... Someone should set up a movie theater with treadmills instead of chairs, so we can get some exercise while we watch our movies. Ah, but that's the thing. I DON'T use genre as a primary filter. I've seen Alien more than once, and it's one of my favorite movies.
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    The normal, sane-looking romanizations are, well, normal and sane romanizations of the japanese. The crazy ones with too many consonants are the official romanizations, which were intentionally done crazy because they're alien names and SHOULDN'T look normal.
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    Such a crazy idea, thinking movies are influenced by the people that make them. Stress kills. Bad movies are stressful to watch. The ball's in your court now. That gets back to I don't have the time to watch every movie ever released. That's not enough information for me to make intelligent use of my time. It's also the kind of filtration that would have, as en example, resulted in me never watching Alien because "I don't like horror movies." Which is, in the general case, true. There are few horror movies that I enjoy, and it is not a genre I seek out without additional recommending factors. If the only guide I had was "genre:horror" and "trailer:creepy music, screaming, and Sigourney Weaver busting someone's head with a fire extinguisher"... no.
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    Signs was terrible. Mediocre is a distant mark it can only dream of reaching. I am aware Anchorman is a controversial statement, but I find this controversy inexplicable as it wasn't funny at all and was actually pretty aggressively terrible. If it was Space Anchorman, it'd be a contender for this thread. You can't prove they didn't cost me life expectancy, so I continue to maintain that they did. Sheeple is NEVER a relevant term. It's derisive mockery that serves only to undermine any actual point you may have. That's why we look to see who directed a movie. I never said genre isn't useful. Quite the opposite. Genre's good for a rough guide, but it's not a precision tool. It's best when it's loose. If you're in the mood for something lighthearted, you go to see a comedy, not a horror film. But then people start saying things like "I only watch fantasy movies" or "I never watch science-fiction" and any utility it has collapses as entire swathes of amazing movies are discarded because their setting may have a few things in common with some other movie. I'm actually not sure why we use settings as genres, but I've finally accepted that I can't change the world by myself so I'm letting that one drop. And god help me, people try to polish genre into a precise instrument, and string together adjectives until they've created something ridiculously specific that's so far beyond any utility that I can't fathom why anyone thinks it's valid. Someone can't just go "Get in the car, we are watching a romantic post-apocalyptic pirate steampunk war drama tonight." It doesn't work that way. ... Though I can't imagine a movie with that description attached that isn't awesome, so this hypothetical person may have a point. But I firmly believe if a genre name is longer than one word, or if that word doesn't tell me something about the general mood of the story, something's gone wrong.
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    Signs, Best in Show, Anchorman. I'm pretty sure all three should be considered toxic substances. There's a certain craftsmanship to Bay-splosions. Also, on-set interviews have lead to tales of his ... unusually discerning... eye towards pyrotechnics and reshooting it to get that explosion better. Hell, even Bay knows it. He did a Verizon ad that was about 30% him blowing stuff up. Sure it did. I was mocking the very existence of the term "sheeple." As noted, I've only seen Signs out of Shamalama's repertoire. I picked out a name because it makes it easier to illustrate a point without sounding like a Speed Racer parody than if I said "Director X" While genre can certainly be a useful bullet point, I find over-reliance on it to be rampant. It should be a rough guide, but I often see people using it as their primary measure, often in bizarre forms.
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    Understandable, really. I mean, it IS her first time speaking japanese, and pronouncing kanji is hard!
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    I've seen some movies I'm pretty sure HAVE taken years off my life. And yet, some people have more input than others, and certain patterns do emerge across a moderately large body of work. A stuntman has only slightly more impact on the final product than I do. A director, however, has a HUGE amount of impact, being capable of hiring and firing many of those other people on your list AT WILL. And rewriting the script, in part or in whole, after the writer is through with it(though the union likely will not allow a director to take sole writing credit). And what may be considered an anomaly with one movie becomes a clear case of a specific MEANINGFULLY influential staff member's personal preferences with some larger number of movies. While I suppose it's POSSIBLE Micheal Bay is only hired to direct movies with lots of explosions and potty humor written into the script by chance, it's not very likely at this point in his career. Especially given eyewitness testimony as to how much he likes explosions. Certainly, there's exceptions. David Fincher had VERY little control over Alien 3, and he almost never directed another movie because of how terrible that first experience was. But they are rare. Capable of pattern recognition? Oh. I thought that was what teenagers with inflated opinions of their tastes called people who didn't share the same taste, because Linkin Park is real music never touched by a marketing exec. Shows what I know. I prefer not spending ten bucks and two hours of my life on an experience that I likely won't enjoy. I lack the time, money, and patience to watch EVERY movie. Therefore, some criteria are needed to filter out films I likely won't enjoy. And if M. Night Shamalama(to pick a recurring name in the thread) has literally never directed a movie I enjoy, why should I believe THIS IS THE ONE, when experience dictates otherwise? (This is, of course, a hypothetical example as I've only seen one Shamalama-directed movie)
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    You say that like it's a hard record to set.
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    Pyroclastic flow?
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    "Dinobots, destroy Devastator!" "Me Grimlock love challenge."
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    Well, if you own them, you have to pay all the taxes and fees, and adhere to any applicable labor laws. Far easier to just go "Eh, I paid a guy to make 'em for me. He swears his factory's on the up and up." Let someone that knows about manufacturing costs, labor law, and the evasion thereof deal with it.
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    False assumption. It's not Hasbro's factory, it's some random manufacturer in China that Hasbro's hired to pump out a few million plastic dinosaurs. They've had problems with the factories leaking stock out the back door for years, with some far more embarassing toys than a Grimlock repaint in that history. Bingo. They've tried to shut it down in the past, but there's not really a lot they can do. If they actually OWNED the factory and had staff paid a reasonable wage, that'd be one thing. But as-is, there's just too much incentive to run a truckload of toys out the back door for any attempt at stopping it to be effective.
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