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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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    At this point, is it actually a knockoff? I mean, it's not someone cloning the original toy, it IS the original toy. It's a "fell off the truck" special more than a knockoff.
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    Technically, Jupiter is the FUSE for a giant bomb. Buster Machine 3's detonation triggers all the space bombs that are responsible for DESTROYING THE GALAXY. Gunbuster doesn't do things by half measures, that's for sure. Of course, I saw Jupiter-as-energy-source and thought of Gaogaigar and ZA POWAA.
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    This thread is now officially the Firefox thread.
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    It's never too late to say "Firefox" though.
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    I loved it, personally.
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    Were 1080p TVs even AVAILABLE back in 2001? I seem to recall progressive-scan was the hot feature. But don't feel too bad. It took literally DECADES after HDTV was proposed before it was adopted as a standard. Pretty sure the current status quo is gonna stick around for a while. Provided people with no sense of quality don't completely kill the market for actual disks. Sorry, but a 1080p stream is NOT the same AV quality as a 1080p BluRay. Not even close. I DO still buy CDs... which I then rip to FLAC and put in storage. I won't pay money for lossy compression. Much less friggin' MPEG-2. Basically, online distribution is killing quality, and no one cares.
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    But can she shatter a payphone with her bare hands?!?
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    Wow, I haven't seen that in years and years. I liked it back then. I have not seen it with the critical eyes of an adult.
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    No, TITANIUM Cog! Actually, that wouldn't have been a bad idea BEFORE Konami sent them the angry letter. But now they're under the microscope. Pity, though. Konami used to be real good about looking the other way on this kind of thing. Maybe it just got so big they couldn't pretend they didn't know anymore.
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    What about one that trades it for a spring-loaded auto-evolution gimmick that triggers when you set an included magnetic Matrix into his hands? Because that'd be awesome(albeit terrible for accuracy and transformation)
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    It's not that you're the only person who doesn't like Jazz, just that you're the only person who hasn't realized he likes Jazz yet.
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    Never! I can't... I WON'T!
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    Sorry, man. I just couldn't resist the temptation. If it makes you feel better, I meant that more as "I am in DuelGundam mode here" rather than "DuelGundam said this". I'm not actually sure if that's better or worse, though. I really did like that movie.
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    As far as I know, it's just T&A without ever getting into anything overt. So it would be classified as "fanservice" rather than hentai.
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    I don't see anything? What sequels? What are you people talking about?!
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