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evilsoup wrote:Pacific Rim was that fatal combination of being both stupid and boring at the same time

Hmmmm, I think that applies more to his Hellboy movies. Blade II was workmanlike action horror (it was better than Blase: Trinity, but that's not a hard thing to do).

I get a lot dreams involving fear of being punished or being in serious legal/moral trouble of some kind, but I don't get lucid photographic memories of them when I wake up.

Pacific Rim was a pretty solid blockbuster (but it wasn't really horror as such).

There have been TV edits of Robocop where the extreme violence is edited out for more of a 12/15 rating and swearing hilariously dubbed over.

Oh for fuck's sake! The Jobcentre has finally stopped my job seeking allowance after I filled in a phonebook sized form that came through the door and posted it in on time, only to get lost in the dysfunctional mountain of bureaucracy!

Which is why I bought a relatively cheap (but still competently multi-media tasked) Nokia Lumia smartphone on a contract.

I highly recommend Wolf Children - think 80s/90s Studio Ghibli, a bit more bite than today's Ghibli.

Gands wrote:For me it was age 17-23 or so. I'm still there, but I've had about a hundred posts in the last five years.

I was posting mainly from the age of 21 to 25, then slowly decline in my posting, and stopped indefinitely the past couple of years (when I found the arrogant stupidity a bit too much).

Judging from the reviews and spoilers, I get the impression that the Robocop remake is like the fairly recent Total Recall remake; solidly made and watchable on its own, but kinda bland and unnecessary. Robocop 3 also suffered greatly from being a bit too bland and commercialised, even if its satiri...

I'm slightly puzzled why you still post there, I felt much better when I spent more time in the real world with real people and did things I liked. Every other talk forums and social networks easily feel more easy going than SD.Net; SB has its chronic technical issues with a server bottleneck and a ...

OK, I've steamed right through my Breaking Bad boxset, finding most of the show addictive and mesmerising, and one death scene in particular stuck in my mind: Namely the incredibly sad and morbid death of Jesse's junkie girlfriend, Jane, when she suffocated on her own vomit because of Walter White's...

My mum "adopted" somebody else's wandering cat aswell (dogs are more loyal and don't eat their owner after he/she dies, allegedly).

Caught the conclusion to the NCIS bombing two parter on my laptop (and wah hah hey to yet more extrajudicial murder by Agent Gibbs!). I don't remember that. He did kill the Big Bad in part three, but that was in defense of another, which would be a justified shoot. It happened in a relatively recen...

Flagg wrote:I just picked up on it being derivative crap.

I found it moderately amusing how Oblivion's visual designers stole a lot from Portal and the Half-Life sequels.

I downloaded Flappy Bird into my new Samsung tablet, found it a frustrating and bland piece of fuck, and then de-installed it.

Caught the conclusion to the NCIS bombing two parter on my laptop (and wah hah hey to yet more extrajudicial murder by Agent Gibbs!).

I heard they were given a hard time in Canada as well, but perhaps not as harshly as at the hands of the US Government (when indigenous fugitives like Sitting Bull were aimed at crossing into Canada and a US President like Thomas Jefferson would be tried like a Nazi war criminal if the US got occupi...

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:jesus

Extremely crude, but really well made actually and for thirty seconds I thought it was the actual film footage of the attempted rape scene (and good attention to detail, with the OCP propaganda billboard in the background faithfully recreated presumably on Photoshop).

"God Damn" in a good way or a bad way?

I've now got Sonic the Hedgehog on my Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's huge sleeper hit (that's holding its ground against mobile/tablet/laptop apps while the Nintendo Wii U crashed very hard).

And what's with the Mel Gibson grade fixation with torture over on SD.Net, making it out to be the main mission and primary tool of Western governments, rather than the ugly by product of the human condition in COIN warfare and the arrogant assumption that it's the means to a end made by semi-rogue ...

I've seen Starship Troopers 3: Marauder on classy Channel 5 yesterday evening and while Jolene Blalock is a relatively solid actress, but my God was that film badly written and badly made (with the CGI towards the end reminding me of a FMV cutscene from a mid to late 1990s Westwood Studios video gam...

Small, sparsely spread groups of people who are trapped in Stone Age hunter gathering or Bronze/Iron Age village stasis are going to get steamrolled by an incoming civilisation that's vastly superior in logistics, population, and technology that's pathologically expansionist, no matter what and how ...

Sandman wrote: und the crime rate since has been falling.

Perhaps not violent crime, but shoplifting has certainly increased.

Between an improving social life and joining an art illustration course, I'm losing my interest in SB (and slightly dumb threads where you have people pining for the "humanitarianism" and "stability" of Iron Age empires over European colonialism having me roll my eyes).

No love lost with the British establishment and their love for self-destructive crony capitalism, but one understandable reason why there's this sudden push for increasingly extreme, arbitrary civil enforcement laws was the '11 riots where the homes and properties of ordinary people (not evil corpo...