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Pearl Harbor is indeed one of those few. It lucked out because it came out at the right time with the right cast, and fooled people into thinking it was a good movie.

It's bad enough that the girl either has an eating disorder, a coke habit, a wasting illness, or all of the above. Why dedicate a website to demanding that she bring her jailbait look back?

Supposedly the secret to beating Juggernaut is to move ahead as slowly as possible. Some kind of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis-type crap about how if you run away he speeds up to catch you. Which sounds like bullshit to me; as I recall, I had serious problems just staying ahead of the guy.

If the movies are bad or offensive, the public won't go to see them. There have been relatively few instances of a really godawful or reprehensible film actually becoming a boxoffice hit.

The "vampires can't enter a home" thing is an old Bram Stoker cliche that Joss stole to make his life easier. If the hordes of vampires could just knock down Buffy's door and kill her in the night, there'd be no show. The original idea comes from old European superstitions, which were a mix of ancient pagan religions and misunderstood Catholic mysticism. Something to do with a reanimated corpse not being able to re-enter its homes or any other Christian home unless the inhabitants wanted it to come in. But as to your question: my best guess is that the vampire would rise as normal, and would then simply leave the house and not be able to get back in. (Note that having someone turned into a vampire inside a house yet having the owner remain a living human is unlikely to say the least.)

I applaud the Brits wholeheartedly. I have tremendous respect for that nation and its people. And they've still got one of the better militaries in the world. Islamic terrorists couldn't have picked a worse country to piss off. (Well, besides the one they already did.) Al-Queda are relative n00bs at this terrorist thing, having only done it since the 80's in Afghanistan; the UK has been dealing with other nations attacking it since the time of the Vikings, and usually done pretty damn well.

I think this takes the cake as the most ignorant comment i've seen on these boards, and thats saying something. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You should see the massive screaming fight me and Mike had over at my board over some very similar comments he made.

My point was, why are people assuming that this guy really raped every one of those 36,000 kids? People just throw down a "kill that fucker" post without ever bothering to actually pay attention to the facts about how things work in the real world. Molesting 2 or 3 completely new kids every single day is impossible. And unless he was having hundred-kid naked daycare orgies, there's no way even half of those incidents were 1.real or 2.anything illegal. Also, this guy was apparently a multiple-time convicted offender in several states. What the fuck was he doing running around free in the first place? If there's ever been a textbook case of an unrepentant incurable sexual predator, this is it.

Chalk this one up to Case #48569384579845 where I don't feel like I've got enough facts to make an informed opinion. For all we know, she could've been a nightmare neighbor with hoodlum kids who played loud music and ran up & down the halls screaming all night. That's the problem with news today, the reporters never bother to dig deep enough to find out the real story.

Never been to an indy show or talked to anyone at a wrestling event, have you? The most common one are people who think that there was more than one Kane or Ultimate Warrior. The funniest thing I've ever heard from a mark: "I know everything about wrestling."

Kobashi. Wrestling in America. ...goddammit, I'd hoped to never have to experience New York traffic. Looks like I have to now.

On the FF arguments: X didn't have THAT many cutscenes, but it could've been trimmed a bit here and there, especially early on in the game. I hate games that make me wade through hours of menus and movies and other startup bullshit before letting me actually PLAY the damn things. Funny thing: if you go back and play FFVII now, it seems like the game doesn't have all that many cutscenes at all (except for having to watch all the Summoned monster attacks over and over again). Compared to the more recent FFs, which make you sit through an hour of opening cinemas before you even get to your first battle, this one zips along in comparison. But it was the game that started all this FMV crap in the first place. Ironic, donctha think? - On the Metal Gear Solid arguments: I had no problems at all with all the movies and Codec stuff in the first one. I thought it struck the perfect balance between action and walking. And yes, I really did LISTEN to all the conversations, at least the first couple of times I played through it. Why not? MGS featured by far the best voice acting of pretty much any video game ever, as good as a well-dubbed anime, and dialogue that for once didn't make you groan at every other line. MGS2 on the other hand had WAY too much convo crap. The ending of the game (from the multiple Rays attacking onward) is literally two fights crammed in between an hour and a half (not exagerrating, I timed it) of cutscenes and codec crap. After that, I never bothered playing the third one. Who the fuck wants to deal with all that, PLUS all the bullshit about camoflauge and eating? Games are made as an escape from reality because reality is fucking boring and/or depressing; I don't want a game to make me pay attention to my action gun-fu supersoldier's fucking diet. Not to mention the thought of playing a prequel set in the 60's with crappier low-tech equipment and starring supervillain Big Boss as our babyface protagonist just seemed like it had BAD FUCKING IDEA written all over it.

Still doesn't change the fact that (imho) it's by far the worst of Romero's films and not even as good as a bunch of the Romero clones out there. It's boring, hardly anything happens for the first hour, the dialogue and actors mostly suck big floppy donkey dick, there's none of the social commentary/satire that Romero is usually known for, and the ending is Romero ripping himself off by doing the EXACT same ending as Dawn. Yeah, Bub was cool, but the goofy-ass comedic spiders in Eight-Legged Freaks were cool too, and you don't see anyone praising that one as an all-time classic. Shaun of the Dead on the other hand was easily the funniest zombie movie ever made, one of the wittiest and most intelligently written, and one that actually tried to do something a little bit different than the usual moaning gore-snarfing mindless corpseathon. Vivisecti, did we vote on the nominees or something, or did you just pick them yourself? Just curious, since I'm wondering how Wild Zero and ROTLD2 made the cut.

Rodriguez was forced to dub all the lines later because his camera was too noisy. That's half the reason why the editing is done the way it was, with lots of quick cuts, was to cover up the fact that the words and the mouths were out of sync. Read his book Rebel Without A Crew, he explains it all in great detail. For talky indy films, an external microphone is the way to go, because while you almost always end up looping at least a few lines later, the on-set recorded sound is something you really need to have in order to make everything fit together smoothly. You can get everything you need for a decent mic package at Radio Shack for probably less than $200 bucks. You'll NEED a boom mic, period, but all you really need for that is just a unidirectional microphone (preferably a powered model, they pick up the sound much better) and some kind of stand, which can even ne made with just a broomstick and some duct tape if you don't have anything better. If you've got the money to spare, a wireless clip-on mic (for scenes where the camera is far away from the people you're shooting) or even a few different mics and a cheapie sound mixing board aren't a bad investment either.

Hell, I would like to have seen Shock Waves period, but the video stores around here are all Blockbusters.

Cemetery Man Dawn of the Dead [Remake] Return of the Living Dead III Night of the Living Dead [Original] Night of the Living Dead [Remake] Land of the Dead Shaun of the Dead Dawn of the Dead [Original]

Shoutout to Eskimo and all our other brothers in the English language 'cross the pond. Our thoughts & prayers are with you guys.

Tek, if you beat Battletoads, then not only do you not suck at video games, but you could give the little rainman kid in The Wizard a run for his money. And yeah, Ghosts and Goblins gets MUCH harder in the later levels. The sixth level STARTS with one of those giant flying serpent dragon things that was a boss in one of the earlier levels. And then you have to climb up throw areas where you run into one of the flying red devil motherfuckers like every five seconds. And then finally have to fight not one but two of those giant monsters that stole your girlfriend. It's fucking impossible. I thought I was the only person on earth who'd ever played Milon's Secret Castle. I would've mentioned it earlier, but it's a really obscure game. Really hard too, because of all the invisible shit you have to find by just shooting & jumping randomly all over every square inch of that goddamn castle.

You did luck out. The few times I ever beat his first form, the second form just pounced right onto me, where there was no possible way I could've avoided it. The only way I ever killed it was with Game Genie codes that powered up my weapons, so I kept tossing holy water onto it (which briefly paralyzes it) til it died. Oh yeah, that's another one. When your game's second stage is too hard for most people to get past (the ridiculously tricky swimming bullshit where you're dodging deadly seaweed, that's about as "fun" and hard as a game of Operation!) you really need to think about going back to the drawing board. Not just Spiderman, a very specific SNES game called "Spiderman & X-Men: Arcade's Revenge" which let you play as all your favorite superheroes, and then put them all in situations where you couldn't use ANY of their powers. And was bloody fucking impossible to beat.

How could this possibly be this guy's fault? Some stupid little bitch walked right in front of his car and almost got her dumb ass killed. He's naturally pissed, so he gets out to yell at her. She tries to walk off and ignore him, he grabs her arm to stop her, because she needed to be yelled at, it sounded like she was being a complete idiot. That's all that happened. And this guy has to register as a fucking sex offender over it. Jesus. I can't believe how fucking stupid a lot of our Scarlet Letter laws are here in America.

How could it not be the one I think it is when the cited article says that their the same group? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I wasn't talking to you, I meant that it's not the group that most people think of the phrase "Church of Christ."

What do you mean, "walk under him"? The second form was so big it took up half the screen. He jumped on me. I died. Game over. Did you ever actually win the damn thing? Finding all those power-ups for your blaster is a bitch and a half. Well, I'm glad you liked it. But how does being unsatisfied with a short, pointless, unhappy ending to a ridiculously hard game equal "just don't get it"? The only thing I agree with you. Golden Dagger, goodbye. Now you're just being mean. Hell, I once got through Contra without losing a single life. How so? Alucard's offense was laughably weak, and the triple-form Dracula was pretty damn hard. Especially since, unlike the others in the series, if you died it spit you WAY back in the level.

If you like that, try and stay away from some theatre productions of it. I saw one last year which was absolutly horrible. The worst part of it was that they were professional actors, yet they had no clue how to do that play. Lines were taken out of the right context and as a result the product suffered. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've never seen a live version of Hamlet, but that's more to do with the lack of good Shakespearean actors in the South than my own choice. I've just never had the opprotunity to see the play staged at all. Personally, I've never seen what I considered to be "the definitive Hamlet". I've seen lots of interpretations, but no single one stands out above the rest.

Find out what cameras they shot 28 Days Later with and buy that. It's the first shot-on-video movie I've seen where I never really noticed that it wasn't done on film.

Sledge: the thread is called "GIVE ME REASONS TO HATE SHAWN MICHAELS". Fuck off.