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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: May 01, 2014, 06:13:52 PM »
Yes, let's continue to lower the intellectual level.

Iron Man 3 is alright.
Arrested Development is funny.
Yay

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Why do adults hate ewoks? Are people racist against teddy bears? God forbid anything be cute in a galaxy far, far, away. I always thought wookies were more annoying personally.

But regardless, I think the originals are way better than any of the newer movies. There was more moral ambiquity. The whole good vs evil theme is what bothers me about Star Wars. If you have any Jedi abilities than you have to choose to be a monk or evil.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Goku vs Superman
« on: May 01, 2014, 01:36:25 AM »
Or that time he let 2 planes collide.. oops, wrong show.

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The Star Trek reboot films made terrible Star Trek, but would have been decent Star Wars. I'm hopeful.
That's kind of how I feel about it too. I never cared for Star Wars really but it might be alright.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 27, 2014, 09:38:12 PM »
Being a general does mean something. Zod was born and raised to be the best soldier. He had the intense discipline, focus, and combat knowledge to pick up on his powers faster than Clark.

I don't think there's something wrong with having a realistic superhero movie with human deaths. I'm glad they exist so people like me can enjoy them while people like you can enjoy the light hearted Avengers stuff.

Speaking of grim, I just finished all the episodes of Attack on Titan and I'm considering reading more into the mangas.

I don't shy away from heavy and dark movies. They were trying to emulate Batman in a Superman movie and I think they failed miserably. Not because Superman is supposed to be happy or anything, it just wasn't fun. Even TDK was fun.
I guess I just don't understand where you're coming from then.

Fun isn't really a word I would ever use to describe a heavy/dark movie. I like TDK and Man of Steel, but neither of them were my definition of fun.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 27, 2014, 06:47:36 PM »
Speaking of grim, I just finished all the episodes of Attack on Titan and I'm considering reading more into the mangas.

I started watching Attack on Titan a few days ago, is it worth finishing?
I think it's great. The story is interesting and the action looks great. The plot moves fast in the beginning so they move up to cadets really quickly.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 27, 2014, 03:22:27 PM »
Being a general does mean something. Zod was born and raised to be the best soldier. He had the intense discipline, focus, and combat knowledge to pick up on his powers faster than Clark.

I don't think there's something wrong with having a realistic superhero movie with human deaths. I'm glad they exist so people like me can enjoy them while people like you can enjoy the light hearted Avengers stuff.

Speaking of grim, I just finished all the episodes of Attack on Titan and I'm considering reading more into the mangas.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: People Doing Dumb Things
« on: April 27, 2014, 06:29:10 AM »
At least she died happy and only killed herself.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Sexist cheerleader handbook?
« on: April 27, 2014, 03:03:35 AM »
This definitely seems like charm school material. I have a cousin who was a cheerleader before getting preggers- I could ask her.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 27, 2014, 12:27:03 AM »
From everything I've read about this incident it seems like Bundy was completely in the wrong and being a huge redneck about the whole situation. The armed stand-off was completely unnecessary.

This is what happens when you don't give hillbillies enough attention as children, they seek it elsewhere.
Of course he was in the wrong. But conservatives don't like or sometimes even recognize federal government. I'm getting sick of the division all the together. Maybe I just see more of this mentality because I live in the south, but I wish they'd just have their revolution or shut up.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:39:38 PM »
Hence, conflicted feelings. During that small time frame he instinctively fell back on what he was taught which is a very real human thing to do.

Clark Kent is not human. He was rebellious toward his adoptive father to begin with, although he did respect him completely. Which might prompt him to disobey his advice, like he had done in the past. I suppose the argument could be made that Supes has a human's moral code since he was not aware of his alien nature at the time of Jonathan's death, or was he? I forget.
He knew he was an alien at that point. But does Superman typically not act like a human with human morals?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:22:42 PM »
he loves humanity and will do whatever he can to protect it, but he also fears that they will reject him.

Then logically he would have saved Jonathan Kent... unless in the next Superman movie we find out that Supes from Man of Steel is actually Bizzaro Supes. I would support this plot twist.

But then this:
It still felt realistic to me just because freak accidents don't leave a lot of time for decision making and Clark fell back on what he was taught (hiding his powers). Right before Jonathan died they had an argument on what Clark should do, the guilt of calling him out as not actually being his father was probably a factor when he listened to Jonathan's judgement.

Hence, conflicted feelings. During that small time frame he instinctively fell back on what he was taught which is a very real human thing to do.
 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:18:48 PM »
I love America for providing drama like this. Such a tiny issue ballooned into sweet mountains of popcorn.
Tensions against big government have been rising for awhile. It seems like conservatives and libertarians are anxious to have a reason to start a revolution. Maybe they thought they could rally behind this guy to start the ball rolling. So even though this is technically a small issue, it kind of represents a lot of growing resentment.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:14:42 PM »
I just didn't like how grim and serious the whole thing was.
I think this is ultimately why we don't see eye to eye when it comes to comic books movies.

I would hazard a guess that people who already liked Superman didn't care for the movie and the people who didn't care for Superman before liked the movie. From my experience that's what it seems like at least and for precisely the reasons that Snupes and Vindictus are pointing out.

Jonathan's death was forced. It felt like forced character development, which just ends up feeling cheap.
Do you think it might have felt forced because it was a flashback? Just curious.

I don't have a lot to compare it to since I've never been into the Superman series. But I guess they wanted it as a freak accident where Clark had to make a decision whether to hide or reveal himself. It still felt realistic to me just because freak accidents don't leave a lot of time for decision making and Clark fell back on what he was taught (hiding his powers). Right before Jonathan died they had an argument on what Clark should do, the guilt of calling him out as not actually being his father was probably a factor when he listened to Jonathan's judgement. Throughout the movie that theme is persistent; he loves humanity and will do whatever he can to protect it, but he also fears that they will reject him.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 26, 2014, 07:59:21 PM »
I don't have cable television by choice
Neither do I.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 26, 2014, 07:45:14 PM »
or something.

Key words.
I really don't watch Fox News enough to understand it. :/

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 26, 2014, 07:41:14 PM »
I really don't understand why this guy is getting so much attention.
How is he different than all the other racist rednecks I meet everyday? My theory is that the media found him amusing so they chose him to be their new face of bigotry. I doubt he'll surpass his predecessor though, Kanye West.
It wasn't about the racism at first. He was mostly a mascot for conservatives and maybe libertarians (not sure how they feel about this guy) in the fight against the government or something.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy
« on: April 26, 2014, 06:47:16 PM »
I thought Jon Stewart's rant against Hannity covered the contradictions pretty well.
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/jxvcqy/april-23--2014---robin-roberts

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 26, 2014, 06:35:25 PM »
Somehow I got the feeling that they were trying to make young Clark look like Tom Welling though.
Henry Cavill and Tom Welling resemble each other so that would make sense.

I never did a body count for the final battle, but it seemed realistic. Superman was matched by General Zod so breaking away to save people while still winning the fight  seems improbable.

And Ghost, don't let the snarkiness rustle your jimmies. This Superman was supposed to be a bit darker and more conflicted than other versions. He went to great lengths to hide who he was. Plus, when he was that young we don't really know the extent of his power development. He might not have been that fast yet.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: April 26, 2014, 06:19:19 PM »
Oh well the movie isn't based on Smallville so that might have confused you.

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