Post #131,314
12/18/03 12:26:30 AM
12/18/03 10:57:16 AM
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Film: Return of the King (Minor spoilers)
Overall, a fitting conclusion to an epic. The film is well done, if a little choppy due to the massive hackjob that obviously took place as the film got close to release. Gone are some of the parts tied to secondary characters, including a real resolution to Saruman. Still, the film works, and wraps up things nicely.
If there's one nit I have to pick with The Return of the King, it's that it adds to the increasing munchkinization of Legolas - with each film he becomes more and more superhuman, to the point where it's ridiculous. In Fellowship of the Ring, he's an elven archer. In The Two Towers, the horse mounting trick was neat, but the staircase slide was really cheesy. (especially given how he had just failed to drop a single uruk-hai with *TWO* shots) Return of the King takes Legolas to completely new heights of cheese, spoiling an otherwise visually incredible battle of Pelenor Fields, well, that, and the fact that Theoden is a tactical idiot. You'll know when you see it.
Despite those gripes, I love it. Thane (the fanboy) sez go see it. Then wait 6 months for the extended edition, and discard it in favor of the REAL way this film was meant to be seen, even if it means no potty breaks for 4.5 hours...
I have a blue sign on my door. It says "If this sign is red, you're moving too fast."
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Post #131,321
12/18/03 5:13:19 AM
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re Sig
\ufffd 2003 Potboiler Productions LLC
Opening screen: (theremin music, astral background)
Zoom out to reveal 2018 Observatory.
Dialogue: "Well, Prof., that about cuts it - it's a parsec away, Earth interception course at .99 C
.. and ..
it's blue-shifted"
{Birth of the Blues in background}
Starring: Sissy Spacek
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Post #131,322
12/18/03 5:17:09 AM
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OT - I hate seeing English spelling change before my eyes...
Sorry, Thane, but "ridiculous" does not have the letter 'e' in it.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #131,326
12/18/03 7:32:00 AM
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Duly noted.
The grammar and spelling nazi brigade (i.e. me) have their eye on you.
;-)
Peter
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Post #131,336
12/18/03 9:07:37 AM
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Oh...
You forgot the other members of your brigade:
CRC, Drew, (tic)Ashton...
and a few other "known" more correctors around...
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Post #131,351
12/18/03 10:22:53 AM
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You are the whole brigade??
Perhaps you meant "e.g." instead of "i.e."?
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,363
12/18/03 11:26:02 AM
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No, I meant "i.e."
I wasn't giving an example.
Peter
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Post #131,365
12/18/03 11:30:46 AM
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Then I disagree on Wade and Christian
In my books they definitely qualify as members of that brigade.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,366
12/18/03 11:31:08 AM
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Yes.
But they're crap at it.
I R UR GRAMMER NATZEE GAWD.
Peter
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Post #131,369
12/18/03 11:47:57 AM
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yer a pup compared to the iracable Teutonic Titan
stick a spork in it.
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #131,410
12/18/03 3:25:06 PM
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It's "irascible", actually...
...but thanks, all the same! :-)
Note to Petah: The fact that it wasn't you who pointed this out to the Ox... would seem to prove him right.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
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Post #131,477
12/19/03 7:16:45 AM
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I was in the pub...
...drinking beer and having a life.
You?
Peter
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Post #131,480
12/19/03 8:13:01 AM
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Drinking milk and having a wife.
Well, making someone else drink his milk, and having a "common-law wife"... But still, close enough to "having a life" for me. You? :-)
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Post #131,487
12/19/03 9:38:47 AM
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So we're playing that again
Why are you looking here, didn't you see the little NT in the subject?
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #131,494
12/19/03 10:07:39 AM
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OT: How'd you do that?
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Post #131,496
12/19/03 10:11:17 AM
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I have mystical, magical powers ... muahahahaha
Reply to this message. Look at the screen. Where do you add content? No, not there, the other textarea.
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Post #131,497
12/19/03 10:12:28 AM
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You are a devious man. :-)
Verrrry iiiinnnteresting.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #131,504
12/19/03 10:55:48 AM
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Bah, you didn't give credit where it's due.
I even bugged it.
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Post #131,508
12/19/03 11:07:58 AM
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It's not a bug
It's a feature.
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Post #131,515
12/19/03 11:22:55 AM
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Yup, it's an undocumented feature!
And of course, I didn't bother to read your post before replying to it. :P
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Post #131,520
12/19/03 11:46:30 AM
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Where did we originally discover that trick?
I remember it from a long time ago, but forget which incarnation. Still when I saw that it would work here, there was a certain nostalgia.
Scott likes his inside jokes.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,522
12/19/03 11:55:14 AM
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I've got this link.
[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=86498|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=86498]
There may be older incidents. I'm not aware of them, though.
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Post #131,524
12/19/03 12:22:53 PM
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There were older incidents
I'm thinking that it went back to the original IWE forums in fact.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #131,528
12/19/03 1:18:09 PM
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It did
I don't remember how it was triggered back then. If anyone would remember, I'd guess CRC. I would have said, "Well Ben looked at the code once," but then I looked at who I was replying to.
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Post #131,635
12/20/03 9:46:00 AM
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A day late and a dollar short.
--
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Post #131,645
12/20/03 11:55:22 AM
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Will you all just...
stop chit-chatting behind your hands...teasing all with your 1337 forum skillz.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
It goes in, it must come out.Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law
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Post #131,671
12/20/03 5:22:25 PM
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It grew, as the sum of a lot of separate people's ad-hockery
, most of those by people who had no idea what they were doing, and would gladly pound screws with a hammer all year long, for lack of acquaintance with the concept of screwdrivers." - Rick Moen"
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Post #131,721
12/21/03 8:21:04 AM
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An experiment in Boredom Control run by the Illuminati.
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"After months of searching and billions of dollars,
we've finally captured the man who had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11 !"
-Rob Cordry, The Daily Show
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Post #131,930
12/22/03 7:25:24 PM
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A source of annoying catchphrases now.
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Post #131,388
12/18/03 1:42:49 PM
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Yes, one of those things. (new thread)
Created as new thread #131387 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=131387|Yes, one of those things.]
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Post #131,467
12/19/03 4:48:47 AM
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Sez you...
I'm just lazy at it. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #131,359
12/18/03 10:57:40 AM
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Duly noted
And fixed. :)
I have a blue sign on my door. It says "If this sign is red, you're moving too fast."
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Post #133,127
1/1/04 10:00:02 AM
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Re: Film: Return of the King (Minor spoilers)
Well, with the SE, you'll be able to hit the Pause button.
qts
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