Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 4805

On April 18 2015 02:32 Numy wrote:
Wow I've never heard anyone saying they spent a fortune on a router. We burn through routers every 6 months due to lightning strikes. Put it on UPS but it doesn't matter as it goes through phone line it seems.

On April 18 2015 03:39 Frudgey wrote:

I know I'm in the minority on this one, but when I said "thought provoking" I did actually mean "thought provoking". I think there's quite a bit of Philosophy in the film in the film that isn't obvious at first.

Of course that being said, I haven't watched any (actual) serious crime dramas so I probably labelled it incorrectly. I am also willing to admit that I'm INCREDIBLY biased on my views of the Dark Knight, so I am oversellilng it for sure.

I still stand by my "thought provoking" statement though. Maybe not for anyone else (I really can't speak for anyone else), but watching that movie makes me think about things quite a bit. Maybe I'm thinking hard about essentially nothing, or maybe I'm just easily amused.

On April 18 2015 04:11 wei2coolman wrote:

No, I'm implying either frudgey used the wrong words to describe the movie, or just has bad opinions on the film, or is a pleb.

Toxic hyperbole is a lot less work than spewing pseudointellectual bullshit.

On April 18 2015 04:07 jcarlsoniv wrote:
wei's nose is higher than coma

On April 18 2015 05:32 Parnage wrote:
Bladerunner
Forbidden Planet
Dune
Galaxy Quest

Come at me.

On April 18 2015 05:37 Parnage wrote:
I think the best films are those that cause you to think about them well after you've seen them. Hence my listings.

On April 18 2015 05:37 Parnage wrote:
I think the best films are those that cause you to think about them well after you've seen them. Hence my listings.

On April 18 2015 05:39 wei2coolman wrote:

Best films are action films. HongKong action flicks are the only way to go.

On April 18 2015 05:43 Fildun wrote:

Thank you wei2 for reminding me to play Sleeping Dogs. Tyty.

On April 18 2015 05:13 Frudgey wrote:
I look at the sub-forum and tell myself:

"I did this."

Also I tried super hard to think of thought provoking films and all I got was Dark Knight. Cheep, go ahead and give me a 0/10. I'll take it like a man.

I'm sure I could think of more if I really thought about it, but I think the more you decide to "think" about a film the more thought provoking it can be. Then again, I don't go out and watch a whole lot of films to begin with.

On April 18 2015 05:49 MagnusWolf wrote:
1. Napoleon Dynamite
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Moonstruck

Honorable mention for Guardians of the Galaxy

On April 18 2015 05:43 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:


yeah kinda same here mostly (although I try to make it specifically thinking about the meaning of the movie and stuff). personally I didn't find forbidden planet to fit that even though I thought it was a really good movie

On April 18 2015 05:58 Parnage wrote:


The wonderful part about art is that people can have entirely different reactions to it and they can all be valid.

Forbidden planet is interesting and thought provoking for me because not only is it one of the first serious sci fi films but the fact is, both sides in the conflict have perfectly valid points.

Commander Adams is perfectly correct that the alien knowledge shouldn't be handed out by one man and is best done by a group of people. No one man should have all that power, it corrupts and in this case it costs Morbius his life all because he thought he was in control and understood what was best.

Morbius is also correct that governments and collective groups(military, political or otherwise) can be corrupt and misuse the technology for terrible purposes. While in the film his point isn't overtly validated it's not a stretch to see it as a possibility.

It's one of those films I enjoy thinking about on occasion because it's quite clearly trying to point out the dangerous nature of new technology(at the time nuclear power etc).

Also I guess spoilers for a movie made in 1956 so uhh yeah deal with it.

On April 18 2015 05:51 TheYango wrote:

These are such MagnusWolf choices.

On April 18 2015 06:05 Requizen wrote:
Don't you hate it when a website has a "Keep Me Logged In" checkbox and still logs you out every time your computer even goes into sleep mode? Sure it only takes 10 seconds to log back on but come on man.