Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 546

On November 09 2013 02:59 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:


dk what the grey is gg u

i dont really watch a lot of modern movies other than stuff like ender's game...

i used to do this more but not much time atm, i watch random hipster art films from random euros keke

On November 09 2013 04:05 UniversalSnip wrote:

Well, a lot of them were like that, yeah, but there's no way it's even 50%. Comedies basically never, some like it hot or big business or modern times or safety last come to mind. Only high profile adaption I can think of is the philadelphia story and it's not even from a book.

Actually comedies today are much much more likely to be aping a novel because so many of them are basically just modernized jane austen.

It's when you get into the drama that adaptions (and if you saw a movie that was trying to be novelistic, it was an adaptation) start to clog up the works. Some of them turn out well like treasure of the sierra madre or gone with the wind or the big sleep, but for every one of those there's some bullshit like the hustler. So I can buy that argument, sorta-ish, except it's easy to display the tiniest shred of selectively instead of just selecting movies at random, so the relative proportion of shit to money is not that significant.

On November 09 2013 04:14 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:


well i dont really watch comedies so those are out

i confess i have no desire to read or watch gone with the wind the story seems so boring to me lol orz same with the big sleep

for me, books and movies and anime and manga are just about the story, and i think im after a different sort of story when im reading compared to when im watching a movie

like i'd never watch a movie adaptation of anna karenina or crime and punishment cause it'd just feel super boring lol

and the kinds of stories that dominated "older" films all feel boring to me

i'd much rather watch inception than read a book version of inception (god that'd be awful); similar i'd rather read a lot of books than watch a movie adaptation...

On November 09 2013 04:07 Gahlo wrote:
Okay, so I've finally decided to actually get into superhero stuff. Every time I've tried to in the past I'm just like "uh, some of these characters at a bajillionty years old and I don't know where to start."

tl;dr Where should I start for the current continuity for the major titles on the Marvel side?

On November 09 2013 04:15 Requizen wrote:

So you want stories from books and just blockbusters from movies? That's cool, I can respect that, but that's not really a reason to call movies trash just because it's outside your wheelhouse.

On November 09 2013 04:22 Requizen wrote:
Well yes, of course there are good movies and bad movies, but that's not what Cheep was getting at before.



Side topic: Blizzcon has started. New WoW expansion confirmed, Heroes of the Storm (Blizz Dota) cinematic so far. Watching live blogs is so fun~

On November 09 2013 04:24 Scip wrote:
I dislike comedy movies too
I used to kinda like them but then I discovered standups. Offering me to watch a comedy movie is like offering mildly sweetened water to a heroine addict.

On November 09 2013 04:25 red_ wrote:


Cinematic was awesome, alpha teaser looked solid(color wise it looked very WC3'ish on the SC2 engine, so excited).

On November 09 2013 04:26 Requizen wrote:

Depends on what you like imo. Standups obviously superior for jokes, but they obviously can't really do situational comedy or slapstick (outside of a few performers, but then it's really more of a show than just a standup).


You there or just got DirecTV?

On November 09 2013 04:32 WaveofShadow wrote:
I'm always annoyed when new games that I might want to play are announced because I know I either won't have time to play them, or I won't have the drive to break free of the games I'm comfortable playing.

On November 09 2013 04:34 AsmodeusXI wrote:
iPhone HS gg life