LaLa's Laughably Silly Random Banter Thread - RB #158

[HalfTangible]

I mean Avatar the blue man group, not Last Airbender. Airbender was pretty crap as well.

I..really don't know how you could enjoy Avatar XP. Also, sorry for the spelling error.

Zaydos: both of them. I've seen neither so I'm just going off of what I heard.

TBF, Airbender had two main faults.

First: It's director. Just a bad choice for this movie.

Second: They had to compress a story around 12 hours long into 2 hours without actually removing anything.

[Ranger Mattos]

So now I just came back from another 45 minutes of rat dissection (I went to bio during study hall) and I'm still two days behind. How do the other kids do this?

I would be tempted to think that I was taking more time because I'm trying to be careful and precise, but that's kind of shattered by the fact that my rat looks like it was dissected with scissors rather than a scalpel. >.<

[LaZodiac]

Yha, those two things crushed it pretty badly. For a so called fan of the series, he sure made the dramaticly different fighting styles look like the same dance. Trying to put an entire season's worth of episodes in one movie was simply stupid though.

[Pentachoron]

I'd argue that the issues with pronunciation rampant throughout the film were also a contributing factor to the Last Airbender's lack of popularity.

[Teddy]

I found Avatar somewhat okay, but then I should note how I want the plot in my different media:

Books: Thought through and dominant. Scheming and drama, please. I wouldn't read "I Bashed a Million Orcs". I want plot.

Games: Just as my books, or let me shape my own plot. That's why I like grand scale strategy games: I get to set up my own goals and schemes, and dominate the world just the way I like.

Movies: As little as possible. Seriously, if there's too much drama, I'll feel itchy and lose my interest. Still, if you manage to make a deep plot while still combining it with what otherwise would be brain-dead action, then I'd probably be interested. And impressed.

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So now I just came back from another 45 minutes of rat dissection (I went to bio during study hall) and I'm still two days behind. How do the other kids do this?

I would be tempted to think that I was taking more time because I'm trying to be careful and precise, but that's kind of shattered by the fact that my rat looks like it was dissected with scissors rather than a scalpel. >.<

When dissecting squid in upper elementary, I found the scalpels to be so dull that you'd actually make it cleaner with a scissor. And much more efficient as well.

[MoonCat]

Woohoo! Finally got my book of Good Omens in the mail!

I had given my copy of night Watch to my English teacher last year in October. When he hadn't gotten past the first page a year later I had him give it back in November. I gave him Good Omens, hoping that his interest in Neil Gaman would spur him to read it. I leave the school in January, where he has still not read past four pages. I see him again on April 29th, where he hasn't touched the book since the last time I checked. I tell him he now owns it, and go home to order a new one. It turns out that the one I had had the only cover I could even stand to look at, so I want to get an identical copy. It also turns out that that cover is very rare. It's nowhere on amazon on my computer, but for some reason my dad found it instantly. I order it (desperately hoping that the image is the cover for all the books), and wait for it to come. It's late, and arrives today. Woohoo!

[LaZodiac]

Yay for Good Omens! Enjoy MoonCat, I looooved that book.

[AtlanteanTroll]

So after the Dark Knight Rises, they're going to REBOOT the Batman Franchise. Why? So that this new Batman franchise have a Batman for a new JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. SUCK IT MARVEL!!

Best of all, it's going to be PRODUCED by Nolan!


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I guess that explains the Green Lantern Film ... Though, my once high expectations for that has fallen greatly after seeing a trailer.

Theirs also a Flash and Wonder Woman movie in the works.

[Pentachoron]

So after the Dark Knight Rises, they're going to REBOOT the Batman Franchise. Why? So that this new Batman franchise have a Batman for a new JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. SUCK IT MARVEL!!

Best of all, it's going to be PRODUCED by Nolan!


EDIT:

I guess that explains the Green Lantern Film ... Though, my once high expectations for that has fallen greatly after seeing a trailer.

Theirs also a Flash and Wonder Woman movie in the works.

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

[MoonCat]

It's an excellent one, and I enjoy pitting a Neil Gaman fan against a Pterry fan and watching them both loving the same paragraph and claim their writer wrote it. I personally think that it was brilliant, and I like Pratchett better, but I see the places where Gaman was writing notably, the worse paragraphs :-P

[AtlanteanTroll]

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

[HalfTangible]

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

I liked the Flash and Darkseid.

[LaZodiac]

Spiderman is cool,but unfortunatly most of his movies suck =(

On a side note, the Ironman movie was perfect. The second one was good too.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Spiderman is cool,but unfortunatly most of his movies suck =(

On a side note, the Ironman movie was perfect. The second one was good too.

Yeah, Iron-Man was good. But I hate Spidey, he's an immature wimp.

[MoonCat]

Meh, superheroes. I've never seen any films, comic books, stories, and I don't really see any attraction either.

[Pentachoron]

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

X-men are probably among my least favorite Marvel properties (barring the random obscure ones) Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, are more of the ones I'm really into.

Out of DC, Superman I find to be kinda lame. Batman is my favorite super hero ever. Green Lantern I think has a lot of potential as a character to be cool, but for a ring that can do nearly anything you can think of the writers of the comic tend to be very uncreative as to its uses.

[LaZodiac]

Green Lanturn is supremly under utilized. Wish there was a super hero DND game so you could show just how kickin awesome and over powered the Lanturn Corps can be.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Which Clash of the Titans? The old version was fun (it had a robotic owl)... the new one was just graphics.

New. It was stupid, with adequate graphic; but if you know your mythology, so much fun to be had. Plus I find mocking things easy.

It used to do that. Then I think they ran out, or it became less popular, but they certainly used to do that. The whole place was just kind of sad, except for the beaches, which were beautiful. My favorite was Ruby Beach, they had enormous rocks and tidepools filled with anemones and starfish. In other words, the nature is beautiful there, but everything human made is rather depressing, and most of the loggers are getting rid of the trees. Now it's filled to the brim with trashy shops covered in posters and sells all manner of Twilight junk.

Hooray consumerism.
At least it's by the sea, everything's better beside the sea. Except floods. And tidal waves. But you get my drift.
I miss the sea. I had so much fun rockpooling at home.
I'd make some comment about my home being famous, but it's not. Except for that the Admiral Benbow is in my town.

Riff to makes on the story (haven't read it, there is much more if you've read the books I assume), teenage marriage and pregnancy, stalking, looks (or smell) are much more important than personality, here'shttp://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight some more ideas from the Oatmeal

Ooh. *goes to check out*

Why sober? I do not understand...

I'm not much of a drinker, I am extremely difficult to even get tipsy, and also because I don't want to spend potloads of money.

TBF, Airbender had two main faults.

First: It's director. Just a bad choice for this movie.

Second: They had to compress a story around 12 hours long into 2 hours without actually removing anything.

Pretty much this.
Knew it wasn't going to be good. Didn't see. Saw and read a lot of reviews about it though.
Very glad I didn't see. I enjoyed the cartoon a lot, and now it's unruined.

Woohoo! Finally got my book of Good Omens in the mail!

I had given my copy of night Watch to my English teacher last year in October. When he hadn't gotten past the first page a year later I had him give it back in November. I gave him Good Omens, hoping that his interest in Neil Gaman would spur him to read it. I leave the school in January, where he has still not read past four pages. I see him again on April 29th, where he hasn't touched the book since the last time I checked. I tell him he now owns it, and go home to order a new one. It turns out that the one I had had the only cover I could even stand to look at, so I want to get an identical copy. It also turns out that that cover is very rare. It's nowhere on amazon on my computer, but for some reason my dad found it instantly. I order it (desperately hoping that the image is the cover for all the books), and wait for it to come. It's late, and arrives today. Woohoo!

Good Omens woo!
Adore that book. One of my favourites. Can't give a Top [Blah] because it would go Top Ten, No Wait, Twenty, But What About, Oh Fine, Top Forty. But No, What ABout Those? Fine. Top One Hundred. STILL TOO SMALL A LIST!!!!!
And then I'd end up singing about opera deaths taking too long.
I had a similar experience to you actually, I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.
She is now in India somewhere.
I have to buy a copy to replace it. A hardback copy with the right cover.
So glad you got your version of Good Omens. May you read it to pieces in peace.
I've done that with both Good Omens and Night Watch (PTerry, not Sergei); they're literally fraying and falling apart at the bindings. Might need to replace my paperbacks of both.
Argh.

It's an excellent one, and I enjoy pitting a Neil Gaman fan against a Pterry fan and watching them both loving the same paragraph and claim their writer wrote it. I personally think that it was brilliant, and I like Pratchett better, but I see the places where Gaman was writing notably, the worse paragraphs :-P

But.
But.
But I love both authors.
Hey! That means I'm doubly blessed. Or doubly cursed.
The only part I know for certain was written by Gaiman alone was the bit with the maggots in the call centre. because PTerry said so.

[MoonCat]

Hooray consumerism.
At least it's by the sea, everything's better beside the sea. Except floods. And tidal waves. But you get my drift.
I miss the sea. I had so much fun rockpooling at home.
I'd make some comment about my home being famous, but it's not. Except for that the Admiral Benbow is in my town.

Ooh. *goes to check out*

Good Omens woo!
Adore that book. One of my favourites. Can't give a Top [Blah] because it would go Top Ten, No Wait, Twenty, But What About, Oh Fine, Top Forty. But No, What ABout Those? Fine. Top One Hundred. STILL TOO SMALL A LIST!!!!!
And then I'd end up singing about opera deaths taking too long.
I had a similar experience to you actually, I leant my friend my copy of The Book Thief and she never. gave. it. back.
She is now in India somewhere.
I have to buy a copy to replace it. A hardback copy with the right cover.
So glad you got your version of Good Omens. May you read it to pieces in peace.
I've done that with both Good Omens and Night Watch (PTerry, not Sergei); they're literally fraying and falling apart at the bindings. Might need to replace my paperbacks of both.
Argh.

But.
But.
But I love both authors.
Hey! That means I'm doubly blessed. Or doubly cursed.
The only part I know for certain was written by Gaiman alone was the bit with the maggots in the call centre. because PTerry said so.

My town's this totally awesome seaport, the buildings on one side of the mainstreet is on the water. Literally. We had to move the police station because it was in danger of falling in. There are all these little mini beaches in between two buildings, and there are always tidepools to play with in some spots.

Very fond of Good Omens, a shame about that book and your friend. The one my old teacher now has is covered with marks of loving read (and lemon juice), I'll get to start all over again!

I'm okay with Neil Gaman, I haven't read much of his work. I've liked most of what I've seen of his though, with the exception of Coraline, where the movie was much much better.

[ZombyWoof]

Ok suit yourself! I'm not the one who has to suffer through Twilight sober

[MoonCat]

LaLa, just so you know, when I suggested the OoTS forum, you should know, everyone argues and get's along similarly to cats there, in comparison to FB, where everyone is friends, it'll be a shock.

[LaZodiac]

Kinda figured that. Don't worry MoonCat, I'll be fine

[HalfTangible]

Oh Rebecca... why are you hailed as a classic? My eyes doth bleed just when i remember thy red cover with golden letters... And i'm not talking about tears.

That book single-handedly ruined all desire i have to read books solely about romance.

Thus, I never read Twilight.

[absolmorph]

So after the Dark Knight Rises, they're going to REBOOT the Batman Franchise. Why? So that this new Batman franchise have a Batman for a new JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. SUCK IT MARVEL!!

Best of all, it's going to be PRODUCED by Nolan!


EDIT:

I guess that explains the Green Lantern Film ... Though, my once high expectations for that has fallen greatly after seeing a trailer.

Theirs also a Flash and Wonder Woman movie in the works.

Captain America is Marvel, and I haven't seen anything exciting about the Wonder Woman movie. The Green Lantern movie looks interesting, but I haven't seen anything about a Flash movie.

Meh, Batman was always the only DC character I liked. Way more excited about the Avengers.

I am really excited about Captain America and the Avengers movie.

Well I never have liked Marvel all that much. X-men are good, but nothing can beat a well done (EXTREME emphasis) JL movie.

A movie where the heroes don't struggle purely because they don't use their full abilities?
That's always been my issue with DC stuff. The supers are just so powerful that the only problems they can run into are not using their powers to their full effect (-coughSupermancough-) or... Actually, they basically just never use their powers fully.

[LaZodiac]

Well Absolmorph, when The Flash does maximum power, he kinda gets absorbed by the Speed Force, so going MAX power isn't safe for him.

Everyone else should be able to freely go to max power, truely.

[absolmorph]

Well Absolmorph, when The Flash does maximum power, he kinda gets absorbed by the Speed Force, so going MAX power isn't safe for him.

Everyone else should be able to freely go to max power, truely.

Full effect, not max power.

[LaZodiac]

I kinda figured one would imply the other.

[MoonCat]

Kinda figured that. Don't worry MoonCat, I'll be fine

I got accused of trolling once because I had asked someone to add spoilers, be prepared! (spooky sounds)

Oh Rebecca... why are you hailed as a classic? My eyes doth bleed just when i remember thy red cover with golden letters... And i'm not talking about tears.

That book single-handedly ruined all desire i have to read books solely about romance.

That's the one about the dead wife, right? I was fine with the book (from what I read, I misplaced it shortly after I got halfway through), hated the Hitchcock film, and loved another film version made after that. My biggest problem was

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That the murder was justified because she wanted him to kill her. Except that he didn't know that, he was just killing her from anger. It wasn't an assisted suicide

[Pentachoron]

I got accused of trolling once because I had asked someone to add spoilers, be prepared! (spooky sounds)

I'm more hesitant because in my experience most of the section is just random theories and guessing about things that'll be answered in approximately 2 strips from whatever point the thread is being made

[HalfTangible]

That's the one about the dead wife, right? I was fine with the book (from what I read, I misplaced it shortly after I got halfway through), hated the Hitchcock film, and loved another film version made after that. My biggest problem was

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That the murder was justified because she wanted him to kill her. Except that he didn't know that, he was just killing her from anger. It wasn't an assisted suicide

Nothing. Happens.

For the ENTIRE book. Until the last two chapters.

That's inexcusable in just about any medium i can think of.

It didn't help that it single-handedly destroyed my English grade...

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She was a total witch and deserved to be barren. Whether or not the murder was justified gets into morality issues that i wouldn't want to get into even if it wasn't banned on the forum.

Also i hated the book so i didn't really care by the end. I just wanted it to F*****G end!