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Well you clearly don't even know for sure where you name came from. "Most likely" derived from? Hogwash!

Noticed Toby Jones on a poster at a bus-stop, on some business magazine cover looked like. Now I know from the season trailer he's in this - wonder what his role will be.

Oh yes, I used him on a few message boards over the years but I only go here these days and I really miss shilling "my" autobiography, "If Chins Could Kill".

It seems like that is your answer. You had the power all along. Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me...

I wanted to make an alt completely in character as Bruce Campbell but sadly impersonation is one of those alt rules that will get it banned. Silly forum guidelines.

That's fair. I thought it was too straightforward. A few people blasted it as being "boring", though, and that's a criticism I don't agree with. You should google the cast experiences with that goat. You'll like him even more.

Can my answer be "all of them as long as I don't get the same one over and over"?

You should go there. Plenty of people for you to educate. And give us a link once the fireworks start!

Eh, even the MMO type questing can be okay if used sparingly and with a decently challenging objective - i.e. not bring me 10 wolf paws from the local wolves but my quest potions required 10 Troll Hearts from deep in the dark forest where you'll have trouble surviving. It's just that most of the time it's busywork. "There's a weed that grows around my house that I could pick out myself if I just did my job," said the farmer. "Please tear 20 of them out!" "Go **** yourself," said the hero. "I have a kingdom to save!"

Ah, but how do we know this isn't just an account you made to seed the alt you planned on the Codex with history? Hah, seriously though, alt fear isn't unique to that place. Half the unpopular members here are accused of being alts of obyknven or lord_of_flies.

Krank can't dream, therefore he needs the kids dreams so he can sleep. Great film, I need to re-watch it. Yeah the film isn't "Is there a witch?" its "The Witch" (or if you're being pedantic, "The VVitch") I thought the tension was really tied more to the fact that you know there's a witch out there, you know the family has broken with their faith (even as they see themselves as the pious ones) and so the source of suspense is whether any of them will be able to extricate themselves from what is preying on them. I quite liked the film even with its authentic period English dialogue. If you're looking for more questions than answers, I can suggest 1983's EYES OF FIRE. Slightly later time period in the US (early to mid 18th instead of 17th century) but similar ideas - people leave the protection of town due to religious difference and run afoul of dark things in the woods - but with a lot less explanation. Well, a title's a title you know? Just because The Hobbit is about a Hobbit doesn't mean The Witch has to be about a specific witch. Moreso than the actual witch the conflict came from the family starting to believe the teenage girl was "The VVitch" - that would have worked fine. I'm just saying I feel like the actual Witch, or at least the lack of ambiguity about it from the early preceedings, made it a lot less tense and more slow than it could have been. Plus, that early scene with the baby? Clearly the most horrifying part - it kinda shot its load in the first five minutes and had trouble staying on that level. It also seemingly was the director's intent for it to be more ambiguous, as he made a point of mentioning in interviews that the "rot" on the grain that causes some of their hunger woes was Ergot, the hallucinogenic fungus that LSD was originally made from that is speculated to have influenced the Salem Witch Trials. So the director intended that ambiguity, he just made some weird decisions that made the movie not convey it. Again, to each their own, but I would have liked that version a lot more - I identify with characters paranoia much more if I get to share it (which is why The Thing remains one of the best horror movies of all time) and especially the ending would have been less ridiculous. I'm not saying it's a bad film, mind, I'm still super impressed by the acting and cinematography and period detail. I just think it has some big problems in the storytelling department. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll see if I can find a copy.

Aww, thanks.

I knew I could count on you.

For those in my timezone anyway. Early best wishes for those not! Let's hope this year will be better than the last. NOW GO GET DRUNK. I can't drink due to meds so I have to live vicariously through you fellas!

Yeah like I said, all we heard was how Zeratul and ghost Tassadar interpreted it ('bravest creature I ever knew'). And ghost Tassadar is probably lying considering the later twist.

My time with Dungeon Keeper is making me yearn to be the good guys running into a classic dungeon. Someone recommend me a decent cliche dungeon crawler where my elves and dwarves can cut through orcs and goblins on the way to the dragon's treasure.

Actually, Ahmed Best wasn't so much holding a prop as he was in full costume.

If it wasn't then it should've been. To each their own obviously, but I thought it was a weakness. Like the 'intense rabbit' scenes, they would've been freaky in a 'what the hell is wrong with that thing' way if the film didn't make it so easy to go 'oh the witch did something'. And the family's consistent paranoia against each other was well-acted, but would've been much more effective if I could have shared it. Now it started to get irritating because I knew they were wrong, made them feel a little stupid despite their actions being logical because the film gave me too much info to work with as a viewer. It's not fun to see people be wrong all the time. The atmosphere was terrific but there wasn't as much tension in 'what's the witch going to do now' as there would have been in 'what the hell is happening to this poor family' IMO.

That's what they did, though. Tarkin's face is placed over the actor's face in most shots. Guy was in full costume and did the lines but had mocap points all over his face and collar.

Followed your advice but was underwhelmed. Great performances and attention to period detail, but the pacing is off, shows its hand far too early (in the first five minutes) and has an ending that's ridiculous even by horror standards. I applaud it for being different and not leaning on cheap scares, but I wouldn't say it's a good movie.

I watched Jesse Cox play them on YouTube. The levels looked interesting with new gameplay hooks like in the campaign, but the story was a bit humdrum. Didn't seem worth the price to me, maybe if it goes on sale. Also Normal is pretty much easy mode, but the following modes get pretty challenging. I'd say Brutal is about on par with the hardest levels of the original game. I've never skirmished against the AI, I think WarCraft 3 ruined that for me because even the easy AI in skirmish mode was a cheating, overpowered jerk and required a completely different approach than the campaign AI or multiplayer. But if you enjoy the campaigns, I'd suggest finding a friend with the game and trying out the Co-op mode. It grabs some of the more interesting campaign missions and turns them into a two player deal with different tech trees. Does have freaking microtransactions, but honestly it was the most fun I had with SC2 and usually I'm like you, just in it for the campaigns.

Well... Wikipedia on THAT movie's reception: Not exactly high praise.

While personally I find rebuilding a dead person for a film to be icky and ethically problematic, I expect there'd be less fuss than if they recast. I know people who are still mad that they recast The Oracle in the last Matrix film.

Possibly because I'm into Special Effects too. I've seen photoreal characters that stopped being convincing when they start moving before, but even before I noticed the way he moved the first thing I noticed when he came into frame was that his skin had way too much subsurface light scattering. It gave his skin a waxy, doll-like look and especially his ears and cheekbones seemed to be glowing. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/16/98/74/1698744cef46f09e0489e1faf06aef0a.jpg EDIT: I don't mean to disrespect the special effects people, I'm sure they moved mountains to make it look this good. I'm guessing the well-publicized reshoots screwed them over on the render times needed to make it look good.

Hey, we've still got Andrew Ridgeley. So at least it isn't Wham! Bam! yet. And that, I hope, is a rap for the bad puns. Yeah, but to quote Whose Line Is It Anyway: "The only show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are like the other guy from Wham!"