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BBC - Alan Rickman Dies

Oh I had fun with it. It was silly and had some plot issues, but it had that.. over the top, entertainment value. I can see that argument put forth that in many ways a lot of the big blockbuster action movies are like teenage boys personal fanfics, while Jupiter Ascending comes across more as a teenage girls idea of action blockbuster fanfic.

A comment someone made about a movie I believe I shall always treasure..

Okay, for the geek crossover..

The Razzie's full list of nominations: Worst Picture Fantastic Four Fifty Shades of Grey Jupiter Ascending Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Pixels Worst Actor Johnny Depp, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler, The Cobbler and Pixels Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Actress Katherine Heigl, Home Sweet Hell Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Mila Kunis, Jupiter Ascending Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door Gwyneth Paltrow, Mortdecai Worst Supporting Actor Chevy Chase, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and Vacation Josh Gad, Pixels and The Wedding Ringer Kevin James, Pixels Jason Lee, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending Worst Supporting Actress Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip and The Wedding Ringer Rooney Mara, Pan Michelle Monaghan, Pixels Julianne Moore, Seventh Son Amanda Seyfried, Love the Coopers and Pan Worst Remake Or Sequel Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip Fantastic Four Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Human Centipede 3 Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Worst Screen Combo Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, Fantastic Four Johnny Depp and his glued-on mustache, Mortdecai Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Kevin James and either his Segway or glued-on mustache, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Adam Sandler and any pair of shoes, The Cobbler Worst Director Andy Fickman, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Tom Six, Human Centipede 3 Sam Taylor-Johnson, Fifty Shades of Grey Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending Worst Screenplay Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank, Fantastic Four Kelly Marcel, Fifty Shades of Grey Andy and Lana Wachowski, Jupiter Ascending Kevin James and Nick Bakay, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Pixels Razzie Redeemer Award Elizabeth Banks M. Night Shyamalan Will Smith Sylvester Stallone

Heh. The random things you recognise from Iaido kata... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cGxipO_IA

Heh. After sending in a bug report a week or so before Christmas about issues I'm having... Notably that I have to use the Account Recovery to reset my password every single time I want to log in, even if I've reset it 5 minutes before hand and logged out in that time I finally got a response from the Help team. They tell me to use Account Recovery to reset my password.

For the general engineering... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwZnNe2HnM

While we don't have a Star Wars thread active at the moment, I'll just throw this here rather than start a new one.. io9 - The Interview with the Guy Who Played Jar-Jar Binks

There's a really bittersweet street party in Brixton. Fans gathering, singing the songs in unison.. That odd mix of celebrating his life and music while still remembering its happening because he's gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLG4mj6Wj5E

Elves were seperate and apart all the time weren't they, hiding in the manner of the King of the Silver River, and chose to emerge when the new world came to be? Which makes me wonder if the Magic Kingdom For Sale world is a part of the same continuum? Possibly. As I said, it has been about 10 or 20 years since I sat down and read through the series. I think I got through the first 9 or so of the Shannara series and related books.

Well, maybe this falls into snark and politics rather than funny..

That's exactly how I would describe it too, except I just could'nt stand the All American High cast. Too 'plastic' for my taste and the show was a little too saturated with tired fantasy tropes. It's very Divergence, Maze Runner, Hunger Games teenage-drama/angst. It's interesting how you can look back at it really. When the first Shannara book came out it was the early 70's and you had that big resurgence of new fantasy authors coming out with their variants of Lord of the Rings. Brooks was rough around the edges with the first few, but he did have that slight twist that what appeared to be your standard fantasy world developed over time and turned out to be a post-apocalyptic far future Earth. Humanity having evolved into the different species (elf, dwarf, troll, etc) but still all having that background connection. It's been a decade or so since I actually read them, but the magic system itself was that touch skewed from the normal as well. The first trilogy as such was more wrapped around your standard fantasy style but at heart was a lot of coming of age adventures for teenagers. So it makes sense that a lot of the cast in the show fit into that kind of casting group. Plus, the heavy focus of elves in the 2nd book (which they're using as the basis for the series) tends to go with the "lots of pretty people" to play them. It's rare for any version of elves not to be considered more attractive than human norm. Heh, if you look back at it, Brooks wrote a lot of those standard YA dystopian future tropes before they became a thing and got hammered into us with the recent book-to-film adaptions. So while you can look at it and see all those "tired tropes", he was actually sort of there first (if you don't get bogged in the LoTR inspirations).

Well the level of smug snark on that did get a bit too much. Which is why I only shared the first 11 translations of the lot. However, while I will say that its bit extreme in the views of Sjw translations in general, I also have to say I have encountered some people who did epitomise that slightly wacky level of meaning when they use those terms.

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