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Never played Warcraft (or World of Warcraft) so I'm not that up on the lore (I knew some people who did, though). I thought the movie was fine. In a way it reminds me a lot of Boorman's Excalibur. But overall I think the film is fine; some of the characters are very well drawn many others are not, but you get what you need to know about them to understand why they do the things they do. A lot of the film falls on Garona as the bridge character between the humans and the orcs and therefore ends up being the character the audience is going to gravitate towards simply because she's the character that will fuel their understanding of the world and I think Paula Patton did the job very well. The biggest problem ultimately to my mind is...

I'm not a morning person or a night owl either. I like to think I'm good for about 10 am to 3 pm.

Talk about "when dinosaurs roamed the earth"...

Lego Dimensions teaser for new content:

Well, yeah you're right. I was mostly addressing the esurance crowd (although I guess there could have been people who were there because cartoon) but yeah pretty much everything.

The mid-1980s was an explosion time for teen comedies. A lot of people - including myself - have some fond memories of the John Hughes films of the period. Or you had the R rated films like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's or Comedy/Dramas like Puberty Blues or The Last American Virgin. And then there are the two surrealist comedies of Savage Steve Holland. Better Off Dead... (1985) and One Crazy Summer (1986). Each star John Cusack as a hapless teen. Both contain animated sequences (like the director, Holland, both film lead characters are artists/animators). Better of Dead... is the stranger of the two, with its Howard Cosell racing team, the dogged pursuit of a paperboy owed 2 dollars, the lead character's futile attempt to kill himself (often ending with him deciding to live before something happens anyhow). The supporting cast is stronger and Cusack and Diane Franklin have a good connection. One Crazy Summer isn't quite as deep in the dark comedy vein as Better Off Dead... but still experiences some of the same surreal humour of that prior film with some crazy re-occuring gags (in particular the two little girls who are told if they keep making faces they'll freeze that way). The biggest issue is that Demi Moore seems to be playing her character straight which makes her role somewhat more conventional in the film. Its not bad, but unfortunately the relationship with Cusack's character comes off as perfunctory. Still I'd argue that both are well worth seeing at least once as even if you hate them, there's not much out there from the era that quite attempts what they try to do. Personally I'm fond of both, and like to rewatch them every now and then and be transported to their weird cartoonish world. I have yet to track down the third Holland 80s film (How I got Into College) so can't vouch for it yet.

Or you fought a valiant battle against productivity, that you won.

I'm curious to know more about how the game is actually going to be, but...interested.

I think, as long as it's confined to it's own corner of the internet, they (and others) ignore it. If it gets to rampant they come down on it. I mean, Esurance had to change their mascot because there was just so many metric tons of porn created from Erin Esurance (with really really really bad puns) Which btw, I'd love to know who these people are that watched Esurance commercials and were like "yknow what? I really wanna jack off to this." If the internet has taught me anything, its that there are some people who find anything in a vaguely feminine form to be potential stroke material.

X-Men: Apocalypse. Could have been better; it's not bad, but I think it tries to juggle too many story lines and so I think it could have focused the story better. Not the best X-men film, but not the worst either.

Still you can't deny the goodness of a proper day-night cycle.

I pretty much think that was it. Green Arrow was seen as too "comic booky" and "not cool". Mind you they also didn't have the problem DC had in the comics. When "Green Arrow" debuted in More Fun Comics in November 1941, he had already been beat to the archer gimmick by "The Arrow" (Centaur Comics, Sept 1938) and "Golden Arrow" (Fawcett, Feb 1940). He was also beat by Quality Comics' archer strip, but they wisely opted out of the Color + Arrow naming convention, instead debuting 'Alias The Spider" in May 1940.

*hyperbole detected* Not saying you have to think the film was good, but c'mon. The end credits were what? Too small? Too fast? Not long enough? And they didn't to my memory, have a scene start in the day, go to night and end in the day with about 10 minutes of in-movie time having passed. So its got that over, say, an Ed Wood film.

Flash wears red, Arrow wears green.

I dunno, I've been in some places where emotionless robots would have been a step up in customer service.

Ah, I misunderstood what you were trying to get at.

Yeah I always remember people talking about cinematics and atmosphere when they talked about Diablo and Diablo II (the only Blizzard games that I've played*) *I don't count The Lost Vikings as they were Silicone and Synapse at the time.

Is it really a relevant distinction? It is if the two aren't equivalent. Really.....its significant ? So do we now question the veracity of what people say....I have a large list of things for you guys to check I'm not saying it is, what I'm saying is that - in truth - you don't know. Its one of the things that bugs me when people try to make sweeping assumptions about people based on what they perceive as the "identity" of the poster when the great thing about the internet is that we can act devoid of identity if we want to. And that, ultimately, identity should be irrelevant to our interactions. Truer words were never spoken! I dunno, I like to think it keeps me humble...I mean yes, exactly. We totally would have thought of better fake lives to present.

I've never played a Warcraft game. My primary interest is that Duncan Jones, director of MOON and SOURCE CODE directed it and I liked both of those films. I think you mean "the female half-orc, half-draenei was nothing more than a woman whose skin tone was made green through computer effects". Because if you look at the behind the scenes footage, you'll see Paula Patton wasn't painted green for the role of Garona Halforcen, but it was achieved digitally.

Is it really a relevant distinction? It is if the two aren't equivalent.

I think on the internet you have to at least accept that a person is representing themselves the way they want and address that and apply skepticism where applicable. But that's where making a sweeping generalization becomes a process in futility; when you make a statement like "you think X because you're a white guy" you've moved from accepting that a person is representing who they want to be to accepting that is what they are, and then drawing conclusions based on that. Which, as mentioned in another thread today, means you're drawing a conclusion without having all of the data to make an accurate conclusion.

How do you know? He is Czech How do you know he is Czech? Why you asking me such silly questions ..its unusual for you ? This was my point; you're assuming that someone on the net hasn't decided to be the person they want to be rather than the person they are.

How do you know? He is Czech How do you know he is Czech?

How do you know?

Watched the fourth episode of Houdini and Doyle, taking on Springheel'd Jack. Also, they introduce a mystery regarding the lady constable. Having established Houdini as having a back injury earlier, they establish him as an Opium user here for the pain; I think neither is historical but I could be mistaken. Springheel'd Jack was a real (and still unexplained) phenomenon, and they leave the "monster of the week" out there.