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I love Wall-E for all that it is, probably my favorite Pixar film.

It was good, and visually it was fucking beautiful, but the story didn't really pull me in. My current favourite Pixar movie is probably The Incredibles. I could watch that movie for days on end and never tire of it.

The visuals are nice, but you simply can't say a movie is good just because it looks pretty.

Yeah, Promethius is incredibly beautiful and atmospheric and awe-inspiring but then all the characters completely drop the ball and it just ends up feeling even worse than if the movie was all-bad because there's clearly some actual effort in there that got ruined by fucking stupid writing.

New Breaking Bad episode... it was.... it was... the best thing I saw on TV series in a long time, and quite possibly ever

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RS: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.

At no point does the final product of the film Prometheus include a Jesus alien, nor was it intended to. I am glad it wasn't in the final cut but I think it's a cute little idea the way Scott puts it. It was a competent film and all this 'BUT WHERE ARE THE ANSWERS' talk indicates you either didn't bother with a rewatch or just weren't paying attention the first time around. I could give a shit about Ridley Scott's smug fucking ass but seeing nerds hyperventilate about this movie being bad by basically admitting that they don't get it is really fucking tired and boring at this point. It was a well made movie that pulled off a little bit of high-concept sci-fi in an ostensibly Hollywood way. If you can't recognize this boo hoo for you, learn2movies and stop complaining that it didn't make sense.

I watched Titanic for the first time ever. I had a lot of problems with it, the script especially, but it's one of my girlfriends favorite movies and all the little details she kept telling me about the production really made it fun. The ending almost made me tear up. Alllllmost.

I watched World's End. I think Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and World's End are just The Expendables for smug NEETs/nerds. Hot Fuzz has a passable climax, the rest is complete fucking tripe. Seriously, irredeemable poorly made trash that is viewed by (North American) 'intellectual' subcultures as clever cinema when in reality it's just low budget repackaged hollywood trash. I cannot stress how much I loathe both these and Doctor Who. Total and complete shit.

The lack of close quotes caused me to read all of this as Ridley Scott

The only headscratcher for me was whether the squid baby was actually a hybrid fetus or just a giant mutant sperm.

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New Breaking Bad episode... it was.... it was... the best thing I saw on TV series in a long time, and quite possibly ever

It left me speechless, honestly. One of the best episodes of the series.

The Prometheus hate does seem a bit silly. I wasn't that crazy about it, but it wasn't that bad. I only saw it the once, but, I mean, I wasn't like offended or anything by it.

Let's have another Scott Pilgrim fight. That was funnier.

For me Mac's rant about the Pegg and Frost films go for everything Edgar Wright has ever written.

There.

I'm surprised that almost none of you are talking about Breaking Bad. I always thought most of you are crazy about the show.

Ignoring the fact I haven't got past the second episode yet, I'm still reeling from the horrific pun of a title that is 'Ozymandias'.

What's so punny about it? It's the title of a real poem made about 200 years ago

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What's so punny about it? It's the title of a real poem made about 200 years ago

'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.'

That's a line from the poem and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what 'works' in the context of Breaking Bad refers to.

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I'm surprised that almost none of you are talking about Breaking Bad. I always thought most of you are crazy about the show.

I don't have cable.

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'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.'

That's a line from the poem and I'm sure I don't need to tell you what 'works' in the context of Breaking Bad refers to.

You really can't get the context without going through the show, really. I know what you're thinking it is, and it isn't that.

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You really can't get the context without going through the show, really. I know what you're thinking it is, and it isn't that.

No, I'm pretty sure I know the gist of it from the AV Club's twitter feed. I know what the poem is about after all.

What I'm saying is there's no way in hell that pun wasn't intentional.

What's breaking bad anyway

I also watched the new episode. It was mental, especially the beginning.

I still don't get the 'pun', unfortunately.

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

I don't see the pun, either. It's just the name of the poem... and it fits.

I cannot possibly be the only person on a forum half full of potheads who knows what drug works are, right?

'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"'

At this point I'm prepared to admit the pun is probably unintentional but it still makes me snort with derisive laughter when I see it. It's goofy in a good way.

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I don't have cable.

Yeah, but you have internet.

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What are drug works?

Um.... No one calls it that. Ever? Ever. Fixing maybe.

No. Not a pun.

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Um.... No one calls it that. Ever? Ever. Fixing maybe.

No. Not a pun.

what the fuck are you two on about? the fuck is 'works' and 'fixing'? i assumed 'works' meant his drug work or whatever (never seen the show but read tidbits).

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Um.... No one calls it that. Ever? Ever. Fixing maybe.

No. Not a pun.

Well, sorry for assuming American English and British English share the same slang.

In British English 'works' are the tools you use to help prepare drugs for injection.

Maybe in old 1960's propaganda movies like Reefer Madness. Otherwise, not so much.

Yeah I've never heard the word "works" used in that context. I get the supposed pun now, though I don't think it was intentional.

I've been watching Fraiser. Funny show, very clever. The characters are all pretty funny, though it can be a little bit corny at times. Maybe that's just cause I'm used to the nihilistic approach to comedy that Seinfeld employs. Still gonna keep watching. Niles and Fraiser's dad are probably my favourite characters.

I've just spoiled myself the Dexter Series Finale ending... oooooh booooy xD

OANST, I remember you saying it's a crappy show... I can't imagine what would you say after saying the finale. It's beyond stupid. It actually expanded my comprehension of how stupid TV shows can be. I totally lost all the respect I had for this show after the fourth season. It's even pointless asking questions like: "What were they thinking?", because it's clear that the producers were brain-dead since few seasons ago. I can't stop laughing audibly at this peace of crap. It was hilarious.

I kept the post spoiler free so you won't laugh guys.