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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Admiral Yi

When the Sandra Bullock character landed in the water at the end I was staring at her ass.

lustindarkness

Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 15, 2014, 10:47:49 AM
When the Sandra Bullock character landed in the water at the end I was staring at her ass.

:yes:
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Ideologue

So, what is it like not to have human feelings?  Do you have other kinds of emotions, or is it just a machinelike emptiness?  Is it better, worse; are such comparisons even applicable?  I wonder.

(I had already enjoyed Ms. Bullock's ass when she was in her underwear and floating around.)
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Savonarola

Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2014, 10:54:29 AM
So, what is it like not to have human feelings?  Do you have other kinds of emotions, or is it just a machinelike emptiness?  Is it better, worse; are such comparisons even applicable?  I wonder.

Speaking as an engineer; it's definitely better.   :)

;)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Ideologue

Inapplicable.  Yi's no STEM major.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

lustindarkness

Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Barrister

Quote from: Savonarola on October 15, 2014, 11:01:28 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2014, 10:54:29 AM
So, what is it like not to have human feelings?  Do you have other kinds of emotions, or is it just a machinelike emptiness?  Is it better, worse; are such comparisons even applicable?  I wonder.

Speaking as an engineer; it's definitely better.   :)

;)

Speaking as a lawyer, I wonder if having no human feelings is something like having no soul? :unsure:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

celedhring

Quote from: Malthus on October 15, 2014, 10:44:29 AM
Quote from: Viking on October 15, 2014, 10:21:23 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 15, 2014, 10:16:08 AM
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on October 15, 2014, 09:49:42 AM
I don't remember anything particularly glaring that was wrong with the movie.

When Sandra Bullock is dangling from the wires.  What force is pulling her away?

Plot convenience.

When the Sandra Bullock character landed in the water at the end, I half-expected her to be chased ashore by a hungry shark (and then mugged on the beach).  ;)

My thoughts exactly; the whole "and now THIS goes wrong"x1000 plot ended up being tiresome, and took me away from the story actually, since it was so contrived. But fortunately the movie sort of recognizes that and it's fairly short, so you can sit back and marvel at the sights, including the aforementioned ass.

Ideologue

If Steven Price had worked in a zither, would your feelings on it change?
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Malthus

Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2014, 03:10:19 PM
If Steven Price had worked in a zither, would your feelings on it change?

Depends. Can one play "Yakety Sax" on a zither?  :P
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Ideologue

If David O. Selznick backs down despite decades of experience in filmmaking, yes.

OK that one was on purpose, cel. :P
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Josephus

Quote from: lustindarkness on October 15, 2014, 11:08:12 AM
Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

Why we quoting the Wall?
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Habbaku

Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 15, 2014, 09:37:21 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2014, 03:25:56 AM
Nonetheless (and despite an overreliance on dutch angles for absolutely ordinary scenes which do fit into the atmosphere but get a little silly, and a certain repetitious nature to its plotting when it should be moving ever faster), The Third Man is, as they say, pretty excellent, boasting great performances, a fantastically effective exploitation of Vienna's post-war suffering, and a lovely mystery that I solved, or would have solved, if I hadn't already known, but which is perfect and satisfying all the same. B+

Stop, using, so, many, fucking, commas, all, the, time, god, dammit.

So that's where Valmy's commas went to.   :hmm:
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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Josephus on October 15, 2014, 04:41:30 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on October 15, 2014, 11:08:12 AM
Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

Why we quoting the Wall?

Quote from: IdeSo, what is it like not to have human feelings?  Do you have other kinds of emotions, or is it just a machinelike emptiness?  Is it better, worse; are such comparisons even applicable?  I wonder.
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Viking

It seems my favorite character on Arrow is [spoiler]dead                   [/spoiler]. I had been waiting for this for some time but writers and the [spoiler]on true ship armed with cannon[/spoiler] will out in the end. [spoiler]Sarah was the fun Canary, now we'll get a moody whiny Canary.[/spoiler]
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.