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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #90 on: Aug 28, 2016, 11:38:48 AM »
I'd totally look at pictures of joe's mom naked

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #91 on: Aug 29, 2016, 06:33:50 AM »
But what if she doesn't look like Kristen Wiig?  What then?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #92 on: Aug 29, 2016, 10:00:30 AM »
You know i'd consider getting with all the all the Ghostbusters girls...except Leslie Jones. And not cause she is black, but because she is a butter face.....and butter body.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #93 on: Aug 29, 2016, 04:52:05 PM »
I get the feeling you'd catch something from every one of them, from the clap to crabs to a terminal case of limp dick.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #94 on: Aug 31, 2016, 01:44:31 AM »
Leslie Jones has her moments but she's not as funny as she could be, methinks.  And I hate how they farmed three out of four Ghostbusters from SNL when SNL on the whole hasn't been funny for years.  It'd be different if we were in the early 2004 or something and we were casting Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

My chick!busters would've been, like, Anjelah Johnson, Ali Wong, and Debra Digiovanni as the three scientists or whatever (I don't think I'd make them all scientists but maybe one as a science-related entrepreneur or something related to science that brings in the monies), Sofia Vergara as the non-sciency one (like a hairdresser or something, just completely involved by chance) who joins them and bring back Annie Potts as Janine.  Bad guy can be some beefcake but NOT a block of wood like Chris Hemsworth.  At least get Efron or Liam Hemsworth for crying out loud.  Or Ryan Reynolds?  Somebody with some charm.  OG Ghostbusters play themselves but they're old and they can't do this shit anymore.  One of them's dead—guess which one—and Ackroyd or someone keeps having heart attacks so Ernie Hudson and Venkman are trying to keep up but they's hella old or whatevs.  Maybe one of the scientists (Anjelah?) is a colleague or in the same department that one of the OG!busters was in and she sorta stumbles in on their shit and intervenes, dragging the other two with her somehow.  Sofia happens to be on the scene or otherwise has her finger in the pie and the others have no choice by to bring her along (for information or something, I dunno).  At the end of the movie, the three ladies take over the ghostbusting business while being mentored and assisted by the OG!busters and "the bad guy" ends up being their new Janine.  Because people love that "redeemed bad guy becomes defanged helper" shit.

So to explain some things casting-wise... I would not have casted Melissa because I think she's sorta polarizing.  You cast Melissa to star in a Melissa movie as Melissa.  Because people only see her as Melissa now.  Her strength is not pretending to be someone else.  People like Anjelah, Ali, and Debra all have specials streaming on Netflix, so I'd do Netflix integrated advertisement somehow.  They are funny but not as known as Wiig or someone like that, so it's easier to pretend they're other characters.  Then people like Sofia—super sexy and one of the highest paid TV actresses in a comedy—and whoever the bad guy is—good-looking, charming, well-known guy to get more girl-asses in seats while the Sofia-type gets more guy-asses—ramp up their talk show appearances and earn those big sacks of money.  OG!busters bring the OG!fans and Murray's still got it.  He's was one of the best parts of the Jungle Book.  Let him be Venkman, at least for a couple of scenes.

^ Wow, that was long.  I didn't mean for it to be that fuckin' long.  Shit.  :lol:  I guess I was on a roll or something.  What would you guys have done if you were in charge of chick!busters?  Rama probably would've casted Rosario Dawson as a Ghostbuster.  She'd look cute with those giant Jillian Holtzmann goggles on her head.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #95 on: Aug 31, 2016, 09:17:29 AM »
In a kinda twist, three of the original Ghostbusters where suppose to be farmed from SNL too. Murray, Aykroyd, and Eddie Murphy. But Murphy didn't want to do it and the role when to Ernie Hudson instead...who had his role cut down to next to nothing once Murphy backed out. There are story board that show Winston at the Sedwick hotel sequence where they caught Slimer early in the movie.

Course the movie was originally suppose to be be a vehicle for Belushi and Aykroyd...like Blues Brothers before it, but that got scrapped when Belushi died. John Candy and Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) were also suppose to be in the flick, but it didn't pan out. Ramis and Rick Moranis both came from SCTV. Which is like SNL, but Canadian.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #96 on: Aug 31, 2016, 09:20:10 AM »
And I actually thought Chris Hemsworth was one the better parts of the movie. Course if you had made a female that dumb you would have been called sexist. YAY for double standards!

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #97 on: Sep 01, 2016, 12:30:10 AM »
My beef isn't really them coming from SNL but the period of SNL they're coming from.  The women they casted are not Aykroyd, Murray, or Murphy circa the 80's, that's for sure.  Again, it would've been completely different if we got this film ten years ago with Fey, Poehler, and Maya Rudolph.

And I actually thought Chris Hemsworth was one the better parts of the movie. Course if you had made a female that dumb you would have been called sexist. YAY for double standards!

Well, there aren't enough female roles in films as it is, generally speaking.  I'm willing to bet that the majority of the women's roles that are there are for dumb women vs. the percentage of men's roles populated by dumb men.  It's the same reason why people were mad about Leslie Jones' role in chick!busters not being a scientist or Finn being a space janitor.  It's nothing against transit employees or janitors, but the types of roles black women and men receive.  The context of the thing is actually the issue.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #98 on: Sep 01, 2016, 08:02:13 PM »
Well, it's a popularly-known fact that black people are generally too dumb to be scientists, isn't it? I mean, with the exception of people like Mike Tyson deGrass or whatever the hell his damn name is.

Seriously, that seems to be what they're trying to tell us.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #99 on: Sep 03, 2016, 05:34:32 AM »
I will now take you through my roller coaster of emotions in regards to the latest news on the Jumanji remake/reboot/sequel/prequel/whatevs.

"Starring the Rock."  MEH.  :disgust:
"He's smoldering."  Huh?  :-\
"He's channeling Harrison Ford as Indy."  PFEH.   :nono:
[scrolls down to artwork]  Description's apt.  It looks good.   :o
"The Smoldering Dr. Bravestone"   :raiseeyebrow:
"throwback to old 30's and 40's seriels"   :happy:
"Karen Gillan"  As long as she's not playing Amy Pond, I guess.  :blink:
"realize Rock's boobs were shooped outta promo art"  HAHA.   :spin:
"with Kevin Hart"    :razz:
"Jack Black"    :puke:
"Nick Jonas"   :sick:
And now I'm below where I even started, which was already sub ground-level.   :glare:

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #100 on: Sep 03, 2016, 06:44:19 AM »
Gotta be better than Zathura, right?

...right?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #101 on: Sep 04, 2016, 02:43:10 AM »
But I liked Zathura.  Not as much as Jumanji but it was still a nice little movie.  That it bombed doesn't make me as sad as the fact that it was trounced by that dreck known as Disney's Chicken Little.  I think I puked a bit in my mouth just typing that.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #102 on: Sep 09, 2016, 05:17:27 AM »
I'm cat-sitting at a family friend's apartment and she has cable w/o DVR so of course I'm watching the Weather channel because not a lot of other stations are tolerable at long hours at a time in real time.  There's a guy named Reynolds Wolf.  Good lord, could you have a douchier name than that?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #103 on: Sep 09, 2016, 05:35:38 AM »
Also, didn't add this above because I wondered if it should go in the anime thread instead, but our family friend also has a fairly nice smart tv.*  I was watching some of my anime off of it and it makes me better understand why some people are all "argh, bluray rips only arg1efbl!  u fuckin streaming plebe" while other people don't care.  I don't have anything high-end nor even large in screen size at home.  (No bigger than 40".)  I can dl low res anime and watch it fine through my home set-up.  Of course it's not some crystal clear, perfect picture but it looks no different imo than when I would record cartoons from tv onto a vhs way back when and I'm fine with it.  BUT... this fancy tv triggers my autism.  I can see the aliasing in the picture or whatever you'd call that and have to will myself to ignore it.



*In case anyone wondered why she has a nice smart tv but basic cable, she only has cable to watch the occasional broadcast program.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #104 on: Sep 09, 2016, 06:46:51 PM »
Yeah, watching SD content on an HD display can be discombobulating. I fired up the first episode of Thunderbolt Fantasy on Crunchyroll (free) yesterday, and after initially having it at full screen, I decided to switch back to windowed mode.

Seems like an okay show, though. The super-cliché action/drama premise is offset by the fact that they're a bunch of fucking puppets!

I kept thinking about World Police.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #105 on: Sep 09, 2016, 09:39:25 PM »
I don't download TV anime at 1080p...from what I understand, most of it is upconverted to full HD. So I download at 720p, since the files are smaller. Plus I generally watch it on a 32" HDTV, but now that I have a much larger screen it scales up well. It's a nice compromise.

The trick is downloading. I can't stream, so I wind up collecting shows that I should delete. Seriously, what the heck is Ben-To still doing on my server? It wasn't even good!
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #106 on: Sep 10, 2016, 12:09:44 AM »
Maybe I'm only kidding myself, but I feel like I can see a difference between 720p and 1080p anime. Although in certain cases you really don't want that kind of clarity, because it only serves to exacerbate already cruddy animation (Looking at you, JoJo).

Actually, a perfect example would be Stardust Crusaders. They did the intro in 3D, and it looks glorious at 1080p. Then you switch over to the traditional 2D animation of the show itself, and you might as well just not even bother.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #107 on: Sep 10, 2016, 04:05:55 AM »
I was rewatching Aoharu x Kikanjuu on her TV and most of the episodes I have are probably what would be considered the standard size.*  Not too tiny, but you can see jagged lines on her larger TV.  However, for some reason, when I was initially dl'ing the series, one of the 13 episodes turned out to only be half the episode (god knows why).  I had to replace it from a different source but the second source happened to have the episode much larger in scale, bitrate, etc.  It's like Ep 1 52 MB then Ep 2 247 MB.  I daresay I can't really tell the difference at home but the second episode looked so much prettier on her TV with nice, crisp lineart for the characters.  I also saw Initial D Legend 1 on her TV which is around similar size (274 MB but nearly thrice the length) and the still lineart looked kinda gorgeous.  I was marveling at the lines on the characters' shirts for heaven's sake. 

Then I watched Persuasion (Jane Austen movie w/ Amanda Root and Cirian Hinds) and I wanted to laugh.  Our friend's TV's like a magic box, exposing which shots in the movie are completely fake.  Other shots make it feel like a true stage production.  Watching at home, I feel like I'm inside Kellynch Hall with the characters but on our friend's TV, it's obvious they're on a set!  I've seen this movie about a hundred times but never could tell at home!  Certain scenes where Amanda Root's riding in a carriage or when she and some of the other characters are walking along the beach, you can tell there's, like, a screen behind them or something playing a moving background.  Persuasion was filmed on a modest TV budget so its not surprising but it's still freakin' funny.

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Maybe I'm only kidding myself, but I feel like I can see a difference between 720p and 1080p anime.
Then that makes two of us.  At least when I'm watching stuff on a fancier TV, apparently.  Kinda reminds me of music.  I used to be content with 128 kbps once upon a time.  But that was back when I had a hand-me-down MP3 player with a 64 mb capacity.


*I also watched the latest Mob Psycho 100 on her tv but the difference wasn't was distinguishable as with AxK, which is designed to be "prettier" with both the characters and background art.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #108 on: Sep 10, 2016, 06:04:57 AM »
Frame rate might have something to do with what you're experiencing. Most HD televisions default to a motion "correction" feature that's meant to make everything appear more fluid and "lifelike". This works really well for live sports, but completely fucks with anything that was shot on film. For instance, if you watched an old black and white movie, everything suddenly looks like it was shot on home video. Something to do with taking the source 24 frames per second and creating new frames between existing frames to make everything flow more "naturally".

People were complaining about this when Peter Jackson released those 48fps versions of his Hobbit movies, saying that it made all the actors look like hokey cosplayers.

*Sorry, I should clarify that he actually did shoot those films at 48fps, but the end result has the same undesirable effect.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #109 on: Sep 11, 2016, 01:53:23 AM »
Ah-ha.  Thank you, sir joe.


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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #110 on: Sep 11, 2016, 03:54:56 AM »
Am I guilty of mansplaining now?

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #111 on: Sep 11, 2016, 06:53:59 AM »
No, mansplaining would've been, like, explaining to me what a MB was or what you meant by 720p and 1080p.  It's usually an unprompted, tenuously-related explanation of something.  Like when I called about my internet being down and the Time Warner guy immediately mansplained what a router was.  And I was all "it's not my fucking router, you stupid fuck.  i said fuck all about my wireless network.  it's the fucking internet, asshole.  do you know what a fuckin' modem is?  all dem fucking blinky lights done is gone, fuckface" but I said all that in, like, the nicest, non-aggressive way possible. :D

Somewhat related to what I just said, but our family friend I mentioned above had to have Time Warner cable put in because that's the only company the apartment complex does business with.  She had me try and set up her Chromecast, which I failed at.  I couldn't figure it out.  The Chromecast was still trying to read her old wireless network so after pulling out clumps of my hair, I decided to try and trick it by renaming her wireless network the old name the Chromecast was searching for.  But I when I went in to do so, I realized it wasn't the same network name she had given me.  I went into her den to look at the physical set up and found a router AND a modem-router combination.  I was all "did TW give you both of these" and she was all "yeah."  She has two wireless networks.  Teh fuck?  It just occurred to me that maybe she's being charged for two pieces of equipment.  If so, nice scam, TW.  I told her to call TW but she hasn't done it yet.

And in the end, she didn't even need the Chromecast because, like I said above, she has this fancy smart TV.  Once I realized that, I was all "FUCK, what the fuck am I dicking around with this Chromecast for?"  So I unplugged the thing and just got the TV connected to her new network.  It has Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, Amazon, FB, and everything she needs on it.  Don't know why she was trying to use the Chromecast.  I don't think she uses anything specific to the Chromecast that's not already installed on her television. 

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #112 on: Sep 12, 2016, 12:03:33 PM »
Yeah I had to kill the auto-motion crap on mine. Everything looked like a soap opera.

I think a lot of people underestimate the need for post processing through their televisions. One of the reasons that I went with a Samsung TV rather than a Vizio was due to that company's superior video processing, which helps a lot in upconversion, particularly for SD and lower. Yes, I still have a ton of crap from VHS days that I want to see and not regret. And it works great with 720p upconverts. And I love that Plex was built in...all I had to do was plug in an Ethernet cord and wham ba-lam I'm in like Flint.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #113 on: Sep 17, 2016, 06:06:32 AM »
I'm finding this more entertaining than I probably should:  http://www.mcmansionhell.com/

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #114 on: Sep 17, 2016, 08:34:01 AM »
"Corey Feldman's performance is so weird you have to see it."  No, I don't, Facebook.  Fuck off with your clickbait shit.

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« Reply #115 on: Sep 17, 2016, 06:27:10 PM »
Oh, yeah, and on Ambler Heard again... the buzz is that she's donating her settlement to charity.  Which is sooo fake.  Come on, lady, your lies are smacking you in the face and it's time to attempt to save your career.  She's dating a billionaire now, btw, so seven million is chump change to play with the public's heartstrings and earn her some good pr.  Also, it was supposed to be donated to a battered women's charity but is now going elsewhere.  I wonder why... (partial screen shot from DM article's comments sections)

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Following up on this, I just read that Johnny donated the money to the two charities directly, which entitles him to a fat tax write-off.  I also wonder if that fudges up Ambler benefiting from the supposed annuities.  No wonder she's mad.  :lol:

EDIT: http://wealthmanagement.com/high-net-worth/johnny-depp-s-charitable-divorce-settlement
tl;dr according to that article, he likely wouldn't receive any sort of deduction because of reasons.

I'm looking for a link that talks more about the potential annuity.  I wonder if he's stuffing that up for her by (1) donating in his name or (2) making payments instead of donating in bulk or a combination of 1 and 2.
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« Reply #116 on: Sep 19, 2016, 01:44:07 AM »
In looking up St*r WarzzZZ stuff, I found a cool GI Joe article.

'G.I. Joe': The Story of the Cartoon That Sold Wartime Heroics to a Generation of Kids.  It's got some blurbs by the cast members, TV writer Ron Friedman, and some Hasbro vp.

Like, holy shit, I never knew Wally Burr was so badass.  His name is burned into my brain because he was voice director for so much of my childhood, but I never knew this shit until today.

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The dominant force in 'G.I. Joe' becomes director Wally Burr, a World War II hero who at just 19 rose to the rank of captain and commanded a tank battalion. He runs the recording room like a military operation, earning both the loyalty and respect of his voice actors. He also gains a reputation as one of the most exacting directors in animation thanks to his work on 'Joe' and 'Transformers.'

[Pat] Fraley: Director Wally Burr was among the youngest commissioned officer in World War II. He was in the tank brigade in Belgium. Once I understood that, I understood why he was so good for G.I. Joe. I also understood why he ran the sessions the way he did. He ran them like a tank. "OK here we go. Forward!" Then I started understanding his style, his care for authenticity in exertion sounds. When there was a fight, he would have you do all the exertion sounds. He made sure it sounded like you were getting gut-punched.
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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #117 on: Sep 19, 2016, 05:22:59 PM »
The word always was that Wally Burr was a slavedriver in the studio, but he turned out good stuff. The voices are a big reason these shows had such life after their runs.

That Friedman guy is an old-school SJW: everything is fucking political.
Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #118 on: Sep 20, 2016, 12:51:15 AM »
You know, I didn't even read what he was saying.  I was just interested in the cast.  :D

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Re: Random shit with no unified subject matter: the thread.
« Reply #119 on: Sep 24, 2016, 03:43:48 AM »
Jumanji a definite pass now.