Besides that apparently Mike and Kevin were never taught in school that it is proper English to compress two definite articles into one when one of them is the title of something? ;)
I haven't ordered anything here since whenever the last mp3 riff was released (Feb?) so the first thing I learned was that this new credit card interface is AWESOME. The whole checkout system is SO much better. So bravo for that! Vast improvement!
I learned that "cake frosting" can make something look like anything, including making a person blend seamlessly with a rocky river bed. I also learned that it's readily available in the forest.
I learned that the fashions of the future would make even Lady Gaga go "WTF?!"
I learned that Donald Sutherland will pretty much do anything for a paycheck.
I learned that Mike and the Guys aren't Lenny Kravitz fans.
I learned that a society with super technology that rivals anything we have today still relies on coal hand-mined by people and would become powerless without it.
And that rifftrax is worth the wait. Haven't bought anything since the last mp3 (as others posted) and they are still good. Please do Dark Knight Rises :)
I suspect Dark Knight Rises is a given considering now not only do we have the Bale Bat-Voice for them to make fun of but now Tom H-ADR-y Bane Voice to make fun of.
The society relying on coal made little sense to me too but one could argue there's still "some" use for it in their society somewhere. It may not be the only source of power they have, heck they may not even use it FOR power. I mean they've got to make all of that awful makeup out of something!
I learned that even though you're poor, barely eating, and catatonic and useless to the point your teenage daughter provides you with food you can still have a wicked, high-def projection TV and in your shack.
And I learned that even though you're a starving teenage girl you're still going to be pretty fit and curvy.
I learned that in the future we lose to ability to not give our kids STUPID FUCKING NAMES.
Well, it's not exactly an ability we have NOW.
As an aside, the knife throwing girl was a really good actress. Besides Lawrence, she's the one who stood out to me. A lot of the others were weak.
I think the over half-a-year wait did them some good. the jokes felt fresh and it was enjoyable.
Movie actually wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be either.
I learned you can have more shaky-cam than was in Cloverfield, more pause and meaningful glance-filled scenes with angst ridden teens than were in Twilight, and more ridiculously stupid makeup and costumes than were in The Fifth Element. All in one movie!
Quote from: Rainbow Dash on September 29, 2012, 01:58:11 PM
I think the over half-a-year wait did them some good. the jokes felt fresh and it was enjoyable.
I'm glad to hear this, the trailer didn't do much for me though
I learned the term "Sunday afternoon squeaker".
I learned that Mike has strong and confusing feelings about the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie.
I learned that even when something is a tradition for over 70 years, the MC will still explain how it works.
I learned that people (read teenaged fans of this series) will accept a concept that makes zero sense.
Okay, the point of randomly choosing 2 tributes from each district to fight until there's only one left alive, is to control the districts and keep them from rebelling again. But... That makes no sense!
You control people by threatening to do something negative if they do not comply. Instead, we are to accept that they will comply because every year they have to watch their children die, in other words the (government?) continuously does something negative to them in order to keep them compliant. That's not how humans work.
And so, we are supposed to believe that it took 74 years for...
one of their kids' deaths to finally piss the populace off enough that it starts a riot?
I mean really... It's entirely antithetical to human nature, but millions of books sell and no one notices? WTF ever happened to critical thought?
I don't think the point of the Hunger Games was control. I think it was just capricious punishment.
I learned that in the future, seconds are slower.
Quote from: Thrifty on October 06, 2012, 03:23:05 PM
I don't think the point of the Hunger Games was control. I think it was just capricious punishment.
That makes more sense, but according to my resident teenaged expert on the series, the books say it is supposed to be a reminder that he government has full control of the districts. Yes, my niece is a fan, and I decided not to tell her that it makes no logical sense. Choose your battles and all that.
Even if your explanation were the case, though, I think the spoiler would have happened sooner. All of the districts seemed distinctively western to me. I know some societies are less protective of children than others, but none of the districts seemed to have such disregard for the lives of their children that they would put up with this for long.
But then, it's just a stupid story, after all. I should really just relax. :)
I learned that in the future the powers that be will take their fashion ques from Liberace and Ru Paul.
I learned that just putting leaves on your hands makes you invisible in the forest.
I learned that Donald Sutherland is still alive (wasn't too sure about that).
I learned that you can be fighting to the death and hardly eating, and sleeping in the forest for days and still look absolutely FABULOUS with a bow and arrow.
I learned that no amount of on screen shots of some chick mourning the death of twelve year old will make that death seem poignant or real when I haven't gotten to know the character or been made to care about ANYTHING in a film.
I learned that Jennifer Lawrence is a crap actress.
I learned that a complete lack of imagination, common sense, etc. can still earn you millions at the box.....oh, wait, I already knew that.
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 04:13:40 PM
I know some societies are less protective of children than others, but none of the districts seemed to have such disregard for the lives of their children that they would put up with this for long.
they needed a pretty white girl to show them the way.
Quote from: goflyblind on October 06, 2012, 05:37:21 PM
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 04:13:40 PM
I know some societies are less protective of children than others, but none of the districts seemed to have such disregard for the lives of their children that they would put up with this for long.
they needed a pretty white girl to show them the way.
a pretty white working class girl...like all dystopian films this is of course about our times...
Quote from: goflyblind on October 06, 2012, 05:37:21 PM
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 04:13:40 PM
I know some societies are less protective of children than others, but none of the districts seemed to have such disregard for the lives of their children that they would put up with this for long.
they needed a pretty white girl to show them the way.
Annnnnnnd... Why does race need to be injected into this?
I mean, in the other part of my post, I clearly said the twelve districts all appeared to mirror a western sensibility. Actually, each district really appeared to relate to a region of America.
I have to walk on eggshells here, because anytime things come to a personal level, I'm accused of making attacks, so I'll just say 1. your remark is kind of "out of left field" and has nothing to do with what I was writing about, and 2. do we really have to go there yet again?
da fuq? ???
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 09:12:54 PM
Quote from: goflyblind on October 06, 2012, 05:37:21 PM
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 04:13:40 PM
I know some societies are less protective of children than others, but none of the districts seemed to have such disregard for the lives of their children that they would put up with this for long.
they needed a pretty white girl to show them the way.
Annnnnnnd... Why does race need to be injected into this?
I mean, in the other part of my post, I clearly said the twelve districts all appeared to mirror a western sensibility. Actually, each district really appeared to relate to a region of America.
I have to walk on eggshells here, because anytime things come to a personal level, I'm accused of making attacks, so I'll just say 1. your remark is kind of "out of left field" and has nothing to do with what I was writing about, and 2. do we really have to go there yet again?
Dan, I think it's a comment on the way our society seems to make a big hullabaloo about a pretty white woman going missing or dead, but doesn't really much give a shit if a non-white girl. It's a well known comedy trope (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome). Goflyblind isn't injecting race into this on his own, but observing that it already is regardless of what we do.
Oh. :-[
My post was written in the midst of Graveyard shift day off induced insomnia. Anyone who has worked the overnight shift can tell you that trying to live on a normal schedule on days off is about the hardest part of working the shift.
Anyway, I had been awake for about 32 hours, because I literally couldn't fall asleep. My muddled mind picked up on previous times that political differences had crossed over into non-political discussions, and I kind of forgot about the whole "they only report about the pretty white girl" thing.
So... Yeah. Sorry.
And, "The" The Hunger Games flaws in logic and stuff... :)
Quote from: losingmydignity on October 06, 2012, 05:34:34 PM
I learned that just putting leaves on your hands makes you invisible in the forest.
In defense of the "leaves on your hands" thing, that was actually treatment for the trackerjacker venom, not camo. No, the movie doesn't explain that at all, but still...
Edited to add: Rue was the one who knew the treatment and she's the one who put the leaves on Katniss while she was out. Shame the movie didn't explain that, because that's another big reason Katniss chose to trust her.
In answer for spoiler's point:
The whole rebellion thing, you'll learn about later. But the truth of the matter is just the districts aren't strong enough to mount a true rebellion until later. If you read the books, you'll see what I mean. It's mostly just an inconvenience for the Capitol for the moment.
Ah, so that explains that. Thanks.
Way to go movie!
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 09:12:54 PM
I mean, in the other part of my post, I clearly said the twelve districts all appeared to mirror a western sensibility. Actually, each district really appeared to relate to a region of America.
The book outright states that Panem covers an area once known as North America. It also goes on to say that District 12 is somewhere in Appalachia, and I
think it says the Capitol is somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. I know I read that somewhere, I just can't remember where. The movie, of course, doesn't mention any of that.
What I'm wondering is, what is supposed to be going on in the rest of the world?
Quote from: CJones on October 09, 2012, 06:39:44 PM
Quote from: Dan - Echo on October 06, 2012, 09:12:54 PM
I mean, in the other part of my post, I clearly said the twelve districts all appeared to mirror a western sensibility. Actually, each district really appeared to relate to a region of America.
The book outright states that Panem covers an area once known as North America. It also goes on to say that District 12 is somewhere in Appalachia, and I think it says the Capitol is somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. I know I read that somewhere, I just can't remember where. The movie, of course, doesn't mention any of that.
What I'm wondering is, what is supposed to be going on in the rest of the world?
Disneyappalachia that is...
I thought it was control as well, offering a combination lottery/Olympics to give the people entertained/distracted, give them a sense of pride in their district, creating a sense of competition with the other districts (which would also distract them) and waiving the brass ring of life in the capital. Personally reminded me a lot of the 'insert your country here' dream cliche.
Quote from: losingmydignity on October 06, 2012, 05:34:34 PM
I learned that Jennifer Lawrence is a crap actress.
Watch Winter's Bone. She really is good. In this, not as much.
It's true almost any would have a hard time with such a role, but there were just moments where she didn't seem to be reacting the way her character would (especially when Katnip was on stage before the rulers).
The fashion in this movie is like a future where the 70s never ended and this is the natural progression.
Quote from: Darth Geek on November 18, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
The fashion in this movie is like a future where the 70s never ended and this is the natural progression.
I thought of it was more like the Burning Man community became "the man" and took over.
Oh, Jesus, I saw the trailer for Silver Linings Playbook and I think I need an epicac.