The Glade 4.0

Holy crap, that made my week.

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The Dude abides.

LTTP, but finally saw it.

Actually very enjoyable. And OMG at the visuals . . . That is hands down the best CGI I have ever seen.

My only gripe:


Definitely worth viewing. I'm still not sold on 3D, tho. Part of the beauty of the film is all the colors, man. Putting on red and blue filtered glasses seems like it would take away from a lot of that.

There are no red and blue glasses. 3D isn't really done that way anymore; it's now a matter of polarization of the lenses, so there's no loss of color whatsoever.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Yes, which goes back to my gripe of how I dislike




That's cool. Those tinted glasses were really annoying.

I described it as "Good movie, but I've seen it before" when my father asked me what I thought.

He started making fun of me.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

They probably don't care. It's a bazillion miles away.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yeah. Its like Americans and Africa.

Most of us don't really give a ****, and in galactic terms, its right next door.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yeah, that'd be nice.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Never happen.

Humanity, in general, isn't enlightened.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yeah, if you're going for realism, it's much more likely that we will destroy ourselves well before we manage any sort of long distance galactic travel.

Um, Star Trek? TOS, at least.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Star Trek is about the closest thing, yeah. A gem in the rough I suppose.

Another thing that irked me upon viewing Avatar a second time -- the dialogue/delivery was kinda weak.

Oh and needed more humor.

What did people on Earth think about Pandora? From what little the movie mentions, science geeks (especially exobiologists and exosnthropologists) had wet pants, while the rest of the world liked playing with whatever they made with floaty rocks too much to care.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Humans are shortsighted and barbaric in real life, with no signs of getting better, so why should they be enlightened in movies and television? I can believe in most sci-fi conventions more easily than I can believe in humanity coming together as a group and deciding to be rational.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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It might be possible. Once our best and brightest leave Earth to colonize the stars (because let's face it, that's who's going to be first to sign up) the monkeys we leave the planet to are going to tear the place apart. Earth will end up as a backwater shithole.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Shortsighted and barbaric compared to whom?

Don't need a comparison-point. We spend more time and money figuring out new ways to kill each other than we do figuring out how to cure our illnesses, heal our infirmities, or feed our children. War is the greatest force for human advancement. It always has been, and I suspect it always will be.

We can't agree on anything as a species. Or hell, even as a nation. Everything divides us, nothing brings us together. We also continually let superstition and myth guide our actions and policies rather than reason and science. Our most effective system of economics that we've tried (to date) works because it harnesses the most ugly of human attributes: greed, pride, and a lust for control over others. Try making an economic and governmental system based on compassion, love and understanding and see how well it works. And environmentally? We behave like a bacterial culture in a petrie dish. We will exponentially grow and consume until all available resources are gone, then we'll die off. We make great claims of being better than lower animals, but we're just as ineffective at managing ourselves as a species.

Individually, there are a few enlightened types, but as a whole, the human average is closer to the worst examples of our kind, with the occasional exception rising far above. Yeah, we're barbaric and shortsighted.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Or correcting our spelling.

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Holy shitsnacks!

There. Happy?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The momentary elation that I felt upon calling out your error has been replaced by shame and sadness that I fell to such petty trivialities for a cheap laugh.

So no, not as such.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Taly -

You should travel more. Places outside of Canada are really quite nice.

You're my hero.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

So I saw Avatar finally and it certainly was... long.

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It was cool, but I had trouble busting my goo over it the way all of the reviews I'd read told me I was supposed to.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I just saw this too, it's been on cable pretty much non stop apparently. I found it to be long, predictable and fairly idiotic. Last thing I really liked from him was True Lies.

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe