Posts by Austin Roberts8

gentletrucker10 said:Eva Mendes😍

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Alright, I checked it out. As far as directing goes, it’s a total mess—the set design looks like some war-torn wasteland or something. But honestly, that’s secondary. John Malkovich practically stared me down with how much he sucked. I really thought Jeremy Irons was going to carry this thing, but nope. And Rachel Weisz? She voices the dragon with zero emotional range—it sounds like she’s just reading lines from a teleprompter. It’s just a little pathetic. Honestly, it's worse than it looks. You get the feeling some kid wrote the book just to sell a script and ended up making the lead character completely brainless. In my opinion, movies like this should be banned, but clearly, you can still sell even garbage if you wrap it in shiny foil... 3/10

gentlebear13 said:It starts at birth... because if it didn't, spontaneous combustion would just be called death. Deep stuff, clearly. Go screw yourself. 🙂

Biologically speaking, it starts at conception, not birth. I rest my case. 🙂

I’ve gotta say, those origin stories kinda freak me out. Experience tells me they usually suck...

Look, you don't think so, and honestly, neither do I—but there are definitely people out there who see things differently...

What's this thread even about?

Sarah Nelson67 said:Look, I don't see a massive difference between an original disc and some burned DVD... at least not to my ears. People can talk all the trash they want—as long as the picture and audio work for me, I'm happy. I don't care about those snobby elitists. I enjoy my movies. Honestly, sometimes a DivX rip looks and sounds great, though other times it's pretty rough. For me, it’s just about having a movie at home that I can watch whenever I feel like it. My only gripe is when the quality or sound is actually noticeably bad.

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One buck per gig, one movie $1.50...

Superskeptik said:legitimate = legal, lawful, valid 😕

Maybe you meant "morally speaking" or "biologically speaking"?

Nah, what you're describing is just being legal—legitimacy is a whole different ballgame.

T-Mobile is absolutely killing it!!!!!!! I just clocked 236 GB of data usage this month hahahahahaha

So, I recently started a thread about how big someone's home media collection actually is, and it spiraled into this massive debate over what even counts as a "real" collection. You had a few snobs chiming in too—people who won't acknowledge anything unless it’s an original release or has specific localized subtitles and all that nonsense (???). Since we're here, let's just hash this out. Look, my stance is pretty straightforward because this is how I actually handle things. I basically never buy originals—it just doesn't make sense for me. As a student, dropping 50-$$83 on a single movie is way too much when I can grab a DVD for a couple of bucks and get the exact same quality—or at least a difference so small it's barely noticeable. I'm not a huge fan of the old DivX format, but obviously, there are tons of older movies out there that only exist in that format. So, I just rip them to DVD and slap on some English and American subtitles. I even make custom covers for everything so they look just like the official releases—you know, specifically to mess with those snobs who insist on nothing but the "originals." Honestly, props to the collectors with the legit stuff, but having a nice collection doesn't give you the right to be a jerk about how others do things...

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wiredseal422 said:which crash?
Haggis's or Cronenberg's???

I mean, what do you think? Definitely Haggis's.

So, this book—or books, doesn't really matter how many there are—was actually written by some 17-year-old kid who thought he could just take the best parts of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and mash them together. Dragon knights? Give me a break. And once I saw the lead actor, honestly... I have no words. Anyway👎

Total wipeout...

If anyone claims medicine says life DOESN'T start at conception, they’re talking absolute nonsense. Medicine says it starts at fertilization—I know, I actually studied medicine—but then you have the law stepping in and saying life begins at ten or twelve weeks, depending on which state you're in, once the embryo becomes a fetus. Look, when life begins isn't some deep philosophical debate, just like how breathing your first breath isn't a philosophical debate. Strictly speaking, performing an abortion at any stage is murder—plain and simple. But legally? Not always. This whole "consciousness" argument is just as ridiculous. A bacterium doesn't have consciousness (at least not the kind we recognize), yet it can still absolutely wreck you when it gets inside. We're obviously talking about the toxic, parasitic kind of bacteria here.

I’m hitting all three Lord of the Rings extended editions back-to-back—not because I’m some die-hard fanatic or anything, but just because it’s a solid 14-hour marathon.

Steven Baker12 said:those movies came out in 2005

Man, my bad. I totally mixed this up with last spring. Babel definitely wasn't my movie of the year—honestly, it was probably the exact opposite. Was there even anything decent released this year? (besides The Departed and those disappointments...) My brain is fried.

Has everyone just collectively decided to forget about Sin City Batman and V for Vendetta?

Yeah, but only in their own heads. Once you and I get together with a few others who actually think for themselves, we’re a group. That whole "majority is always right" thing is just a stupid argument—it's basically a fallacy. In reality, the majority is just this massive, inert blob that thinks it acts as one unit, when really it's just a couple of capable individuals within that crowd calling the shots while everyone else just goes along with it.