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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: Old School (2003)
« on: December 07, 2012, 02:19:19 pm »
I was wondering what your reaction would be to Elisha Cuthbert's role... another seemingly raunchy movie where I don't recall her actually being raunchy.  Not even an Animal House raised-nightshirt like Karen Allen and Donald Sutherland gave us.

Yeah, that's all I remember outside of "we're goin' STREAKING!"  Never really held much regard for this movie.  Maybe I'll give it another go.  I'm sure the fact that all these college movies fail for me is because I didn't go to the party college, I went to the no one attends football games and gang members murder each other college.

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DVD's & Blu-rays / Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« on: December 06, 2012, 08:11:03 pm »
Moonrise Kingdom.  Quite enjoying it.

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Creative Writing / Re: The Horror Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 06, 2012, 07:34:42 pm »
I totally dug Detention.  It made me rethink a lot of how and what I write.


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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
« on: December 06, 2012, 06:33:48 pm »
But that's the strange thing, Earth ISN'T a dystopia in Star Trek, it's the exact opposite.  In fact, it was sort of a running joke in the show that people from Earth are boring cause they don't have war, famine, starving people, uneducated or sick people. racism, or even proper prisons.  I will grant you that before that things really went into the sh*tter, but Trek's the rare SF series that said humanity basically decided they had enough of that and pulled themselves out of a rut and fixed all their own problems.

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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
« on: December 06, 2012, 05:25:39 pm »
Seriously, look at this:


San Francisco is all black.


Wherever they are, it's pretty dark gray.


Black uniform, black seat, black walls.  Pretty sure he's on the bridge of his own ship.


Also looks like the bridge or some chamber on his ship.  Black.

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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
« on: December 06, 2012, 04:03:34 pm »
Am I the only one wondering why the future went so monochrome all of a sudden?  I'm actually expecting Benedict Cumberbatch's ship to be all black now.

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Creative Writing / Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:26:10 pm »
They're big in Superhero movies too.  In fact, "Superhero Movie " itself didn't have one... I don't know if it was intentional or not, but I noticed it missing when the hero fights the villain for the first time and gets his as s HANDED to him because he doesn't know how to fight.  If it was an intentional omission, it's a little brilliant.

How often is the love interest of the star player (it's always about the star player, isn't it?) one of the cheerleaders for his team, out of curiosity?

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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Terminator 5 (Working Title - TBA)
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:15:27 pm »
That'd be great but he's only interested in the Avatar-verse.  Which is fine.  I just want the series to wrap up or something so it can get away from the 80s-establishment.

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Creative Writing / Re: The High School Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:11:35 pm »
I was trying to remember what I said in the Drillbit Taylor fight in that thread, but I'll just repost:

I'm trying to remember if Drillbit was their muscle or just their consultant, teaching them to fight and being their lookout, like the CIA guy in the van.  That seems far more plausible.  Was he mirroring their plight with his own problems, they teach him while he teaches them, cause I sure as heck don't remember it. 

Well, to be fair, what credible threat could bullies in school pose to kids?  In one script I was toying with the bullies were going to mutilate the main kid character, but no movie... especially a comedy... is going to put that in.  If they had a sub-threat like blackmail or something, that would be interesting (and make the kids far from innocent, so they'd have something more to own up to themselves)... it would be the leverage they have to treat the hero kids like garbage.  Then you could get away from the whole "violence solves everything" approach (which I greatly dislike) and have the kids turn the tables, own up to their issues and take power away from the bullies, THEN the physical thing would be the icing on the cake.

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Now Playing: Movies / Re: Terminator 5 (Working Title - TBA)
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:08:29 pm »
Me, I had a great idea for a 2-part movie that wraps up the first continuity and reboots it but whatever...

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Creative Writing / Re: The Horror Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:07:01 pm »
Watch "The Sleepover."  It's awesome. 

"Detention" had an awesome take off of the phone call by having the killer text the victim before slashing her-- a second after she received it.

I feel like the reason we see a lot of the family issues thing is because the idea that someone became a sick and crazy bastard because of how terrible the world is just takes too long to set up.  "My mother hit me, so I'll kill you" is much quicker and no one questions it.  Which maybe they should.

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Creative Writing / Re: The Sports Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 11:03:33 pm »
Speed Racer pulled an amazing one, Speed finally wins a race and it's the BIG race at the end-- in a sequence I love-- but he had to win another race in order to qualify.  How did they pull that off?

Double points on the training montage for the unlikely training montage, where they do things not associated with the sport in order to learn the sport (the Mighty Ducks tossing footballs around to learn ice hockey, for example).  I do love the montage, though.

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Creative Writing / Re: The High School Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 10:59:20 pm »
Didn't they have lacrosse in American Pie?  Or was that just the American Jedi parody, which is the only one I can remember.

My school never had a football team (undefeated!), so I never got the whole appeal.  One Tree Hill was, I think, Cain and Abel on the basketball court, but yeah, baseball... unless they remake a Japanese high school movie we probably won't get that.  Which is so strange since it's the American pasttime.  Heck, the last baseball movie, Moneyball, barely had any actual baseball in it.

I now wonder what extra-curricular activities could be interesting spines for high school movies, we've have school papers, cheerleaders and glee club, but there's tons more.  And not just the crummy school has exceptional kid in unlikely field becomes a symbol of hope type stories, like the inner city kid is a chess whiz and goes to a chess tournament and brings pride to the town type of thing.  You could have a foodie club (like the Breakfast Club) or something like that.

One trope I'm guilty of is the "new guy in the middle of the school term."  Never joins school at the start of the year.  And in the incredibly unlikely chance it IS the first day of school, you never see them buy their textbooks or put all their junk in their lockers for the first time (or empty their lockers) or pop open a fresh lock... 

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Creative Writing / Re: The Romantic Comedy Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 10:47:12 pm »
Did you see "Imagine Me & You?"  It flipped some of the Romcom tropes on the head pretty well, totally not what I expected and quite enjoyable, and not just Piper Perabo and Lena Headey going at it a little.

One thing I tire of is the forced interaction of the opposites, opposites can totally attract but I'm annoyed by stuff like "The Decoy Bride" (which I actually liked, though that's partly due to David Tennant and Kelly MacDonald) where they're stuck together and HAVE to be with each other, put in this artificial pressure cooker where of course over this course of condensed events they will have feelings for each other that naturally will last their whole lives.  I get that movies have to move along at a brisk pace but come on.  I know that they can't have realistic people-get-emotionally-hurt stories like Chasing Amy (that would SUCK, I do want some light romantic fare), but I would like to be surprised by who people end up with, you know?  And everyone always winds up perfectly paired up-- unless there's a hopeless dolty fool (right here!), everyone ends up with someone.  That's gotta change.  Especially in the days of franchises, how great would it be if there was a good romantic comedy where the two scene-stealers get their OWN movie where their romance is front and center?

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Creative Writing / Re: The High School Genre Cliche Thread
« on: December 04, 2012, 10:35:01 pm »
Worse than the Dance, it's always the big dance, it's always prom.  I'll grant you that my school had a lot of dances but they can't be small ones, I like the idea of big things happening in a smaller arena, it's the emotions that are big (especially for teenagers since it's the first time), not the locales.  I guess it has something to do with the fact that prom is the most glam of school dances and it looks good on screen, but I think that's even more reason to do something different.  My fave dance at school was in the new cafeteria, a low ceilinged place with almost no decor.


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