How we're going to fit a documentary in avatar, huh?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.
No?
Oh, ok then.
You may be onto something! Some sort of brain-affecting virus.free thoughtpolice wrote:Ay Chingala! What with Caine being a rat lover and now Mancheeze being a crazy mouse lady I wonder if intersectional feminism might spread through rodent droppings. :animals-gerbil:Scented Nectar wrote:Here is some more Diana Boston. She publicly portrays herself as anti-racist, but she made a few videos where her true self showed itself. She memory-holed those videos long ago, but people made copies, and the internet is not forgetting.
"Racist Mancheeze aka SaelPalani aka DianaBoston Proof that a Public Radical Feminist is RACIST!"
[youtube]j7ahKLdqTHE[/youtube]
Of course it is. It's her shtick and I'm buying it.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.
No?
Oh, ok then.
Thank you. She now has her own OneNote page. :clap:Service Dog wrote:Documentarian Cassie Jaye.Brive1987 wrote: Who is this and how do I stalk her?
Crucial question: does she know all the keyboard shortcuts?
Her director credits have already been pointed out. This being the primary one most people would be aware of or might have seen.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.
No?
Oh, ok then.
Kick Starter wrote:STRETCH GOAL #2 -$175,000!
We did it! We reached our first stretch goal of $114,000 and we will now be able to achieve an Oscar-qualifying theatrical release that will ensure that this film can be seen by the masses!
But why stop there? What else can we do with more? The $97,000 initial goal was always the bare bones budget we needed in order to complete this film. What if we could make a professional quality film and not have to apologize for it being anything less?
If we could reach $175,000 we could raise the quality of the entire film so that it would no longer be a ‘low-budget documentary’, but a professional quality production. Reaching this goal will also open more doors for this film in that it can’t be as easily written off and ignored. Let’s go from low-quality to no apologies!
Anyone who claims the new Doctor Who has better storylines than the old Doctor Who simply doesn't remember the old Doctor Who well enough. Yeah, the new series has good FX, and (trite) character arcs, but does it really have better storylines?ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Bollocks. It was all about transferring earthly thoughts, fashions, and races onto aliens. Yes, it was terribly acted and the special effects were shoddy. But the same is true for Dr Who, and in both cases the reboot was/is much better than the original in terms of storyline/arc, character progression, and of course special effects.
Original ST and DW used what they had, technologically, but that is no reason to continue spouting that they were any good. Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
The new-who episode Turn Left was good. As was the original Angels, the Library and the arc set in that pre-WWI school.Søren Lilholt wrote:Anyone who claims the new Doctor Who has better storylines than the old Doctor Who simply doesn't remember the old Doctor Who well enough. Yeah, the new series has good FX, and (trite) character arcs, but does it really have better storylines?ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Bollocks. It was all about transferring earthly thoughts, fashions, and races onto aliens. Yes, it was terribly acted and the special effects were shoddy. But the same is true for Dr Who, and in both cases the reboot was/is much better than the original in terms of storyline/arc, character progression, and of course special effects.
Original ST and DW used what they had, technologically, but that is no reason to continue spouting that they were any good. Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Does it balls.
If the new series ever shits out anything even half as powerful as a Deadly Assassin, Inferno or Kinda, let me know. Otherwise, it will continue to be a pathetic, crowd-pleasing parody of its former greatness that doesn't stand up to even cursory comparison.
:snooty:
But possibly the best advertisement is the wholesale outrage of the SJW faction about something they haven't even seen yet.deLurch wrote:Honestly, this is how you select a reasonable risk for a kickstarter.
1) Have they actually done the work before? If they haven't odds are they don't know what they are doing, and won't be able to complete the project due to either lack of knowledge & experience, lack of work ethic, or not being able to adequately determine a budget.
2) Take a look at the work they have done before. Don't expect quality to magically be better than what they have done before. They have already displayed their skill level.
Why do we still tell children not to accept lifts from strangers? Teach paedos not to molest kids!Suet Cardigan wrote: Bring on that fucking asteroid.
http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg
There are, in general, three or four good Doctor Who stories a year, and three or four bad ones. That bollocks about the Moon last year was the worst ever. But as well as classics like Inferno, City of Death and pretty much the entire Philip Hinchcliffe era Old Who gave us dreck like Time Flight, Timelash and Arse of Inanity.Brive1987 wrote:The new-who episode Turn Left was good. As was the original Angels, the Library and the arc set in that pre-WWI school.Søren Lilholt wrote:Anyone who claims the new Doctor Who has better storylines than the old Doctor Who simply doesn't remember the old Doctor Who well enough. Yeah, the new series has good FX, and (trite) character arcs, but does it really have better storylines?ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Bollocks. It was all about transferring earthly thoughts, fashions, and races onto aliens. Yes, it was terribly acted and the special effects were shoddy. But the same is true for Dr Who, and in both cases the reboot was/is much better than the original in terms of storyline/arc, character progression, and of course special effects.
Original ST and DW used what they had, technologically, but that is no reason to continue spouting that they were any good. Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Does it balls.
If the new series ever shits out anything even half as powerful as a Deadly Assassin, Inferno or Kinda, let me know. Otherwise, it will continue to be a pathetic, crowd-pleasing parody of its former greatness that doesn't stand up to even cursory comparison.
:snooty:
Bugger:Shatterface wrote:Also, ST: TNG had writers like Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Bloch who had serious reputations outside the telly bubble; even the animated series had Larry Niven.
The only notable writer TNG had was David Gerrold who wrote for TOS and TAS.
Shatterface wrote:Also, ST: TOS had writers like Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Bloch who had serious reputations outside the telly bubble; even the animated series had Larry Niven.
Midnight (the one where the Doctor is trapped in a spaceship with a mind-controlling monster) The Girl in the Fireplace (the windows on the life of Madame Pompadour) and The Girl Who Waited were also good.Brive1987 wrote:The new-who episode Turn Left was good. As was the original Angels, the Library and the arc set in that pre-WWI school.Søren Lilholt wrote:Anyone who claims the new Doctor Who has better storylines than the old Doctor Who simply doesn't remember the old Doctor Who well enough. Yeah, the new series has good FX, and (trite) character arcs, but does it really have better storylines?ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Bollocks. It was all about transferring earthly thoughts, fashions, and races onto aliens. Yes, it was terribly acted and the special effects were shoddy. But the same is true for Dr Who, and in both cases the reboot was/is much better than the original in terms of storyline/arc, character progression, and of course special effects.
Original ST and DW used what they had, technologically, but that is no reason to continue spouting that they were any good. Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Does it balls.
If the new series ever shits out anything even half as powerful as a Deadly Assassin, Inferno or Kinda, let me know. Otherwise, it will continue to be a pathetic, crowd-pleasing parody of its former greatness that doesn't stand up to even cursory comparison.
:snooty:
Lucas? Forward thinking?ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Bollocks. It was all about transferring earthly thoughts, fashions, and races onto aliens. Yes, it was terribly acted and the special effects were shoddy. But the same is true for Dr Who, and in both cases the reboot was/is much better than the original in terms of storyline/arc, character progression, and of course special effects.
Original ST and DW used what they had, technologically, but that is no reason to continue spouting that they were any good. Whereas with Star Wars, Lucas was so forward-thinking that no follow up has yet come close to the originals after nearly 40 years.
Best sci fi TV show = Red Dwarf.Shatterface wrote:Doctor Who is always going to fail if you compare it with the best shows on TV.
There's nothing in the original show that compares with Edge of Darkness or The Singing Detective so I don't see the point of comparing it with Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad: the only difference is that it's now compared with US shows.
I liked the Battlestar reboot but that's pretty much one story with a single tone running through it. I can dip into my Doctor Who collection and pick out a self-contained comedy, a Hammer style horror, a war story, a Buddhist parable, etc. depending on my mood.
Battlestar doesn't have that repeatability for me.
Shatterface wrote:Doctor Who is always going to fail if you compare it with the best shows on TV.
There's nothing in the original show that compares with Edge of Darkness or The Singing Detective so I don't see the point of comparing it with Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad: the only difference is that it's now compared with US shows.
I liked the Battlestar reboot but that's pretty much one story with a single tone running through it. I can dip into my Doctor Who collection and pick out a self-contained comedy, a Hammer style horror, a war story, a Buddhist parable, etc. depending on my mood.
Battlestar doesn't have that repeatability for me.
Most over-rated. It really wasn't that good. Had some nice spots, though.John D wrote:Best sci fi TV show = Red Dwarf.Shatterface wrote:Doctor Who is always going to fail if you compare it with the best shows on TV.
There's nothing in the original show that compares with Edge of Darkness or The Singing Detective so I don't see the point of comparing it with Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad: the only difference is that it's now compared with US shows.
I liked the Battlestar reboot but that's pretty much one story with a single tone running through it. I can dip into my Doctor Who collection and pick out a self-contained comedy, a Hammer style horror, a war story, a Buddhist parable, etc. depending on my mood.
Battlestar doesn't have that repeatability for me.
SF is basically an expanding meta-text of tropes. Robots, androids, hyperspace, time travel, etc. are essentially a common resource for SF writers that have no real-world counterparts. We take it as a given that there are aliens but we don't know that for a fact.Tribble wrote:Not to pick on Lucas, BTW.
The Matrix was heavily plagiarized from The Invisibles.
Alien was stolen from The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Terminator was ripped off from two Harlan Ellison stories./quote]
In Doctor Who, The Deadly Assassin had the Matrix, Ark in Space had aliens who lay eggs in people, Day of the Daleks had time from the future attempting to change the future by assassination someone in the present.
Star Wars also ripped off Dune.And, amusingly, Star Wars has been ripped off with Eragon's Destiny.
And so it goes. Plots and devices are stolen all the time. And being a voracious reader, I run into it all the freakin' time. And it's cool as long as you're stealing the story itself. But it doesn't make your story visionary if it's a cobbled-up hash of 'homages' (as they like to call them).
franc wrote:What the fuck is a red sticker you cunts?
Nevermind. Proud now.franc wrote:What the fuck is a red sticker you cunts?
Chew on this leather strap. Saves broken teeth bitch.comhcinc wrote:You have not been given consent to ask that.franc wrote:What the fuck is a red sticker you cunts?
franc wrote:Chew on this leather strap. Saves broken teeth bitch.comhcinc wrote:You have not been given consent to ask that.franc wrote:What the fuck is a red sticker you cunts?
You have much better taste in whom to defend than Capt Picard.Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.
No?
Oh, ok then.
Bitch comment jealous of someone who has one.comhcinc wrote:Unimpressed by your penis.franc wrote:Chew on this leather strap. Saves broken teeth bitch.comhcinc wrote:You have not been given consent to ask that.
Yeah, I meant in the sense of "epic" or "high" fantasy, which is a specific niche actually covered by GoT. While GoT also has a hefty dose of political and family drama, it uses some tropes typical of the specific genre of "high fantasy" started largely by Tolkien's works, like a pseudo-medieval setting, the presence of magic and of certain mythical creatures (dragons, giants, ghosts or revenants of some kind, etc.)Shatterface wrote:Better fantasy movie than GoT?
Depends on your definition of fantasy. If we restrict it to 'epic' or 'high' fantasy it wipes the floor with the rest.
But fantasy also includes Last Year in Marianbad, A Matter of Life and Death, Eraserhead, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Groundhog Day, Being John Malkevich and Pan's Labirynth.
I have still to see where your opinion is anymore than mere farts as a 'pit blow-in trying to hope some glitter rubs off its originators.comhcinc wrote:My opinion on what is the best form of entertainment based off of my arbitrary list is better than your opinion of what makes the best form of entertainment based off your arbitrary list.
Which is why it kills me when you get shitty script writing on SciFi shows with a good budget, such as Defiance. All that money for sets, special effects, costumes and make up, yet the script writers are shitty.Kirbmarc wrote:TV isn't just the realm of shitty sitcoms and tedious procedural shows anymore. TV sci-fi has always suffered from lack of budget and other constraints. The best sci-fi series of the last few years was the remake of Battlestar Galactica, and it wasn't without its problems.
I think most of the major issues with Doctor Who boils down to a single fundamental issue. It is a TV show for kids. That is how it started out. And it has never really stretched that far from its roots. Everyone sees the enormous potential of the premise. But so long as it has to keep within the range of a kids SciFi program, it will never reach it. And that is why so much of the show's faults are handwaved away with Timey-Whiney-Wibbley-Wobbley. It is because it just doesn't matter that much for their target audience.Kirbmarc wrote:New Who isn't dreadful, but it's not top-notch entertaining, either. More of a mixed bag.
So what do we need to do in order to convince Peter Jackson to only make TV shows from now on?Shatterface wrote:TV is getting top directors like Scorsese and Soderbergh, Oscar winning actors like John Voigt and Dustin Hoffman, etc. who all appreciate having 12 hours to tell a story beats the hell out of 2 1/2.
OK thenBilly The Hillbilly wrote:I don't know what this red sticker thing is but if it turns up on one of my posts I'm calling the cops. :law-policered: :law-police:
If you listen to Lionel Richie songs before going to bed, you deserve the dreams that you get.CommanderTuvok wrote:Had a very disturbing nightmare last night....
It featured a rapey, pervy-looking bearded professor at a shitty Mid West university persistently singing some shite, sugary ballad, while stalking a much younger and BLIND student. One day, after class, while the blind student has just finished her sculpture of an octopus, tentacles and all, her pervy stalker professor makes his move, gets close behind her and her octopus sculpture, and says "HELLO, is it me you're looking for"....
...at which point the student jumps up and tells the pervert professor, "FUCK OFF, you rapist".
Woke up in a cold sweat at that stage.
Hopefully yes. Those shows attract a large audience. A large audience means more money from ads, and TV execs love money. SJW boycotts are, for now, largely ineffectual: many of them hate GoT and all of its rapes, but still watch it. Also while many on the left are SJWs, most people aren't SJWs.Shatterface wrote:What goes for GoT and fantasy goes for other genres.
TV used to be film's poor relation but who needs gangster flicks after The Sopranos? Who needs crime movies post-The Wire, zombie movies post-Walking Dead, etc? TV is getting top directors like Scorsese and Soderbergh, Oscar winning actors like John Voigt and Dustin Hoffman, etc. who all appreciate having 12 hours to tell a story beats the hell out of 2 1/2.
That's partly down to bigger budgets but also to a slackening of censorship on cable. It'll be interesting to see if this freedom survives a SJW backlash.
They're also telling women not to accept strangers from lifts.Shatterface wrote:
Why do we still tell children not to accept lifts from strangers?
It's become painfully clear that SJWs are all mentally unstable people, whose real goal is to start a revolution to force the World to conform to their peculiar mental instability. You might wonder how they can form into groups and movements, seeing as their peculiarities would inevitably clash as they try to force the World into incompatible directions. That they can and do form groups and movements is due to the fact that SJWs actually achieve little or nothing, and are most often content with whining and crying and #footstomping and holdmybreathtilimblueintheface.tumblr.comx_?_x wrote:Holy shit.HoneyWagon wrote:I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.
I have no words, but feel obliged to remark on this tweet.
Holy shit.
http://i44.tinypic.com/21o4oeo.jpgfranc wrote:I have still to see where your opinion is anymore than mere farts as a 'pit blow-in trying to hope some glitter rubs off its originators.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5konqsoE1qdc2wo.giffranc wrote:Why are you here airhead?
franc wrote:Is life really that miserable?
franc wrote:Have you actually ever had a real opinion not from here or cable wrassling?
And morons launch multimedia bombs.comhcinc wrote:"haters gonna hate"
And I'd bet a testicle you did all that from a Mac.franc wrote:And morons launch multimedia bombs.comhcinc wrote:"haters gonna hate"
The 'tardbook generation. This is how the west gurgles and dies.
franc wrote:And I'd bet a testicle you did all that from a Mac.franc wrote:And morons launch multimedia bombs.comhcinc wrote:"haters gonna hate"
The 'tardbook generation. This is how the west gurgles and dies.
Civilisation is over.
Could someone please pitsplain' this to Phil by posting a pic of Jenneke?Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.
No?
Oh, ok then.
She was ninja'd by Hunter S. Thompson.Brive1987 wrote:Wasn't Watson going to write a book a while back? My notes are lacking.
Roughly sums up my position as well.Kirbmarc wrote:Midnight (the one where the Doctor is trapped in a spaceship with a mind-controlling monster) The Girl in the Fireplace (the windows on the life of Madame Pompadour) and The Girl Who Waited were also good.Brive1987 wrote:The new-who episode Turn Left was good. As was the original Angels, the Library and the arc set in that pre-WWI school.Søren Lilholt wrote: Anyone who claims the new Doctor Who has better storylines than the old Doctor Who simply doesn't remember the old Doctor Who well enough. Yeah, the new series has good FX, and (trite) character arcs, but does it really have better storylines?
Does it balls.
If the new series ever shits out anything even half as powerful as a Deadly Assassin, Inferno or Kinda, let me know. Otherwise, it will continue to be a pathetic, crowd-pleasing parody of its former greatness that doesn't stand up to even cursory comparison.
:snooty:
Utopia, The Fires of The Unquiet Dead, Dalek, The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Impossible Planet/Satan's Pit, The Eleventh Hour, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (not the recent episode, the one with the Silence), The Doctor's Wife and The God Complex were, if not as good as the ones we already mentioned, at least decent, entertaining TV.
The rest of the episodes before Series 7 were pretty dire, with occasional flash of decency, and utter piles of irredeemable garbage like Aliens of London/World War Three, Love and Monsters, Fear Her and pretty much every appearance of the Cybermen or the Daleks (except maybe Dalek).
Series 7 was a load of shit (Journey at the Center of the Tardis is probably much the worst episode of the entire new run, and one of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen). The anniversary special was decent but didn't live to the hype. Series 8 was slightly better but the "recent moon bollocks" (Kill the Moon) was yet another huge stinker. I haven't seen Series 9 yet.
Bottom line is that while the new show was watchable (not "excellent", not "a masterpiece" but watchable) until the end of Series 6. I think that quality took a nosedive in Series 7 and the show still hasn't recovered yet.
You also have to notice that the general quality of TV has improved in the last few years. Shows like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones (for all its flaws), House of Cards and others have brought some really high quality scriptwriting to television. The new Doctor Who of course pales in comparison, but I don't think that the old Doctor Who would fare any better.
[A challenge: find a fantasy movie that's better written than Game of Thrones, Tolkien adaptations included]
TV isn't just the realm of shitty sitcoms and tedious procedural shows anymore. TV sci-fi has always suffered from lack of budget and other constraints. The best sci-fi series of the last few years was the remake of Battlestar Galactica, and it wasn't without its problems.
New Who isn't dreadful, but it's not top-notch entertaining, either. More of a mixed bag.
SJWs are the worst kind of racist, sexist, homophobe bigots against the people who belong the minorities they claim to protect but who don't agree to all of their dogmas.Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
What's most amusing is how the SJWs react to this 'traitor' to the Revolution. When she was anti-religion and pro-gay parenting, Jaye was so smart and so right in their eyes. Now that she's rejecting radical feminism, they need to paint her as some air-headed naif (note the disparaging female stereotype employed), susceptible to the dulcet lies of that Svengali, Paul Elam.
Note also how the SJW's main reaction isn't: 'she's wrong', rather: 'how dare she? Someone stop her!'
franc wrote:And morons launch multimedia bombs.comhcinc wrote:"haters gonna hate"
The 'tardbook generation. This is how the west gurgles and dies.
