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    On 13/06/2016 at 7:54 AM, InfiniteRemnant said:

    Isn't the only reason Wicker Man even has fans due to falling into "so bad it's good" territory? What'd they do, fix it just enough to make it just regular bad?

    The original Wicker Man (1973, directed by Robin Hardy, written by Anthony Shaffer, starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee) is a legitimate classic and one of my favourite horror films of all time. The 2006 Nicolas Cage version is a So Bad it's Good mess that mostly repeats the plot of the original scene-for-scene without understanding why any of it worked, replacing a slow burning mystery accompanied by ideological conflict, with a succession of jump scares and no such conflict.

    The Wicker Tree, though, is a 2011 spiritual sequel by Robin Hardy. It has the seeds of a good idea (see http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/wickertree.htm for details), but it's shockingly badly acted and directed, again without being entertaining.

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    6 hours ago, ijuin said:

     

     Not interested in running around grinding for a few more levels, huh?

    Not so much that as just not wanting to break from the whole "keep my journey in sync with Ash's as much as possible" thing. I could have paused the DVD in the middle of the League tournament and then come back after grinding, but it would have ruined the exercise for me, however pointless it may have been.

    In any case, I've beaten them and completed Platinum to my satisfaction before. I may come back to it if I need something for a later Pokedex (not that I ever expect to actually complete one).

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    On the home stretch of my Pokemon Platinum replay, and it's clear I'm not going to be able to beat the Elite Four with my best team before the DP final. Seems appropriate, really. I may come back to it one day, but I've got enough unfinished (and unstarted) games to be going on with.

     

    After three weeks of Pokemon Go, I've got 21 in my Pokedex, only two of which are evolved. No gym battles yet, since I can't find a gym that isn't slightly out of range of the few public Wi-Fi hotspots I know of.

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    Aside from some already mentioned, I want to recommend the Deltora Quest books and the Rowan of Rin books by Emily Rodda, if you can find them.

    Also, for a non-Fantasy series, John Marsden's Tomorrow When the War Began and sequels. Actually, anything by John Marsden.

  16. Posted

    On 03/06/2016 at 2:36 PM, InfiniteRemnant said:

    Bond, James Bond. Then there's Indianna Jones father, the dragon from Dragonheart, and he was in Hunt for Red October, and.... uh...

    I got nothing else.

    Can't think of any good roles I've seen him in other than those.

    Murder on the Orient Express comes to mind (though I preferred the later David Suchet version, including David Morrissey's take on Connery's character). Also The Untouchables, The Rock, The Man Who Would Be King, the first Highlander and maybe Marnie.

    On 03/06/2016 at 3:16 PM, InfiniteRemnant said:

    Speaking of adaptations that fail, WATCHMEN. a movie with a plot so convoluted I'm pretty sure only a fan could ever enjoy it, I know i was lost for half the thing. except it apparently got that convoluted due to over-condensing and rewriting the source material in a way that pissed off existing fans, making it a movie made for nobody. wonderful job there, Hollywood.

    That's stretching it, since there're plenty of fans of the book, myself included, who thought it was as good an adaptation as could be expected. And I say this as someone who hadn't finished the comic at the time I watched the movie.

     

    Last movie I watched that wasn't merely disappointing but almost irredeemably crap, The Wicker Tree. Roughly as inept as Neil LaBute's Wicker Man and nowhere near as entertaining, and this is despite coming from the director of the original Wicker Man.

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    5 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    Picard would actually agree with you on that, and makes sugestions to that effect about 45 min into the movie, but gets shot down the moment he points that out to the admiral. and given it's a pre-existing admiral who wasn't a moron when he showed up last time, is another example of out of character because plot.

    Actually, we'd never seen Dougherty before that movie.

    10 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Screw the Ba'Ku. With a fusion-powered monofilament chainsaw. Those hypocritical Luddite festering sores on the rectum of the Universe are some of the most repellent creatures I have ever seen in the Star Trek universe. The Prime Directive did not apply to them -- they HAD the technology to travel in space, they just refused to use it on a piecemeal basis that made no sense just so they could be all holier than thou about it. It wasn't even their planet, they just moved there and then refused to accept others moving in, too. Sitting like a bunch of parasitical squatters on a health resource of vital value to the Federation which was in the middle of LOSING A WAR with the Dominion.

    Firstly, nowhere in the movie are the Ba'ku presented as not wanting to share the planet. All they wanted was to not get kicked out of the small fraction of it they were actually using (and incidentally, I would argue that they have as much right to that fraction of the planet as the Federation do to any of their own colonies). As has been pointed out, it was the Federation who shot down the option of colonising elsewhere on the planet themselves, for the benefit of the Son'a.

    Secondly, harvesting the radiation like that would be a terrible plan as far as the Dominion war goes. It's not going to save people dying on captured planets, it's not going to save people after their starships have been destroyed in battle, and the relative few (out of the billions of projected casualties) who could be saved with the medicine aren't going to be any less vulnerable to dying the next time they're sent into the field.

    And even if I agreed with the rest of your assessment of the Ba'ku (and I'm really not seeing it myself), it still wouldn't excuse what the Federation were doing or the horrifying precedent they were setting (ie, essentially giving themselves the right to shut down any non-Federation colony, regardless of how long its been there, as long as its at that moment in "Federation space"), and I would still be firmly on Picard's side.

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    8 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

     

    Most of what's wrong with insurrection boils down to people acting out of character, and doing dumb things.

    Any specific examples of that? By which I'm hoping you don't mean the crew siding with the Ba'ku against the people trying to kidnap and rob them?

    5 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I think everyone here knows Highlander 2 is firmly esconced at the top (bottom?) of my list of bad movies.  From a good movie with a fascinating premise, to a horrifically bad one that even manages to put the filet mignon premise through a meat grinder anf turn it into week-old White Castle sliders.  Ah, well, at least they eventually developed and put out the series, giving us most of five seasons of good sequel to the movie. :-)

    The Quickening is somewhere among my twenty most hated movies. It might be lower if I liked the original more than I do. Can't comment on the TV series.

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    The only Star Trek movies I'd call even close to terrible are The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier, and while I don't particularly like Insurrection, I don't share the common complaint that everyone else here seems to be drawing on.

    My most hated movies are The Last Airbender and The Legend of the Titanic.