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  1. Szlia

    The best sequel of all time?

    In the Stallone department, Rocky Balboa (the 2006 one) is a brilliant, brilliant, movie. I also enjoyed his recent Rambo, but not as much.
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    Scenes that made you cry like a bitch

    I have never seen UP so I am not sure I get it... do you mean a scene that makes the audience realize something very sad happened by showing the consequences of it rather than the act itself?
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    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    Don't forget:http://greatgatsbygame.com/
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I think the ending works because it resonates with their conversation before the climb (a couple against the world) and with the symbolism of their relationship (South meets North). It's also an opportunity to end on a more positive note after Ros' death (what a terrible trajectory for this...
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    Is Christopher Nolan the most overrated director of all time?

    The award thing is an interesting lead to answer the original question. There are 91 directors that got nominated for the academy award for Best Director. 27 of those got nominated more than three times. Eight more than five. Scorsese, Allen and Spielberg are in that club with seven nominations...
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Not really: you can't run for president.
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    Is Christopher Nolan the most overrated director of all time?

    Was it back on FoH or on the short lived thing between FoH and RR? Anyway someone posted a list of the 'best directors' and JJ Abrams was in the top 10 or something. Now THAT was overrated.
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    Shadow of the Eternals - Eternal Darkness spiritual successor Kickstarter starts 5/6

    After some google-fu it appears there is no blue GameCube, only indigo ones (the official name for their shade of purple). The crazy thing though is that if you GIS GameCube you will see that half of them are blue, but that's probably a colorimetry/white balance issue.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    People who call this a fight and turn it into some kind of scandal never saw a hockey match... Anyway... the Thunder might still have a shot if Martin and Jackson keep this up.
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    Shadow of the Eternals - Eternal Darkness spiritual successor Kickstarter starts 5/6

    The multi-characters century-spanning story was an amazing idea that for some reason was almost never imitated. The sanity thing was a good idea too, but I felt the execution was a bit lacking. The thing is that there is a visible sanity gauge so when it's low you know that every three or four...
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    Grand Theft Auto IIIII - HDD City Stories

    One of my best memory of GTAIV is taking a cab with by Jamaican buddy, not use fast travel (available on all versions of the game except Sean's super limited collector edition) and have car bump into us at the toll, making us break the barrier. Chaos ensured. The cab driver diligently tried to...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Because they don't have the option of paying nothing!
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    News: Plane Goes down.

    I know planes can flush their fuel (something about them being too heavy to land with a full tank). Isn't there a way to flush the cargo if things go south? Or would it be worthless in a case like this because the flushing mechanism would likely be fubar'd by the moving cargo?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Free multiplayer is a good thing the PS3 has going for it. A possibly clever thing (the jury is still out) would be to have both free and paying multiplayer that offer the exact same functionality, but have the two groups separated during online play. Basically, you can pay $5 a month to not...
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    Now You See Me

    I fear it will go all fantasy bullshit on us with the guys doing real magic. Doing real magic kinda kills the trick in magic tricks.
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    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    About the villains in super hero movies: the problem comes from the differences between the two media. In comic form, each super hero has hundreds of stories, which forces to reuse villains, which means they must be very powerful to survive the clash with the hero and come back later with a new...
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    The best sequel of all time?

    I realize an unsurprising omission and in the name of a minority I shall correct it:The Matrix Reloaded. I don't just say it because of my love for kung-fu movies, but also because it took the Manichean universe set in The Matrix and added a lot of complexity to it, shades of grey, third...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Are you sure they did not registered it at the time of the RROD debacle?
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    North Korea goes full retard

    Like hungry orphans?
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Having both Durant and Westbrook on the floor makes it very difficult to defend against the Thunder as both have a large offensive arsenal. When Durant is alone, it's possible to keep him silent for long periods of time (like in the fourth quarter of game five), making the team a lot more...
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    A bit sad for Basel and the interest of the match that Chelsea chain scored right at the start of the 2nd half, because, at 1-0 for the visitors, everything was possible.
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    Man of Steel

    I don't know about the specifics for this here movie, but, as a general rule, music used in trailers is pre-existing music because, more often than not, the score of the movie is not done by the time the trailers must be completed.
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    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    This is not a super hero movie, it's a super-ego movie!
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    The best sequel of all time?

    I don't want to turn the topic into Alien Wars (wuwu video game pun!), but I am ready to argue that Aliens is superior to Alien in both sci-fi and horror. What I will leave to Alien though (other than the cat) is that, to the best of my knowledge, it's the first Space Trucker kind of movie, that...
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    North Korea goes full retard

    Maybe went to see the Arirang?
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    Greatest Play Series

    If you have a charismatic interviewee, having him/her retell the play and using still images to illustrate it could be a cheaper and still efficient way of doing things.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    And read or watched Persepolis!
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    The best sequel of all time?

    First thing that came to mind wasAliensand then...Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Let us venture around the world and through time to add more exotic choices: Japan: Sanjuro: Kurosawa directs and Mifune stars, a duo that worked in many masterpieces. Here in a sequel of Yojimbo The...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Thanks for the link Pancreas!
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    The Astronomy Thread

    I wonder what's up with the hexagon shaped turbulence they saw before being able to see the pole... an hexagon seems like a very weird shape for something involving fluids.
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    Mad Men

    Do you suffer from some form of autism? Not all discussions are about being right. What's the problem with speculating what will come next in the show and debating about what could or should be in it and how? It's a fun intellectual exercise, it's a testament to the thematic wealth of the show...
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    No matter how you put it, the Barca played 6 matches in the knock-out phase for a grand result of three defeats, two draws and one win. Fun fact: the Borussia and the Bayern play each other in Bundesliga this week-end! Bayern already won the title and neither team will want to show their hand...
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    Knee Destruction? Advice for my boo-boo please!

    Oh. I read 'and' instead of 'as' in 'I fall a lot as I'm still adapting to sciatic nerve damage after a spinal injury.' Sorry for the blunder Archangel :/
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    Prometheus (Alien 0) - 1 Year Later

    You know what they say about broken clocks...
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    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    Madrid: Unlucky to not have scored in the first 15 minutes, lucky to not have taken a goal in the hour that followed and then a crazy finish but it was a tad too late and the injury of the Dortmund player allowed their team to calm down a little. Moral of the story: Don't play 30 minutes in a...
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    Knee Destruction? Advice for my boo-boo please!

    You fall a lot? Who falls a lot? Are you like... a rollerskater/skateboarder/BMX rider or someone with a neurodegenerative condition?
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    Mad Men

    One of the core theme of the show is the evolution of society, the transition from the '50s to modernity. Left wing radicalism, boosted by anti-war protests and by the almost revolution of May 68 in France, rippled through the '70s all around the world and is an important component of this...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I think what is important is the flip side of the coin, that was already apparent before: Jaime takes prides in his abilities as a fighter, but through the seven kingdoms he is known for being the guy who killed an old insane man in the back. With his latest speech, it almost feels like he...
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    Mad Men

    It's funny because I checked the cast the other day looking for the name of a supporting actress from season one and it made me realize we see the daughter often, but not the son. Glad they managed to do something with him. PS: Two months until Bobby Kennedy's death (one until May 68 events...