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3 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Petulant George Lucas ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: The Miniseries, brought to you by HBO/FX/Showtime... Some big-time network that could afford the budget.

Have the main character swing back-and-forth between Jedi & Sith over the course of the miniseries, in a Gollum/LOTR way, especially during the last battle with Malak.

11 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - MSNBC's Luke Russert I... · 1 reply · +1 points

I heard something else very interesting from the episode of Penn & Teller's BS devoted to anti-gaming hysteria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7comwLPFY Skip to the 6:30 mark, and pay attention especially at the 7:00 mark when the two people are discussing the "studies" conducted on video games, violence, and children.

"one of the difficults in linking violent video games to school shootings is that playing violent video games is a normal activity nowadays." "[things like GTA] are now common things"

Also pay attention to the fact that since gaming exploded as a cultural medium, violent crime in the United States has dropped like a rock. The two are not related, but for this hypothesis of gaming causes violence or whatever to be true, then violent crime over the last twenty years should have exploded, when it was actually the opposite.

Games are just the new D&D, heavy metal, rap, comic books, Beavis & Butthead, or whatever else society has suddenly decided is what to blame when something bad happens.

14 weeks ago @ Breitbart.com - Ventura, miffed by cou... · 0 replies · +15 points

Don't let the door hit you on the way out

16 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Your Unofficial Guide ... · 1 reply · +3 points

Burt Gummer High School!

Loved how Slither had a ton of references to other movies in it. Truly underrated.

17 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Interview: 'Tucker and... · 0 replies · +1 points

Tucker & Dale go to the big city and get mistaken for Scream/Halloween slashers?

"Those two move in, and suddenly people are getting killed!"

18 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Firearms in Pop Music:... · 1 reply · +4 points

Wolf -Iced Earth (also works for Halloween). "A shot from the darkness, tears through his flesh, a bullet of silver, lays him to rest."

Click Click Boom -Saliva. Just... Yes.

44 Minutes -Megadeth. A reminder of the destructive power that a gun grants who uses it. "...Till SWAT arrived, and settled the fight, between AK-47's and AR-15's."

18 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Interview: 'Tucker and... · 0 replies · +6 points

I saw it and liked it. It was great because of the role reversal. Plus there is a scene involving a free chili dog coupon in a cabin that used an old gag that I love everytime I see it.

21 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Gaming hasn't been "kid's only" for about 15 years now. Film has everything from easy-going family events to stuff like The Godfather. Gaming is no different. And tread lightly John. Remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU

Lead to...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/television...

Important part quoted at length

"Asked on the air by Geoff Keighley of Spike TV whether she had ever played the game, Ms. Lawrence laughed and said, “No.”

Irate gamers have flooded the page on Amazon.com selling Ms. Lawrence’s most recent book, “The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace With Your Inner Overachiever,” sending its user-generated rating into oblivion.

By Friday afternoon 412 of the book’s 472 user reviews were the lowest possible rating, one star.

23 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Why Superhero Films Ar... · 0 replies · +2 points

I think in a weird way, the Green Lantern situation is a part of the reason why Scott Pilgrim failed. In Fight Club they railed against the image of the Calvin Klein pretty boy, well I think the lack of success towards GL & SP is in part a rallying cry against the image of the slacker-hero. Not having a slacker be the main character, just the image of the slacker -hero-.