Hey, Baby Geniuses was very big at my school a few years ago .dextorboot said:I thought that was Baby Geniuses.
Hey, Baby Geniuses was very big at my school a few years ago .dextorboot said:I thought that was Baby Geniuses.
Ahem, may I point to my illustrious rank.
BTW: The picture avatars are missing, I can only see a link like "Delance's Avatar". Were they disabled?
BenoitBrunet2 said:solid 5 on its own merits. 3-3.5 when one considers it as part of the established WC Universe (major points off for giving Blair a jedi-esq superpower).
Yeah, hence my Indiana Jones reference. However, the way it is right now, Tomb Raider is all about getting as much detail as possible into polygonal breasts... which is something that just doesn't translate too well into movies (unless you're going for the X-rated market).Bandit LOAF said:This is a personal aside to the important work of yelling at eachother about Penny Arcade that we have to do here, but I've long believed that Tomb Raider is just about the most untapped-potential franchise anywhere. The character is an amazingly fun idea that, if developed properly in the supporting material (comics/novels/movies), could be a lot better than it is now.
No, I wasn't - but that's not because they couldn't be done well. My point was that your average Bruce Lee film has no more narrative than Mortal Kombat did - and in fact, Enter the Dragon is a movie all about a fighting tournament.Edfilho said:I don't really know what are you talking about, but did you really expcet a great movie out of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter? Were you actually surprised when they turned out to be absolut crap?
Right. Ultimately TR was a game series, and games rely on other things than a story - but the people that make game movies don't seem to understand, and as a consequence we end up seeing stupidly-long action sequences that look like they've been taken straight out of the game, while the storyline is left as primitive as it was in the game.Well... I meant that the TR games aren't really focused on narrative, are they? It is possible to make a good movie out of ANY vague generic premise, I was refering to the games as source material. Sure, Indiana Jones rocks a lot, but the stories in TR aren't as good...
Correct me if I wrong, but I thought Chris Roberts did the scripts for all the FMV in the games, but he didn't write the script for the movie?
You bring up an interesting point. Everyone seems to bash the movie because it didn't capture the feel of the movie. Perhaps Chris Roberts should have made the movie less of a cheap Star Wars knock-off and more about what made WC great. It was a story about normal people in extrodinary situations, not about a Jed...I mean Pilgrim superman.
People also like to forget that Angel is apparently also able to do all of this since she is also originally sent out with Blair to make the jump. My memory may be a little fuzzy (someone will have to correct me if I'm wrong) but Blair does not turn off Merlin, Merlin keeps advising him on jump coordinate changes as he closes on the quasar.BenoitBrunet2 said:As his ship hurtled towards the jump-point, he turned off his navigational computer (against objections), and felt his way through the calculations, relying upon his own uncanny abilities to fire the torpedo right into the exhaust vent... I mean, to select the correct jump coordinates. The explanation Paladin (surprisingly French) provides for Blair's abilities goes far beyond merely "being able to do math fast."
Oh right; fair enough. Apparently I misread your initial comment; sorry about that. Anyway...Bandit LOAF said:Far be it from me to bring any sort of fact into this discussion, but a quick shift through the last thirty pages of archived news seems to indicate that exactly what I'm saying is true: the one with the horribly pretentious writing style that I'm complaining about ("Tycho", apparently) always writes the top news update.
Ah. I was expecting this. I'm not really angry or offended... It's just that you stated as fact an opinion which I completely disagree with, so I retaliated. Ban away if it makes you feel better (really: whatever. I'd say it's a poor reason but hey, it's your forum).1: I'm going to give you some advice that my own mother gave to me: stop being an asshole or you won't get any cake. And cake is a metaphor for me banning you. I'm sorry if I've offended you by daring not to like one element of the website of an online comic strip, but it's no reason for you to explode.
The point I was trying to make is that "I'd amassed a certain affection for the culinary arts, that is to say, the construction of the edible" is so much more fun than "I enjoy cooking!". You don't honestly believe he takes himself seriously, writing like that? If you do you've kind of missed the point. I talk like that with my friends sometimes; it's fun trying to be as obscure and inventive as you can. Nobody sincerely believes they're any more intelectual for it. It's a difference of opinion; you think it's pretentious, I think it's hillarious.2: The link you provided is an excellent example of *exactly* what I'm talking about. Quote your link: "I'd amassed a certain affection for the culinary arts, that is to say, the construction of the edible" instead of 'I enjoy cooking!' There's the thesaurus/pretention crap that I'm talking about -- it's the sort of thing that was probably cute once and got enough of a response that he turned it into his regular style. It seems like fingers on a chalkboard to me.