KnightWing Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Ted used to be a really great character, back in season 1 or 2. The problem is that the quest for the mother has been artificially inflated because of unwanted and unnecessary renewals by CBS, so Ted has had to waste time with idiot women we know aren't the one, making him kind of a jackass in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Ted is probably the biggest reason why I’ve never been able to get into the show. It’s like they painted a plank of wood to look vaguely human. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I think Josh Radnor is a good actor, but Ted is the least interesting character in the cast. If the show was about him and not Robin and Barney, I would probably be bothered by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 As much as Peter Jackson needs an editor, I'll say this for him, he ditched Tom Bombadil. I'm listening to the unabridged fellowship audiobook and Bombadil is seriously worse than Jar Jar Binks, he's fucking unbearable. Why did Tolkien invent this big fat weirdo who talks only in song and somehow has godlike powers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 It's a philosophical thing. Nature is one of the biggest themes in LOTR, and Tom Bombadil represents a certain philosophical idea within that theme. He's kind of a mindless idiot, but that's on purpose. It's probably not helping that you're listening to the audio book; all the singing must be unbearable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 That's much of it, but it's also that this tool is apparently all knowing and wise too, and appears whenever his name is said to save the day in the most ridiculous manner, like a Morris dancing Captain Planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 He's only in parts of the first book, so you just have to get through those and you'll be fine.. Somewhere in my flat is a Hobbit audiobook, recorded on 5 (or 7) vinyl records and spoken by the (now dead) actor Nicol Williamson. I'm moving in the next few months, so I will be able to find it again. Then all I need to do is find some way to play the records and transfer them to mp3. I remember his Gollum was brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 I've been listening to the Rob Inglis version from around 1990, I really liked his Hobbit and aside from TB his Lord of the Rings is good, although the book itself is bizarrely wandering and aimless when compared to the films. I had to get through 8 CDs before they even reached the house of Elrond, which is like 45 minutes into the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 It's not necessarily wandering, it's just far more detailed. Even if you look at the geography of Middle-Earth, there's a huge gap between Hobbiton and Rivendell, full of a hundred dangers for Hobbits. Furthermore, that first half (up until just after the Council of Elrond) is literally its own book. The Lord ofthe Rings is actually six books, not three. So the Hobbits' journey to Rivendell is meant to be its own story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 25, 2013 Report Share Posted January 25, 2013 I still plan to listen through the whole thing, I've read it before anyway. It's just that when you're listening to it it really hits you how huge it is and how skilled the editing job by Jackson was at the time. I'm watching the extended Fellowship now and there's a lot of extra material hinting at much of the books but it's still lightweight compared to the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Looking at last year's box office data, and noticed that there were 3 billion dollar movies. Avengers and Dark Knight Rises are easy to figure out. I was surprised at the third one. Those Brits sure do love their Bond movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 As a sports movie and as a comedy, Major League holds up really well. However, the Jake / Lynn plot is very uncomfortable to watch.Jake sees Lynn, his ex, in a restaurant, and refers to her as his "wife" even though she's not and never was.He then fakes a phone call to her just to get her attention.Once Jake has Lynn's attention, he practically begs for her to come back. She says no, so he acts like a child and makes fun of her current boyfriend.He says he won't leave until Lynn gives him her number. So she does.The next day (?) Jake calls it, but it's a fake, so he shows up at her work, and procedes to start a fight with her.Lynn reveals he cheated on her, so she doesn't want him back. His response amounts to, "Yeah, but, you know, I have a penis and that's what penises do. Plus, I've changed. Really."Later, under the advice of Willie Mays Hayes, Jake follows Lynn back to what he thinks is her house and lets himself in uninvited.It turns out it's not her place, but her boyfriend's. And they're in the middle of hosting guests.The boyfriend then offers Jake a drink, and the guests ask Jake about his life. He says he once had a dream to settle down with a swimmer, move to Hawaii, and raise their kids to also be swimmers. It's sussed out that he means Lynn.The boyfriend, who's really Lynn's fiancé, shows Jake out and tells him to fuck off.Later, after a game, Jake sees Lynn in the stands and follows her back to her real house, once again letting himself in.Lynn says that she doesn't want to be with him because he cheated on her more than once. And one of those affairs led to a paternity suit. (It was a scam, but Jake did sleep with the woman.)Jake starts to leave, but then he backs her into a corner and they have sex. Thus, Lynn cheats on her fiancé after yelling at Jake for cheating on her.Again, later, Jake lets himself into her place, but she's moved out.However, in the end, not only does Jake hit the game-winning ball, Lynn leaves her fiancé for Jake. The moral of the story: It's okay to have delusional fantasies about your ex, cause fights at her work, stalk her, break into her boyfriend's house, break into her house, and intimidate her into sex because you'll be rewarded with her love and a career highlight. Also, how is Lynn any better than Jake after she cheats on her fiancé? As Shana and I watched it on Saturday, I commented that yeah, the fiancé acts like a cock to Jake, but Jake just entered another man's house because he was following that man's woman home. Jake's lucky the fiancé didn't throw him out the fucking window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Might I suggest that you MAY be reading a little too much into Major League? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 If it were only a small portion of the movie, I would agree. But this is one of two major plots. I'm sure in the 80s this was fine for romantic storylines, but nowadays it's downright creepy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I don't think you're reading too much into it. You have written more about Major League than anyone else though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I now want to see something on race relations in Necessary Roughness, stat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I don't think you're reading too much into it. You have written more about Major League than anyone else though. What's worse, I actually have more to say about it, especially about religion, but that would be reading too much into it. I now want to see something on race relations in Necessary Roughness, stat! With Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia, and Jason Bateman in the cast, I don't see how anything can go wrong. Oh. Oh... Rob Schneider's in it too, I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I don't think you're reading too much into it. You have written more about Major League than anyone else though. Including, I would wager, the writers of Major League. However, Mike is correct. It's startling to go back and watch a lot of 80s or 90s comedies and see just how much of the heroes' behavior would be seen as intensely skeevy at best and horrifically criminal at worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Soul Man exists. The criticism of all other 80s/90s comedies for their moral stance is invalid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Also, didn't Bernie get laid in Weekend at Bernie's 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 However, Mike is correct. It's startling to go back and watch a lot of 80s or 90s comedies and see just how much of the heroes' behavior would be seen as intensely skeevy at best and horrifically criminal at worst. *COUGH*Superman II*COUGH* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 So, Young Justice and Green Lantern are cancelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Fuckin' hell. Cartoon Network and their messed-up spread-out-as-hell air dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 It's not just Major League, in Hollywood when something like that happens it's romantic, when it happens in real life, it ends in jail time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 29, 2013 Report Share Posted January 29, 2013 So, Young Justice and Green Lantern are cancelled. The writing was on the wall with Young Justice. As for Green Lantern, not totally surprised. Still, with the Teen Titans revival and Beware the Batman, at least the DC Nation block will go on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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