@chad: I could have struck up the opportunity to give him an immature name like Assface or something when I was younger. I forget what I used to call him...

@crow: Ridiculous and overpowered.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:12:09 PM by TheFreeman

Well, the antagonists are strong-willed and competent, particularly Juror #4, and they're won over by argument in the end.

Well, with Juror #3 it isn't so much argument as, well... Juror #3 is hard to explain.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:11:41 PM by Pannic

What was that other courtroom film you reccomended? I think "you can't handle the truth" came from it

edited 18th Jun '12 5:11:39 PM by gingerninja666

It's... I don't know quite how to describe exaclty what I dislike about 9. Because to a certain degree I do like it... I just don't like it enough, I guess.

9 was what I always wanted in a movie as a teenager - a very dark, very adult animated film. I wanted it to be as good as it could, and while it does things right, it ultimately wasn't enough.

The story in it ultimately ends up being very pointless. All that's really accomplished is dwindling the numbers of the 9, despite the movie's implication that life returns to the planet, which a moments thought will tell you would not work, since all that ever happens is it rains. Woo. The earth has still been burnt and salted, and most, if not all, like is dead. There's no real room for regrowth there. At the beginning of the movie the 9 have a single enemy that they're easily avoiding, but thanks to the rock-stupid protagonist over half of them die before they can return to essentially the same place - especially when you consider that the one enemy they had at the beginning would have been killed by 7 soon enough anyways, well before it would have done any major damage to anyone. Hell, even 2 might have made it out alive if it weren't for 9.

So in the end we get a circular plot in which nothing is resolved except for murdercating half the last living things on the planet, and the vague and silly promise of hope that a moments thought denies. The art and animation is gorgeous, the concept is fantastic, and the original short was beautiful. I wanted so badly to like 9, but I just couldn't. It had so much potential and it just fell on it's face. I was in fact SO dissapointed by 9 that I consider it the main reason I have any taste in movies.

A Few Good Men?

A Few Good Men.

In general I like a lot of Aaron Sorkin's films - A Few Good Men, The Social Network, Charlie Wilson's War, Moneyball...

edited 18th Jun '12 5:12:33 PM by Pannic

Ah, Twelve Angry Men.

One of the random things I remember is that John Fiedler is in it. Juror #1, I think.

@Pannic Was Juror #3 the "You know how kids are" Juror?

edited 18th Jun '12 5:13:42 PM by crowlover

@Kegisak: That entire post almost perfectly describes how I feel about Journey.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:13:06 PM by Bluespade

Social Network. Now THERE'S a movie I had no interest in seeing

It rains soul juice that was activated by the death of several of the humunculai.

At least they didn't have to fight over who was going to power the device.

The kid shouted about the obstacles he'd overcome, but his father was unimpressed.

@Blue: Huh. Ironic, since I actually found the ending to journey to be extremely fulfilling.

But that's such an arbitrary ending, and the talisman was never implied to have any sort of power to that degree.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:15:06 PM by kegisak

Yeah, I don't expect you'd like The Social Network.

Yeah, Fielder is in it. He plays Juror #2 and the part fits him like a glove. That movie is really amazingly well-cast. And yeah, Juror #3 was the angry father.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:15:01 PM by Pannic

@Kegi So 9, to you, is like TTGL to Ginger? Makes sense. It certainly wasn't perfect by any stretch.

In pony related news, my brother has been looking up the show on Tv Tropes. I think he's fascinated since he's starting to discover that Bronies are kind of a big deal. I don't think he's actually interested in watching it though, but I have been thinking about letting him know I'm a fan.

Words written today: 837. Considering taking a break.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:16:55 PM by Bluespade

Hopefully he'll see the light.

Your elder brother?

But we didn't know what the function of tailsemn was at all, other than the message said it'd fix the situation right?

edited 18th Jun '12 5:18:49 PM by Chadaman99

@Blue Does he have an account here already?

@Lurker (curls up into a foetal position)

shudder, TTGL

I don't really think he'd like it actually, so I've never tried to get him into it. I just want to let him know I like it so I don't have to sneak around the subject like I have been. I already know he won't make a big deal out of it, he's friends with Latenight after all and knows that he's a brony.

@Chad: Yep.

@Crow: Yes, but he hasn't used it since before I even started watching the show. I doubt he remembers his login.

edited 18th Jun '12 5:19:04 PM by Bluespade

I've successfully converted 2-3 siblings to enjoying the show. My parents still find it odd, but they trust me on the subject of cartoons and their quality.

Hmm yeah, but the show isn't for everyone.

They ever sat down and watched it with you and you siblings?

edited 18th Jun '12 5:20:16 PM by Chadaman99

I've converted my sis and one of my friends

edited 18th Jun '12 5:20:20 PM by gingerninja666

My parents know about the show now, but no one else in the family does.

I'm not sure if I want my brother to know about it at this point or not.

My sister watched the first episode but I don't think she's converted.