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Postby dinky on Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:21 am

dammit max. you're trying to give me nightmares, aren't you?

spudthedestroyer wrote:hmmm, i seem to remember disposable episodes, aren't the half-floor story, the brotherhood, king arthur, etc. all from series 2?

nice asides, but unneeded for the main arc.

ugh. just saw king arthur ep. it's s3, btw. and it was stupid. annoying actually. I like arthur mythology generally speaking, but in the middle of b5? and in the midst of heightening tension and civil war? at least the Vir thing with smuggling narn was embedded in the goings on of the previous eps. this arthur thing (was stupid conceptually but) could have been s1 or first half of s2. redemption of the goddamn gunner? smack in the middle of s3 is definitely the wrong place.
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:51 pm

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Postby dinky on Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:48 pm

just about finished with s3 of b5. just watched "war without end" 2 parter. pretty good stuff. time travel paradoxes always make no sense upon further investigation, especially one as complex as this one. but it makes enough "surface sense" to work.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:49 pm

i like b5, haven't seen it in a while, might dl it
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Postby MyK on Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:29 am

"Hot Fuzz" for the second time and it's still bonkersly brilliant. Watched it solo this time round and even noticed some hidden gems in it. Pre-ordered DVD of it and am looking forward to watching it again, prolly some parts in slo-mo ;)
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:47 am

watching employee of the month now (2006)
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Postby Jynks on Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:22 am

dinky wrote:just about finished with s3 of b5. just watched "war without end" 2 parter. pretty good stuff. time travel paradoxes always make no sense upon further investigation, especially one as complex as this one. but it makes enough "surface sense" to work.


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Postby mw2merc on Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:26 am

maxpayne2409 wrote:watching employee of the month now (2006)


Ha ha ha! I have you now. :twisted:
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Postby dinky on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:45 am

maxpayne2409 wrote:watching employee of the month now (2006)

so you chose the one without christina applegate but with jessica simpson. I did not see that one coming.

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dinky wrote:just about finished with s3 of b5. just watched "war without end" 2 parter. pretty good stuff. time travel paradoxes always make no sense upon further investigation, especially one as complex as this one. but it makes enough "surface sense" to work.


it is science "fiction"

yeah. but I'm not questioning the possibility of time travel or alternate realities. it's just that, as one of the characters says himself, b5 is using "circular logic"; the mechanics of time in b5 are more muddled. compare that to the way timeline(s) are treated in back to the future or timeline where the "present" changes only after certain time travel operations are performed. but b5 begins with the premise that the time travel changes always already happened. it's neat. but it doesn't really make much sense, even in the area of sci-fi time travel mechanics. there's nobody outside the loop to initiate it as there is in what I would consider less paradoxical treatments of time.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:08 pm

well the christina applegate ones stuck on 99.8%, so i didn't really have much choice :lol:, plus after seeing idiocracy (which i really really liked) the 2006 eotm has Dax Shepherd in, who was ace in idiocracy
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Postby mw2merc on Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:28 pm

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maxpayne2409 wrote:watching employee of the month now (2006)

so you chose the one without christina applegate but with jessica simpson. I did not see that one coming.


Doh! I saw at a glance but thought he was watching the 2004 movie. The 2006 doesn't look, to me, like it has anything worth watching more than once. The 2004 version definately is, yes yes, not Sci-Fi.
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:50 pm

maxpayne2409 wrote:i like b5, haven't seen it in a while, might dl it


what?
a) you don't have it already?
b) you haven't bought it already?

lame! :lol:


I've watched nothing and played nothing, well pokemon on the train but i ain't gonna admit to playing on that obviously, even if it is probably the best game on the DS. :googley:

I was going to see if i could find some time to watch some dexter, i need to get round to watching American Psycho and i've forgotten what Cannibal the Musical was like so am going to see if i can fit that in this weekend.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:12 am

too busy watching 'Allo, 'Allo series 5, or should that be season 5, as it's 22 episodes long when they sold the series to show on american tv aswell
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Postby MyK on Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:25 am

Is that the one René pretends he's a brother of himself and him being dead?
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Postby dinky on Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:28 pm

spudthedestroyer wrote:I've watched nothing and played nothing, well pokemon on the train but i ain't gonna admit to playing on that obviously, even if it is probably the best game on the DS. :googley:

you just let uncle dinky know when you're ready to go on the grown-ups rollercoaster. ok spudy? :wacky:

kinda surprised you haven't seen dexter. or are you gonna watch it again? I didn't dislike american psycho, but it was a little too over the top for my tastes. definitely prefer the melodramatized version of it with dexter.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:18 pm

MyK wrote:Is that the one René pretends he's a brother of himself and him being dead?


yes it is the very same, classic 80s uk comedy

Dinky wrote:you just let uncle dinky know when you're ready to go on the grown-ups rollercoaster. ok spudy?"


am i the only one who got the feeling dinky partakes in paedophiliac incest in his spare time???
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Postby MyK on Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:51 pm

Wouldn't that imply Spud and Dinky are blood related? Also, Spud would have to be underaged. Scary stuff! :lol:

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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:56 pm

im glad u mentioned the number 23 as i have it on my pc too, gonna watch it now wonder if our opinions will match
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Postby MyK on Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:12 pm

I'll wait with my opinion of it till you see it then ;) Still haven't decided what to watch tonight, I have loads of movies on hold but are predominately non-English so I'll have to find some subtitles for them first. Think I'll go with Sorte Nula (2004 Portuguese Mystery / Crime) that has a nice user comment title on IMDB: "Low Budget Triumph". My cup of tea then ;)
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:30 pm

well i enjoyed it, for a change i didn't see the twist coming at the end

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i thought they were going to go down the "jim carreys wife gets kidnapped and he goes off after the killer to rescue her and a fight ensues" road


but yeah really enjoyed it, not enough to watch again but it was a pretty decent flick, although at times the serious acting seemed a little too much for jim
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