Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

[Jibar]

Fun fact: Troy holds the wonderful title of being the only film I couldn't watch 'till the end.
Even that non-existed Hulk film I watched 'till the end (Out of hope it would get better... if it existed.)
Troy... no.
It just needs a big error report.

300 meanwhile I like because it fixes a couple of the things I hate in action movies (odd camera angles obscuring fight scenes, any pretense that they're meant to be something serious, lack of beards on protagonists), while being just plain silly.

[CurlyKitGirl]

See. Troy is bad. Now I shall end discussion. Silly film. 300 was fun in a fun way; yet no more watching of it. Not that good. Bearded Scottish Spartan was fun though.

Okay.
So after engaging in a chat with sibling I have come to the conclusion that I wish to talk/rant/wax lyrical about the subject in a sort of wistful, dreamingly demanding fashion.
But I don't know if I should. It's not bad, it's only of dreams of the future.

[Dallas-Dakota]

300 is good.
The point is that you shouldn´t really take it serious. If you do, then it´s a piece of crap.

[UncleWolf]

A really good series of movies is the Tremors series. The second one is my favorite.

[Edge]

You want a good film? Well, despite my normal preference for action, sci-fi or fantasy stuff...

Chocolat is brilliant. Well, at least I think so.

I enjoyed 300, just for the sheer over-the-top stupid heroics of it.

I saw Troy before I read the Iliad. My verdict: decent enough action flim, terrible, heinous adaptation.

Also, I am a chocolate addict, yet I there is no chocolate available in the house. Curses. Double curses. Be thrice-cursed, fate.

[Haruki-kun]

You want a good film?

Good Film?

Oh, mai.... Howl's freakin' Moving Castle. Best thing EVAAARRR!

[InaVegt]

I've not seen 300, it's parody (Meet the Spartans) was rather fun, though.

[Haruki-kun]

I've not seen 300, it's parody (Meet the Spartans) was rather fun, though.

Really? You're the first person I've ever heard say that. Everyone else told me people were actually leaving the theater.

[InaVegt]

Really? You're the first person I've ever heard say that. Everyone else told me people were actually leaving the theater.

Not when I watched it, not that there were many people, and I've never actually seen people leave the theatre.

And, anyway, my sense of humour is apparently quite unusual anyway.

[Thufir]

So, we decided that today, we should get all my uni assignments done in advance, so we wouldn't have to worry about them while we were then getting on with more enjoyable stuff.
[sarcasm]As you can see, it's going great.[/sarcasm]

[Rawhide]

Chalk another one up to the dutch.

WANT

NOW

[Lady Tialait]

Chalk another one up to the dutch.

WANT

NOW

I agree....so agree...

[Castaras]

Howl's freakin' Moving Castle

Spirited Away > Howl's Moving Castle, anime wise

Stardust > all other movies I've watched

*is not a Stardust fangirl* *just really really likes it*

[InaVegt]

I agree....so agree...

So does I.

As far as science and technology goes, the Dutch really aren't that bad.

In fact, the Dutch show a disproportional influence in a lot of fields. I chalk this down to our small sized Agriculture (We have way too many people for our area, food import is necessary, especially as we like to keep our remaining Ancient Woodland, and refuse to build upwards instead of outwards), and industry (Pay is too high), our biggest money sources are as a middle man in trade (Most stuff that goes to continental Europe goes through Rotterdam), and technological advancement (Like Philips, if it has anything to do with electronics, those guys are creating it. Stuff like CDs (Philips invented those), light bulbs, hospital appliances, and well, basically anything but PCs)

[Oregano]

I much preferred Howl's Moving Castle to Spirited Away although both were immensely awesome.

[Haruki-kun]

Spirited Away > Howl's Moving Castle, anime wise

I loved them both equally, it usually depends on my mood which one I mention.



Oh, and yes, Stardust is awesome.

[Lady Tialait]

I really didn't like Howl's or Spirited away....Princess....erm Wolfgirl...AWESOME

[CurlyKitGirl]

*sigh*
Littlest brother has got to be psychic.
He has to be. Every day when he misses his comics (his choice), without fail), and almost always on a Saturday he comes upstairs for a rambling talk/discussion/abuse of wikimapedia/TVTropes/other.
When I watch the comedy show I invariably miss on Fridays - HIGNFY. Plus whatever else that's on late on Saturday nights which is pretty much the only time I have to relax.
How does he do it?
And I drop a lot of hints too.
"Mouse, I'm watching HIGNFY now."
"Mouse, I've not seen this episode before."
"Hey; how do you always manage to come up here when I'm watching my shows?"
He's sweet, really intelligent and loves history; plus he loves BRIAN BLESSED too.
Yet this uncanny ability of his can be mildly annoying to say the least, especially as I was trying to read something else at the same time.

Do you think he is psychic? But I do have to say his reading skill's increased markedly. He stumbled his way through the first paragraph of the wiki article on the Hospitaller Knights and Richards I - III.

EDIT:
@^: You mean Princess Mononoke? I like all three of the mentioned Ghibli films for different reasons, although I'm told Howl's Moving Castle the book is nothing like the film.
I actually just enjoy most Ghibli films full stop. Porco Russo was just freaky though; Nausicaa (sp?) was a bit preachy and Laputa was a bleedin' funny film, same with The Castle of Cagliostro.

[Lady Tialait]

*snip*
EDIT:
@^: You mean Princess Mononoke? I like all three of the mentioned Ghibli films for different reasons, although I'm told Howl's Moving Castle the book is nothing like the film.
I actually just enjoy most Ghibli films full stop. Porco Russo was just freaky though; Nausicaa (sp?) was a bit preachy and Laputa was a bleedin' funny film, same with The Castle of Cagliostro.

Yeah, I did mean Princess Mononoke, it was animated by the same people wasn't it? Seemed like the same style. I really LOVE that story...lady Eboshi is the best.

[Castaras]

@^: You mean Princess Mononoke? I like all three of the mentioned Ghibli films for different reasons, although I'm told Howl's Moving Castle the book is nothing like the film.

That is correct about Howls. But the book is awesome as well.

[Dragonrider]

That is correct about Howls. But the book is awesome as well.

On of my favorite. Books. Ever.

[Castaras]

On of my favorite. Books. Ever.

Diana Wynne Jones is an amazing writer. <3 her Chrestomanci series.

[Haruki-kun]

EDIT:
@^: You mean Princess Mononoke? I like all three of the mentioned Ghibli films for different reasons, although I'm told Howl's Moving Castle the book is nothing like the film.

I read half the book, haven't finished it. Nothing like the film, but that was previously agreed by Miyazaki and Diana Wynne Jones agreed on, that they'd be different stories, with the same basis.

[Phase]

Ah.

Squid are crustaceans.

I believe that cuttlefish have cartelidge, though.

...

Okay, not to be rude, but both statements above are so far off the mark, I nearly gagged. Maybe it's a biologist thing. But I know what I know, and cuttlefish, squid, and octopi are MOLLUSCS! They have no exoskeleton, like crabs. Nor do they have cartelidge! Octopi can fit through holes the size of a quarter! I'm really sorry, but when a post has that many inaccuracies in it, even when days old, I must bring out the light of truth. [/rant]

[CurlyKitGirl]

Diana Wynne Jones is an amazing writer. <3 her Chrestomanci series.

I have to persuade Siblings to buy me some of her books. At least Chrsitmas is in what, six, seven weeks?

[Kaelaroth]

Prokofiev (if that's how ya spell it) changed the ending to Romeo and Juliet. But, apart from that mindnumbing hole of eeeevil, the ballet, a Mark Morris production, I went to tonight was good.

[CMOTDibbler]

Random question.
Does anybody else here like the TV show (now canceled) Teen Titans? Cause' I know I do.

EDIT:
wow, I killed the conversation...

[Phase]

Random question.
Does anybody else here like the TV show (now canceled) Teen Titans? Cause' I know I do.

I liked it. It could have been done better, though.

In other news, I finished Watchmen...

Wow...

Just... Wow...

[Eldpollard]

I liked it. It could have been done better, though.

In other news, I finished Watchmen...

Wow...

Just... Wow...

I'm assuming that's a good wow right? Otherwise you would be dead inside.

[UncleWolf]

Teen Titans was a good series, could have done better, but still decent.
My favorite dead series is Firefly.(waits for rush of fans)