Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:55 am

So Spartacus has just ended. The last two episodes are really good, even in the climactic final battle they kept you guessing what was going to happen next. It was so good in fact I'm not sad that they'll be no more episodes. They had a story to tell and they told it, I think it may just be the best TV series I've ever seen.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:00 pm

slowbeef wrote:The coins were massive originally, but the MassiveCoin (tm) bubble burst and they shrank accordingly. I'm holding onto my MassiveCoins though - I'm a true believer and we need to end the Mushroom Kindgom's fiat currency that lets them just mint them any time there's a deficit. Maybe if we cut government spending (do the people really need another bonus area, Peach?) we wouldn't need to rely on question blocks that people - who don't work hard for society - are able to just jump into. Freakin' social parasites. Why don't you learn how to throw hammers like the rest of us?

edit: Also society is not ready for electric karts.

Dectilon wrote:Yoshi really is an allegory for the state devouring the everyman with its taxes and regulations.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:03 pm

Wait, where did those quotes come from?

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:07 pm

Lets Play SMG2:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... enumber=35

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:16 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:22 am

I found that Justice League is on Netflix, so I've been gorging on that yesterday and today.

Got to the episode where Superman "dies." At the funeral, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman are carrying his coffin. It literally doesn't matter that Flash, Hawk Girl, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman's mother are also carrying it. Hell, either of them, or Green Lantern, could carry it all by themselves.

And then they're having a wake with screwdrivers, and Lobo crashes in, wanting to fill Superman's slot.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Apr 22, 2013 4:33 pm

Avoraciopoctules wrote:

Yay Battletoads!

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:00 pm

My wife and I burst out laughing at multiple points in this trailer.

Lookin forward to July.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:10 pm

I'm only on the third episode but I started watching the new He-man series (2002 series) and I'm pretty damn impressed. It's got a pretty good characterization of stories and some nicely stylized action sequences. Some of the dialog is corny but it's definitely catered to a younger audience but it still does a great job.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Fri May 03, 2013 6:44 pm

I wasn't sure how I was going to take The Mandarin, considering that the original is this:

But I got to say: Iron Man 3 nailed it. Ben Kingsley was the perfect Mandarin.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri May 03, 2013 7:59 pm

Also spoiler mumble spoiler spoiler makes the whole "non-chinese actor playing a chinese character" thing much less of an issue

John Magnum · Post by **John Magnum** » Fri May 03, 2013 10:29 pm

The more I think about how they handled The Mandarin, the more impressed I am with how clever they were.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri May 03, 2013 10:36 pm

Especially since they can still give him his alien power rings later

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat May 04, 2013 4:01 am

I myself was wondering "How does a Chinese guy get that accent?".

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun May 05, 2013 8:36 pm

Okay, so unlike you assholes I'm actually going to spoiler my discussion about a movie that's still in its opening weekend.

There was one thing that really disappointed me about Iron Man 3: Pepper survived her apparent death. I don't necessarily think killing Pepper Potts would be a good idea, but I do think that movies need to cut this out. I knew the second she disappeared into the fires that she would be walking back out of it sooner or later. There was zero tension. More movies need to bite the bullet and actually kill characters in the traditionally invincible roles (especially love interests), otherwise the audience will never buy the threat to them.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun May 05, 2013 9:46 pm

There was a possibility that a fire would destroy her body enough for her to die, which is the possibility Tony had in mind. However, as soon as Aldredge came out--with tattoos he totally shouldn't have had anymore--you could safely assume that Pepper would as well.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun May 05, 2013 10:37 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:

There was a possibility that a fire would destroy her body enough for her to die, which is the possibility Tony had in mind. However, as soon as Aldredge came out--with tattoos he totally shouldn't have had anymore--you could safely assume that Pepper would as well.

Fucker got set on fire, like, three different times, and blown up. He shouldn't have had pants any more. I wanna know what those things were made of.

Edit: Mmm-hmm, theses cocks sure are yummy

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Sun May 05, 2013 10:46 pm

At least you tried to spoiler it, Maxus.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sun May 05, 2013 11:45 pm

Even if Pepper had no regenerative powers at all, I'd still have been at least 70-80% certain that she had survived. Because despite the Dark Knight's having the guts to actually kill the love interest, it's still basically guaranteed that anytime the hero's girlfriend "dies," she'll be dead just long enough to inflate the stakes of the final conflict and then turn out to be alive in the immediate aftermath. If movies want to play the "you killed my girlfriend" card, they need to let the girlfriend actually be killed.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon May 06, 2013 12:24 am

OK. I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've read... Wouldn't it have been just as inexplicable for Pepper to actually die because she was infected with the awesome-but-not-really virus?

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon May 06, 2013 2:07 am

Maj wrote:

OK. I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've read... Wouldn't it have been just as inexplicable for Pepper to actually die because she was infected with the awesome-but-not-really virus?

Iron Man 3:

No, because the infusions were in an unfinished state where they had not been accepted yet, which means she had an even greater than normal chance of blowing up. And the "normal" chance, as we saw earlier, was about people blowing up when they experienced stress. So basically, she totally should have blown the hell up when she was exposed to more stress than anyone except the main villain ever survived at any point.

That said, her survival and being a badass were not bad things, it is just that it evoked no tension or suspense to see her hanging over the edge, because we all knew she wasn't going to die, and when she dropped, we didn't change our mind, we just knew she would get up again.

Imagine the same movie, but with her chained up during the fights, or pinned as she was, and then she unlocks her badassery while watching Tony almost get killed. Then she does exactly what she did, that would be just as good without the arbitrary girlfriend kill that no one ever believed was going to happen.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon May 06, 2013 3:43 am

OK. Thanks.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon May 06, 2013 2:34 pm

Jack Kirby, Lord of Light:

http://www.lordoflight.com/art.html

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon May 06, 2013 4:45 pm

Oh yeah, meant to post this when it went up: my review of Iron Man 3 for the school paper.

infected slut princess · Mon May 06, 2013 8:11 pm

I thought Iron Man 3 was a horrible film. The Mandarin should be a hardcore dude who can shoot energy blasts and punch Iron Man so hard his armor breaks. Instead, he's just

some regular guy who sucks.

Fucking dumb. Iron Man never fights anything interesting in the Iron Man movies.