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  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    yaaay i got the dreaded page-bottom post

    i guess that's what i get for talking about chocolate movies while i should be working
  • 2005 Veruca is just greedy
    and ungrateful enough to be insufferable, so by the time she’s thrown down the
    garbage chute you’re practically cheering for it.

  • I'm not really keen on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in general (book, movies). Never have been, not sure why.

    However, I have a petty bone to pick with the 2005 version as it uses the line "Hello Starshine, the earth says hello." which is a line from an old song I hate. After the movie came out, I knew a couple people who used that line all the time and it irked me. //soverypetty
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    ^^ EXACTLY.
  • It's the "another" that sells it.
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    I'm wondering if anyone's ever thought of making a film version of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

    Even though I've never read it myself and I've heard it's a lot weirder than its predecessor.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Book-wise, I liked Matilda better than Chocolate Factory, I think.

    Been a very long time since I've read the latter, though...might have to add it to the "To Re-Read" list.
  • Apparently, the 2005 film had elements of Glass Elevator but Burton doesn't want to make an actual film of it. And the '70s version pissed Dahl off so much, he refused to allow a sequel to be made.
  • TreTre
    edited 2012-08-02 15:46:17
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    I'm wondering if anyone's ever thought of making a film version of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.


    Even though I've never read it myself and I've heard it's a lot weirder than its predecessor.
    The 70's one never got Elevator adapted because Roald Dahl was supposedly "furious" about the deviations made to the first book, so he refused to give the rights.

    The 2005 one, they considered it but there weren't any plans past speculation. It's possible but unlikely.

    Ninja'd.
  • CA: Myself, I always enjoyed The Twits, even though it was disgusting and the main characters were some of the two worst people I had read about as a child, and James and the Giant Peach. Matilda scared me because of her powers.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tre said:

    It's the "another" that sells it.

    The whole thing is just so perfect. Her father hands her one of only five Golden Tickets in existence, and what does she do? Immediately make another demand.

    It's so well-played that I think my mother genuinely gets pissed off at Veruca at this point.
  • Book-wise, I liked Matilda better than Chocolate Factory, I think.

    Been a very long time since I've read the latter, though...might have to add it to the "To Re-Read" list.
    God, Matilda. That movie (and the book, for that matter) is like one of the things I immediately think of when I'm feeling nostalgic.

    SOME RATS ARE GONNA DIE TODAY
    PIGTAILS? ARE YOU A PIG?
    SHOTPUT
    JAVELIN
    HAMMERTHROW
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I liked Matilda for two reasons: (a) I could totally relate to the whole not-feeling-properly-challenged-by-school thing (I read this book shortly after skipping first grade :P), and (b) having telekinetic powers was (and is) a long-held fantasy of mine. As is being female, but that's a whole other post.

    The point is I saw myself in Matilda and I thought it was cool that she got the powers I wanted.

    Oddly enough, though, I've never seen the movie adaptation. I must rectify this sometime.
  • The book is different from the movie but both are good. The movie used to air all the time on ABC Family, so I remember it a bit more fondly.

    It's also very quotable.
  • Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    I've both read the book and seen the movie of Matilda. However, it was at a time in my life when I didn't understand the concept of making changes in adaptations. I was exceedingly confused that the movie was American while the book was British. Derp.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Time to head home, guys. See you in an hour or so, depending on whether the I-670 construction is kind to me today. :P
  • TUMUT CREW REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tumut
    There weren't great glass elevator elements in 70s chocolate factory.
  • New Cloudkicker out TODAAYYYYY~
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

    lunch time

    hooray for delicious homemade waffles! ^-^

  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    This just in breaking news

    waffles have been directly linked to acne outbreaks and poodle-kickers

    Pope declares breakfast pastry "a crime against everything good"

    we now return you back to your normally scheduled thread
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm back!

    That was surprisingly painless; somehow even the ramp with one of its lanes completely closed off was moving at a decent speed.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    -kicks a poodle-
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
    Apparently Adrian is a woman's name.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm going to name my daughter "Buttercup Avenue iPhone", just so that when she's old enough to sign up for Facebook and Google+ they'll reject her names for not being "real".
  • The sadness will last forever.
    I dont like guys.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Hmmm, it seems NBC has gotten over its hate-on for YouTube, as all the Olympic video is hosted there -- even the premium stuff you have to log in to see. I have to wonder if it was Zucker that made that policy, as one of the first things Comcast did after the merger was final was kick his ass out.
  • I don't like girls.

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  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.

    Apparently Adrian is a woman's name.

    YO ADRIAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN
  • lee4hmz said:

    Hmmm, it seems NBC has gotten over its hate-on for YouTube, as all the Olympic video is hosted there -- even the premium stuff you have to log in to see. I have to wonder if it was Zucker that made that policy, as one of the first things Comcast did after the merger was final was kick his ass out.

    Zucker makes me think of the Conan/Jay debacle, which was almost entirely his fault. (He apparently was a college rival of Conan at Harvard's two humor newspapers, and was still bitter about that, hence the whole "screwing Conan over" thing)
  • Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
    gn
  • Night, President ZR.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Tre: yup, that was the main reason. I also suspect that Hulu isn't doing quite as well as its partners would like; even Fox, who I'm sure still thinks YouTube should be tried for crimes against humanity, doesn't seem to have been pulling things from YT as much.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...makes me wonder about the future of linear television again...

    I went and looked at Hulu's Alexa page and right now it's at 62 in the US. It used to be in the top 20, IIRC!
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Wow, really? I hadn't heard much about Hulu in ages, and I knew that several channels were streaming content directly from their sites (including several companies that invested in Hulu), so...
  • edited 2012-08-02 18:16:48
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    ...it's still got higher traffic in the last three months than the websites of NBC, Fox, and ABC have, looking at it. Probably because Hulu has more content, though.
  • I feel like a shit thread. However, lately, I've felt like the more dumb I act here, the more people will think I'm an obnoxious moron and want me to go away.

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    I always thought the covers to the Animorphs series were really bad.
  • Animorphs was a lousy series IMO.
  • Observation: Mythbusters is kinda arbitrary when deciding if a myth is busted or plausible.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Do you ever get the feeling that the guy who does the tornado siren voiceovers every Wednesday just likes to hear his voice echo?

    I mean, he even pauses after each word.

    FRANKLIN
    Franklin...Franklin...Franklin...
    COUNTY
    County...County...County...
    TEST
    Test...Test...Test...
  • Animorphs was a lousy series IMO.

    It's been a very long time since I read the series, but I remember liking them as a kid. Mostly because I liked the concept.

    Apparently, they're available in e-book format. I might check them out again and destroy my childhood nostalgia.
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
  • The covers on the Animorphs got better as time went on. The first one was really, really terrible.

    FM, why don't you like the Animorphs?
  • edited 2012-08-02 19:09:51

    I can't remember, haven't read them in ages. :/


    All I remember in specific was that I only read them because I had nothing else to read on several occasions.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    So I was reading this article about NBC Olympics fail on Bleacher Report, and at the end of the comments is this long, left-field rant about equestrian because apparently the author had said something bad about it.

    I'm seriously tempted to reply "So, what are your thoughts on yaoidressage?" XD
  • i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind

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    cat planet cat planet cat planet

  • I have a  fucking ear infection and it feels like I'm getting stabbed in my goddamn ear drum.

    So OF COURSE my entire household would spend the day being as LOUD AS FUCKING POSSIBLE.

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