The Spectacular Professor

[font="Comic Sans MS"]My handwriting is pretty okay, but I get wicked hand cramps if I try writing that way for extended periods of time. I'd add more to this response, buy I'm trying to be funny and ironic and keep it short so as to prove the point I'm arguing against.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Ohhhh yeeeeaaaaah.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][b]TRON: Legacy[/b] is pretty sweet. Not really much for story, it's a bit predictable and basic, but the visual effects and fight scenes are spectacular, and there's this one character who pretty much stole the show due to being such a magnificent ham. Definitely makes me want to check out the original. I think I'll ask my friend if I can borrow it from him tomorrow.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Otakuboards is so TOTALLY futer.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][url="http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/images/AF1/Air_Force_One_over_Mt._Rushmore.jpg"]This thing[/url]. In all seriousness, though. I am infatuated with Vespa scooters. I'm hoping it's not just from watching too much FLCL, but I'm a huge nerd and it seems like a nerdy thing to drive, so naturally I want one. [img]http://www.chilebkn.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Vespa_19702.jpg[/img][/font]

[quote name='Magus' date='10 December 2010 - 02:50 PM' timestamp='1292021402' post='702609'] I always thought Green Lantern was just lame period (Of course no one is lamer than Aquaman). [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]His power is the ability to manifest basically anything he can imagine into reality. Aside from the mandatory green color and the aforementioned nonexistent weakness, that's pretty much the coolest thing ever.[/font]

[quote name='CaNz' date='10 December 2010 - 02:25 PM' timestamp='1292019921' post='702604'] a color makes a decent weakness... just ask green lantern. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Green Lantern isn't weak to Yellow, that's propaganda. No one with the best power ever would fall so easily to such a lame weakness.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Holy hell, that thing looks like the freakish mutant rodent roach from [i]How I Met Your Mother[/i].[/font]

[quote name='chibi-master' date='05 December 2010 - 03:39 PM' timestamp='1291592380' post='702406'] Agreed. For example, in the animated series, it doesn't take 6 earthbenders and a crapload of stomping and arm waving to move one clump of dirt slowly across the screen. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]They did that so they could preemptively nerf Toph. How else do you expect them to explain why she can't singlehandedly wipe out the entire M. Night Shamwow wussified Fire Nation Army and their crippling need to carry lanterns around?[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][url="http://manhattaninfidel.com/2009/06/15/grinch-files-lawsuit-against-whoville/"]'Tis the season[/url]. They all ought to be ashamed of themselves. Did they ever stop to think that maybe he wouldn't have felt the need to invade their homes if he wasn't subject to such heinous discrimination?[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Right, time to clarify some points. This movie has been in development for a [i]very[/i] long time. It has been completely revamped several times, and each version was screened for test audiences. Yes, the final product is probably more action-oriented than the original concept, but it's also very reminiscent of the Silver Age of Disney. Just think of it as Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, but with a bit of Aladdin thrown in to round out the target demographic. As for it being a Shrek-type parody of the genre, it's not. At all. This film plays the fairy tale aspect about as straight as it gets. Sure, there's humor, but none of it actually derives from self-awareness or poking fun at fairy tale cliches. As far as the film is concerned, nothing about its setting is out of the ordinary in any way (except perhaps the swordfighting horse bit, but that's minor and forgivable). Most of the humor derives from some combination of Rapunzel's naivete and Flynn's world-weary snarking. It's not all humor, either. There's plenty of drama and romance to be found as well, just like any other Disney princess movie. The advertising plays up the humor a lot, of course, but let's be honest, when was the last time a trailer for a Disney movie actually represented what it was trying to sell? That's what screwed [i]Treasure Planet[/i] over, why should it be any different here? Is [i]Tangled[/i] perfect? No, but it's another step in the right direction along with [i]The Princess and the Frog[/i], and since this one is actually making a very impressive showing at the box office, we can at least hope that the return it's making will signal Disney to produce more of this kind of thing.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Glad I'm not the only one who's sick and tired of every battle ending with FINISH HIM - DIPLOMACY. It also happens to make less sense that you have to talk them to death when they're not even attacking you of their own free will. That's like setting a ventriloquist's dummy on fire because the guy with his hand up its rectum insulted you. Kishi seems to be living in some bizarre idealist parallel universe where the Civil War was won two days after beginning with absolutely no casualties when Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant decided to go grab a cup of Joe and talk it out. Ironically, in such a universe, people like Sasuke shouldn't logically exist.[/font]

[center][img]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8166/tangled0.jpg[/img][/center] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Disney takes on Rapunzel. Discuss. Very reminiscent of classic 50's era Disney movies, such as [i]Cinderella[/i], but with a definite touch of 90's high adventure Disney a la [i]Aladdin[/i]. Great soundtrack, as can be expected of Alan Menkin. It's not his best, but it fits the feel of the movie really well and it gets stuck in your head just as easily as anything else he's produced. Flynn is an absolute hoot, and I really love what they've done with Rapunzel herself. Rather than doing the traditional thing Disney does and make her look refined, adult and traditionally beautiful, they opted to just make her over-the-top adorable. She's somewhat short, has a rounded face and huge eyes, extremely energetic, slightly unsure of herself and tends to trip over her own hair a lot, which is probably not difficult when there's 70 feet of it trailing all over the place. Despite all this, she manages to handle herself well enough in a fight and uses her hair to pretty good effect as a makeshift rope. But I ramble. Don't wanna spoil it for anyone, so I'll just cut off here and let you all talk among yourselves. Overall, I loved it and hope it's current success can get Disney back in the studio and possibly set them into the mood for another official Disney Era. But then again, [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzunMrHka8c"]What can I say for myself[/url]?[/font]

[quote name='Sangome' date='29 November 2010 - 06:11 PM' timestamp='1291083119' post='702272'] [color="#9932CC"][font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]Oh, so you're smitten with Mandy Moore's lisp now, huh. I see how it is [/font][/color] [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]You still have the whole package, sweetiepumpkin. ;D[/font]

[quote name='Shinmaru' date='29 November 2010 - 06:37 PM' timestamp='1291084667' post='702274'] Surely he can't be gone. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Sadly, he is. And don't call me Shirley.[/font]