Manic Webb

*waits for PT to see the movie and say everything wrong with it* What's funny is Revolutions is what I expected Reloaded to be; a war. I expected Revolutions to be what we're all wondering about; what happens after the war is over? Let the spoiler tagging begin... (The Positive) [spoiler]I liked the fight scenes in this movie. Neo sat out most of the fights, so we weren't bored to death. I mean, Neo's fights in Reloaded were boring. We knew he was going to beat the Agents, Miroginvian's monster squad, and the 100 Smiths. This time around, we got to see a lot of fights in Zion, and we had no idea who was going to live or die. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I was hoping with every fiber of my being that Zee and Link got to see each other again. I liked the scene at the train-station where Neo ran through one part of the tunnel, and came out in the same place. Felt like a classic slap-stick/cartoon gag. I laughed. We finally get a better understanding of the limits of the Oracle's power. At first, we're led to believe she only tells you what you need to know. Turns out she really doesn't know the end-result of any of her predictions. I was also surprised by her latent power. When Smith assimilated her, he gained all of the powers Neo had, and then some. I guess it had something to do with Oracle's importance to the system. She's been called the "mother" of the matrix, after all. The new actress was alright. She had big shoes to fill in only one movie, but she pulled it off really well. She gave this feeling that Oracle had a new attitude toward everything, now that Neo has defied the Architect. Like most of you, I wasn't that upset at Neo's death in the end. Trinity was gone. I just couldn't see Neo living the rest of his days without her. I did like the real-life fight between Neo and Smith. Like it was said earlier, the blood in the fight gave us a good idea on the physical differences between the matrix and the real world. Nobody bleeds in the matrix. Not that badly. It also reminded us Neo was mortal.[/spoiler] And now for the Negative... [spoiler]What the hell?! Neo's connection goes beyond the Matrix and into the Source, and allows him to control the machines while outside of the matrix? WEAK! Sure, it allowed him to go into the Machine City, but we honestly could've done without that entire aspect. I'm so upset that I predicted the ending. Based entirely on the quote "The program Smith has grown beyond your control" from commercials, I figured it all out. I guessed Neo would use himself as a sort of anti-virus, killing himself and restoring all people & programs within the matrix to normal. How in the hell did I guess that? In Reloaded, Oracle implied that Neo had "the sight;" that he now had visions of the future. Apparently, those visions only applied to Trinity's fate, because Neo still had no idea what was going to happen. The fact that it all disappeared seems... stupid. For the longest time, I thought Oracle's predictions were the result of her omniscience within the matrix, combined with the ability to calculate the two most probable outcomes of extreme situations. That was my theory. I was wrong. Whatever Oracle is, her visions go beyond the confines of the matrix, which doesn't make much sense to me. She knew Niobe would have the choice to give Neo her ship. How? It makes little sense to me. I'm trying desperately to figure out what that little Indian girl was. She took credit for the sunrise after Neo defeated Smith. However, earlier in the movie, she was being smuggled into the matrix because she was a program with no purpose. Also, although I liked the fact that the Indian family at the train station showed that programs can feel emotions just as potent as any human, that annulled what was said in Reloaded. Ok, so maybe the Architect is too obtuse to grasp the concept of emotion. What about Persephone? She longed to feel emotions like humans do, because she couldn't feel them on her own.[/spoiler] Anyway, I liked the movie. A had a problem with a few parts, though. It was essentially a war film, and it pulled that aspect off well. It almost makes up for the disappointing taste Reloaded left in my mouth. You know, like a glass of water. The taste is still there, but it's weak enough to ignore it. All-together, it's a good series. The first film could've stood on its own, but Reloaded needed Revolutions. When put together, it turned out to be a decent story. Combine it with the Second Rennaissance and The Final Flight of the Orisis, and you've got a really good story. I just wish I didn't have to see it in so many parts.

At the risk of repeating what others have said... [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by TheGodlyME [/i] [B]Also; fine, there is a racial diversity in american animation, but it is to APPEASE the minority of the country and try to convert EVERYONE(you know, we used appeasement against the NAZIs and you can see how that turned out). In *most* anime, the cultural diversity is to show the point that there is a general cooperation between races or that there is more than just ONE country involved in the story. It could also just be that CRAZY sense of Japanese logic that there would be other races mixed in with the populous.[/b][/quote] Anime use diversity to show cooperation between races? Yet American cartoons still have 10 times as many black characters as any anime. American animation may or may not only use minority characters to "appease the minority" viewers, but it's still a hell of a lot more diverse than any anime I've seen. In an American cartoon, you might get one white person, one Asian person, one Latin person, and one Black person. In an anime, you might get two Japanese characters, and two white characters. I'm not feeling the cooperation between races when I can't find a decent black person in an anime. Frankly, I'm a little offended by the lack of diversity in anime. [quote][b]Teen Titans was aimed at, get ready for this,TEENS! Hamtaro was aimed at the toddler-12 year old age group. Now you have just compared a kiddie show from japan with a TEEN-YOUNG ADULT show. I feel that this proves my point about just grouping all animation into one category. [/b][/quote] Sorry. Teen Titans features teenaged characters, but the show is aimed for audiences 6-11. Hamtaro is aimed for audiences younger than 6, not 12. I think this proves my point about group animation into the wrong category. I mentioned this briefly in my first post in this thread. Teen Titans is aimed for younger audiences. It might appeal to the occasional teen, but it's a kid's show. If it were aimed for actual teens, it'd be a lot more like Gargoyles or Justice League. And if you think the characters and plots are Shallow on Gargoyles and Justice League, you obviously haven't seen a whole episode of either. What I don't understand is how you obviously know that Teen Titans and Trigun are made for different age groups, yet you compare Teen Titans to anime made for young adults. You won't find complex storylines and well-defined characters in anime made for little kids, either. Teen Titans would be a hollow series if it were made for an older audience, but it isn't. It's made for kids, and it has the elements you'd expect in a kid's show. Scenario... You've been given the chance you animate one of your favorite comic books into a TV series. Being the big anime fan you are, you decide that it'd be cool to add in a few elements that resemble anime. Does this make your animated series an anime-wannabe? Because this is exactly what Glen Murakami did. Does this make Teen Titans a wannabe?

Pan walked out of the Danger Room in a crouched, ape-like manner. He only walked like this if he were really tired. Luckily, his healing factor was kicking in. Who would've known that the Danger Room shut down certain programs just by yelling help? Pan was hoping for someone to come in and rescue him, but the computer defaults worked out nicely. Something bothered him, though. "Where the hell is everybody?" It was bad enough that he was lost in a huge mansion, but there was nobody remotely close to his part of the mansion. He began searching door-by-door for someone who could help him with a ride home. Or at least someone could point him toward the kitchen. One of these doors turned out to be a closet; a large closet. It was filled with extra X-Men uniforms, all in different sizes and slightly varying styles. Pan's clothes were a little worn-down from that accidental training session. He'd just borrow one of the more generic looking uniforms until he could get home. He found one in his size, and ducked into one of the empty rooms he'd seen earlier. [i]I might as well just join these guys[/i] he thought. [i]God knows I've been in their training room and I'm wearing their clothes.[/i]

gasp! Groucho Marx was one of the Marx Brother, classic comedians. There was Groucho, Harpo... and the other two. What were their names? Zeppo and Chico? I don't know much about them. I'm more of a fan of the 4 Three Stooges. Anyway, Groucho is the guy those goofy glasses with the thick eyebrow & mustache attachments is based off of. They made quite a few films back in the early post-vaudville days.

[quote]Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[/quote] Basically, Congress can't make any laws against speech. This means that the legislative government has no control over what you say. All restrictions on free speech come from elsewhere. Lies would be libel and slander. Libel and slander cases are brought forth through lawsuits, and are handled by state courts, not federal intervention. In fact, congress-persons cannot be sued for slander, except for in extreme cases. Basically, you can lie in public all you want until somebody sues for it. Also, an organization or business or workplace restricting your speech is a lot different. First of all, unless you have a government job, your boss is not the government. When you work for a business, you're agreeing to abide by their company policies. Chances are you signed an agreement when you got or applied for your job. If the company policy restricts your freedom of speech, you're free to quit.

I love how an anime fan gets the chance to make a cartoon in anime-style, and they call it a wannabe... That's sarcasm, by the way. The producer of Teen Titans, Glen Murakami, says that the animation and art styles he use in Teen Titans are influenced by both his favorite anime and classic American cartoons. It's not a wannabe. What I don't get is how someone could say an American show tries to be anime, but messes up on some parts. Is there an exact formula to making a cartoon exactly like an anime or something? On top of that, can anyone compare a kid's cartoon like Teen Titans to a kid's anime, instead of a mature anime like Cowboy Bebop? It gets really annoying when somebody says "this show made for younger kids isn't nearly as good as this anime made for adults."

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Punkrockprinces [/i] [B]WTF!What do you mean?:o I'm a newbie:angel: [/B][/QUOTE] How long you've been here has nothing to do with it. If you can't compose an intelligent post with more than a couple of words in it, you will lose membership and be banned. By the way, that reply of yours I just quoted won't fly around here, either.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Chichiri's Girl [/i] [B]It's on after Friends on NBC just so you know[/B][/QUOTE] So [i]that's[/i] when it comes on! I've been watching Scrubs on-and-off for a while now, and I've never actually paid attention to when it comes on. It's hilarious. The characters and the fantasy scenes are really good. Hells Fire, I think you're the only person here who thinks Scrubs is a rip-off of ER. Two shows can take place in an emergency room without being a direct rip-off of one another. When you watch an episode of ER and Scrubs back-to-back, they're almost nothing alike. None of the actors on Scrubs over-act.

Pan was very fast; very agile. Back when his father used to train him, even before his powers kicked in, he could complete the obstacle course in their back yard in three minutes flat. Once Pan's mutation activated; once his strength, speed, and reflexes increased, he completed the course in only one minute and eleven seconds. Pan was trained to handle tough physical situations even before he was sure he'd be a mutant.It's a good thing, too. The Danger Room was nothing like his backyard. There were no tires to run through or hurdles to leap over. There were poles to swing from, however, and that's where Pan found his advantage. Finding things to hang and swing from, Pan evaded everything the room threw at him. Something about the Danger Room exercise excited him, though. Maybe it was his animal instincts. Maybe it was the idea that, no matter what was launched at him, nothing in there was going to kill him. Then he realized that pain is pain, and he was going to have to get out of there eventually. That's when he noticed the window to the control room. The glass was no doubt made of a strong polycarbonate, and wasn't breaking easily. That's when Pan came up with a brilliant idea; an idea so flawless, that there was no doubt it would work. Two small words... "HELP ME!"

I'm just now getting around to posting in this thread, so I'm going to give my general views, rather than address any previous posts directly. First of all, the occupation (because it wasn't offically a "war") happened, and all of the protesting on Earth isn't going to change that at this point. I think most of us can agree that Saddam Hussein was a crappy leader and should have been kicked out of Iraq. My keyword here in "most," not "all." I'm aware that there are some people who think that we shouldn't have kicked him out for some assinine reason. I just want to know why the US [i]really[/i] went into Iraq. There are 3 pro-war reasons I've heard, why Bush wanted to go into Iraq: 1) Hussein is a tyrant, and should be removed from office. 2) Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction" (anyone else getting tired of that phrase?) that he plans on using on either us or his own people 3) Hussein was knowingly allowing Al Qaeda terrorists to reside in Iraq (leading to assumptions that he has connections to Osama Bin Laden) These days, I'm hearing #1 more than the last two, particularly #3. While I'm not denying #1, #2 has yet to be found and #3 has been almost completely forgotten by most people who argue on the subject. Maybe these are good reasons. Maybe they aren't. I still stand by one main theory. We're not being told everything. That's what I think. I think there's some bigger reason for the Iraq Occupation that the general public doesn't know about. There are other countries that are harboring nuclear weapons (that we actually have proof of, to boot) and have tyrants for leaders that aren't fans of the US. Why did Bush and his administration single out Iraq in particular? Why go after them first? This is why I think we're not being told everything.

OCC: Judging by Scott's conversations with other people, I'm gonna assume the interview already passed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pan decided to take a look around the school. Nothing too suspicious. Just a glance at the sitting rooms and the kitchen. [i]This place isn't so bad[/i] he thought. He wandered down a long, dark hallway that had only one door at the end. It wasn't like the other doors in the mansion. The doors were hard, cold, and metal. Not made with three types of wood, each carved and placed together in a pattern that looked like something you'd find in a palace. Maybe he shouldn't have kept going. It's not like what was behind that door was any of his business. Hell, Pan wasn't even an X-Man yet-- assuming he decides to become one. The small control panel near the door was surprisingly simple for something had had to be so technologically advanced. The door wasn't locked. It didn't even look like it needed a code to open at all. Pan pressed the [ENTER] button, and the doors opened. What Pan saw was a vast, empty room. Just as quickly as he entered, the doors shut themselves behind him. He looked for a button the open the doors from the inside, but he couldn't find one. Wherever Pan was, he was stuck there for the moment. Just then, an automated voice answered his question. [i]"Welcome to the Danger Room. Beginning Training Simulation Delta-Phi-7"[/i]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by doukeshi03 [/i] [B]I don't know why people complain about how a pop star is manufactured or not. Sure if the artist wants to break out and do something different let them but just disliking them on the principle of being fake is a bit harsh. Not meaning to sound cliché but it's all about the music. I like loads of stuff that's been 'manufactured', I really liked most of the stuff from Pink's 'Can't Take me Home' album, especially 'Most Girls'. It was just to get her foot in the door, and know she's known she can do what she wants to do, whether people appreciate that or not.[/B][/QUOTE] And let me once again say.. [quote][i]Originally posted by me, Manic[/i] [b]I liked Pink better when she was L.A. Reid's corporate whore.[/b][/quote] I liked "Can't Take Me Home." That was when she was more manufactured, true, but the songs were better than anything she recorded recently. Of course, that's just my opinion.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Epid3mic [/i] [B]I strongly dislike Pink. It's not so much her music being bad per se, but as a person, she is soooo fake. Notice how she only became popular when she picked up her little "rock rebel" persona. Everyone seems to conveniently her hip-hop era. It annoys me how she is just cashing in on this angsty image. [/B][/QUOTE] She touches on her image change a little in her song "Don't Let Me Get Me" and a few people talk about it on VH1's "Driven." The more hip-hop stuff Pink did in the past was more-or-less manufactured. She had little control over her first album, and it turned out to be a hip-hop/R&B hit. However, once she started taking more control over her own music and image, we ended up with an androgenous black-haired rebel. I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I liked Pink better when she was L.A. Reid's corporate whore. Her most recent single, "Trouble," is pretty boring. "Family Portrait" just didn't reach me. "Get This Party Started" was surprisingly generic. Did anyone else notice that Pink and Christina Aguilera are practically the only natural blondes in the pop music scene today, and they've both dyed their hair black? It really makes you think...

As Pan approached the Xavier Institute, he noticed scorch marks on the ground, indicating a recent battle. After a brief moment of hesitation, he walked to the intercom in the front of the school. "Hello?" He said into the speaker. "I'm Pan Carter. Somebody called me yesterday about coming down for a talk." There was no response. "Listen, I really need your help. The way I understand it, you guys are good." Again, no response. Pan became a little impatient. "Hey! I know you got psychics in there! If nobody's by the intercom, I know somebody can hear what I'm thinking. And I'm thinking I'm about two seconds from walking away if I don't get a response! You hear?" Just as he turned and began to walk away, a voice spoke over the intercom. "Sorry to keep you waiting. Come in." It was male, and the accent was either from Germany or the surrounding area. One of the two large front doors opened slightly. Pan slowly walked through, looking around, but unable to see who could've opened the door. [i]God, this place is creepy.[/i] He thought. [i]Posh, but creepy.[/i] [i]I'm glad you like the decor[/i] a voice thought back to him. Pan looked around for where it might be coming from, but no one was nearby. [i]We were going to go for more of a Feng Shui look, but do you know how many of those decorators are scam artists?[/i] [i]And here I thought this was gonna be a boring day.[/i] [i]At the Institute? Stick with us, Pan. There'll never be a dull moment.[/i] [i]Please. Call me Carter. Everyone else does.[/i]

I'm gonna have to ask a few of you to watch the post quality. This was a pretty popular cartoon in its day. Try talking about some of the characters, or episodes, or the movie.

There's another Linkin Park thread here on the first page. Talk about this song in that one.

[color=darkblue]Oops. Saturday, huh? Let me nullify that other post with this one...[/color] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get on the bus, and sit on the school roof. This is what Pan did everyday. Not today, however. Today was Saturday. Pan had gotten a call the night before from Mrs. Jean Summers of the Xavier Institute. The staff wanted to talk to him about helping him control his powers and learning to integrate into society. Pan had no problem with this, to begin with. He looks perfectly normal, and his powers could easily be misinterpreted for good old fashioned ingenuity. Still, he left his aunt's house and started walking. She wasn't much of a cook, so it was probably best that he get a bite to eat along the way. Besides, it was a long walk to that secluded mansion just outside of town. He would probably need to pick up a bottle of water and a few snacks for the walk. [i]What the heck was I thinking?[/i] he thought to himself, [i]They offered to send their teleporter, or someone with a car. Did I accept? Noo. I just had to walk the whole way, didn't I?[/i]

*sigh* There's already a thread to discuss The Matrix. Go to it. Post in it.

Linkin Park has the second most rap influenced rock songs I've ever heard. The Aerosmith/Run DMC team-up being the first. I think we can all agree on two things here. That there are obviously a lot of people our there who like both rap and rock, and that 50 Cent is not the personification of rap music.

"Carter!" said a mysterious voice. "Carter. Wake up!" Pan Carter woke up to the sound of a fellow classmate shouting in his ear. He had fallen alseep on the schoolbus. The ride from the bus-stop on his street wasn't far from Bayville High. In fact, Bayville wasn't a very large town at all. It didn't matter to Pan, though. He was raised in a small town. What bothered him was how much more dangerous Bayville was. With both the X-Men and the Brotherhood going to his school, there was a lot of tension in the air. Maybe it wouldn't bother him as much if he actually knew what it was all about. Nevertheless, Pan stood up and exited the bus. He was a loner, perhaps by nature, but he still longed for company. He didn't have any real friends. Only members of the Brotherhood and X-Men he'd talk to on occasion. He looked around for one of them, but to no avail. However, he did catch a familiar scent. After another good whiff, he realized the scent was a few days old, lingering from Friday afternoon the week before. There was a good half hour left before school started. Pan found a corner outside where nobody could see him. Using the pipes and a few ledges, Pan scaled a wall and climbed onto the roof. He set his watch's alarm to go off in twenty minutes, and sat against the back of a ventilation fan. This was his favorite place to be. None of the human students knew he was a mutant yet, and unless someone saw him scale the wall everyday, none of them ever would. Like all mutants, Pan wishes humans were more tolerant of their kind. Maybe the humans of Bayville were a little more tolerant than they were when mutants first emerged, but there'd always be friction. The two primary mutant teams of the town both had their own ideals on how mutants should exist peacefully in Bayville, but that wasn't why Pan was here. Pan needed help. Pan needed his parents.

Of course, if you don't want this thread to be closed for spamming, you all should also say [i]why[/i] you'd want those songs on your mix CD.

Now that's comedy. I just hope he doesn't kill the Mod 88 along the way. :p

I looked at the title of this and thought "Has PT been watching I Love The 80s?" Sure enough... I saw this movie a long time ago. I think my mom had it on tape (like she did with many movies of the 1980s) and used to watch it all the time (as she did with every movie she had on tape). This movie disgusted me then, and the clips from I Love The 80s disgust me now. Thinking back, his transformation in personality from man to fly was interesting. For every piece of him that fell off, a little bit of flyness got into his behavior. And no, I don't mean "flyness" in a good way. :rolleyes: Obviously, his teleporter needed some serious tweeking. The presence of something as small as a fly corrupted his own DNA. Can you imagine what would've happened if he was eating a ham sandwich while he was testing that thing out? Part man/pig/wheat/lettuce/tomato, and whatever fatty ingredients mayo is made from. :p

I know these blonde female pop stars are stereotyped as being dumb and ditzy. Truth is, most of them (Madonna, Britney, Christina) are a bit smarter than most of us give them credit for. Not Jessica Simpson. She's actually dumber than I gave her credit for. Some people think it's all an act, and that she isn't really that dense; that the whole buffalo wing actually coming from buffalos bit was a big joke. I've seen Jessica Simpson on the new Twilight Zone. Her *** can't act that well. She's nothing but a pretty face and a bland singing voice. Nick is a pretty face and a bland singing voice, too. But at least he didn't buy over $700 in underwear at an upscale boutique without looking at the pricetags. He's real. He knows what he's doing, and he's not going to hire somebody else to do it for him. Like most of you said, he's a normal guy. It really makes you wonder why almost all of 98 Degrees' songs bit such big wind.

[b]Name:[/b] Pan Carter [b]Code Name:[/b] Recon [b]Age:[/b] 17 [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Apperance:[/b] Pan is 5'4" with a dark skin complexion. He has brown hair, brown eyes, and appears to be a normal human. He is a tad overweight, but very strong. Pan wears loose baggy pants, a t-shirt, an opened button shirt over that, and a bandana. Already a mere 5'4", he seems much shorter because he spends most of his time crouching and bent over. He also appears a little younger because of his healing abilities. [b]Mutation/Powers:[/b] Feral abilities (enhanced strength, vision, smell, hearing) & accelerated healing [b]Originally From:[/b] Northern California [b]Affiliation:[/b] Undecided. Knows of both the X-Men and Brotherhood. [b]Current Location:[/b] Bayville, with Aunt Daphne [b]Known Family:[/b] Damon Carter (father, human), Persephone Dionysios-Carter (mother, human) Daphne Dionysios (aunt, human) [b]Personality:[/b] Pan is the quiet, but up-beat type. He likes to spend his time emerged in his favorite songs, always carrying a portable CD player with him. Because of his feral genes, he's compelled to practice stealthy stalking techniques, making him more of a silent person. Because he doesn't talk much, his peers are often surprised whenever he gives them one of his occasional nuggets of wisdom. Even though stealth is his forte, he still enjoys the company of others. [b]Biography:[/b] Damon Carter knew his son would be different, and warned him that there would be people who fear and hate him someday. Not only was he the result of a biracial marriage of a black man and a Greek woman, but he would be a mutant, just as his father was. When Pan's powers finally surfaced, he was more emotionally prepared to deal with mutant discrimination that any other mutant his age. However, what happened next, no one could have predicted. Pan awoke late one night, to find that his house was being raided by an unknown militia group. They captured his parents, but Pan hid before they could find him. When the raid ended, with Pan left behind safely, Pan saw a vehicle take off with a New York license plate. Seeing this as his only clue, Pan moved in with his mother's sister, Daphne, in Bayville. Pan wants to find his parents, and he has looked for help from both the Brotherhood and X-Men. Unsure which team to join, he often talks to the students of both schools. Both seem eager for him to join their team, but Pan suspects that either one, perhaps both, may have an alterior motive; a reason they either team wants a feral mutant. He gave himself the name Recon, short for reconnaissance, because of his excellent tracking abilities.