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[TA]

I watched Expelled, with some other people.  It hurt me where I think.

[Kazz]

BRICK is FILM NOIR set in HIGH SCHOOL ok

PRIMER is SCIENCE FICTION set in GARAGES

[Brentai]

MY LIFE is a PORNO set in YOUR MOM'S ROOM

seewhatididthere

[Saturn]

Yeah, it's a Disney movie.

It's still awesome.

And the only serious villain who doesn't have some sort of crippling idiot flaw in Disney is Maleficent.

Jafar is probably second to best as far as the actually meant to be menacing ones go.

Ursula would be cool but she's fat and therefore haha tubby

I guess you could make a case for the wicked stepmother/witch from Snow White, but Maleficent eats people like her as a light snack, so.

does that big demon guy from fantasia count?

[Koah]

Chernobog?  I think he'd get points if for no other reason than the fact that he's the Slavic equivalent of the devil.  Possibly; the guys responsible for keeping track of that sort of thing didn't keep good notes.

No surprise that he and dragon Maleficent are the two best bosses in KH1.  That's not saying much, though.  Or it might be, depending.

[Brentai]

Chernabog is stuck inside a mountain, does absolutely nothing to anyone, and is killed by the sun.

Firebird, on the other hand, is pretty much a living nuke.  Do not wake that fucking thing up.  Unless of course you can reincarnate indefinitely.

[Friday]

Chernabog is cool and holy shit I was super impressed/enjoyed the surprise boss battle of him in KH complete with Night on Bald Mountain, but yeah, what Brentai said.

Shan Yu from Mulan is up there, too. I mean, anyone capable of taming one of the hawks from Ninja Gaiden deserves praise and respect.

[Thad]

It's possible that something's just really eating all my network traffic, but it appears that the new, Silverlight-based version of Netflix's streaming service fucking sucks.  The Windows version is almost unwatchable, and the Mac version is in fact unwatchable.

The Mac version can't keep the audio and video synced; the Windows version can, but does it through a jarringly inconsistent frame rate and some nasty screen tearing.  Both versions drop frames like crazy.

All in all, I understand the switch to Silverlight -- ActiveX is a blight on humanity, and it's nice to have Mac support in theory -- but the current version sucks.

[Thad]

...tried it (the Mac version) again tonight and it worked much better.  Picture quality was lousy but sync was good, and no skipping or tearing.

[Spaco]

The tech support guy at netflix was really helpful when i was having quality issues in tinkering with settings, so i'd try that.

[Thad]

Since this is beta, I'm doubting it's supported.  But that DOES mean there's probably a feedback mechanism.

...actually, a question occurs to me.  Has Netflix switched entirely over to Silverlight, or is the default still ActiveX?  I've only just realized that by signing up for the Silverlight beta on Mac, I may have signed up for it on Windows too.

I'm also curious whether the Silverlight version works on Linux.

[Spaco]

I don't have Silverlight, so I assume ActiveX is still the default. I don't really know anything about Silverlight- does your Netflix still use WMP? That's where most of the video settings the tech guy changed were.

Also, I need anime and foreign film recommendations.

[clutch]

I don't know about all this ActiveX/Silverlight buggery because I have little desire to watch movies on my computer. For the very same reason, Netflix via Xbox is in the running for best thing brand synergy ever.

[Thad]

Yeah, we've got a Mac Mini hooked to the TV as a media box, so we watch very nearly ALL our TV and movies on it.

And I don't have an Xbox.

[sei]

TV... Did we have a compilation thread for online television resources (hulu, comedycentral.com, bittorrent sites, etc.) yet?

[Mothra]

We don't, but there's only really a handful of them. Not sure if it deserves a whole 'nother topic.

[MadMAxJr]

Dead Space: Downfall
Animation is far better than I had expected.  A few of the scenes you can recognize if you've played the game.  The best scene in the entire movie wasn't done, it's in the special features section and you can see the story boards for it.  Mini spoiler: [spoiler]They cut out an awesome boss monster they made up, which is made of pretty much everybody who died up to that point.[/spoiler]

Not bad.  Also contains a fuckton of art stills used to make the game.  Must-rent if you own or plan to play Dead Space.  The last scene drops off right where you come in.

[MadMAxJr]

Netflix queue continues.  Watched these two back to back.

28 Days Later - Really good zombie flick.  For some reason I kept thinking "Wait a minute.  I played this.  THIS IS LEFT 4 DEAD."  British accents make EVERYTHING better.  These aren't just fast zombies.  They're god damned flash-mob zombies.  I bet they all have undead twitter accounts.  Typing in all caps, in very pissed off manner.

28 Weeks Later - While the plot was delightfully twisted, it just didn't have the same enjoyment value.  British accents make everything better.  Stop TALKING U.S. soldiers.  The attempt to exit the city is essentially an Left 4 Dead map that I wish existed.  [spoiler]Escape the horde!  Get past the crazed sniper!  Drive the car and dodge the mist!  Escort the little boy who will SAVE US ALL.[/spoiler]  DVD bonuses on this one were neat.  Two animated comics, one of the events leading up to 28 Days, and one set in days 29 to 32.

[Mothra]

Netflix queue continues.  Watched these two back to back.

28 Days Later - Really good zombie flick.  For some reason I kept thinking "Wait a minute.  I played this.  THIS IS LEFT 4 DEAD."  British accents make EVERYTHING better.  These aren't just fast zombies.  They're god damned flash-mob zombies.  I bet they all have undead twitter accounts.  Typing in all caps, in very pissed off manner.

28 Weeks Later - While the plot was delightfully twisted, it just didn't have the same enjoyment value.  British accents make everything better.  Stop TALKING U.S. soldiers.  The attempt to exit the city is essentially an Left 4 Dead map that I wish existed.  [spoiler]Escape the horde!  Get past the crazed sniper!  Drive the car and dodge the mist!  Escort the little boy who will SAVE US ALL.[/spoiler]  DVD bonuses on this one were neat.  Two animated comics, one of the events leading up to 28 Days, and one set in days 29 to 32.

As someone who is a monumental fag for 28 Days Later, discovering that Weeks was little more than a mediocre gorefest with a shitload of lost opportunities was like some twiggish brit exploding through my ceiling and gouging out my eyes. Started out so well, too!

I've rewatched it twice since the original theater run in the hopes that I missed out on something huge, but aside from some terrorism parallels that're a bit too much of a stretch to really have much merit, it's more or less devoid of anything substantial. The fact that I can't remember any of the cast's goddamned names after three runs is like day and night against 28 Days.

Well, at least Boyle sounds like he's helming the next one.

[Alex]

Interestingly enough, I wanted 28 Weeks Later about three hours ago and it does really feel like a senseless gorefest (not that I have a problem with that, although I did actually avert me eyes when it came to the eye gouging  ).

Fucking rage zombies can SWIM?  What kind of crazy bullshit is that?  I was expecting them to sprout wings at the end of the movie so no human was safe.  And then the ending would lead up to the arrival of the savior of all mankind as pictured below.  No rage zombie would be safe from this mushroom cloud layin' motherfucker.

I finally got around to starting The Protector and wow, so bad that it's really good.  Terrible subtitles?  Check.  Terrible Godzilla dubbing?  Check.  Paper thin and ridiculous plot to justify Tony Jaa causing as much property damage as possible?  Double check!