okay if you were someone approaching the base I was guarding in the dead of night during wwii i would let you in but i'd be reeeeeeeeeal suspicious about it

like way past squinting

I would either double down on my The Wire reference or switch to Hairspray to throw you off the scent

2007 Hairspray, I haven't seen the original

I'm not interested in a possession charge, I'm a murder cop. Good morning Baaaaaltimooooore

trust me that joke is killing with the subset of posters that are wire fans and also into camp broadway musicals

Hello, how is everyone? I doubt if anyone remembers me, I never made much of an impact here lol but I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to say hi

Hey, welcome back! Take off your shoes, stay a while.

HELLO I REMEMBER YOU from Vuvuzela's ten second collab #2 which is memorable to me because it was the first Clock thing I worked on awwwwwye you did a BrodyQuest

The only day I’m confirmed to be off work this week is Monday and the barber is closed on Monday which means I’ll have to go before one of my evening shifts at some point but like it’s 9:30 and I’m lying in bed thinking about the steak I have in the fridge for dinner and getting up and getting showered to go get my hair cut feels like way too big of a run around when I’ve got work in the afternoon

That is a common enough feeling that we need a word for it in this language. I'll trust you with this task

Lethargy

I'm hoping to get a flowbee for Christmas, so I can cut my own hair at home.

for as much of a misfire The Hobbit trilogy was, the Misty Mountains song sticks out to me as a high point

partly because reading it as a kid the songs were consistently the most boring part of Tolkien's writing (plain text: not the most vivacious medium for music) and after rankin and bass translated them so literally as lilting folk songs I didn't think they could be made to be not lame

anyway I found a 7 and a half minute version on YouTube and I put it on while studying, and I heard this part as "far over the misty mountains grave/to dungeons deep/and caverns Dave" and now I can't stop laughing at the idea of caverns that are very Dave

When you look at the hobbit trilogy as a whole it’s hard not to think of it as a great big pile of shit, but when unexpected journey came out, it left me very optimistic for the whole affair. The music was, as you’ve said, damn good, to my mind everything in the shire was spot on, and riddles in the dark is nothing short of phenomenal. There were niggling doubts from the onset like the dwarves all looking I'm a edgy teen, rhadagast, and the trash ending with azog, but again walking out of the theatre from that initial viewing- it was a good experience, as I recall.

Battle of the Five Armies essentially killed all enthusiasm I had for high fantasy to this very day. Bonus features on the extended edition DVD set were very insightful into what a disaster production of the trilogy was, so I’d recommend those if you haven’t seen them already.

I think I've said this before and obviously you guys have perfect recall when it comes to my posts, but as much as I liked LotR, the world itself seemed a little boring to me in the movies. Like when I read those books I imagined the "regular" world as Fangorn Forest in the movies, and Fangorn Forest and Mirkwood or whatever as movie Fangorn Forest on steroids. I'm talking flowers growing on shrubs going on trees growing on other trees growing on thickets or some shit. So I was really excited when Benicio Guillermo del Toro was attached because I really like the detail in the locations of his movies, especially in Hellboy 2. The word ornate springs to mind. I know that this dude didn't personally decorate each and every set by himself, but I can credit him with the overall feel, why not? (Weta and whoever the fuck.) Although maybe it was a conscious decision to ground it more in reality or whatever... And I can't remember much of the feel of the Hobbit because I've only seen those flicks once and my main memory of it is me being annoyed throughout.

I found a picture of this shot, which does seem gorgeous though:

Even though the coarse, wavy design of the bridge looks dumb when compared to the fine carving of the actual entrance. Like is that supposed to be rocks or bricks? The arch itself is nice but then there's this runny cake on top. Get it together people.

Everybody quick! Get across this melted fucking Snickers bar of a bridge!

Quote from: GreyClock on December 17, 2017, 05:01:40 PM
So I was really excited when Benicio Guillermo del Toro was attached because I really like the detail in the locations of his movies, especially in Hellboy 2. The word ornate springs to mind. I know that this dude didn't personally decorate each and every set by himself, but I can credit him with the overall feel, why not? (Weta and whoever the fuck.)

hell yea

I bought the hellboy 2 art book specifically because of the market scene
iirc he just went to his artist peeps like "whattaya got, give me everything" and just unloaded it all into the set design and practical effects departments

re:lotr I haven't watched it in a while but I remember being underwhelmed with Rivendell, which was just a big bright cliffside city with waterfalls, but very taken with Lothlorien, which was an ominous, liminal place in eerie harmony with the forest

Quote from: Slurpee on December 17, 2017, 05:32:17 PM

Quote from: GreyClock on December 17, 2017, 05:01:40 PM
So I was really excited when Benicio Guillermo del Toro was attached because I really like the detail in the locations of his movies, especially in Hellboy 2. The word ornate springs to mind. I know that this dude didn't personally decorate each and every set by himself, but I can credit him with the overall feel, why not? (Weta and whoever the fuck.)

hell yea

I bought the hellboy 2 art book specifically because of the market scene
iirc he just went to his artist peeps like "whattaya got, give me everything" and just unloaded it all into the set design and practical effects departments

re:lotr I haven't watched it in a while but I remember being underwhelmed with Rivendell, which was just a big bright cliffside city with waterfalls, but very taken with Lothlorien, which was an ominous, liminal place in eerie harmony with the forest

Yeah, the market was exactly what I had in mind. I even tried to find a picture of it to include in my post, but ugh.