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15 years ago @ The Editing Room - The Social Network: Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Armand Hammer: Not just ridiculous, but *named after his great grandfather.* In his shoes, I'd call myself Douglas.
Also, "defeat her seven evil exes" funny on its own, but levels up when you tie it to Eisenberg's master copy, Michael Cera.

15 years ago @ The Editing Room - The Social Network: Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Yes, Rod does some really subtle jokes sometimes, and they're always the best.

Daniel Radcliffe: How many more of these stupid movies are you and I going to have to do?
Richard Harris: Well, YOU are going to do five more.

15 years ago @ The Editing Room - Inception: The Abridge... · 0 replies · +2 points

Even in movies, you can go to "Total Recall" and "Dark City" for the same theme. Or, you know, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." It's kind of a popular concept among filmmakers.

15 years ago @ The Editing Room - Harry Potter and the C... · 0 replies · +1 points

I didn't like Harry in the later books, but I thought that was appropriate characterization. He became a surly, emo teenager. That, uh, happens. It makes the later books more mature, but the storyline and plotting are still stuck in kid-book land. Rowling clearly had a lot of story she wanted to tell, but her mistake was in assuming she had to tell all of it.

15 years ago @ The Editing Room - Harry Potter and the C... · 0 replies · +1 points

It's a little stronger, Lindsey, if you translate it as "Flight from Death." It's still a very silly contrivance that only a children's book could get away with.

15 years ago @ The Editing Room - The Twilight Saga: Ecl... · 0 replies · +4 points

Oh, man. You know far too much about this series if you mention Bree Tanner's spinoff. And ... I know far too much about this series if I recognize it. Promise that you'll use the phrase "cheeseburger of pain" at the earliest opportunity.

16 years ago @ The Editing Room - Avatar: The Abridged S... · 1 reply · +2 points

I'm going to hate myself for doing this, but my geeky essence is rising to the occasion ...

The Hallelujah Mountains are supposed to be suspended by magnetic repulsion. The region generates powerful EM fields, due to blah de boodle gloop, and the superconducting unobtanium in the bedrock levitates in these fields. For water, which is diamagnetic, gravitational attraction acts more strongly than magnetic repulsion (except in certain controlled circumstances).
Looking at the stills, I unfortunately have to give James Cameron credit for explaining the water's origin, too. These boulders levitate well into the cloud layer, and on Earth, clouds do condense into streams on high altitude mountains. In Costa Rica, some forests are so high that they don't actually receive rain, but rather a constant mist from the clouds moving through them. Like Venezuela's Angel Falls, the Hallelujah waterfalls diffuse long before reaching the ground, returning to the clouds and creating a local water cycle.

I spent far, far too much time on this. :(

16 years ago @ The Editing Room - Sherlock Holmes: The A... · 0 replies · +2 points

Dupin's comment relates plenty to the claim "that type of murder mystery didn't come along until later." If, Some Guy, you had read the entire OP, then you would know this. When you rip on someone for being an ass, you need to take ten seconds to figure out what the hell you're talking about. You might get more respect than you deserve by generating complete sentences, too.

16 years ago @ The Editing Room - Avatar: The Abridged S... · 1 reply · +1 points

The differences between the avatars - whatever, man. Think about this: The avatar program merges human DNA and the Na'vi equivalent and creates a hybrid baby. Presumably they have some Judge Dredd quick-aging process, but they're still raising a person, from birth to maturity, in an isolation tank. This person's first experience out of the tank is to be mind-controlled. He is so deprived that when the invasive presence withdraws, he falls into a sleep from which he cannot be roused. People raised to be puppets. Where is the outrage?

16 years ago @ The Editing Room - Avatar: The Abridged S... · 0 replies · +1 points

Re the wireless link to his avatar: It's a good thing the magnetic interference around those floating mountains doesn't interrupt that wireless signal. Shame the humans never thought to use the same transmission medium for, you know, their defense infrastructure.

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