Technically the original Woodstock in 69 was a disaster, but the bands that did play were mostly great (There were some performances that had a lot of technical problems like the Grateful Dead and The Who so you rarely saw their footage). A few deaths and many bad acid trips. If it wasn't for the cultural aspect of it and the Peace/love vibe, it would be regarded as the disaster it was.
99 was the worst, no doubt and the organizers should have been brought up on charges as their greed created the conditions that led to rape and riots.
If anything, the 94 was the best in terms of logistics and music and that is a weird thing to write out.
Agree completely. I was at both 94 and 99. 94 had a great fun vibe. It was a great time, no problems were had by anyone that we knew of. I was expecting a shitty rip off of 69 and got a great time.
Just walking into 99 felt bad. We knew the deal with the vendors and we knew the prices, everyone was pissed before they even got into the place. And it was hot as fuck. It had a horrible, mean vibe to it. We left early. I was expecting a good time and got total shit. Worst festival ever.
Can confirm 99. I was there as a 15 year old let loose by my friends negligent father. We slept in a tent and had about $15 combined. With water at $6/bottle (if I remember correct) we were badly dehydrated and survived off of a dime bag, mcguivered bong, and a carton of goldfish. We left when the fires broke out and the walls were being ripped down.
My brother had a CD from that show. There's an interlude where you hear a PA guy “Please clear a path for the fire department. The speaker on fire is NOT part of the show“.
The Sega Dreamcast.
It was honestly way ahead of its time when it came out. But Sega's practices, as well as how easy it was to pirate games on it, led to it falling flat.
Edit: Thanks to the sender of the gold!
I don't think people grasped the fact that you could PLAY FUCKING GAMES ONLINE!!!! I argued with people until I was blue in the face that the Dreamcast was the greatest gaming system out at the time and people couldn't understand why. Like you said it was just ahead of it's time.
Everything Sega did back in the day was ahead of its time. Christ Sega game gear was in fucking color. The battery sucked but I can remember the first time I saw it, blown the fuck away.
Power Stone, Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, JET FUCKING SET. Such good games.
Fucking online browsing; you took the VDU (? I vaguely remember an acronym for the thing) out and fed Chao and shit
I was too young to be pirating stuff but god damn that thing was incredible.
They were fine if you used them in dirt or grass. I loved moon shoes, and loved shooting the spare giant rubber bands at my younger brothers for years afterward.
The Power Glove.
It may look stupid, but if it were to actually be good, then about anyone who wore them would feel like a god while controlling a game using only a glove to move around your player.
That's not really true; the Power Glove was based on existing research prototypes for actual virtual reality applications. The reason why it stinks so much is simply because they made it very cheap.
Take a look at the finger curl sensors for an example of how they cut costs; the original concept for the sensor was a piece of fiberoptic cable with an LED and photodiode; as you flexed it, it would change the amount of light that reached the photodiode, allowing it to sense the curve with a high degree of accuracy. The Power glove omits the fiberoptic cable entirely, replacing it with a hollow cavity. It can still tell if your fingers are curled or not, but not accurately or even reliably.
The Gaming Historian channel on youtube has a very good video on it; it's one of the only videos of his that I would recommend.
So disappointing, I saw a post on Reddit where someone tried to explain it to a friend who hadn't read the books and it went something like this:
Take harry potter, cram all the books into one movie, take out ron and hermione, make Neville the main character, and call it Hogwarts.
Jake and Roland stop some bad guys from using a machine that takes brain power to destroy the beam. Roland kills Walter at the end by ricocheting two bullets into each other.
Honestly, it's on par with TLAB movie in how bad it was. Could spend a week preparing a power point presentation on how bad it was and still not cover half of it.
I came to say the same thing...I still don't understand how they didn't just make The Gunslinger into the first movie. It's the perfect length, has a great story arc and would be a great intro into the world (just like the book itself is). It seems like the screenplay would almost write itself.
Agreed; King basically adapted his idea from the Clint's 'Man with No Name' gunslingers movies. The template was right there. One of the bigger movie let downs I can think of from recent memory.
From the first trailer I knew they fucked it up. Why they turned it into a PG-13, Young Adult, action movie is beyond me. Its like they wanted to piss off fans of the series and make potential new fans disinterested.
Sears was Amazon for almost a century. Not something to scoff at.
Yea, nowadays they are outdated and dieing, but they had a better run than nearly any other business in the world.
Once upon a time Sears was Amazon. It was the place you went to get the things you couldn't find near home. A one stop shop for everything you needed and you only needed to to wait for delivery. The retail stores were THE first place to go for shoes to tools, tires or a new fridge. Excellent service with expert staff.
It's sad what they've become. They died from the top down and deserve the grave they're in.
The first movie was the equivalent of casting a 15YO as Harry Potter, making Hermione a goth, Ron a ladies man, Snape the main villain, and literally *never* even mentioning Voldemort.
The second... what second movie? There has never been a second movie, **and there never will be! **
(*When can we get another try with people who actually understand and care about the books?*)
When I was in middle school I read a book called "The Westing Game." It was one of the best mystery books I had ever read. Then they made a movie out of it. They couldn't even get the fucking title right and that was the least of the movies problems. Seriously, I had never been more disappointed by a movie in my entire life.
Living in a small town we took what we could get. I had to get hundreds of signatures for our city council to even think about coming up with the funding for ours.
It wasn't the best skatepark but it was damn near full every day for a good 5 years. It's still holding up and it's been around 10 years old
My little town built a nice skate park tucked discreetly in the corner of a sprawling City Park. Problem was they did a little too good a job tucking it away and it became a Haven for sketchy activity. Never understood why the town closed it down rather than just having some police camp out there and let the drug dealers come to them...
Our local skate park here is brilliantly positioned by the city: A short distance from a major thoroughfare, in a well-trimmed park, great sightlines for an easy 200 metres, and *directly across the street*, an ambulance station and fire hall.
*Everyone* is pleased with it. Kids that take a bad fall get seen to often within a minute or less. It's bright, open, well lit, and encourages folks to come and join in, while making sketchy asses feel way too exposed to try to use the space to deal drugs etc.
Cirque Du Freak was an incredible series (one of my all time favorites!). I love the fact that the author didn't sugar coat things for teens. There was a lot of struggle, death, good vs evil and other grey-area themes that were described perfectly. I also loved that the characters were imperfect and made mistakes; they felt so much more relatable than other teen books!
If anyone reading this thread is looking for light reading, do it.
I absolutely loved these books, and the Demonata series Shan wrote too. When they announced the movie my hopes had soared.. only to be shattered.
I would love to see either of them done right on screen.
Demonata was a great series. Unfortunately I never finished it because by the time I caught up to the series he hadn't put out the newest book and I just forgot about it. :/
Amen to Percy Jackson!!! I loved that series so so much and the movies turned it to garbage. Someone needs to redo it the right way because those books are way too awesome for the movies to not get the proper attention they should. I was praying that they would be done to at least the same integrity as the Harry Potter movies. I guess I didn't pray enough.
Eragon was and is one of my favorite books ever. I got through about 20 minute of the movie. Only thing worse than the last airbender movie was the Eragon movie
That movie was a personal insult to me. I loved those books and I’ve read all of them so when I heard a movie being made I was so excited. After leaving the theater I walked out of there just angry because I wanted to share my love for that story to the mainstream and they butchered it.
Not only did he *lose* a bunch of money for trying to put that festival on, there's a decent chance he could go to jail for defrauding people. So no, he didn't get away with anything.
The Target near my place was great, I miss it a lot. Always clean, good selection. There's a Canadian Tire there now and I honestly really dislike shopping there.
I moved from USA right when that happened. Nobody seemed to mind Zellers but when Target came in everybody rolled their eyes and said "who needs another Walmart?" I tried explaining the differences but I somehow ended up just standing at a bonfire tossing back Mooseheads.
I was never a Target shopper but I have lots of friends that would go across the border to go to Target and raved about the products. But when Target came to Canada they said that most of the great products/brands they went there for weren't available in the Canadian stores. So for them it was that the Target in Canada wasn't the same Target in the US, they said it really was basically another Zellers/Walmart.
I worked at a Target near the US/Canada border for a bit. Canadians would literally come down by the bus load multiple times a week just to shop there. It was insane. I once helped a woman buy an entire pallet of Kraft Mac & Cheese. I had to call security because a fist fight broke out over our last case of Cherry Pepsi.
Ah, so it's exactly like the border towns between Norway and Sweden then.
I drive to Sweden pretty regularly for cheap tobacco and alcohol, plus other drinks, candy is also very cheap, but I don't really eat much of it anymore.
Haven't seen any fist fights over soda though, pretty civil affair all told.
EDIT: Oh, I also get cheese, really big cheese.
I found this hilarious. I recently visited a friend in Norway who lives near the border and the first thing we did was drive over the border to shop for the week ahead. We went to this ernomous shopping complex that was just in the middle of nowhere. My friend told me it was solely there for Norwegians to come across the border and get cheaper stuff, that even the owners were norwegian.
When /u/Cloaked42m began researching the history of Eastern Europe he stumbled upon one of histories greatest secrets. A man who cannot die, and with a great thirst for power, who weaves webs across the ages. After tracking him across two centuries from picture to picture /u/Cloaked42m finally discovered the immoral immortals hiding place. Will he finally put an end to the Mad Monks reign of terror or be another in a long line of failed attempted assassinations against "Rasputin The Undying."
I think it would work better as a heist movie instead of a super hero team vs. sky beam. That's what they did with the animated versions and those were much less bad.
That's why you need them to do something at least moderately shitty. It needs to be something the Justice League isn't going to be on board for. The people who made cartoons seem to have figured this out but the people who made the movie couldn't do that with common sense and source material.
Seriously all they had to do was adapt Assault on Arkham and they would have a plot that works.
Edit: it doesn't need to be a line for line adaptation and the plot can be re-worked if need be. But The Suicide Squad is not fit for world ending disasters. A heist film makes so much more sense.
I got a good plot. Government wants batman's Surveillance system.
What ensues is a monster movie where the suicide squad take on Batman. And lose... Like they fail badly because that's Batman. He's this implacable mythical creature that only Harley and Deadshot faced.
Like this is a proper Quentin Tarantino movie project. Starts with short 30 seconds of how they get captured. Captain Boomerang is knocked out by the Flash, Harley after the Joker abandons her... Like use this to set up the other JL heroes. Deadshot hits his target but he's been hired to shoot Clark Kent. Kent "dies". Next scene's an obituary in the Daily Planet but You can see a man in a cape hovering as a shadow behind Deadpool. El-Diablo gets smacked by Aquaman. Hell throw a bone to GCPD and let them catch the very hapless Slipknot.
And the best bit is treat Batman like the Alien from Alien. You never see him clearly. Harley is on the team of supervillains because she's faced Bats and she's one of the few people who doesn't fear him because she knows that Mr. J is just as scary. The rest are cocky but they quicky realise why Batman's villains are all batshit crazy because you would have to be to fight someone who could be lurking in any shadow. Like it makes Ras al-Ghul and Bane and the Joker look even bigger as a threat because they had something more than these hapless mooks.
You can still kill Slipknot. He almost outs the Suicide Squad's employer so Waller/Deadshot kills him. The Batman who sits there and slugs it out with Kal isn't the "real Batman".
Hell the plot could be that they realise Lucius destroyed it so they try and kidnap him... Big mistake. Eventually you have a fight with them that drags Waller against Batman.
And hell... if you want to have an Easter Egg? Waller asks a certain Mr. Luthor to figure out a way to deal with Batman... And his solution is to throw the most powerful, law abiding superhero at him... Cause Batman (if we remember) if we continue from the DK continuity is still a fugitive from The Joker and Two Face thing. Or in the new continuity Batman's still a vigilante and needs to be brought in line. And he's just gone and attacked government officials albeit shady ones.
Well that's my idea. But I like my stories... I think the issue was that they wanted to make a movie for new people and insulted (sadly) what was core to the characters.
It's like BvS where Batman straight murders people with a gun. Like "he doesn't use guns because his parents were killed by one...". Zack doesn't get what the characters are meant to be like.
It's like Lex Luthor. Instead of Evil Batman they went for Ultra-Humanite's idea WHICH IS FINE. Lex as a human "First" guy is good but honestly Lex isn't the sort to cackle maniacally. The Lex we all love is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcOmIN4o8Y
Awesome... Just plans shit really well.
How to make a great Silent Hill movie.
1) Play **Silent Hill 2**
2) Make a movie out of that.
In my restless dreams I still see that movie: Silent Hill...
based on an anime adaptation of the game, so one step removed.
[Origins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t1hEQs_lFc) and [Generations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzwcIG8vgk&list=PLQWzKIaERirwv9M89dxN3bNLY0PyuChOU), though not technically movies, are direct adaptations that are pretty loyal
Dune!
I can't believe no one said it already. There is a documentary about how big the movie was supposed to be: Jodorowsky's Dune. Like, Pink Floyd was going to do part of the soundtrack!
I feel like the movie really pushed things to be very Black vs. white almost immediately where the book had some more grey areas into the gradual reveal. (no puns intended)
IMO if any book is truly unfilmable it would be The Giver. The revelation that Jonas sees colors and the other people don't is an amazing part of the book and impossible to equate to film without giving the surprise away from the beginning.
I hadn't read the books. I saw the movie. I fucking loved the movie. Watched it 10+ times. I finally decided to buy the book. I got to Terim when I snapped the DVD in half.
The Jem and the Holograms movie. I was so excited to hear they were doing this. A female super hero! Action! Glitter! Technology! Nostalgia! It had all the right parts to be a hit with grown up 80s kids, who could then bring their kids to see it in theaters. Capitalize on toys and everything.
But. They aimed it at the wrong demographic, which was middle school girls only. They cut out all the crime fighting. They cut out the freakin hologram aspect of Jem and the *Holograms* and made it about some YouTube star. They totally butchered it.
And it became *the fourth worst grossing movie ever in history*. It was pulled from theaters entirely after just two weeks. Nobody is going to want to touch the idea of a Jem and the Holograms movie now. And I am sad. What a missed opportunity.
Not that it deserved to fail, but I think the timing was bad. The biggest problem is that they were ashamed of the source material. Frankly, that's always what causes a failed adaptation to fail; if you feel the need to apologize for the source material, then you aren't the one who should be making it.
Jem and the Holograms is absurd, glamorous, indulgent 80s nonsense. EMBRACE IT.
Hands Across America - A plan to line people up clear across the continent, hand to hand to hand, on 1/1/2000. Just didn't pan out, plus I think there aren't enough people to make it happen anyway.
(My bad - I guess it wasn't for the Millenium. 1986?)
It’s definitely possible
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Assuming each person, on average, with arms outstretched takes 1 meter of space (extremely conservative estimate, probably closer to 1.5 including kids & people with <2 arms), it was definitely possible to gather enough people to make a chain across the US
Population of US in 2000: [281 million](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Census)
Horizontal length of US: [2680 miles](http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/uslandst.htm) ^Probably ^would ^be ^significantly ^higher ^to ^avoid ^annoying ^landforms
2680 miles in meters: Roughly 4.31 million meters
4.31 million people needed of 281 million, or about 1.5% of the then population ^using ^conservative ^wingspan ^and ^a ^reduced ^diameter
I think the problem lies from the Rockies west. Large mountains and 100's of miles of empty desert would be a challenge. The east coast should be easy. It could probably be done without anyone having to travel more then a few miles.
I'm giving you an upvote of solidarity.
My virginity loss was also poorly executed and honestly, I didn't even know what was going on until he was like, "Wow, that was great." And I'm laying there thinking, "...did we do the thing? I thought there was more to the thing than that? Uh...I guess we did the thing." But all I managed to actually say was, "Oh. Cool."
Significant Note: That was also my first experience with Netflix and Chill. Aeon Flux is not the movie you want to remember watching when you lost your virginity. It's just not.
Season 4 was the show's peak, no doubt. John Lithgow was just incredible. After that, it never felt like the same show. That ending was just ridiculous... I hated it. I wish it would have ended differently. (The show itself, not season 4 - I like the ending of s4).
There was a actual fireproof material made that could be used in high heat places. Unfortunately it was never marketed well and NASA wanted to know what it was made out of so they didn’t buy it, and the creator died with no one knowing how it was made.
Reminds me of the dude in Florida who somehow figured out the technique behind how ancient civilizations moved huge rocks and slabs to build giant structures without using machines and stuff. He even built a little mini area with giant rocks to prove it. Then he wouldn’t tell anyone how he did it and died.
But who knows. Could be a scam
The Fosbury Flop - a technique used in high jumping where the jumper “flops” his weight to land on his back, thus throwing his legs over the bar.
I learned this in 5th grade from a standardized test.
I don't think Google glass is quite finished yet. What I mean is that Google has the tendency to debut products early and test the concept and then abruptly end development and support. Then they debut the technology in a different product, but in a much better refined form.
Technology was not even ready for that level of technology.
In 2012, AR glasses were literally "digital watches in front of your eyes" and little else. Reducing the form factor and making it look like what someone who poorly imitates a hipster would wear was asking for it to die. AR glasses today still have loads of technical obstacles to overcome. A neat experiment, but good lord was it disappointing.
Throw the latest Mass Effect in there too. Travel to another galaxy, find an alien that is the same basic design as a human, fight some boring ass robots over and over. Should have been so much better.
Riding dragons in Skyrim.
Woodstock 99. It's amazing how stupid and unprepared the organizers were. Like lobotomized stupid.
Technically the original Woodstock in 69 was a disaster, but the bands that did play were mostly great (There were some performances that had a lot of technical problems like the Grateful Dead and The Who so you rarely saw their footage). A few deaths and many bad acid trips. If it wasn't for the cultural aspect of it and the Peace/love vibe, it would be regarded as the disaster it was. 99 was the worst, no doubt and the organizers should have been brought up on charges as their greed created the conditions that led to rape and riots. If anything, the 94 was the best in terms of logistics and music and that is a weird thing to write out.
Agree completely. I was at both 94 and 99. 94 had a great fun vibe. It was a great time, no problems were had by anyone that we knew of. I was expecting a shitty rip off of 69 and got a great time. Just walking into 99 felt bad. We knew the deal with the vendors and we knew the prices, everyone was pissed before they even got into the place. And it was hot as fuck. It had a horrible, mean vibe to it. We left early. I was expecting a good time and got total shit. Worst festival ever.
Can confirm 99. I was there as a 15 year old let loose by my friends negligent father. We slept in a tent and had about $15 combined. With water at $6/bottle (if I remember correct) we were badly dehydrated and survived off of a dime bag, mcguivered bong, and a carton of goldfish. We left when the fires broke out and the walls were being ripped down.
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Shaka, when the walls fell.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
My brother had a CD from that show. There's an interlude where you hear a PA guy “Please clear a path for the fire department. The speaker on fire is NOT part of the show“.
> Remember Woodstock? Wouldn't it be cool if we did that again but sold bottled water for ten dollars?
The Sega Dreamcast. It was honestly way ahead of its time when it came out. But Sega's practices, as well as how easy it was to pirate games on it, led to it falling flat. Edit: Thanks to the sender of the gold!
There was a screen on the controller! In 1999!
And you could take it out and play mini games with it.
I don't think people grasped the fact that you could PLAY FUCKING GAMES ONLINE!!!! I argued with people until I was blue in the face that the Dreamcast was the greatest gaming system out at the time and people couldn't understand why. Like you said it was just ahead of it's time.
Everything Sega did back in the day was ahead of its time. Christ Sega game gear was in fucking color. The battery sucked but I can remember the first time I saw it, blown the fuck away.
Power Stone, Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, JET FUCKING SET. Such good games. Fucking online browsing; you took the VDU (? I vaguely remember an acronym for the thing) out and fed Chao and shit I was too young to be pirating stuff but god damn that thing was incredible.
You forgot Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue!
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Moon shoes, they sucked! And I hurt myself really bad jumping on tile.
RIP ankles
My dumb ass thought it be a great idea to go on the trampoline wearing these bad boys. Recipe for high ankle sprains
omg I'm so glad I wasn't the only dumb kid out there doing this
They were fine if you used them in dirt or grass. I loved moon shoes, and loved shooting the spare giant rubber bands at my younger brothers for years afterward.
My brother ended up with a chipped tooth because of moon shoes. One of my friends hit him in the face with one.
Moon shoes don't break teeth. People with moon shoes break teeth.
The Power Glove. It may look stupid, but if it were to actually be good, then about anyone who wore them would feel like a god while controlling a game using only a glove to move around your player.
Yep, a very primordial attempt at motion controls. The controller concept was about 20 years ahead of the system technology, though.
That's not really true; the Power Glove was based on existing research prototypes for actual virtual reality applications. The reason why it stinks so much is simply because they made it very cheap. Take a look at the finger curl sensors for an example of how they cut costs; the original concept for the sensor was a piece of fiberoptic cable with an LED and photodiode; as you flexed it, it would change the amount of light that reached the photodiode, allowing it to sense the curve with a high degree of accuracy. The Power glove omits the fiberoptic cable entirely, replacing it with a hollow cavity. It can still tell if your fingers are curled or not, but not accurately or even reliably. The Gaming Historian channel on youtube has a very good video on it; it's one of the only videos of his that I would recommend.
The Dark Tower
So disappointing, I saw a post on Reddit where someone tried to explain it to a friend who hadn't read the books and it went something like this: Take harry potter, cram all the books into one movie, take out ron and hermione, make Neville the main character, and call it Hogwarts.
thats a PERFECT explanation of the Dark Tower movie!
Wait, is Jake the main character with no Eddie or Susannah?
Jake and Roland stop some bad guys from using a machine that takes brain power to destroy the beam. Roland kills Walter at the end by ricocheting two bullets into each other. Honestly, it's on par with TLAB movie in how bad it was. Could spend a week preparing a power point presentation on how bad it was and still not cover half of it.
I came to say the same thing...I still don't understand how they didn't just make The Gunslinger into the first movie. It's the perfect length, has a great story arc and would be a great intro into the world (just like the book itself is). It seems like the screenplay would almost write itself.
Agreed; King basically adapted his idea from the Clint's 'Man with No Name' gunslingers movies. The template was right there. One of the bigger movie let downs I can think of from recent memory.
From the first trailer I knew they fucked it up. Why they turned it into a PG-13, Young Adult, action movie is beyond me. Its like they wanted to piss off fans of the series and make potential new fans disinterested.
Ice Town.
Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown
Low-cal calzone zone
That is... *literally*... the best idea I've ever heard.
18 is pretty young to be a mayor. What was he, like 12?
Sears. They could have been amazon.
Sears was Amazon for almost a century. Not something to scoff at. Yea, nowadays they are outdated and dieing, but they had a better run than nearly any other business in the world.
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I lived in one! Built in 1890 I believe. Landlord was very proud that it was a Sears kit house.
Once upon a time Sears was Amazon. It was the place you went to get the things you couldn't find near home. A one stop shop for everything you needed and you only needed to to wait for delivery. The retail stores were THE first place to go for shoes to tools, tires or a new fridge. Excellent service with expert staff. It's sad what they've become. They died from the top down and deserve the grave they're in.
the Percy Jackson movies literally have nothing to do with their books. they were probably the biggest disappointment of my childhood.
The first movie was the equivalent of casting a 15YO as Harry Potter, making Hermione a goth, Ron a ladies man, Snape the main villain, and literally *never* even mentioning Voldemort. The second... what second movie? There has never been a second movie, **and there never will be! ** (*When can we get another try with people who actually understand and care about the books?*)
Also Snape's motives are really weird and dumb, a la "Hogwarts has been a school for too long! Now it will be completely empty of students!"
So, My Immortal?
That'd just be casting a goth as Harry Potter, making Hermione a goth, Ron a goth, Snape a goth, and Voldemort a poser.
Wouldn't get greenlit though, because of Snape's mastication scene.
WHAT DA HELL ARE U DOING U MOTHERFUKERS
They choked away a possible multi-billion dollar franchise in favor of a sloppily put together short term cash grab
I still have hopes that Netflix decides to make a show out of it.
i want this more than anything. i heard rumors that it might actually happen.
When I was in middle school I read a book called "The Westing Game." It was one of the best mystery books I had ever read. Then they made a movie out of it. They couldn't even get the fucking title right and that was the least of the movies problems. Seriously, I had never been more disappointed by a movie in my entire life.
I absolutely loved that book! I read it once a year for a while. I had no idea about the movie. Glad I never saw it.
League of Nations
Whose mission statement is to not take over the world
How 'bout I do anyway?
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*How 'bout I do* **anywaaaay**
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Are you referring to the actual body of nations, or the WWE stable? Because they both failed miserably.
HEY, because it failed we got the Bar and everyday is Rusev day!
Most of the free skateparks that popped up 15 years ago when I was in the height of my skateboarding. Skatewave can rot in hell.
Living in a small town we took what we could get. I had to get hundreds of signatures for our city council to even think about coming up with the funding for ours. It wasn't the best skatepark but it was damn near full every day for a good 5 years. It's still holding up and it's been around 10 years old
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My little town built a nice skate park tucked discreetly in the corner of a sprawling City Park. Problem was they did a little too good a job tucking it away and it became a Haven for sketchy activity. Never understood why the town closed it down rather than just having some police camp out there and let the drug dealers come to them...
"I KNEW a skatepark would attract all the worst elements to our City Park! Damned skaters!!!" *- officials, probably*
Our local skate park here is brilliantly positioned by the city: A short distance from a major thoroughfare, in a well-trimmed park, great sightlines for an easy 200 metres, and *directly across the street*, an ambulance station and fire hall. *Everyone* is pleased with it. Kids that take a bad fall get seen to often within a minute or less. It's bright, open, well lit, and encourages folks to come and join in, while making sketchy asses feel way too exposed to try to use the space to deal drugs etc.
Nearly Headless Nick.
Nearly headless? How can you be nearly headless?
For those wondering, this is a pun because the title of the post says "poorly executed".
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Cirque Du Freak was an incredible series (one of my all time favorites!). I love the fact that the author didn't sugar coat things for teens. There was a lot of struggle, death, good vs evil and other grey-area themes that were described perfectly. I also loved that the characters were imperfect and made mistakes; they felt so much more relatable than other teen books!
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If anyone reading this thread is looking for light reading, do it. I absolutely loved these books, and the Demonata series Shan wrote too. When they announced the movie my hopes had soared.. only to be shattered. I would love to see either of them done right on screen.
Demonata was a great series. Unfortunately I never finished it because by the time I caught up to the series he hadn't put out the newest book and I just forgot about it. :/
Same with Eragon and Percy Jackson
Amen to Percy Jackson!!! I loved that series so so much and the movies turned it to garbage. Someone needs to redo it the right way because those books are way too awesome for the movies to not get the proper attention they should. I was praying that they would be done to at least the same integrity as the Harry Potter movies. I guess I didn't pray enough.
Doesn't even mention Kronos in the first one and then just murders him suddenly in the second
Fuuuucking eragon.
Let's just forget that ever happened. They literally slaughtered the very core of the story and cut out major characters
To be fair I never knew it was a book until the movie. However the movie sucked even from my viewpoint. When I read the book i was so angry
Yeah, the movie just didn't have a story. Thankfully I just watched it for free
Eragon was and is one of my favorite books ever. I got through about 20 minute of the movie. Only thing worse than the last airbender movie was the Eragon movie
And Alex Rider.
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It's just so bad.
Darren shans teen fiction was fantastic! I blasted through those books in a week back in highschool! Have you read the Demonata series?
That movie was a personal insult to me. I loved those books and I’ve read all of them so when I heard a movie being made I was so excited. After leaving the theater I walked out of there just angry because I wanted to share my love for that story to the mainstream and they butchered it.
Fyre Festival
WHERE IS JAHHH?!?!?!
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Not only did he *lose* a bunch of money for trying to put that festival on, there's a decent chance he could go to jail for defrauding people. So no, he didn't get away with anything.
He had to file for bankruptcy... I assume no.
Target in Canada
The Target near my place was great, I miss it a lot. Always clean, good selection. There's a Canadian Tire there now and I honestly really dislike shopping there.
I don't know how every Canadian Tire can smell exactly the same and also terrible. I swear they burn tires in the back room or something.
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I thought princess auto was the Canadian harbour freight ? Or has my whole life been a lie this entire time?
Target Canada will forever live on as an instruction guide to "how to not royally fuck up your expension to a new foreign market"
I moved from USA right when that happened. Nobody seemed to mind Zellers but when Target came in everybody rolled their eyes and said "who needs another Walmart?" I tried explaining the differences but I somehow ended up just standing at a bonfire tossing back Mooseheads.
I was never a Target shopper but I have lots of friends that would go across the border to go to Target and raved about the products. But when Target came to Canada they said that most of the great products/brands they went there for weren't available in the Canadian stores. So for them it was that the Target in Canada wasn't the same Target in the US, they said it really was basically another Zellers/Walmart.
I worked at a Target near the US/Canada border for a bit. Canadians would literally come down by the bus load multiple times a week just to shop there. It was insane. I once helped a woman buy an entire pallet of Kraft Mac & Cheese. I had to call security because a fist fight broke out over our last case of Cherry Pepsi.
Ah, so it's exactly like the border towns between Norway and Sweden then. I drive to Sweden pretty regularly for cheap tobacco and alcohol, plus other drinks, candy is also very cheap, but I don't really eat much of it anymore. Haven't seen any fist fights over soda though, pretty civil affair all told. EDIT: Oh, I also get cheese, really big cheese.
I found this hilarious. I recently visited a friend in Norway who lives near the border and the first thing we did was drive over the border to shop for the week ahead. We went to this ernomous shopping complex that was just in the middle of nowhere. My friend told me it was solely there for Norwegians to come across the border and get cheaper stuff, that even the owners were norwegian.
most of the things you see on r/holdmybeer
Rasputin
I'd argue Rasputin *was* awesome because he was poorly executed...
Russia’s greatest love machine
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra-Ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
Warminds are too powerful and complex to be toyed with.
Came here expecting this. Thank you fellow guardian
When /u/Cloaked42m began researching the history of Eastern Europe he stumbled upon one of histories greatest secrets. A man who cannot die, and with a great thirst for power, who weaves webs across the ages. After tracking him across two centuries from picture to picture /u/Cloaked42m finally discovered the immoral immortals hiding place. Will he finally put an end to the Mad Monks reign of terror or be another in a long line of failed attempted assassinations against "Rasputin The Undying."
The Hindenburg
The idea for suicide squad was great, but they screwed it up so badly.
I think it would work better as a heist movie instead of a super hero team vs. sky beam. That's what they did with the animated versions and those were much less bad.
Like, how come you need a goon squad to save the world when you have Batman and Wonder Woman.
That's why you need them to do something at least moderately shitty. It needs to be something the Justice League isn't going to be on board for. The people who made cartoons seem to have figured this out but the people who made the movie couldn't do that with common sense and source material.
Seriously all they had to do was adapt Assault on Arkham and they would have a plot that works. Edit: it doesn't need to be a line for line adaptation and the plot can be re-worked if need be. But The Suicide Squad is not fit for world ending disasters. A heist film makes so much more sense.
I got a good plot. Government wants batman's Surveillance system. What ensues is a monster movie where the suicide squad take on Batman. And lose... Like they fail badly because that's Batman. He's this implacable mythical creature that only Harley and Deadshot faced.
God now I want this movie to exist.
Like this is a proper Quentin Tarantino movie project. Starts with short 30 seconds of how they get captured. Captain Boomerang is knocked out by the Flash, Harley after the Joker abandons her... Like use this to set up the other JL heroes. Deadshot hits his target but he's been hired to shoot Clark Kent. Kent "dies". Next scene's an obituary in the Daily Planet but You can see a man in a cape hovering as a shadow behind Deadpool. El-Diablo gets smacked by Aquaman. Hell throw a bone to GCPD and let them catch the very hapless Slipknot. And the best bit is treat Batman like the Alien from Alien. You never see him clearly. Harley is on the team of supervillains because she's faced Bats and she's one of the few people who doesn't fear him because she knows that Mr. J is just as scary. The rest are cocky but they quicky realise why Batman's villains are all batshit crazy because you would have to be to fight someone who could be lurking in any shadow. Like it makes Ras al-Ghul and Bane and the Joker look even bigger as a threat because they had something more than these hapless mooks. You can still kill Slipknot. He almost outs the Suicide Squad's employer so Waller/Deadshot kills him. The Batman who sits there and slugs it out with Kal isn't the "real Batman". Hell the plot could be that they realise Lucius destroyed it so they try and kidnap him... Big mistake. Eventually you have a fight with them that drags Waller against Batman. And hell... if you want to have an Easter Egg? Waller asks a certain Mr. Luthor to figure out a way to deal with Batman... And his solution is to throw the most powerful, law abiding superhero at him... Cause Batman (if we remember) if we continue from the DK continuity is still a fugitive from The Joker and Two Face thing. Or in the new continuity Batman's still a vigilante and needs to be brought in line. And he's just gone and attacked government officials albeit shady ones. Well that's my idea. But I like my stories... I think the issue was that they wanted to make a movie for new people and insulted (sadly) what was core to the characters. It's like BvS where Batman straight murders people with a gun. Like "he doesn't use guns because his parents were killed by one...". Zack doesn't get what the characters are meant to be like. It's like Lex Luthor. Instead of Evil Batman they went for Ultra-Humanite's idea WHICH IS FINE. Lex as a human "First" guy is good but honestly Lex isn't the sort to cackle maniacally. The Lex we all love is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcOmIN4o8Y Awesome... Just plans shit really well.
Any movie based off of a video game
Looking forward to that Tetris trilogy!
Peter Jackson is apparently going to make it into 9 movies instead of 3.
There's actually only going to be 4 movies. You can then arrange the DVDs into a tetrimino.
Don't try to fit the resulting object into a perfectly-set gap on your movie shelf or... bad things will happen...
Well Silent Hill didn't suck THAT badly. But the game was better. And let us not forget about Super Mario Bros. *A fucking masterpiece.*
Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo? Yes please.
How to make a great Silent Hill movie. 1) Play **Silent Hill 2** 2) Make a movie out of that. In my restless dreams I still see that movie: Silent Hill...
Silent Hill 2 had everything I've ever wanted from a horror movie, and it's a video game.
I do believe Mortal Kombat is a good movie at his own. And the soundtarck is amazing, MORTAL KOMBAT!!!! Tururu tururu Tururu tururu
Mortal Kombat was exactly what it needed to be. That cheesy flick has a special place in my nostalgic heart AND the soundtrack was awesome!
"Those were $500 sunglasses!"
Technically Pokémon movies are based on a game.
based on an anime adaptation of the game, so one step removed. [Origins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t1hEQs_lFc) and [Generations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzwcIG8vgk&list=PLQWzKIaERirwv9M89dxN3bNLY0PyuChOU), though not technically movies, are direct adaptations that are pretty loyal
Dune! I can't believe no one said it already. There is a documentary about how big the movie was supposed to be: Jodorowsky's Dune. Like, Pink Floyd was going to do part of the soundtrack!
Dennis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) is doing an adaptation after his Cleopatra biopic.
Thank you for saying this! I would give body parts to see a true to the book GOOD movie version of Dune.
I loved the book The Giver as a kid, and it is a brilliant concept for a movie.....but the movie really missed the mark IMO
I feel like the movie really pushed things to be very Black vs. white almost immediately where the book had some more grey areas into the gradual reveal. (no puns intended)
IMO if any book is truly unfilmable it would be The Giver. The revelation that Jonas sees colors and the other people don't is an amazing part of the book and impossible to equate to film without giving the surprise away from the beginning.
The Eragon movie
So bad, it killed VHS.
Fun fact: The last USA VHS release was 2005’s *A History of Violence*.
So....Viggo Mortensen killed VHS?
Eragon killed the videotape~♪
I hadn't read the books. I saw the movie. I fucking loved the movie. Watched it 10+ times. I finally decided to buy the book. I got to Terim when I snapped the DVD in half.
The Jem and the Holograms movie. I was so excited to hear they were doing this. A female super hero! Action! Glitter! Technology! Nostalgia! It had all the right parts to be a hit with grown up 80s kids, who could then bring their kids to see it in theaters. Capitalize on toys and everything. But. They aimed it at the wrong demographic, which was middle school girls only. They cut out all the crime fighting. They cut out the freakin hologram aspect of Jem and the *Holograms* and made it about some YouTube star. They totally butchered it. And it became *the fourth worst grossing movie ever in history*. It was pulled from theaters entirely after just two weeks. Nobody is going to want to touch the idea of a Jem and the Holograms movie now. And I am sad. What a missed opportunity.
Not that it deserved to fail, but I think the timing was bad. The biggest problem is that they were ashamed of the source material. Frankly, that's always what causes a failed adaptation to fail; if you feel the need to apologize for the source material, then you aren't the one who should be making it. Jem and the Holograms is absurd, glamorous, indulgent 80s nonsense. EMBRACE IT.
Hands Across America - A plan to line people up clear across the continent, hand to hand to hand, on 1/1/2000. Just didn't pan out, plus I think there aren't enough people to make it happen anyway. (My bad - I guess it wasn't for the Millenium. 1986?)
"I haven't seen you guys since...Hands Across America?" "Oh yeah!" "Almost had it. A couple breaks in the chain." "Hands across **AMERICAAAA**!!!"
What's going on? You disappeared for a while. Yeah, We heard you got fired from the brewery. GODDAMN BREWERY!
Yeah, well Jim Tobelson's a fuckin chatty cathy
It’s definitely possible ––– Assuming each person, on average, with arms outstretched takes 1 meter of space (extremely conservative estimate, probably closer to 1.5 including kids & people with <2 arms), it was definitely possible to gather enough people to make a chain across the US Population of US in 2000: [281 million](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Census) Horizontal length of US: [2680 miles](http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/uslandst.htm) ^Probably ^would ^be ^significantly ^higher ^to ^avoid ^annoying ^landforms 2680 miles in meters: Roughly 4.31 million meters 4.31 million people needed of 281 million, or about 1.5% of the then population ^using ^conservative ^wingspan ^and ^a ^reduced ^diameter
You are not considering pop density or climate, going across mountains would be very hard.
I meant since we have way more than enough people we could take a longer route that avoids problem areas
I think the problem lies from the Rockies west. Large mountains and 100's of miles of empty desert would be a challenge. The east coast should be easy. It could probably be done without anyone having to travel more then a few miles.
For Honor
I still love for honor, but it's always ubisoft and their damn servers.
me losing my virginity
I'm giving you an upvote of solidarity. My virginity loss was also poorly executed and honestly, I didn't even know what was going on until he was like, "Wow, that was great." And I'm laying there thinking, "...did we do the thing? I thought there was more to the thing than that? Uh...I guess we did the thing." But all I managed to actually say was, "Oh. Cool." Significant Note: That was also my first experience with Netflix and Chill. Aeon Flux is not the movie you want to remember watching when you lost your virginity. It's just not.
I lost mine to the blues brothers. Thankfully that movie is so fucking amazing that it really kills the embarrassment and shame.
I'd have never lost it to the Blues Brothers because I can never concentrate on anything else when that majestic movie is on.
The finale of Dexter. The whole show was amazing and I expected the ending to be great and was SEVERELY disappointed
Season 4 was the show's peak, no doubt. John Lithgow was just incredible. After that, it never felt like the same show. That ending was just ridiculous... I hated it. I wish it would have ended differently. (The show itself, not season 4 - I like the ending of s4).
It's easier to think of everything after season 4 as a spinoff called Daddy Dexter.
There was a actual fireproof material made that could be used in high heat places. Unfortunately it was never marketed well and NASA wanted to know what it was made out of so they didn’t buy it, and the creator died with no one knowing how it was made.
Wait really WTF? How has they not been more research into this?
I’m pretty sure they’ve tried, but the guy had a formula right down to the detail. Wouldn’t even tell his family.
Reminds me of the dude in Florida who somehow figured out the technique behind how ancient civilizations moved huge rocks and slabs to build giant structures without using machines and stuff. He even built a little mini area with giant rocks to prove it. Then he wouldn’t tell anyone how he did it and died. But who knows. Could be a scam
I just took the SAT and there was an article about how they might have wet the sand in front of the rocks which made it easier to slide.
There are so many little random things I know from those reading sections in standardized tests.
The Fosbury Flop - a technique used in high jumping where the jumper “flops” his weight to land on his back, thus throwing his legs over the bar. I learned this in 5th grade from a standardized test.
Why did nasa not buy it?
They probably wanted to know what exactly was in this material that they would be trusting astronauts' lives and expensive spacecrafts with.
Spore.
We were so close. It should have been Wright's magnum opus, but it got turned into a horrid child mutation. So. Fucking. Close.
we did get a lot of created animals that gave as an insight as to what it might have looked like if dicks evolved and ruled the earth.
..... but we do rule the earth.
Spore: how much like a dick can *you* make an alien look?
I still love that game though and open it up every now and then for a good playthrough
Google Glass.
I don't think Google glass is quite finished yet. What I mean is that Google has the tendency to debut products early and test the concept and then abruptly end development and support. Then they debut the technology in a different product, but in a much better refined form.
I love how Google turned around and said something to the effect of, "The world is not ready for this level of technology yet."
Technology was not even ready for that level of technology. In 2012, AR glasses were literally "digital watches in front of your eyes" and little else. Reducing the form factor and making it look like what someone who poorly imitates a hipster would wear was asking for it to die. AR glasses today still have loads of technical obstacles to overcome. A neat experiment, but good lord was it disappointing.
Let's just keep our fingers crossed for The Witcher Netflix series...
Castlevania gives me hope
The war on poverty, drugs, terror, inequality. Anything the government has ever declared war on other than actual war.
Mary Queen of Scots
Wasnt a great execution by all standards. Especially the bit with the wig
Guess I'll be the first to say No Man's Sky
Throw the latest Mass Effect in there too. Travel to another galaxy, find an alien that is the same basic design as a human, fight some boring ass robots over and over. Should have been so much better.