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He didn't. It was the half-burnt one from earlier.

Awww, why so serious? The only thing ridiculous here is your reaction. You'd rather I popped in and went "this is teh suxx0rs" than doing everyone the courtesy of at least explaining why I disagreed with the majority opinion. It's an interpretation of Batman where the main focus is on taking out the super-hero mythology in favor of the facts, which is cool and interesting. The problem is if you're going to walk that line where this is a real guy in the real world who has elements of the fantastical to him, then you can't up and toss out the real world whenever you need an out for the scene. Even the ending is contrived to allow Gordon to slip the title into his final monologue. I don't read comics with any frequency, so that had nothing to do with my finding the movie wholly predictable either. You can't spend 20 minutes building up tension towards a twist that everyone including the mentally handicapped guy in front of me wearing the oversized toy sunglasses knew was coming a half hour before it finally got there. So no, I didn't walk out of the theater with a stain on my crotch shouting "THAT WUZ THE BEST MOVIE EVAR", but I did point out several things that the movie did really well. That makes it in my opinion a decent movie, above average for comic book movies, and that's all.

I guess I was the only one largely unimpressed. It exceeded my expectations, which were admittedly not very high, but it had lots of problems. Ledger was every bit the Joker they say he was though. I think the main issue I had with the movie is that it tries to pretend it's in the real-world but then throws the real-world conventions out the window whenever it suits them, which is something more than a few movies have been doing lately. Also, this movie spends an enormous amount of time trying to build suspense towards painfully obvious conclusions. It's totally anti-climactic. The magic trick was worth the price of admission though, if for no other reason than it actually encapsulates the whole movie's theme in one three minute sequence.

I knew about the older one, but I doubted it rose to the same level of violence as the new one.

Looks like you've been beaten to the punch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452608/

The two scripts aren't really all that different. The core of everything is there. The biggest differences (beyond obvious name changes) are really just in how Frog speaks and a bit more refined and prevalent series of references to the Planet somehow driving the events in question.

Just "great"? No elaboration?

I wonder what he thought of it.

Needs polish. Calypso actor needs help. Otherwise not much to say without a more in-depth look.

Cross was an ok game, it just took forever to find out it had anything to do with Chrono Trigger and even then the ties were really convuluded.

Yes in my "rampant fanboyism" I forgot to mention I had no intention of repurchasing the game because if I really had a jonesing for CT I would just play it on my emulator. Well put your mind at ease. You don't have to live with the memory of a Chrono Break that was in development and never materialized, because it was never in development. Also, at least they tried with all those movie sequels these past couple years. I mean, I don't want those hours back or anything. I like having my favorite things shat upon. It makes me feel all warm and cuddly knowing that a perfectly good thing was raped and pillaged by some pointless follow-up because some whiney little girl needed more shineys. Indeed you're right, we MUST have a Chrono Break. We can find out how Crono grew up to have a homosexual relationship with Fritz which caused Marle to hang herself outside the Guardian courtroom. Also, I look forward to watching the fully rendered cutscene of Ayla having Frog for dinner when he's accidentally teleported to 65 million BC by Magus, who is trying to conjure a rocking horse for Tata. Don't forget, Robo is actually a Metal Gear that Solid Snake will make a cameo to pilot against Mother Brain's Patriot AI system. Actually...in retrospect, I might enjoy that.

If you really want your never-was-gonna-happen Chrono Break to get made, then you have to spend less time bitching about the fifteen minutes SE spent porting it to the DS and more time getting people to buy the DS version so that it might be in SE's interest to make another unnecessary sequel and market it to a target demographic that has very little to no experience with its predecessors.

Not true. There are many instances where the player chooses his response. Those are his lines. The line in the ending is the only time where he speaks without the player's input.

The real question is whether or not they're shooting for a Halloween release, a Christmas release, or a release prior to the year 2012. I'm going to miss my Necromancer. The WDoc is ok so far.

Spoilers for those who don't want to know yet: IMDB's FAQ has a much better breakdown, but essentially, Christian Bale's characters are twins who have, like the guy with the Goldfish, lived a lie to help make their trick work, by switching off who is the magician and who is the other guy. This is why his wife says he only loves her some of the time.

You haven't seen any movies lately, have you?

Twisted Metal has always been about a free for all of tricked out war machines built out of mostly crappy automobiles destroying each other. I just don't see how that kind of movie would work at all, much less on such a miniscule budget like that. Not that I'm putting you down, I'd trust you to make a better movie than I would trust Hollywood to make. And as someone actively working on scripting Chrono Trigger into movies, I can understand where you're coming from. So if you're focusing on Sweet Tooth's past, are we still expecting to see a bunch of car combat or is this largely a sort of mystery-horror-thriller thing?

The CGI is only one of many flaws and probably the most forgiveable. There are some obviously bad effects shots in the original trilogy. The problem here was not so much that the CGI was bad, but that it was both obvious and overused, especially when they spent all that time talking about how they were going to keep it to a minimum. I did not go into this movie with the intention of hating it. I went in hoping it would pull a Transformers and surpass my low expectations. Unfortunately, it landed right about where I expected it to, on its face.

It's a simple distinction between something that holds your attention for a couple hours and a work of art. Crusade is like the Mona Lisa and Crystal Skull is like a child's fingerpainting. Will Indy 4 hold your attention for its running time? Sure. Is it at least entertaining to watch? Yeah. Bombs and car chases and swordfights are always entertaining. Is it anything more than that? Absolutely not. That's the problem with the movie. You can break it down into details, the CGI is bad and all over the place, the story is full of holes, the skull is possibly the goofiest artifact ever, the villains are hardly villainous, the supporting characters are useless, the score is hardly inspiring, the leaps of faith required for suspension of disbelief would make a scientologist laugh, and most of the dialogue would make even Anakin Skywalker roll his eyes, but ultimately, it's very simple. Indy 4 is something to simply keep you from leaving the theater, nothing more.

Trying? A few of them succeeded. And then there's the part where 12 year old Goku pulls off her panties and freaks because she's missing the male parts. Or the time she flashed Roshi for a Dragonball...

Blasphemy.

The first one was pushed back until April of next year.

I gave up completely on this movie as soon as I heard they replaced Krillin with his Mexican equivalent of Teto and put Goku in high school. I was skeptical from the start considering the whole franchise would be difficult enough to bring to a live-action scenario, but the more I hear about this movie the less interest I have in seeing it. I mean, Goku, the boy who grew up with only his adoptive grandfather out in the boonies of the forest is now your average high-schooler? That isolation was key to his character's aloof, innocent nature. Hell Yamucha was a wandering desert thief, so he doesn't belong in high school either. I didn't have any problem with Goku being played by a white guy though. He is an alien after all, but Chatwin in no way shape or form resembles my idea of Goku. The only reason left to see this movie is for the big screen CG Kamehameha.

The comic book frame effect would have been fine but it was overused.

There is no way to defend the fridge bit, certainly not by comparing it to something that's part of the mysticism of an artifact Indy went to find. He's dead in SO many ways it's not even funny. Spoilers: First, he would've been incinerated. The air in the fridge would've superheated from the flash and cooked him like a Nazi oven. Then it would've been sucked out and he would've suffocated. Then the initial shockwave would've hit, killing him by smashing his body against the inside of the fridge as it accelerated him to some speed faster than that car was going, not to mention the sudden repressurization of the fridge. Then if that did not do the trick, getting smacked against it again as it hit the ground and tumbled would've no doubt killed him. Not to mention the door mechanism almost certainly would not have survived those stresses, and thus tossed him out into the air as it tumbled. Also, despite being in a "lead lined" fridge, he would've received a lethal dose of radiation being that close to the explosion and having that little lead protecting him. Even if he didn't get it in the fridge, he sure as hell would've after he got out from either the radiation in the air or the radioactive debris raining upon him. And if, IF, by some utter miracle he survived that, he probably would've died wandering around the desert absorbing that much more radiation while trying to find help, which would've been miles away especially with all of the soldiers dead. This is all assuming the fridge got launched, which it probably would not have. More likely due to its weight it would've been one of the last things to move from the initial shockwave and thus be more likely to either be sucked towards the blast by the backpressure or essentially remain in place. There are only two reasons I can think of that someone would allow such an egregious depiction. One is that Lucas likes CGI and the other is that they wanted to set up the washing gag. The visitor theory is not generally considered a respectable one in the scientific community, even though I agree it's possible. Even still, the movie handled that aspect so badly that it didn't matter. I had no beef with that and would've given it a complete pass otherwise. You asked what was missing from the movie that made it unworthy of Indiana Jones' namesake. There was no mysticism in the movie. There was no feeling of danger. The skull became a silly gimmick that had no purpose at all. It even looked goofy as hell, inspiring no awe, no wonder. The quest they're on is more of a fumbling run through the jungle than a search for something too powerful to let fall into enemy hands. And the enemy invokes no trepidation, has no barbaric quality to make them seem as though their getting to the goal first would be something to fear. Even the score was weak. Thus Indy is reduced to an invulnerable superhero who can do no wrong against a weak enemy that can do nothing right searching for something that doesn't seem worth the effort with an artifact that is laughable at best. It was, as I said, essentially a Bond movie minus the gadgets. I think it's pretty much a given that all you need to be entertained are some pretty, flashing lights.