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According to this Reddit thread there are people out there who think anything made before 2000 is too old to watch. Kinda veering off-topic here, but: anyone here bringing up kids, please follow John Landis' example and make sure they get used to watching old stuff like Laurel And Hardy or Gone With The Wind or whatever before they start going to sleepovers and finding out that none of their friends watch anything that wasn't put up on Netflix that day.

Yeah, plus I guess these people (I can't think of a clever name for them - is there an existing term? Kind of the opposite of Luddite, I guess) see the stylistic differences (acting, pacing etc) as inferior rather than different.

NSFW there, Synth.

This should also be made. Have there been enough goofy pun titles and game ideas on the Thumbs 'cast that a What Would Molydeux? style jam could be organised? Bit tough on the person who wrote in to ask if they could make Super Briefly, I guess. I find it hard to believe that the before half of the Batman comparison video is really the quality it has been broadcast at up 'til now. Unless they deliberately picked a dreadful version of it, I guess my mind always up-rezzed it... Still, it's totally true about old movies getting the short shrift on SD - I bet that majorly contributes to the amount of people who can't stand to watch black and white movies or old movies or whatever. (I met someone at a wedding recently, who declared they refused to watch any movie made before 1980. She had a massive Alien (xenomorph) Queen tattoo on her arm, so I guess it's a good thing that sequel bothers to sum up what happened in the first, 1979 movie.) The example that always sticks in my mind is A Matter Of Life And Death. Years ago, I went to see it at the cinema, and then it happened to be playing on telly the next day. The difference was staggering, all the vibrant colours were sapped into a flat, pastel drone. I realised that I associated 50s movies with that drab cinematography and subsequently thought of them as dull themselves, but actually I was just seeing nerfed versions of them.

Just wanted to say thanks to those here talking about their depression or history of it. Until recently I had not realised just how common it is, and that I've probably known many people with depression who have managed to disguise it because it's not a binary 'either you're completely fine or you've got depression and you sit in a dark room crying for a year non-stop'. So thanks for raising my awareness of it; hopefully it's also helpful for others with depression to see that other people are going through or have been through it too...

gregbrown, in case you missed it, Denial already posted that Nick thing and we had just been discussing it above your re-post of it.

What if they're spooky haunted pumpkins?

That thread is fabulous.

Come on, Tegan, give it up.

Yeah, I was reading it thinking "man, this is really weirdly written, I can't even parse it enough to see why it's obviously fake", not realising that the weird writing was the give-away.

Ok, guess I couldn't see the woods for the trees! I assumed there was something there that made it obviously a bad fake or something as it was presented without comment.

Sorry for being super-dense, but can you please spell out for me why this is obviously not compelling evidence? I can guess at the usual suspects (fake, satire etc) but nothing's jumping out at me.

You should then send it to Danielle and Sean so they can make it part of their X-Files 'cast.

Those ads are pretty cool, thanks SAM! Bolegium, you're so close to having awesome lucid dreams. Just believe in yourself, and you could be having mid-flight threesomes surrounded by clouds made of KFC chicken and gravy while Van Halen play a live concert on an airship for you!

If they did want to do a 'cast, perhaps they could just talk about whichever episodes they'd watched that week, and if ten episodes (or the most interesting among them) get discussed in one 'cast then so be it... If not, a thread would be sweet.

Both Seinfeld the actor and Seinfeld the character are Superman fans (in the show he has an action figure in his apartment and often wheels out tenuous Superman metaphors). In my dream I remember realising that the director was a friend of Seinfeld (Larry Charles, perhaps?) and so this funny cameo made sense. It gradually dawned on me that Superman was a large part of the movie!

Well, again, half an episode won't spoil much, but you could always take a look when the US series ends! Has anyone seen the new Constantine series? It's okay, got some visual flair and plenty of potential, although at the moment it's like a not-as-fun Supernatural. His accent is atrocious, though - it veers from Irish to Yorkshire and hardly touches on Liverpudlian. It's pretty much as convincing as his fresh-off-the-rack costume that hasn't seen a day outside of Wardrobe, never mind fighting demons. It's possible that he bought it all new after at the start of the show, but even so, his affected manner of constantly having the knot of his tie pulled down to nipple level for no reason is just daft. Hopefully they'll dirty him up a bit before long.

Only because it wasn't lucid...

Whoops, we killed the thread with semantics debates. Clear! Cracked blog - 5 ways society is sexist against men and how we can fix it

I wish I could lucid dream ): I dreamt that I was experiencing a first-person superhero movie, where you play Ian Mysterius getting a job on a building site, on top of a skyscraper in a superhero-filled city. Superman (played by Jerry Seinfeld) shows up occasionally and plays around with the builders, but one day you accidentally freeze him. It is then revealed that your workmate (played by Eric Balfour) is actually Mysterio, the supervillain you thought you were getting set up to be. He takes advantage of Superman's incapacitated state and starts a fight with him, which you follow as it crashes through various floors of the skyscraper. There is a tacky gag where they crash through the room of a naked woman about to take a shower or something. THE END.

Ummm, not much, I should think, but it's been ages since I watched it. Even if you only get halfway through an episode, I think it's interesting to see the different adaptations.

What are people's plans for the point where the show starts to overtake the novels? Apparently the next season may start to do that already. I think I'm going to have to stop watching the show, because although I enjoy it, it really is the lite version of the novels and I don't think I'll get half as much enjoyment out of them if I know every single major plot beat. The problem is, it'll be incredibly difficult to avoid spoilers for the show and therefore novels anyway, so at least watching the show immediately would mean that I get to enjoy the story if not in my ideal way...

If you're enjoying House Of Cards, you might find it interesting to check out the BBC 80s adaptation of it. It's a lot slower but it's got a great central performance from Ian Richardson (otherwise perhaps best known from Dark City and, apparently, familiar to American television viewers as the man in the Rolls-Royce who asks "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?" which is a reference in Wayne's World I now understand). I just saw Nightcrawler and found it really interesting. A great central performance from Jake Gyllenhaal and interesting subject matter. The score was quite distracting -