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    Gotta say, while Ian gave a really good talk, this made Ptolemy Slocum (who I've heard is a good improviser) look dreadfully inept. I think there probably are arguments against some things that Ian said but Ptolemy came across like he had no idea what he was doing. It's not like he had to turn up and respond, or even like he didn't have 45 minutes to put together his thoughts. Yet when asked for any clarification at all he gave some of the vaguest answers imaginable. I couldn't imagine a worse advertisement for Nerdist's improv school.

     

    Is this enjoyable to listen to if you don't care about this stuff, cause it's still an hour and a half of the greatest podcast in the universe

     

    Not really at all. There are some funny moments but none of it is played as comedy, and in fact backs away from many implicit comedic statements. It's still a very good talk though.

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    I can't tell if you find these books to be the best you've ever read because they are legitimately awesome, or because the only books you have read are these two and the first half of a Dan Brown novel.

     

    I very familiar with the European Space Agency, but then again, I am a huge nerd... which kind of goes without saying because I am posting on a podcast message board.

     

    They're greater than Moby Dick and Gravity's Rainbow combined and say a lot about humanity (in particular, how it would interact with a space-vampire).

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    Omission; Nobody talked about the Choose Your Own Adventure books about space vampires which clearly inspired this movie. I own both and they are the best books I've ever read. The covers are also great too, particularly how the first artist seemed to have forgotten the fact that the sun kills vampires.

     

    If anyone wants to go through either book, pick one and I'll give very condensed descriptions of each page for you to choose the next path

     

     

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    So hear me out here, but I watched the first 5-6 minutes last night and....parts of it were kind of cool! Namely:

     

    -The look of the opening. It was actually kinda creepy and interesting

     

    -This movie is so colorful! Maybe it's over saturation of all those gray, bleak "gritty" movies lately but I felt like it really popped.

     

    -The T Rex Puppet/costume is super impressive.

     

    But yeah, that's all I've got so far...the rest is just puzzling...

     

    Really? Because I think they explained it very clearly;

     

    Once upon a time in the future ...

    • At midnight tomorrow, billionaire Elizar Kane will launch his New Eden missile to bring on another Ice Age.
    • After mankind is extinct, Kane will reanimate the pairs of all earth's animals he keeps frozen in his ark and create his vision of paradise.
    • One hour ago, two workers escaped from the New Eden compound and are racing to tell the police about Kane's master plan

     

    The thing that makes this so helpful and expositionary, for me, is how the grammatical frame of reference changes multiple times from past to future to past tense. This did not at all come across like the ramblings of a hobo becoming unstuck in time. I also feel that adding literal bullet points to an opening crawl is very useful, because that's how I like to imagine opening narrations; as a shopping list.

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    Obviously everyone here is talking about the app Howl, which is the Netflix of podcasting.

     

    But Howl is really the app for show like Comedy Bang Bang and the WTF show.

     

    I want to know, will WolfCool be releasing its own podcasting app any time soon?

    If so, will it be exclusively for Android and will it be named "Owl"?

     

    Scott, can you speak on this? If not, could you get Sean/Hayes to help...

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    Guys, I'm starting a podcast about bad HDTGM recommendations.

     

    I'd really like you to come on the show Effigy and talk about your experiences with this thread. Good posters should be able to laugh at themselves and I've always enjoyed listening to earwolf forum members talk about the posts that didn't go so well.

     

    Regardless, it would seem kind of hypocritical for you to be okay with making a terrible recommendation to a show talking about bad movies and then spend 2 full pages defending yourself; not being able to handle criticism of your own post.

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    Did anyone else think that every single scene with Anthony Weiner was...weird? Not just because, hey Anthony Weiner is in this but there's something just really off about it, even compared to any other scene in NASA (like with that glasses-dude).

     

    The lighting was completely different for one. The acting and mood on those tiny scenes are really tonally different. There's a complete lack of tongue in cheek drama and it's replaced with heightened ACTING.

     

    It's a weird thing to pick out but I mean that baby scene at the end...I dont even know how to begin that conversation. So I just wanna focus on how weird this was;

     

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    When Terry Gilliam showed up in the "hilarious bureaucracy montage" I felt like I was watching the end of "Lost in La Mancha" all over again. And I checked out around the time they got to Sean Bean's bee farm, too. This movie throws so much at you and keeps on going with no regard for characters. It was giving me high-concept fatigue. On one hand, there's no way the episode would be as good without the context of having seen it, but oof-this movie.terry-gilliam-jupiter-ascending-1.jpg

     

    This whole fucking "Advocate Bob" scene is the most egregious thing in the film and that really is saying something. It's making me angry trying to explain why this scene is so terrible. So much of this movie is setup without payoff.

     

    -Why did her dad get killed?

    -Why isn't everyone constantly laughing at the name "Jupiter Jones"?

    -Why did she use a fake name for selling her eggs?

    -Why does her cousin need a widescreen TV?

    -Why didn't she ever freak out at anything?

    -Why, if the original plan by everyone is to kill her, don't they just do that?

    -Why does everyone keep saying "she's the queen", yet she has seemingly no power

    -Why is there suddenly an elephant pilot called "Ganesh"

    -Why do we get a monologue from that space police captain woman about how brave Channing Tatum is?

    -Why does it end with her on earth pretending nothing ever happened?

    -WHY: TO EVERYTHING THAT SEAN BEAN DOES

     

    This is however one of the best terrible movies I've ever seen, it's genuinely worse than Sharknado or The Room in terms of writing and acting. Eddie Redmayne is bad, but if you've missed how genuinely terrible Mila Kunis is throughout go checkout her reaction to the bees scene. Or the "I love dogs" bit. Or anything.

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    I've never seen this film, but this description alone has forced me to watch. How could this NOT get made...

     

    Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) is a literary agent who uses his 'gift of gab' to get various book deals, and he isn’t afraid to stretch the truth to get them. While he is trying to get a book deal from a New Age self-help guru named Dr. Sinja, the guru sees through his deceit and agrees to the deal, only to later deliver a five-page book. That night, a Bodhi Tree magically appears in his backyard. Dr. Sinja goes to Jack's house and they both discover that for every word that Jack says, a leaf will fall off of the tree. When the tree runs out of leaves, the tree will die, as will Jack. In time, he finds that even written words count towards his limit; plus anything that happens to the tree will also affect Jack. When Jack tries to cut it down with an axe, an axe wound appears on him. When squirrels climb the tree, it tickles him. When a gardener tries to poison it with DDT, Jack gets high on the fumes and when the gardener tries to water the tree, Jack starts to sweat/perspire profusely.

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    This isn't a person being hit by a meteor or their plane randomly crashes, it's a bit different. I don't think I'm cold or an asshole to say that rather than saying those things, think about anyone in your life who might be hiding a drug problem like this and try to do something about it. Addiction is a disease, but its not cancer... if you live your whole life perfectly as the doctor's prescribe, you can still just get cancer and die. So what I'm trying to say is, stay away from the drugs kids

    You might be interested in doing some reading on ΔFosB and the biological mechanism of addiction. You may also want to look at the performance of abstinence in regulating human behaviour. Regardless, I'd encourage you to just go away. Harris recognised he had a problem, commited himself to rehab and ultimately died of an addiction. Everyone in this thread is missing him and nobody needs you and your Nancy Reagan derived, wildly misinformed, views on drug addiction.

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