It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, but i wouldn't call The Incredibles un-toyetic. it's pretty toyetic too!
With the Incredibles you have at max 15 or so characters you can make toys from. With Cars, you have 50+, including all the background ones. Also I think toy cars generally sell better than action figures.
It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film. The result is swiftly diminishing returns.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
This reminds me of how my Star Wars toys growing up were the kind of snail-headed looking guy from the cantina and the doctor droid from when Luke was recovering on Hoth.
Did you know that the police abuse their position of power from time to time?
I saw a cop pull over someone for passing a guy doing 25 in a 55, because it was a double solid.
Unless the guy doing 25 was a tractor half off the road and it was a clear straightaway and the car that passed didn't even have to leave the lane entirely, then thecop made the right call. You can't cross a double yellow to pass. That's like running a red light.
NYS makes an exception for people impeding the flow of traffic so long as, by your best judgement, it was safe to pass. So long as you don't have to go excessively fast to pass them (meaning someone's coming or they're going like 45 in a 55).
It is common for old ladies, the kind that typically write checks, to drive their Lincoln town cars 25 mph on a 55 mph road.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The second Hangover film doesn't really hold up to the first film because it is the first film. Also Zack G comes off as more of a goose.
It was the same film, but I think it transcended the first film in obscenity by far. It's like they took every "oh shiiiii...." moment in the first film and said "Hey, how could we make this even more outlandish." I still enjoyed it though. And even my "I didn't really like the first one" wife laughed a few times.
It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
This reminds me of how my Star Wars toys growing up were the kind of snail-headed looking guy from the cantina and the doctor droid from when Luke was recovering on Hoth.
I used to know the name of like, every dude in the cantina and every ranking imperial officer thanks to the god damn star wars ccg.
It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
This reminds me of how my Star Wars toys growing up were the kind of snail-headed looking guy from the cantina and the doctor droid from when Luke was recovering on Hoth.
Whenever I'd get together with a friend and play with action figures, we'd invariably have doubles of popular characters like Wolverine. This would force us to use cloning, alternate universes, and time travel as plot devices in nearly every single fantasy scenario, because somehow that was more acceptable than one of us not getting to play as Wolverine.
Jesus, I'd forgotten how depressing the start of this movie is. Though it's what makes it so great too - they perfectly capture a whole generation of despair, without going all Fight Club.
Speaking of transvestites, totally not prepared for full-frontal ladyboy in Hangover 2 last night.
The Hangover 2 wasn't so much funny as it was a remake of the first Hangover, except creepy and dark.
Like, I have less of an issue with Phil fucking a transvestite, and more of an issue with him cheating on his fiancée - who is a good person this time - having unprotected sex with a sex worker, and then not telling the fiancée. He should get tested. He probably won't be getting tested on his honeymoon.
Also, that kid they lost, Freddy? Weren't they making a big deal about how that kid is really good at something that involves his hands... and then he loses a finger. A monkey gets shot. Senor Chang is arrested. One of the guys gets shot.
It's sadly more toyetic than the other films. Even Toy Story.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
This reminds me of how my Star Wars toys growing up were the kind of snail-headed looking guy from the cantina and the doctor droid from when Luke was recovering on Hoth.
Whenever I'd get together with a friend and play with action figures, we'd invariably have doubles of popular characters like Wolverine. This would force us to use cloning, alternate universes, and time travel as plot devices in nearly every single fantasy scenario, because somehow that was more acceptable than one of us not getting to play as Wolverine.
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Speaking of transvestites, totally not prepared for full-frontal ladyboy in Hangover 2 last night.
The Hangover 2 wasn't so much funny as it was a remake of the first Hangover, except creepy and dark.
Like, I have less of an issue with Phil fucking a transvestite, and more of an issue with him cheating on his fiancée - who is a good person this time - having unprotected sex with a sex worker, and then not telling the fiancée. He should get tested. He probably won't be getting tested on his honeymoon.
Also, that kid they lost, Freddy? Weren't they making a big deal about how that kid is really good at something that involves his hands... and then he loses a finger. A monkey gets shot. Senor Chang is arrested. One of the guys gets shot.
Such a bad sequel.
I missed Heather Graham. She's so adorable.
Also,
the kid cuts off his own finger to avoid the future as a surgeon that his father has planned for him.
He's still well-educated and from a rich family, so he'd undoubtedly end up doing well in life anyway.
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Jesus, I'd forgotten how depressing the start of this movie is. Though it's what makes it so great too - they perfectly capture a whole generation of despair, without going all Fight Club.
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Speaking of transvestites, totally not prepared for full-frontal ladyboy in Hangover 2 last night.
The Hangover 2 wasn't so much funny as it was a remake of the first Hangover, except creepy and dark.
Like, I have less of an issue with Phil fucking a transvestite, and more of an issue with him cheating on his fiancée - who is a good person this time - having unprotected sex with a sex worker, and then not telling the fiancée. He should get tested. He probably won't be getting tested on his honeymoon.
Also, that kid they lost, Freddy? Weren't they making a big deal about how that kid is really good at something that involves his hands... and then he loses a finger. A monkey gets shot. Senor Chang is arrested. One of the guys gets shot.
Such a bad sequel.
Yeah, one of the things that was great about the Hangover
was that (and the way the movie starts is meant to illustrate this) they get to such a horrible low that it seems like they'll be completely unable to recover, yet in the end everything works out in a happy and at least semi-believable way. In the second movie it seems like they wanted to go farther with that in every direction and make shit get really, really bad, but in the end the recovery is super hollow and doesn't make any sense.
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Watching like, freshmen squirm is adorable.
i was thinking about doing this for german
but it's cheaper to do it my way
Which way be you doing it?
online websites and talking to people on livemocha in the language a lot
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Watching like, freshmen squirm is adorable.
i was thinking about doing this for german
but it's cheaper to do it my way
Which way be you doing it?
online websites and talking to people on livemocha in the language a lot
I even changed my phone settings to german
Nice! Well, I'm off to class, gonna listen to this news podcast in japanese, see if I can make any sense of it at all.
You know what's fun Winky? Is being back in community as college as someone who already has a degree and doesn't care what grade he gets in the class at all (I just want the language practice and access to the language lab).
Watching like, freshmen squirm is adorable.
i was thinking about doing this for german
but it's cheaper to do it my way
Which way be you doing it?
online websites and talking to people on livemocha in the language a lot
I even changed my phone settings to german
got me a grammar book on the way, though.
The single best way to learn a language is to expose yourself constantly to media. Watch the news, watch movies, listen to the radio, as soon as possible read books.
There's so many better ways they could've gone about it, too.
Like, why use the same exact three characters? Switch out two of them, or use three entirely new characters. Like, the Hangover was hilarious in seeing how these three totally different kinds of guys reacted to this scenario, and as a result the only way to not just completely rehash the first film was to go way over the top in introducing them to more absurd scenarios. It would've been much more entertaining to show different types of people going through the same thing.
Oh hey what do you know the hospital that uses java components that requires everyone to have administrative access to the machine is malfunctioning again.
I fucking hate your EHR software mckesson, go suck a big dick because you have terrible coding practices. No, I shouldn't need fucking administrator for shit that puts a button on a web page and displays text because you wanted to be fancy people with your god damned Java applet that sucks big black dick.
I'm not mad or anything.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Speaking of transvestites, totally not prepared for full-frontal ladyboy in Hangover 2 last night.
The Hangover 2 wasn't so much funny as it was a remake of the first Hangover, except creepy and dark.
Like, I have less of an issue with Phil fucking a transvestite, and more of an issue with him cheating on his fiancée - who is a good person this time - having unprotected sex with a sex worker, and then not telling the fiancée. He should get tested. He probably won't be getting tested on his honeymoon.
Also, that kid they lost, Freddy? Weren't they making a big deal about how that kid is really good at something that involves his hands... and then he loses a finger. A monkey gets shot. Senor Chang is arrested. One of the guys gets shot.
Such a bad sequel.
Yeah, one of the things that was great about the Hangover
was that (and the way the movie starts is meant to illustrate this) they get to such a horrible low that it seems like they'll be completely unable to recover, yet in the end everything works out in a happy and at least semi-believable way. In the second movie it seems like they wanted to go farther with that in every direction and make shit get really, really bad, but in the end the recovery is super hollow and doesn't make any sense.
Seriously. Having a deep dark secret to hide from your wife isn't a recovery. The group was irreparably damaged but they all acted like everything was kosher. The ending was fairly dishonest.
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So, Civ V multiplayer is pretty boss you guys. Wish more of you had participated last night. :P Oh well, there's always next time.
But why is it that the PA Vent server is always packed full of people playing other games, but when I get into a multiplayer game with PA people, it's always, "Oh, I can't really talk, my mics broken, I'm too lame to want to speak live, blah blah whine whine."?
Oh hey what do you know the hospital that uses java components that requires everyone to have administrative access to the machine is malfunctioning again.
I fucking hate your EHR software mckesson, go suck a big dick because you have terrible coding practices. No, I shouldn't need fucking administrator for shit that puts a button on a web page and displays text because you wanted to be fancy people with your god damned Java applet that sucks big black dick.
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With the Incredibles you have at max 15 or so characters you can make toys from. With Cars, you have 50+, including all the background ones. Also I think toy cars generally sell better than action figures.
Yeah, the problem with merchandising for most films is that you have a finite amount of characters, and once you've exhausted them you can either come up with needless variants (Arctic Parachute Batman!) or introduce original characters who aren't recognizable and probably won't fit the aesthetic of the actual film. The result is swiftly diminishing returns.
It's much easier to create original characters specifically for toylines with Cars, though. You basically just slap a pair of eyes on every Hot Wheels car and suddenly you have a billion dollars.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
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I should watch this movie for uh...science.
???
I am looking forward to it.
I like the game for the PVE component. Sadly though, it seems like it is going to be scratching the same itch that ME3 multiplayer is going to.
This reminds me of how my Star Wars toys growing up were the kind of snail-headed looking guy from the cantina and the doctor droid from when Luke was recovering on Hoth.
NYS makes an exception for people impeding the flow of traffic so long as, by your best judgement, it was safe to pass. So long as you don't have to go excessively fast to pass them (meaning someone's coming or they're going like 45 in a 55).
It is common for old ladies, the kind that typically write checks, to drive their Lincoln town cars 25 mph on a 55 mph road.
There are a lot of reasons why the Hangover 2 doesn't work.
And they make it just really, really not work.
It was a movie that never, ever should have had a sequel.
It was the same film, but I think it transcended the first film in obscenity by far. It's like they took every "oh shiiiii...." moment in the first film and said "Hey, how could we make this even more outlandish." I still enjoyed it though. And even my "I didn't really like the first one" wife laughed a few times.
I used to know the name of like, every dude in the cantina and every ranking imperial officer thanks to the god damn star wars ccg.
Whenever I'd get together with a friend and play with action figures, we'd invariably have doubles of popular characters like Wolverine. This would force us to use cloning, alternate universes, and time travel as plot devices in nearly every single fantasy scenario, because somehow that was more acceptable than one of us not getting to play as Wolverine.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
I liked how Ken Jeong was basically channeling a filthy version of Edna Mode from The Incredibles.
Looks like class is canceled
The Hangover 2 wasn't so much funny as it was a remake of the first Hangover, except creepy and dark.
Also, that kid they lost, Freddy? Weren't they making a big deal about how that kid is really good at something that involves his hands... and then he loses a finger. A monkey gets shot. Senor Chang is arrested. One of the guys gets shot.
Such a bad sequel.
we did this too
Watching like, freshmen squirm is adorable.
I missed Heather Graham. She's so adorable.
Also,
He's still well-educated and from a rich family, so he'd undoubtedly end up doing well in life anyway.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
but it's cheaper to do it my way
What movie?
Which way be you doing it?
Yeah, one of the things that was great about the Hangover
Right?
What really should've happened is that the Hangover 2 should never have been made.
I even changed my phone settings to german
got me a grammar book on the way, though.
Nice! Well, I'm off to class, gonna listen to this news podcast in japanese, see if I can make any sense of it at all.
Toodles!
The single best way to learn a language is to expose yourself constantly to media. Watch the news, watch movies, listen to the radio, as soon as possible read books.
Like, why use the same exact three characters? Switch out two of them, or use three entirely new characters. Like, the Hangover was hilarious in seeing how these three totally different kinds of guys reacted to this scenario, and as a result the only way to not just completely rehash the first film was to go way over the top in introducing them to more absurd scenarios. It would've been much more entertaining to show different types of people going through the same thing.
I fucking hate your EHR software mckesson, go suck a big dick because you have terrible coding practices. No, I shouldn't need fucking administrator for shit that puts a button on a web page and displays text because you wanted to be fancy people with your god damned Java applet that sucks big black dick.
I'm not mad or anything.
I was thinking that Sawyer would have been perfect as Jamie Lannister too.
But why is it that the PA Vent server is always packed full of people playing other games, but when I get into a multiplayer game with PA people, it's always, "Oh, I can't really talk, my mics broken, I'm too lame to want to speak live, blah blah whine whine."?
Why's it gotta be a black dick, Bowen? o_O