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[Movies] When Dinosaurs Ruled the Box Office

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    While an overzealous security guard flanks you with a taser

    Broke as fuck in the style of the times. Gratitude is all that can return on your generosity.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    You can't fool me, Reboot was set in MAINFRAME, you poser.

    WELL DONE CAPTAIN!

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    You can't fool me, Reboot was set in MAINFRAME, you poser.

    WELL DONE CAPTAIN!

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Wait did everyone else know that they're making another hitman movie and it's coming out this year

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  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY papa! Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Wait did everyone else know that they're making another hitman movie and it's coming out this year

    No Tim Olyphant, no sale

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    In less than a month, even

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    So I saw a trailer for the new woody Allen movie and I was like huh what's this and then oh wait it's about an older man in a relationship with a woman thirty years younger than him, what else could woody Allen ever write about

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    While an overzealous security guard flanks you with a taser

    That'd be their mistake, because like Bennett from Commando electricity only fuels me for more murdering!

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    If Woody Allen's career had to survive long enough just to get to Match Point it would be worth it

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    the fallacy of your plan here is assuming the person you are talking to is old enough to know what reboot is

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    I never saw Reboot but I thought the PS1 game was pretty neat

    It was like a shittier-controlling Tony Hawk game but you had a gun

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    my hot take on reboot still stands to this day:

    "that looks dumb, when's cadillacs and dinosaurs start?"

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I never saw Reboot but I thought the PS1 game was pretty neat

    It was like a shittier-controlling Tony Hawk game but you had a gun

    I played through that whole game due to my love of Reboot. The plot introduced a bunch of stuff, like the sister city, way before it was brought up in the show.

    Sad part is I don't think a game cube ever landed in the game. That would have been cool, going into another game.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Is there a site that has historical tv listings? I'm trying to remember what show was on before Reboot.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    The Reboot video game caused me to lose Great Greed, one of my favorite RPGs, for the original Game Boy

    I was able to reacquire the same copy of the game sixteen years later

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    The Reboot video game caused me to lose Great Greed, one of my favorite RPGs, for the original Game Boy

    I was able to reacquire the same copy of the game sixteen years later

    How?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    The Reboot video game caused me to lose Great Greed, one of my favorite RPGs, for the original Game Boy

    I was able to reacquire the same copy of the game sixteen years later

    How?

    Back in the wonderful days of middle school, we had a game-trading ring going on. You could either trade games for keeps or just borrowing, it all worked on the honor system. One game for one game, the console didn't matter

    So I let this kid borrow three games of mine, including Great Greed, and he let me borrow three of his games. When I'd finished with them, I brought them back to school and he brought back three as well, but Reboot was one of them, and that game was not mine. I reminded him that Great Greed was the third game I lent to him, and handed him back Reboot, but he said he'd talked to everyone and didn't know where this copy of Reboot came from and assumed it was mine, and then he said I could just go ahead and keep Reboot, and he'd hold onto Great Greed a little longer since he hadn't played it yet.

    Flash forward a few weeks, I'd played Reboot a bunch, never beat it. No one in the circle ever mentioned the game, I even brought it up to all of them. "Free game," I thought.

    And then one of my friends got Final Fantasy VII and it looked super cool and I wanted a copy, so I went to the flea market to do some trading to get a copy. Reboot was one of the games I traded. The next week I went back to school and the kid came up to me and was like "hey, Reboot was actually my brother's game, so if you can just bring that back" and I told him I didn't have it anymore. So he gave his own copy of Vigilante 8 to his brother and kept my copy of Great Greed.

    Flash to 2014 and I end up working with the kid's older sister. I mention this story to her and it turns out her husband had actually gotten a copy of Great Greed, from her brother. I bought it off of her husband for $10

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    That's kinda how my brother traded away TMNT for the NES for Strider. The other kid then moved before he could trade back but TMNT was horrible so it was a slight step up.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    The point is

    Great Greed rules and the Reboot game was not half bad

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I'm positive my copy of reboot is in a box in the garage right now. You could do some crazy stuff in that game with a game shark.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    strictly speaking, with walmart at least, you're supposed to card anyone who looks younger than 40, in case it's a teenager that looks old for their age

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Let me tell you about Reboot.

    Back in 1994, not everyone had consoles, it was a dark time. So for people like me, who's options were to visit other people's houses for their console fix, this scratched the itch of video games that you couldn't play.

    I could also tell you the other story in 1994 where 11 year old Blake read in a magazine t something called the internet and I was so excited to use it, I saved up some money to use it at my local library, sat down in front of the computer for my allotted 30 minutes and couldn't figure it out and nearly cried that I wasted my four dollars.

    As I type this, my watch just told me I got an email.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I have never heard of Great Greed

  • McFlynnMcFlynn Registered User regular
    There was no trading games in my school, but I did buy Quest 64 from a kid once for a quarter.

    The kid also owed me a quarter so I got it right back at lunch.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Man. Now I am going to be really sad if Spectre doesn't use the On Her Majesty's Secret Service theme in the actual movie at some point.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Let me tell you about Reboot.

    Back in 1994, not everyone had consoles, it was a dark time. So for people like me, who's options were to visit other people's houses for their console fix, this scratched the itch of video games that you couldn't play.

    I could also tell you the other story in 1994 where 11 year old Blake read in a magazine t something called the internet and I was so excited to use it, I saved up some money to use it at my local library, sat down in front of the computer for my allotted 30 minutes and couldn't figure it out and nearly cried that I wasted my four dollars.

    As I type this, my watched just told me I got an email.

    Technology!

  • existexist Registered User regular
    That's kinda how my brother traded away TMNT for the NES for Strider. The other kid then moved before he could trade back but TMNT was horrible so it was a slight step up.

    Excuse me? NES Strider is a great game.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Fawst wrote: »
    R in the US is 18+ unless you're with a parent or guardian. As I found out, guardian does not mean "be with someone who is 18+" as my girlfriend at the time, her brother and I went to see Interview with the Vampire for a second time. We weren't 18 yet, but her brother was. They wouldn't sell us tickets, so we left, he went back in to a different booth and just bought three tickets. Problem solved!

    Strangely enough, it's 17+

    I have also managed to con my way into a number of R movies. It helped that my parents did not give a shit and I could fall back on the "here call my parents and ask them if it's ok" deal.

    I'm pretty sure without an ID I'd have problems getting into an R-rated movie nowadays and I'm almost 27.

    "Listen, I am old enough for this film! Do I need to prove it? Do you want me to describe Reboot the animated television show from the 90's? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT!?! ALRIGHT, HERE GOES: WITHIN THE CITY OF MEGABYTE--"

    1: It was Mainframe
    2: I have grown a beard, and now I only get carded by the most strict of bartenders because I look "Under 32" which basically means I will be carded forever.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I have never heard of Great Greed

    It's an RPG where everyone is named after food and food-related things. The princess is named Cupcake, her servant is named Microwave, dog is named Candy, etc.

    It's also fantasy-but-not-really

    Like there are kings and knights and wizards and stuff and all the trappings of a Dragon Quest/FF, but there are also weird anachronisms, like there's a quest where you have to go to this abandoned record factory to rescue this singer who's trapped in the building, and you're navigating across these giant moving turntables

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    exist wrote: »
    That's kinda how my brother traded away TMNT for the NES for Strider. The other kid then moved before he could trade back but TMNT was horrible so it was a slight step up.

    Excuse me? NES Strider is a great game.

    Oh I enjoyed strider, but it was expensive considering how long it was, so to get it for TMNT was good.

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  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    I forget if I mentioned that I started A Field in England last night. I plan to finish it up tomorrow at some point. Definitely interesting, that one.

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Ooh. Let us know how that goes.

  • KingofMadCowsKingofMadCows Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    So I saw a trailer for the new woody Allen movie and I was like huh what's this and then oh wait it's about an older man in a relationship with a woman thirty years younger than him, what else could woody Allen ever write about

    Yeah, movies with relationships between a young woman and a much older man is such an anomaly in Hollywood.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    So I saw a trailer for the new woody Allen movie and I was like huh what's this and then oh wait it's about an older man in a relationship with a woman thirty years younger than him, what else could woody Allen ever write about

    Yeah, movies with relationships between a young woman and a much older man is such an anomaly in Hollywood.

    No, but this is seriously all Woody Allen writes anymore
    Like his last 6 movies or something

  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    It was what he wrote back then too, when he was still acting in his movies

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I am annoyed with Pixels for pretty much the same reason I get annoyed at people who make Dr. Seuss movies, except with Pixels it seems like the people involved didn't even care about the nostalgia they were planning on making bank off of.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    I'm annoyed with Pixels because Adam Sandler might actually be a terrible person.

    And also because it seems like the people involved didn't even care about the nostalgia they were planning on making bank off of.

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Langly wrote: »
    So I saw a trailer for the new woody Allen movie and I was like huh what's this and then oh wait it's about an older man in a relationship with a woman thirty years younger than him, what else could woody Allen ever write about

    Yeah, movies with relationships between a young woman and a much older man is such an anomaly in Hollywood.

    No but most of those aren't written by adult men who raped 8 year old girls

    But nice glibness

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
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