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What makes you get up and leave?

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What makes you get up and leave?
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 11:44 am
(November 22, 2018 at 11:13 am)tackattack Wrote: And a sunken cost fallacy, but we are just humans and none of us are perfect.

Sunk cost fallacy is throwing good money after bad. Recycling character and themes is to milk previous creativity rather than promote new creativity. Recycling character is sound commercial practice and not sunk cost fallacy. However, sound commercial practice can kiss my ass. I want the writers to have talent and work it hard for my money.

So with rare exceptions I spit on sequels and reboots.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 11:44 am
(November 22, 2018 at 11:35 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(November 22, 2018 at 11:22 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Regardless of what we may think of writers, it remains true that a bird in the hand is more valuable than two in the bush.

Unless you are looking for new kind of birds.

The writers and producers would be plenty happy if the old birds keep buying tickets to their movies.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 11:57 am
All I can say is, that's what bothers me. If it doesn't bother you, that's fine too.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 3:48 pm (This post was last modified: November 22, 2018 at 3:50 pm by Duty.)
A Hollywood movie where the bad guy has an English accent. Cliche-tastic, and you just know the film's gonna be shite (99% of the time (a notable exception being Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith IMO)) because it's built to please the audience, not convey a narrative where disbelief can possibly be suspended.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Too much mushy stuff
Too much cute stuff.
Romcoms
Has Adam Sandler or Nicholas Cage in it.
Is by Tarantino/ Abrams (exception is Star Wars but that's simply for completion)

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Agreed on the sandler thing. He's about as funny as finding out you have to lose both balls to testicular cancer, then coming home to find your family has been slaughtered!
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Kevin Costner.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 5:17 pm
(November 22, 2018 at 4:18 pm)no one Wrote: Agreed on the sandler thing. He's about as funny as finding out you have to lose both balls to testicular cancer, then coming home to find your family has been slaughtered!

He's the guy who only knows how to play the character with anger management issues, right?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 5:50 pm
(November 22, 2018 at 11:20 am)wyzas Wrote:
(November 22, 2018 at 6:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Imagine you are in a theater and have no idea what movie is about to be played. What would you see that makes you completely indifferent to what follows that, to the point where you get up and leave the theater?

For me it could be very early on. If the movie title had "Saw" or "Transformers" in it, I'd be out of there quickly.

However, if the title wasn't a tip-off, and I waited through the intro material, excessive gratuitous violence or sadistic suffering would be enough to make me seek the exit.

If I didn't know the movie I'd probably not be there to begin with.

A theater full of ankle bitters is a good sign that I shouldn't be there. Or all/mostly women, no offense women. 

If I'm not hooked in the first 20 minutes I'm either leaving or sleeping.

When I was single I would go to a theater, and ask for a ticket to the next feature starting. I didn't even look at the ticket. When the picture started I knew what I was going to see, at least the name. After that it was up to the company to get me to stay.
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RE: What makes you get up and leave?
November 22, 2018 at 6:42 pm
(November 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: Kevin Costner.

What! He’s a beautiful man, though.


For me it would have to be sadism. I can’t see torture. How someone can sit through two hours of people skinning and chopping people is beyond me.
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