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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 1:28 am
Don't even get me started on Twilight and its ilk...lol.
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 2:54 am
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 10:10 am
(August 14, 2014 at 1:28 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Don't even get me started on Twilight and its ilk...lol.
I'm getting the impression we may need to start a Twilight rage thread.
:p
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 11:58 am
(August 14, 2014 at 10:10 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (August 14, 2014 at 1:28 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Don't even get me started on Twilight and its ilk...lol.
I'm getting the impression we may need to start a Twilight rage thread.
:p
Will do that gladly! 
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 1:16 pm
(August 13, 2014 at 12:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Johnny "Goodboy" Tyler, Battlefield Earth. 1,100 pages of that shit......goddamnit.
Is that the chap who got into a harrier jump jet for the first ever time and flew it instantly without any training?
Terrible terrible books L Ron Hubbard was a real hack Sci Fi writer.
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 4:11 pm
(August 14, 2014 at 11:58 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: (August 14, 2014 at 10:10 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I'm getting the impression we may need to start a Twilight rage thread.
:p
Will do that gladly!
Luckily, I've forgotten enough of those stupid books that all I have left is the tainted aftertaste of shitty writing and I don't remember many of the particulars.
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Which are worse the books or the movies? (I only watched the first movie. and I don't read, the only stuff I read this year are college stuff, Internet articles, a religious book about the role of religion in life given to me by ma mama (too many logical fallacies, even for a person like me) and parts of the bible and koran)
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 5:21 pm
(August 14, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Luckily, I've forgotten enough of those stupid books that all I have left is the tainted aftertaste of shitty writing and I don't remember many of the particulars.
Apparently, the books are popular among those in Al Qaida:
For those who haven't seen it, Al Qaida isn't happy with the "truther" conspiracy theorists. either.
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 14, 2014 at 6:34 pm
(August 14, 2014 at 5:02 pm)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote: Which are worse the books or the movies?
The books.
Each movie is over in about two hours; the books will suck 8 to 10 hours out of your life.
EACH.
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RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 18, 2014 at 4:06 pm
The character that jumps to mind is Patrick Swayze's James Dalton in Roadhouse.
Badass? Check.
A shady past (though it wasn't really his fault and he feels bad about it)? Indeed.
Drives a cool car (when he isn't obliged to hide it from pissed off bar patrons)? Yep.
Sensitive and educated (a background in philosophy, for Christ's sake!)? Covered.
Cool enough to hang with Sam Eliot? You better believe it.
Gains the trust, respect, and friendship of all the right locals in record time? Absolutely.
Woos and beds the hottest doctor in all of Missouri? But of course.
Beats the shit out of people for a living but has too much integrity to join the bad guys? Was there any doubt?
My guess is that the original completed draft of the screenplay was probably covered with the writer's cum stains.
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