Way to make Dvader feel like shit for that pic he has from a gazillion years ago with a dolphin in Seaworld. 
gamingeek said:Foolz said:gamingeek said:There's one annoying Aussie surfer dude and he's only in it for 5 minutes. He talks in surfer lingo. The other people are all trainers or scientists. The documentary is cool because they mount this A-Team like mission to secretly film everything. They have to enlist the help of hollywood special effects to hide cameras in rocks, they have to get thermal imaging cameras like the army to scout ahead and plant underwater mics.
If this thing is every on TV again, try and catch it.
Is he annoying because of surfer lingo or because of dolphin gushing? In my experience scientists/trainers are often immune to the former, but not to the latter.
Surfer lingo. Dude.
Dvader said:That Cove movie would make me too sad. So is anything being done about the killings?Nope. Dolphins are not classed as whales by the IWC so Japan can slaughter as many as they want. If you ever go to these swim with dolphins programs or seaworld or whatever, you are contributing to ther slaughter. The dolphin drives at Taiji feed the world market for show dolphins, they pick out the ones that look like flipper sell them for $150'000, then get the rest into the cove and slaugther them for meat.
Surfer lingo, meh. Dolphin gushing makes me want to kill dolphins, dolphin gushers, and then myself.
And the Japanese don't have much trouble slaughtering whales despite the restrictions.
SteelAttack said:gamingeek said:Nope. Dolphins are not classed as whales by the IWC so Japan can slaughter as many as they want. If you ever go to these swim with dolphins programs or seaworld or whatever, you are contributing to ther slaughter. The dolphin drives at Taiji feed the world market for show dolphins, they pick out the ones that look like flipper sell them for $150'000, then get the rest into the cove and slaugther them for meat.
Way to make Dvader feel like shit for that pic he has from a gazillion years ago with a dolphin in Seaworld.
My bro and his girlfriend too, they went to Cancun and swam with dolphins, took pics. If they had any idea how and where these dolphins were caught... it's pretty shocking. Whereas before I would have liked to have swum with the dolphins, after seeing the Cove it's become completely immoral for me to do such a thing.
In the UK, places like Seaworld legally can't operate. You can keep aquariums but no creatures of dolphin size or over. Also dolphin meat is contaminated with high levels of poisenous mercury, so the people eating it are actually damaging themselves.
Foolz said:gamingeek said:Foolz said:gamingeek said:There's one annoying Aussie surfer dude and he's only in it for 5 minutes. He talks in surfer lingo. The other people are all trainers or scientists. The documentary is cool because they mount this A-Team like mission to secretly film everything. They have to enlist the help of hollywood special effects to hide cameras in rocks, they have to get thermal imaging cameras like the army to scout ahead and plant underwater mics.
If this thing is every on TV again, try and catch it.
Is he annoying because of surfer lingo or because of dolphin gushing? In my experience scientists/trainers are often immune to the former, but not to the latter.
Surfer lingo. Dude.
Dvader said:That Cove movie would make me too sad. So is anything being done about the killings?Nope. Dolphins are not classed as whales by the IWC so Japan can slaughter as many as they want. If you ever go to these swim with dolphins programs or seaworld or whatever, you are contributing to ther slaughter. The dolphin drives at Taiji feed the world market for show dolphins, they pick out the ones that look like flipper sell them for $150'000, then get the rest into the cove and slaugther them for meat.
Surfer lingo, meh. Dolphin gushing makes me want to kill dolphins, dolphin gushers, and then myself.
And the Japanese don't have much trouble slaughtering whales despite the restrictions.
I don't think you'd say that if you saw this film. One of the dolphins escaped the nets by darting over the surface. It popped over water then under, then the same again - clearly distressed. It was followed by a trail of its own blood and you could see that it was like cut in half. Then it went under and never came up again.
Watched this for the second time.
When I first saw it, I was expecting something amazing because of the awesome trailer.
However I was quite disappointed. Then over the months I got a growing itch to watch it again, so bought it. Second time through I was loving it. I guess I was defeated by expectations the first time through. The film has no script really, no proper story. You know about the McGuffin? It's what writers call an object or person that everybody wants in a movie. It serves as motivation. This movie could be renamed McGuffin.
One of the characters has a treasure map to an ancient Qing dynasty treasure, and everyone else is trying to get it. That's the basic rub of the plot.
However, despite its light on substance plot, the actors, production values, action scenes and energetic directing make it a really fun ride.
It's directed by Kim Jee-Woon who did The Foul King, A Bittersweet Life and a Tale of Two sisters. The action choreography is done by the Oldboy action director who sadly died on set in an accident.
gamingeek said:I don't think you'd say that if you saw this film. One of the dolphins escaped the nets by darting over the surface. It popped over water then under, then the same again - clearly distressed. It was followed by a trail of its own blood and you could see that it was like cut in half. Then it went under and never came up again.
Yes I would. I don't think I'm explaining myself very well. I've got nothing against dolphins, and from what I've heard about this it's pretty despicable. However many dolphin lovers irritate me greatly. Not in the context of raising awareness of something like this, though.
FANTASTIC!!! The story is excellent, incredible cast of characters and non stop action. With the live action movies you forget about the more crazy fantasy world of Batman, nice to see it on display here but with that same level of drama. The final scene is better than the final Two-Face scene in Dark Knight. Joker is amazing, and its not Mark Hamill, its Bender from Futurama. Not as good but you get to like him as the movie goes on. If you like Batman or cartoon movies check it out.
Yes that's actually one of the DVD covers
All I can say is....HOLY FUCK WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE!!!!!
I started watching the english version and in typical 70s American patriotism, they've chopped it up to remove all meaning entirely. Oh well at least the box art gives me chuckles
After which I downloaded all 3 seasons with japanese audio and english subs. I can see why some people say George Lucas might have been influenced by this show.
Dvader said:I saw this tonight.
FANTASTIC!!! The story is excellent, incredible cast of characters and non stop action. With the live action movies you forget about the more crazy fantasy world of Batman, nice to see it on display here but with that same level of drama. The final scene is better than the final Two-Face scene in Dark Knight. Joker is amazing, and its not Mark Hamill, its Bender from Futurama. Not as good but you get to like him as the movie goes on. If you like Batman or cartoon movies check it out.
Definetly have to catch this.
robio said:Oh man I just got done watching Toy Story 3 (finally). Really good movie, but damn I came close to bawling my eyes out a couple times during it. Felt like a little kid with a skinned knee.
Same here, man. Time's a nasty bitch, huh?
Watching this today. I love this woman.
gamingeek said:I used to like the Outer Limits show. Are you watching the 90s one?
Nope, the original 1960s one. Second season. I think I've seen bits of the first season on community TV, but I'm not sure if that's what it was.
Is that how they filmed that?
Saw this. Pretty good. Suprised me with how restrained it was at times. Brad pitt hammed things up royally though. And they built up a couple of characters, only to then off them midway through the movie, whilst not following their story through. Also left this non-entity character alive at the end with pitt.
Too violent though.
I hated Inglorious Basterds (or however they incorrectly spelled it). I was set up expecting more of a black comedy or maybe something with more clever dialogue. That's how the trailers depicted it. What they delivered was something a lot harder to define. Not a drama, not a black comedy, not an action movie.... practically impossible to label it really.
I will give it to Christoph Waltz that he was amazing in his role. Completely deserved the Academy Award for it. He walked that line between being so charismatic that you want to like him, but every once in a while he does something so terrible you're confused as hell as to why you liked him in the first place. Very much like Hannibal Lecter or Tony Soprano.
robio said:I hated Inglorious Basterds (or however they incorrectly spelled it). I was set up expecting more of a black comedy or maybe something with more clever dialogue. That's how the trailers depicted it. What they delivered was something a lot harder to define. Not a drama, not a black comedy, not an action movie.... practically impossible to label it really.
I will give it to Christoph Waltz that he was amazing in his role. Completely deserved the Academy Award for it. He walked that line between being so charismatic that you want to like him, but every once in a while he does something so terrible you're confused as hell as to why you liked him in the first place. Very much like Hannibal Lecter or Tony Soprano.
I think drama, but I get what you are saying. The trailers showed all the hammy Brad Pitt moments when the film was mostly serious and slow paced. In fact the film is barely about the Bastards. It's mostly about the cinema owner and the Jew Hunter.
Christoph Waltz, was he the Jew Hunter actor? Amazing that he speaks 4 languages like that.
Was suprised that they didn't do anything better with Hugo Steigletz character.