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Seriously, how many Chinese Movies (Esp. Xianxia/Wuxia Genre) have the word "Legend" in their title? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Switched on TV2 channel and was expecting a fire disaster film after seeing the title Firestorm. Instead it was a Chinese police movie.

Nitro-9 from Doctor Who was likely named after Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-9 since the second plot arc in the New Adventures is called Cat's Cradle.

Cradles for cats
Are string and air
If you let go
There's nothing there
But if we are neat
And nimble and clever
Pussy-cat's cradle will
Go on for ever.

Nitro-9 from Doctor Who was likely named after Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-9 since the second plot arc in the New Adventures is called Cat's Cradle.

Cat's Cradle is my favourite Kurt Vonnegut book, and one of my favourite books ever.

It starts off kind of slow, but it does a fantastic job building a sense of dread/apprehension (you know it's going to go wrong, you're just waiting for it) and does a great job describing human foolishness as well.

It's the only book I can remember having a nightmare about. And that nightmare did involve his depiction of ice-9 contacting a body of water.

Bokononism is also great. It's the most self-aware religion ever. And as Terry Pratchett put it, people need to believe the little lies so that we can believe the big ones. Bokononism is special in that people are aware it's all lies and yet they believe it anyway. It's like the idea of being crazy to prevent going crazy.

Anyway, the book resonated with me, in a way that I don't know if any other book really has. In my opinion, it, rather than Slaughterhouse Five (which is a good book, too), is his masterpiece.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 23 2021, 23:45

Switched on TV2 channel and was expecting a fire disaster film after seeing the title Firestorm. Instead it was a Chinese police movie.

It's nothing compared to when I watch a film titled Iris and it turned out to be Korean "thriller" movie (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I don't know if there's a christmas topic somewhere on these forums, but 9 pages of new content, that make me just want to give up to post in it as soon as possible while as close to midnight (where I live) as possible.

So Merry Christmas! to fit the latter condition.

This post has been edited by uareader: Dec 25 2021, 01:10

Happy pagan winter solstice celebration / miracle long-lasting lamp oil celebration / non-insemination-based birth of some ressurecting son o' God Jewish dude / discount shopping and excuse to skip work holiday / omg my family has food and we survived some cold weather in the northern hemisphere day / let's at least try to be kind to each other this one time of the year holiday,

This post has been edited by mordekainan: Dec 25 2021, 05:54

Watched Transformers Age of Extinction again, this time on AXN. The first time was on Paramount Network back in Dec 2019. Still enjoyed watching CIA mercenaries (organization called Cemetery Wind) getting their asses severely kicked.

Past Dora meets future Dora. Awesome.

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Past Dora meets future Dora. Awesome.
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OMG Which episode is this? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

OMG Which episode is this? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Season 5 "Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure"

Season 5 "Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure"

Oui gotta search that on YT (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
......
and here is what I found
[youtu.be] https://youtu.be/ahzLK4x1Ywc?list=PLPRzbkqw...LU8TrQC7jybw0U6

This post has been edited by Adhinferno Bloodmoon: Dec 28 2021, 12:00

The extra footage in The Mitchells vs The Machines Extended and Spider-Man Into the Spider Verse Alt. Universe Cut are merely sketches from storyboards animated like a slideshow. Such half-hearted effort.

Seriously, >69% of Chinese Authors are a bunch of shameless dogshit who just copy paste other works and publish it as their work and then sell it for money.
Creativity is so totally dead there (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Anyone knows the name of a cartoon somewhere from the year 2000-2010 about a mixed-gender team of teenage (or pre-teens) football player (soccer in US) competing in a competition? Their uniform is mostly blue, two of the team's members are brother and sister (I recalled they have thick, wavy, light brown-colored hair) and one of their rivals are called the Jaguars, whose owner (an evil corporation of sorts) secretly sponsor other teams as well. The cartoon was in English but I believed it was dubbed and likely originated from Europe, like maybe France.

Why da hell I am thinking about Shaolin Soccer when I read the post above? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I recall the actual runtime is little over 4 hours. Wonder what's missing?

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I recall the actual runtime is little over 4 hours. Wonder what's missing?
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The Ads, maybe? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
The Tv Channels in my country is very very greedy with ads.
A normal 1.5-2 hours film can be aired for 3-4 hours here (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Seriously, >69% of Chinese Authors are a bunch of shameless dogshit who just copy paste other works and publish it as their work and then sell it for money.
Creativity is so totally dead there (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

To be honest, other country author also did that too. But yeah, the Chinese is on whole new level.

Watched Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle just now. By the end of the film, the cursed game was shown destroyed by the main characters. But I guess it wasn't really gone. Otherwise there wouldn't be a sequel.