Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

I can't wait until I finally sit down with them in ~13 years from now and hit 'play' on Game of Thrones ultimate collection.
Their faces when they figure out what daddy has been saying for 13 years.

 

I am so going to use this. Fuck, I'll write it down and put it on my workdesk.

 

what
the
actual
fuck

 

Zombism.

 

Art.

 

Just watched the video with music... It didn't help

 

nic cage is the best. and by best I mean the worst and it's great.

 

So what happens when they complain about having to watch some old crappy soap opera that you tapped from cable. As Im sure technology will be worlds apart by then from now

 

I -still- love watching the original Star Trek, and movies from the 70s and 80s. Some of those have been out nearly twice as long as he's proposing. The visual effects aren't mind-blowing, and most of the acting is mediocre by comparison to modern standards. Even still, they're a blast to watch. Hell, you can even go back further to true classic movies from a couple of decades prior to those.

I think solid storytelling has a timelessness that can't be overcompensated for with stunning graphics alone. That's what HBO did with the Game of Thrones series- they took an amazing story and got great talent to put it on screen. The visuals might go stale in time, but the story is still going to be fucking awesome.

 

Of course, really depressing shit where everyone dies may be out of style by then.

 

Ancient greek stories, Shakespeare?

It's never out. I always considered forced happy ending to be a Hollywood speciality. Even in Judge Dredd the sidekick was supposed to die but had to be kept alive because apparently test audience thought the scoundrel was 'cute'. What a crock of shit.

 

Yea, GoT is actually the best that can be at the moment in all categories except for the minor dent in their CGI.
Original Star Trek for instance wasn't 'great' on a lot of meters when it came out, it was the ideas, setting and atmosphere that kept it alive.

Think of movies like Terminator 2 or Alien (1979). Star Wars?

When stuff's made good in the first place it can weather time a lot better than some "let's make a shitty movie about teens". Or fucking Terra Nova. Fuck Spielberg.

 

Star Wars The Phantom menace was a horrible movie. Episode 1-3 got a lot better as it went, they also had progressively less jar jar as episodes went on as well. Maybe that's why 4-6 are so much better, they are completely empty of jar jar.

 

I'm sure if Lucas had the level of CGI we do now, back when he first made Star Wars, there would've been a Jar-Jar character, and chances are good it would have ruined the universe.

 

Two most overrated directors:
Lucas and Spielberg.