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I felt the opposite. M seemed to lack any means of making the audience care. The lack of characterization to anyone really was to the point that the people barely registered as being human to me. This, obviously, is a problem when you're trying to build tension with a serial killer. That seemed...

For the most part (at least, as far as I've experienced) adaption changes are removals, not additions. They cut out plot-points, character details, and even entire characters. This, I think, is essential for essential for nearly all adaptions. Just because a story works as, say, a television...

Well, yes; the movie was an enormous financial flop, but that wasn't what I was talking about. Only a few years later, Citizen Kane was an influence on Italian Neo-realism, including Bicycle Thieves, which definitely was a success, both critically and economically. In general though, even while...

Is there an inherent problem in films not following the plots of their source materials?

People love it because it pulls the audience in with its fascinating central character. The character of Kane is tantalyzingly close, yet we are never actually able to understand him, and there is something beautiful in that. Also, the cinematography still stands out as excellent today...

The easiest was the first (Forest temple) and the hardest was the last (Spirit Temple). There's a reason they put them in that order (although I'm not 100% certain that the three others are in order of difficulty).

The truth is, it is because the Wicker Man remake is a worse movie that it is actually bearable to watch. Nick Cage's yelling and general overacting make the remake infinitely more exciting than the seventies version could ever be.

Exactly. I spent so long putting my tiny post together that you beat me to the punch.

A lot of people are talking about this division between "artistic" games and "fun" games, but I really don't see such a division. They seem to be creating some definition of "art" that excludes anything that isn't classy/serious. The way I see it, EVERYTHING is art, even movies like Transformers...

This is really, really bad. Not because this particular attack is so bad in its effect-although screwing up people's job applications is no laughing matter-but because it seems to prove that parts of anonymous are capable of attacks without a motive-not even for the LULZ. I see no LULZ here.

Power Pete! I have to get that someday soon, so I can be confronted with how bad my taste was as a child.

If Osama's death truly means a safer world with fewer deaths of innocents down the road, then I think people should be allowed to celebrate by all means. However, I don't think it's clear that this WILL actually have any effect. We should perhaps calm down a little, seeing as what we've done may...

I wish I could say on a typewriter, cause that'd be pretty badass. But I just write at a plain old computer.

So much bitterness! What if the show turns out to be an original, self-contained story? Let's not jump to any negative conclusions at this point (or positive ones, for that matter.)

I'm going to invoke Nietzsche here. How do we know what thinking is? How do we know that we are the ones doing it? Couldn't "thought" be something that doesn't need a mind to exist? Isn't the whole idea of thought a human invention?