I don't know what else we call it when a poster's main contribution to the conversation is drive-by one-liners and the absence of any rational discussion or follow-up to the positions he's (supposedly) taking.

 

It's not nice to call people trolls, of course, and I've been guilty of that offense myself, but it's not nice to troll, either.

I have a hate list of book to movie adaptations, topping the list is a tie between The Black Stallion (in which they changed the main human character, Alec Ramsey, from a teenager to a 10 year old) and My Friend Flicka (where the main human character underwent a sex change operation, apparently).

 

I have an easier time with movies that don't assault classic favorites from my childhood. 

I hate it when you are about to go and get a BNIB Vampyre Castle for close to 50 EUR and when you are about to leave your house, the perfect storm shows up and makes your plans wet.

Wait, wait, I forgot one (I blocked it out), in which they selected TOM CRUISE to play the huge, hulking Jack Reacher in the movie. That goes up near the top of the list, too.

Here is a good one. Bought an Epic Dragon Battle for $80 on Ebay (of course days before Amazon and TRU sold them for like 10 cents or whatever - I still got a lot of those too). So I go to pay, says paypal can't accept your payment. Hmm

 

Contact the seller - he says give him a little bit and he will get it figured out. I never hear back.

 

Today, he opens up a non-payment case. So I go to pay for it "this users paypal account cannot accept your payment". Hmmm, well I am trying to pay. I am gonna have to call Ebay. If I get a non-payment strike because this guys paypal is messed up, I will break something.

I hate it when practically new batteries in your passenger seem to die faster then they should only to open and find that one of them leaked inside the battery compartment.

 

(anyone use those rechargeable ones?)

I have a hate list of book to movie adaptations, topping the list is a tie between The Black Stallion (in which they changed the main human character, Alec Ramsey, from a teenager to a 10 year old) and My Friend Flicka (where the main human character underwent a sex change operation, apparently).

 

I have an easier time with movies that don't assault classic favorites from my childhood. 

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was pretty bad too. NOTHING like the book. :-/

I hate it when the book is nothing like the movie.

I hate it when the book is nothing like the movie.

I have a hate list of book to movie adaptations, topping the list is a tie between The Black Stallion (in which they changed the main human character, Alec Ramsey, from a teenager to a 10 year old) and My Friend Flicka (where the main human character underwent a sex change operation, apparently).

 

I have an easier time with movies that don't assault classic favorites from my childhood.

The biggest offenders for me are the movies based on video games. Anyone remember Super Mario Brothers?

Far as book to movie, I loved Watchmen except the sudden change around the end where instead of the explosion being caused by that big 'alien' body being transported, the movie changed it so that the explosion simply matched Dr. Manhattan's energy signature (basically a big hydrogen bomb). Someone actually said "Well, it makes more sense that way." No it doesn't; that was the original point! Ozymandias (in the graphic novel) stated "If the pill is big enough, people will swallow it." It was supposed to seem so far fetched yet brilliantly work because it was just 'too big & in your face' for the world population to think otherwise. The rest of the movie was so perfect yet they simplified the outcome.

Damn, sometimes you can't win.

The biggest offenders for me are the movies based on video games. Anyone remember Super Mario Brothers?

Far as book to movie, I loved Watchmen except the sudden change around the end where instead of the explosion being caused by that big 'alien' body being transported, the movie changed it so that the explosion simply matched Dr. Manhattan's energy signature (basically a big hydrogen bomb). Someone actually said "Well, it makes more sense that way." No it doesn't; that was the original point! Ozymandias (in the graphic novel) stated "If the pill is big enough, people will swallow it." It was supposed to seem so far fetched yet brilliantly work because it was just 'too big & in your face' for the world population to think otherwise. The rest of the movie was so perfect yet they simplified the outcome.

Damn, sometimes you can't win.

 

Can't argue with you on Super Mario Bros.

 

As for Watchmen, I thought in the movie the intention was to make Dr. Manhattan THE threat to humankind (thus the matching energy signature) ? What could be a bigger threat than a blue omnipotent being turned heel ?  The end of the comic was better visually though (dead giant tentacled thing) but I wouldn't call the movie ending a disappointment.

One thing for sure, thanks to Watchmen, I will never be able to listen to Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah the same way again 

As for Watchmen, I thought in the movie the intention was to make Dr. Manhattan THE threat to humankind (thus the matching energy signature) ? What could be a bigger threat than a blue omnipotent being turned heel ?  The end of the comic was better visually though (dead giant tentacled thing) but I wouldn't call the movie ending a disappointment.

I wasn't really disappointed much as I felt like the original point was lost. The alternate ending did work as everything and everyone was turning on Dr. Manhattan. I guess for me the thing of taking a bizarre notion such as an imminent alien invasion and making it believable to all by performing it on a large enough scale was more interesting than making the obvious target a fallguy.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief was pretty bad too. NOTHING like the book. :-/

 

Fantastic Mr Fox. Brilliant childrens book. In the movie they finished the book plot in 45 minutes then added all this extra waffle. Roald Dahl would not have approved.

how do we post pictures from our desktop or screenshots to a post?

how do we post pictures from our desktop or screenshots to a post?

Go to "More reply options", then there should be an option for you to post pictures. It should say "Attach Files", and you just click on Choose Files. Each has to be less than 2MB. 

I ate WAY too much food at Thanksgiving dinner.

I really should NOT have more than one cup of coffee. I get real edgy and could probably fill up this thread with a ton of 'annoyances'.  

I ate WAY too much food at Thanksgiving dinner.

At what time did you had dinner? lol

I ate WAY too much food at Thanksgiving dinner.

That's a complaint?! Ok, maybe you didn't get to digest lunch, but still...

I ate WAY too much food at Thanksgiving dinner.

I hope you have something good to read while on your visit to 'the can' later on cause it will be a while. :lol:

I hope you have something good to read while on your visit to 'the can' later on cause it will be a while.

And you win the award for least appealing imagery post of the day.

I hope you have something good to read while on your visit to 'the can' later on cause it will be a while.

Reading the brickpicker forums on my iPad always does the job for me. In fact, I am reading them right now. Think about it...muahahahahahaha!

Reading the brickpicker forums on my iPad always does the job for me. In fact, I am reading them right now. Think about it...muahahahahahaha!

Like someone said before me, "Brickpicker and pooping go hand in hand."

 

And you win the award for least appealing imagery post of the day.

Oh? Bet I can top that.

And to finish.

Go to "More reply options", then there should be an option for you to post pictures. It should say "Attach Files", and you just click on Choose Files. Each has to be less than 2MB.