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Debate Forum / Originality: Is anything original today

« on: March 26, 2012, 01:24:01 PM »

Totally making this debate cause of the Hunger games topic

Personally nothing is original today. Humans have been around long enough to where stories/movies/whatever has been done before at some time before, such as any story about a epic strong man (Hercules, Superman) is/was influenced by the Epic of Gilgamesh or how Batman is influenced by Zorro. Fallout was influenced by the game Wasteland which was influenced by Mad Max which was influenced by whatever. That is not to say that I care. Every redone story has a different interpretation, a different hook or spin on things. Sure the core idea can be the same, but Mad Max doesn't have super mutants running around does it. Again same idea with a new spin on it. The point is if it is entertaining or appealing to me or you or whoever, does it really matter if it is "original"

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Solved Ban Requests / Re: Roger Waters Nose, Roblit, Covert

« on: March 26, 2012, 09:24:03 AM »

Roblit looks like he needs a week ban, and Covert as well, which ill put in now. Roger did kill 2 innos in one round so Im thinking day ban but I'll wait for someone to comment on that

Thank you for getting evidence and not trying to get street justice. These people were clearly trolling/RDMers and I am glad that you got the evidence that you did and made sure nobody started dishing out street justice. Thank you sir.

Roblit and Covert banned for a week due to continuous RDM/Trolling

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The Art Forum / Re: Hunger Games

« on: March 25, 2012, 11:04:39 PM »

Quote from: Whitellama on March 25, 2012, 10:50:59 PM

I don't give a quarter shit about originality either, because I'm not going to sit around and decide whether it's original before I decide if I like it.

I was invited to see it with some friends, and I had read the 1st and 2nd books already. I thought it was great, considering that movies based on books typically leave out gaping holes of plot. The movie left out 2 tiny details, but nothing that actually affected the story. If you enjoyed the book, the movie is essentially revisiting the story, and is pretty awesome.

If you haven't read the book, the movie is still great, but you're missing a lot of background which would otherwise make the movie better.

What was missing POTENTIAL SPOILER:
There was no mention of the dogs having the eyes/faces of the dead tributes, and in the movie no one explained the significance of the mockingjay on the pin, or it's relation to the revolt. I wish they did, for the people who haven't read the book.

Also, why don't we have spoiler tags?

QFT when regarding this discussion about originality. Thanks for giving me an idea that the movie is worth my time as it did look interesting from the trailers and Jennifer Lawrence is pretty good looking and a pretty good actress as well

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The Art Forum / Re: Hunger Games

« on: March 25, 2012, 02:08:56 PM »

Quote from: Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!) on March 25, 2012, 02:03:57 PM

Jesus it's like nobody here ever watched / read The Running Man... I AM DISSAPOINT

With the governator? I have seen it, its a pretty good movie for the crazy 80s standard.

Look don't really care if its orginal or not, just wondering if its good aka have you seen the movie, is it worth seeing!

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Way Off Topic Box / Re: Picture Wars? Picture Wars.

« on: March 25, 2012, 03:26:17 AM »

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The Art Forum / Re: Hunger Games

« on: March 25, 2012, 12:25:20 AM »

Eh I have never read it but to be honest I'm past the fact that anything is fully original anymore but kind of hard to gauge how good/bad it is if nobody has seen it YET!

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