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Posted by WittyHandle on Dec-20-2010 20:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Moongoose
Sooooo, life lesson: Be evil and youll win? Time o become more evil then...

I know this was a joke, but if you become evil, what have you won?

I think that naive people are just a subset of good people, and really only do them a disservice. They're like the Green Party.

Posted by Meat187 on Dec-20-2010 20:40:

I always knew that pseudo-intellectual wankery is just a refined form of trolling. You're basically goodtime, just with a dictionary instead of a youtube account.

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-20-2010 20:43:

Yeah? Eat a dictionary!

You like Twin Peaks and Frasier, but hate the appearance of intellectualism passed off as eloquence? Goes a long way to explain why you like Eurodance.

Posted by Meat187 on Dec-20-2010 20:45:

Was that supposed to make any sense?

Frasier --> intellectualism and eloquence --> Eurodance
lolwut???

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Dec-20-2010 20:48:

Exactly right. It doesn't make any sense.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Dec-20-2010 22:04:

Ignore the troglodyte. We love you hal.

Posted by Lilith on Dec-20-2010 23:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
I always knew that pseudo-intellectual wankery is just a refined form of trolling.

Its a Lira thread, there is only one or the other-
Verbose wankery
or
One line trolling

Posted by Ang ' ela_ie on Dec-21-2010 00:37:

Downer endings a la Up In the Air -- YAY.

Posted by Trance Nutter on Dec-22-2010 04:52:

not everything in life wraps up in some happy ending. I like to see some things which don't have a happy ending, especially some of the stories which try so hard and end up having some contrived happy ending when a sad ending would actually have worked better and had much more of an impact on the viewer/reader.

Posted by Tangil on Dec-22-2010 14:43:

I think it all depends on what comes before the ending, ie. how happy/sad the majority of the movie is. If the whole film is bleak, like The Wrestler, then I'm probably not down for an unhappy ending. However, if the film isn't that sad, I'd prefer an unhappy ending if that made the film less Hollywoodish.

I remember watching the extra content on Dodgeball, and the director or original writer (I can't remember which) wanted to have Vince Vaughan's team lose the final, but instead the producers overruled them in favour of a happy ending.

And Nou, I like how everyone died in Cloverfield, but it's still a shit movie.

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