Cracked Article you might find amusing.

[Skm1091]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19782_5-movie-apocalypses-that-would-defeat-themselves.html

[evensgrey]

Like every discussion of an internal fault in "I Am Legend", it leaves aside the fact that this adaptation of the original story isn't any good, and it isn't any good for precisely the same reason every other adaptation has been no good:  The original twist ending absolutely won't allow a film adaptation to be commercially viable, so it always gets taken out (and leaves this version with a title that makes no sense).

[spoiler]The twist, for those who don't know, is that the character we're led to identify with as the hero trying to save the damaged victims of the plague, is actually the villain.  The Darkseekrs are intelligent, compasionate beings. The only reason they are attacking Will Smith's character is he's been capturing, torturing, and killing them for as long as they can remember, and now he's taken the mate of the Darkseekers leader. In the unused twist ending, Will Smith's character realizes that in the world the Darkseekers will build, he will be the monster of legend, the horror that walked in the daylight. This leaves the title, which would have been wonderful if the twist ending was used, making no sense at all.[/spoiler]

[MrBogosity]

Like every discussion of an internal fault in "I Am Legend", it leaves aside the fact that this adaptation of the original story isn't any good, and it isn't any good for precisely the same reason every other adaptation has been no good:  The original twist ending absolutely won't allow a film adaptation to be commercially viable, so it always gets taken out (and leaves this version with a title that makes no sense).

[spoiler]The twist, for those who don't know, is that the character we're led to identify with as the hero trying to save the damaged victims of the plague, is actually the villain.  The Darkseekrs are intelligent, compasionate beings. The only reason they are attacking Will Smith's character is he's been capturing, torturing, and killing them for as long as they can remember, and now he's taken the mate of the Darkseekers leader. In the unused twist ending, Will Smith's character realizes that in the world the Darkseekers will build, he will be the monster of legend, the horror that walked in the daylight. This leaves the title, which would have been wonderful if the twist ending was used, making no sense at all.[/spoiler]

Yet, they were able to preserve almost that same ending in Ender's Game. Of course, Ender was a patsy and everyone else was acting out of desperation to save humanity from extinction, but in the books Ender still became legend even among humans as a xenocidal villain.

[evensgrey]

Yet, they were able to preserve almost that same ending in Ender's Game. Of course, Ender was a patsy and everyone else was acting out of desperation to save humanity from extinction, but in the books Ender still became legend even among humans as a xenocidal villain.

Yes, but the only reason he becomes the legend he does is because he sets out to do so, and one thing you don't do is stop Ender Wiggins from reaching his goal.

[Skm1091]

I liked the one about Waterworld

[Dallas Wildman]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-modern-countries-with-surprisingly-backward-technology/

FRENCH DOCTORS STILL USE FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS!!!
LLLEEEEEE FFFFUUUUUUUQQQQQQ??

Oh then there's this juicy tidbit in the #3 slot:

after decades of stonewalling by male politicians who predicted that female-controlled contraception would crush traditional Japanese society

Japan has neocons too apparently, they still hang people FFS!

[Ibrahim90]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-modern-countries-with-surprisingly-backward-technology/

FRENCH DOCTORS STILL USE FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS!!!
LLLEEEEEE FFFFUUUUUUUQQQQQQ??

Oh then there's this juicy tidbit in the #3 slot:Japan has neocons too apparently, they still hang people FFS!

I talked to a Japanese guy about their politics once. his description is very...interesting:

-like America, two parties, both want big government.
-both parties are relatively conservative by US standards
-The Japanese Government is even more financially inept than that of the US (let that sink in).

[evensgrey]

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-modern-countries-with-surprisingly-backward-technology/

FRENCH DOCTORS STILL USE FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS!!!
LLLEEEEEE FFFFUUUUUUUQQQQQQ??

Oh then there's this juicy tidbit in the #3 slot:Japan has neocons too apparently, they still hang people FFS!

Freudian psychoanalysis works, though, albeit extremely slowly.  It's hardly the only thing based on bogus reasoning that works.  (It being slow actually has benefits, like not causing secondary trauma in the patient.  Methods that work too fast have been seen to cause some patients to manifest diverting symptoms to keep treatment away from things the patient is ready to deal with.)

Japan does worse than just hang people.  Once the sentence is passed, nobody in the prison system will even treat the condemned as a human being, and the family usually finds out that the sentence has been carried out when they get called to pick up the ashes.

[Skm1091]

I talked to a Japanese guy about their politics once. his description is very...interesting:

-like America, two parties, both want big government.
-both parties are relatively conservative by US standards
-The Japanese Government is even more financially inept than that of the US (let that sink in).

Well they did have the lost decade so I guess that shouldn't surprise me.

[evensgrey]

Well they did have the lost decade so I guess that shouldn't surprise me.

Past tense is inappropriate, as it's still going on, after 17 years.

Yes, they've been bashing away with futile Keynesian stimulus programs for 17 years, and run up a debt (depending on exactly how you do the calculations) between 150% and 200% of GDP.

[Ibrahim90]

Past tense is inappropriate, as it's still going on, after 17 years.

Yes, they've been bashing away with futile Keynesian stimulus programs for 17 years, and run up a debt (depending on exactly how you do the calculations) between 150% and 200% of GDP.

And does the US government get the clue? nope. because heaven forbid they aren't a bunch of morons.