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It is relative. I think I made it quite clear that I was talking about my subjective opinion. This thread is about people's opinions about movies; everything in it is relative.

Yeah, like I said, the sex and violence is gratuitous. You could take out every sex scene and most of the gore, and the show would lose nothing, in my opinion. The sex was put in the books for a reason; the relationship between sex and power as well as gender issues are significant themes, but...

I agree with you in principle, but I just find the concept of a guy dressing up in a costume to fight criminals and over-the-top, one-dimensional villains to be rather juvenile. Nolan's Batman movies are significantly more mature than any other superhero flicks I know of, but they are still...

I quite like Pan's Labyrinth, mainly just for the Pale Man scene. And get all this Batman bullshit outta here! Batman is for children! Seriously, though--to those of you who like Batman or other superhero movies: is it just nostalgia, or is there something about them that appeals to you as an...

Heh heh...your wood is depleted.

What I really like about Game of Thrones is that you can barely tell it's fantasy. Watching the series, I would constantly forget it was fantasy. The only magical stuff I can remember in all of season 1 is bringing the guy back to life, the creatures in the woods, and of course, the dragons. Not...

I think the only Cronenberg film I've seen is The Fly, which is excellent. If I wanted to try a taste of some of his other work, what would you suggest? I can appreciate the mood of Lynch's films, but as I said, they are just too abstract for me. Abstract can be good, but I need something real...

I mainly like The Godfather because of the depth of the characters and their relationships, and also the political intrigue. I believe you've mentioned before that that sort of thing doesn't appeal to you, in the thread about Game of Thrones, so it makes sense that you wouldn't really like...

Inspired by the "favorite movies" thread, I present the "most overrated movies" thread. I saw so many films repeated over and over in there that are pretty mediocre by my standards, and those same films are so beloved by people I know that I get incredibly sick of them. So, without further ado...

I didn't mean to suggest that you were wrong to consider that art. I really enjoy looking at those kinds of drawings, too, perhaps even more than I do traditional art, but I just consider it a different kind of pleasure. While to me, art is about beauty and creativity, technical drawings satisfy...

With e-books these days, there is always the option of digital self-publishing. You can do that without any investment and without needing anyone to OK your book. Getting a publishing company to actually print your book would require sending out manuscripts to a lot of publishing houses and...

Blueprints of boats? I like technical drawings like that too, but I think calling it an "art style" is questionable.

I've been seriously digging some Blue Oyster Cult lately, for some reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qttI6oytqpw

Cake rocks. 9/10 Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem featuring Sir Elton John: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kMVdazvII4

The Duke approves. The mood that film cultivated was perfect.

Just bear in mind that I will not be held responsible for any unpleasant results of the full breakfast treat. Dried fruit/marshmallow treats, though, are a legitimately good idea.

Editor, I prefer the term "asshattery." But I agree; it's quite satisfying to get an angry outburst out of someone when they realize you're smarter than them and there's nothing else they can do.

Well then, let me respond in song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0

I find the mismatched sock thing kind of interesting, because I have a tic that is the exact opposite. I absolutely never wear two socks that aren't exactly the same. I have maybe three or four different styles of socks, and they are all pretty much the same: short and white. For example, I have...

I can identify with that. It can be kind of fun to have enemies; competing or plotting against people is good intellectual exercise. Sometimes I wish I had more enemies just so I could dominate them.

Before I came to this thread, I was contemplating the best way to subdue and rule a small community of people after society inevitably collapses, then slowly extend my influence through diplomacy and warfare until I had direct control over a large territory, preferably about the size of...

It's not so much knowing the Quran as much as it is just being intimately familiar with Islamic society, their cultural history and the way they think. Reading the Quran probably wouldn't hurt, if you don't know very much about Islam. Reading something like Reza Aslan's No god but God would...

When you are proud of how productive you were today because you got off your ass to put a load of laundry in the washer or walk a block down the street to buy a carton of milk.

I find that is very rare for someone to dislike me. I am pretty non-confrontational, is that an INTP trait? I also lean pretty close to F when it comes to personal relationships, so I tend to be very sympathetic and good-natured. I get along with and relate to almost anyone, even people who are...

I consider myself an innovator in experimental food science.

Well, I think it's reasonably entertaining as it is, actually.

What about a "full breakfast" rice krispie treat: scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage bits, hashbrowns and shredded up pancakes, held together with marshmallow and cut into squares.

Puh-leez. If you want to complain about a pointless or immature thread, take it to the boob size and penis size threads. This had the potential to be reasonably entertaining.

I don't think the consensus would agree that men are better looking than the gentler sex; however, the fact that women are better looking is just another reason that it's great to be a man. After all, which person would you prefer to be good-looking: yourself or the person you're having sex...

Someday our alien overlords will come for us and return us to our home planet, where everyone goes to university for the first thirty years of their lives, then gets paid to play video games and talk about theoretical physics on internet forums.

A lot of the characters fit that description, but what makes the show great is the diversity of characters and their motivations. A major theme of the series is going against traditional notions of honor when the honorable thing to do is not the right thing to do. Do you support the rightful...

Just started it a few days ago. I've watched the first six episodes of season 1. I haven't read the books. This show is excellent. The plot is complex, and the world is so rich. Also, Sean Bean. Some gripes: It can get a little cheesy, but it is fantasy, after all. Nothing so bad that it...

Any Hellraiser fans up in here? It's borderline silly at times, but there a lot of good concepts in it. Always been one of my favorites, even if I'm not quite sure why. If The Fly (with Jeff Goldblum) and Event Horizon count as horror, those might be my favorites, along with original Night of...

It's really not nearly as bad as I made it sound. I was planning on leaving in the fall anyway to go back to school for an Engineering degree. This just means I have to probably move in with my parents for a few months and dick around in a part-time job to pay the bills before the semester starts.

Does anyone else not like Cubism or other sorts of "modern" art? That stuff never did much for me. Same thing with Impressionism; I think it can look nice as a decoration in your bathroom or a hotel room, but it doesn't do anything for my deeper sensibilities. One member mentioned the Hudson...

A collection of GRE vocab study guides.

Correct. Leave it to you guys to turn a simple question into an exercise in linguistic deconstruction.

Skip class every other day for the rest of the semester, claim you were there every day, and cite this incident when asked why you didn't sign in.

I thought I made it clear when I said "Can be members of bands, solo singers, rappers, Gregorian chanters, whatever." People who make music with their voice rather than using an instrument. And EyeSeeCold, I wouldn't really consider someone playing a wind instrument a "vocalist." Then again, I...

Glucose goes in; ATP comes out. Explain Christianity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXHCykk7fU

I'm with you. I think the whole point of the movie was the CGI visuals, which were definitely fantastic, but that's not enough for me to enjoy a movie. The plot was hackneyed and cheesy, and the dialogue was painfully bad.

Who are your top 5 favorite vocalists? Can be members of bands, solo singers, rappers, Gregorian chanters, whatever. Also doesn't have to be exactly five, since I know no one will stick to that number. Here's mine: 1. Freddy Mercury 2. Johnny Cash 3. Regina Spektor 4. Elton John 5. Dean Martin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpIVk2AY3sw

7/10 I'm not really into Metallica anymore, and that's not one of their better songs in my opinion, but I'll give it some solid points for nostalgic value. I used to be all about that stuff in my teenage years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XORL9DXHnI You better give this one at least a 9 if...

Took a vacation to Hawaii last week and had possibly the best time of my life. As soon as I come back on Monday, my boss tells me he's closing the school next month. Thanks for letting me take that several thousand dollar vacation before you let me know I don't have a job anymore, ass.

Then you should definitely try toothpastefordinner.com. It's not exactly stick figures, but it's even better.

I read some of Satanic Verses, but I got bored with it. It's impossible to understand any of his symbolism, and therefore anything at all that is going on in the story, without being very familiar with Islamic thought.

I've read Crime and Punishment and The Karamazov Brothers, and I prefer the former. It's one of my top five favorite books. I liked the focus on the mental state of the one character as opposed to the multiple stories going on in Karamazov. I've also read Notes From the Underground, and I...

I just started Dune. I've wanted to read it for years, but never got around to it. I've never seen the movie or TV series, either, because I wanted to read the book first. All I can think of while I read it is that old Sega game.