What is the most puzzling thing you saw/heard?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:49 am

mcDuffies wrote:
PeppermintAfterlife wrote: Another confusing thing I saw was "Cool World." I understand it, but I mean, what the hell?!"
I'll explain: Ralph Bakshi say "Roger Rabbit" and thought "kiddie movie, now I'm gonna make a grownup version, being that I'm great animator and all".
Which is where he made two mestakes: 1. "Roger Rabbit" is not a kiddie movie and doesn't need improvement. 2. Ralph Bakshi isn't so great animator that everything he tried would work out. He needs someone who can restrain him (perhaps a big studio) because he has a poor choice of what ideas would work and what wouldn't.
That's really all there is to understand.

I can see that this movie coulda been interesting, but it really really needed some good editing/rewrites. And from a technical standpoint , a lot of the super-imposed animation didn't line up with the live action.
Robert Crumb actually killed his own character Fritz the Cat with an ice pick in a comic after he saw what Bakshi did in the film "Fritz the Cat."

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:18 am

PeppermintAfterlife wrote: I can see that this movie coulda been interesting, but it really really needed some good editing/rewrites. And from a technical standpoint , a lot of the super-imposed animation didn't line up with the live action.
Robert Crumb actually killed his own character Fritz the Cat with an ice pick in a comic after he saw what Bakshi did in the film "Fritz the Cat."

Yeah. I liked the film though, but I must say, he completely missed the point of the character.
Which wouldn't be bad itself if I didn't get the feeling that that was not intentional, that Bakshi simply misunderstood the comic. He made him a total cliche character really, Fritz is not supposed to be a "good guy".

Back to "Cool world", I think that's the syndrome of when you have some reputation and you surround yourself with people patting you on your shoulder and telling you that you're sheer genius, and then you start thinking that every idea of yours is a sheer gold. Thus he concentrated on some comic relief crap, crowded the film with it, and in the end didn't even put an effort in writing a decent script.
Sadly, yes, it coulda been a good film, idea-wise.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:56 am

mcDuffies wrote:
Jim North wrote:Just about anything Lynch does is incomprehensible.
Not true.

Totally true. It's the reason he was actually a perfect choice to do Dune, considering how incomprehempsibly thick it was to begin with.

. . . wait, haven't we had this conversation already?

Wishmaster · Post by **Wishmaster** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:03 am

Dune wasn't incomprehensible - - the book anyway.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:55 am

I still want to see the ugly puppies.

Stealthy · Post by **Stealthy** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:02 pm

Gengar003 wrote: @Stealthy:

.... Disturbing, yes, but moreso if the mouth/eyes didn't look photoshopped in...

Yes - but WHY?!

8)

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:34 pm

Lego's post reminds me of another rather puzzling issue: In Denmark, the ground water is both rich on calcium and very clean. The max levels of polution for bottled water are several times the ones for ground water. Yet I've heard people say that they only drink bottled water, because "it's healthier".

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:39 pm

It's the hip thing to do!

And... animals pee and take shits on the ground... "ground" water has an unpleasant connotation....

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:42 pm

But bottled water is just ground water in a bottle, usually more polluted than ground water!

People are stupid.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:57 pm

Turi wrote:People are stupid.

Yup!

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:30 pm

Turi wrote:But bottled water is just ground water in a bottle, usually more polluted than ground water!

Uh... so how do you grind water? *is easily confused*

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:37 pm

mcDuffies wrote: In fact, I was delighted at how people were looking for explanations of "Mulholland drive" on internet, since I didn't need one.

That's funny.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:58 pm

What?

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:33 am

prettydragoon wrote:
Turi wrote:But bottled water is just ground water in a bottle, usually more polluted than ground water!
Uh... so how do you grind water? *is easily confused*

It's basically a watertight peppermill... try adding some o-rings to the bottom of one and you've got it.

CorpAmis · Post by **CorpAmis** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:34 am

ryclaude wrote:I still want to see the ugly puppies.

Yeah I did see them...Pretty okay though ...will get pics ASAP!!!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:03 am

Gengar003 wrote:
prettydragoon wrote:
Turi wrote:But bottled water is just ground water in a bottle, usually more polluted than ground water!
Uh... so how do you grind water? *is easily confused*
It's basically a watertight peppermill... try adding some o-rings to the bottom of one and you've got it.

I'm surprised at both of you.

To grind water, you merely freeze it, then put the ice in a grinder.

Duhhhhhhhhh.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:21 am

I actually do have a puzzling thing I saw. Had to think way back, but when I was living in Cincinnati...

At an intersection there was an old blue car and a black truck. Inside the blue car was a black guy and inside the black truck was a white guy. They were screaming at each other. The guy in the blue car had a big stick he kept hitting the black truck with. They peeled out when the light turned green, still yelling and honking at each other. One would cut the other off and slam on the brakes, the other would swerve... it was a pretty rough scene.

Ok, that's strange right? Well at dinner I told the story and my mother got this weird look on her face.

It seems, several days previously, she'd seen a blue car and a black truck doing the same thing. Same drivers, except this time the black truck had the stick. They were screaming at each other, drove past her, did U-turns, drove back past her, and vanished down the road.

I don't know if it was racial or not. but it was very strange regardless.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:57 am

That reminds me of something a friend of mine told me once . . . apparently, this car and truck stopped in front of his house one day, the fellah in the truck slamming on his brakes because he was following the car so closely. The other guy stepped out of his car, then pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the truck. The guy in the truck put it in reverse and peeled out backwards until he was out of sight, then the fellah with the gun got back in his car and resumed driving along. Considering the complete nuts who live in that area, I have no reason to disbelieve the story.

And in the end, I'm not really sure if I'm glad or sorry I missed it.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:49 am

Recently? Probably the time I went into a copy place to get some prints made of my digital art. Went something like,
Me- "Hi. I have a CD of images that I'd like made into prints."
Lady- "Is it Mac or PC?"
Me- "Uh..."
Lady- "We only have a Mac here."
Me- "But they're tifs!"
Lady- "And our printers are only black and white."

Worst. Copy place. Ever.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:37 am

rkolter wrote:I actually do have a puzzling thing I saw. Had to think way back, but when I was living in Cincinnati...

At an intersection there was an old blue car and a black truck. Inside the blue car was a black guy and inside the black truck was a white guy. They were screaming at each other. The guy in the blue car had a big stick he kept hitting the black truck with. They peeled out when the light turned green, still yelling and honking at each other. One would cut the other off and slam on the brakes, the other would swerve... it was a pretty rough scene.

Ok, that's strange right? Well at dinner I told the story and my mother got this weird look on her face.

It seems, several days previously, she'd seen a blue car and a black truck doing the same thing. Same drivers, except this time the black truck had the stick. They were screaming at each other, drove past her, did U-turns, drove back past her, and vanished down the road.

I don't know if it was racial or not. but it was very strange regardless.

Sounds like a setup for a "Jackass" skit.