*Spoiler alert*….I watched it.
It’s just awful.

Neo is now the 1/2, and Trinity the other 1/2, together they’re The One and their love conquers all. Sappy, light on action, seems to ignore or reinterpret earlier stories, and it is now a sci-fi romance, not a sci-fi action adventure movie. Boooooo.

A little night work?!
My ass.
Looks like a full year long $30000+ Total restoration to me…for a car he looks at once a year.
If that’s really what mom would have wanted, she was either not too bright or was incredibly wasteful.
I also dislike sappy emotional commercials that try to tug at your heart as a way into your wallet.

That is one *quality relationship ... Enough *love to keep things *happy and snappy, albeit slightly sappy pappy

I've been called an oxy-moron
Because I question which drugs our war's on
Why are there more drug stores than liquor stores
You can score on
The healers have become the harmers
They're just pharmaceutical farmers
What we used to call dealers
We now call doctors
I might be a seedy cynic
Cause that crack house is now a clinic
It's time they change the name of the oath to
The hypocritic or the parasitic

It isn't adder-altruistic
By over prescribing
How can we fight them in a [?]
I'll throw a proz-accusation
With a sub-keta-meaning
They'll say my fears are quaa-ludicrous
They should be ati-vanishing
With every demurr-altercation
They'll have a good xan-explanation
You're just cialis-tated
Cause we made your dick deflated

It's oxy-moronic
It's oxy-moronic

It should be doctors getting busted
For their klon-opinions we trusted
We're not the sinners there the ones
That served us the vico-dinners
I don't want to be an alarmist
But in that harmacy there's a harmacist
And those scrips are making us [?] minded pacifists

It's oxy-moronic
It's oxy-moronic
It's oxy-moronic

Don't think that I am being crazy
The medical industrial complex
Keeps us vi-aggravated and hard to come
Because of perco-sex
How can we hydro-condone
Their blatant misconduct
They don't care for patients
They care about pushing product

Are you oxy-moronic
For wanting your daily chronic
And making your mom's house hydroponic
You're oxy-moronic

I've been called an oxy-moron
For getting my metaphor on
Linoleum is the floor on
I'm an oxy-moron

It's time to be alarmed
We're not being healed
We're being harmed
Our country's being factory farmed
It's Oxy-moronic
It's time to sound to alarm-a
We can't put our faith in karma
We got a common enemy
And they're called Big Pharma

And it's oxy-moronic
And it's oxy-moronic
It's all oxy-moronic
It's all oxy-moronic

Daily chronic, now most of your house is, okay
"Most of your house is" what does that even mean?
He's turned most of his house into hydroponic
Why wouldn't he have turned all of it into hydroponic?
Well cause he lives there
"Now all of your house is hydroponic"
Most is sappy
Really? It's like saying maybe
How about "Now your mom's house is hydroponic"
Yeah! That's fucking way better
God you fucking woke up
Come on Mike, where you been
Where you been all month?

*promote

Sappy but cute

Fackkin' wallabies mate! All ya want is to grow a few tuber right, but they right creepin' around at night eatin' up your yer plants. I Reckon we whack down a few of them little sappies and fix us a right fence to keep the right buggers out.

I can see why its liked.

Dripping sappy but well executed.

Yeah, nice try. I know I may be the cynical asshole here but maybe the video could've worked if the song lyrics would've at least matched the footage a little bit. That song, "Mad World", makes as much sense as Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" here. They both sound sad and have some sappy message but they have nothing to do with soldiers and war.

Yes, she's great at pointing that out.

What's the solution?

Quota's of protagonists sex? Replacing "damsel" with "prince" in distress? Getting rid of chainmail bikinis?

Oh, and how do we propagate that to the entire entertainment industry?

There is nothing wrong with playing a prince and rescuing a princess. There is nothing wrong with the princess being helpless. There is nothing wrong with Femmeshep kicking the shit out of the reapers and saving every being in the known universe, one of the most badass female protagonists around. More female protagonists = great, bring it on, but that's no reason to throw out a trope as old as time (incidentally, a trope enjoyed by a great many women who like to watch sappy romances where the charming fellow rescues the woman from her crappy life...).

Her series predicates on the concept that players are too fucking dumb to understand the difference between real life and the game. That if you play Duke Nukem, you'll walk around slapping girls tits and saying the most inappropriate things you can think of.

It's exactly the same tripe that Jack Thompson was peddling back in the day, games change how you think. And, for most people (ie. the mentally stable...), it was wrong then and it's wrong now. Your upbringing and parental guidance, and the relationship your male role models have with women, are far more likely to determine whether or not a man is likely to be sexist/misogynist than a few games with scantily clad girls needing a big strong man to save them... Society has changed to become more accepting of race, creed, sexual orientation and, of course, women, and it will continue to become so even if the old trope of the princess is in another castle hangs around. It may take generations before inequality dies out, if it ever does. It's not something you can fix by complaining about games.

Hmm... I can see a few ways in which this can fail.

Either it turns into a very long sequence of death defying 3D camera work like we see in the trailer, ending with a hard Soyud landing.

Or what we see here is actually padded out with dramatic all-American family values and a sappy sacrifice for the greater good (= the guy dies to save the girl).

The best way in which this plays out already seems out. Realistically, they are both dead as soon as they are 'off structure', and they would know that. Their last moments would be best spent talking, and shutting of the oxygen supply.

And another little thing in this trailer that really bugs me is Sandra Bullock screaming "What do I do!?". Why is is the female astronaut shouting that? It just seems odd that even in a movie portraying astronauts (who are extraordinarly professional and cool headed), it's still the woman being the helpless screamer. Even, apparently, to such an extent that it ends up in a trailer.

But yeah, it looks very cool.

I hate sappy videos. I hate sappy videos. I hate sappy videos. <snif> I hate sappy videos.

So.. did they just switch out a bunch of actors for the same characters? Is the Rock now Duke? At least he's better than that sappy "everyman" marine Duke, with his token wise-cracking black friend.

Still, this looks terrible.

>> ^Sagemind:

True, true, but not all wood splits that easily. Try splitting spruce and pine with all the knots and pitch in it. It would have to sit for two years, covered up, before you could split it that neatly.
It all depends on the wood, I suppose...


True but if you're using such a soft, sappy wood, you're not using it for much besides either getting your hard wood going, to make yourself a meal fast, or getting heat fast in an area so you don't freeze to death. So it being nice and easy to split doesn't matter too much. Softs have their place, and it isn't for long burning.

So many haters! The sappiness level was perfect for my overly sentimental nature. "I'm bind, please help", doesn't convey the emotion of being blind. I am no fancy word doctor, or clever director, but a blind man exposing what I take for granted, by even being able to see his sign, nonetheless a beautiful day, moved me to get some sparkles in my eyes.

Whole video centers on the reveal, and the new message is dumb. Both of messenger's above are better, and his original message was better. Almost anything would be better. It doesn't work as a profound statement (for the audience of "us"), it wouldn't work well for a panhandler, and it certainly doesn't sell their skills as advertisers.

If you're going to go sappy, you have to go real sappy (like messenger says: Grandchildren would be gold - or use some detail of his routine or personal story that's particularly moving, etc..). But I don't think sappy is the best approach - it looks calculated and cliche. People are fairly resistant to direct "guilting" - much better to let the sob-story be implied, and focus your message on something else.

The successful panhandlers I see go self-deprecating, otherwise funny, double-take inducing ("HELL-PANDAS ATE MY EYES"), audience-pandering ("OBAMA WON'T PAY FOR MY EYE SURGERY"), or try to offer something incidental in return for donations (magazines, trinkets, something they made, music, etc..).

Video would have been better if they'd kept the music, tone, and dialog - and then revealed the sign as "NEED MONEY FOR BOOZE".