...trying to turn comedians into "serious" actors... With Hanks, it was A League of Thier Own


Yes, anyone would look superb in serious, melodramatic Oscar bait like "A Leauge fo Thier Onw". Why did they think a comedian could summon the requisite gravitas for such a serious subject? Were they trying to make fun of women's sports? Is there no crying in baseball?

Castaway.. That movie sucked. Five minutes of movie 'packed' into two hours.


Yes, if only he did better at acting there would have been more plot. Maybe he could have acted out some lasers and explosions for you. I don't think Tom Hanks is super amazing - and certainly not always - but he did a good job with a hard role in Castaway. I mean, sure, obviously you could just drop Forrest Gump in there and it's the same film, but what can you do. He's only one man.

Why don't you tell us who the great, currently active actors are, friendo? I've heard people (seriously) suggest scenery-chewers like Pacino or Denzellle. Sean bloody full-retard Penn? Jack Nicholson? OK. I like Jack Nicholson. But he's one dude and he's just barely still alive let alone active.

For my money, the best performance of the last decade was Matthew Lillard in the Scooby Doo movie (whatever the Hell it was called). Not gonna lie: it wasn't a great film. But flawless performance by Lillard. He was Shaggy. What else can you ask for in an actor than completely inhabiting a difficult role like that? Drop frickin' Sidney Poitier or Orson Welles in that movie and sure maybe it becomes watchable, but I doubt they nail the role like Lillard did.

I also don't like the show - but mostly because it just isn't FUNNY. I've watched entire episodes and never so much as chuckled. It just doesn't have any real zip. The rebooted Scooby Doo cartoon has more humor in it. And what they are doing to Bugs Bunny is just a crime. He has gone from being a wise-guy protagonist to being a flavorless straight-man. He isn't funny at all.

But I have to disagree (a little) on Daffy. Daffy was only the 'clever, crazy' character for about a third of his animated shorts - and those were all in the beginning of his career as a character. After a while, he shifted from 'crazy/clever' into a variety of roles. Heck - he was even the 'bad guy' in a lot of the Speedy Gonzalez shorts.

I agree with you. I liked him a lot better when he was absolutely zonkers. Some of my favorite DD shorts are the ones where he is an obnoxious, loony pest and Porky Pig is the frustrated by what he's doing. Those were where Daffy was at his best.

The video is OK. The show really just blows chunks. It takes some of the funniest cartoon characters America ever created, and turns them into an episode of Seinfeld without the humor. Hopefully they figure this out at some point and fix it. I like the Road Runner / Wiley shorts though - they actually are funny and keep the characters true.

It's like watching a case scene from Scooby-Doo

Dude laughs like Scooby-Doo!

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The best part is when the cop chases him, then some how he comes from another direction a la scooby doo

Reminds me of a scooby doo cartoon
(the one when they made stew)

Glad I could help. I love the show.

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I have to thank you, dude! I started watching The Venture Bros. and it's the best show I've seen in a while! Sort of an adult version Scooby Doo
I also understand your Monarch avatar a whole lot more, now

I have to thank you, dude! I started watching The Venture Bros. and it's the best show I've seen in a while! Sort of an adult version Scooby Doo
I also understand your Monarch avatar a whole lot more, now

>> ^fford:
and the only people I've ever heard use it to describe ghosts are very old or dead (in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spook).


I would think that most people have heard it in common use in this context on cartoons such as Scooby Doo where it's used in most episodes. I suppose those cartoons are mostly quite old, though.

I haven't heard of the racist use of this word in the UK, but as said above, it appears to mainly be a US thing. Once again, I learn from The Sift.

Uh, hello? Daphne from Scooby Doo anyone?

^ I wouldn't be surprised to find out one day that he secretly did the voices of Mickey Mouse, Scooby Doo, Goofy, Daffy Duck, and Bugs Bunny.

"I'm a high school teacher"

Correct. What you're not is:

1. A structural engineer specializing in skyscrapers.
2. A mathematician.
3. A Ph.D. in physics.
4. An expert in video analysis.
5. An expert in forensics.
6. An architect.
7. An expert in failure analysis.
8. The guy who designed the building in the first place.

You know who ARE all these things? The people who released the NIST report. The people who had more video than you. The people who put their hands on the steel. The people who interviewed eyewitnesses. The people who ran the labs. The people who ran repeated simulations of the collapse based on models about a million times more complex than your free software and video off the internet.

So what you, and the rest of the chowderheads in the Scooby-Doo Conspiracy Movement, are telling us is that all these people are 1. lying 2. complicit in mass murder and 3. THEY WOULDA GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR US DARNED KIDS!

Thanks for being tools for Osama, you bags of shit, now go analyze how your heads got shoved so far up your asses.

>> ^Krupo:
Most cults aren't founded on morality and love.
They're founded on fear.
Religion IS love.
Thanks.

Bit of a word game there.

I think there's a difference between a cult and a religion; a religion's been around longer.

I can't think of any cults off hand that relied on fear to the extent that religion does. A cult seems to have more to do with starting something new rather than perpetuating something old.

This "Satan is everywhere" kind of thinking is pretty common among the Christian religions.

"Can we say..."

Sounds like the Simpsons scene where the expert advisor is asked whether viewers should break each other's heads open, and feast on the entrails.

HA HA HA - Stonehedge. Smooth.

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Let me correct that for you.

>> ^rougy:
*Fear.
Most cults aren't founded on morality and love.
They're founded on fear.


Religion IS love.

Thanks.


>> ^Violator99:
Man, it's hard to take anything serious that's being said about cartoons when the message is coming from what appears to be two child molesters.


"I did something unusual, I went into a toy story"... sure. Just by chance.

Yeah, +1 to your assessment