Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Alzrius]

That has got to be some kind of record for sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting.

Remember kids, if you're playing devil's advocate or "just asking questions" there's an almost 100% chance you're violating Wheaton's Law.

This is the internet; you don't have to look very far to find someone intent on breaking that record.

 

[Staffan]

Some day I will manage to internalize the message in this picture, but apparently today is not that day.

 

[Alzrius]

Some day I will manage to internalize the message in this picture, but apparently today is not that day.
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I feel your pain. Boy do I feel your pain.

 

[Ryujin]

At this point it looks like they won't need me on set again and I leave Seattle in a couple of days, but at least I had the chance to have tea with my favourite actress/medium today

(Finally a pic that's not embargoed.)

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I did as well, primarily to ascertain that it was, indeed, a real thing. I was surprised at how much money, effort and actual skill was used to make that movie.

As I recall, the production team behind that film has done other, similarly big budget versions of mainstream movies.

I'll come clean* I have in fact NOT seen such a movie. I assumed there was at least one version of it out there, but I have not seen it/them.

Maybe I'll track it down and watch it. For research purposes.



*stop it.

 

[Staffan]

I'll come clean* I have in fact NOT seen such a movie. I assumed there was at least one version of it out there, but I have not seen it/them.

I mean, Rule 34 is a thing.

 

[Gradine]

I did as well, primarily to ascertain that it was, indeed, a real thing. I was surprised at how much money, effort and actual skill was used to make that movie.

According to IMDb, apparently Auntie Em was played by Nina Hartley, and absolute legend and incredibly awesome advocate for women in the industry (one of my best friends runs a non-profit providing health care advocacy for the adult film industry) and has nothing but great things to say about her

As I recall, the production team behind that film has done other, similarly big budget versions of mainstream movies.

NGL, the production values on their take on Pirates of the Caribbean aren't that far removed from the original.

 

[dragoner]

It's weird in a lot of films, where one is supposed to root for the hero, the villain is actually more interesting of a character, like Lena Headey or Heath Ledger.

 

[overgeeked]

It's weird in a lot of films, where one is supposed to root for the hero, the villain is actually more interesting of a character, like Lena Headey or Heath Ledger.

Yep. It's a problem as old as literature. The heroes are frequently passive until the villain acts, then reactive throughout the story. The villains are almost always active throughout the story. So the villains are more interesting because they have goals and are pursuing them while the hero is often simply trying to maintain the status quo by stopping the villain. See also Magneto and Poison Ivy among so many others.

 

[dragoner]

Yep. It's a problem as old as literature. The heroes are frequently passive until the villain acts, then reactive throughout the story. The villains are almost always active throughout the story. So the villains are more interesting because they have goals and are pursuing them while the hero is often simply trying to maintain the status quo by stopping the villain. See also Magneto and Poison Ivy among so many others.

I think a lot of them also expect the audience to be invested in the franchise, and if you aren't, it is sort of meh about the hero. Plus, formulaic, in that you know who is going to win, it is only see how they win. I mean, had the space princess and dark jedi been killed by the emperor's guard, shocker! lol Never was going to happen.