I don't know, any script containing the line, "did you just call moi a 'dipshit'?" Is OK with me.

I never got the fuss over Dark City. It bored me.

I love it. Better than the other sc-fi blockbuster of 1977.





I'm with you on that one

Yes, but is it better than Goofy Golf?

No. The Dark Crystal was a much better film, all round.

I never understood the fuss over Wrath Of Khan

Plenty hate it, but I liked it. Though Mr Raven got it right with this:

Winner of the Oscar fr best animated short Logorama Some NSFW language. This is the best quality I could find that had the whole thing but that doesn't do anything to stop it being the coolest thing ever.

Whilst I would argue that it probably is the best of the original cast films, it does have a pretty large following on the SFX forums which may be why it is ranked so high.

Nope. *Waves* You are not alone.

I found this anthropology of Youtube to be very interesting and even a little bit moving. Made me feel differently about all those speaking to camera vlogs.

This was fantastic, and it was definitely moving. There's a special resonance here to his evaluation of the new forms of community that YouTube (and the internet, in general) has created. I try not to put too much thought to this, but don't you think that it really is astonishing that some of us have flown across oceans to hang out together? We are not strangers the first time we meet each other. I'm desperately trying to avoid being cheesy, but the internet helped create friendships and I'm a little bit amazed by how real (for me, anyway) some of those friendships are. I loved some of you before I knew what your voices sounded like. [/endcheese]

Yup, it's just you.

Also its a way to pick up bitches from a long way away.

I do know what you mean. This forum represents the largest network of friends I have. That's not because we're a large international group of people mind you, its because I don't have any other friendship groups rather than individual friends. When I run into Adam and Ellie at the same time on the street that's still me hanging out with the largest community of friends I've got.

We are less whiny and self interested than all those people on Youtube though mind you.

Don't think I'm close enough to anyone here to regard anyone as proper close friends, but I think you're all awesomes anyways.

Which is weird because you lot know several things about me I don't tell my old friends.

I see you all more as entertainment rather than as real people. Sort of like anthropomorphic cartoon animals dancing for my pleasure.

In my mind, your mental version of me (ooh, recursive) is of a mouse with a massive head.

I just think of the younger version of John Hurt from Hellboy.



Well sometimes the pretend is far far better than the reality.

All my friends from here are lovely. Well - you are!

Like The Brain or Deadmau5?

I'll pretend i'm a lolcat.

Ha! I'm going to buy me some Baby Ruth bars next chance I get.

Most things are.

I went to drama school with him. He was gay.




Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

I think you're (mainly) all lovely and would be honoured to have you as my friends.
Or be in you, y'know - whatever's good.

I think you guys are actually too cool for me to be friends with. Often times I feel like I'm in the type of situation where I'd like to say something, but don't for fear that people will think I'm just a silly jackass.

You should take that risk.

I, personally, am extremely cool, so I can understand your trepidation.

Whereas I am terribly uncool, but amazing at pretending to be cool.

Jules is the cools. But also, the sweets and the warms.

I say really stupid things all the time. Never let it stop me having fun. I am a walking Victoria Wood sketch at times. It brightens the day.

I wouldn't worry, I'm like the resident dunce here, I say plenty of stupid crap.

It poses the question of what defines you as "knowing" someone. Do you have to meet physically in the real world in order to? I don't think so.

I know I'm obviously one of the single most biased people here when it comes to this topic, but I don't see why you can't know someone as well (if not better) online than "IRL". I know that in the case of me and Chelsea, the initial cause that made us so close was me getting Crohn's, and her being already a close online friend who I trusted. I could talk about my illness and not be embarrassed, because I felt more comfortable typing it and didn't have to see her in classes the next day or something. We had a firm friendship already, but that elevated it to the point where this time five years ago she was by far and away my best and closest friend, and I the same. That simply wouldn't have happened in the real world.

As for you guys, I don't know any of you outside the forum, and the only reason I wouldn't put you in the same box as my (now very small number of) real-life friends is simply because we don't talk in any other form than on here, and that's not the same relationship as a one-to-one or normal group discussion. I trust the opinion of some of you more than I do anyone but Chelsea, because you've known of my problems and my life for longer and closer than others (again, talking online is easier than face-to-face on some topics).

You're my friends, you're just a different kind of friend. If I had the money, I would without hesitation fly to New York and know I had friends there who could show me around and hang out with. Or I could go to London and know I could expect the same. That's friendship, no matter what your thoughts on how traditional an online relationship is or isn't.

It's like what Joe just posted, and an earlier post of mine said, we share things here that we sometimes don't share with our 'IRL' friends etc.

My first meet was last year at Finsbury Park, and I've turned up all shy, but everybody there did make me feel welcome (particularly Adam, Jon and Lou), even the ones I hardly got to speak to. And then I got excited about Spaced at Ten, not just because it was a big weekend, but I was also meeting people that had flown over to see us, like yourself, Rachel, Rua and Bronagh, and got on with you guys, and the fact is, it felt like you guys were treating me more nicely than other friends who have known me years.

I like this place. And that's why I'm really eager to do SONY this year, visiting the greatest city in the world with some top people.

You're all Gay.


Love you.

ha!

Laughter is your bread and butter.

Boom!

Woo!

I'm glad it isn't, I tanked the third part of my MC gig last night. Wretched.

I consider a lot of people here "friends". The feeling may not necessarily be mutual, but dammit, I love ya, and there are few people I know I'd rather spend time with.

Are you all drunk?



Shame!

This Mutual love-in probably looks very odd to non-regular posters and newbies.

I'm not entirely comfortable with it.

Zoe knows I love her. That's all that matter to me.

The rest is all a bit weird.

Careful, that's how he lures you in.

That's it, I now fear people at meets.

Also, SONY is the most hilariously drunk weekend of epic awesomeness you will ever encounter. Fact.


Love you too.


Bummer.


We used to have a 'Forum Love' thread that died out.

You all know guests can see this thread?

Yay!

We did, it's probably far too incestuous to re-invigorate.
I also want to reinstate SOWWII.

Yeah, but who cares about them?

If we were all sat together in a pub, the "Guest" users are just the people at the table next to us, listening in on our conversation and wishing they were as cool as us.

I like you, guests.

To get us back on topic talking about Media and shit, here are two TV series that I am quite excited about:

From BBC and HBO comes Game of Thrones, an adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel of the same name. I was first drawn to this when I found out that Tom McCarthy (writer-director of The Station Agent and The Visitor, and recently nominated for an Oscar for his work on Up's screenplay) was directing the pilot. the combination of someone acclaimed for their low-key, humanistic films with big budget fantasy intrigued me, but now that I've started reading the first book in the series, it makes an awful lot of sense.

The books attempt fantasy without the whimsy, creating a massive world and a story full of swords and dwarfs, but also full of incest, child murder and political backstabbing heavily indebted to The War of the Roses. If HBO can apply the same sort of commitment to world building that they did with Rome, Carnivale and Deadwood (though hopefully without the whole "canceling them before their time" thing) then it could be pretty spectacular.

My one concern would be about the future of the show beyond a few seasons, since Martin has only written four of the seven books he has planned, and I imagine it would be difficult to keep that cast around for too long without a definite road map.

We Were Faces (a.k.a. This Is England 86) Shane Meadows and Channel 4 pick up the story of This Is England four years after the events of the film. The original cast will reprise their roles, and Meadows hopes to use the series to explore the themes of the film further, but also use the economic and social situation of the mid-1980s to comment on contemporary Britain.

I'm very excited about that one.