Wanted

[Captain Awful]

I just saw Wanted. I don't really feel like talking about the movie because it wasn't really great or terrible, it was somewhat mediocre by having really cool parts with well done cinematography, and really lame parts that left you scratching your head wondering how a director could be so ridiculous. Oh, and I'd like to say my impression of the movie is that it was Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: The Western Version.

Now my roommate, in a stoned daze, managed to click a button that announced everything that was going on in the movie in a soothing voice. Apparently it was the "Blind mode", which, and I'm not trying to be a dick, but I'd imagine not many blind people own a TV, or a DVD player for that matter. I mean, radio and audio books are just so much cheaper. That said, this made the movie infinitely better. Just hearing the description of the Universal Pictures logo was enough to send me into fits of laughter.

[Demaar]

Oh wow, that's fricken awesome. What was that, like on Blu-Ray or something? I've never heard of any blind mode before.

[Captain Awful]

No, surprisingly it was on DVD. I'll try and record some of it tonight if I remember.

[Pikul]

Whats far more surprising is that people suffering from vision loss could even manage to find the blind button. I just find that smothered in beautiful irony.

[shMerker]

Pikul, I just discovered the most amazing thing! It's called Braille. It's this way of marking things so that blind people can read it with, get this, their hands. Apparently some French guy just came up with it in the past two centuries. What an amazing world we live in. Maybe one day someone will even discover a way to travel faster than a galloping horse.

[Pikul]

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Well I just didn't think there would have been enough room on a remote to write blind/blind button in braille on it. That or it could have been a virtual button built into the DVD, like a language selection feature. Besides, braille is so 100 years ago.

[shMerker]

Right, now we have specially trained dogs who find the button on the remote.

[Pikul]

Too right. Or maybe blind people have friends that could, perhaps, play the movie for them.

[shMerker]

And sit there explaining everything? Brilliant!

[Kaatridge]

Guys! Guys. Stop being dicks for a bit.

[Pikul]

And sit there explaining everything? Brilliant!

No, friend pressed the button. Or switches the language options. GOSH!

[Unspoken]

Too right. Or maybe blind people have friends that could, perhaps, play the movie for them.

You aptly forget that blind people don't have friends.


Even their dogs think they're douchebags.

[shMerker]

Unspoken has successfully divided the lowest common denominator.

[Unspoken]

Unspoken has successfully divided the lowest common denominator.

And you're my prime number. ;)

[shMerker]

Watch out. I already have a statistically significant other.

[Captain Awful]

You aptly forget that blind people don't have friends.


He has a point...

So, I ended up returning the movie to Blockbuster before I got it on video. I'm lazy. Trust me though, blind mode is glorious.

[Unspoken]

Watch out. I already have a statistically significant other.

REJECTED! :(

He has a point...

So, I ended up returning the movie to Blockbuster before I got it on video. I'm lazy. Trust me though, blind mode is glorious.

I like turning the channel randomly to our local PBS station, and sometimes for the nature show, they have the blind mode on. It's so... Glorious...

"This is the finch native to the Himalayan mountain region."
*A golden bird sails through the air and perches upon a nearby fig tree.*

It goes into such detail sometimes!

[shMerker]

REJECTED! :(
That has nothing to do with math.

[Unspoken]

That has nothing to do with math.

Then I guess your affection for me was i. :(

[vnvnvn2000]

I know this movie is gonna suck, but I'm already suckered into seeing it anyway... that and I like Morgan Freeman, he's a good actor to have in any movie.

[Flounderman]

Out of all comic book movie adaption, this is the most altered I've ever seen. It's barely even related to the source material. And I haven't decided if I like it better than the comic or not. There was a lot of the comic that was either entirely unbelievable, or just plain corny, stupid, and obnoxious. It was obviously just the author describing his dream life. But it had a certain charm to it at parts. And a lot of the supporting characters were quite interesting and entertaining. Mr Rictus for example,

"who killed my father?"
"LEE HARVEY OSWALD LOLOLOLOL"

I wish they'd kept them in the movie.

Best part of the movie was the end where Freeman gets shot, "what the fuck have you done lately".

[Ensenada]

Rictus was great. I choked on my popcorn when they just gave him that shitty cameo (As an offscreen corpse.)

[Flounderman]

If Weapons of Fate has Rictus as the main villain I'll buy a 360. Man, that comic would of been brilliant if the main character wasn't so annoying throughout it.