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dewking
oh my god! chicken! you need serious help!
so here ya go! ;)
this made me laugh my ass off before i even saw the full version!
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blackfox
I hate vietnamese soap. . . I say do 'em all. . . do the whole friggin' village. . . . every seen brains pop out like that?. . .sorry. . .had a flashback. . . to watching platoon.
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occecid
This is so stupid I have to vote for it. Made me laugh out loud.
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nolanjim
this is my kind of humor, great
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MoZub
TIMMAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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jerry717
You should make this a theme
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bluefist
Love it!
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xovlov
little girl running screaming from napalm attack
is cliche'. read the goddam FAQ!
:)
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Basil
lol
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pixy
While watching the movie Planet of the Apes, Dr Zaius was really agitating me. I was very mad at him and frustrated at the way he was acting towards Taylor, Zira, and Cornelius. Dr. Zaius seemed rude, bias, and extremely conservative. It wasn’t until the end of the movie that I realized the failure in my thinking. Taylor, as a human, was truly the enemy and Dr. Zaius was almost righteous in his hasty actions. Zaius said he had awaited Taylor's coming all his life and dreaded it. If Taylor was to bring the knowledge and wisdom he had learned in his own time period to the “ape planet”, the same greed and jealousy that destroyed man would soon corrupt the apes. Even though we are not positive why the planet as we know it was destroyed and led to the evolution of ape beings instead of human ones, we can assume that it was partially due to man’s greediness. Dr. Zaius was not willing to accept Zira and Cornelius’ reasoning that apes developed from human beings mostly because Zaius knew of the vast destruction that the human race had done before the ape-beings evolution.
Dr. Zaius blew up the cave, hiding all evidence of the human past. By keeping this a secret, he was keeping his community sheltered from destruction. He was a hero in the sense that by usurping knowledge, he would keep his people in peace. It is like saying if we were to stop technology before the creation of the A-bomb, all those lives in Hiroshima would never have been lost, but the consequences surrounding the event would have been a lot different too. Dr. Zaius for some time was protecting his race from things to come. He was a very strong defender of the faith because it is what kept this people in line. It is the religion that stops progression from happening. Dr Zaius sees progression as the equivalent of destruction. To him, there is a definite point in time where that knowledge and progression lead to doom. This is why he crumbles up the paper airplane, collapses the cave, and gives the other astronaut a lobotomy.
At the end of the movie when Taylor rides off with Nova, Zira asks, "What will he find out there, Doctor?" Zaius replies, "His destiny!" This is the destiny which could also be that of the apes, if they were to accept Taylor and his knowledge. Which led me to the question, wasn’t human destiny what Taylor was hoping to escape? There was nothing on the planet Earth at that time to hold him there. Taylor willingly accepted the trip to the future in hopes of better things. Taylor is given Nova as a mate in the hopes that he will breed with her from Zira. He claims to Nova in the film that he leaves the planet Earth because women there are all into having sex, but not into love. However, Taylor looks to Nova as a companion more than a sexual playmate. Even though Nova is a wild creature and does not think nor act the way that Taylor was raised to act, he accepts her. Nova in all senses of the word is an animal. However, she is a compensation of what Taylor is looking for in a significant other. In other words, Nova’s lack of 1960s socialization skills that turned Taylor away from females in his own time period are what he was searching for in a mate. Even if she is what most would consider a savage, her wildness and freedom are much better than what was bred back in the 20th century on human Earth. Are today’s theories and products so rash that it is better to return to our own wild instincts than to continue growing as a whole? I believe that this is one of the many questions this movie leaves us with. Are we looking too far into the future for answers that are not obtainable or are we merely being the creatures that we innately all are? In the movie, this eventually led humans to their destruction because losing faith had allowed technology to rule their lives and led to impending doom.
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Chopper
Story arc
Here is a general arc summary so far:
01 is born.
01 wants to coexist with humanity, and offers such. This plays with Genesis perfectly. Remember, 01 is God. (I think that's profound, and even moving.) Here's how Genesis gets into it, in the classical interpretation: there is a "simple good" and a "complex good" as described by C. S. Lewis. The simple good would be for humans to accept what God tells them and live accordingly. The complex good is that humans reject God, learn why they were wrong, and then come back to God in the end. The highlight is that complex good is more good than simple good. Nothing's more human than that, if you ask me.
Humanity rejects 01's offer of coexistence -- i.e., the complex cycle begins.
Humanity in its hubris thinks it can wipe out God by blackening the sky. Among metaphors in contemporary literature and film, there are few that can match this one for elegance and meaning. The sky is Heaven, and so this is an assault upon Heaven. Wow.
The assault on Heaven fails, and humanity is cast into the pit. Okay, metaphors aside, the humans lose a war against the machines and are subjugated.
Several iterations of the Matrix are tried, and finally one is devised that allows humans to grow (so they won't reject it). In large part, the machines don't understand the growth aspect of the Matrix and fight it.
The Oracle, who helped design Matrix 3.0, ruminates on her creation for a while and realizes that it will eventually lead to humans that can transcend the Matrix. (In heroic fashion, whomever transcends the Matrix can bring that gift back to society and they all benefit from it.) She sees as well that this transcendence is necessary if machines are to evolve at all. In the complicated relationship between man and machine, she sees that humanity's evolution benefits both sides, and will help bring about machine evolution.
Neo 1.0 arrives on the scene, chooses rebirth for Zion, and the cycle begins again.
Neo 6.0 arrives on the scene, chooses Trinity, and begins the Revolution (i.e., the transition to a new world order). The choice is significant because trinity equals godhood. This is one of the most complex, meaningful themes I have ever encountered in a work of fiction. Humanity achieved "simple" godhood by creating beings in its own image. It will achieve "complex" godhood by reuniting with its estranged children.
Now we are in unknown territory. What follows is pure conjecture but I think it follows rationally from my analysis:
Neo and Smith are two superentities from "opposite" sides streaking toward the same conclusion. They will both achieve some kind of Enlightenment together (this could be "together" in the sense of "revealed while they are fighting each other").
I say "opposite" sides because the END product of the trilogy will be a NEW WORLD of humans and machines moving forward into the future together. Heaven and Earth will come together.
The old systems will be broken down. They have to be. Humanity will return to the surface. Matrix 3.0 will be deleted, and quite likely Matrix 4.0 will be in the works, but this time it does not enslave but liberate.
Dollars to donuts the sun breaks through the dark clouds. That would be 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.
All the parties that stand to lose something by the breaking of the system will be out in force in Revolution. The Merovingian and his minions will be back. The agents will be back.
Expect some unexpected alliances between humans and machines, especially near the end of Revolution.
The Oracle will not be fully revealed or explained. Probably neither will the Architect. They are gods, after all.
The conceptual barriers between the real world and the Matrix will be eroded -- as if it isn't already. But also the heightened man-machine interaction in the Matrix will be expressed more in the real world (a la Neo's power over the sentinels).
More bullet-time.
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lockfist
you rock!
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dewking
and if anyone else used this photo, it wouldnt be as funny...
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Sloth
HAHAHAHAAAAAAA! Nice!
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ox
...I sure wish I could vote.
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Wingnut
I don't get it. What makes this so funny? I'm not trying to be an ass here, I just don't really get why this is getting so many votes. The original has been used so many times before.
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Chopper
Napalm is made from soap and gasoline. Aside from the tragic depiction of the photograph, I voted because I found it funny to see a bar of soap running from a napalm explosion.
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jh8675
HAHAHAHAAAAAAA! Tragic
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Velveeta
Daaam thats twisted!
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[untitled entry]
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by Chicken
Created August 01, 2003
12 votes
7 comments
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