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Post by No Morpho, Only Bánh mì on Nov 3, 2017 22:35:47 GMT
But how to prove it, and how to collect? 1 ) spy satellite 2 ) PayPal You don't need all that technological malarkey! This place is built on honor. Is it in the Mod job description to enforce bets placed within this board?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 4:24:14 GMT
GIVE EVERYONE THAT ENTERED INTO THE BET THE TEN DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!666!!!!!!!1
Also, Hakweyye the Hemlett
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 22:40:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2017 3:02:03 GMT
Obviously I am the exalted one's legal representative. Now to put this bizarre matter to an end (I did advise against this action but you know how people are...) To those who didnt see the film Spider-man Homecoming, you will all be paid 10 dollars in full. You will be paid in increments of 50 US cents over 20 years, per annum. Why the small amount you ask? Weirdraptor is in financial difficulty at present so that is the only way forward from here on out. If you happen to die in those 20 years, it will be paid to your next living survivor related to you by blood. You are able to nominate your next of kin. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Congratulations on your wager! (He didnt want me to say this but I think it is proper to do so. We aren't raptors in a jungle after all )
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 0:53:44 GMT
Obviously I am the exalted one's legal representative. Now to put this bizarre matter to an end (I did advise against this action but you know how people are...) To those who didnt see the film Spider-man Homecoming, you will all be paid 10 dollars in full. You will be paid in increments of 50 US cents over 20 years, per annum. Why the small amount you ask? Weirdraptor is in financial difficulty at present so that is the only way forward from here on out. If you happen to die in those 20 years, it will be paid to your next living survivor related to you by blood. You are able to nominate your next of kin. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Congratulations on your wager! (He didnt want me to say this but I think it is proper to do so. We aren't raptors in a jungle after all ) Technically I saw Homecoming, but I did leave during the movie to buy some Skittles. I missed approximately 5% of the movie. I hereby request that your client pay me 5% of ten dollars, which of course is 50 cents. I am willing to accept this payment through the same process. Therefore I expect your client to pay me 2.5 US cents every year for the next twenty years. Is this agreeable?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 2:52:20 GMT
Obviously I am the exalted one's legal representative. Now to put this bizarre matter to an end (I did advise against this action but you know how people are...) To those who didnt see the film Spider-man Homecoming, you will all be paid 10 dollars in full. You will be paid in increments of 50 US cents over 20 years, per annum. Why the small amount you ask? Weirdraptor is in financial difficulty at present so that is the only way forward from here on out. If you happen to die in those 20 years, it will be paid to your next living survivor related to you by blood. You are able to nominate your next of kin. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Congratulations on your wager! (He didnt want me to say this but I think it is proper to do so. We aren't raptors in a jungle after all ) SMH grossed approximately $880 million worldwide. If we estimate an average ticket price of $10 then we can assume the movie was watched by roughly 88 million people in theaters. There are roughly 7.6 billion people on the planet. For the purposes of calculation we shall go by the American definition of 1 billion = 1 thousand million. Therefore we can conclude that SMH wasn't watched by approximately 6.72 billion people. So Weirdraptor's actual debt to the planet is something of the order of $67.2 billion. I am a little concerned he may not be able to make good on his debt.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 30, 2017 0:50:15 GMT
@red Heck, it's still money, ain't it? I [SALZMANK, as party of the first part] am willing to accept your client's [WEIRDRAPTOR, as party of the second part] monetary payment [hereinafter PAYMENT], of ten [10] United States dollars in installments of fifty [50] cents per annum for twenty [20] years, for my not watching the motion picture, Spider Man: Homecoming [hereinafter SMH], in question. My one question remains, however: how do you and your client plan to send the PAYMENT to those of us who took part in the contract? Here's hoping you plan to pay postage. (Psst... I don't think this is actually a legally-binding contract. Don't let the counselor for the party of the second part know that, though... )
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 23:07:20 GMT
Obviously I am the exalted one's legal representative. Now to put this bizarre matter to an end (I did advise against this action but you know how people are...) To those who didnt see the film Spider-man Homecoming, you will all be paid 10 dollars in full. You will be paid in increments of 50 US cents over 20 years, per annum. Why the small amount you ask? Weirdraptor is in financial difficulty at present so that is the only way forward from here on out. If you happen to die in those 20 years, it will be paid to your next living survivor related to you by blood. You are able to nominate your next of kin. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Congratulations on your wager! (He didnt want me to say this but I think it is proper to do so. We aren't raptors in a jungle after all ) Technically I saw Homecoming, but I did leave during the movie to buy some Skittles. I missed approximately 5% of the movie. I hereby request that your client pay me 5% of ten dollars, which of course is 50 cents. I am willing to accept this payment through the same process. Therefore I expect your client to pay me 2.5 US cents every year for the next twenty years. Is this agreeable? Yes this is a bargain. My client weirdraptor accepts this with eager, scaly, open arms.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 23:09:30 GMT
Obviously I am the exalted one's legal representative. Now to put this bizarre matter to an end (I did advise against this action but you know how people are...) To those who didnt see the film Spider-man Homecoming, you will all be paid 10 dollars in full. You will be paid in increments of 50 US cents over 20 years, per annum. Why the small amount you ask? Weirdraptor is in financial difficulty at present so that is the only way forward from here on out. If you happen to die in those 20 years, it will be paid to your next living survivor related to you by blood. You are able to nominate your next of kin. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Congratulations on your wager! (He didnt want me to say this but I think it is proper to do so. We aren't raptors in a jungle after all ) SMH grossed approximately $880 million worldwide. If we estimate an average ticket price of $10 then we can assume the movie was watched by roughly 88 million people in theaters. There are roughly 7.6 billion people on the planet. For the purposes of calculation we shall go by the American definition of 1 billion = 1 thousand million. Therefore we can conclude that SMH wasn't watched by approximately 6.72 billion people. So Weirdraptor's actual debt to the planet is something of the order of $67.2 billion. I am a little concerned he may not be able to make good on his debt. No comment. considers resigning from being his lawyer
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 23:16:48 GMT
@red Heck, it's still money, ain't it? I [SALZMANK, as party of the first part] am willing to accept your client's [WEIRDRAPTOR, as party of the second part] monetary payment [heretofore PAYMENT], of ten [10] United States dollars in installments of fifty [50] cents per annum for twenty [20] years, for my not watching the motion picture, Spider Man: Homecoming [heretofore SMH], in question. My one question remains, however: how do you and your client plan to send the PAYMENT to those of us who took part in the contract? Here's hoping you plan to pay postage. (Psst... I don't think this is actually a legally-binding contract. Don't let the counselor for the party of the second part know that, though... ) My client has an enormous international Jewish network. A Jewish courier will gleefully make their way to each and everyone of you, and pay you the sum of 50 cents per annum.
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 4, 2017 5:29:06 GMT
So...
I finally found some time to take a look at Spider Man: Homecoming (thereby breaking this contract...or not? I didn't see this in theaters) and mostly enjoyed it.
Keaton was great. I read a review (and a quotation by one of the producers) that described him as Iron Man's evil twin, and there's certainly some accuracy there, though it's a factor that doesn't seem as well emphasized as it should be if that's the angle they're going for. Instead, though, I saw him as an unusual combination of his Bruce Wayne persona and Timothy Hutton's Nate Ford in the television show Leverage (right down to the outfit Keaton wears in his non-villain garb). He's obviously having a ball just hamming it up (within limits--he's not chewing the scenery, but he's equally not taking everything completely seriously), and it's great fun to watch him on-screen. With that said, he has fewer opportunities than I expected, and it seems to me that the picture didn't make the most of the asset it had in Keaton.
Tom Holland was very good as Peter Parker, and he feels like a genuine high-schooler rather than an actor playing a high-schooler, which I appreciated. Indeed, I felt the high-school parts were some of the best parts of the movie. He's a perfectly decent Spider Man, too, and he just has a likeability to him that reminds me a bit of Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly. He may even be the best Spider Man of them all, though I still think the Raimi-Maguire films are superior. Either way, he's far superior to the rather dull Andrew Garfield. (Spider Man: Homecoming managed to avoid nearly everything I that I thought wrong with The Amazing Spider-Man.)
Speaking of the homecoming scene--that's a neat little twist, well-clued (or, least, prepared-for), and one that is rooted deeply in the characters themselves, as the best twists are. It's not exactly a "twist," perhaps, as it's something that some of the characters know but that, for obvious reasons, Peter and the audience do not. The scene in which Keaton figures it all out in the car is a great little suspense sequence. Still, very neat, and it even more cements the picture as something very personal for Parker. I loved that personal, small-scale nature, as I'm sick of these repeated "save the world/throw in another explosion/say another phony one-liner" plots. (Except for the very beginning, which I didn't fully comprehend because I haven't been keeping up with all of these superhero flicks [what I'd consider another fault of this "cinematic universe"], this picture is stand-alone.) Peter's love-interest was likeable and friendly without falling into the "perfect girlfriend" trap, which I appreciate as well.
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 4, 2017 19:56:15 GMT
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Marisa Tomei was fine, as usual, but she didn't get many chances to make the character her own. With that said, the fact that she's a younger version of this character adds to the verisimilitude; this movie is probably the most realistic superhero movie I've seen, setting the story firmly in the real world and letting us know what the regular person's response would be to these wacky, non-realistic events going on around him. I frequently decry "realism" in these movies, but the difference is that SMH is genuinely real, dealing with high-school kids' emotions, and not "real" in the popular conception of wallowing in gloom and despair (as something like the execrable Man of Steel did).
I have a few criticisms, mostly involving the second half, which turned into more or less typical "superheroics," complete with my old bête noire, big explosions. Keaton's villain becomes much less interesting (he's at his most interesting when he's out of the costume), and stuff just blows up without the intelligent direction and editing of earlier action sequences (the elevator in the Washington Monument, the Staten Island Ferry). Robert Downey, Jr.'s Iron Man is Spidey's mentor, which... This version of Spidey needs a mentor (Uncle Ben, where are ya?), but Downey is typically irritating and self-centered, aspects which I think only the first Iron Man flick managed to assuage. I was delighted when Downey took the fancy costume away from Holland, thereby forcing Spidey to rely on himself. And, whatever one's politics, the girl who mouths modern liberal platitudes at the Washington Monument, who ends up receiving unnecessary screen time, is unbelievably annoying and shoehorned in.
Still, it's a lot of fun, and I'm happy I watched it. (Ah, and Wikipedia informs me that the lovely Jennifer Connolly voices the robot that runs the Spidey suit--I'm reminded that there's a major sequence in this, in which the plane is heading towards New York, that borrows a great deal from The Rocketeer.) In the New York Post, critic Sara Stewart called it "...an endearingly awkward kid brother to the glamorous Wonder Woman," something with which I'd have to agree; both films have a sincere sense of fun and are both surprisingly similar in their beats, performances, stories, and action-sequences and probably inspired by what I consider the best superhero movie of them all, Donner's Superman. In the end, as stated, I'm very happy I finally took a look at this movie. I certainly enjoyed it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 22:47:21 GMT
So... I finally found some time to take a look at Spider Man: Homecoming (thereby breaking this contract...or not? I didn't see this in theaters) and mostly enjoyed it. Keaton was great. I read a review (and a quotation by one of the producers) that described him as Iron Man's evil twin, and there's certainly some accuracy there, though it's a factor that doesn't seem as well emphasized as it should be if that's the angle they're going for. Instead, though, I saw him as an unusual combination of his Bruce Wayne persona and Timothy Hutton's Nate Ford in the television show Leverage (right down to the outfit Keaton wears in his non-villain garb). He's obviously having a ball just hamming it up (within limits--he's not chewing the scenery, but he's equally not taking everything completely seriously), and it's great fun to watch him on-screen. With that said, he has fewer opportunities than I expected, and it seems to me that the picture didn't make the most of the asset it had in Keaton. Tom Holland was very good as Peter Parker, and he feels like a genuine high-schooler rather than an actor playing a high-schooler, which I appreciated. Indeed, I felt the high-school parts were some of the best parts of the movie. He's a perfectly decent Spider Man, too, and he just has a likeability to him that reminds me a bit of Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly. He may even be the best Spider Man of them all, though I still think the Raimi-Maguire films are superior. Either way, he's far superior to the rather dull Andrew Garfield. ( Spider Man: Homecoming managed to avoid nearly everything I that I thought wrong with The Amazing Spider-Man.) Speaking of the homecoming scene--that's a neat little twist, well-clued (or, least, prepared-for), and one that is rooted deeply in the characters themselves, as the best twists are. It's not exactly a "twist," perhaps, as it's something that some of the characters know but that, for obvious reasons, Peter and the audience do not. The scene in which Keaton figures it all out in the car is a great little suspense sequence. Still, very neat, and it even more cements the picture as something very personal for Parker. I loved that personal, small-scale nature, as I'm sick of these repeated "save the world/throw in another explosion/say another phony one-liner" plots. (Except for the very beginning, which I didn't fully comprehend because I haven't been keeping up with all of these superhero flicks [what I'd consider another fault of this "cinematic universe"], this picture is stand-alone.) Peter's love-interest was likeable and friendly without falling into the "perfect girlfriend" trap, which I appreciate as well. [continued below] Because you saw it at home rather than a theater: Weirdraptor must pay you five dollars instead of ten
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 23:07:01 GMT
Well... Since Raptor is back...
Did anyone ever get their TEN DOLLARZ?!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 23:36:10 GMT
Well... Since Raptor is back... Did anyone ever get their TEN DOLLARZ?! It's not funny anymore now that I know coldenhaulfield is just a nasty piece of work.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Oct 21, 2018 1:03:13 GMT
Well... Since Raptor is back... Did anyone ever get their TEN DOLLARZ?! It's not funny anymore now that I know coldenhaulfield is just a nasty, scruffy-looking piece of work.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 1:21:44 GMT
It's not funny anymore now that I know coldenhaulfield is just a nasty, scruffy-looking piece of work. I also find it adorable that you keep pretending your anger with me over what happened with Sam is genuine. Your "righteous rage" is about as real as Pamela Anderson's breasts.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Oct 21, 2018 1:34:57 GMT
I also find it adorable that you keep pretending your anger with me over what happened with Sam is genuine. Your "righteous rage" is about as real as Pamela Anderson's breasts. I find it adorable that you're the one who keeps tryna discuss lame drama from your pathetic board on this one.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Oct 21, 2018 1:43:52 GMT
TEN DOLLARZ PLUS ACCRUED INTEREST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2018 1:47:29 GMT
I also find it adorable that you keep pretending your anger with me over what happened with Sam is genuine. Your "righteous rage" is about as real as Pamela Anderson's breasts. I find it adorable that you're the one who keeps tryna discuss lame drama from your pathetic board on this one. I find it adorable that you think your anger has a leg to stand on.
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