I'm assuming you are British by the content of your post. Just look what careful editing of your
comment does
Why... yes, you're right. It turns a valid and original point into an entirely bland and generic statement that could be applied to practically any nation in history. And all you had to do was remove all the proper nouns! Very clever.
Also, in case you did not notice, my jibes at soccer (and England) were entirely sarcastic. I might as well point that out pre-emptively before some humorless drone barks at me for being so jingoistic about steering wheels.
How about if we humourlessly lecture you instead for umpteen paragraphs, throw in a few jingoist remarks anyway, and then say "it's OK I was being entirely sarcastic" afterwards?
it will probably be a lot darker than the original, which was in the main quite a bright and at least fairly cheery film despite the subject matter and the ending.
The nuclear annihilation of the world as we know it was bright? The vivisection and stuffing of intelligent human beings was cheery?
There's a world of difference between Burton's fluffy Hollywood-acceptable brand of psuedogothic, and "dark."
In a standard german high school you learn during your 13 years of education everything each of "Newton, Leonardo, Napier, Pascal, Wern, Tycho Brahe, Kelper(Kepler)" knows.
You're either incredibly arrogant or incredibly ignorant, I don't pretend to know which.
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I'm assuming you are British by the content of your post. Just look what careful editing of your comment does
Why... yes, you're right. It turns a valid and original point into an entirely bland and generic statement that could be applied to practically any nation in history. And all you had to do was remove all the proper nouns! Very clever.
Also, in case you did not notice, my jibes at soccer (and England) were entirely sarcastic. I might as well point that out pre-emptively before some humorless drone barks at me for being so jingoistic about steering wheels.
How about if we humourlessly lecture you instead for umpteen paragraphs, throw in a few jingoist remarks anyway, and then say "it's OK I was being entirely sarcastic" afterwards?
Dear me, anonymous coward, did I touch a nerve? :-)
Burton: good fun, not dark.
True goth: nope.
Rufus: eh? lost me completely there.
Now a rubber hand-puppet chasing The Doctor - that's convincing!
Now be fair. The 1990s US-based Doctor Who was far superior, despite the obvious handicaps of cgi and a big budget. That's why it did so well.
:-)
Ah, you kids. If it's not done with cgi and a load of expensive special effects you just can't suspend your disbelief, can you?
Tries to remember the scene in which Kim Novak brings about the nuclear annihilation of the world as we know it. Fails.
it will probably be a lot darker than the original, which was in the main quite a bright and at least fairly cheery film despite the subject matter and the ending.
The nuclear annihilation of the world as we know it was bright? The vivisection and stuffing of intelligent human beings was cheery?
There's a world of difference between Burton's fluffy Hollywood-acceptable brand of psuedogothic, and "dark."
I do remember that you've got to be careful where you aim your snowball when you throw it! (That one must have had an ice core.)
:-)
Uh, no it didn't. Sorry, but if you think that you definitely weren't paying much attention in grade 12 English.
In a standard german high school you learn during your 13 years of education everything each of "Newton, Leonardo, Napier, Pascal, Wern, Tycho Brahe, Kelper(Kepler)" knows.
You're either incredibly arrogant or incredibly ignorant, I don't pretend to know which.
Who on Earth thought this post was "insightful"?