The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

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Legilimency allows them to predict the actions of enemies accurately, because they can simply read their thoughts. They can do that with a higher accuracy than Jedi, which should give them the same "superhuman reflexes" in combat scenarios - even better ones, if you think about it.

When has this ever happened? Besides, you need to cast legilimens on someone for legilimency to work.


Human speed? Nope. The movies equipped them with the ability to "half-apparete" (turning them into these black or white smoke clouds) a form in which they are capable of outrunning broomsticks (120 mph+). Rewatch "Order of the Phoenix" and have a look at Voldemort appearing in the Ministry of Magic. You can see his head in a normal state, while the rest of his body is in the "cloud form".

That is a magical ability that they have to activate. Notice that I said 'in every physical regard'. Their actual bodies are human and possess human speed and reaction times.

Except the constant denial of the idea that Harry's parents could have been killed in a car crash

Because of their durability or magical prowess?

and the fact that Neville's uncle Algie tried to put him into grave danger, just because he wanted his magic abilities to show up. The climax of the latter was dropping him from the first floor, which made him bounce through the garden like a rubber ball.

Becuase his untapped magic gave him that ability. It was a one off. Actual wizards do not bounce.

That's just in the "Prisoner of Azkaban" movie. It happens during the Quidditch Match in which Harry is attacked by dementors. He follows the Snitch high in the sky and you can see the Seeker of the opponents (Hufflepuff I think) getting hit by lightning and dropping from his broom.

Well I'll have to re-watch that scene but the ability to survive being struck by lightning is not superhuman. Several people have done it. In fact I believe there is one man who has survived being hit by lightning a total of 6 or something times.


Technically, a Wizard with a time-turner wouldn't need to care about "prep time". And a sufficient powerful Wizard could probably just summon a pile of Kryptonite out of nowhere with a mere thought (Dumbledore in "Goblet of Fire" summons a complete stone stage on one of the side walls of the Great Hall). That would kind of stop Superman from blitzing them, wouldn't it?

Hogwarts possesses no time-turners. And its not as if Superman cannot also travel backwards in time. Wizards do not know what Kryptonite is, ergo they cannot manifacture it.

And its enough that I have to argue this utter shit with RJ, I am not doing so with you. No offense but I'm really just ****ing tired of teh entire thing.

I did put the "😉" there for a reason...

Originally posted by Lucius
Happy 21st birthday to me.
Who are you?

Coppola felt that the first two films had told the complete Corleone saga. It was only his perilous financial status, after the failure of a big-budget movie, that compelled him to take up Paramount's long-standing offer to make a third installment

Well THAT explains everything.

just saw the first godfather on the 24th actually. pretty darn good movie. I shall have to watch the others soon...

Originally posted by truejedi
just saw the first godfather on the 24th actually. pretty darn good movie. I shall have to watch the others soon...
There's a little know third movie in the Godfather series. I'd recommend skipping it.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
There's a little know third movie in the Godfather series. I'd recommend skipping it.

I've seen it a few times and it was god awful. Terrible, unfinished plot, didn't like the way Michael was all emo.. It's like Gordon Gekko turning good, it just shouldn't happen. Michael was a ruthless leader so I suppose they needed a movie where he actually feels remorse. He tried protecting his family and yet he lost everything doing it..

Like I said, you can have a whole year's worth of philosophy, english, or art class on the Godfather movies.

I've seen the first two movies more than I've seen any other movie and you learn something new each time.

Ugh i hated that Wall Street movie......

I lost track of it near the beginning, and really stopped paying attention, but if i were Gekko i woulda kept the hundred million, the dudes an idiot that ruined the plotline.... =-(

Originally posted by Pwned
Shia LaBoof ruined that Wall Street movie...... =-(
Agreed.

Originally posted by Pwned
Ugh i hated that Wall Street movie......

I lost track of it near the beginning, and really stopped paying attention, but if i were Gekko i woulda kept the hundred million, the dudes an idiot that ruined the plotline.... =-(

What did you hate about it? It wasn't as economically diverse as the first one but it was good enough because Douglas was in it. Why would you have kept the hundred million? You DO realize that he turned that hundred million into 1 billion within a few days/weeks right? Not that hard to give up 100 million when you have 900 million lying around.

So wait, is the ending of Inception that Cobb's still dreaming? Because at the end his kids are wearing the exact same clothes that they were in his memories. It waaaaay too big a coincidence that they'd be wearing the exact same outfits as they were when he left, that would just be crazy, so.... yeah. He's dreaming?

lol, read Cracked's article from 2 days ago about 9 big stories everyone got wrong.

and read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40855635/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

Saying it's just ambiguous is boring and annoying. We can talk about what we think was going on in the movie even if we'll never know. Don't spoil our fun.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Saying it's just ambiguous is boring and annoying. We can talk about what we think was going on in the movie even if we'll never know. Don't spoil our fun.
When you start getting in-depth analyses and arguments over the ambiguous ending of a sci-fi movie, you know you've got a bunch of douchefags who can't stand unfinished fiction. Those people are no fun at all.

Wait...

lol, I agree with you DE, it IS fun. I never did make up my mind, but I was really leaning towards real ending, simply because my mind couldn't figure out when it BECAME a dream, if that makes sense. in your opinion, if it WAS a dream, how much of it was? (his reality i mean)

Seriously, the last 3-5 minutes of Skyline were amazing.

oh my god

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
What did you hate about it? It wasn't as economically diverse as the first one but it was good enough because Douglas was in it. Why would you have kept the hundred million? You DO realize that he turned that hundred million into 1 billion within a few days/weeks right? Not that hard to give up 100 million when you have 900 million lying around.
Yeah i know, but the way i was raised 100 million aint somethin you just givve away.........

It was just boring really, there was mention of "vengeance", that was the most exiciting part of it

Its just not my kind of movie really

Besides, havin 100 million with todays economy............

It was a promising movie that went nowhere. I went to the theaters to see Gecko f*cking some arrogant businessmen up and gaining some sweet vengeance along the way, teaching us all about 21st century greed, corporate technological soullessness, and the depressing value of cynicism.

Instead we were treated to two hours of Shia Labeouf's love of environmentally friendly technology, unconvincing conflict between what's right and wrong, and his incredibly tedious relationship with Gecko's daughter. And in the background hums a completely irrelevant and go-nowhere story about Susan Sarandon's financial problems.

And in the end, just when we're hoping for some last minute Gecko-style backstabbing f*ck-over, he has a change of heart and amends his ways.

Insipid. The sequel trails miles behind the quality of the first.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12097687

****ing Islamic barbarian shitheads. Someone needs to purge these primitive ****tards.