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Montgomery 
"F**k!"
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 Posted - 11/15/2004 : 22:56:46
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Originally posted by benj clews
You're on! 
Thought you'd like that thought. So, you can't be bought, but you can be steered in the right direction.
EM :)
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benj clews 
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Posted - 11/15/2004 : 22:59:20
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Originally posted by Emily Desmond
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Originally posted by benj clews
You're on!
Thought you'd like that thought. So, you can't be bought, but you can be steered in the right direction.
EM :)
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 00:29:16
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Originally posted by benj clews
Think we may be back in doe/ buck/ stag/ whelk territory here. I remember the cereal scene, but I didn't remember the brand. Does the brand reference have to be correct, or is a cereal-related pun good enough? Discuss.
Thing is, it's a key point that they are ring-shaped, as the kid is in one like an inflatable ring. It's not really important that it's cereal. If one could randomly refer to any brand of cereal, would it logically be any worse to refer to any old ring-shaped food, such as spaghetti hoops or doughnuts? |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 11/16/2004 00:30:35 |
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benj clews
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 01:07:32
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by benj clews
Think we may be back in doe/ buck/ stag/ whelk territory here. I remember the cereal scene, but I didn't remember the brand. Does the brand reference have to be correct, or is a cereal-related pun good enough? Discuss.
Thing is, it's a key point that they are ring-shaped, as the kid is in one like an inflatable ring. It's not really important that it's cereal. If one could randomly refer to any brand of cereal, would it logically be any worse to refer to any old ring-shaped food, such as spaghetti hoops or doughnuts?
It'd definitely be logically worse to refer to any old ring-shaped food, since cereals are such a small percentage of the category of foods, whereas ring-shaped foods are a far larger percentage of the category of foods (never debate logic with a programmer ). It's also very important that it's cereal- I doubt many people eat doughnuts or spaghetti hoops with a spoon and milk, both of which I remember just as visually (if not more so) than the ring-shaped food. |
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AC 
"Returning FWFR Old-Timer"
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 01:11:33
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I agree. The fact that it's cereal is the most important image from that scene, and I think the use of 'Snap, Crackle, Pop', which is a highly recognised marketing slogan the world over, immediately conjures images of breakfast cereals, regardless of how faithful we're being to a crappy 1989 Rick Moranis film.
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 01:50:43
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....doughnuts?
Mmmmmmmmm......doughnuts...... 
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 02:43:01
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Originally posted by benj clews
It'd definitely be logically worse to refer to any old ring-shaped food, since cereals are such a small percentage of the category of foods, whereas ring-shaped foods are a far larger percentage of the category of foods (never debate logic with a programmer ). It's also very important that it's cereal- I doubt many people eat doughnuts or spaghetti hoops with a spoon and milk, both of which I remember just as visually (if not more so) than the ring-shaped food.
Nope, that's definitely false. There are many more breakfast cereal brands than ring-shaped foods. I was not imagining the spoon to be an important part of the story, and indeed it is not. In contrast, the boy being stuck in the middle of the Cheerio is important. However, I acknowledge that his floating is also a key point, but floating in a soup that contains those little ring-shaped things that are slightly like croutons would have worked just the same.
Anyway, my point was not that it would be fine to refer to such a thing instead, just that it would be no more unreasonable than Rice Krispies, which I still think is the case. Even if you think that the scene would be more similar with Rice Krispies than with that sort of soup, then I still cannot believe that the former is close enough. I think that a review has to be very good indeed in order to justify such an explicit inaccuracy.
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 03:32:24
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Well Folks, I haven't even seen the movie.
I just asked my wife if she had and asked her to tell me something about it. She told me that she could remember one part that the dad almost eats the kids that are in the breakfast cereal.
So I think that my review gives the reader the idea that the kids are in the breakfast cereal cause everyone relates Snap, Crackle and Pop to breakfast.
I see a lot of more inaccurate reviews as I cast my voting stick, but hey, I am here for a good time not a witch hunt.
It's a stayer as far as I am concerned.
If benj wants to delete it, that's fine with me, you have my permission.
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 03:49:37
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You could have submitted "Rick Moranis shrinks kids", that would have been more accurate.   
Except then I wouldn't have voted for it, like I just did with the "Snap, crackle etc" one.
And the vote on your other one there is mine too, I saw that one this morning. |
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 04:15:45
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Originally posted by Sean
You could have submitted "Rick Moranis shrinks kids", that would have been more accurate.
Except then I wouldn't have voted for it, like I just did with the "Snap, crackle etc" one.
And the vote on your other one there is mine too, I saw that one this morning.
About time! after all this talk, it finally got a vote
thanks.
I quickly sneaked in the other this morning, as I knew benj was going to the movie page.
I had a live web cam installed into benj's house the other night when he went out to the movies
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 04:46:27
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 Wondered how you did it so quick. Can I have a link?
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Stalean
"Back...OMG"
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 05:39:34
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Originally posted by Salopian
However, I acknowledge that his floating is also a key point, but floating in a soup that contains those little ring-shaped things that are slightly like croutons would have worked just the same.
Anyway, my point was not that it would be fine to refer to such a thing instead, just that it would be no more unreasonable than Rice Krispies, which I still think is the case. Even if you think that the scene would be more similar with Rice Krispies than with that sort of soup, then I still cannot believe that the former is close enough. I think that a review has to be very good indeed in order to justify such an explicit inaccuracy.
Disney would never allow the perception that a hot soup was used to float children in rather than cold milk. 
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 07:11:13
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Originally posted by StaLean
Disney would never allow the perception that a hot soup was used to float children in rather than cold milk.
The same thought occured to me, StaLean.
"Honey I boiled alive the shrunken kids in a bowl of hot soup". Starring Hannibal Lecter.
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 07:55:34
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Honey I scalded the kids.
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thefoxboy
"Four your eyes only."
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Posted - 11/16/2004 : 08:15:10
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Originally posted by Sean
Wondered how you did it so quick. Can I have a link?
No way
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Reviews that are wrong
