Authored by: brooke! on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 04:54 PM

Monkey. Playing. Ms.Pacman. That made my...life. And because one Japanese video deserves another...I found this today, and productivity in my entire office has ground to a near halt whilst we watch the entire series and laughing uproariously. Nearest I can figure, (and I don't speak Japanese) that one is entitled How to Argue with your Spouse in English.

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Authored by: billsimmon on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 05:37 PM

Ah yes, the Zuiikin Gals. Candleblogged here. I've seen several episodes but this one is by far the funniest.

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Authored by: JIMO on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 05:38 PM

The chimp probably would have gotten high score, if it weren't for that dumb bitch's half-wit advice.

"There! Go get the power pellet now when not a single goddamn ghost is in sight and you have to navigate through the entire maze, using your small monkey brain, to reach ONE too late! As you can see, I spent the 1980's reading Jane Goodall's research, rather than perfecting my video game skills."

The chimp should have punched her, taken her quarters, and gone to an arcade downtown.

As an aside, they tried to get the chimp to play Donkey Kong, but it walked away insulted.

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Authored by: casey on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 07:15 PM

Herzog + Sci Fi = Bad idea? I'd wait 'til I saw it to make such a pronouncement.

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Authored by: brooke! on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 07:53 PM

Sheesh, HOW did I miss that the first time? I hang my head in shame.

Oh, wait, a monkey playing Ms. Pacman. I am merry again.

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Authored by: billsimmon on Thursday, July 13 2006 @ 08:38 PM

Casey, yeah, I know. Saying anything by Herzog will be bad is a stretch, but remember, Godard is an even bigger auteur god and Hal Hartley was arguabley my favorite filmmaker of all time. Their forays into SF were disasterous. I have this feeling that SF is already SO loaded with symbolism and is so open to interpretation to begin with that to do any kind of metaphorical or poetic approach to the genre is overdoing it or something. That plus what makes science fiction cool is, you know, science.

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Authored by: arthur on Friday, July 14 2006 @ 12:11 AM

But also...some of the best movies of late HAVE been metaphorical /
poetic films with sci-fi premises...most of them were Charlie Kauffman
films however. Okay pretty much all of them. But did you like Solaris?
That was some pretty dreamy sci-fi...I think Herzog can do it.

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Authored by: DanZ on Friday, July 14 2006 @ 05:26 AM

the first thing i thought of was solaris! i just watched Aguirre, Wrath of God and once again decided herzog is pretty gosh darn brilliant.

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Authored by: evening on Friday, July 14 2006 @ 08:23 AM

I'm not convinced the chimp is really playing. Yes he's moving the stick around, but his movements don't really match what's on the screen. I'm not saying the game is rigged or anything, but my guess is he's just moving the stick around and not getting the finer movements down.

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Authored by: e_to_the_m on Friday, July 14 2006 @ 04:43 PM

Remember Jim Carrey playing Vera de Milo? That what this particular Zuiikin Gal reminds me of.

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Authored by: JIMO on Monday, July 17 2006 @ 05:51 PM

If you ask me, Bill's spot-on with the Herzog sci-fi film thing. One big problem with his premise for the film is that beings intelligent enough to leave their own world and colonize space supposedly evolved in a totally liquid environment. Common scientific belief argues that liquid or aquatic environments do not pose enough challenge to allow for the development of higher intelligence and complex societies. And there obviously can be no fire in such environments, another MAJOR requirement for advanced civilizations.

A few years back, I fiddled around with a sci-fi story directly addressing the problem of intelligent beings evolving on a planet where fire was an impossibility due to the lack of oxygen in their atmosphere. They were bipedal electric eels of a sort (no, there wasn't a 1960's acid rock group called "Bipedal Electric Eels"), who could use their bodies' ability to generate electricity as primitive motive force, rather than combustion necessitating oxygen. They built simple machines at first, which they ran with their own natural talents, and before long they were creating complex turbines and batteries, and using controlled nuclear force to reach space.

My point? I'm awesome. No. My point is Herzog has to address the issues a liquid environment raises for the evolution of intelligence and the emergence of advanced civilizations. If he doesn't come up with an explanation, it's gonna be a bunch of dreamy hogwash.

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