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OriginalGriff wrote: Country (or was it western, I can never tell the difference)
We got both kinds, we got country and western! - YouTube[^]
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Quote: 2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free.
Good film!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Good film!
Awful sequel!
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Aren't they all?
I'd be hard pressed to think of half a dozen sequels that were as good as the original, much less better. I think it's the way Holywood works: the sequel must be the same as the original, but with more explosions. For number three they can get creative, because two flopped so badly and they want the franchise to continue ...
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well star trek has a few "better" sequels
then again with later release shows changing the past, past-future, future-past ... are they really sequels? requels? unquels? un-de-se-re-quels? ...
(terminator likewise but T1 definitely had the best lines.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd be hard pressed to think of half a dozen sequels that were as good as the original, much less better.
Put Wrath of Khan on your list (but only because the first Star Trek movie was so dire).
The second Paddington movie was a brilliantly crafted piece of work, too.
An even smaller list would be of movies that are better than the books they're based on.
The only one I can think of is Logan's Run. It's not a brilliant movie, by any reasonable standards, but a Hell of a lot better than the godawful book.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: An even smaller list would be of movies that are better than the books they're based on.
"Blade runner" / "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" is one of 'em.
"Ender's Game" definitely in the poo pile.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Ender's Game" definitely in the poo pile.
Isn't that mostly the curse of high expectations?
The movie wasn't bad actually, it was just that the book was so much better.
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I think the problem was that the movie was just too short - they had to cut out 2/3rds of the book to fit it in, and what was left didn't make any sense.
If they'd done it as a "The Expanse" style hour-long-per-episode TV series, it could have been brilliant.
But most movies are like that - a short story spread over 2 hours. 
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The same as with the ring trilogy.
Way to short I say, way to long my wife says. 
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Aliens. It is also a vastly different movie than Alien - which I view as more of a space based slasher movie.
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DRHuff wrote: Aliens. It is also a vastly different movie than Alien
Indeed.
I allowed my young daughter to watch Aliens, because it's just a monster/action movie, and kids live monster/action stories.
Alien, however, wasn't on the cards until she was a lot older.
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My folks were country fans and never missed an opportunity it seems to crank up the volume whenever they heard Kenny Rogers on the radio. As a kid, I hated it.
But as an adult, I've grown to appreciate what he did. The Gambler is such a catchy classic.
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Source[^], but the NYT has the same thing.
I really don't like the "one in __", in this kind of context; it's just not precise enough language, for me.
A back-of-the-mind inference is that each family or grouping of five people has to choose one to stay at home. Even though the reader knows that is not the case, it still fuzzes the meaning, subconsciously (and if you don't know how to write for the subconscious, you shouldn't be writing headlines).
Percentage and fractions have no such implications: "20% of" and "a fifth of" don't conjure any illusions*.
* OK, so who immediately thought "unless you chop people into fifths!"? That's what I mean by writing for the subconscious.
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Quote: Percentage and fractions have no such implications: "20%
Now you are assuming that they know what percentages are, quite a bold assumption 
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RickZeeland wrote: Now you are assuming that they know what percentages are, quite a bold assumption
90% of assumptions about other people are wrong* -- unless they don't understand percentages, of course, in which case, assuming they're stoopid is 100% correct.
* Yes, that's one of the 78% of made-up-on-the-spot statistics.
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Who are you calling "they"?
(90% of statistics are made up)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It's for people who count on their fingers.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: It's for people who count on their fingers.
It wouldn't surprise me.
We should put out fake news that it's only 4%, to prompt them to maybe get an education (or an additional prosthetic limb).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: "a fifth of" don't conjure any illusions
Depends on what you're drinking! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Depends on what you're drinking!
... And how many fifths!
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Do you have to pay for your own dutch oven?
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And if you don't want to cook at home, are you forced to buy freedom fries?
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Quote: In matters of ovens the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.
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