Leaderboard

Like I did on the Center, I'll come here to tell you all the cool things I've done/changed around officially. Created widgets for Top Posters and Top Forums (like the days of old) for the portal. Took me a while because I had to learn this shit from scratch. Created a widget called Quick Links for the portal with links to various places our members are part of. I will keep updating it with things anyone wants to add. Let me know. Fixed the fancy URLs after I broke it. Your bookmarks should be working again. Woops. I've changed the text color selector to the old color wheel but the catch is...the current one is cached in your browser and you'll have to clear the cache to see it. I tried like hell to figure out how the fuck to version it but it is SO ingrained in the board that you're just gonna have to do that. IF you're not sure how to do that, google it. I am going to keep trying to figure out how to do that so it updates for everyone. Set the name switching to 1 time every 60 days. If you derp, PM me and I'll fix it but for the most part, let's keep it reasonable. I hate when people change names. On that note, there are lots of new profile fields now. USE THE ALIAS FIELD. Some of us don't know what your new names are. I've also added lots of gaming and chat related profile fields as well. Go nuts. I've now created lots of plugins to take care of all the little edits to this and that old thing. This should, again, make it easier for me to keep the board updated. Next test I'll be doing is an upgrade to 4.4 as we're on the newest 4.3.x line right now. I fully expect shit to break. Created several posting ranks for various post counts. We can make a fun topic to choose them all from here though. I'm not attached to it. I have re-created the Serious Business skin for this board. I've also made several small edits to make things look right (like getting rid of the circle avatars everywhere and adding borders where needed). Created Vote and Intensify buttons for the editor. I'm still working on making vote work the way it did in the old days. Will update as we go. If anyone has feelings on what buttons are available on the editor at various screen sizes, let me know. I can add buttons to the mobile view if you want them. I tried to keep it relatively simple for now. That should cover most noticeable things I've done since the forum opened. I've got a few things to tweak and I'll update again when I finish things.

I'm just gonna keep doing this director series of topics! At first glance the easy choice is The Dark Knight but once you remember the other movies Nolan has done it's not quite as clear which movie is his best.

This is my favorite Shade post of all time. Seriously a work of art. This is our 19th year of existence... Amazing!

For the record @Garlic Junior Scarecrow wasn't supposed to be officiating that court. It was originally supposed to be Joker. We know why it became Scarecrow.

Following - Have not seen. Memento - Gets my vote but I think his brother deserves far more credit. Everyone focuses on the gimmick of the black & white vs colour, forward/backward dual narrative shit but forgot that the STORY strength enabled the direction of the film and not vice versa. Insomnia - Can't even remember if I've seen. Batman Begins - If this was the only movie in the Batman trilogy it would be heralded as a classic but is sadly overshadowed. Still great. Would argue it for top three. The Prestige - Again, gets overshadowed by Memento for the "ole switcharoo" gimmick movie of his filmography but I'd also put this in the fight for third. The Dark Knight - Second best movie in this criteria, but a contender for GOAT movie and the death of Heath Ledger tragically gives it that extra mystique. An actual FORCE of a performance that drags the rest of the movie kicking and screaming along behind him, if his portrayal of The Joker isn't the single greatest performance of all time it is certainly in the conversation. Everyone else does their part well, and by well I mean far more than average, but a great Two-Face is always going to be diminished alongside a GODLY Joker. Inception - Loved it on first viewing. Confused, but loved it. Second viewing I enjoyed half the characters less. I mean, Michael Caine isn't his character, he is clearly Caine in a Nolan film. Ellen Page is just "Ellen Page". And repeated viewings strip away everyone until your left with, upon the fifth or sixth viewing, only Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy feeling like characters and not paid actors. The beginning of style over substance Nolan. The Dark Knight Rises - Bane was incredible. That opening was incredible. Various scenes were incredible. That twist was... weird. Scarecrow officiating court proceedings was.... weird. On repeated viewings, the extras not connecting with their punches was.... weird. I'm being taken out of the movie again. Help. Interstellar - Okay, I'm liking the performances. But suddenly he's went from a field to some weird government meeting where they have determined HE is humanity's last hope. Why? Because it's in the script. Okay, time is working weird now. Why? Because it's in the script. Matt Damon is here now. Why? In the script. Funny robot? Script. Weird ending? Script. Sloppy seconds from 2001? Script. Moral of the story? Script. Dunkirk - And we arrive at the pinnacle of "style over substance" Nolan that began with Inception. This, and I say this with a straight face, is a movie made by a film lover for lovers of film. It exists purely because Nolan wants it to exist. It is the equivalent of James Cameron making Titanic because he wanted to fuck around with underwater cameras. Christopher Nolan envisaged a tight shot of Tom Hardy flying a plane and built the entire film around that one scene making it to theatres for movie buffs to masturbate over. It is not BAD and its existence is not having a negative impact on the world, but it is art rather than entertainment and it may be an objectively "good" "movie", it is not going to be his "best" and comes across surprisingly soulless. tl;dr I fucking love Nolan's films even if everything since Inception is a "one and done" and everything before it is "rewatch these fucking glorious nuggets of gold every week for three years".

There's really no wrong answer here but yeah, it's not surprising TDK is winning.

I've always been an avid fan of dreams and stories about dreams. Inception is my favorite Nolan movie.

I would rather here your take on vidya than hear about spiders bigger than my head...

I'm a proud owner of Prickly Hedgehogs and have read it to Milo dozens of times. Fantastic work, Jane!