No. We still say miles. Kilometers is only really used for actual specific distances whereas miles being used in a common phrase is still miles.

People from outside the U.S.: as we are all English-proficient here, do you ever use the phrase "I saw it coming from miles away.", or do you say "kilometers" instead?

Wow, that was supposed to :shout" hours ago...

Indeed. Especially on opening week. We're talking avg, 5-8%. It's more at your discount/sub-run houses.

AMC knows it, freakin $7 for a regular drink

and if you want to support your theaters, buy more concessions. because they get SHIT from the ticket sales...

So, we charged an extra $1 per. F'em

First, they threatened to stop sending us digital because we weren't upcharging for it (back when we were still "mixed" format). Then they threatened to stop sendingus 3D because we didn't upcharge for those either initially.

Can't blame the theater totally for those ticket prices. The studios have a say in them as well.

Charge 'em for the lice! Extra for the mice! Two percent for looking in the mirror twice!

Even here in Canada where price gouging is commonplace, IMAX 3-D is still $19.50

$27 a ticket? That's ludicrous

I gave up on IMAX this year. I was just about able to put up with $20 per ticket, but by the time the new Kong came out, my theater started charging $27 per. They must be outside their damn minds.

I paid for a ticket to a 2D showing but they showed it in 3D anyways for some reason. I think me taking an Ibuprofen before I went for other reasons is the only reason I didn't walk out with a massive headache.

One thing I'll give Bay and/or the promoters of this film... I like how they've advertised on the poster that this was actually shot with real, IMAX 3-D cameras. I wish the marketing of other films exhibited a similar interest in the quality of the equipment used. Hell, for some films, being visually interesting is about all they have going for them

I assume the Autobots will be even bigger assholes in this one, especially Optimus

I have my ticket to see it in IMAX this Saturday... looking forward to another bizarre, 3 hour spectacle of something or other

Bay already said he won't do another... but what does a persons word mean these days anyway. Doesn't really matter how bad the movies are (or aren't. You know, whatever floats your goat.) so long as they make money. And his flicks do make money.

maybe this one will do poor enough that theyll have to rethink their entire strategy going forward. and hopefully this WILL be bays last one (specially if it does do poorly). well, rethink after bumblebee anyway

Yeah... the reception for the movie has been... mixed to poor to say the least. Thanksfully, I gave up on the bayverse films after the first one.

well theres SOMETHING showing in movie theaters. whether it can actually be CALLED a "movie" seems to be debatable

Oh, is the new movie out?

I got a rock.

BB here

Who here got a Bumblebee shirt and who got the Optimus shirt at the premiere?

"Bowdlerizing" basically means censorship, in the "removing anything the person in charge of the editing considers unsuitable for children" sense.

Sorry, not sure what happened there. Shout edited; link should work now.

So bowdlerizing is sending someone to a 404 link?

http://tvtropes.org/...Main/Bowdlerise

What the hell is "bowdlerlize"?

Language evolves. As long as enough people know what the other's talking about, they'll use whatever term's handy despite incorrect etymology or meaning.

Just saying, it doesn't suggest that Xanatos "changed the face of cartoon villainy", which would require something like influence of Xanatos himself on cartoons in general. His name being used as a shorthand on the internet isn't really relevant to this, especially when it's not about his fame specifically.

The English language is a bit like that, though. We know what it means to bowdlerize something, even if very few of us remember Thomas Bowdler.

The Grandfather Clause page outright says that Xanatos Gambit is kept at that name not because Xanatos is super famous and influential but simply because the term itself is used a lot on the internet.

The site's had a history of being weirdly biased to naming things after specific examples even when it's not the best choice, though it used to be worse (i.e. Spikeification)

TVT's naming choice is hardly proof of that a character "changed the face of cartoon villainy".

I'd say he's second only to the Big Bad of "Watchmen" in that regard (younger fans sometimes check out this website, and I'd rather not spoil his identity until they're old enough to read the comic).

Proving just how much Xanatos changed the face of cartoon villainy.

My favorite trope is "Xanatos Gsmbit", but my favorite name for a trope is "Xanatos Speed Chess"

they're good dogs, Dracula.

I quite like "All Animals Are Dogs"

Mine would be the Funny Moments page for Dragon Ball Z Abridged.

My favourite pages are "comic book time", "not allowed to grow up" and "did not do the research".

Uh oh, I just ventured into TV Tropes again.

ALL HAIL THE DARK LORD OF THE TWIN MOONS.

What about a cow woman?

Don't have a cow man

or before 1992. Even worse.

is it after 1997? then probably bad.

I've completely lost track of whether it's in a good phase or bad