The Like/Hate Thread

[Sage]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylAHWVuPNus

That was awesome.

Makes you wonder how they set it up. I really have no idea.

[Jack]

It's gotta have something to do with the crazy amount of time the gun was underneath the table, or when the guy "inspected" the table, and seemed to plant something underneath there.

[Jonathan Meer]

Derren Brown is a bad ass.

[Ashe]

Its interesting. From what I"m seeing (beyond the comments for the video), the guy is a master of "suggestive implants" and subliminal messages. Listen to how he repeats "one" throughout the entire video. Its also possible that there were a number of other things he did to cause the guy to think about that number due to the pressure. The reason I find it interesting is because when the guy was counting down, I listened specifically for any form of change in how the other guy pronounced his counting or breathing, and found nothing, yet I felt the bullet was in 1 myself.

However, one must note that he shot the gun on number 5 also at the wall, meaning he doubted that one.

EDIT: If it was indeed fake, most likely there was something under the table saying "#1" when he inspected it.

"Choose one of those numbers."

"Look at them and choose one."

"Are you thinking of one now? Repeat it to yourself, fix that number in your head."

"Is it going into the correct one?"

[Jonathan Meer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vz_YTNLn6w

One of my favorite of Derren Brown's, if you haven't seen it.

[Ashe]

Also this one by him is funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIIz2FAgwcw&NR=1

[Belle Hibiki]

[Sage]

However, one must note that he shot the gun on number 5 also at the wall, meaning he doubted that one.

I'm 90% sure that was deliberate, to create believable tension. I am basing this on absolutely nothing, however.

[Jonathan Meer]

Haha, yeah, that one's bad-ass Ashe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugzcpnPR4...re=related

In this one, he trances a guy who is playing a zombie game and, while he's unconscious, transports him to a building mocked up to look like the zombie game, and wakes him back up. It's really kickass, and I'm very glad it didn't happen to me.

EDIT: Yeah, I think so too Sage. But man. He's a top-notch actor just for the way he composes himself in that whole thing.

[Belle Hibiki]

So fake it's funny.

[Kaden]

Like or hate?

[Pinky]

I'm pretty sure there's laws against people committing suicide on-air, so it has to be a staged event.

That may have been a real bullet, so there's a certain degree of reality, but I call bullshit on that being an honest game of Russian roulette. Besides, real roulette is played drunk and there's no dumb numbers on the revolver.

[Jack]

Its interesting. From what I"m seeing (beyond the comments for the video), the guy is a master of "suggestive implants" and subliminal messages. Listen to how he repeats "one" throughout the entire video. Its also possible that there were a number of other things he did to cause the guy to think about that number due to the pressure. The reason I find it interesting is because when the guy was counting down, I listened specifically for any form of change in how the other guy pronounced his counting or breathing, and found nothing, yet I felt the bullet was in 1 myself.

However, one must note that he shot the gun on number 5 also at the wall, meaning he doubted that one.

EDIT: If it was indeed fake, most likely there was something under the table saying "#1" when he inspected it.

"Choose one of those numbers."

"Look at them and choose one."

"Are you thinking of one now? Repeat it to yourself, fix that number in your head."

"Is it going into the correct one?"

I think the bullet was in 2.

[Jack]

Haha, yeah, that one's bad-ass Ashe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugzcpnPR4...re=related

In this one, he trances a guy who is playing a zombie game and, while he's unconscious, transports him to a building mocked up to look like the zombie game, and wakes him back up. It's really kickass, and I'm very glad it didn't happen to me.

EDIT: Yeah, I think so too Sage. But man. He's a top-notch actor just for the way he composes himself in that whole thing.

I almost shit myself laughing.

[Jack]

I think the bullet was in 2.

What the fuck is this shit, he says he will fire 3,4,5,6,1, then 2. There's only 5 chambers in the damn gun...

[Belle Hibiki]

Like or hate?

Like.

For a while I was unsure, because the beginning, ironically, started a bit abruptly, and I thought Coraline was an unlikable bitch for about half an hour. But as the story goes on, you start to sympathize with her.

I came away with the impression of having seen a modern day folk tale. The old, dark kind of folk tale, like Red Riding Hood or Hansel and Gretel.

Pretty sweet. If you haven't seen it, you should do so before it leaves theaters and you can't see it in 3D anymore (which, by the way, is exceptionally well done).

[Sage]

What the fuck is this shit, he says he will fire 3,4,5,6,1, then 2. There's only 5 chambers in the damn gun...

Uh, no? It's a six-shooter. A proper revolver. O.o

[Jack]

So he stopped at the fifth shot?

Don't give me the frog eyes, I only pretend to be retarded for amusement purposes. I know what the hell a revolver is. =/

[Sage]

If he started at three, and he did, and pulled the trigger five times, he would have fired the bullet, in chamber 1.

3, 4, 5, 6, 1.

Five trigger pulls. Didn't need to pull it six times unless the bullet was in chamber 2, which was unused.

[Saz]

I've said it many a-time. I <3 Derren Brown.

He did two live shows which were recorded for channel 4, probably enjoyed them the most, out of all his work.