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  1. Re:Guerrilla marketing by suv4x4 · · Score: 1 · on Explaining the Special Effects Behind Transformers

    He still hasn't learned from Pearl Harbor that not every movie needs a love story, but I think that it was still a very good movie.

    Yea, you can't blame the guy: he had just something like around $200 million to make this movie. With such a scarce budget, last thing you wanna do is think about whether there should be a love story in it or not. Love stories are cheap and don't involve CGI, so that's good to thrown in, just in case.

    I'm sure if they keep giving him movies, few billion later he'll eventually learn. I can't wait to see the kind of movie Bay would do on a budget of 500 million. He may even hire screenwriters.

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    Regarding special effects: what's with Hollywood complaining about how complex it was for them to pull off the effects? I mean, guys: you cast it upon yourselves.

    Is transformers complex to do in CGI? I mean, look at them - they're just a bunch of colored boxes. But that's not good enough for ya, right? Naaah!

    They have to actually take the original designs, and make them look as if someone mounted a bomb in them, and it exploded right before the movie shooting began.

    With so many parts randomly sticking out, a real-world robot like this would constantly find himself hitching all sorts of garbage laying around that gets stuck in most inconvenient places.

    Also it wouldn't hurt they they consider how fast a huge metal robot could move and transform, so to look real (yea, it's about of robots turning cars from outer space, but in a live movie, it HAS to look realistic).

    I don't blame the CGI crew for this last one though. Apparently they pitches realistic physics to Bay, but he was convinced that huge metal robots from outer space would move fast and smooth like "ninjas". Yea, like ninjas.

    The result is you get a mix of realistic physics (on impact with buildings) and the rest of the time, the Transformers look like paper models that could get carried away if you blow a household fan at them.

    Great job.

  2. Re:...or not by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Informative · on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors

    I've noticed that at least one of the supposed links are dead. As for how they got the media to buy in ...

    The wikipedia article was created in Feb of 2005. It contained a one-sentence summary and a link to the website. The website is registered by a dns proxy company, so there's no DNS contact information. Ooh, another bizarre coincidence - the supposed "national news broadcast" has been postponed until "june or july"; release date of the movie is July 7th. When looking at it in a paranoid mindset, lots of things on the site are curious. Including the DISTINCT lack of decent contact information. I've found only a few email addresses so far. Ironically, the only person whose domain I've been able to nail down as non-anonymous is the supposed webmaster. And his site is cheesily amusing in its own right. :)

    The Scanner Darkly had its recent release date, September 16th, pushed back to some time in March, 2006." - as you can see, it's been bumped around a fair amount.

  3. Re:Just What We Need by sesshomaru · · Score: 1 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    Devon Aoki, too...

    Dead or Alive Movie Stills

  4. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  5. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  6. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  7. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  8. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  9. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  10. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  11. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  12. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  13. Here's the links to the actual images... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You
    ...for those clued up about js.

    What's with the irritating CSS popverts on their 404 page? Will doing #demodiy { display: none !important; } make these morons begin randomizing their CSS identifiers and classnames? Will we be forced to disable CSS in the same way we now disable javascript?

  14. But enough about Star Wars... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny · on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review
    Lucas is working on Indiana Jones IV

    return to the temple of the revenge seeking crusader