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It is not meant exclusively as an art site, but its one of the most suggestive I've seen: http://www.requiemforadream.com (makes even less sense if you haven't seen the film)

Cube kinda sucked, but Pi would be up there with the best movies ever made. After that movie the producer (or maybe it was the director~"~) did Requiem for a Dream, and from there he got the new Batman movie coming out. You can just see the budgets climbing exponentially.

Doesn't that make Pi less geeky though:)...

I can't imagine anyone not appreciating Pi as a movie, even if it isn't somthing they'd choose themselves.

Also did anyone notice where LOTR the Two Towers got its theme music from.

Paul Oakenfold owes a debt then to Clint Mansell (former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman) and the Kronos Quartet, who originally composed and performed all of the themes used in Requiem for a Dream. Oakenfold used their music, they didn't use his.

In fact, there's a remix album for Requiem For A Dream's soundtrack coming out this October, which features a track by Oakenfold.

As an aside: The original promotional website for Requiem for a Dream is one of the best flash sites ever produced, and it's still up as of this writing.

Award-winning London-based designers of Requiemforadream.com and Donniedarko.com. Some of the most obfuscated, beautiful (flash) website design on the internet. A lesson about how to draw people in and let them forage for content in a way that piques their interest, generates buzz, and makes viewers crave more, more, more.

Marketting seems to have devolved to pretty pictures.... the reason I buy something is because I have some information that makes me believe that my life will be improved in some fashion as a result of the purchase.

How will buying a ticket to a movie improve your life? Maybe because you'll get some enjoyment from the pretty pictures on the screen.

I think movies are going to have to start making two websites. Requiem for a Dream's web site got me thinking about this. It's a beautiful site that adapts the movie to the web medium well, but it's got no information. You'd think the makers of an independent film who have to struggle to pay the bills would want people to know where to see or buy the damn thing. Even the distributor, Artisan Entertainment, only linked to the above site.

I'm all for Flash as a medium for creative expression, but sometimes I just want some info on a white background.

All advertising is aggressive, but passive-aggressive is the least likely to offend.

I quit watching tv, mostly because of the adds. It infuriated me to be paying for a service and then not recieving anything useful. It was really hard for me to enjoy Law and Order with all those commercials interrupting. And I got the feeling the show was being structured around the commercial breaks, and that was too much like pot psychosis for me to handle.

Since the internet came along, I quit subscribing to the daily paper. I get more news than I need online, and it suits me better.

When I'm browsing the web, I disable java and animated gifs and don't allow images to load that come from external servers. So, a lot of add content is effectively blocked. What I do see I can tolerate, because it isn't blinking at me. (Flash notwithstanding. I like it for stuff like BBC and the Requiem for a Dream page. As soon as advertisers go too far in co-opting it, it's hasta la vista Flash.)

What has my dander up lately is product-placements in movies. And the fact that movie makers need to invent words like "toyables" to explain themselves. That's just one more reason to prefer independent and foriegn films to Hollywood films.

Most of the adds that reach me still come through the mail. Since we have listed our names with the DMA, most of the junk mail we receive is stuff we actually asked for, or catalogues from retailers that we actually use. (N.B., the DMA also has services to cut down on junk phone calls and email.)

Targetted adds that accompany subscriptions are acceptable to me in principle, but the service I'm subscribing for better be pretty darned good, and the adds better be right on target. When it comes to media, there's just too information out there to put up with a lot of distractions.

He should have tossed in Marlon Wayans jar jar impersonation from the deleted scenes Requium for A Dream dvd. Twas better than all of episode 1. The sight is completely wacked in any event.

• You don't have to have a non-linear storyline in a game to be both interactive and engrossing.
• You don't need a full-motion video intro to a game to be impressive.
• Really effective AI code isn't about how clever it is - it's about how clever it looks. The soldiers in Half-Life are individually stupid, but the fact that they work as a team is already way better than most games.
• There are points in Half-Life where the designers came up with a completely fantastic idea. They used it once to full effect, and then never again. Rather than making you utterly bored of it, that one point really sticks in your memory. There's also amazing subtlety in the soundtrack.
• Oh, and the point about mods and Counterstrike and stuff.

The wierdest and most interesting webpage I have ever seen is for the movie Requiem for a Dream (great movie by the way). It is a long interactive flash animation that is very trippy and quite creative. check it out here.

Probably the only really good use of flash for a webpage I have seen, usually it just gets in the way of finding the information.

Take a look at Requiem for a Dream's website. Very well done, and very innovative.

-as