Since France planned to veto the invasion of Iraq, the the hollywood machine has introduced characters in each film to berate the French. It seems as though hollywood has outsourced its script-writing to the state department - could this be the problem?
I'm in the UK, haven't had a TV for about ten years* but am highly into HBO TV shows. There's far more opportunity to developer characters and plot arcs over twenty hours per season than a two-hour CGI-fest. Perhaps all the decent writers are now writing for TV?
(*) Not that this has stopped the TV licensing agency from hounding me for those ten years, trying to fear-monger me into paying for a license I don't need by threatening inspection-visits that never materialize
It's way too early to mark Pacific Rim off as a flop.
Maybe so. Once you've seen the trailer, that will change. Remember: trailer == all the best bits of the film strung together in such a manner as to make is seem one hundred times better than it is. By this metric, flop is being kind.
I feel some movie-spewing ghoul preparing the movie-equivalent of America's Got Talent. Ask them directly what they want then force-feed 'em until they choke. Yay \o/
Agreed, let's also have wikileaks blocked by default and indeed anything else which shows our politicians to be less then lilly-white. Ignorance is bliss.
Probably better to rewind 400+ years and try again.
Yep. That will probably be forced upon you when the rest of the world colludes to stamp out the threat that is American Expansionism. At least the Nazis had the good taste to keep the streets free of McDonalds wrappers. W00t!
Agreed. I just made the mistake of buying an audiobook on audible.co.uk. Never again. They expect you to install a downloader just to get the content; plus the downloader isn't triggered from all browsers so a change of browser might be needed. Once you've actually got the content, there are device-synchronization and audible-drm-compatible-player issues. Who wants to go through all that ? Unfortunately the content wasn't available on bt so I can't resort to that as a means of making it the content accesible in a way that suits me. To add insult to injury, audible 'allow' me as a customer to burn a limited number of books to CD but... drumroll... this process has a dependency on iTunes. WTH? I suppose I should know better as it's now owned by Amazon:S
What a great future we all have to look forwards to when any remaining audiobook-content creators still in competition with Amazon are no longer:S:S:S:S:S
Jumping in here... Perhaps GP's point is that your society is horribly disfigured to value the ability to bear personal projectile weapons above the ability to speak one's mind? I guess if you had a free-speech lobby, things would be different?
I don't think I have to explain how such opportunities, when successfully exploited on a continuous basis over time, can give rise to the most powerful, most expensive government and world empire in human history (with military bases in some 150 countries around the world).
It's one thing to create a state of perpetual fear and war around the globe, through covert terror operations as well as outright invasions, whilst simultaneously spinning is a 'self-defence' but for the love of god, must we be forced to suffer your eating habits? I call for an immediate and permanent withdrawl of McDonalds 'restaurants' from non-US territory; surely the Geneva Conventions have something to say on this matter? It's JUST NOT RIGHT!!!
That depends. Quite a few kids play driving and racing simulators of various kinds since little nowadays and have a decent understanding on what kind of decisions work and don't in a car
Agreed, the GTA-series seems to nicely augment a formal course of driving lessons. In parts, filling in gaps missing entirely from a formal course; car-jacking someone using an Uzi 9mm and a molotov cocktail, anyone?
I realize that for certain sections of the community, such core skills are part of the standard course but where I come from, my repertoire of driving skills would have been sadly lacking.
the scale and depth of blame laid on others is massively greater in Western media
I've often noticed in retail contexts that the size of the typeface used to exclaim 'BARGAIN!!' is indirectly proportional to the degree of bargain to be had.
Because Americans like to feel that they really do live in the land of the free/home of the brave rather than the land the causes eternal covert war in the rest of the world and lies to its own to secure their cooperation? Just a guess. Constructive comments are welcome:D
This concept of nationalism is simply less-granular racism and is flawed at its core. People are united by beliefs (I'm excluding religious 'beliefs'). Through cooperation, self-organizing cross-'national' groups can achieve wonders. Your next-door neighbour likely has far less in common with you than an Internet friend from the other side of the world.
The truth is that power-mongers dotted around the world are engaging the local cannon-fodder by any means necessary to aid in their war of control against fellow power-mongers. Propaganda is one aspect of this - stop buying into their illusory representation of reality.
"Just keep doing as I tell you and I'll do as I like - that works best for me. If I can leverage any deeply-held childhood indoctrination to ensure that this holds, I will."
In a closed room full of children, what steps would one fat kid need to take to ensure that he eats as much as all the others combined. Does this seem like a reasonable precursor to harmony within the room?
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Since France planned to veto the invasion of Iraq, the the hollywood machine has introduced characters in each film to berate the French. It seems as though hollywood has outsourced its script-writing to the state department - could this be the problem?
I'm in the UK, haven't had a TV for about ten years* but am highly into HBO TV shows. There's far more opportunity to developer characters and plot arcs over twenty hours per season than a two-hour CGI-fest. Perhaps all the decent writers are now writing for TV?
(*) Not that this has stopped the TV licensing agency from hounding me for those ten years, trying to fear-monger me into paying for a license I don't need by threatening inspection-visits that never materialize
Maybe so. Once you've seen the trailer, that will change. Remember: trailer == all the best bits of the film strung together in such a manner as to make is seem one hundred times better than it is. By this metric, flop is being kind.
What are they spending the money on? How much does a million hookers covered in coke cost?
Also, traditional wisdom about this scenario opening the floodgates of plot ideas isn't a general rule.
I feel some movie-spewing ghoul preparing the movie-equivalent of America's Got Talent. Ask them directly what they want then force-feed 'em until they choke. Yay \o/
Jeez. Harrison Ford needs a MOUSE.
Agreed, let's also have wikileaks blocked by default and indeed anything else which shows our politicians to be less then lilly-white. Ignorance is bliss.
Yep. That will probably be forced upon you when the rest of the world colludes to stamp out the threat that is American Expansionism. At least the Nazis had the good taste to keep the streets free of McDonalds wrappers. W00t!
Agreed. I just made the mistake of buying an audiobook on audible.co.uk. Never again. They expect you to install a downloader just to get the content; plus the downloader isn't triggered from all browsers so a change of browser might be needed. Once you've actually got the content, there are device-synchronization and audible-drm-compatible-player issues. Who wants to go through all that ? Unfortunately the content wasn't available on bt so I can't resort to that as a means of making it the content accesible in a way that suits me. To add insult to injury, audible 'allow' me as a customer to burn a limited number of books to CD but... drumroll... this process has a dependency on iTunes. WTH? I suppose I should know better as it's now owned by Amazon :S
What a great future we all have to look forwards to when any remaining audiobook-content creators still in competition with Amazon are no longer :S:S:S:S:S
This sounds eerily similar to:
* http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/11/2023232/why-ultra-efficient-4000-mph-vacuum-tube-trains-arent-being-built
More evidence that TV is made by dogs ^_^
Perhaps we should be looking for bio-markers which lead the subject to ignore the pack of gorillas in the room?
Jumping in here... Perhaps GP's point is that your society is horribly disfigured to value the ability to bear personal projectile weapons above the ability to speak one's mind? I guess if you had a free-speech lobby, things would be different?
It's one thing to create a state of perpetual fear and war around the globe, through covert terror operations as well as outright invasions, whilst simultaneously spinning is a 'self-defence' but for the love of god, must we be forced to suffer your eating habits? I call for an immediate and permanent withdrawl of McDonalds 'restaurants' from non-US territory; surely the Geneva Conventions have something to say on this matter? It's JUST NOT RIGHT!!!
Agreed, the GTA-series seems to nicely augment a formal course of driving lessons. In parts, filling in gaps missing entirely from a formal course; car-jacking someone using an Uzi 9mm and a molotov cocktail, anyone?
I realize that for certain sections of the community, such core skills are part of the standard course but where I come from, my repertoire of driving skills would have been sadly lacking.
Such is the fate of those that expose world-wide corruption of powermongers, murderers and liars.
Bone-headed remark :P
Reputation in this context means "one's good name."
fired, from a cannon
No one left to perform all the menial tasks... duh
I've often noticed in retail contexts that the size of the typeface used to exclaim 'BARGAIN!!' is indirectly proportional to the degree of bargain to be had.
Because Americans like to feel that they really do live in the land of the free/home of the brave rather than the land the causes eternal covert war in the rest of the world and lies to its own to secure their cooperation? Just a guess. Constructive comments are welcome :D
This concept of nationalism is simply less-granular racism and is flawed at its core. People are united by beliefs (I'm excluding religious 'beliefs'). Through cooperation, self-organizing cross-'national' groups can achieve wonders. Your next-door neighbour likely has far less in common with you than an Internet friend from the other side of the world.
The truth is that power-mongers dotted around the world are engaging the local cannon-fodder by any means necessary to aid in their war of control against fellow power-mongers. Propaganda is one aspect of this - stop buying into their illusory representation of reality.
For the love of god, read 1984.
"Just keep doing as I tell you and I'll do as I like - that works best for me. If I can leverage any deeply-held childhood indoctrination to ensure that this holds, I will."
I refer you to: A Few Good Man "You Can't Handle the Truth"
It makes a nice change.
In a closed room full of children, what steps would one fat kid need to take to ensure that he eats as much as all the others combined. Does this seem like a reasonable precursor to harmony within the room?