Don't bother. It's really boring. Wait for the DVD. Hopefully the third film will be better, with the new director. I didn't think the directing in the first film was very good, but the movie was ok.. But this one is a stinker.
Me too. This movie is a horrible disaster. I liked the first one enough, and i like the books. But this film was just shitty. Boring, it was just a book report. A rundown, plot point by plot point of the book. GAH.
going to come from with a digital projector? Dave's Tire Repair only has so much money to spend on advertising, whether it's a slide or a moving picture.
Incidentally, many exhibition contracts specifically prohibit the showing of advertising other than static slides before the main feature with the exception of trailers for forthcoming movies. (I own a theatre, in case you're wondering how I know this.)
My main point is that the advertising could be completely automated and targeted. Can Dave's Tire Repair specify exactly what film/hour he can advertise at with the slide system? As far as i can tell, you really can't target your audience with the current systems because you'd have so much overhead having some guy running around all the theatres and making sure that all the different slide projectors have the proper spools and stuff.
What i propose is a central database for the theatre that stores all ads on its' hard drive (and it can be still pictures, moving, whatever) As an advertiser i could request that my little ad gets played during the seating time of Amelie and Y tu Mama Tambien. I don't want to advertise to the people in Sum of All Fears 'cause they're just the wrong audience.
Can those contracts stop you from playing ads during seating time?
I posted this because I wanted to promote a band this way. I thought it'd be perfect for a local band to promote themselves in local theatres before a film. It'd be great because you can advertise your band directly to the people that are most likely going to like their music, and the audience is contained. Not that that really has much to do with digital projectors as it has to do with central databasing and distribution, but you get the idea.
...if they actually take advantage of it. If they set up a system to allow small and local businesses to advertise at the theatre.
Theatres could set up a system to easily sell ad space in the theatres before movies, like the slide system they have going now. Only with a digital projector, with a high speed connection, it would all be automated. You could specify which movie, what times, how often, etc.
Opening up the market to small and local businesses could lead to a great deal more income.
- Yoda's climactic fight scene...everyone has heard it's coming, but you can't be prepared to see Yoda in a lightsaber duel...the crowd in my theatre was literally cheering the whole time, at how cool it was...
Unfortuneatly, the best part of the whole film, without a doubt.
- Mace Windu also has some quality Lightsaber action, and some pretty bad-*ss scenes...only thing that would've made it better was if his lightsaber said "Bad A** Mother F*****" (Pulp Fiction Reference)...
Hmm.. I must not have been paying attention to him at the right times. I just remember him making vague and fake looking saber moves in the background of shots where he wasn't the focus.
- Hayden Christenson is a huge improvement over Jake Loyd as Anakin (then again it would be hard not to be)...he's brilliant in the scenes where he has to show flashes of evil and flashes of the dark side...
At no point did I think he was brilliant. If you want to see some real acting watch Donnie Darko. The kid in this film goes from bat-crazy INSANE to the nicest kid on earth beautifully. Also, it'd be really nice to see some non-jedi non-politician characters in the movies that aren't robots or aliens. All the characters HAVE to be stuffy all the time because that's inherent in their characters! Didn't you notice that everyone in the film had a stick in their ass?
- From the trailers, i thought that the romantic part of the movie was gonna be super cheesy, but it's actually not as bad as i expected...though, there is one point when they're in that big field on a picnic, when it looks like a scene out of "Sound of Music"...
No chemistry whatsoever. Painful. Then to top it off with a marriage at the end? Jesus.
- The worst part (IMO) was Lucas' attempts at some uneeded humor (much like Jar-Jar in Ep I)...in Ep II he uses C3P0 and R2D2 to deliver this humor both physically (in a ridiculous sequence with C3P0) and also in a series of bad puns involving the two of them...
This scene was ridiculous, but I liked it. It seem s that the only inter-character dynamics lucas was successful at was with R2 and C3PO. But he worked that out 20 years ago, so - whatever. A little heavy on the puns though...
- Natalie Portman looks great in the movie...and if you've seen the trailers, you know the tight white top that she wears...well, let's just say, that it must be cold on Tatooine...
About three or four years ago I called Earthlink to get a dial up account, but my credit card was rejected. At the time, I was a student and had a joint banking account with my mom - the credit card bills went to her. I found out about three months later that Earthlink had been charging me about $25 a month for dial up services. When I called to complain/cancel they refused to refund my money. Thanks, Assholes!
...if they got on the ball and made optional custom LCD screens that attach to the top of the case, flip and fold down. Just gotta put the handle on the back of the case instead of the top. Look to the GameCube for example, brilliant i think. -WG
I recently fell victim to check fraud, someone stole a checkbook and wrote $1300 in checks to grocery stores in Seattle. A few of the checks were to Thriftway. Assclowns obviously never checked the id of the person writing checks in any of the stores. Bah.
Maybe because it doesn't always matter that someone could evesdrop on my video signal. I'm getting some cameras to set up outside of my unsecured apartment building because my landlord is too incompetent to make my apartment safe, who cares if someone intercepts that signal?
They try to sell it as a way to organize documents, or thoughts or whatever in a natural way. In reality, I think it's kinda clumsy and silly. But I think it's a great tool for brainstorming or collaborative creativity. It's easy to look at and you can even hook it up to tEh INTArnET.
Let authors and artists(musicians mainly) to register and whenever their used books or cds are sold buyers are given an option to tip them. Good or bad idea?
Have any info/links on getting these to work in Maya? I'm a Maya user, I've never really put any thought into using LCD Glasses to get a good 3D interface (or any other method, for that matter.) Since I use Maya all day, every day, this is something that I'd like to toy with. Has anyone tried getting this working in Maya? Of course, playing AvP2 would with these might be fun too...
We cannot win this war with bombs or bullets, although we can accelerate its prosecution by those means. We can only win this war through a generational conflict; we must win the war in the hearts and minds of the children growing up in the Middle East now.
This is, in effect, what's already happening. Turn on your TV, right now what you're probably seeing is coverage of the National Day of Prayer, or whatever it's currently called. You're seeing people wrapping themselves in flags and lighting candles. I'm usually a big anti-patriot, for one or another political reason, but I've been having those God Bless America moments since the incedent. That there is the most compelling message we can send those who did this to us. The message that in America, WE DON'T TOLERATE TERRORISM. In America, you AREN'T AFRAID. That if you ever fuck with us, WE WILL DESTROY YOU AND WE ARE CONFIDENT WE WILL DO SO WITH A QUICKNESS. Those kids wouldn't give a flying fuck about Pokemon if they're constantly afraid to go out of their homes because they might be killed by snipers. That's the important part of our culture, not the material things you speak of. It's the absense of FEAR. And now that they've put fear in our hearts, we will stop at NOTHING to get that fear out. That's the best message to be sending to their children, and that's the message being sent. Turn on your tv.
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I'm not very technical when it comes to these things. Why are sat feeds hard? It's not like it's a problem if it's not a continual feed, in my opinion. I can understand the pilot's union's concern, though. Maybe it can be a thing that the pilot(or stewards) can turn on during an emergency..
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OK, fine, I don't like the idea of cameras watching me at all times either. But i'm talking about airliners and airports, places where security is important. When you walk from the parking lot(click!) to the airport concourse(click!) to the gate(click!) you can bet you've been on several cameras already. Big Brother scares the hell outta me, but not when i'm at 10,000 feet.
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Why the hell can't we have cameras on airliners broadcast video to the ground or satellites? Would it be too hard or too expensive? I can get a webcam for under $50 i'm sure, why can't airlines?
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...is how I read this headline.
NPR had a story about Black Box Voting, a book about Georgia's electronic voting system and it's problems. All sorts of great info on the website.
Insert a quarter.
Don't bother. It's really boring. Wait for the DVD. Hopefully the third film will be better, with the new director. I didn't think the directing in the first film was very good, but the movie was ok.. But this one is a stinker.
Me too. This movie is a horrible disaster. I liked the first one enough, and i like the books. But this film was just shitty. Boring, it was just a book report. A rundown, plot point by plot point of the book. GAH.
The best thing to do is to uninstall RealVideo and to never ever use it again... even if it means you can't get CNN video.
going to come from with a digital projector? Dave's Tire Repair only has so much money to spend on advertising, whether it's a slide or a moving picture.
Incidentally, many exhibition contracts specifically prohibit the showing of advertising other than static slides before the main feature with the exception of trailers for forthcoming movies. (I own a theatre, in case you're wondering how I know this.)
My main point is that the advertising could be completely automated and targeted. Can Dave's Tire Repair specify exactly what film/hour he can advertise at with the slide system? As far as i can tell, you really can't target your audience with the current systems because you'd have so much overhead having some guy running around all the theatres and making sure that all the different slide projectors have the proper spools and stuff.
What i propose is a central database for the theatre that stores all ads on its' hard drive (and it can be still pictures, moving, whatever) As an advertiser i could request that my little ad gets played during the seating time of Amelie and Y tu Mama Tambien. I don't want to advertise to the people in Sum of All Fears 'cause they're just the wrong audience.
Can those contracts stop you from playing ads during seating time?
I posted this because I wanted to promote a band this way. I thought it'd be perfect for a local band to promote themselves in local theatres before a film. It'd be great because you can advertise your band directly to the people that are most likely going to like their music, and the audience is contained. Not that that really has much to do with digital projectors as it has to do with central databasing and distribution, but you get the idea.
Theatres could set up a system to easily sell ad space in the theatres before movies, like the slide system they have going now. Only with a digital projector, with a high speed connection, it would all be automated. You could specify which movie, what times, how often, etc.
Opening up the market to small and local businesses could lead to a great deal more income.
Ha Ha! (As Nelson)
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- Yoda's climactic fight scene...everyone has heard it's coming, but you can't be prepared to see Yoda in a lightsaber duel...the crowd in my theatre was literally cheering the whole time, at how cool it was...
Unfortuneatly, the best part of the whole film, without a doubt.
- Mace Windu also has some quality Lightsaber action, and some pretty bad-*ss scenes...only thing that would've made it better was if his lightsaber said "Bad A** Mother F*****" (Pulp Fiction Reference)...
Hmm.. I must not have been paying attention to him at the right times. I just remember him making vague and fake looking saber moves in the background of shots where he wasn't the focus.
- Hayden Christenson is a huge improvement over Jake Loyd as Anakin (then again it would be hard not to be)...he's brilliant in the scenes where he has to show flashes of evil and flashes of the dark side...
At no point did I think he was brilliant. If you want to see some real acting watch Donnie Darko. The kid in this film goes from bat-crazy INSANE to the nicest kid on earth beautifully. Also, it'd be really nice to see some non-jedi non-politician characters in the movies that aren't robots or aliens. All the characters HAVE to be stuffy all the time because that's inherent in their characters! Didn't you notice that everyone in the film had a stick in their ass?
- From the trailers, i thought that the romantic part of the movie was gonna be super cheesy, but it's actually not as bad as i expected...though, there is one point when they're in that big field on a picnic, when it looks like a scene out of "Sound of Music"...
No chemistry whatsoever. Painful. Then to top it off with a marriage at the end? Jesus.
- The worst part (IMO) was Lucas' attempts at some uneeded humor (much like Jar-Jar in Ep I)...in Ep II he uses C3P0 and R2D2 to deliver this humor both physically (in a ridiculous sequence with C3P0) and also in a series of bad puns involving the two of them...
This scene was ridiculous, but I liked it. It seem s that the only inter-character dynamics lucas was successful at was with R2 and C3PO. But he worked that out 20 years ago, so - whatever. A little heavy on the puns though...
- Natalie Portman looks great in the movie...and if you've seen the trailers, you know the tight white top that she wears...well, let's just say, that it must be cold on Tatooine...
I was all about the push-up corsette...
About three or four years ago I called Earthlink to get a dial up account, but my credit card was rejected. At the time, I was a student and had a joint banking account with my mom - the credit card bills went to her. I found out about three months later that Earthlink had been charging me about $25 a month for dial up services. When I called to complain/cancel they refused to refund my money.
Thanks, Assholes!
-WG
If they follow nintendo's example, $150.
...if they got on the ball and made optional custom LCD screens that attach to the top of the case, flip and fold down. Just gotta put the handle on the back of the case instead of the top. Look to the GameCube for example, brilliant i think.
-WG
I recently fell victim to check fraud, someone stole a checkbook and wrote $1300 in checks to grocery stores in Seattle. A few of the checks were to Thriftway. Assclowns obviously never checked the id of the person writing checks in any of the stores. Bah.
Maybe because it doesn't always matter that someone could evesdrop on my video signal. I'm getting some cameras to set up outside of my unsecured apartment building because my landlord is too incompetent to make my apartment safe, who cares if someone intercepts that signal?
It's not 3D, but i think it's pretty cool.
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They try to sell it as a way to organize documents, or thoughts or whatever in a natural way. In reality, I think it's kinda clumsy and silly. But I think it's a great tool for brainstorming or collaborative creativity. It's easy to look at and you can even hook it up to tEh INTArnET.
Let authors and artists(musicians mainly) to register and whenever their used books or cds are sold buyers are given an option to tip them. Good or bad idea?
Yeah, but you only need to get the average MP3 player to convert. Shouldn't be too hard since it's FREE right?
It's true. I'm on the team. It'll be good. Watch out! whee!
Have any info/links on getting these to work in Maya? I'm a Maya user, I've never really put any thought into using LCD Glasses to get a good 3D interface (or any other method, for that matter.) Since I use Maya all day, every day, this is something that I'd like to toy with. Has anyone tried getting this working in Maya? Of course, playing AvP2 would with these might be fun too...
We cannot win this war with bombs or bullets, although we can accelerate its prosecution by those means. We can only win this war through a generational conflict; we must win the war in the hearts and minds of the children growing up in the Middle East now.
This is, in effect, what's already happening. Turn on your TV, right now what you're probably seeing is coverage of the National Day of Prayer, or whatever it's currently called. You're seeing people wrapping themselves in flags and lighting candles. I'm usually a big anti-patriot, for one or another political reason, but I've been having those God Bless America moments since the incedent. That there is the most compelling message we can send those who did this to us. The message that in America, WE DON'T TOLERATE TERRORISM. In America, you AREN'T AFRAID. That if you ever fuck with us, WE WILL DESTROY YOU AND WE ARE CONFIDENT WE WILL DO SO WITH A QUICKNESS. Those kids wouldn't give a flying fuck about Pokemon if they're constantly afraid to go out of their homes because they might be killed by snipers. That's the important part of our culture, not the material things you speak of. It's the absense of FEAR. And now that they've put fear in our hearts, we will stop at NOTHING to get that fear out. That's the best message to be sending to their children, and that's the message being sent. Turn on your tv.
I'm not very technical when it comes to these things. Why are sat feeds hard? It's not like it's a problem if it's not a continual feed, in my opinion. I can understand the pilot's union's concern, though. Maybe it can be a thing that the pilot(or stewards) can turn on during an emergency..
OK, fine, I don't like the idea of cameras watching me at all times either. But i'm talking about airliners and airports, places where security is important. When you walk from the parking lot(click!) to the airport concourse(click!) to the gate(click!) you can bet you've been on several cameras already. Big Brother scares the hell outta me, but not when i'm at 10,000 feet.
Why the hell can't we have cameras on airliners broadcast video to the ground or satellites? Would it be too hard or too expensive? I can get a webcam for under $50 i'm sure, why can't airlines?
>I hate intollerant people.
Me too. That's why I hate Mormonism.
-WG