I had probably watched Armageddon around the same and wasn't impressed even then. Of course it was the utterly boring and cliche story that failed to motivate me more than anything. Deep Impact was much better, despite facilitating even more CGI rubbish. As far 300, I've not seen it. I rarely waste my money on theater trips and probably won't run out to rent it when it comes to home video either. Why waste the time on a juvenile "retelling" of a story that is already interesting enough in its own right? The 300 Spartans is all you really need if you want to watch a film about the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't need some overly stylized popcorn flick riding on the success of the utterly boring Sin City film.
Don't get me wrong though, I'm glad that these different styles are presenting themselves within mainstream Hollywood, but that's also the problem; it's mainstream Hollywood. All of the style and flare in the world can't save a pitiful film. As you said, it should be there in order to add to and facilitate the story. Sadly, I can't think of too many films outside of Tron where that is true.
"Stock up on +sneak gear and enchants so we can stealth past the Secret Service and crit-backstab President Bush" If wanting to see that makes one a terrorist, then all I have to say is "Jihad"!
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Yeah, and goes out of his way to buy fullscreen films because he doesn't want the "sides chopped off" like widescreen does.
Effects movies have maxed out; with current CG technology you can put anything on the screen, so nobody is impressed. I don't recall ever being impressed by CGI in film. They have always looked so ridiculously fake that it destroys any possible suspension of disbelief. At least scale models and what-not were actual, solid things that existed. Not like CGI, which also has the downfall of instantly looking dated no matter how "well done". Traditional effects which were more focused on ingenuity tend to stand the test of time much better.
Hmm. That's what I get for quickly pressing submit instead of preview. Just pretend that there are breaks after each sentence, that way it may actually look like a parodied verse and chorus.
To the tune of Metallica's "Don't Tread On Me"
MP3s or death, what we so very much need.
But once you deny it, we will beg and plead.
Never thought it was a crime, never, but don't want to pay.
Never knew before, but now I have my own made.
So be it, time for war.
I'll sue Napster and sell out once more!
So be it, settle the score.
I'll send my lawyers marching up to your front door!
Don't download me!
The electric company is already to obligated to pay for any excess power you would happen to generate. Add that fact on top of not having an electric bill and the waterwheel that I installed starts to look pretty nifty.
Start? They've already stopped! Thankfully. Now let's just hope that Star Trek dies as well before it's ran any further into the ground. I mean, come on, J.J. Abrams! How much lower than Deep Space Nine can the franchise go?
I highly doubt you can hold your cellphone up to dedicated pad to pay for things in the US. And I bet you just love doing that since your credit rating is so high, right? Shut up and go die, yuppie-scum! Let the world revert back to CASH!
Away! I'm going to end up in jail one day for punching some random obnoxious asshole, walking around in public and talking at full volume on his ridiculously priced phone, then almost killing me int he parking lot because he's too busy dialing to watch where he's driving. Mobile telephones were invented with yuppies in mind and have become some teenage fad and seemingly infected everyone. They began as annoying, useless pieces of technology and only get worse with each new "feature" (text messaging and so-called cameras?!).
Whatever happened to letting the parents do their job and parent? Most parents don't want that job nowadays. They know that television makes a much better parent than they ever could, so they can go out and be career-oriented instead of nurturing! Or the other side of the coin are the crack whores that pop one out after another simply to get more money from the government to further fuel their addiction. Clearly women's liberation is to blame for most of it...
Quake would have been a lot better had they played up the Lovecraftian elements more. It's my understanding though that Quake is a mere shell of what it was planned to be. Everyone wanted to play it safe and just throw more Doom style gameplay at the audience instead of trying something different. Sadly, Id Software seems to have to kept this policy ever since.
Deus Ex is an RPG, thus the compelling story. Just because it has some shooting and is in a first person perspective doesn't make it any more a FPS than Morrowind is. And the Half-Life series barely has a story, it keeps everything vague and shrouded in mystery (which did NOT help the sequel).
[...] I remember being extremely unhappy when I heard that my two favourite 2D franchises [...] were going to be made into 3D games.
Until I played them. You obviously have not played any 3D Sonic the Hedgehog games...
Last week Sony finally launched its super slim, super sexy TZ series of laptops in the US. Yes, super sexy! So much so that I instantly achieved an erection. Now let's not even get into why "slim" and "sexy" seem so interchangeable and how that reflects upon our shallow, media-fed images of the ideal beauty.
Not since LotR and the Chronicles or Narnia has there been such an epic read. Ever heard of Frank Herbert? He had this kind of epic thing going on as well, though with arguably more substance and thought provoking subtext. Check him out. You don't have to put up with the annoying Christian propaganda that you do with Narnia either!
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Don't get me wrong though, I'm glad that these different styles are presenting themselves within mainstream Hollywood, but that's also the problem; it's mainstream Hollywood. All of the style and flare in the world can't save a pitiful film. As you said, it should be there in order to add to and facilitate the story. Sadly, I can't think of too many films outside of Tron where that is true.
Yeah, and goes out of his way to buy fullscreen films because he doesn't want the "sides chopped off" like widescreen does.
Is that what you guys tell each other at Gender-Bait Anonymous?
Hmm. That's what I get for quickly pressing submit instead of preview. Just pretend that there are breaks after each sentence, that way it may actually look like a parodied verse and chorus.
To the tune of Metallica's "Don't Tread On Me" MP3s or death, what we so very much need. But once you deny it, we will beg and plead. Never thought it was a crime, never, but don't want to pay. Never knew before, but now I have my own made. So be it, time for war. I'll sue Napster and sell out once more! So be it, settle the score. I'll send my lawyers marching up to your front door! Don't download me!
The electric company is already to obligated to pay for any excess power you would happen to generate. Add that fact on top of not having an electric bill and the waterwheel that I installed starts to look pretty nifty.
*Somehow makes it into Heaven, despite it not existing, only to find out that the forty-two awaiting computers are actually eMachines and Compaqs!* :(
So it isn't so!!!
Stolen iPods! Why not try being more responsible with your over-price and completely unnecessary piece of "technology" instead?
James Bond!
Away! I'm going to end up in jail one day for punching some random obnoxious asshole, walking around in public and talking at full volume on his ridiculously priced phone, then almost killing me int he parking lot because he's too busy dialing to watch where he's driving. Mobile telephones were invented with yuppies in mind and have become some teenage fad and seemingly infected everyone. They began as annoying, useless pieces of technology and only get worse with each new "feature" (text messaging and so-called cameras?!).
Quake would have been a lot better had they played up the Lovecraftian elements more. It's my understanding though that Quake is a mere shell of what it was planned to be. Everyone wanted to play it safe and just throw more Doom style gameplay at the audience instead of trying something different. Sadly, Id Software seems to have to kept this policy ever since.
Deus Ex is an RPG, thus the compelling story. Just because it has some shooting and is in a first person perspective doesn't make it any more a FPS than Morrowind is. And the Half-Life series barely has a story, it keeps everything vague and shrouded in mystery (which did NOT help the sequel).
They're not.
Have you looked at a list of films that he's given kudos to? This guy generally doesn't know shit.
$2,000 is still awfully expensive. I'd rather spend that on a top-of-the-line "gaming" laptop or even better would be some SUPER awesome desktop.
I can see the comparison... Both are shallow, overly simplistic, cliche and utterly boring.