A good actor can bring something special to a film, but for something like Star Wars they don't need that.
I would argue that for the prequels, they really needed more than they got.
It's the same with music. A lot of modern stuff has very "powerful" vocals with lots of acrobatics, but it's all just AutoTune and half a dozen takes stitched together
Hey now, you're focusing on a specific music genre: 'pop,' (whose musicality has tended to be derided regardless of decade). It's much less common in other genres.
I used to think that shortly after the Dark Knight came out too. I've since carefully rewatched the Nicholson Batman and studied the makings of, and 25 years later I have to give Jack Nicholson more credit.
Heath WAS the Joker.
Yeah, well, that's a particular style, Method Acting. It can yield fantastic results under certain circumstances.
Let's be clear what we're comparing, though. Ledger's performance is possibly (probably) the all-time greatest acting performance in a comic book movie. Nicholson was fantastic, but coming in just shy of #1 is nothing to be ashamed of.
According to TFS, Portman even complained that after the Prequels, everyone thought she was a bad actress
George Lucas has killed or nearly killed many a career. His bad direction (which is worse than lack of direction) makes nearly every actor look bad. Harrison Ford somehow had the balls to rewrite his lines and got away with it, both in Star Wars and in Raiders of the Lost Ark. And other people in this article have said that acting quality doesn't matter, not realizing what a good actor can actually bring to a role.
It took a long time after Titanic for people to take Leonardo DiCaprio seriously as an actor, and that was a guy who was earlier nominated for an Oscar. Being a Martin Scorsese favorite certainly helps.
The agent isn't lying. "Being known" is a double-edged sword. Roles come to people who are known, but if you're known for the wrong reasons (Mel Gibson, bad acting in Star Wars, associated only with a specific genre/role, etc), as many doors are shut as are opened.
Notice that shows about young, broke 20-somethings always have them living in luxurious houses and apartments, usually in swanky city centers where rent is astronomical?
Usually this is for two reasons. First, to avoid claustrophobia in the audience (unless the entire purpose is that effect) and allow for camera movements that feel dynamic. Second, camera and lighting setups require lots of extra space for equipment and for the crew to move in. That's a reason why shooting on location can be difficult. As cameras have gotten smaller, it's allowed for different types of shooting locations. Lights still require placement and space, though.
Wearing a flag is not discriminatory. Wearing a flag is speech, and should be protected under the First Amendment. Not allowing someone to wear a flag (any flag) is a violation of the First Amendment. It's quite simple.
Mmmm, I was always taught that wearing the American Flag symbol was disrespectful, that it was never supposed to be put on clothing. You honor a flag by raising it on a flag pole, taking it down at night unless it's illuminated, it should be carefully folded, and thrown away if it ever touches the ground.
Then Old Navy came out with their "gotta wear a flag, gotta wear a flag. Gotta wear a flag, gotta wear a flag" commercial campaign, and I've seen the American Flag worn on a lot more clothing since.
Eddie Murphy has had a checkered movie history. For every Norbit, there's the scene from Dreamgirls where he won (rightfully) an Academy Award for a single look.
He didn't win, Ed Asner won that year. But he was nominated, at least. I put Murphy now in the same category as Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. Guys who do seem like they have comedic chops (all three of them showed those as SNL cast members) but who have terrible, TERRIBLE taste in movies.
Sandler in particular is on record as saying that he doesn't try very hard in his movies, and they are nothing more than ways to get paid while bringing a bunch of his friends in and goofing off for a few months (Grown-Ups is a good example).
Now about Tyler Perry though....
Tyler Perry was quite good in Gone Girl. And, amusingly, the 2009 Star Trek reboot. And of course, the Dave Chappelle Show.
You are ignoring the fact that we are murdering animals for fun ( completely legal). If you say homosexuality should be legal, then bestiality, is also should be legal, and so as incest ( especially homosexual incest).
Most Western societies have long long ago decided that violence is a less serious affair than sexuality.
Christians need to accept that homosexuality isn't black and white a lifestyle choice and that the Bible's lessons on it are based on archaic knowledge of biological systems.
Whoa, careful there, buddy! Implying (or outright stating) that the Bible is NOT God's word-for-word law is treading into a minefield. For True Believers, understanding begins and ends at the Bible, and if something else contradicts that, it's that something else (belief, faith, observation, science, whatever) which must be wrong and needs to be harmonized to match Biblical Truth.
No. The Pro-RFRA people, including Gov. Pence, are the ones who are being dishonest.
After seeing Gov. Pence on a This Week interview, I have to think he's one of the slimiest governors I've seen interviewed. He steadfastly REFUSED to answer questions straight (I'm setting myself up for jokes, I know). Even totally straightforward questions like "do you think business owners should be allowed to discriminate against gay people?" Every single response was a "poor, poor me" deflection. "Ohh, the intent of the law is being tooooottally misunderstood! Hoosiers are the most kind, generous people, this is terrible!" Etcetc. Never answered anything of substance.
Try to get your float promoting Gay Therapy or Traditional Marriage into a Gay Pride Parade
Probably wouldn't work because those are strictly exclusive instead in inclusive. Both of those are attacks on gay people.
"Gay therapy" comes from the perspective that being gay is evil and it needs to be cured. It'd be a pretty big 'fuck you' to most people attending a pride parade. "Traditional Marriage" isn't a celebration of heterosexual marriage, it's an attempt to outlaw marriage for homosexuals.
By your definition a fact can be literally anything and of any relative value. i.e. a pointless distinction unless we're talking about a comparison to reality
A fact is just a statement of correctness, nothing more, and it can be a fact only in those certain contexts. The following statement is factual: "In the KJV book of John, Nicodemus asks Jesus what being born into the Kingdom of God means." The following is not a factual statement: "Nicodemus asks Jesus what being born into the Kingdom of God means."
That still assumes the violation is noticed and acted upon.
Seriously, how likely do you think it will be for a former employer to keep track of their ex-employees so closely that this would be a serious issue?
I used to work at a consulting company. If you ever quit the company, they would wait for a few days, then start calling around to the various companies you were ever placed at and casually asked to be connected to your desk. Most of the time, they'd get a puzzled "sorry, that person doesn't work here." But if they ever got through and verified that a former employee worked there now, it was lawsuit time.
You aren't participating in a gay wedding. Aardvarkjoe Catering, LLC is. Corporate veil doesn't disappear whenever that happens to be advantageous to you yet shield you the rest of the time.
But if Aardvarkjoe Catering, LLC is all of one person (as many llcs and catering businesses are) or a couple, then yes, he is participating in a gay wedding. He is not somehow not participating in the wedding if his company is hired by the wedding party.
But the narrative that is being pushed that they are standing up to racists or homophobes by taking this action is inaccurate. They're primarily trying to make life painful for people that largely agree with them in order to get them to curtail the freedom of people that don't agree with them.
This sounds suspiciously like the revisionism we hear these days that the South in the US Civil War was never fighting for slavery but instead "freedom" or the southern way of life (despite that the only issue either side gave much time too was slavery).
They're not a software company like Adobe is. They're a "software company" like nVidia are: they have to write software to make their product that they DO sell: Video cards/Movies.
Pixar started as a hardware company. They hired animators originally to create content to show off what the Pixar Image Computer could do. And of course, they created lots of software to drive the machines. The company was founded by software/hardware guys: Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Alvy Ray Smith, and their early contributions are legendary in the field of computer graphics. They set up a software division separate from the rest of the company for the development and sale of RenderMan, which was the industry standard for CG in movies for many years. I can't remember what time period this way, but there was a 10-year stretch when 27 of the 30 thirty films nominated for Best Visual Effects in the Oscars used Pixar's Renderman.
They did commericals (I remember the old Listerine and Livesavers spots) to pay the bills while they worked on the software before their first movie.
12345678 is a much more secure password than 12345. If the latter is more in vogue now, it illustrates that too many aren't taking security seriously enough.
And I'd LOVE to see the market research / focus group data etc that led you to have it default to the right mouse button being the "left click" *button 1"!!!
As someone who grew up in a world of universal and RH ergo mice, the left mouse button has always been the Left mouse click "button 1"...on every mouse ive ever laid a hand on; it seems absurd to me that any mouse would ship with them reversed by default; even on for LH users.
Sounds you got a mouse that defaulted to "left-hand mode." I bought a Razer "left-handed" mouse which was pretty much identical to the right-handed version, but with different button-mapping defaults.
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A good actor can bring something special to a film, but for something like Star Wars they don't need that.
I would argue that for the prequels, they really needed more than they got.
It's the same with music. A lot of modern stuff has very "powerful" vocals with lots of acrobatics, but it's all just AutoTune and half a dozen takes stitched together
Hey now, you're focusing on a specific music genre: 'pop,' (whose musicality has tended to be derided regardless of decade). It's much less common in other genres.
Jack Nicholson merely played The Joker.
I used to think that shortly after the Dark Knight came out too. I've since carefully rewatched the Nicholson Batman and studied the makings of, and 25 years later I have to give Jack Nicholson more credit.
Heath WAS the Joker.
Yeah, well, that's a particular style, Method Acting. It can yield fantastic results under certain circumstances.
Let's be clear what we're comparing, though. Ledger's performance is possibly (probably) the all-time greatest acting performance in a comic book movie. Nicholson was fantastic, but coming in just shy of #1 is nothing to be ashamed of.
but he was still playing himself and that is all Cruise does. He never take challenges, he plays it safe. He has no depth.
I thought he certainly didn't play it safe in Magnolia.
According to TFS, Portman even complained that after the Prequels, everyone thought she was a bad actress
George Lucas has killed or nearly killed many a career. His bad direction (which is worse than lack of direction) makes nearly every actor look bad. Harrison Ford somehow had the balls to rewrite his lines and got away with it, both in Star Wars and in Raiders of the Lost Ark. And other people in this article have said that acting quality doesn't matter, not realizing what a good actor can actually bring to a role.
It took a long time after Titanic for people to take Leonardo DiCaprio seriously as an actor, and that was a guy who was earlier nominated for an Oscar. Being a Martin Scorsese favorite certainly helps.
Another nugget is that many big-name stars (say, Tom Cruise) are ditzes extraordinaire with very little talent
Tom Cruise isn't talented? Are you serious?
He may be an asshole, and possibly batshit-crazy (which helps him in many of his roles), but he's a talented motherfucker.
The agent isn't lying. "Being known" is a double-edged sword. Roles come to people who are known, but if you're known for the wrong reasons (Mel Gibson, bad acting in Star Wars, associated only with a specific genre/role, etc), as many doors are shut as are opened.
Notice that shows about young, broke 20-somethings always have them living in luxurious houses and apartments, usually in swanky city centers where rent is astronomical?
Usually this is for two reasons. First, to avoid claustrophobia in the audience (unless the entire purpose is that effect) and allow for camera movements that feel dynamic. Second, camera and lighting setups require lots of extra space for equipment and for the crew to move in. That's a reason why shooting on location can be difficult. As cameras have gotten smaller, it's allowed for different types of shooting locations. Lights still require placement and space, though.
the American flag was little different than a slogan saying "deport anchor babies."
The American flag shirt was a statement saying "You're not Mexican, you're American." In the west, that's a fairly controversial statement.
Wearing a flag is not discriminatory. Wearing a flag is speech, and should be protected under the First Amendment. Not allowing someone to wear a flag (any flag) is a violation of the First Amendment. It's quite simple.
Mmmm, I was always taught that wearing the American Flag symbol was disrespectful, that it was never supposed to be put on clothing. You honor a flag by raising it on a flag pole, taking it down at night unless it's illuminated, it should be carefully folded, and thrown away if it ever touches the ground.
Then Old Navy came out with their "gotta wear a flag, gotta wear a flag. Gotta wear a flag, gotta wear a flag" commercial campaign, and I've seen the American Flag worn on a lot more clothing since.
Eddie Murphy has had a checkered movie history. For every Norbit, there's the scene from Dreamgirls where he won (rightfully) an Academy Award for a single look.
He didn't win, Ed Asner won that year. But he was nominated, at least. I put Murphy now in the same category as Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. Guys who do seem like they have comedic chops (all three of them showed those as SNL cast members) but who have terrible, TERRIBLE taste in movies.
Sandler in particular is on record as saying that he doesn't try very hard in his movies, and they are nothing more than ways to get paid while bringing a bunch of his friends in and goofing off for a few months (Grown-Ups is a good example).
Now about Tyler Perry though....
Tyler Perry was quite good in Gone Girl. And, amusingly, the 2009 Star Trek reboot. And of course, the Dave Chappelle Show.
You are ignoring the fact that we are murdering animals for fun ( completely legal). If you say homosexuality should be legal, then bestiality, is also should be legal, and so as incest ( especially homosexual incest).
Most Western societies have long long ago decided that violence is a less serious affair than sexuality.
Both children (teenagers at least) and animals are sexual creatures
But they are incapable of giving informed, human consent. Yes, even human teenagers. That is the distinction that is drawn.
Christians need to accept that homosexuality isn't black and white a lifestyle choice and that the Bible's lessons on it are based on archaic knowledge of biological systems.
Whoa, careful there, buddy! Implying (or outright stating) that the Bible is NOT God's word-for-word law is treading into a minefield. For True Believers, understanding begins and ends at the Bible, and if something else contradicts that, it's that something else (belief, faith, observation, science, whatever) which must be wrong and needs to be harmonized to match Biblical Truth.
No. The Pro-RFRA people, including Gov. Pence, are the ones who are being dishonest.
After seeing Gov. Pence on a This Week interview, I have to think he's one of the slimiest governors I've seen interviewed. He steadfastly REFUSED to answer questions straight (I'm setting myself up for jokes, I know). Even totally straightforward questions like "do you think business owners should be allowed to discriminate against gay people?" Every single response was a "poor, poor me" deflection. "Ohh, the intent of the law is being tooooottally misunderstood! Hoosiers are the most kind, generous people, this is terrible!" Etcetc. Never answered anything of substance.
Try to get your float promoting Gay Therapy or Traditional Marriage into a Gay Pride Parade
Probably wouldn't work because those are strictly exclusive instead in inclusive. Both of those are attacks on gay people.
"Gay therapy" comes from the perspective that being gay is evil and it needs to be cured. It'd be a pretty big 'fuck you' to most people attending a pride parade.
"Traditional Marriage" isn't a celebration of heterosexual marriage, it's an attempt to outlaw marriage for homosexuals.
OP may have been thinking of Brian, not Jesus.
There's certainly precedent for that happening.
By your definition a fact can be literally anything and of any relative value. i.e. a pointless distinction unless we're talking about a comparison to reality
A fact is just a statement of correctness, nothing more, and it can be a fact only in those certain contexts.
The following statement is factual: "In the KJV book of John, Nicodemus asks Jesus what being born into the Kingdom of God means." The following is not a factual statement: "Nicodemus asks Jesus what being born into the Kingdom of God means."
That still assumes the violation is noticed and acted upon.
Seriously, how likely do you think it will be for a former employer to keep track of their ex-employees so closely that this would be a serious issue?
I used to work at a consulting company. If you ever quit the company, they would wait for a few days, then start calling around to the various companies you were ever placed at and casually asked to be connected to your desk. Most of the time, they'd get a puzzled "sorry, that person doesn't work here." But if they ever got through and verified that a former employee worked there now, it was lawsuit time.
You aren't participating in a gay wedding. Aardvarkjoe Catering, LLC is. Corporate veil doesn't disappear whenever that happens to be advantageous to you yet shield you the rest of the time.
But if Aardvarkjoe Catering, LLC is all of one person (as many llcs and catering businesses are) or a couple, then yes, he is participating in a gay wedding. He is not somehow not participating in the wedding if his company is hired by the wedding party.
practiced mostly by whites
Have you seen Sub-Sahara Africa? Do you know what religion they practice?
What religion do you think Southern Blacks practice?
But the narrative that is being pushed that they are standing up to racists or homophobes by taking this action is inaccurate. They're primarily trying to make life painful for people that largely agree with them in order to get them to curtail the freedom of people that don't agree with them.
This sounds suspiciously like the revisionism we hear these days that the South in the US Civil War was never fighting for slavery but instead "freedom" or the southern way of life (despite that the only issue either side gave much time too was slavery).
They're not a software company like Adobe is. They're a "software company" like nVidia are: they have to write software to make their product that they DO sell: Video cards/Movies.
Pixar started as a hardware company. They hired animators originally to create content to show off what the Pixar Image Computer could do. And of course, they created lots of software to drive the machines. The company was founded by software/hardware guys: Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Alvy Ray Smith, and their early contributions are legendary in the field of computer graphics. They set up a software division separate from the rest of the company for the development and sale of RenderMan, which was the industry standard for CG in movies for many years. I can't remember what time period this way, but there was a 10-year stretch when 27 of the 30 thirty films nominated for Best Visual Effects in the Oscars used Pixar's Renderman.
They did commericals (I remember the old Listerine and Livesavers spots) to pay the bills while they worked on the software before their first movie.
Well, Pixar started as an independent spin-off from ILM. And Pixar and ILM now have the same parent company.
From the article, this is troubling:
3. 12345 (Up 17)
4. 12345678 (Down 1)
12345678 is a much more secure password than 12345. If the latter is more in vogue now, it illustrates that too many aren't taking security seriously enough.
And I'd LOVE to see the market research / focus group data etc that led you to have it default to the right mouse button being the "left click" *button 1"!!!
As someone who grew up in a world of universal and RH ergo mice, the left mouse button has always been the Left mouse click "button 1"...on every mouse ive ever laid a hand on; it seems absurd to me that any mouse would ship with them reversed by default; even on for LH users.
Sounds you got a mouse that defaulted to "left-hand mode." I bought a Razer "left-handed" mouse which was pretty much identical to the right-handed version, but with different button-mapping defaults.