After a few months of using MythTV, my users didn't want to have anything to do with Tivo anymore.
I switched from MythTV to Tivo in 2008 for a few reasons. First, MythTV couldn't handle Comcast cablecards. Then the HD playback interface was extremely poor quality and subject to delays on HD streams, strange glitches that made it seem like the machine was under load and couldn't keep up, though this wasn't the case. This was especially apparent on OTA recordings which had even a suspicion of a recording dropout. Even pausing wouldn't fix it, you had to quit playback and then resume. Then it would work again.
MythTV had great things going for it; I especially liked being able to archive my recordings and transcodings and such. But the user interface was poor quality on advanced equipment and the television world is just more locked down than it used to be.
IM3 was very entertaining, and I walked out thinking I'd go see it again. But before I got home I was already in "that was just dumb" mode.
Iron Man 3 needed more Iron Man being Iron Man and less "30 empty Iron Man suits flying around ever so conveniently" while Tony Stark leaps off of girders.
Ben Kingsley's character however.. both in performance and what they did with him in the plot, were fantastic.
He doesn't have to be the next Big Bad, Lexcorp products certain add a lot of flavor and references for the fans.
But really they'd be stupid not to, Luther is such a fun character, and I think actors love him. Just look at what a fun time Hackman and Spacey had playing him.
You have some good movies, but I'd definitely rate Superman higher than Chamber of Secrets. No wonder Columbus was replaced for the third movie. Either the studio really didn't like what he'd done with the second or he was really tired of it by then.
That's where your quote ended on the one-line preview. My first impression was that you were going to import Superman into 50 Shades of Gray. That would certainly liven things up!
You may sometimes see a film cited as 'grossed $x on a budget of $y,'
And that $y is almost always a guess. Most movies don't have their actual expenses published, and the numbers you'll see on boxofficemojo.com and such are the results of wild guessing.
Since almost all movies ship as hard drives now rather than film prints, I don't think that opening weekend means as much for picture quality as it once did
That's certainly true, but I think what he meant to imply is that the longer the movie has been out, the better the quality of the online copies get.
If he really thought it through, then he would have realised that the very act of time travel, as with any action or inaction, would create a new timeline and therefore would not affect the future of the timeline that the time travellers originated from.
Not necessarily, that's a sci-fi concept, but not every theoretical physicist subscribes to the "multiple timelines" theory. Einstein, for instance believed in the stable time loop, that if you could somehow travel back in time, you would be unable to change any events, since they had already happened. The only thing that would change is your perception of events. I think T3 kindof mixes both theories.. That doomsday is inevitable, but small details could be changed.
The NextGen movies were, unfortunately, of fairly low quality. The only one that rises above it is First Contact, and even then I could have used less Troi 'acting', the retcon of the Borg collective, and the attempt to mold Picard into an action hero. Alice Krieg(sic) did a fantastic job as the Borg queen though.
The best NextGen "movies" were two-part TV episodes: The Best of Both Worlds and All Good Things...
"Just following orders" isn't widely regarded as a legitimate excuse for being a son of a bitch.
Everyone, no matter what the crime, deserves to be treated the same before the law. You don't get that when one side has representation and the other does not.
The job of the court is for each side to make its best case, and then the judge and/or jury decides who is in the right.
Name the UN representative of your country. You can't? I wonder why that is
Several years ago I would have said "John Bolton." He was a real piece of work, but proof that a UN representative can make a difference in the perception of your country.
FU liberal. Way to cherry pick 1 stereotype. There are people in this country that cherish the entire bill of rights. The NRA would be the first to realize that in order to protect the 2nd amendment you need to also protect the rest. Sadly, the ACLU doesn't understand this.
Eh, I think the ACLU is ok. They have limited resources, and the 2nd amendment is far, far better protected than any of the others (though no one cares about the quartering of troops issue anymore). I'm fine with the ACLU ignoring the 2nd amendment, because it's the others that are in real trouble.
"Boxing movie"? WTF? Come on, if you can't even name it, it couldn't have been too good.
The movie was The Fighter, and it was a Best Picture nominee. Granted, there have been some Best Picture nominations I particularly disagreed with (Tree of Life, Beasts of the Southern Wilds, ugh) but all accounts are that the movie was pretty good.
Christian Bale is a poor actor and childish dick, according to people who know him.
Fellow actors disagree (well about the first part), and Bale won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Fighter.
Yep he sure sucked which is why his movies make so much money.
How much did The Last Stand make again?:-) But no, back in the 80s and 90s, Schwarzenegger was good in his roles. Not exactly Oscar-worthy, but he got the job done. Today...
Arnold Schwarzenegger today couldn't make a good 1980s Schwarzenegger movie, just like Harrison Ford no longer makes a convincing Indiana Jones.
IE, also why "The Expendibles" doesn't quite connect either, and maybe some of the later Die Hards.
You can only make action movies for so long until it snaps peoples' suspension of disbelief.
The only problem with that is that it flies in the face of the second movie, where Judgement Day was a possible future, not the future, set in stone.
I loved T1 and T2. James Cameron really thinks things through.
But I have to admit T3's reasoning makes more sense, that unless AIs are designed with safety features to avoid this situation, SkyNet may be inevitable.
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After a few months of using MythTV, my users didn't want to have anything to do with Tivo anymore.
I switched from MythTV to Tivo in 2008 for a few reasons. First, MythTV couldn't handle Comcast cablecards. Then the HD playback interface was extremely poor quality and subject to delays on HD streams, strange glitches that made it seem like the machine was under load and couldn't keep up, though this wasn't the case. This was especially apparent on OTA recordings which had even a suspicion of a recording dropout. Even pausing wouldn't fix it, you had to quit playback and then resume. Then it would work again.
MythTV had great things going for it; I especially liked being able to archive my recordings and transcodings and such. But the user interface was poor quality on advanced equipment and the television world is just more locked down than it used to be.
X-men is Fox and Spidey is Sony....interesting to hear someone say all the Marvel character films have raised the bar though....
Different studios, but they all had Avi Arad as producer though (the X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc movies). And Stan Lee...
IM3 was very entertaining, and I walked out thinking I'd go see it again. But before I got home I was already in "that was just dumb" mode.
Iron Man 3 needed more Iron Man being Iron Man and less "30 empty Iron Man suits flying around ever so conveniently" while Tony Stark leaps off of girders.
Ben Kingsley's character however.. both in performance and what they did with him in the plot, were fantastic.
He doesn't have to be the next Big Bad, Lexcorp products certain add a lot of flavor and references for the fans.
But really they'd be stupid not to, Luther is such a fun character, and I think actors love him. Just look at what a fun time Hackman and Spacey had playing him.
You have some good movies, but I'd definitely rate Superman higher than Chamber of Secrets. No wonder Columbus was replaced for the third movie. Either the studio really didn't like what he'd done with the second or he was really tired of it by then.
(1) Shades of Gray:
That's where your quote ended on the one-line preview. My first impression was that you were going to import Superman into 50 Shades of Gray. That would certainly liven things up!
Literally. >_>
But most of the Moore Bond movies are terrible -- except for the Spy Who Loved Me. Somehow, everything worked in that feature.
You may sometimes see a film cited as 'grossed $x on a budget of $y,'
And that $y is almost always a guess. Most movies don't have their actual expenses published, and the numbers you'll see on boxofficemojo.com and such are the results of wild guessing.
Yeah, it's pretty clear that between the reviews and previews that this movie is pretty awful.
Did you watch it?
Granted, it's not instant classic, but it's "pretty good."
Since almost all movies ship as hard drives now rather than film prints, I don't think that opening weekend means as much for picture quality as it once did
That's certainly true, but I think what he meant to imply is that the longer the movie has been out, the better the quality of the online copies get.
If he really thought it through, then he would have realised that the very act of time travel, as with any action or inaction, would create a new timeline and therefore would not affect the future of the timeline that the time travellers originated from.
Not necessarily, that's a sci-fi concept, but not every theoretical physicist subscribes to the "multiple timelines" theory. Einstein, for instance believed in the stable time loop, that if you could somehow travel back in time, you would be unable to change any events, since they had already happened. The only thing that would change is your perception of events. I think T3 kindof mixes both theories.. That doomsday is inevitable, but small details could be changed.
The NextGen movies were, unfortunately, of fairly low quality. The only one that rises above it is First Contact, and even then I could have used less Troi 'acting', the retcon of the Borg collective, and the attempt to mold Picard into an action hero. Alice Krieg(sic) did a fantastic job as the Borg queen though.
The best NextGen "movies" were two-part TV episodes: The Best of Both Worlds and All Good Things...
"Just following orders" isn't widely regarded as a legitimate excuse for being a son of a bitch.
Everyone, no matter what the crime, deserves to be treated the same before the law.
You don't get that when one side has representation and the other does not.
The job of the court is for each side to make its best case, and then the judge and/or jury decides who is in the right.
It's not victim blaming so much as protecting yourself.
Name the UN representative of your country. You can't? I wonder why that is
Several years ago I would have said "John Bolton." He was a real piece of work, but proof that a UN representative can make a difference in the perception of your country.
FU liberal. Way to cherry pick 1 stereotype. There are people in this country that cherish the entire bill of rights. The NRA would be the first to realize that in order to protect the 2nd amendment you need to also protect the rest. Sadly, the ACLU doesn't understand this.
Eh, I think the ACLU is ok. They have limited resources, and the 2nd amendment is far, far better protected than any of the others (though no one cares about the quartering of troops issue anymore). I'm fine with the ACLU ignoring the 2nd amendment, because it's the others that are in real trouble.
You think the Green Party is less authoritarian?
Maybe they could help like Siri "NSA what did I forget at the super market?" "NSA: Eggs"
Oh god, that is awesome.
I can just imagine the incredibly bored NSA workers.
Malcolm McDowell brings what he can to the role, and is quite good. Generations was a semi-decent nextgen TV episode, but no better than that.
Another youtube link, proving the Japanese have been planning this sort of thing since the 70s:
Useless Aphrodite's breast missiles
Breast Missile versus Yamato arm. >_>
"Boxing movie"? WTF? Come on, if you can't even name it, it couldn't have been too good.
The movie was The Fighter, and it was a Best Picture nominee. Granted, there have been some Best Picture nominations I particularly disagreed with (Tree of Life, Beasts of the Southern Wilds, ugh) but all accounts are that the movie was pretty good.
Christian Bale is a poor actor and childish dick, according to people who know him.
Fellow actors disagree (well about the first part), and Bale won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The Fighter.
Yep he sure sucked which is why his movies make so much money.
How much did The Last Stand make again? :-)
But no, back in the 80s and 90s, Schwarzenegger was good in his roles. Not exactly Oscar-worthy, but he got the job done. Today...
Arnold Schwarzenegger today couldn't make a good 1980s Schwarzenegger movie, just like Harrison Ford no longer makes a convincing Indiana Jones.
IE, also why "The Expendibles" doesn't quite connect either, and maybe some of the later Die Hards.
You can only make action movies for so long until it snaps peoples' suspension of disbelief.
The only problem with that is that it flies in the face of the second movie, where Judgement Day was a possible future, not the future, set in stone.
I loved T1 and T2. James Cameron really thinks things through.
But I have to admit T3's reasoning makes more sense, that unless AIs are designed with safety features to avoid this situation, SkyNet may be inevitable.
Was that in T3?
Yeah, the Terminatrix. :-(
And Schwazenegger saying "Talk to the hand."