Of course she didn't let me go, but I went anyways !!!:-) Student protest are a much more common thing in the rest of the world anyways, and it's kind of expect of you in some situations.
One day we where building a barricade in one of our streets in the neighberhood, we even had a little fire going (tires and stuff). My mom just got off of work and drove by our little "barricade", she was not amused. Not amused at all. She screamed at me and made me get in to the car immediatly.
Definetly one of my most embarassing moments. Oh well,... ahh... the old days:-)
As for, "too much freedom is a bad thing", yes, that can happen too. We call it "libertinage" in Spanish, the closest word in English I've found to that would be "Anarchy".
BTW - I'm not saying the protesters where anarchist...
Back when I was 13/14 years old, we (mostly high school and university students) protested against General Manuel Antonio Noriega, in Panama.
We would get shot at, tear gassed, and the unlucky bastards that got arrested suffered worse fates.
I find it amusing when I see this batch of protesters, that go expecting to find trouble, find a little of it, and then incessantly whine about it.
I'm not saying you shouldn't complain if you feel your constitutional rights where violated, but please get some convictions before going to a protest, don't just go there because somebody is looking for "people willing to get arrested."
> Reach out to minorities, but without quotas. (Jun 1999)
As a minority, I've alway wondered why too many "white" Americans assume we're all for quotas. As if minorities didn't have diverse political opinions too. Just like normal people, you know ?
Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier and of The Visionary Position: The Inside Story of the DigitalDreamers Who Made Virtual Reality a Reality. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.
If they let him hang around MS headquaters and wrote a book about it, what else can you expect but just corporate butt licking ?
> Remember that it doesn't prove anything. Napster has a central server, but not everyone is on that central server.
Actually, you just proved something very important that this judge is obviously not getting. ITS NOT NAPSTER THAT IS listing illegal copyright material but the USERS !!!! Go after the users, but don't shut down the tool !!! This is absurd !
... and then give us your impression. But don't judge a movie by a trailer !
I'm assuming you're not poor, since you have a computer and internet access. So just go to the local cineplex and spend $8, or even better, go to the mattine and save lots of money.
Seriously, I'm all for looking around at reviews as to not waste money on stinkers, but if you're into sci-fi and animation, I don't see why you wouldn't want to give this movie a try. It got a 54% rating on rottentomatoes.com, and that's much better than "non-flops" like the Perfect Storm (38%). Now Battle Field Earth a 7% ratings (93% negative), well, that I can understand not even wanting to rent it.
2D sucks, 3DCGI is not the reason Fox Animation is going/has gone down.
As far as the "2D vs 3D" debate. Who cares ? 2D Animation is not dead yet, and it's easy to see that by the success of the Disney films, Japanese Anime and other forms.
We continue to see 2D art being mixed with 3D where it fits, and the results are great. Example of this are Tarzan, Hunchback , Lion King, and yes Titan A.E.
For goodness sake, Chicken Run was clay animation !!! Look how succesfull that movie was, and they're going to make more movies !
I second that. At worst, they should let him appear in a cameo, but a more extended role would be better. Maybe he's helping Moira McTaggert, and we see him working with her when the X-men visit Muir Isle.
BTW, Multiple Man was really cool under Peter David's X-Factor run. They screwed up when they killed him, but thankfully he's back.
Magneto killed a bunch of people in a Russian submarine in an old X-men story. That was the "classic" Magneto BTW. (they show this in a flashback in X-Men #1, the one drawn by Jim Lee).
> Someone said that Colossus was the kid running on the water. What??!!! Gigantic Russian man capable of turning his body to steel running on water? What comic book has that person been reading?
Did you see Colossus ? It was neat, noticed it the first time, it was the guy drawing by some lake. Nice detail.
Real Name: Samuel Guthrie Affiliation: X-Force Previous Affiliations: X-Men, New Mutants, Hellfire Club Relatives: Zebulon (father, deceased), Lucinda (mother), Paige (Husk, sister), Joelle (sister), Elisabeth (sister), Josh (brother), Zachariah (brother), one other unnamed sibling Powers: Sam generates a thermal/kinetic field around himself which renders him invulnerable and allows him to fly. Though it usually emanates from his lower body, he has been able to extend it outwards as a shield and channel it to his fists for added punch. Cannonball is also supposedly an External, an immortal mutant, an attribute which was revealed when he was impaled by one of Sauron's wing talons. While Sam finally made the grade and became an X-Man, he returned home to help his sick mother, and has rejoined his old teammates in X-Force.
Nightcrawler was born as an elf/devil looking person. That's an integral part of his origin. When he was born, his mother (Raven Darkholme aka Mystique) "threw" him away, after a crowd was chasing them.
The town tought, Nightcrawler was born a demon.
In contrast, he is very religious, and is now (in current continuity) studiying to be a Catholic priest.
Anyways, when Nightcrawler teleports, he leaves a stinky cloud behind , hence the *BAMF* effect in the comics. This guy, was just going really fast, that's why they bothered to put a "blur" effect.
Mystique doesn't have fur in the comic books, just blue skin.
> Furthermore, she wasn't walking around BUTTASS NAKED in the comic books!!
I haven't heard many guys complaining about this, but it makes sense. You'd think that a "morph" would be naked in "natural" form. In the comic books, when she morphs, her clothes go away. The movie way make a bit more sense.
Ms. Marvel is alive and well, and she's a current member of the Avengers (she just came back, after quitting because of her alcoholism). She's now called Warbird, I recommend you pick up some of the current Avenger's issues, they're pretty good.
The other characters...
That's Pyro not the Human Torch (the Human Torch is not a mutant BTW).
The kid with the basketball is not Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler always looked like a freak (non-human), and the kid seems more of a speedster (ala Quicksilver), rather than a teleporter.
I think Singer (the director) has said Gambit is going to be in the next film.
That's a great story, but I don't thing the time travel angle might work. It's just kind of confusing to include time travel (or aliens), in a movie that already has mutants doing all kind of weird things.
Not only time travel, but alternate realities. A better use for the "Days of future past" story, is to actually make it happen, or make it happen in another country (like Genosha). But no time travel please !!! It could be a confusing distaster.
The kid playing basketball is not Nightcrawler at all !!!
Nightcrawler teleports, and this kid seems to be running really fast. The best guesses have been Quicksilver (unlikely) and Cannonball (maybe). I think he's none, just a made up nameless cameo mutant.
> I only wish they hadn't made Magneto so ready to take life. I suppose they put that in so that people like Katz could figure out he was supposed to be the bad guy.:) Hey, this is the guy after all, that pulled Wolverine's adamantium out of his bones a couple of years ago.
They did portray him a bit more "eviiil" in the movie, but he's been like that in the comic books too, depending on who's writting. Of course, he's also been a good guy.
But your point is valid, this was probably to make it clear to the masses that he was the main bad guy. The Roger Ebert & the Movies show had one reviewer saying "I couldn't tell who the guy guys and the bad guys where".
You paid attention to the movie, unlike Katz. I really liked the way Magneto made fun of Charles' "hope" and the "I will bring you hope" line. Great exchanges between these two.
And yes, it's annoying that Katz seems to be talking about the comic book as if he's read it, when it's obvious he's not familiar with X-men at all !!!!!! Jeezz.
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> The point is to make a Republican convention something that no city wants.
I'd like to hear the platforms of all parties, even Mr. Naders, what's wrong with that ???
Of course she didn't let me go, but I went anyways !!! :-) Student protest are a much more common thing in the rest of the world anyways, and it's kind of expect of you in some situations.
... ahh... the old days :-)
One day we where building a barricade in one of our streets in the neighberhood, we even had a little fire going (tires and stuff). My mom just got off of work and drove by our little "barricade", she was not amused. Not amused at all. She screamed at me and made me get in to the car immediatly.
Definetly one of my most embarassing moments. Oh well,
As a minority, I've encontered *MANY* racists Democrats (as well as Republicans too).
Your world must be a lot simpler than mine.
Actually I believe the quote was :
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"There ought to be limits to freedom".
As for, "too much freedom is a bad thing", yes, that can happen too. We call it "libertinage" in Spanish, the closest word in English I've found to that would be "Anarchy".
BTW - I'm not saying the protesters where anarchist
Back when I was 13/14 years old, we (mostly high school and university students) protested against General Manuel Antonio Noriega, in Panama.
We would get shot at, tear gassed, and the unlucky bastards that got arrested suffered worse fates.
I find it amusing when I see this batch of protesters, that go expecting to find trouble, find a little of it, and then incessantly whine about it.
I'm not saying you shouldn't complain if you feel your constitutional rights where violated, but please get some convictions before going to a protest, don't just go there because somebody is looking for "people willing to get arrested."
Maybe he just did it for the obvious reason ?
money
I read this interview too, he did say that. I'll see if I find a link.
> Reach out to minorities, but without quotas. (Jun 1999)
As a minority, I've alway wondered why too many "white" Americans assume we're all for quotas. As if minorities didn't have diverse political opinions too. Just like normal people, you know ?
Just read the bottom of the article :
Fred Moody is the author of I Sing the Body Electronic:
A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier and of The Visionary Position: The Inside Story of the DigitalDreamers Who Made Virtual Reality a Reality. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.
If they let him hang around MS headquaters and wrote a book about it, what else can you expect but just corporate butt licking ?
Just ignore him, and he'll go away.
Not unless people unzip them.
Many emulators (including MAME), just let you put the zipped rom files in their rom dirs and that's it, no unzipping.
> Remember that it doesn't prove anything. Napster has a central server, but not everyone is on that central server.
Actually, you just proved something very important that this judge is obviously not getting. ITS NOT NAPSTER THAT IS listing illegal copyright material but the USERS !!!! Go after the users, but don't shut down the tool !!! This is absurd !
... and then give us your impression. But don't judge a movie by a trailer !
I'm assuming you're not poor, since you have a computer and internet access. So just go to the local cineplex and spend $8, or even better, go to the mattine and save lots of money.
Seriously, I'm all for looking around at reviews as to not waste money on stinkers, but if you're into sci-fi and animation, I don't see why you wouldn't want to give this movie a try. It got a 54% rating on rottentomatoes.com, and that's much better than "non-flops" like the Perfect Storm (38%). Now Battle Field Earth a 7% ratings (93% negative), well, that I can understand not even wanting to rent it.
2D sucks, 3DCGI is not the reason Fox Animation is going/has gone down.
As far as the "2D vs 3D" debate. Who cares ? 2D Animation is not dead yet, and it's easy to see that by the success of the Disney films, Japanese Anime and other forms.
We continue to see 2D art being mixed with 3D where it fits, and the results are great. Example of this are Tarzan, Hunchback , Lion King, and yes Titan A.E.
For goodness sake, Chicken Run was clay animation !!! Look how succesfull that movie was, and they're going to make more movies !
I second that. At worst, they should let him appear in a cameo, but a more extended role would be better. Maybe he's helping Moira McTaggert, and we see him working with her when the X-men visit Muir Isle.
BTW, Multiple Man was really cool under Peter David's X-Factor run. They screwed up when they killed him, but thankfully he's back.
However, where is he ?
Magneto killed a bunch of people in a Russian submarine in an old X-men story. That was the "classic" Magneto BTW. (they show this in a flashback in X-Men #1, the one drawn by Jim Lee).
> Someone said that Colossus was the kid running on the water. What??!!! Gigantic Russian man capable of turning his body to steel running on water? What comic book has that person been reading?
Did you see Colossus ? It was neat, noticed it the first time, it was the guy drawing by some lake. Nice detail.
Cannonball does not run fast, he flies like a rocket. If that's him, then he has different powers, or they just look very different.
Cannonball does not run !!!! He flies like a rocket !!!!
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I found this bio which is very old (External and Sam's mom references) but the power description is right on
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Cannonball
http://www.columbia.edu/~djs58/comics/c.html
Real Name: Samuel Guthrie
Affiliation: X-Force
Previous Affiliations: X-Men, New Mutants, Hellfire Club
Relatives: Zebulon (father, deceased), Lucinda (mother), Paige (Husk, sister), Joelle (sister), Elisabeth (sister), Josh (brother), Zachariah (brother), one other
unnamed sibling
Powers: Sam generates a thermal/kinetic field around himself which renders him invulnerable and allows him to fly. Though it usually emanates from his lower body,
he has been able to extend it outwards as a shield and channel it to his fists for added punch. Cannonball is also supposedly an External, an immortal mutant, an
attribute which was revealed when he was impaled by one of Sauron's wing talons. While Sam finally made the grade and became an X-Man, he returned home to
help his sick mother, and has rejoined his old teammates in X-Force.
There is no way that is Nightcrawler.
Nightcrawler was born as an elf/devil looking person. That's an integral part of his origin. When he was born, his mother (Raven Darkholme aka Mystique) "threw" him away, after a crowd was chasing them.
The town tought, Nightcrawler was born a demon.
In contrast, he is very religious, and is now (in current continuity) studiying to be a Catholic priest.
Anyways, when Nightcrawler teleports, he leaves a stinky cloud behind , hence the *BAMF* effect in the comics. This guy, was just going really fast, that's why they bothered to put a "blur" effect.
Mystique doesn't have fur in the comic books, just blue skin.
> Furthermore, she wasn't walking around BUTTASS NAKED in the comic books!!
I haven't heard many guys complaining about this, but it makes sense. You'd think that a "morph" would be naked in "natural" form. In the comic books, when she morphs, her clothes go away. The movie way make a bit more sense.
Ms. Marvel is alive and well, and she's a current member of the Avengers (she just came back, after quitting because of her alcoholism). She's now called Warbird, I recommend you pick up some of the current Avenger's issues, they're pretty good.
...
The other characters
That's Pyro not the Human Torch (the Human Torch is not a mutant BTW).
The kid with the basketball is not Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler always looked like a freak (non-human), and the kid seems more of a speedster (ala Quicksilver), rather than a teleporter.
I think Singer (the director) has said Gambit is going to be in the next film.
You're describing "Days of future past".
That's a great story, but I don't thing the time travel angle might work. It's just kind of confusing to include time travel (or aliens), in a movie that already has mutants doing all kind of weird things.
Not only time travel, but alternate realities. A better use for the "Days of future past" story, is to actually make it happen, or make it happen in another country (like Genosha). But no time travel please !!! It could be a confusing distaster.
The kid playing basketball is not Nightcrawler at all !!!
Nightcrawler teleports, and this kid seems to be running really fast. The best guesses have been Quicksilver (unlikely) and Cannonball (maybe). I think he's none, just a made up nameless cameo mutant.
> I only wish they hadn't made Magneto so ready to take life. I suppose they put that in so that people like Katz could figure out he was supposed to be the bad guy. :) Hey, this is the guy after all, that pulled Wolverine's adamantium out of his bones a couple of years ago.
They did portray him a bit more "eviiil" in the movie, but he's been like that in the comic books too, depending on who's writting. Of course, he's also been a good guy.
But your point is valid, this was probably to make it clear to the masses that he was the main bad guy. The Roger Ebert & the Movies show had one reviewer saying "I couldn't tell who the guy guys and the bad guys where".
*sigh*
Two Thumbs up for your review !!!
> wrong. The villain is FEAR. the hero is HOPE.
You paid attention to the movie, unlike Katz. I really liked the way Magneto made fun of Charles' "hope" and the "I will bring you hope" line. Great exchanges between these two.
And yes, it's annoying that Katz seems to be talking about the comic book as if he's read it, when it's obvious he's not familiar with X-men at all !!!!!! Jeezz.