I felt vicariously embarassed when, leaving a different movie last night, my wife and I walked past a group of shabby comic-book-guy-like twentysomethings, sitting at the head of a very, very long Harry Potter line, playing Magic on the floor.
Oh man, my best friend, my brother, and I sat in line for Episode 1 for 18 hours.
We passed the time by playing Magic, and reading Dragon magazine.
My wife still talks about it, calling us "Neerrdd!" in her best Homer Simpson voice.
On topic: I didn't like this film nearly as much as the first one. I haven't read the books, and this felt more like a mystery caper, rather than the adventure of the first one. I'm pretty sure it's blasphemous to say this, but I thought the Quidditch match was unnecessarily long, and didn't move the story forward enough to justify its length.
As long as I'm going total Comic-book guy on this, does it bother anyone else that Harry Potter is supposed to be this great and powerful wizard, but his friends at Hogwarts always seem to be saving his ass?
Okay, I'm off to build a black and blue deck in preparation for the Two Towers opening. I know I have a Lord of the Pit around here somewhere...
You're making me earn my karma today, you bastards.
Okay, on topic: Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon? If this space station gets built, I sure hope that they use it to act as a halfway point between the earth and the moon, and not as just a platform for Orbital Mind Control Lasers.
I was really disappointed when I read the article. I thought it was going to be about fans of Star Treg TNG. I guess I'll have to put the vulcan ears back in the closet. *sigh*
DAMMIT!
I though I could karma-whore for sure in this topic.
Is there a source where we can confirm Elvis being really enthusiastic and supporting this?
Because if we can't, I'd be reluctant to blame him...as an artist, I know firsthand how we have to give up many of our rights to our labels, studios, publishers, and the rest.
There's a good chance that Elvis is totally against this, but can't control what the label does with his music once he records it.
Whenever the conversation turns to HS English teachers, I think back to 9th grade, and my evil HS English teacher, Mrs. Lee.
She told me at the beginning of the year that I would most likely fail her class, "because you're an actor, Wil, and actors are usually stupid."
I was aghast, because I'd always gotten extremely good grades in English and Creative Writing.
She made good on her word, though. She would often take points off of my papers because of my "style," which she said was "terrible."
It was galling to me that an English teacher could apply her own subjective judgement to something like "style," and use it as an excuse to give me bad grades. I vowed to someday exact my revenge by becoming a successful writer.
Right now, I write for a TV show, my website, and I'm working on two books, both fictional, one semi-autobiographical. When they are published, I will dedicate them to Mrs. Lee.
This reminds me of a time on the set, when we were filming "Datalore."
Brent was going through his lines, playing both Data and Lore, and he noticed that Data was given a line where he was using a contraction.
Brent called the director, first AD, and script supervisor over, and asked them to clarify Brent's understanding that Data did not use contractions.
The phone calls began, and went all the way to Gene's office, before the answer came back, "Data should not use contractions, ever."
This ended up being a plot point later in the show, as Lore's use of something like "Isn't" or "Wouldn't" or "Bitch Ass Monkey Mouth" revealed his true identity.
Funny..I just thought it was cool that you didn't use any contractions in your Data lines...and that sparked this memory that is 14 years old.
Shut up, Wesley! I'm walking through a door!
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...producers had to 'shush' the actors every time they came on stage...
This is true. I hope I don't ruin anyone's good time, but those doors were opened by a SFX guy, who sat on an upturned bucket behind the set wall, pulling on a cable. (In the second season, the advanced technology of a wooden handle was added!)
Imagine the sound a sliding glass door makes when the track is rusty, and you know what those doors sounded like...a far cry from the pleasant "woosh!" we hear on TV.
Watch TNG, and you'll see that actors RARELY speak while doors are closing behind them. Sometimes you'll see an actor walk into a room (usually the transporter room) and you'll hear the doors close while they're speaking, but you won't see them. This happened because that rusty door noise was replaced with the happy "woosh!" sound in post production.
Interesting side-effect of this for me is that even in real life, I rarely talk while a door is closing behind me. It just became a habit to wait.
WESLEY Aye, Sir. The TECH is a result of TECH TECH TECH with a TECH pulse. I've remodified the sensor array to TECH the TECH TECH. I've also seen TECH and TECH --
PICARD Thank you, Ensign.
WESLEY There's more sir, TECH TECH TECH TECH...
DATA TECH!
PICARD Thank you, Mister Data. Ensign Crusher, that's all I need to know.
WESLEY But sir, I TECH--
PICARD That's enough, Ensign!
There is a tense beat.
WESLEY (quietly) TECH.
The Enterprise is ROCKED by an explosion ...at least, that's how I recall it. YMMV. =]
Why do that, when I could just wait around for Wil to post a comment here and then strike up a conversation like a Star Trek obssesed stalker with no life?
Actually, the first warning sign that this was going to be a crappy movie (unheeded by me and my wife) is the Will Smith song. If a plot can be neatly summarized in a hip hop song, that should be a clear indicator to just stay away from the theatre.
"Next problem. No Wes. We have Will Wheaton on a 13 out of 13 deal -- just like our other regulars. We pay him whether we photograph him or not. If we don't use him, all his teenybopper fans are going to be disappointed and we won't be taking advantage of one of our new show's greatest assets. I'm told we're not using him because our writers don't' know how to write for him. I find that hard to believe. They're writers, aren't they? I know damn well that *you* can write him -- so why don't you show them how? Put him in a scene. I know you can do it. Another problem solved." "Listen to what Rick Berman has to say about this script -- and everything else, for that matter. He's smart and has very good ideas. He's already a great asset to you and 'Star Trek'. I'm sure that, as time zooms by, he'll become even more valuable."
Captain Kirk is killed on Star Trek 6 (The Undiscovered Country) - I saw it on the previews.
You know, I've often wished that they killed me off of TNG, because that would have guranteed my return, multiple times, across numerous series and movies.
Instead, I got to take off with the Galactic Pedophile.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey Bill,
Are we cool, or what? I mean, I always thought you didn't like me, but I had a good time with you at Weakest Link watching the World Series.
So are we cool, or was that just pre-game strategy?
Wil
The fact that your wife has any kind of Homer Simpson voice at all, much less a "best" one, really gives me the creeps, dude.
You should hear her do Professor Frink.
Wait, that doesn't sound right...
Uhh...OINK OINK OINK!
*vroommm*
I felt vicariously embarassed when, leaving a different movie last night, my wife and I walked past a group of shabby comic-book-guy-like twentysomethings, sitting at the head of a very, very long Harry Potter line, playing Magic on the floor.
Oh man, my best friend, my brother, and I sat in line for Episode 1 for 18 hours.
We passed the time by playing Magic, and reading Dragon magazine.
My wife still talks about it, calling us "Neerrdd!" in her best Homer Simpson voice.
On topic: I didn't like this film nearly as much as the first one. I haven't read the books, and this felt more like a mystery caper, rather than the adventure of the first one. I'm pretty sure it's blasphemous to say this, but I thought the Quidditch match was unnecessarily long, and didn't move the story forward enough to justify its length.
As long as I'm going total Comic-book guy on this, does it bother anyone else that Harry Potter is supposed to be this great and powerful wizard, but his friends at Hogwarts always seem to be saving his ass?
Okay, I'm off to build a black and blue deck in preparation for the Two Towers opening. I know I have a Lord of the Pit around here somewhere...
WTF is this? The misleading Star Trek topic titles day?
You're making me earn my karma today, you bastards.
Okay, on topic: Am I the only person who really wants us to go back to the moon? If this space station gets built, I sure hope that they use it to act as a halfway point between the earth and the moon, and not as just a platform for Orbital Mind Control Lasers.
I was really disappointed when I read the article. I thought it was going to be about fans of Star Treg TNG. I guess I'll have to put the vulcan ears back in the closet. *sigh*
DAMMIT!
I though I could karma-whore for sure in this topic.
Oh wait. I just did...
Never mind.
Score this as yet another victory for "Operation Footbullet."
Is there a source where we can confirm Elvis being really enthusiastic and supporting this?
Because if we can't, I'd be reluctant to blame him...as an artist, I know firsthand how we have to give up many of our rights to our labels, studios, publishers, and the rest.
There's a good chance that Elvis is totally against this, but can't control what the label does with his music once he records it.
You're right...but at 14, I was quite lame...Usenet can confirm this. =]
My HS AP English teacher...
Whenever the conversation turns to HS English teachers, I think back to 9th grade, and my evil HS English teacher, Mrs. Lee.
She told me at the beginning of the year that I would most likely fail her class, "because you're an actor, Wil, and actors are usually stupid."
I was aghast, because I'd always gotten extremely good grades in English and Creative Writing.
She made good on her word, though. She would often take points off of my papers because of my "style," which she said was "terrible."
It was galling to me that an English teacher could apply her own subjective judgement to something like "style," and use it as an excuse to give me bad grades. I vowed to someday exact my revenge by becoming a successful writer.
Right now, I write for a TV show, my website, and I'm working on two books, both fictional, one semi-autobiographical. When they are published, I will dedicate them to Mrs. Lee.
[wil@hollywood]$ mv /actor/unemployed/wil.wheaton /actor/rich/famous/wil.reeves
I think you're correct...sadly, I'm not as much of a nitpicker as some people, so I didn't recall that...
Maybe it means that all the time we *think* it's Data, but it's *really* Lore!
Wait, so *that* means that when we think it's Lore being rivy, it's really Data being rivy...but Data is good, right?
Great. Now you've got me playing tic-tac-toe against myself, when I'd really like to get back to a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War.
This reminds me of a time on the set, when we were filming "Datalore."
Brent was going through his lines, playing both Data and Lore, and he noticed that Data was given a line where he was using a contraction.
Brent called the director, first AD, and script supervisor over, and asked them to clarify Brent's understanding that Data did not use contractions.
The phone calls began, and went all the way to Gene's office, before the answer came back, "Data should not use contractions, ever."
This ended up being a plot point later in the show, as Lore's use of something like "Isn't" or "Wouldn't" or "Bitch Ass Monkey Mouth" revealed his true identity.
Funny..I just thought it was cool that you didn't use any contractions in your Data lines...and that sparked this memory that is 14 years old.
...producers had to 'shush' the actors every time they came on stage...
This is true. I hope I don't ruin anyone's good time, but those doors were opened by a SFX guy, who sat on an upturned bucket behind the set wall, pulling on a cable. (In the second season, the advanced technology of a wooden handle was added!)
Imagine the sound a sliding glass door makes when the track is rusty, and you know what those doors sounded like...a far cry from the pleasant "woosh!" we hear on TV.
Watch TNG, and you'll see that actors RARELY speak while doors are closing behind them. Sometimes you'll see an actor walk into a room (usually the transporter room) and you'll hear the doors close while they're speaking, but you won't see them. This happened because that rusty door noise was replaced with the happy "woosh!" sound in post production.
Interesting side-effect of this for me is that even in real life, I rarely talk while a door is closing behind me. It just became a habit to wait.
Actually, it would go something like this:
...at least, that's how I recall it. YMMV. =]
INT. ENTERPRISE-BRIDGE --LATER.
PICARD
Ensign Crusher, report.
WESLEY
Aye, Sir. The TECH is a result of TECH TECH TECH with a TECH pulse. I've remodified the sensor array to TECH the TECH TECH. I've also seen TECH and TECH --
PICARD
Thank you, Ensign.
WESLEY
There's more sir, TECH TECH TECH TECH...
DATA
TECH!
PICARD
Thank you, Mister Data. Ensign Crusher, that's all I need to know.
WESLEY
But sir, I TECH--
PICARD
That's enough, Ensign!
There is a tense beat.
WESLEY
(quietly)
TECH.
The Enterprise is ROCKED by an explosion
This page is full of anecdotes of stupid things people did with their floppy drives.
Why do that, when I could just wait around for Wil to post a comment here and then strike up a conversation like a Star Trek obssesed stalker with no life?
Wil, I'm outside your house!
I'm not coming out until you put on your pants.
This movie is just a ploy to get all of us geeks into theatres so they can gas us, and stop our anti-DMCA, pro-open-source, anti-Jar-Jar rhetoric.
Excelsior!
Actually, the first warning sign that this was going to be a crappy movie (unheeded by me and my wife) is the Will Smith song. If a plot can be neatly summarized in a hip hop song, that should be a clear indicator to just stay away from the theatre.
The only way Lindows is going to catch on with the 'necks is if you can run one of the Big Game Hunter or Super Bass Fishing games on it.
Mark my words.
Go on, mark 'em! I dare you!
So where's the NATO Wish List?
I wanna see the good stuff.
The one which caught my eye says:
How many of us read this headline and thought, "YEAH! FORTY-TWO BABY!!! +5 Funny Karma, here I come! WOO!!!"
>click
D'oh.
with new integrated scenses - they're part of the script, they can't be removed.
Yeah, and the last 35 minutes of the movie is just a BSOD.
Spoiler Warning:
Captain Kirk is killed on Star Trek 6 (The Undiscovered Country) - I saw it on the previews.
You know, I've often wished that they killed me off of TNG, because that would have guranteed my return, multiple times, across numerous series and movies.
Instead, I got to take off with the Galactic Pedophile.
Dang.
Well, this got a big bunch of "Flamebait" mods.
I'm really sorry. It was not my intention, at all, to flame. I thought I was expressing a valid opinion.
(We should be pretty pissed off about this, though, I think)
So, uh...sorry.