The real problem is that the NASA engineers choose the wrong means of communication, when trying to explain what I would suspect to be a rather complicated situation.
Who's fault is that?
The managers who refuse to read any complex printed document and force everyone to try to encapsulate their ideas into a set of slides with as little text as possible?
Yes, and it was a "people problem" when ATM's used to pay out the cash before returning your card and people kept laving their cards behind. But sometimes you need to change your software to allow for the "people problems".
I find it particularly indicative of Jackson's total inability to grasp what the story of LotR actually is that he wastes a huge chunk of the running time on the Siege of Minas Tirith but cuts out the resolution of one of the major character's story. The siege is not important to the main story: if Frodo fails the result is irrelevant and if he succeeds then it is also irrelevant except for the question of who survives. It has to be in the film, but not to the exclusion of more important material.
However, the battle of Pelenor Fields is Jackson's money-shot. His obsession with fight-scenes has distorted the previous two movies and now he has taken the chance to indulge himself in the final film even if it means totally screwing up the development of the characters' stories: Merry, Pippen, Sam, Frodo, Grima, and Saruman are sacrificed to allow a really big fight scene.
To hell with Peter Jackson. I hope someday someone films LotR, because I for one think it could make a great film (or three).
Yes, it means "stagnation". Windows is a good example: a lousy GUI that will remain lousy forever because it has to be "consistant". No experimentation means no progress.
Given that most people use only one word processor, one browser, one email client etc. the consistancy argument is no more rational than insisting that your TV should have the same controls as your car.
How often do we see people asking why software is so poorly written? Well, here's the answer: coding is treated as being a low-level skill and presumably training is desiged with that in mind.
Here's the big news for any project managers listening in: quality coding is HARD, writing buggy software is a low-level skill.
He was successful in business long before he was well known even in the bodybuilding world.
Given that he was well known in the bodybuilding world in his teens and was having to lodge with his trainer in London I can't imagine what this business success might have been.
My 1.3Mp camera would do me fine if it would take pictures in the same lighting conditions as my ISO 800 35mm film camera. 5Mp, 100Mp, 1Gp, who gives a stuff? I can already print A4 blow ups that look as good as normal film; give me sensitivity at a reasonable cost or give me death!
Well, maybe not death. Slight joint-pain. How about that?
The main problems with Osgiliath were that Frodo shows the ring to a nazgul who doesn't then have the entire contents of Mordor emptied onto their heads (the ring being much more important than an attack some little city) and then, having seen Frodo almost throw the whole world away, Faramir decides that he was wrong not to let Frodo and Sam wander into the heart of Sauron's territory.
Osgiliath is idiot-plotting at its worst: it only works if you assume that everyone involved, Faramir, Frodo, the Nazgul, are idiots.
Plus, it achieved nothing else other than undermining Faramir's nobility and Frodo's intelligence. If Jackson wanted a scene in Osgiliath there's no reason he couldn't have simply had the camera/audience follow Faramir after the hobbits leave him. Why bother diverging from the book here? It didn't save screen time or budget and did nothing for the story, so why do it at all?
No: better anyone else than him. Dear GOD, hasn't Tolkien suffered enough at this hack's hands?
By all means get everyone else from LotR involved: set design, cinematographers, score writers, but please, please, please dump Jackson and his crappy, rent-a-moron script changes.
does anyone else think the LOTR team could possibly do good remakes of the chronicles of narnia written by tolkiens pal CS Lewis ??
Given the hatchet job they did on LotR, no.
A deeper problem is that the Narnia books are for children and are almost unreadable as an adult due to the sickening amount of christian propaganda they contain. As a child you miss this but as an adult I was bitterly disapointed on re-reading them.
JRRT did a much better job of getting the same values and virtues across without ramming it down the reader's throat.
I can't see Narnia working in the modern, cynical world. At least, not in any form that CSL would recognise.
George W. Bush was legally elected precisely as spelled out under the terms of the United States Constitution
Which part of the Constitution says the candidate's brother is allowed to strike people off the electoral register if he thinks they'll vote the wrong way? That must be one of the later amendments. In biro.
Obviously in a commentary they are but I meant that if the commentary is needed to show why decisions such as the (really, really badly done) side-trip to Osgiliath were made then something went badly wrong. I like a commentary track as much as anyone but they should never be needed. Just as deleted scenes should never be needed, as they were with FotR, to make sense of the version you paid to see in the cinema. They should be bonuses, not requirements.
Don't blame the US, blame the fucking terrorists who created the climate.
And who created the terrorists? Why, the good 'ol USA. The people that brought you Saddam Hussain (ex-CIA assassin and short-time puppet ruler of Iraq), the fantasy nation of Israel, many fun-time bombings by the IRA, the Cuban missile crisis (laugh and laugh again as the US nearly destrys the world by objecting to Russia having a handful of missiles as close to America as America's hundreds of warheads are to Russia), frollics in Vietnam, the friendly WMD of Pakistan, not forgetting most-favoured trading nation China and its ongoing attepts to crush the kingdoms of the Himalaya and its own democratic movements, the attepted assassination of democratically elected President of Venezuela (that happened during Gulf War II so if you missed it, just wait for the repeat), arms to Iran, arms to Iraq, arms to Nicaragua, arms for drugs, arms for cash, ARMS FOR ANYTHING!
This century only: a corrupt US-backed African government free with almost any African sub-Saharan country.
America's government is available in the shops or by phone: just dial Washington I-HAVE-OIL and ask for "Donald" for low, low prices on West Nile Virus, Anthrax, Botulism, and a host of other great diseases. Have your credit card details ready.
Yes, thank God for the US, without it who would you turn to in war-time?
I bought weapons of mass destruction from America and their after-sales service was second-to-none: they even sent over CIA agents to help "calibrate" the weapons when I fired them at Iranians. This saved a lot of time when I gassed my own civilian population later. I wouldn't buy E. coli off anyone else." Mr S. H., Iraq
Let me give one positive example. North Korea launches a galileo guided missle toward new york. The US military disables it.
Either: a) it gets shot down at any one of a thousand points along its route or b) it somehow doesn't and, due to having to use laser gyros instead of GPS/Galileo it lands half a mile from Central Park. If it's a nuke, big hairy deal: the body count is still six figures or more.
Here's a different scenario: Galileo is introduced with 1/32nd inch accuracy and the world's airlines start using it as the prefered method for landing aircraft while cargo vessels are piloted in by computer using up-to-the-minute echo soundings of esturies and harbours.
Then one day some fucking unelected military nutter (eg, George W Bush) decides to invade some small, oil rich, country and unilaterally turns off the Nav system. Several hundred people die in the ensuing crisis and major environmental damage is caused by the grounding of the Exxon Valdez II.
The alternative is that we don't introduce high-res navigation systems and continue to have a number of deaths and other avoidable accidents every year just so that the current occupent of the White House can sleep in the secure knowledge that America has the biggest Dick in the world (eg, George W Bush).
If the military party in America is going to stand in the way of something which will aid the entire world then it's time they were reminded that the world isn't actually there just to provide them with their toy-soldier jollies.
And now that I've heard the screenwriter's/director's side of the story, instead of just/. ravings, I have to admit that they probably made the right decisions.
Err, the screenwriter's/directors side of the story was on the screen. If their reasons have to be clarified by a commentary then they were the wrong reasons. This is a movie, not a seminar.
Or, at least, if you read many of the posts about the RIAA on Slashdot, the unauthorised acquisition of intellectual property isn't theft.
I know; there is a legal difference between breech of copyright and theft but from the point of view of the person that produced the work it's pretty immaterial.
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You are assuming that we should be making presentations at all.
TWW
TWW
The managers who refuse to read any complex printed document and force everyone to try to encapsulate their ideas into a set of slides with as little text as possible?
TWW
It's a people problem.
Yes, and it was a "people problem" when ATM's used to pay out the cash before returning your card and people kept laving their cards behind. But sometimes you need to change your software to allow for the "people problems".
TWW
Except for actually putting the characters from the book into the near-perfect scenery, effects, and costume design.
TWW
However, the battle of Pelenor Fields is Jackson's money-shot. His obsession with fight-scenes has distorted the previous two movies and now he has taken the chance to indulge himself in the final film even if it means totally screwing up the development of the characters' stories: Merry, Pippen, Sam, Frodo, Grima, and Saruman are sacrificed to allow a really big fight scene.
To hell with Peter Jackson. I hope someday someone films LotR, because I for one think it could make a great film (or three).
TWW
I'm sorry but you seem to be confused: laws are for little people, not big, wise, important people that can be trusted like our leaders.
TWW
Yes, it means "stagnation". Windows is a good example: a lousy GUI that will remain lousy forever because it has to be "consistant". No experimentation means no progress.
Given that most people use only one word processor, one browser, one email client etc. the consistancy argument is no more rational than insisting that your TV should have the same controls as your car.
TWW
Here's the big news for any project managers listening in: quality coding is HARD, writing buggy software is a low-level skill.
TWW
Given that he was well known in the bodybuilding world in his teens and was having to lodge with his trainer in London I can't imagine what this business success might have been.
TWW
Well, maybe not death. Slight joint-pain. How about that?
TWW
Osgiliath is idiot-plotting at its worst: it only works if you assume that everyone involved, Faramir, Frodo, the Nazgul, are idiots.
Plus, it achieved nothing else other than undermining Faramir's nobility and Frodo's intelligence. If Jackson wanted a scene in Osgiliath there's no reason he couldn't have simply had the camera/audience follow Faramir after the hobbits leave him. Why bother diverging from the book here? It didn't save screen time or budget and did nothing for the story, so why do it at all?
TWW
No: better anyone else than him. Dear GOD, hasn't Tolkien suffered enough at this hack's hands?
By all means get everyone else from LotR involved: set design, cinematographers, score writers, but please, please, please dump Jackson and his crappy, rent-a-moron script changes.
TWW
Given the hatchet job they did on LotR, no.
A deeper problem is that the Narnia books are for children and are almost unreadable as an adult due to the sickening amount of christian propaganda they contain. As a child you miss this but as an adult I was bitterly disapointed on re-reading them.
JRRT did a much better job of getting the same values and virtues across without ramming it down the reader's throat.
I can't see Narnia working in the modern, cynical world. At least, not in any form that CSL would recognise.
TWW
Ah! a brilliant rebuttal. So much easier than bothering with evidence or facts.
TWW
Which part of the Constitution says the candidate's brother is allowed to strike people off the electoral register if he thinks they'll vote the wrong way? That must be one of the later amendments. In biro.
TWW
Obviously in a commentary they are but I meant that if the commentary is needed to show why decisions such as the (really, really badly done) side-trip to Osgiliath were made then something went badly wrong. I like a commentary track as much as anyone but they should never be needed. Just as deleted scenes should never be needed, as they were with FotR, to make sense of the version you paid to see in the cinema. They should be bonuses, not requirements.
TWW
You, son, are a grade-A genius. So: no future in the military for you.
TWW
And who created the terrorists? Why, the good 'ol USA. The people that brought you Saddam Hussain (ex-CIA assassin and short-time puppet ruler of Iraq), the fantasy nation of Israel, many fun-time bombings by the IRA, the Cuban missile crisis (laugh and laugh again as the US nearly destrys the world by objecting to Russia having a handful of missiles as close to America as America's hundreds of warheads are to Russia), frollics in Vietnam, the friendly WMD of Pakistan, not forgetting most-favoured trading nation China and its ongoing attepts to crush the kingdoms of the Himalaya and its own democratic movements, the attepted assassination of democratically elected President of Venezuela (that happened during Gulf War II so if you missed it, just wait for the repeat), arms to Iran, arms to Iraq, arms to Nicaragua, arms for drugs, arms for cash, ARMS FOR ANYTHING!
This century only: a corrupt US-backed African government free with almost any African sub-Saharan country.
America's government is available in the shops or by phone: just dial Washington I-HAVE-OIL and ask for "Donald" for low, low prices on West Nile Virus, Anthrax, Botulism, and a host of other great diseases. Have your credit card details ready.
Yes, thank God for the US, without it who would you turn to in war-time?
I bought weapons of mass destruction from America and their after-sales service was second-to-none: they even sent over CIA agents to help "calibrate" the weapons when I fired them at Iranians. This saved a lot of time when I gassed my own civilian population later. I wouldn't buy E. coli off anyone else." Mr S. H., Iraq
TWW
Either: a) it gets shot down at any one of a thousand points along its route or b) it somehow doesn't and, due to having to use laser gyros instead of GPS/Galileo it lands half a mile from Central Park. If it's a nuke, big hairy deal: the body count is still six figures or more.
Here's a different scenario: Galileo is introduced with 1/32nd inch accuracy and the world's airlines start using it as the prefered method for landing aircraft while cargo vessels are piloted in by computer using up-to-the-minute echo soundings of esturies and harbours.
Then one day some fucking unelected military nutter (eg, George W Bush) decides to invade some small, oil rich, country and unilaterally turns off the Nav system. Several hundred people die in the ensuing crisis and major environmental damage is caused by the grounding of the Exxon Valdez II.
The alternative is that we don't introduce high-res navigation systems and continue to have a number of deaths and other avoidable accidents every year just so that the current occupent of the White House can sleep in the secure knowledge that America has the biggest Dick in the world (eg, George W Bush).
If the military party in America is going to stand in the way of something which will aid the entire world then it's time they were reminded that the world isn't actually there just to provide them with their toy-soldier jollies.
TWW
You either haven't read the book or haven't seen the films.
TWW
Err, the screenwriter's/directors side of the story was on the screen. If their reasons have to be clarified by a commentary then they were the wrong reasons. This is a movie, not a seminar.
TWW
And you're wasting your money on a pathetic adaptation by a third-rate hack director.
TWW
Why would you want to? These are big-screen, Hi-Fi films. The best home-cinema systems are a pale imatation of the real thing.
You sure as hell wouldn't watch Jackson's version for the story or the characterisation: it's all spectacle.
TWW
I know; there is a legal difference between breech of copyright and theft but from the point of view of the person that produced the work it's pretty immaterial.
TWW