Never mind that Metro is a *county* agency. Not that I'm defending them or anything. It's taken them forever to realize that relying on buses isn't the solution for Houston.
"As far as I am concerned, it is a bad movie indeed if it can only be properly enjoyed by a select few "
I don't think that's necessarily true. Mass amarket appeal and "good" aren't the same thing. Especially since "good" is subjective to begin with.
They called them HBT cells or something in Mospeada. I forget what it's suppsoed to stand for.
As for the "mystical" Japanese plots, you should check out other subgenres of anime. I'd say it's refreshing to see a major studio release something that doesn't follow Hollywood's standard plots.
Something that I don't think most people realize is that when you spell out too much via details -- particularly in movies like this -- then you create more problems. Either your explanation isn't believeable, isn't sufficient, or becomes outdated.
If Lucas had gone to great detail as to how lightsabers work, and how the force works, and all of that crap then Star Wars would really be a hokey piece of crap movie. Instead, things in that universe work the way the do and characters accept it . . .
If too many details had been filled in for FF, I'm sure it would have suffered.
Actually, they have a single sound for l/r where we have two. This makes any English word with an l in it sound like it has an r isntead (and vice versa).
It's almost a hybrid of our l and r.
...isn't making a movie. Someone touched on one part of the problem with tackling the MPAA - marketing. The other part is distribution. It doesn't do any good to make or market a movie if you can't get it to each and every consumer out there. Yeah, yeah, there's the internet, but by relying on it, you've already excluded a large portion of society. You can't take the MPAA on unless you can get a movie projected onto screens and stocked in Blockbuster.
You can't even really compare miniDV and VHS. Physically they store data in a similar manner -- basically diagonal "tracks" on the tape. However, where VHS uses (I think) 2 tracks per frame, DV uses 10 tracks per frame allowing for data redundancy, and a myriad of other data to be stored with the video. This doesn't mean that you're immune to tape dropouts or head clogs, or other problems typical to the tape format. A couple of good sources for info are:
http://www.adamwilt.com and
http://www.adaptec.com/technology/standards/1394fo rmats.html
D is ok, but the animation and artwork are pretty poor. Amano's artwork was great, but he really only does cover art.
The new D looks promising though . . .
If you watch the show you'll see that the intended audience is NOT SF fans or geeks. Really, it probably should be stuck in a block with WWF crap.
Robot Wars, on the other hand, would fit nicely.
To have an impact on issues, one must present a well reasoned argument, complete with supporting facts and trends, and counterarguments (credibly) disputing one's opponent's p.o.v.
Ideally that would be true. Reality is a bit different (and.edu is hardly reality).
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"early 80's"?? Have you seen early 80's animation?
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Never mind that Metro is a *county* agency. Not that I'm defending them or anything. It's taken them forever to realize that relying on buses isn't the solution for Houston.
Where have you been for the past decade? All trailers are like this these days -- regardless of what the movie is actually like.
There is a difference between developing plot and spoon-feeding it to your audience. I think most of your questions were answered within the movie.
"As far as I am concerned, it is a bad movie indeed if it can only be properly enjoyed by a select few " I don't think that's necessarily true. Mass amarket appeal and "good" aren't the same thing. Especially since "good" is subjective to begin with.
I think that's really why some people have problems with the plot -- they're used to having it spoonfed to them from Hollywood . . .
First of all, it isn't sci-fi . . .
They called them HBT cells or something in Mospeada. I forget what it's suppsoed to stand for. As for the "mystical" Japanese plots, you should check out other subgenres of anime. I'd say it's refreshing to see a major studio release something that doesn't follow Hollywood's standard plots.
Something that I don't think most people realize is that when you spell out too much via details -- particularly in movies like this -- then you create more problems. Either your explanation isn't believeable, isn't sufficient, or becomes outdated. If Lucas had gone to great detail as to how lightsabers work, and how the force works, and all of that crap then Star Wars would really be a hokey piece of crap movie. Instead, things in that universe work the way the do and characters accept it . . . If too many details had been filled in for FF, I'm sure it would have suffered.
Cels are for animation. Maybe he has a cartoon phone . . .
No one *needs* Internet access at all in an absolute sense. Hell, computers weren't even designed with posting messages to slashdot in mind . . .
Or they could do both . . .
Actually, they have a single sound for l/r where we have two. This makes any English word with an l in it sound like it has an r isntead (and vice versa). It's almost a hybrid of our l and r.
Really? I haven't seen any 10K or 15K IDE drives . . .
...isn't making a movie. Someone touched on one part of the problem with tackling the MPAA - marketing. The other part is distribution. It doesn't do any good to make or market a movie if you can't get it to each and every consumer out there. Yeah, yeah, there's the internet, but by relying on it, you've already excluded a large portion of society. You can't take the MPAA on unless you can get a movie projected onto screens and stocked in Blockbuster.
When did Matrox start making drives?
You can't even really compare miniDV and VHS. Physically they store data in a similar manner -- basically diagonal "tracks" on the tape. However, where VHS uses (I think) 2 tracks per frame, DV uses 10 tracks per frame allowing for data redundancy, and a myriad of other data to be stored with the video. This doesn't mean that you're immune to tape dropouts or head clogs, or other problems typical to the tape format. A couple of good sources for info are: http://www.adamwilt.com and http://www.adaptec.com/technology/standards/1394fo rmats.html
D is ok, but the animation and artwork are pretty poor. Amano's artwork was great, but he really only does cover art. The new D looks promising though . . .
If you watch the show you'll see that the intended audience is NOT SF fans or geeks. Really, it probably should be stuck in a block with WWF crap. Robot Wars, on the other hand, would fit nicely.
To have an impact on issues, one must present a well reasoned argument, complete with supporting facts and trends, and counterarguments (credibly) disputing one's opponent's p.o.v.
Ideally that would be true. Reality is a bit different (and .edu is hardly reality).
"early 80's"?? Have you seen early 80's animation?