Here's the Coming Attractions page for the Ringworld movie.
Larry announced that it was happening in October '01, and James Cameron's involved somehow. Sounds like there's a liscencing swamp around it, though, so probably he can't say much, but maybe he can at least tell us if it's still got a chance of happening.
I'm with you there. The emotive language is what's tripping my nutcase filter right now. I'm hoping this "preemption" stuff is really just the Reaganites pulling their old Pax Americana stuff out of the closet and not a reflection of some genuine belief on Bush's part that Iraq is Evil. Bush is a hardcore Methodist. I'm related to hardcore Methodists. When hardcore Methodists say Evil, they mean the influence of Satan. If Bush is genuine in his language, I don't doubt he'll do anything, at any cost, to get rid of Saddam. That kinda freaks me out a little.
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Fox News. Heh. Did anybody else see their little 80-second world news thing a few days ago? The last launch of the Ariane II, which has been launching for "116 years"? And I saw the same segment twice, about 6 hours apart. They really need somebody working there who actually watches the channel. I'm not gonna even talk about their "tens of thousands arround the world" bullshit with the protests...
Anyway, it's not the big donors they like, it's the clear cause-and-effect and reliability of their support. Real people care about abortion and terrorism and shit, companies only care about one thing at a time. You pass DMCA, we give you fat sack 'o cash money. Dealing with the complex opinions of actual voters is too much work, and your average polititian really isn't smart enough to deal with the ammount of imput necessary to actually represent people. You either need interest groups or qualified polititians, and unfortunately, all the qualified polititians are too busy running interest groups to run.
This is why I send the EFF a few bucks now and then. We need somebody to point out that Sony isn't actually representing us, which, honestly, is what they usually manage to convince congress of. Since their mailboxes and phone lines are spammed by interest groups, your representative's perception of what you want comes from spokesmen for companies and the polls those spokesmen give them.
I'll bet at least half the people who voted for the DMCA honestly thought it would help the people get better movies, and keep the poor 'ol studios from having to raise DVD prices, if they thought anything about it at all, that is. We just managed to point out the massive flaws there, and congress is responding.
There's no massive shift here, so don't celebrate. Congress is still clueless, the next godawful law will just disguise itself as something we haven't specifically adressed yet.
Also, life is a endless road paved with pain and sorrow, and there's two goddam feet of snow outside my door. Fuck you global warming! Fuck you jet stream! Fuck you Gulf currents! Fucking nature.
Has anybody actually looked at France's army? They've got the 3rd largest strategic nuclear arsenal after the US and Russia (350 nukes), the biggest military in Europe (by $, CIA FB just gives you that and theoretical manpower and I'm too lazy to research), and less than 10% of their import/export business is with the US. Germany seems more dependant on France than the US too.
I'm thinking they got tired of getting pissed on. Well, at the rate we're going, maybe we'll actually be testing them out soon...
They had a show on the Discovery channel or something about how the embargo works earlier this week. I really had no idea what they were doing there before. I thought it was just "psst! nobody send them shit!" but apparently they've got this Australian guy blocking off Iraq's whole coastline. One Aussie on a US ship commanding a US fleet and a bunch of US Marines? How did that happen? Anyway, while the TV guys were there they seized a bunch of figs somebody was trying to smuggle. Apparently you can use them to pay for nuclear bombs now.
There's my "facts" where the sources can't be provided. Oh, well. You can't expect all this responsible fact-checking to catch on here, can ya?
Fair Use isn't quite fair enough for that one, sorry. You'd have Christopher Tolkien's foot up your ass if you tried. I'd like to see Bored of the Rings snowboarding though. That would kick ass. Especially if you gave them all ammusing little voices.
No kidding. I'd love to see 2 hours worth of film from either of them, let alone 2 hours with enough of a budget to convey the downfall of America. I guess that's why don't have any electricity in North Korea. All those Sun renderfarms must really suck up the juice.
Anime isn't a genre. It's the Japanese word for animation. I can call Snow White anime if I want, and I would, if I were in Japan. In common usage though, anime would generally refer to animation created in Japan. Studio Gibli is in Japan. It stayed in Japan while the movie was being made. I would say that makes it anime by the vague misdefinition applied to the word in the U.S.
Eisner's a assface, but I think you've confused your Spirits. Jamie was talking about the one with the horses. I think that sword would be embedded in some little statue of Mickey and dripping with the blood of Disney executives right now if they'd pulled something like that. Bryan Adams. Thanks Canada. Thanks a lot. One more of those and we're sending you Michael Bolton.
Don't worry, it's just a bunch of Scandinavians pretending to be other people and calling it revolutionary. Live Action Role Playing. At best it's a crappy play, at worst it's a crappy hobby, no matter how long a manifesto you write first.
I excused TTT because the book is just so massively non-screenworthy and because they did Gollum so fabulously. It kept me interested, I liked everything I saw, and I didn't mind the fuckups until after it was over. That's enough for me.
Anyway, Pianist won't get shit because hating pedophiles overrides Holocaust guilt.
I still say Gangs of New York is gonna get it because otherwise Scorsese will go lock himself in the basement again and make another Michael Jackson video.
Lilo & Stitch kicks mad ass, but I didn't really like Ice Age. I don't know why, I don't hate Ray Romano, and I was all ready to like it too, since the studio's in my home town. (White Plains, NY rep'esent!) I don't know. It just got annoying about halfway through for some reason. It's ok, but not something I want to take home with me.
The grand jury charged Polanski with giving a drug to a minor, committing a lewd act upon a person less than 14, rape of a minor, rape by use of a drug, oral copulation and sodomy. All the charges are felonies.
I don't know about that. I think you're point's valid, but more in his character design. He takes the anime facial simplification all the way and it makes it a whole lot easier for him to send you their emotions directly, without any noise. In the opening of Totoro he's doing goofy cinematic stuff, yeah, but he puts massive detail into the truck's movement. He jumps to minimalism occasionally, like in Mononoke, usually to make it look more energetic.
The dub of GitS is awful. I can't even watch more than the first few minutes of that thing. First dub I ever listened to. Almost convinced me anime had secretly sucked all along.
Millenium Actress too. I think it's the same guy who did Perfect Blue, and it's fantastic. Documentary crew talking to this old actress, and they basically tell her life story through her movies. Pretty funny and creative as hell.
Anime usually gets treated as a loophole to get big sci-fi and fantasy stuff out, which is all way too expensive for the Japanese film industry to pull off well. I don't think that's really a bad thing, I'd actually like to see some of that kind of thinking here. Some way for good stuff that can't find a way into the mainstream to be given justice. I'm sure there's plenty of good screenwriters and directors who have stuff they'd like to see realized. Really, I think that's a lot of what the Animatrix is. There's no way the Bros are gonna get to use all this cool stuff they came up with, so they send out about 1/100th of their normal budget and at least get to see some of it in motion.
Anyway, I'd like to see anime do some more stuff like Grave of the Fireflies where the medium doesn't just make the effects feasable, it actually makes the characters work better. GotF wouldn't have been nearly as good if it didn't have that simplistic, washed-out feel to it.
Encouragement is still entrapment. A cop can't wander up to you, offer you drugs and then arrest you if you accept. I don't think they've ever had police FORCE somebody to commit a crime, at least not this century. It doesn't matter though, since it's not the cops doing it. Entrapment doesn't apply to Sony sending you threats and reposessing your stereo. Not only is it not police setting the trap, it's probably going to stay in the civil courts, where you can basically do whatever the hell you want.
I don't know if Bush is particularly literalist, but a friend of mine said something interesting a few days ago, I think because we were talking about this "National Prayer Breakfast" thing.
He's been through Narcotics Anonymous, and he was saying how he sees a lot of his own behavior, and the behavior of other NA/AA guys, in Bush. This guy went through NA, got insanely Christian for about a year, and then cooled off a little.
He was saying that it looks to him like Bush was never particularly religious, which seems true, but as he grew up developed an emotional emptiness (whatever that is), which he filled with booze and drugs. Then something happened and he quit and jammed massive amounts of Jesus in the hole. He said that after AA or NA, everybody either comes out an addict or a Jesus freak. The people who get used to not drinking or using will either stay with the church out of thankfulness or something, or drift off.
But he said some people never get used to the hole the drugs leave, and he said those people were usually the ones who had some deep emotional reason for starting in the first place. They can't stand their own mind, so they have to replace it with drugs or something else. He thinks that's Bush. Praying all the time, taking Jesus as your complete role model. Exactly like a lot of people he knows from NA.
I guess it's good that according to him, those people are the least likely to start up again. For them to get off, they had to make religion better than coke or whatever, so they'll just pray more if it gets bad.
When did they keep the explaination secret? Other than in the misleading headline, the only time they say "secret" is when they're quoting the words written on the box they're looking for. The article mentions the newspaper article where NASA explained how they were looking for an encryption device before the search started. The sherrif of wherever didn't tell everybody the reason, but he had nothing to do with the search at all.
Looks like somebody was just desperate to pull a Woodward & Bernstien here. Like just about every journalism major in the country. "OMG! NASA wrote a memo about a possible problem!! OMG! There's only like 7000 of those for every goddamn part of the thing!" Move along kids, nothing to see here.
GOD. Which terrorists? Fuck, how about every gun-wielding nut south of Mexico? School of the Americas? Noriega? Rodriguez? Viola? Oscar Romero? They made a frikkin movie out of that one. Raul Julia was in it! RAUL JULIA!
I think we've diverted most of our attention eastward now, but I'm sure our guys haven't stopped raping children in our absence.
The US terrorist camp is called Fort Benning. It's in Georgia. And I just saw the flash intro on their web page and GOOD GOD is it the most HILARIOUS thing I have EVER SEEN. I don't want to divert the subject from the thousands of tragic deaths caused by terrorists in South America, but due to that masterful work of art I do believe that I will now piss myself in laughter at the next soldier I see.
Jesus Christ. You have got to see that shit. I swear to God that's actually there. What do you have to smoke to come up with something like that? I'm thinking varnish.
b166er. Heh. I found that more hilarious than I should have. Do all the robots have l33t names? Are we gonna find out Agent Smith's real name is 0wnz0r or something?
They do add information Morpheus claims the humans don't know. ("We don't know who struck first...") Well, it's an escalation that b166er technically started, but people were really the ones who started the real fighting, so maybe Morpheus is being all profound or something. Or maybe he just doesn't want to tell Neo what asses future people were.
Then again, they seem to be at peace, kinda, when this thing ends, so maybe there's a gap before the real harcore war starts. I'm guessing they switch to robot history for part two, anyway.
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Here's the Coming Attractions page for the Ringworld movie.
Larry announced that it was happening in October '01, and James Cameron's involved somehow. Sounds like there's a liscencing swamp around it, though, so probably he can't say much, but maybe he can at least tell us if it's still got a chance of happening.
I'm with you there. The emotive language is what's tripping my nutcase filter right now. I'm hoping this "preemption" stuff is really just the Reaganites pulling their old Pax Americana stuff out of the closet and not a reflection of some genuine belief on Bush's part that Iraq is Evil. Bush is a hardcore Methodist. I'm related to hardcore Methodists. When hardcore Methodists say Evil, they mean the influence of Satan. If Bush is genuine in his language, I don't doubt he'll do anything, at any cost, to get rid of Saddam. That kinda freaks me out a little.
Fox News. Heh. Did anybody else see their little 80-second world news thing a few days ago? The last launch of the Ariane II, which has been launching for "116 years"? And I saw the same segment twice, about 6 hours apart. They really need somebody working there who actually watches the channel. I'm not gonna even talk about their "tens of thousands arround the world" bullshit with the protests...
Anyway, it's not the big donors they like, it's the clear cause-and-effect and reliability of their support. Real people care about abortion and terrorism and shit, companies only care about one thing at a time. You pass DMCA, we give you fat sack 'o cash money. Dealing with the complex opinions of actual voters is too much work, and your average polititian really isn't smart enough to deal with the ammount of imput necessary to actually represent people. You either need interest groups or qualified polititians, and unfortunately, all the qualified polititians are too busy running interest groups to run.
This is why I send the EFF a few bucks now and then. We need somebody to point out that Sony isn't actually representing us, which, honestly, is what they usually manage to convince congress of. Since their mailboxes and phone lines are spammed by interest groups, your representative's perception of what you want comes from spokesmen for companies and the polls those spokesmen give them.
I'll bet at least half the people who voted for the DMCA honestly thought it would help the people get better movies, and keep the poor 'ol studios from having to raise DVD prices, if they thought anything about it at all, that is. We just managed to point out the massive flaws there, and congress is responding.
There's no massive shift here, so don't celebrate. Congress is still clueless, the next godawful law will just disguise itself as something we haven't specifically adressed yet.
Also, life is a endless road paved with pain and sorrow, and there's two goddam feet of snow outside my door. Fuck you global warming! Fuck you jet stream! Fuck you Gulf currents! Fucking nature.
Has anybody actually looked at France's army? They've got the 3rd largest strategic nuclear arsenal after the US and Russia (350 nukes), the biggest military in Europe (by $, CIA FB just gives you that and theoretical manpower and I'm too lazy to research), and less than 10% of their import/export business is with the US. Germany seems more dependant on France than the US too.
I'm thinking they got tired of getting pissed on. Well, at the rate we're going, maybe we'll actually be testing them out soon...
They had a show on the Discovery channel or something about how the embargo works earlier this week. I really had no idea what they were doing there before. I thought it was just "psst! nobody send them shit!" but apparently they've got this Australian guy blocking off Iraq's whole coastline. One Aussie on a US ship commanding a US fleet and a bunch of US Marines? How did that happen? Anyway, while the TV guys were there they seized a bunch of figs somebody was trying to smuggle. Apparently you can use them to pay for nuclear bombs now.
There's my "facts" where the sources can't be provided. Oh, well. You can't expect all this responsible fact-checking to catch on here, can ya?
Fair Use isn't quite fair enough for that one, sorry. You'd have Christopher Tolkien's foot up your ass if you tried. I'd like to see Bored of the Rings snowboarding though. That would kick ass. Especially if you gave them all ammusing little voices.
No kidding. I'd love to see 2 hours worth of film from either of them, let alone 2 hours with enough of a budget to convey the downfall of America. I guess that's why don't have any electricity in North Korea. All those Sun renderfarms must really suck up the juice.
Anime isn't a genre. It's the Japanese word for animation. I can call Snow White anime if I want, and I would, if I were in Japan. In common usage though, anime would generally refer to animation created in Japan. Studio Gibli is in Japan. It stayed in Japan while the movie was being made. I would say that makes it anime by the vague misdefinition applied to the word in the U.S.
Eisner's a assface, but I think you've confused your Spirits. Jamie was talking about the one with the horses. I think that sword would be embedded in some little statue of Mickey and dripping with the blood of Disney executives right now if they'd pulled something like that. Bryan Adams. Thanks Canada. Thanks a lot. One more of those and we're sending you Michael Bolton.
Don't worry, it's just a bunch of Scandinavians pretending to be other people and calling it revolutionary. Live Action Role Playing. At best it's a crappy play, at worst it's a crappy hobby, no matter how long a manifesto you write first.
I excused TTT because the book is just so massively non-screenworthy and because they did Gollum so fabulously. It kept me interested, I liked everything I saw, and I didn't mind the fuckups until after it was over. That's enough for me.
Anyway, Pianist won't get shit because hating pedophiles overrides Holocaust guilt.
I still say Gangs of New York is gonna get it because otherwise Scorsese will go lock himself in the basement again and make another Michael Jackson video.
Lilo & Stitch kicks mad ass, but I didn't really like Ice Age. I don't know why, I don't hate Ray Romano, and I was all ready to like it too, since the studio's in my home town. (White Plains, NY rep'esent!) I don't know. It just got annoying about halfway through for some reason. It's ok, but not something I want to take home with me.
To be fair, if he'd served time in the 70's he probably wouldn't have gotten out in time to direct it.
I don't know about that. I think you're point's valid, but more in his character design. He takes the anime facial simplification all the way and it makes it a whole lot easier for him to send you their emotions directly, without any noise. In the opening of Totoro he's doing goofy cinematic stuff, yeah, but he puts massive detail into the truck's movement. He jumps to minimalism occasionally, like in Mononoke, usually to make it look more energetic.
The dub of GitS is awful. I can't even watch more than the first few minutes of that thing. First dub I ever listened to. Almost convinced me anime had secretly sucked all along.
God. I'm suprised the NYT didn't get burned for that shit. "HEADLINE: Children! Life a Bog of Misery and Dispair! Remeber to Slit Up, Not Across!"
Millenium Actress too. I think it's the same guy who did Perfect Blue, and it's fantastic. Documentary crew talking to this old actress, and they basically tell her life story through her movies. Pretty funny and creative as hell.
Anime usually gets treated as a loophole to get big sci-fi and fantasy stuff out, which is all way too expensive for the Japanese film industry to pull off well. I don't think that's really a bad thing, I'd actually like to see some of that kind of thinking here. Some way for good stuff that can't find a way into the mainstream to be given justice. I'm sure there's plenty of good screenwriters and directors who have stuff they'd like to see realized. Really, I think that's a lot of what the Animatrix is. There's no way the Bros are gonna get to use all this cool stuff they came up with, so they send out about 1/100th of their normal budget and at least get to see some of it in motion.
Anyway, I'd like to see anime do some more stuff like Grave of the Fireflies where the medium doesn't just make the effects feasable, it actually makes the characters work better. GotF wouldn't have been nearly as good if it didn't have that simplistic, washed-out feel to it.
Encouragement is still entrapment. A cop can't wander up to you, offer you drugs and then arrest you if you accept. I don't think they've ever had police FORCE somebody to commit a crime, at least not this century. It doesn't matter though, since it's not the cops doing it. Entrapment doesn't apply to Sony sending you threats and reposessing your stereo. Not only is it not police setting the trap, it's probably going to stay in the civil courts, where you can basically do whatever the hell you want.
I don't know if Bush is particularly literalist, but a friend of mine said something interesting a few days ago, I think because we were talking about this "National Prayer Breakfast" thing.
He's been through Narcotics Anonymous, and he was saying how he sees a lot of his own behavior, and the behavior of other NA/AA guys, in Bush. This guy went through NA, got insanely Christian for about a year, and then cooled off a little.
He was saying that it looks to him like Bush was never particularly religious, which seems true, but as he grew up developed an emotional emptiness (whatever that is), which he filled with booze and drugs. Then something happened and he quit and jammed massive amounts of Jesus in the hole. He said that after AA or NA, everybody either comes out an addict or a Jesus freak. The people who get used to not drinking or using will either stay with the church out of thankfulness or something, or drift off.
But he said some people never get used to the hole the drugs leave, and he said those people were usually the ones who had some deep emotional reason for starting in the first place. They can't stand their own mind, so they have to replace it with drugs or something else. He thinks that's Bush. Praying all the time, taking Jesus as your complete role model. Exactly like a lot of people he knows from NA.
I guess it's good that according to him, those people are the least likely to start up again. For them to get off, they had to make religion better than coke or whatever, so they'll just pray more if it gets bad.
"Mr. Annan! Mr. Annan! There's no air up here!"
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When did they keep the explaination secret? Other than in the misleading headline, the only time they say "secret" is when they're quoting the words written on the box they're looking for. The article mentions the newspaper article where NASA explained how they were looking for an encryption device before the search started. The sherrif of wherever didn't tell everybody the reason, but he had nothing to do with the search at all.
Looks like somebody was just desperate to pull a Woodward & Bernstien here. Like just about every journalism major in the country. "OMG! NASA wrote a memo about a possible problem!! OMG! There's only like 7000 of those for every goddamn part of the thing!" Move along kids, nothing to see here.
GOD. Which terrorists? Fuck, how about every gun-wielding nut south of Mexico? School of the Americas? Noriega? Rodriguez? Viola? Oscar Romero? They made a frikkin movie out of that one. Raul Julia was in it! RAUL JULIA!
I think we've diverted most of our attention eastward now, but I'm sure our guys haven't stopped raping children in our absence.
The US terrorist camp is called Fort Benning. It's in Georgia. And I just saw the flash intro on their web page and GOOD GOD is it the most HILARIOUS thing I have EVER SEEN. I don't want to divert the subject from the thousands of tragic deaths caused by terrorists in South America, but due to that masterful work of art I do believe that I will now piss myself in laughter at the next soldier I see.
Jesus Christ. You have got to see that shit. I swear to God that's actually there. What do you have to smoke to come up with something like that? I'm thinking varnish.
Flintstone kicks Snagglepuss's ass? Come on, let's be serious here. Nobody kicks Snagglepuss's ass.
b166er. Heh. I found that more hilarious than I should have. Do all the robots have l33t names? Are we gonna find out Agent Smith's real name is 0wnz0r or something?
They do add information Morpheus claims the humans don't know. ("We don't know who struck first...") Well, it's an escalation that b166er technically started, but people were really the ones who started the real fighting, so maybe Morpheus is being all profound or something. Or maybe he just doesn't want to tell Neo what asses future people were.
Then again, they seem to be at peace, kinda, when this thing ends, so maybe there's a gap before the real harcore war starts. I'm guessing they switch to robot history for part two, anyway.