Thanks fenix down, that's exactly how I feel too. If a movie is an anime or cartoon, then I accept that it's gonna be all animation. If a movie is based in reality, I expect to be able to escape into it. With all this CGI, you can't escape into it because you know the scenes could never have happened in the first place. But today's generation just doesn't seem to give a fuck.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks this. Hollywood has gone too fucking far. Less is more, dumbasses. Jurassic Park got it right, so did Forrest Gump and of course Blade Runner and Aliens. CGI complemented their stories. Now I'm looking at The Hulk teaser and it's been too fucked up by computers to enjoy. Bill Bixby is already rolling in his grave. George Lucas is the ultimate lazy filmmaker. Noone cares if you use state-of-the-art visual effects to make those shots! In five years, CGI may be advanced enough to convince an audience without a doubt that a generated object looks real. Then everyone will be laughing at your retarded Yoda fight.
In a documentary on the making of Gangs of New York, Lucas said to Martin Scorcese on the set, "You know, you can generate all this with CG now." Thankfully Scorcese didn't agree with him.
The Matrix teaser was great; the one they released in Japan was fantastic. This commercial killed my expectations by 3/4. The scene with an Agent crushing a car on a highway, that looked stupid and unbelievable even if the storyboard called for it. I can live with it as long as it's only one of a few.
Anyone else think they've gone too Star Wars with the visual effects? *sigh*
Terminator 2 was balanced, The Matrix as well. But it looks like this time the Wachowski's may have gotten lazy. Maybe at 23, I'm too old to accept action scenes that are almost entirely rendered with computers. =(
I also hope fewer sites use Flash; those Flash ads are especially unnerving. Well, they were unnerving until I discovered that there are several ways to remove the Flash integration from your browser (Windows and Mac).
Personally I would go with the manual uninstall. Who knows what else that uninstall program does. Doing it nitty gritty makes you feel more confident that it's out of your system for good. Also, they don't include how to avoid the Flash Install pop-ups on their web site. Just go to your HOSTS file and add:
Thanks for accusing me of lying. But I'm sorry to say that I'm not. The machines aren't kept on 24 / 7. You turn them off at night when everyone leaves to save money and to conserve something called electricity. Our two XDV machines have had no problems with their 3-port Firewire cards.
I'm not going to get into another lengthy XDV vs. FCP debate. I have background in MC and been working as an editor for 5 years. But I do foresee FCP as being a major competitor and possible AVID dethroner.
I'll respond in detail now that I'm not running out the door.
No, I'm not on crack. The XP GUI is not slow. With a few clicks, you can go back to the UI that Windows 2000 had and remove all those 'pretty shapes and colors' like OS X has.
Just go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Settings -> Adjust for Best Performance
Besides freeing up some memory and CPU load, this will allow you to see how much faster XP is to 2000.
Basically your point is that your PCs were crashing and so you switched to Macs that were not crashing. Therefore Macs have lower TCO?
Over here, none of our Win 2k Pro and XP boxes have ever crashed. Jokes about BSODs just aren't funny anymore. We make sure we buy premium hardware and qualified systems. Even then, the total cost of one PC has always been less than the top Mac.
Yes, speed and cost are not always factors in productivity. But faced with deadlines, choosing between PC or Mac is a no brainer. FCP is great but XDV is still better and works well MC. Over the past three years, my experience in video editing has shown that PC's have a lower TCO than any other platform.
Nonsense. While Final Cut Pro has potential, I have a choice of AVID Xpress DV, Adobe Premiere and Vegas Video on my consumer PC. AVID Media Composer and DS run flawlessly on PC at work (Win2k). Combined with WinXP, I also have access to an awesome interface and an OS that is a hell more responsive than OS X.
I pity the people who don't regularly weigh both sides. At the end, my Dual Athlon editing machine blows every Mac into the sky.
Most universities do not cap the amount you transfer. However, if cable providers add restrictions to their residential services, whether they be of the transfer amount or rate-type, then won't this make it easier for the xxAA to single out hosts on university networks that are acting as P2P supernodes? (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) It will then create a huge burden on campus and overseas computers that are connected to Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.
Then, the xxAA will just end up sending more cease & desist letters to the school admins. In turn, non-US ISPs must respond to their mounting bills since they pay for all traffic to/from US. Limiting the bandwidth will truly hurt P2P.:-(
The Slashdot time is correct. Just like changing the clocks in your house, you have to go through the Slashdot preferences to change between EDT and EST.:)
>I agree it's rather hypocritical. Me, I pirate music only to the point where the CD isn't >worth getting. If I like a song, I'll download the song. If I like an album, I'll buy the album. >If I can't find the album in stores, I'll download it.
Alas, if everyone approached music this way, then the RIAA would go back into their hole and we would not have this "controversy", would we. I also buy albums if I really appreciate the music, but unfortunately, we only form a small minority.
I concur with your observations/predictions. I was also extremely disappointed with Episode I. I believe George Lucas is more of a visionary than a storyteller. Perhaps with today's technology, he is trying more to "WOW" us with the visuals while sacrificing the story line. Lucas seems to be infatuated with showing us grandiose 3D images, and this teaser confirms that.
The special effects are very nice, but unfortunately, they also look terribly fake and unconvincing. All the scenes look they could have been rendered with a souped-up video card. What gave the former trilogy its edge was the fact that most of the scenes were not rendered entirely with CG. The miniature models made all the difference.
There have been a lot of comments on Slashdot that points out that our biases and expectations will ruin our overall movie experiences. I agree with this statement, but to a certain extent. I believe that a person who can relatively make honest and objective comments will know whether a movie is good or not. I may have created some "cushion" surrounding my experience with Episodes 4-6 and would have been disappointed with Episode I no matter how it came out. Unfortunately, deep inside I can confidently say that Episode I was a really, really bad movie. It just fails at too many levels. If you can leave a movie theatre without having rationalized what you saw and are still satisfied, then the movie was most likely good.
So far, it looks like Episode II will be all shots but no scenes. Hope it turns out I'm wrong.
I am afraid that will not be possible. According to the tech specs at the Apple web site,
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
it requires an "Apple computer with built-in Firewire port." That pretty much precludes me from buying one. Maybe they will change their minds about that... (if possible)
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Thanks fenix down, that's exactly how I feel too. If a movie is an anime or cartoon, then I accept that it's gonna be all animation. If a movie is based in reality, I expect to be able to escape into it. With all this CGI, you can't escape into it because you know the scenes could never have happened in the first place. But today's generation just doesn't seem to give a fuck.
:)
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks this. Hollywood has gone too fucking far. Less is more, dumbasses. Jurassic Park got it right, so did Forrest Gump and of course Blade Runner and Aliens. CGI complemented their stories. Now I'm looking at The Hulk teaser and it's been too fucked up by computers to enjoy. Bill Bixby is already rolling in his grave. George Lucas is the ultimate lazy filmmaker. Noone cares if you use state-of-the-art visual effects to make those shots! In five years, CGI may be advanced enough to convince an audience without a doubt that a generated object looks real. Then everyone will be laughing at your retarded Yoda fight.
In a documentary on the making of Gangs of New York, Lucas said to Martin Scorcese on the set, "You know, you can generate all this with CG now." Thankfully Scorcese didn't agree with him.
The Matrix teaser was great; the one they released in Japan was fantastic. This commercial killed my expectations by 3/4. The scene with an Agent crushing a car on a highway, that looked stupid and unbelievable even if the storyboard called for it. I can live with it as long as it's only one of a few.
</rant>
My hopes are down but I'll still see it anyway.
Anyone else think they've gone too Star Wars with the visual effects? *sigh*
Terminator 2 was balanced, The Matrix as well. But it looks like this time the Wachowski's may have gotten lazy. Maybe at 23, I'm too old to accept action scenes that are almost entirely rendered with computers. =(
I also hope fewer sites use Flash; those Flash ads are especially unnerving. Well, they were unnerving until I discovered that there are several ways to remove the Flash integration from your browser (Windows and Mac).
n ts/playerfaq.htm#remove
:)
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/docume
Personally I would go with the manual uninstall. Who knows what else that uninstall program does. Doing it nitty gritty makes you feel more confident that it's out of your system for good. Also, they don't include how to avoid the Flash Install pop-ups on their web site. Just go to your HOSTS file and add:
0.0.0.0 active.macromedia.com
0.0.0.0 download.macromedia.com
Now live you life Flash-free!
Correct.
The same suspicion must also be applied to you.
Thanks for accusing me of lying. But I'm sorry to say that I'm not. The machines aren't kept on 24 / 7. You turn them off at night when everyone leaves to save money and to conserve something called electricity. Our two XDV machines have had no problems with their 3-port Firewire cards.
I'm not going to get into another lengthy XDV vs. FCP debate. I have background in MC and been working as an editor for 5 years. But I do foresee FCP as being a major competitor and possible AVID dethroner.
I'll respond in detail now that I'm not running out the door.
No, I'm not on crack. The XP GUI is not slow. With a few clicks, you can go back to the UI that Windows 2000 had and remove all those 'pretty shapes and colors' like OS X has.
Just go to System Properties -> Advanced -> Settings -> Adjust for Best Performance
Besides freeing up some memory and CPU load, this will allow you to see how much faster XP is to 2000.
Nope. Just remove all the bells and whistles in XP and it's instantaneous.
Basically your point is that your PCs were crashing and so you switched to Macs that were not crashing. Therefore Macs have lower TCO?
Over here, none of our Win 2k Pro and XP boxes have ever crashed. Jokes about BSODs just aren't funny anymore. We make sure we buy premium hardware and qualified systems. Even then, the total cost of one PC has always been less than the top Mac.
Yes, speed and cost are not always factors in productivity. But faced with deadlines, choosing between PC or Mac is a no brainer. FCP is great but XDV is still better and works well MC. Over the past three years, my experience in video editing has shown that PC's have a lower TCO than any other platform.
Nonsense. While Final Cut Pro has potential, I have a choice of AVID Xpress DV, Adobe Premiere and Vegas Video on my consumer PC. AVID Media Composer and DS run flawlessly on PC at work (Win2k). Combined with WinXP, I also have access to an awesome interface and an OS that is a hell more responsive than OS X.
I pity the people who don't regularly weigh both sides. At the end, my Dual Athlon editing machine blows every Mac into the sky.
[i]Since I've set this up (for myself and my 10-year-old son who receives porn in his box (grrr!!!!)), it has worked flawlessly.[/i]
Why you do this? He just wanted some free passwords.
re-release the movies in the way that the audience wants to see them?
Because what the audience wants to see varies with each person. The director is not going to release dozens of different edits of his/her movie.
Most universities do not cap the amount you transfer. However, if cable providers add restrictions to their residential services, whether they be of the transfer amount or rate-type, then won't this make it easier for the xxAA to single out hosts on university networks that are acting as P2P supernodes? (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) It will then create a huge burden on campus and overseas computers that are connected to Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.
:-(
Then, the xxAA will just end up sending more cease & desist letters to the school admins. In turn, non-US ISPs must respond to their mounting bills since they pay for all traffic to/from US. Limiting the bandwidth will truly hurt P2P.
Would you still have shelled out $9.50 if the bootleg was of better quality?
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Dammit! My adbuster didn't block your sig! What should I do???
Maybe they will change their mind and have Britney Spears cameo... with a lightsaber!
:-)
I bet ole' Lucas would like that.
The Slashdot time is correct. Just like changing the clocks in your house, you have to go through the Slashdot preferences to change between EDT and EST. :)
>I agree it's rather hypocritical. Me, I pirate music only to the point where the CD isn't
Alas, if everyone approached music this way, then the RIAA would go back into their hole and we would not have this "controversy", would we. I also buy albums if I really appreciate the music, but unfortunately, we only form a small minority.>worth getting. If I like a song, I'll download the song. If I like an album, I'll buy the album.
>If I can't find the album in stores, I'll download it.
I concur with your observations/predictions. I was also extremely disappointed with Episode I. I believe George Lucas is more of a visionary than a storyteller. Perhaps with today's technology, he is trying more to "WOW" us with the visuals while sacrificing the story line. Lucas seems to be infatuated with showing us grandiose 3D images, and this teaser confirms that.
The special effects are very nice, but unfortunately, they also look terribly fake and unconvincing. All the scenes look they could have been rendered with a souped-up video card. What gave the former trilogy its edge was the fact that most of the scenes were not rendered entirely with CG. The miniature models made all the difference.
There have been a lot of comments on Slashdot that points out that our biases and expectations will ruin our overall movie experiences. I agree with this statement, but to a certain extent. I believe that a person who can relatively make honest and objective comments will know whether a movie is good or not. I may have created some "cushion" surrounding my experience with Episodes 4-6 and would have been disappointed with Episode I no matter how it came out. Unfortunately, deep inside I can confidently say that Episode I was a really, really bad movie. It just fails at too many levels. If you can leave a movie theatre without having rationalized what you saw and are still satisfied, then the movie was most likely good.
So far, it looks like Episode II will be all shots but no scenes. Hope it turns out I'm wrong.
I am afraid that will not be possible. According to the tech specs at the Apple web site,
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
it requires an "Apple computer with built-in Firewire port." That pretty much precludes me from buying one. Maybe they will change their minds about that... (if possible)