If Gravity had been even remotely realistic both characters would have simply died, with no hope of survival. If you start with a premise of Shuttle astronauts on an EVA working on Hubble, and said Shuttle is destroyed or seriously disabled, there is only one possible outcome in real life. But watching two characters sit around and wait to die wouldn't have attracted many moviegoers, I dare say.
That's why I actually liked "The Last Action Hero." It pointed out so many of those great action movie cliches. My personal fav is "action movie glass"--that glass that never cuts anyone and is so easily broken.
Would you watch a Rocky movie if the boxing were as boring and silly-looking as a real professional boxing match (with most of the opponents time spent hugging each other)? Would you watch Mythbusters if they sent out all their results for months of peer-review? Would you watch House of Cards if almost of of the Senator's free time were spent at boring fundraiser dinners?
here come the conservative whiners to support the USA and oppose Brazil's effort to protect its own rational self interests.
I don't find it in the "rational self interests" of my government to be archiving all my phone calls and emails, any more than I feel that it's in the rational self-interest of the local police to install spy cameras inside my home (though I'm sure many a local police department would be happy to make the case as to why it would be).
Hey, $8 million is a lot of money when most of your "workers" will be desperate grad students willing to work for next-to-nothing (free tuition and maybe a tiny stipend that doesn't even add up to minimum wage). I bet I could stretch my company budget a helluva lot farther if I didn't have to worry about healthcare, pensions, etc. and had a workforce that would fall for the idea of working for nothing (ironically based on the premise that it will one day help them get a job that doesn't pay nothing).
Yes, which means it's crap. Seriously, American-made cars have been crap for years
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That's nice and all but can we trust our data formats to stay static for that long?
Even if humanity survives a billion years from now, they would be so radically different from us that not only would they not speak the same language, they probably wouldn't even communicate in the same WAY (or maybe even EXIST in the same way). Anything preserved from our era would be an odd novelty to them at best.
And if humanity doesn't survive, then there's going to be no one left to care AT ALL. To think otherwise is hopelessly arrogant.
I'm more concerned about the fact that their content of late seems to be shrinking. I've noticed that a lot of TV series that I had in my queue, that had every season available, are suddenly being cut back to 1 or 2 seasons or just a fraction of the episodes being available. And a lot of movies have been disappearing too.
Looks like their push towards exclusive series and big headlines is starting to take a toll on their mainstay broad content. If they're not careful, they're going to hype their way right out of their traditional core audience. I don't pay $8 a month just for their latest Emmy-nominated series of the moment. And I don't expect to see my queue shrink every day just so they can budget more for Kevin Spacey's hookers and coke fund.
But with Assange throwing a hissyfit over this one, people will start to wonder...
How would you feel if you had started a movement that you truly believed it, only to have some filmmaker come along and try to discredit that movement on the big screen by smearing your personal life with a cartoonish, exaggerated, and sometimes downright fictional portrayal (based on the work of a guy who had betrayed said moment, no less)? I can understand why he might be more than a little pissed at that.
Except WikiLeaks actually published their documents for the world to see, and made it crystal clear by their actions that they were the real deal and not just a honeypot.
Oh, and I should also mention that he tried to set up a leaks site of his own after he left that looked suspiciously like a honeypot operation. Just send your documents and identities to our secretive and closed-source system and trust us to pass it on to the press (yeah, right). Fortunately, it failed, hopefully because no one was stupid enough to trust Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
Being portrayed as a liar...by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
FTFY. Daniel Domscheit-Berg is behind this movie, as he was the book on which it's based. And it's my strong suspicion that Berg was either a CIA or FBI plant at WikiLeaks. He began sabotaging the operation almost from day one, attempted (successfully) to destroy many of its documents, and has actively participated in the concerted effort to discredit Assange ever since he got canned.
I would call him a "traitor," but that would imply that he was ever an actual ally.
Don't worry. It's like Matt Damon said in Syriana: someday the oil will run out--and we'll let those backwards sandbillies go right back into lives of goat-herding and camel shit, where they belong.
I'm sorry, I hate bible-thumpers as much as anyone, but that's taking it way too far. If you think the U.S. has ANYTHING like the religious oppression you will find in Saudi Arabia, then you obviously haven't been there. Give me a call when the U.S. has an official, government-sanctioned bible-thumper police force that cuts peoples hands off for stealing, or beats women for leaving their houses. Call me when the U.S. bans all non-Christian places of worship, or starts beheading people for adultery.
I thought Christians believed that Jesus *is* God? Unless God has a serious case of multiple personality disorder, the Bible is definitely a very confusing text. The only reason Christians accept the inconsistencies is because they were raised with interpreters (ministers, priests, etc.) who cobbled it all together into some coherent message. To an outsider, it's just a goddamn mess.
I'm pretty sure that assembly line work isn't going to improve their prospects much. Foxconn may have fed them a line that this is a "show of dedication" that's going to improve their chances of getting hired for management or executive positions, or some such horseshit. But at the end of the day, they've only shown themselves to be desperate slaves. And that's not going to earn them any respect, from Foxconn or anyone else.
Google only goes where the locals have already built the infrastructure. They buy "dark" fiber, but if your city doesn't happen to have any, don't hold your breath.
If they wanted to make it realistic, they should just have the UN pass an unenforceable resolution against you and have the International Court of Justice send you a very nasty letter once a year.
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If Gravity had been even remotely realistic both characters would have simply died, with no hope of survival. If you start with a premise of Shuttle astronauts on an EVA working on Hubble, and said Shuttle is destroyed or seriously disabled, there is only one possible outcome in real life. But watching two characters sit around and wait to die wouldn't have attracted many moviegoers, I dare say.
That would be a good start, and a good example to others.
That's why I actually liked "The Last Action Hero." It pointed out so many of those great action movie cliches. My personal fav is "action movie glass"--that glass that never cuts anyone and is so easily broken.
Would you watch a Rocky movie if the boxing were as boring and silly-looking as a real professional boxing match (with most of the opponents time spent hugging each other)? Would you watch Mythbusters if they sent out all their results for months of peer-review? Would you watch House of Cards if almost of of the Senator's free time were spent at boring fundraiser dinners?
Not to the university. Your free tuition doesn't cost them jack shit.
here come the conservative whiners to support the USA and oppose Brazil's effort to protect its own rational self interests.
I don't find it in the "rational self interests" of my government to be archiving all my phone calls and emails, any more than I feel that it's in the rational self-interest of the local police to install spy cameras inside my home (though I'm sure many a local police department would be happy to make the case as to why it would be).
Hey, $8 million is a lot of money when most of your "workers" will be desperate grad students willing to work for next-to-nothing (free tuition and maybe a tiny stipend that doesn't even add up to minimum wage). I bet I could stretch my company budget a helluva lot farther if I didn't have to worry about healthcare, pensions, etc. and had a workforce that would fall for the idea of working for nothing (ironically based on the premise that it will one day help them get a job that doesn't pay nothing).
Yes, which means it's crap. Seriously, American-made cars have been crap for years
Welcome, time-traveler from the 1980's! You'll find that a lot of things have changed here in 2013. We would like to remind you that smoking is prohibited in most public buildings now, and that there is a new invention called the internet that you will need to understand if you wish to stay for any length of time. Please enjoy your stay!
That's nice and all but can we trust our data formats to stay static for that long?
Even if humanity survives a billion years from now, they would be so radically different from us that not only would they not speak the same language, they probably wouldn't even communicate in the same WAY (or maybe even EXIST in the same way). Anything preserved from our era would be an odd novelty to them at best.
And if humanity doesn't survive, then there's going to be no one left to care AT ALL. To think otherwise is hopelessly arrogant.
I'm more concerned about the fact that their content of late seems to be shrinking. I've noticed that a lot of TV series that I had in my queue, that had every season available, are suddenly being cut back to 1 or 2 seasons or just a fraction of the episodes being available. And a lot of movies have been disappearing too.
Looks like their push towards exclusive series and big headlines is starting to take a toll on their mainstay broad content. If they're not careful, they're going to hype their way right out of their traditional core audience. I don't pay $8 a month just for their latest Emmy-nominated series of the moment. And I don't expect to see my queue shrink every day just so they can budget more for Kevin Spacey's hookers and coke fund.
That's fine, there are alternatives.
In most of the U.S., no there aren't. Most of us have one Cable and one DSL option at the most, and the DSL usually sucks.
These guys employ terrorist tactics, and act like they are above any law.
Sure, the NSA is bad, but what was your point about Assange?
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week.
But with Assange throwing a hissyfit over this one, people will start to wonder...
How would you feel if you had started a movement that you truly believed it, only to have some filmmaker come along and try to discredit that movement on the big screen by smearing your personal life with a cartoonish, exaggerated, and sometimes downright fictional portrayal (based on the work of a guy who had betrayed said moment, no less)? I can understand why he might be more than a little pissed at that.
Except WikiLeaks actually published their documents for the world to see, and made it crystal clear by their actions that they were the real deal and not just a honeypot.
Oh, and I should also mention that he tried to set up a leaks site of his own after he left that looked suspiciously like a honeypot operation. Just send your documents and identities to our secretive and closed-source system and trust us to pass it on to the press (yeah, right). Fortunately, it failed, hopefully because no one was stupid enough to trust Daniel Domscheit-Berg.
Being portrayed as a liar...by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
FTFY. Daniel Domscheit-Berg is behind this movie, as he was the book on which it's based. And it's my strong suspicion that Berg was either a CIA or FBI plant at WikiLeaks. He began sabotaging the operation almost from day one, attempted (successfully) to destroy many of its documents, and has actively participated in the concerted effort to discredit Assange ever since he got canned.
I would call him a "traitor," but that would imply that he was ever an actual ally.
I get that they have oil, but come on already.
Don't worry. It's like Matt Damon said in Syriana: someday the oil will run out--and we'll let those backwards sandbillies go right back into lives of goat-herding and camel shit, where they belong.
make it as bad any backwards theocracy.
I'm sorry, I hate bible-thumpers as much as anyone, but that's taking it way too far. If you think the U.S. has ANYTHING like the religious oppression you will find in Saudi Arabia, then you obviously haven't been there. Give me a call when the U.S. has an official, government-sanctioned bible-thumper police force that cuts peoples hands off for stealing, or beats women for leaving their houses. Call me when the U.S. bans all non-Christian places of worship, or starts beheading people for adultery.
I thought Christians believed that Jesus *is* God? Unless God has a serious case of multiple personality disorder, the Bible is definitely a very confusing text. The only reason Christians accept the inconsistencies is because they were raised with interpreters (ministers, priests, etc.) who cobbled it all together into some coherent message. To an outsider, it's just a goddamn mess.
I'm pretty sure that assembly line work isn't going to improve their prospects much. Foxconn may have fed them a line that this is a "show of dedication" that's going to improve their chances of getting hired for management or executive positions, or some such horseshit. But at the end of the day, they've only shown themselves to be desperate slaves. And that's not going to earn them any respect, from Foxconn or anyone else.
In all fairness to Foxconn, these interns did voluntarily enroll in the School of Hard Knocks.
The idea that anything bad could happen is just crazy talk. This is the United States!
Google only goes where the locals have already built the infrastructure. They buy "dark" fiber, but if your city doesn't happen to have any, don't hold your breath.
If they wanted to make it realistic, they should just have the UN pass an unenforceable resolution against you and have the International Court of Justice send you a very nasty letter once a year.
Films should at all times should add scenes which show the consequences of those serious violations.
They already tried that in the U.S. It was called the Hays Code.