He is right you know, it is unreasonable of any manager to expect his / her employees to work more than the contractual hours.
I do 37.5 hours a week "programming" and there is no way on this earth you would get me to work longer than that. Unless I am either recompensed for my time, something I am greatly interested in or I broke something.
My contract does say something like I am "supposed to do what hours are nesscarasy to complete the job". The hope, I expect, of such a clause is that they could get me to do stuff for free when needed (like going in weekends). Not a chance:)
Dreamworks SKG, with a bit of Microsoft backing rushed the inferior Antz to market
To be honest out of 5 people that I know have seen both movies, all but one preferred Antz. The reason that one didn't like it was mainly because of Woody Allen.
I have never thought that Antz was rushed. It certainly doesn't look it.
"With Tron, a competitor could create another flick in the same genre, also computer animated, and release shortly before."
Thats a big risk to take. Warners have tried to do disney style movies and they really haven't worked. (Mind you I'm getting feed up with Disney retelling the past through their eyes, its why I am glad that the Muppets are no longer in Disneys control). Animations, computer or otherwise, are expensive enough that its probably to risky to try.
It may be Lucas's film, but there are limits to what people will take.
It might be a case that everyone goes to see TMP and leave thinking well that wasn't worth all the hype (or even "that was pretty useless". Then decide to not bother going to see 2 and 3 when they come out.
Also after TMP leaves the cinema's, depending on how badly stung the theatres are they may decide not to bother taking 2 or 3. A lot of cinema's make extra money off advance ticket sales and they won't like loosing out on that.
You really do have to wonder what Lucas and Fox are up to. To release a movie with all of those rules suggests that they don't have a lot of faith in it. For instance to state that its minimum run will be 8 or 12 weeks. Unless I am mistaken Theaters have to rent the reels for that time period so no matter what Fox/Lucas get their money. Plus of course whatever percentage of profits they have dole over. The sucess of Star Wars originally was, from what I understand, pretty spontainious and that was part of what made it all quite special. This time they are trying to orchastrate it and it is beginning to feel wrong. Rob (yes even at 22 I can't spell:) )
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He is right you know, it is unreasonable of any manager to expect his / her employees to work more than the contractual hours.
I do 37.5 hours a week "programming" and there is no way on this earth you would get me to work longer than that. Unless I am either recompensed for my time, something I am greatly interested in or I broke something.
My contract does say something like I am "supposed to do what hours are nesscarasy to complete the job". The hope, I expect, of such a clause is that they could get me to do stuff for free when needed (like going in weekends). Not a chance
And BTW, at least he wasn't an Anonymous Twat
Rob
Dreamworks SKG, with a bit of Microsoft backing rushed the inferior Antz to market
To be honest out of 5 people that I know have seen both movies, all but one preferred Antz.
The reason that one didn't like it was mainly because of Woody Allen.
I have never thought that Antz was rushed. It certainly doesn't look it.
"With Tron, a competitor could create another flick in the same genre, also computer animated, and release shortly before."
Thats a big risk to take. Warners have tried to do disney style movies and they really haven't worked. (Mind you I'm getting feed up with Disney retelling the past through their eyes, its why I am glad that the Muppets are no longer in Disneys control). Animations, computer or otherwise, are expensive enough that its probably to risky to try.
Rob
It may be Lucas's film, but there are limits to what people will take.
It might be a case that everyone goes to see TMP and leave thinking well that wasn't worth all the hype (or even "that was pretty useless".
Then decide to not bother going to see 2 and 3 when they come out.
Also after TMP leaves the cinema's, depending on how badly stung the theatres are they may decide not to bother taking 2 or 3.
A lot of cinema's make extra money off advance ticket sales and they won't like loosing out on that.
Rob
You really do have to wonder what Lucas and Fox are up to. To release a movie with all of those rules suggests that they don't have a lot of faith in it. For instance to state that its minimum run will be 8 or 12 weeks. Unless I am mistaken Theaters have to rent the reels for that time period so no matter what Fox/Lucas get their money. Plus of course whatever percentage of profits they have dole over. The sucess of Star Wars originally was, from what I understand, pretty spontainious and that was part of what made it all quite special. This time they are trying to orchastrate it and it is beginning to feel wrong. Rob (yes even at 22 I can't spell :) )
Does the book cover any stuff about JDK1.2?
Rob