The movie theatres may end up losing money on this - they have to give the first several weeks box-office to Lucas, and, judging from the comments on the current slashdot poll, it looks like repeat business isn't going to be there...
Lucas did the impossible - he killed the "Natalie Portman naked pouring hot grits down your pants" option with this movie.
I hear Kraft wants to sue him for devaluing the term "Cheesy".
Maybe it would be better with the sound turned off... I here there's a version making the rounds with Monty Python-type dialog.
I have high hopes for Spaceballs 2... there's LOTS to poke fun at in episodes 1 thru 3.
Well, lets see what the street says over the next few weeks. My bet is that its going to be a repeat of "The Hulk"... another movie Ebert rated at 3-1/2 stars, but that tanked once word-of-mouth got out about how bad it really was.
The critics have been demonstrably wrong so many times in the past...
Titanic: 4 stars SWIII: 3-1/2 stars The Hulk: 3 stars
Seems he just loves big-budget special effects.
Constrast with his rating of Spaceballs - which he says he can't recommend people watch. If Titanic is worth 4 stars, Spaceballs is worth 42.
The star rating system is relative, not absolute. When you ask a friend if Hellboy is any good, you're not asking if it's any good compared to Mystic River, you're asking if it's any good compared to The Punisher.
What a load of horse shit. Also, contradicted by his actions in previous reviews. According to this line of reasoning, you can justify a 10 for any movie on the face of the earth, by comparing it only to crap.
A review that gives a movie 8-1/2 out of 10 better be either superlative entertainment or incredibly informative.
This turkey was neither.
Ebert either intentionally fudged his rating, or was taken in by the whole "wow - special effects" bs. Or, he's just plain incompetent. Methinks he has spent too much time believing his own publicity, same as Lucas.
People are not going to be going back to watch this movie over and over. The franchise peaked with "The Empire Strikes Back".
What a smack-down. Hopefully, as word-of-mouth gets out, the box-office will be hurt enough to give the next George Lucas a shot at his or her 15 minutes of fame. Lucas' is over.
The movie was a turkey. How retarded are the critics anyway?.
Did a quick google, and couldn't find any critics that panned the movie. It's like they all were afraid - "If I pan the movie, people will reviel me" or some other shit. So here is my review, posted earlier today:
That great slurping sound you hear - that's all the emotion being sucked out of a franchise.
This was the WORST Star Wars ever. Half-way through, I was hoping Jar-Jar Binks would show up... now that's pretty bad. The ONLY character played even half-decently was Obi-Wan.
Why this was rated PG is beyond me... probably to generate more hype, because it's TAME, LAME, and PLAIN.
You could tell that Lucas wanted to "tie up" a bunch of threads, make some sort of continuity. Unfortunately, it is SO heavy-handed, that it leaves you with an "okay, that explains that..." rather than an "oh, wow", with insight coming later.
I know we're supposed to suspend belief when watching movies, but the whole storyline of how Anakin turns to the dark side is way beyond belief.
Should have been called "Star Wars 3 - Revenge of the Special Effects", because that's all there was.
If this hadn't been part of the "Star Wars" franchise, it would have gone straight to video, its that bad. There have been rumours of a Star Wars 7-8-9. This movie pretty much killed that idea.
Fuck the reviewers. They're nothing more than shills nowadays. Tell people the movie is crap, you don't get any more "previews", so you're out of a job. Big deal - you're not doing your job if you lie (oh, silly me, lying is part of being a movie shill).
Come off it - SW3 sucks. Lousy acting, poor directing - forced points - you get the sense the whole way through that Lucas is rubbing your nose in the obvious - "Look here - this is how I connect these two events".
It was more like "Star Wars Lite" - definitely less filling. People are only going to see it a second time to go "WTF - I must have missede something - it can't be THAT bad." But it is. It's a bomb. A turkey. It leaves you cold at the end.
wouldn't work - no element of suspense. Everyone knows that a spammer with 3 knives sticking out his back, a noose around his neck, and several bullets with exit wounds in the front is an obvious suicide!
How about they need to physically have the card in their greedy little paws when making a purchase at a store?
Its policy up here - only the person whose name is on the card - no wife, hubby, son, daughter, etc, and the card must be physically present, to make a purchase at a brick-and-mortar.
Education about phishing and spam and viruses, which you and I have, is the only thing that will save people, not these glorified band-aids. The question is, how concerned are you by this? Will you talk to all your friends and family and get them to stop blindly clicking email links? Will you get on a soap box in Manhattan and shout it out to the throngs passing by? Will you campaign on television? Will you buy an ad in the New York Times?
Or will you just complain about it like the rest of us, crowing how you know how to deal with it while nobody else does? =)
Okay, I'm in. Since I've been spending the week doing animated TV spots, how about you bounce a few ideas around my way... I'll see what I can come up with (15 seconds to 1 minute flash "animatoon" (not a spelling mistake - a toon) dealing with the problem, 720 x 486 stage).
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It's probably the same AC that's been going around (under another account) modding some of my other posts -1 for no reason. They can do this all day, it doesn't bother me.
As for programmers giving up their jobs - how much of our day is involved in non-traditional-programmer stuff, anyway? For example, this week I've been making annimated TV ads. Its a break from writing code, and a change is as good as a vacation (or so they say).
I find these guys are also the ones who stay for 2 hours minimum, and order a solitary cup of coffee; while trying to get as many free refills as possible.
Simple solutin:
give the freeloader plenty of refills on his coffee
freeloader gets up to "get rid of all that coffee"
Hey, anyone who still insists on using the net during the weekend can always use their cell-phone to connect... but that would cost $$$.
Providing free access on weekends, resulting in non-paying customers displacing paying customers, was costing the store money in terms of lost sales AND inconveniencing the paying customers.
You are right. Or just turn off the electricity. For a month. This is how the world will end.
You've never lived through a disaster, have you? I remember the ice storm, when much of the province lost electicity for weeks in the dead of winter (some places over a month). The sense of community, of people pulling together, was incredible. Too bad it takes a disaster to do that.
Yes, the freeloaders are a social problem. The acceptable social solution is to kick them out. Loitering is against the law.
Netcraft will identify, contact and liaise with the company responsible for hosting the fraudulent content. Netcraft enjoys excellent relations with the hosting community, and many of the world's largest hosting companies are Netcraft customers. Netcraft can exercise its existing relationships with these companies to provide a swift and smooth response to the detection of the site. If the hosting company is reputable, this may be sufficient to ensure a prompt end to the fraudulent activity.
However, some hosting companies offer fraud hosting as a service whereby they are incentivized to keep the site up as long as possible, and this necessitates more extensive action.
They no doubt will be sought for defacing the websites
... not by the cops, that's for sure. It would be like the crack whore who complained to the cops that she had been ripped off for $20 because some dude sold her a fake rock...
... and not by the ISPs, who are going to make more money by selling the phisher a second, third, or 100th account...
I agree that what they did was justice, and justifiable. If the phishers aren't happy, they're free to "tell it to the judge", but I don't think they'll be in too much of a hurry to do that.
The problem is how are you going to get people to go to your site for their "education"? Send out millions of spam like the phishing sites? Somehow, I think you'd become too much like the evil you're trying to combat... sort of like certain governments in the current millenium.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/22/HNdslgr
The movie theatres may end up losing money on this - they have to give the first several weeks box-office to Lucas, and, judging from the comments on the current slashdot poll, it looks like repeat business isn't going to be there ...
Lucas did the impossible - he killed the "Natalie Portman naked pouring hot grits down your pants" option with this movie.
I hear Kraft wants to sue him for devaluing the term "Cheesy".
Maybe it would be better with the sound turned off ... I here there's a version making the rounds with Monty Python-type dialog.
I have high hopes for Spaceballs 2 ... there's LOTS to poke fun at in episodes 1 thru 3.
Additionally, there was a lot more hype, and a lot of people feel they have to see it because it will fill in the gaps, get closure, whatever.
As I said before, this is one movie people are not going to be watching over and over again.
Well, lets see what the street says over the next few weeks. My bet is that its going to be a repeat of "The Hulk" ... another movie Ebert rated at 3-1/2 stars, but that tanked once word-of-mouth got out about how bad it really was.
This turkey was neither.
Ebert either intentionally fudged his rating, or was taken in by the whole "wow - special effects" bs. Or, he's just plain incompetent. Methinks he has spent too much time believing his own publicity, same as Lucas.
People are not going to be going back to watch this movie over and over. The franchise peaked with "The Empire Strikes Back".
Coming from HP, I was expecting something more along the lines of "All your prints are belong to us."
What a smack-down. Hopefully, as word-of-mouth gets out, the box-office will be hurt enough to give the next George Lucas a shot at his or her 15 minutes of fame. Lucas' is over.
Did a quick google, and couldn't find any critics that panned the movie. It's like they all were afraid - "If I pan the movie, people will reviel me" or some other shit. So here is my review, posted earlier today:
Fuck the reviewers. They're nothing more than shills nowadays. Tell people the movie is crap, you don't get any more "previews", so you're out of a job. Big deal - you're not doing your job if you lie (oh, silly me, lying is part of being a movie shill).Get your merchandise AND a "refund" of the amount you never paid.
It was more like "Star Wars Lite" - definitely less filling. People are only going to see it a second time to go "WTF - I must have missede something - it can't be THAT bad." But it is. It's a bomb. A turkey. It leaves you cold at the end.
wouldn't work - no element of suspense. Everyone knows that a spammer with 3 knives sticking out his back, a noose around his neck, and several bullets with exit wounds in the front is an obvious suicide!
Its policy up here - only the person whose name is on the card - no wife, hubby, son, daughter, etc, and the card must be physically present, to make a purchase at a brick-and-mortar.
As for programmers giving up their jobs - how much of our day is involved in non-traditional-programmer stuff, anyway? For example, this week I've been making annimated TV ads. Its a break from writing code, and a change is as good as a vacation (or so they say).
- give the freeloader plenty of refills on his coffee
- freeloader gets up to "get rid of all that coffee"
- while he's in the can, reformat his hard drive
- ... wait a few minutes
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- seat paying customers
- PROFIT!
simple, permanent solutionProviding free access on weekends, resulting in non-paying customers displacing paying customers, was costing the store money in terms of lost sales AND inconveniencing the paying customers.
Yes, the freeloaders are a social problem. The acceptable social solution is to kick them out. Loitering is against the law.
... and not by the ISPs, who are going to make more money by selling the phisher a second, third, or 100th account ...
I agree that what they did was justice, and justifiable. If the phishers aren't happy, they're free to "tell it to the judge", but I don't think they'll be in too much of a hurry to do that.
The problem is how are you going to get people to go to your site for their "education"? Send out millions of spam like the phishing sites? Somehow, I think you'd become too much like the evil you're trying to combat ... sort of like certain governments in the current millenium.
... or maybe we can just convince the hackers that there's a terrible injustice being done by slashmath?