Personally I think Serenity has one fatal flaw -- the characters receive no development
Aside from the ones who die, have a loved one die, have their entire belief system shatered, gain a lover, loose a lover? Yeah, aside from those, they get NO development at all!
As much as he puts down makers of bubble-gum-space-ship sci-fi for not being true to the genre, his own favourites such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are no more true to the genre.
What makes you say that "Eternal etc etc etc" is not science fiction? What demented, overly restrictive, private little definition of "sci-fi" are you using to get you to that apparently illogical conclusion?
For those who haven't seen it, "Sunshine" is a movie about the effects of a possible, but as-of-yet non-existant technology on people/society. I didn't know it was sci-fi when my friend rented it, but I was pleasently surprised.
The beginning [of "Adaptation"] was a bit slow, but for me the second half of the movie was worth the slow start. I didn't see any of the story turning out the way it did
He plainly described everything that happens in the last part of the movie during his lunch at the beginning.
It kinda pissed me off that he showed me what he said he didn't want the movie to be. If you're gonna show me run-of-the-mill action and car chases, then for the love of kittens and puppies, don't promise me you won't!
Kaufman is an amazing writer. If you haven't seen "Eternal Sunshine", watch it. His other major motion picture "Adaptation" is also excellent, although not sci-fi at all.
I loved "Sunshine", so I rented "Adaptation". Rarely have I been more bored in my life. Horible, horrible movie, full of clichés and cheap gimmicks. So I never saw "Malkovich". Since a movie I hated was sort of a sequel to that one (sortof).
"Adaptation" is nothing more than a writer's masturbation put on film. Figuratively as well as literally (twice, IIRC!).
I did, but I happened to have a few friday nights loose where I could leave the TV on ALL NIGHT waiting for it to come on... at 12:05 (more or less), or 12:15 (not sure, I missed the beginning and only caught it around 12:22). That is, if it played at all. Sometimes it didn't, and then sometimes I go out on friday and some of those were on nights that it did play.
So, it's not that nobody watched it, it's that it was humanly impossible to watch it.
Ideally, freedom is freedom. Socialism (or any of its leftists variants propped up by control freaks) is as far away from freedom as you can get!
Freedom to let people starve. Freedom to raze the environment for short-term profit. Freedom to let people without care when they need it and can't afford it.
Those are the kinds of freedoms that the left want to do away with.
I prefer the clean, art-deco look of Star Trek. I will go see it, however.
Well, the main focus of the movie is on down and dirty people on the fringe, but the universe (and the movie) does contain clean, art-deco futuristic cities/spaceships.
Venom was the creation of the costume/alien that Spider-Man picked up during the Secret Wars which, likely, never happens in Raimi's Spider-Man universe. So keeping faithful to the origin in casting is useless when the origin is going to be altered.
Which would be a valid point if Topher Grace was going to play the symbiote. But as I understand it, he's playing Eddie Brock: A big dude.
Yet Topher is scrawny, skinny...
Meh, I'm still disapointed at the dummed-down web shooters... and the fact that apparently, one of spider man's powers now includes excreting his own costume, since they spent so much screen time in the first movie showing us he can't make a costume that looks like that even if he tries. No matter, this is a "check your brain at the door" franchise, I managed to enjoyed the sequel once I knew that.
I think the distinction needs to be made though that I'm not an abuser of substances
They defined "abuser" as "anyone who uses an illegal substance". By international lawer-fu, there are no users, only abusers.
governments and medical practitioners should seriously look at marijuana law reform. I'm an adult and I should have the right to do what I want provided I don't hurt anyone else in the process
Wouldn't it be nice...
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How much of the design work deals with the technical aspects of a product, as oppposed to the playing itself?
Meaning, do you start with what the machines can do, and design a game to fill those functions, or do you dream up a game and then design it so that it will fit the technical limitations of the machines?
I know the military can be stupid sometimes, but surely not stupid enough to have their trained killer dolphins armed up during an incoming major hurricane?
Since no one would ever attack under the cover of hurricane? It's not like the place is deserted from the evacuation, or that the military personnel is busy running around with sandbags and with crossing-guard duty, or anything.
If you're willing to strap poisoned darts on dolphins, and train them to kill. You're probably willing to do it in any weather. Hell, it's not like they'd only train the killer-dart dolphin attack squad to work on perfect sunny days.
The record companies want prices up because they don't want to die
They won't die with the prices where they are now. So they want prices up because they like money. Nothing fancier than that: They want to charge more simply to have more.
In a non-democratic state, you couldn't even make such accusations without having to fear imprisonment or death.
For the love of all that is good and holy, will you PLEASE stop confusing concepts like that. "Democratic" is not the anti-thesis of "opressive", etc. It is for the purposes of proganda, but dammit, stop.
Not to mention the complete illogical nature of your statement "In a non-democratic state you couldn't even make the accusation that the state is not democratic". Come on!
If people didn't go all wide-eyed and emotional everytime a politician says "freedom" t them, then you might be able to actually have a functionning democracy, and not a bunch of sheep voting for who they're told to vote.
paperless voting machines being run by a loyalist to the incumbant party and not have the opposition do anything about it - IS RIDICULOUS!
Well, it's not like there's much more than a cosmetic difference between thse two parties anyway. Might as well flip a coin to decide which of the two Yale alumni you get as temporary king for the next four years.
There's something rotten to the core of the entire system. But, it's America: Love it or leave it. There's no "love it and make it better", you take it as is, or you go away, you sure don't change anything. Nah-huh.
Apparently you've never seen the the Chapelle Show. Many of the skits he does where race is involved could be deemed as "promoting feelings of ill-will and hostility between races."
Well, I saw a "best of". There was the blind-black-white-supremacist. That was funny. Not particularly inflamatory... Made fun of racism, in fact.
Noses???
The guy next to me was picking his nose. Seemed like a nice non-specific trait to use as an example.
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Personally I think Serenity has one fatal flaw -- the characters receive no development
Aside from the ones who die, have a loved one die, have their entire belief system shatered, gain a lover, loose a lover? Yeah, aside from those, they get NO development at all!
As much as he puts down makers of bubble-gum-space-ship sci-fi for not being true to the genre, his own favourites such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are no more true to the genre.
What makes you say that "Eternal etc etc etc" is not science fiction? What demented, overly restrictive, private little definition of "sci-fi" are you using to get you to that apparently illogical conclusion?
For those who haven't seen it, "Sunshine" is a movie about the effects of a possible, but as-of-yet non-existant technology on people/society. I didn't know it was sci-fi when my friend rented it, but I was pleasently surprised.
Alien costumes were
One of your crack-induced hallucinations.
The beginning [of "Adaptation"] was a bit slow, but for me the second half of the movie was worth the slow start. I didn't see any of the story turning out the way it did
He plainly described everything that happens in the last part of the movie during his lunch at the beginning.
It kinda pissed me off that he showed me what he said he didn't want the movie to be.
If you're gonna show me run-of-the-mill action and car chases, then for the love of kittens and puppies, don't promise me you won't!
Kaufman is an amazing writer. If you haven't seen "Eternal Sunshine", watch it. His other major motion picture "Adaptation" is also excellent, although not sci-fi at all.
I loved "Sunshine", so I rented "Adaptation".
Rarely have I been more bored in my life. Horible, horrible movie, full of clichés and cheap gimmicks.
So I never saw "Malkovich". Since a movie I hated was sort of a sequel to that one (sortof).
"Adaptation" is nothing more than a writer's masturbation put on film. Figuratively as well as literally (twice, IIRC!).
nobody watched the show.
I did, but I happened to have a few friday nights loose where I could leave the TV on ALL NIGHT waiting for it to come on... at 12:05 (more or less), or 12:15 (not sure, I missed the beginning and only caught it around 12:22). That is, if it played at all. Sometimes it didn't, and then sometimes I go out on friday and some of those were on nights that it did play.
So, it's not that nobody watched it, it's that it was humanly impossible to watch it.
If i remember correctly, the reavers have only been around for about 12 years at the time of the movie and there were about 3000 of them at the start.
30 000 by my count: One tenth of a percent of 30 million people.
Flamebait? Someone's on crack...
And after dozens of years, they have proven they cannot do it without creating a bigger more corruptible government.
Not bad, compared to thousands of years of cruelty and inaction before that.
Will I still enjoy Serenity if I've never seen Firefly?
Sure, if you like sci-fi action movies.
If you don't, then maybe not : )
Ideally, freedom is freedom. Socialism (or any of its leftists variants propped up by control freaks) is as far away from freedom as you can get!
Freedom to let people starve.
Freedom to raze the environment for short-term profit.
Freedom to let people without care when they need it and can't afford it.
Those are the kinds of freedoms that the left want to do away with.
I prefer the clean, art-deco look of Star Trek.
I will go see it, however.
Well, the main focus of the movie is on down and dirty people on the fringe, but the universe (and the movie) does contain clean, art-deco futuristic cities/spaceships.
the alien costume could be an entire series of movies on its own.
New Line almost made a crappy stand-alone Venom movie.
Fortunatly, it's not to be. That will save us from another "Steel".
Venom was the creation of the costume/alien that Spider-Man picked up during the Secret Wars which, likely, never happens in Raimi's Spider-Man universe. So keeping faithful to the origin in casting is useless when the origin is going to be altered.
Which would be a valid point if Topher Grace was going to play the symbiote.
But as I understand it, he's playing Eddie Brock: A big dude.
Yet Topher is scrawny, skinny...
Meh, I'm still disapointed at the dummed-down web shooters... and the fact that apparently, one of spider man's powers now includes excreting his own costume, since they spent so much screen time in the first movie showing us he can't make a costume that looks like that even if he tries. No matter, this is a "check your brain at the door" franchise, I managed to enjoyed the sequel once I knew that.
I think the distinction needs to be made though that I'm not an abuser of substances
They defined "abuser" as "anyone who uses an illegal substance". By international lawer-fu, there are no users, only abusers.
governments and medical practitioners should seriously look at marijuana law reform. I'm an adult and I should have the right to do what I want provided I don't hurt anyone else in the process
Wouldn't it be nice...
How much of the design work deals with the technical aspects of a product, as oppposed to the playing itself?
Meaning, do you start with what the machines can do, and design a game to fill those functions, or do you dream up a game and then design it so that it will fit the technical limitations of the machines?
I know the military can be stupid sometimes, but surely not stupid enough to have their trained killer dolphins armed up during an incoming major hurricane?
Since no one would ever attack under the cover of hurricane?
It's not like the place is deserted from the evacuation, or that the military personnel is busy running around with sandbags and with crossing-guard duty, or anything.
If you're willing to strap poisoned darts on dolphins, and train them to kill. You're probably willing to do it in any weather. Hell, it's not like they'd only train the killer-dart dolphin attack squad to work on perfect sunny days.
The record companies want prices up because they don't want to die
They won't die with the prices where they are now.
So they want prices up because they like money. Nothing fancier than that: They want to charge more simply to have more.
In a non-democratic state, you couldn't even make such accusations without having to fear imprisonment or death.
For the love of all that is good and holy, will you PLEASE stop confusing concepts like that. "Democratic" is not the anti-thesis of "opressive", etc. It is for the purposes of proganda, but dammit, stop.
Not to mention the complete illogical nature of your statement "In a non-democratic state you couldn't even make the accusation that the state is not democratic". Come on!
If people didn't go all wide-eyed and emotional everytime a politician says "freedom" t them, then you might be able to actually have a functionning democracy, and not a bunch of sheep voting for who they're told to vote.
paperless voting machines being run by a loyalist to the incumbant party and not have the opposition do anything about it - IS RIDICULOUS!
Well, it's not like there's much more than a cosmetic difference between thse two parties anyway. Might as well flip a coin to decide which of the two Yale alumni you get as temporary king for the next four years.
There's something rotten to the core of the entire system. But, it's America: Love it or leave it.
There's no "love it and make it better", you take it as is, or you go away, you sure don't change anything. Nah-huh.
You think mormons are a race? WOW that's dumb!
Why does a new tab behave differently than a new window?
Because tabs != windows.
was configurable in Mozilla but was intentionally taken out in Firefox.
Dunno why, I do like configurable everything. Might have been an easy bug fix.
makes no sense.
As opposed to having google as your start page? There's a google field right up there on the right, you know...
they shouldn't be shortcomings in the first place
Well, the "blank tabs" one isn't a flaw at all. So we're part of the way there : )
This story is about 25 years too late.
;-)
Too late? It's a record! 25 years between dupes? They'll never top that!
Apparently you've never seen the the Chapelle Show. Many of the skits he does where race is involved could be deemed as "promoting feelings of ill-will and hostility between races."
Well, I saw a "best of". There was the blind-black-white-supremacist. That was funny. Not particularly inflamatory... Made fun of racism, in fact.
Noses???
The guy next to me was picking his nose. Seemed like a nice non-specific trait to use as an example.