you know with DNA doing the script before he died and them not changing a thing about it since then and all.
10 September 2004 - Roger Birnbaum: Co-Chairman and CEO of Spyglass Films
We worked with Douglas for a while in trying to get the script to a place where everyone was satisfied. I remember admiring Douglas' loyalty toward the fans and his total dedication to writing a movie that would live up to their expectations. It was tragic and heartbreaking when Douglas suddenly died. The movie came to an immediate standstill.
It was well over a year after his passing that Douglas' widow, Jane Adams, encouraged us to move forward with the film as Douglas undoubtedly would have wanted. Karey Kirkpatrick, who had written the hugely successful "Chicken Run", was hired to complete the work Douglas had started on a film adaption of the book.
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when did Ford's thumb become a magic hitchhiking device?!?
Someone down below posted a link to an illegal higher res of the same trailer, and on the bigger, less compressed (fuck you Amazon) trailer you can see that Ford is wearing some sort of thumb-ring device that is the source of the illumination which you refer to as magical in origin.
Zaphod I think is gonna kill me.
When I first saw pictures of Zaphod a couple weeks ago, I was exrtremely annoyed that he had just the one head and two arms. But in the afformentioned higher-res trailer, you can not only see the third arm that was hidden by his presidential robes, but it appears that his second head is under the primary head, and is shown to express a will of it's own and controlls the third arm to engage what I assume is the Infinate Improbability Drive.
You should read the rather funny self-interview conducted by the guy who wrote the final screenplay.
Sigh, what makes you think I didn't?
Is there some stuff in the script that wasn't written by Douglas Adams himself? Definitely. Did they likely cut out stuff Adams would have kept? Probably. Did they put back in stuff that Adams had cut? Definitely.
I am somewhat irked by the constant modding up to +5 of the highly inacurrate statement to which I replied which erroneously advances the notion that the script was written by Adams and that everything in the movie had his approval: It's a lie.
You know it, I know it, I just wish the moderators knew it.
10 September 2004 - Roger Birnbaum: Co-Chairman and CEO of Spyglass Films
We worked with Douglas for a while in trying to get the script to a place where everyone was satisfied. I remember admiring Douglas' loyalty toward the fans and his total dedication to writing a movie that would live up to their expectations. It was tragic and heartbreaking when Douglas suddenly died. The movie came to an immediate standstill.
It was well over a year after his passing that Douglas' widow, Jane Adams, encouraged us to move forward with the film as Douglas undoubtedly would have wanted. Karey Kirkpatrick, who had written the hugely successful "Chicken Run", was hired to complete the work Douglas had started on a film adaption of the book.
Adams could never get the studios to agree to have Zaphod with the two heads all the time, but since the second head is a vital part of the story, they...er... found some kind of lame-ass work around so that there's a part-time second head. AICN has a rumour that the second head is in his nostril... but for a sec there in the trailer it looks like he's doing a weird, action-figure-like head flip, like, maybe the second head is in his chest and he can flip to have one or the other on top of the shoulders... then again, he might just be downing a pan galactic gargle blaster, hard to tell, really.
You mean the Disney that closed down it's traditional animation studio? Disney has degenerated into a nightmare of suits and execs. I tell you: it's run by Vogons.
Adams himself wrote the screenplay. [..] Everything in the movie has Adams' sanction,
NO HE DIDN'T! NO IT DOESN'T!
Every fucking/. article about this movie has one of you out-of-the-loop guys repeating this and getting modded up.
He wrote A screenplay, not this screenplay. He wrote what HE considered the final draft. And then, he died. He had been fighting the studio for years to have a screenplay that he liked, and he managed to finally write one that had compromises from both parties, then, he died. And THEN the studio had "changes" made. We can't know what those are, but wanna bet that their compromises suddenly went away?
I'm so fucking tired of seeing your delusion about this being his words modded up. I used to reply with links to the statements of the parties invilved detailing the chronology of the rewrites, but my rebuttals went unnoticed and your wishfull thinking stays modded up. Shit!
It is actually the USA PATRIOT Act, which is an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
Wow, what an incredibly fortunate coincidence!
Imagine, had they wanted to Prevent terrorism instead of Obstructing it, the bill wouldn't have sounded nearly as neat;-)
I am hardly a tin foil hat wearing type [...] As an aside: gawd, I hate their use of "patriot" that way, does anybody know the etymology of the word "patriot" with respect to this legislation? Whose idea was it to use "patriot" and why?
It's neurolinguistics/marketing/propaganda.
It's an adjective that makes it impossible to be against the act. Anyone who opposes the patriot act is ipso facto anti-patriotic, therefore no one will openly oppose it, and if they dare do it, it will be easy to obfuscate their objections by simply resorting to questionning their patriotism.
It's very effective, and the Bush administration uses this tactic regularly. Patriot Act, Operation Iraqi Freedom, No Child Left Behid. All of these are named not to describe what they are, but to be impossible to oppose.
You are against freedom!!?!???
You want to abandon children???!!!? You AREN'T patriotic?!!!
You want to know where they learned that trick? Google for "operation paperclip", I'm sorry to bring this up, because a certain mr. Godwin has made it impossible to be taken seriously when mentioning this, but you asked, so there's your depressing awnser. The scientists that were assigned to the Jet Propulsion laboratories achieved spectacular results, the ones assigned to lesser advertised programs were no less competant.
Security isn't a feature, it's expected. To steal someone else's example, you wouldn't buy a toaster that says "Now blows up less often!"
At my parent's house we had a toaster/grill thingy that set fire to the counter a few times, we kept using it, carefully, until the company recalled the product as a fire hazard and sent us a replacement.
So, er, I think the moral is "custommers sometimes like to play with fire"... literally.
DVD playing was free on the launch PS2s in Japan, too. In fact, that's really the reason it did so well initially (being the cheapest DVD player around - though you definitely got what you paid for). For the first few months of its existence the PS2 actually had more consoles sold than games - Japanese people were using them as DVD players. So what extra built-in features are you referring to exactly?
I'm referring to the fact that to unlock the DVD player in the first shipped version of the PS2 in japan you had to pay about 30 U.S. dollars to get a disc which saved a special file on your memory card that unlocked DVD playback.
This is all ignoring that the hard drive (no memory cards!) and built-in ethernet on the Xbox
My hands are large. Microsoft's original Xbox controller is the ONLY console controller that properly accomodates the size of my hands. It was reasonable that they should start selling a smaller controller, but I had to run out and get some used ones so I could have controllers that were the right size for me.
I really don't know why they can't just sell both.
This is done with a button? I have only played a bit of MGS, but it seems like all of these actions would be done with a stick. At least I would want them done that way, but my aversion to analog buttons has already been noted.
You are underestimating the amount of things that can be done in that game. The sticks are busy : )
But gameplay-wise, Rez is just a simple on-rails shooter, and its delayed targeting system is IMHO even a step backwards from traditional instant shooting.
That's... an oversimplification, at best.
The gameplay includes the enemies, how they come, where they come, the timing, the flow, etc, etc, etc.
It's not something that can be summed up in a single sentence.
The only thing I have a problem with on the analog PS controllers is the screw-holes can irritate my skin after prolonged use, which are not as much a desing flaw as a limitation of manufacturing technology.
My hands are a bit longer than what they were aiming for, but it's just a question on pressing on the L and R buttons with the inside of my fingers instead of the tips. Aside from that: Great comfort, great button placement, amount and sensibility, and round edges so you don't get controller-sores (aside from the screw holes).
I saw some guy from Disney talking about the potential for a sequel for some Pixar movie, and he said "we think there's a tremendous amount of value in the franchise, and we are hopeful that the value will be able to be produced as a film and brought to the marketplace. We'd really like for Pixar to be a part of that effort, but if not then..."
I wonder if he's ever even seen a movie.
Hehe, there's a rumour that Disney can't get a big name director for their Pixar-less Toy Story 3 because all the competant animators are affraid they'll be blackballed from Pixar (the new leader in animation) if they do it : )
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you know with DNA doing the script before he died and them not changing a thing about it since then and all.
10 September 2004 - Roger Birnbaum: Co-Chairman and CEO of Spyglass Films
We worked with Douglas for a while in trying to get the script to a place where everyone was satisfied. I remember admiring Douglas' loyalty toward the fans and his total dedication to writing a movie that would live up to their expectations. It was tragic and heartbreaking when Douglas suddenly died. The movie came to an immediate standstill.
It was well over a year after his passing that Douglas' widow, Jane Adams, encouraged us to move forward with the film as Douglas undoubtedly would have wanted. Karey Kirkpatrick, who had written the hugely successful "Chicken Run", was hired to complete the work Douglas had started on a film adaption of the book.
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Internet troll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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when did Ford's thumb become a magic hitchhiking device?!?
Someone down below posted a link to an illegal higher res of the same trailer, and on the bigger, less compressed (fuck you Amazon) trailer you can see that Ford is wearing some sort of thumb-ring device that is the source of the illumination which you refer to as magical in origin.
Zaphod I think is gonna kill me.
When I first saw pictures of Zaphod a couple weeks ago, I was exrtremely annoyed that he had just the one head and two arms. But in the afformentioned higher-res trailer, you can not only see the third arm that was hidden by his presidential robes, but it appears that his second head is under the primary head, and is shown to express a will of it's own and controlls the third arm to engage what I assume is the Infinate Improbability Drive.
You should read the rather funny self-interview conducted by the guy who wrote the final screenplay.
Sigh, what makes you think I didn't?
Is there some stuff in the script that wasn't written by Douglas Adams himself? Definitely. Did they likely cut out stuff Adams would have kept? Probably. Did they put back in stuff that Adams had cut? Definitely.
I am somewhat irked by the constant modding up to +5 of the highly inacurrate statement to which I replied which erroneously advances the notion that the script was written by Adams and that everything in the movie had his approval: It's a lie.
You know it, I know it, I just wish the moderators knew it.
For the zillionth time, no:
Fuck, that wasn't a troll, you 'tards, that was informative: THIS SCREENPLAY IS NOT ADAM'S FINAL SCREENPLAY.
It's BASED on Adam's final screeplay. That, apparently, is a concept far beyond the understanding of today's moderators.
I don't want you idiots to waste mod points on MY post, I want you incompetant hacks to mod down the lyong grand parent post.
Sheesh!
Was it just me, or did the Vogons look like something out of Farscape?
It's not just you: same SFX company.
Where the hell is Zaphod's second head????
Adams could never get the studios to agree to have Zaphod with the two heads all the time, but since the second head is a vital part of the story, they...er... found some kind of lame-ass work around so that there's a part-time second head. AICN has a rumour that the second head is in his nostril... but for a sec there in the trailer it looks like he's doing a weird, action-figure-like head flip, like, maybe the second head is in his chest and he can flip to have one or the other on top of the shoulders... then again, he might just be downing a pan galactic gargle blaster, hard to tell, really.
Disney should know this by now.
You mean the Disney that closed down it's traditional animation studio? Disney has degenerated into a nightmare of suits and execs. I tell you: it's run by Vogons.
Adams himself wrote the screenplay. [..]
/. article about this movie has one of you out-of-the-loop guys repeating this and getting modded up.
Everything in the movie has Adams' sanction,
NO HE DIDN'T! NO IT DOESN'T!
Every fucking
He wrote A screenplay, not this screenplay. He wrote what HE considered the final draft. And then, he died.
He had been fighting the studio for years to have a screenplay that he liked, and he managed to finally write one that had compromises from both parties, then, he died. And THEN the studio had "changes" made. We can't know what those are, but wanna bet that their compromises suddenly went away?
I'm so fucking tired of seeing your delusion about this being his words modded up. I used to reply with links to the statements of the parties invilved detailing the chronology of the rewrites, but my rebuttals went unnoticed and your wishfull thinking stays modded up. Shit!
Why not just read the mileage once a year when you get your car inspected and base the taxes off that?
Because they prefer to have you bend over for them.
It is actually the USA PATRIOT Act, which is an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
;-)
Wow, what an incredibly fortunate coincidence!
Imagine, had they wanted to Prevent terrorism instead of Obstructing it, the bill wouldn't have sounded nearly as neat
As an aside: gawd, I hate their use of "patriot" that way, does anybody know the etymology of the word "patriot" with respect to this legislation? Whose idea was it to use "patriot" and why?
It's neurolinguistics/marketing/propaganda.
It's an adjective that makes it impossible to be against the act. Anyone who opposes the patriot act is ipso facto anti-patriotic, therefore no one will openly oppose it, and if they dare do it, it will be easy to obfuscate their objections by simply resorting to questionning their patriotism.
It's very effective, and the Bush administration uses this tactic regularly. Patriot Act, Operation Iraqi Freedom, No Child Left Behid. All of these are named not to describe what they are, but to be impossible to oppose.
You want to know where they learned that trick? Google for "operation paperclip", I'm sorry to bring this up, because a certain mr. Godwin has made it impossible to be taken seriously when mentioning this, but you asked, so there's your depressing awnser.
The scientists that were assigned to the Jet Propulsion laboratories achieved spectacular results, the ones assigned to lesser advertised programs were no less competant.
Security isn't a feature, it's expected. To steal someone else's example, you wouldn't buy a toaster that says "Now blows up less often!"
At my parent's house we had a toaster/grill thingy that set fire to the counter a few times, we kept using it, carefully, until the company recalled the product as a fire hazard and sent us a replacement.
So, er, I think the moral is "custommers sometimes like to play with fire"... literally.
It is quite rare that a company releases a product that is so perfect that they do not need to create a new version.
Worse than that: It is quite common that a company will make an insignificant change to a product just so they can call it "new and improved".
We should keep that in mind.
There's a difference between "drops support" and "sets that option to 'off' by default", you know.
DVD playing was free on the launch PS2s in Japan, too. In fact, that's really the reason it did so well initially (being the cheapest DVD player around - though you definitely got what you paid for). For the first few months of its existence the PS2 actually had more consoles sold than games - Japanese people were using them as DVD players. So what extra built-in features are you referring to exactly?
I'm referring to the fact that to unlock the DVD player in the first shipped version of the PS2 in japan you had to pay about 30 U.S. dollars to get a disc which saved a special file on your memory card that unlocked DVD playback.
This is all ignoring that the hard drive (no memory cards!) and built-in ethernet on the Xbox
Fan boy.
My hands are large. Microsoft's original Xbox controller is the ONLY console controller that properly accomodates the size of my hands. It was reasonable that they should start selling a smaller controller, but I had to run out and get some used ones so I could have controllers that were the right size for me.
I really don't know why they can't just sell both.
DTS multi-channel sound is available to developers in all parts of games [...] it's handled in software instead of dedicated hardware
Izzat so?
Ah, well, er... allrighty then.
This is done with a button? I have only played a bit of MGS, but it seems like all of these actions would be done with a stick. At least I would want them done that way, but my aversion to analog buttons has already been noted.
You are underestimating the amount of things that can be done in that game.
The sticks are busy : )
The original controller was fine.
That would be why it was lambasted worldwide and eventually phased out then?
But gameplay-wise, Rez is just a simple on-rails shooter, and its delayed targeting system is IMHO even a step backwards from traditional instant shooting.
That's... an oversimplification, at best.
The gameplay includes the enemies, how they come, where they come, the timing, the flow, etc, etc, etc.
It's not something that can be summed up in a single sentence.
So why did the Dreamcast fail?
I think that the speed and ease with which their DRM was bypassed was a big part of it...
The only thing I have a problem with on the analog PS controllers is the screw-holes can irritate my skin after prolonged use, which are not as much a desing flaw as a limitation of manufacturing technology.
My hands are a bit longer than what they were aiming for, but it's just a question on pressing on the L and R buttons with the inside of my fingers instead of the tips. Aside from that: Great comfort, great button placement, amount and sensibility, and round edges so you don't get controller-sores (aside from the screw holes).
P.S. "Screw hole" jokes in 3... 2... 1...
I saw some guy from Disney talking about the potential for a sequel for some Pixar movie, and he said "we think there's a tremendous amount of value in the franchise, and we are hopeful that the value will be able to be produced as a film and brought to the marketplace. We'd really like for Pixar to be a part of that effort, but if not then..."
I wonder if he's ever even seen a movie.
Hehe, there's a rumour that Disney can't get a big name director for their Pixar-less Toy Story 3 because all the competant animators are affraid they'll be blackballed from Pixar (the new leader in animation) if they do it : )
Suck it, Eisner!