Could they also remove the friggin' un-skippable sections on DVDs? I have all 4 seasons of Futurama
Lucky you, I'm in region 1, I got only the first 2 box sets (the only ones released as far as I know).
I have a question for you: Do you have the episode with the Garbage Comet and the first Flying Brain episode? I don't have them, I'm wondering why, and I'm pissed off.
I know they are part of those seasons I have because there are episodes that refer back to those, but they aren't in the boxed sets! Fox screwed me over, again.;- (
if I buy a non hollywood movie in another region. If it uses region coding, I can't play it at home. Say if a European buys BOTH their DVD player and some discs here and take it back with them. They can buy new discs that work in thier country.
That's the whole point. You have to buy it again, from hollywood, after they secure the exclusive rights.
You have to give them money over and over again. And again.
Far be it from me to defend the DVD producers here, but it depends.. R1 DVDs only need to carry English audio,
I allways check to make sure that the movies I buy (canada, region one) have the French track included. I prefer when they have English, French and Spanish, the 3 most spoken languages of the DVD region 1.
The producers will want the R1 disc out ASAP, following up with the R2/other regions as the translations are done.
They release movies in canadian theatres in French at the same time as the original english versions, there is NO reason to not include the track on the damn DVD.
Even if spammers follow the law, you'd have to opt-out for every "company" [that] spams you.
Well, at least no spammer would ever ruin their great brand recognition and close down shop only to open up again under a new name every couple weeks...
How could anyone complain about my new (patented) Hugs And Kisses greeting? Of course, its actually punching you in the face and dropping a brick on your foot, buts its called "hugs and kisses", so how could anyone complain about that?
Internet troll From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
On the Internet, a troll is a person who posts messages that create controversy or an angry response without adding content to the discussion, often intentionally. Though technically different from flaming, which is an unmistakable direct personal attack, trolls often resort to innuendo or misdirection in the pursuit of their objective, which is to create controversy for its own sake, discredit those with whom they disagree, or sabotage discussion by creating an intimidating atmosphere.
Plug in the karma into your local network and it becomes a driverless mp3 server. You can copy to and from using any computer on the network.. geek appeal aside, this is handy on a college network.
Well, seeing how Apple was cozeying up to the MPAA so they would deign in their great wisdom to let them sell tunes off the net the way people want 'em, I can see why its not in there.
Nice to know that people have the balls to make that shit though. Wonder how long it will take before the Cease&Desist OR DIE letters start pouring in...
hell, what about MJ's answering machine? Peter and Green Goblin have a discussion that's being recorded, and everything MJ needs to get a clue is discussed.
Well, I totally bought that: MJ is an hairhead who can't put 2 and 2 together.;- )
"Gee, Spiderman, you have the same arrested-development sounding voice as my friend Peter Parker."
I guess that's why superheroes never mingle with people who can do voice figerprint analysis...
Now, I know this post might sound like nit-picking, but so was your original post.
I like nit picking.
here's more:
Again, like some other poster said, watch the trailer.
They've had years to rethink their mistakes, so the second one doesn't redeem the first.
But I'll watch for that Goblin glider dodging you mentioned, might be something there I missed. I was loosing interest by that time, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention : )
Bullet time 'spider sense - I think that's more showing how his reaction time has sped up - he has the speed and strength of a spider - which is a completely separate power best shown in bullet time, even if the two are often used in conjunction.
Could be...
I'm due for a rewach, I'll keep that in mind when I do. Might help make me appreciate it more : )
The muscles and the mirror scene - any teenager who works out spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the mirror. A newly buffed teen would spend exponentially longer.
Narcissism...valid motivation. I buy that: Still cheap and exploitative, but internally consistent. Makes it tolerable.
I didn't mind this. To me it makes more sense anyway...he "organically" sticks to the wall, so why not organically shoot webs.
I think its equally nonsensical.
I also think it takes something away from Peter Parker. He was a genius in the comic books, someone who would have achieved greatness with or without radioactive spider bites.
Now he's just a normal kid given magic powers. It makes the masses idetify more easily, but it takes something away, something I liked.
now he can just run down the alley and rip his clothes off and he's Spiderman...no need to stop, attach web shooters
Actually, he does still have "aiming" web shooters, they "regulate" the web or something...bottom line: he gotta attach them anyways.
My wondering is the promoter saw what Parker could do...wouldn't he be a bit more concerned about trying to rip him off as he could "tear him apart".
Note to drunken moderators: I wasn't trolling, he is. But they're drunk, so here goes:
Let me see if I have this straight.
You didn't, here's the many ways how...
1) The movie used a storytelling effect that differed from your interpretation of the comic book.
If by "interpretation" you mean he fucking explains it that way, yeah, I guess you could say "interpretation".
2) 4 seconds of seeing a guy's muscles made you uncomfortable, and you didn't like seeing Dunst in a wet shirt.
I clearly said it was the cheap exploitative way it was done, not the showing, that I hated. I distinctly remember mentioning how The Transporter did it right.
And technically, I think it might have been illegal for me to enjoy Kristen's Dunst wet t-shirt scene...how old was she at that time? I still remember her as that lil' girl in Interview With The Vampire, and she's not my type.
Now, had it been Salma Hayek in a wet t-shirt, that's a different story.
3) You disagree with the one thing that the movie did to really improve on the credibility of the story (web-shooters; what the hell, that was the stupidest part of the comic book, like a teenage kid is going to make those on his own)
Yeah, getting bitten by a funky spider makes hir arms secrete and excrete at great force a substance with unheard of physical propreties. That makes it more realistic, yeaaaaaah...
And He Still Made Web Shooters.
that was the stupidest part of the comic book
Yeah, getting bitten by a rioactive spider makes you super human instead of giving you cancer, less realistic than genius kid invents super adhesive. Ooooooookaaaaaay....
but your suspension of disbelief hinges on the credibility of the supposed actions or inactions of a bit character in an introductory subplot.
Yes. I went to see a superhero movie, my suspension of disbelief wasn't going to be about physics or biology. But wether or not Peter Parker defies the laws of physics and biology, people are still people. And greedy resentfull people do not pass up on 10 000 000 dollars when all they need to do to get that money is to screw over someone you allready hate.
Not only does 1) make it clear that someone has funnelled the Saharah into your vagina,
Real classy.
2) make us question your sexuality
I'm the one who didn't enjoy the scene showing the naked, muscled body of a teenage boy. You, on the other hand...
you missed my biggest beef of the film. The fact that he now creates the web material through his body instead of him creating his web shooters and the web stuff.
Why am I supposed to care about built-in ethernet (not sarcasm, honest question).
No copying restrictions? None? Hmmm... Well, on the one hand, the iPod has the strict minimum in terms of copying restrictions...but its still there, so yeah, score one for that gizmo.
Much cheaper? You get what you pay for. The iPod is solid quality all the way through. It is really impressive in its elegance and overall design qualities. The interface, the integration with iTunes...its hard to describe in a point-by-point way why the iPod is so great. No one can tell you why the iPod rocks, you have to see it for yourself.
you forgot one important detail: they did the "death of gwen stacy" story, except they removed both death and gwen stacy.
Yeah, that too.
Although merging 2 characters into one is a classic movie-adaptation thing. You have this limited amount of time and if 2 characters are similar enough ("the girlfriend"), then you cut one out and give its attributes to the other. But that bugged me too.
And his webbing was way too strong (it holds him, Gwe..er..Mary Jane, a 'cab' with around 20 people in it, while the Goblin whacks him around...lil' bit too much there). But that's an action movie finale, so they have to overdo it, its expected, so I can forgive that one. I mean, its a superhero movie, we're not there for the realism.
Removing a death...yeah...cheap. Not only that, but on TOP of saving Mary Gwen he ALSO saves 20 other people at the same time. It made me feel like they were saying "the spider man you know and love sucks ass, here's a better one, he can save EVERYBODY", lessening the whole "its hard being a hero" thing.
Actually, that's not true. If you don't feeling like rewatching the original movie, just watch this trailer. The spider-sense is definately still there as a subconscious feeling/reflex.
Tell you what, when I have the time, I'll do both.
I saw it twice at the theatre (I told myself I must have been in a bad mood that first day, but alas, the second viewing only reaffirmed my annoyances), and have not seen it again since. But I did like the web slinging, so I'll have something to like if I see it again.
So, from ememory, in the first one the spider sense was just bullet time. Here's what I remember from the school fight spider-sense (the first spider-sense scene IIRC):
Flash takes a swing at him. Peter looks at the fist coming in slow mo, doges it with this little nonchalant look, and then grins happily at what he can do now. Looks to flash again, and er...end bullet time I think.
Then Flash's thug friend attacks Peter from behind, he deliberatly chooses to do some acrobatics, yadiyadiyada...I don't remember him acting purely on instinct at any point. It might just be fuzzy memory, but he was in control the whole time, and chose to let his body do the things it can do. As opposed to the comic where he unwittingly doges pillow-atacks from his wife (who is then insulted that he sees her and her pillow as a threat worthy of summer-saulting to the sealing).
I don't remeber him getting a vague feeling of danger from objects or situations either, then again it was just one movie and they have other things to do than spend half an hour showing us the many ways in wich the spider-sense works, so that's ok.
It bugged me the whole time. It was a distraction for the rest of the movie. Its bad storytelling, and yes, I am a nitpicker, yes, I do have a hard time finding good movies.
It wasn't bad, it was a "good" movie, but as a geek, it disapointed me on many levels.
I liked the original spider-sense better than the bullet-time spider sense. It used to be a subconcious thing, a feeling, an urge, a reflex. Now its just his conciousness speeding up, I find that less interresting and much more mundane.
The gratuitous "he takes off his shirt and shows off his muscles" scene. Sure, the ladies loved it, but come ON, that was, as I said, gratuitous. I don't mind taking off the shirt to show off the muscles to the ladies if its got a motivation (like in the movie the Transporter, where it does it twice, and he's got a good reason to do it both time, like he fell in water and he takes it off to dry it, etc).
Ditto the wet t-shirt scene, though its a teenager flick, so you NEED a wet t-shirt scene, its like a law or something.
The organic web-shooters. Takes so much away from the character, and its stolen from a different Marvel character (Spider Man 2099, diff character, really, honest, I know they are named the same, but really...). Now Peter is no longer a genius, he can no longer mix special batches of his web fluid, and his web fluid is no longer a drain on his budget.
Where did he get that fancy suit? They spent a good 5 minutes showing us that he CANNOT make a good suit. He draws it (why can everybody in movies draw like that?), tries to make it, and fails. Then, he looks at the drawing again, and he magically has the suit. What, there's a suit-tree in his backyard? The spiderbite gave him the power to excrete suits? What? Sigh...
And the number one thing that bugged me the entire time:
The wrestling promoter did not claim the 10 million dollar reward that was offered by the Daily Bugle.
When Peter registers for the fight, they ask for his name, home adress, and insurance information. He then pissses off the promoter who is clearly driven by the pursuit of money first and foremost.
Then there's a reward offered very publicly and the guy who 1)Hates Spider Man, 2)Know his real name, home adress, and has his insurance information, and 3) loves money DOESN'T claim the prize? What the HELL?
Ruined the whole movie for me. They should have either not have shown us that he gives him all this info or not have the reward. Having the 2 and not following up on that is bad storytelling.
And since I'm not using OSX and I won't be using iTunes and its DRM' format
Man this seems hard to understand: iTunes != iTunes Music Store.
iTunes plays MP3s, encodes MP3s, burns MP3s, and runs on Windows too now.
The iPod plays MP3s.
You do not have to buy music from the iTunes music store. You can rip your own CDs or pirate away on the P2P networks all you want, the iPod will play your songs.
I use an iPod, I do not use DRM files. That simple.
When a track is finished and it goes to the next track there is 0 skip. On the iPod there is about a 1 to 2 second pause.
Pure bull.
The iPod loads 4-5 songs to its 32 megs of RAM and will not skip unless you select a new song that is not allready in its RAM, then it has to spin up the HD and load the song, that takes 1-2 seconds.
If you let it run its playlist without interference it will spin up the HD 5 seconds before the last loaded song ends and load up the next batch without any pause or skip.
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Could they also remove the friggin' un-skippable sections on DVDs? I have all 4 seasons of Futurama
;- (
Lucky you, I'm in region 1, I got only the first 2 box sets (the only ones released as far as I know).
I have a question for you: Do you have the episode with the Garbage Comet and the first Flying Brain episode?
I don't have them, I'm wondering why, and I'm pissed off.
I know they are part of those seasons I have because there are episodes that refer back to those, but they aren't in the boxed sets!
Fox screwed me over, again.
if I buy a non hollywood movie in another region. If it uses region coding, I can't play it at home. Say if a European buys BOTH their DVD player and some discs here and take it back with them. They can buy new discs that work in thier country.
That's the whole point.
You have to buy it again, from hollywood, after they secure the exclusive rights.
You have to give them money over and over again. And again.
Possibly give them your first born...
And the UK got the Futurama DVDs what, 2 years before it went out in region 1?
Far be it from me to defend the DVD producers here, but it depends.. R1 DVDs only need to carry English audio,
I allways check to make sure that the movies I buy (canada, region one) have the French track included.
I prefer when they have English, French and Spanish, the 3 most spoken languages of the DVD region 1.
The producers will want the R1 disc out ASAP, following up with the R2/other regions as the translations are done.
They release movies in canadian theatres in French at the same time as the original english versions, there is NO reason to not include the track on the damn DVD.
Well, at least no spammer would ever ruin their great brand recognition and close down shop only to open up again under a new name every couple weeks...
How can anyone complain about and Anti-SPAM law?
How could anyone complain about my new (patented) Hugs And Kisses greeting? Of course, its actually punching you in the face and dropping a brick on your foot, buts its called "hugs and kisses", so how could anyone complain about that?
Internet troll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
On the Internet, a troll is a person who posts messages that create controversy or an angry response without adding content to the discussion, often intentionally. Though technically different from flaming, which is an unmistakable direct personal attack, trolls often resort to innuendo or misdirection in the pursuit of their objective, which is to create controversy for its own sake, discredit those with whom they disagree, or sabotage discussion by creating an intimidating atmosphere.
Plug in the karma into your local network and it becomes a driverless mp3 server. You can copy to and from using any computer on the network.. geek appeal aside, this is handy on a college network.
Well, seeing how Apple was cozeying up to the MPAA so they would deign in their great wisdom to let them sell tunes off the net the way people want 'em, I can see why its not in there.
Nice to know that people have the balls to make that shit though. Wonder how long it will take before the Cease&Desist OR DIE letters start pouring in...
hell, what about MJ's answering machine? Peter and Green Goblin have a discussion that's being recorded, and everything MJ needs to get a clue is discussed.
;- )
Well, I totally bought that: MJ is an hairhead who can't put 2 and 2 together.
"Gee, Spiderman, you have the same arrested-development sounding voice as my friend Peter Parker."
I guess that's why superheroes never mingle with people who can do voice figerprint analysis...
Now, I know this post might sound like nit-picking, but so was your original post.
I like nit picking.
here's more:
Again, like some other poster said, watch the trailer.
They've had years to rethink their mistakes, so the second one doesn't redeem the first.
But I'll watch for that Goblin glider dodging you mentioned, might be something there I missed. I was loosing interest by that time, maybe I wasn't paying enough attention : )
Bullet time 'spider sense - I think that's more showing how his reaction time has sped up - he has the speed and strength of a spider - which is a completely separate power best shown in bullet time, even if the two are often used in conjunction.
Could be...
I'm due for a rewach, I'll keep that in mind when I do.
Might help make me appreciate it more : )
The muscles and the mirror scene - any teenager who works out spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the mirror. A newly buffed teen would spend exponentially longer.
Narcissism...valid motivation. I buy that: Still cheap and exploitative, but internally consistent. Makes it tolerable.
I didn't mind this. To me it makes more sense anyway...he "organically" sticks to the wall, so why not organically shoot webs.
I think its equally nonsensical.
I also think it takes something away from Peter Parker.
He was a genius in the comic books, someone who would have achieved greatness with or without radioactive spider bites.
Now he's just a normal kid given magic powers. It makes the masses idetify more easily, but it takes something away, something I liked.
now he can just run down the alley and rip his clothes off and he's Spiderman...no need to stop, attach web shooters
Actually, he does still have "aiming" web shooters, they "regulate" the web or something...bottom line: he gotta attach them anyways.
My wondering is the promoter saw what Parker could do...wouldn't he be a bit more concerned about trying to rip him off as he could "tear him apart".
With 10 millions you move to mexico...
Note to drunken moderators: I wasn't trolling, he is.
But they're drunk, so here goes:
Let me see if I have this straight.
You didn't, here's the many ways how...
1) The movie used a storytelling effect that differed from your interpretation of the comic book.
If by "interpretation" you mean he fucking explains it that way, yeah, I guess you could say "interpretation".
2) 4 seconds of seeing a guy's muscles made you uncomfortable, and you didn't like seeing Dunst in a wet shirt.
I clearly said it was the cheap exploitative way it was done, not the showing, that I hated. I distinctly remember mentioning how The Transporter did it right.
And technically, I think it might have been illegal for me to enjoy Kristen's Dunst wet t-shirt scene...how old was she at that time?
I still remember her as that lil' girl in Interview With The Vampire, and she's not my type.
Now, had it been Salma Hayek in a wet t-shirt, that's a different story.
3) You disagree with the one thing that the movie did to really improve on the credibility of the story (web-shooters; what the hell, that was the stupidest part of the comic book, like a teenage kid is going to make those on his own)
Yeah, getting bitten by a funky spider makes hir arms secrete and excrete at great force a substance with unheard of physical propreties.
That makes it more realistic, yeaaaaaah...
And
He
Still
Made
Web Shooters.
that was the stupidest part of the comic book
Yeah, getting bitten by a rioactive spider makes you super human instead of giving you cancer, less realistic than genius kid invents super adhesive. Ooooooookaaaaaay....
but your suspension of disbelief hinges on the credibility of the supposed actions or inactions of a bit character in an introductory subplot.
Yes.
I went to see a superhero movie, my suspension of disbelief wasn't going to be about physics or biology.
But wether or not Peter Parker defies the laws of physics and biology, people are still people. And greedy resentfull people do not pass up on 10 000 000 dollars when all they need to do to get that money is to screw over someone you allready hate.
Not only does 1) make it clear that someone has funnelled the Saharah into your vagina,
Real classy.
2) make us question your sexuality
I'm the one who didn't enjoy the scene showing the naked, muscled body of a teenage boy. You, on the other hand...
Should he be known as Dr. Quadrapus then?
And no, his real arms and legs don't count.
He went from a 4 limbed creature to an 8 limbed creature.
Why YOU don't count the first 4 is your problem.
I'm veering off-topic, but I LOVE the shoveller!
The Shoveller: God gave me a gift: I shovel well.
The Shoveller's wife: You shovel very well.
you missed my biggest beef of the film. The fact that he now creates the web material through his body instead of him creating his web shooters and the web stuff.
Organic web-shooters: 4th item on my list...
Why am I supposed to care about built-in ethernet (not sarcasm, honest question).
No copying restrictions? None? Hmmm...
Well, on the one hand, the iPod has the strict minimum in terms of copying restrictions...but its still there, so yeah, score one for that gizmo.
Much cheaper? You get what you pay for. The iPod is solid quality all the way through. It is really impressive in its elegance and overall design qualities. The interface, the integration with iTunes...its hard to describe in a point-by-point way why the iPod is so great.
No one can tell you why the iPod rocks, you have to see it for yourself.
you forgot one important detail: they did the "death of gwen stacy" story, except they removed both death and gwen stacy.
Yeah, that too.
Although merging 2 characters into one is a classic movie-adaptation thing. You have this limited amount of time and if 2 characters are similar enough ("the girlfriend"), then you cut one out and give its attributes to the other.
But that bugged me too.
And his webbing was way too strong (it holds him, Gwe..er..Mary Jane, a 'cab' with around 20 people in it, while the Goblin whacks him around...lil' bit too much there). But that's an action movie finale, so they have to overdo it, its expected, so I can forgive that one. I mean, its a superhero movie, we're not there for the realism.
Removing a death...yeah...cheap.
Not only that, but on TOP of saving Mary Gwen he ALSO saves 20 other people at the same time. It made me feel like they were saying "the spider man you know and love sucks ass, here's a better one, he can save EVERYBODY", lessening the whole "its hard being a hero" thing.
Me == picky.
Actually, that's not true. If you don't feeling like rewatching the original movie, just watch this trailer. The spider-sense is definately still there as a subconscious feeling/reflex.
Tell you what, when I have the time, I'll do both.
I saw it twice at the theatre (I told myself I must have been in a bad mood that first day, but alas, the second viewing only reaffirmed my annoyances), and have not seen it again since. But I did like the web slinging, so I'll have something to like if I see it again.
So, from ememory, in the first one the spider sense was just bullet time. Here's what I remember from the school fight spider-sense (the first spider-sense scene IIRC):
Flash takes a swing at him. Peter looks at the fist coming in slow mo, doges it with this little nonchalant look, and then grins happily at what he can do now. Looks to flash again, and er...end bullet time I think.
Then Flash's thug friend attacks Peter from behind, he deliberatly chooses to do some acrobatics, yadiyadiyada...I don't remember him acting purely on instinct at any point. It might just be fuzzy memory, but he was in control the whole time, and chose to let his body do the things it can do. As opposed to the comic where he unwittingly doges pillow-atacks from his wife (who is then insulted that he sees her and her pillow as a threat worthy of summer-saulting to the sealing).
I don't remeber him getting a vague feeling of danger from objects or situations either, then again it was just one movie and they have other things to do than spend half an hour showing us the many ways in wich the spider-sense works, so that's ok.
It bugged me the whole time. It was a distraction for the rest of the movie. Its bad storytelling, and yes, I am a nitpicker, yes, I do have a hard time finding good movies.
Though I give credit for effort.
It wasn't bad, it was a "good" movie, but as a geek, it disapointed me on many levels.
And the number one thing that bugged me the entire time:
The wrestling promoter did not claim the 10 million dollar reward that was offered by the Daily Bugle.
When Peter registers for the fight, they ask for his name, home adress, and insurance information.
He then pissses off the promoter who is clearly driven by the pursuit of money first and foremost.
Then there's a reward offered very publicly and the guy who 1)Hates Spider Man, 2)Know his real name, home adress, and has his insurance information, and 3) loves money DOESN'T claim the prize?
What the HELL?
Ruined the whole movie for me. They should have either not have shown us that he gives him all this info or not have the reward. Having the 2 and not following up on that is bad storytelling.
I hear that in soviet russia they have a beo...you know the drill.
And since I'm not using OSX and I won't be using iTunes and its DRM' format
Man this seems hard to understand: iTunes != iTunes Music Store.
iTunes plays MP3s, encodes MP3s, burns MP3s, and runs on Windows too now.
The iPod plays MP3s.
You do not have to buy music from the iTunes music store. You can rip your own CDs or pirate away on the P2P networks all you want, the iPod will play your songs.
I use an iPod, I do not use DRM files. That simple.
MOD PARENT DOWN for spreading FUD.
When a track is finished and it goes to the next track there is 0 skip. On the iPod there is about a 1 to 2 second pause.
Pure bull.
The iPod loads 4-5 songs to its 32 megs of RAM and will not skip unless you select a new song that is not allready in its RAM, then it has to spin up the HD and load the song, that takes 1-2 seconds.
If you let it run its playlist without interference it will spin up the HD 5 seconds before the last loaded song ends and load up the next batch without any pause or skip.
Firewiree s Music Store
Calendar
Adress Book
Brickout (more on newer models)
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Looks better
And its the bestest gift EVER!
Thanks mom : )