"[...]They all seem to have 'sad parts, happy parts, tense parts, release/comedic parts'[...]" "Seems marketed towards children[...]"
I have to say I for one find it sad that you honestly think anything that deals with fantasy, imagination, or emotions should be relegated to children. It's also insulting to not-so-insecure adults to try to imply something so unfounded.
While the hobbit was directed towards children, none of the recent-filmed trilogy were. As quoted at CNN's Tolkien Timeline, when The Fellowship of the Ring was published, no less a publication than the New York Times said "No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy than 'The Fellowship of the Ring.' [...] the book is for adults, and not children, like 'The Hobbit.'"
Likewise, when the Twin Towers was published, NY Times this time said "It is an extraordinary work -- pure excitement, unencumbered narrative, moral warmth, barefaced rejoicing in beauty, but excitement most of all; yet a serious and scrupulous fiction, nothing cozy, no little visits to one's childhood."
I think I've made my point.
And as to how this movie is different on the emotional level, sure, many/all movies try to achieve all these emotions. But all of them don't. LOTR2T did, IMHO.
Man, honestly, I was blown away. I was in line at 11:00pm for the 12:01 EST showing here in Tampa, FL. The movie was phenomenal, really engaging, and just had so many different emotions. It is truly a work of art. I haven't heard an audience so engaged since I was probably a child in a theater filled with other children. People would clap, laugh out loud, gasp. There were sad parts, happy parts, tense parts, release/comedic parts. And above all, I *never* checked my watch, as I am sometimes wont to do with other long movies. The characters were portrayed fantastically, and with regard to another risky aspect of movies where you know it's not yet over, the ending wasn't sudden. This chapter was resolved well, and I and my friends and everybody else left satisfied.
Potter may get more money (I dont know, that's just what I hear), but if you took a viewer satisfaction exit poll, I can't believe potter would come near this installment of LOTR.
"Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
Barring the radiation from space and other warranty-voiders, PC hardware has (except for the occasional bad capacitors) been very sturdy. My PCjr still runs, my Leading Edge XT still runs. What is so unreal that I cannot even fathom it, is that the software has run on this thing for as long as it has, without getting corrupted, always booting fine when they need to reboot, etc. Only now in this late hour are major companies starting to remember the K.I.S.S. Principle that led their forefathers, and in doing so, counting on linux. The fewer variables, the more dependable the result.
Fucking "I have it worse than all of you" whiners. A bobble head of the guy who made money off of YOUR work while YOU had to scrape by is certainly worth bitching about. It's like leaving a small tip. It's worse than no tip at all.
"Perhaps this event raises the subtext of why we haven't been back a little more than the first Moon landing's 30th anniversary did over 3 years ago."
Misplaced modifier. Should read as follows:
Perhaps this event raises a little more than the first Moon landing's 30th anniversary did over 3 years ago the subtext of why we haven't been back.
I didn't understand why we hadn't been back more than the first moon landing's anniversary:-P
Re:I wonder how much of this is quality . . .
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"You know what I hate? I hate all these people that think the Matrix is the best movie ever. It's not. I also hate all these people that have never read LOTR and try to compare it to Star Wars (and even claim it rips off Star Wars!!!) MAkes me want to scream, or atleast post here on Slashdot about it."
You know what I hate? People that have read a non-pop book or two, and start railing on people that like pop entertainment. Excuse me, but who the fuck are you to tell me that I'm wrong when I say it is my opinion that a particular movie is the best ever? That's like saying "I hate people when they say redheaded women are the sexiest women out there! They're WRONG!" Step outside yourself, and take a look back. A long look.
"Please don't get me wrong: I am not necessarily in favour of the spectrum being one big free-for-all unlicensed hodgepodge[...]"
"I'm confused by your comment. Do you mean that the spectrum [should be licensed...]?"
Wow, you are really stupid.
p.s. Just for the nitpickers: the original quote "should not be unlicensed" is a double-negative. My correction, "should be licensed," means the same thing.
Please tell me that's pronounced "EE-mock," or anything other than "EYE-mack." I don't want to wear the entrails of a computer so 'cute' that my sister wanted one even though she doesn't know anything else about them.:-P
"I tend to agree and like the saying: Nothing can be produced out of nothing
-- Diogenes"
Diogenes knew that this statement both supports and refutes both religious creationism and "big bang." It was tongue-in-cheek. Whether you're a creationist or big-bangist, you believe at some point matter came into existence where nothing was before. And before the bangists respond:), know the next question I will ask in response to your response is, "And where did the source of that come from?":-P
"funny you should mention that because there's this little thing in physics called pair production and it deals with quarks, and wait, get this, they spontaneously pop into existence, isn't that a bitch. and its been observed too, so i guess something can be produced from nothing. a bugg"
Nice knowledge, but you should know from whence it comes. Law of conservation of energy states (yes, LAW) that nothing can come from nothing. What you are speaking of is matter coming from energy. Yes, e=mc^2, and all that, states that matter and energy are interchangeable. Ahh yes, the answer to the great question of philosophers over the ages, "Where does fat go when I burn it?" The opposite, as you have stated, also occurs, and has been proven; i.e. an object, when energy is added, gains mass. *tangent* This is even true for POTENTIAL ENERGY! How cool is this: A spring, when compressed, weighs more!!! (Link, Page 10)
While energy converting to matter may put off heat death a little while longer, it's no great epiphany:)
I tried it too, but I didn't get a kernel panic, it just moved the directory.
So it moved a directory huh? It moved a folder over another folder of the same name? Did it copy the contents of the source folder into the destination folder? Did it delete the destination folder? What happened?
"Well, if everyone is an artist, who's gonna catch bad guys, pick up your trash, make your hamburgers, etc?"
The same thing most artists are doing today. I'm a musician, I can joke:-P. If I didn't also know how to program, I probably wouldn't find it quite so funny.
"The poem cited above was written by a man who was vitctim of the nazi holocaust. It's magnificient, but I feel it's a little out of context here...
I mean, the DRM/'right-to-backup-your-media-debate' is important, but the holocaust issue is in another league entirely. Literally millions of people exterminated. Get a perspective, please, don't trivialize REAL atrocities."
Oh God, get off your high horse. Lessons learned in the greatest atrocities can be applied to the smallest debates and hardships every day. Man-vs-Man conflicts are all just that, man-vs-man conflicts. Some are large scale, some are small scale. In some, people die; in others, people are jailed or lose their rights. But overall, a large conflict, like WWII, is just a small one under 1*10^xx magnification. We can see details, and indeed harbingers, we might otherwise miss, and apply lessons learned to other small problems, before they become big problems.
I've got Jewish blood *and* Gypsy blood, and I'm tired of saying we can never look back on what happened, because of "reverence" or some such drivel. In a true atrocity, lessons learned can be applied to every facet of life.
"I second the endorsement of the EFF... but shouldn't we be above throwing money at a problem?;-)"
Well, we're technically throwing "good" lawyers against the "bad" ones. But just like warcraft, you need to spend some gold and lumber if you want healthy warriors:-P
Slashdot Mirror
*I* was the first on SlashDot (at the time of this posting) to christen it...
:-P
The PUKA!!
Hmm... Maybe this will explain...
Note to mods: Since "Setec Astronomy" was in the main page summary, this is on topic.
"[...]They all seem to have 'sad parts, happy parts, tense parts, release/comedic parts'[...]"
"Seems marketed towards children[...]"
I have to say I for one find it sad that you honestly think anything that deals with fantasy, imagination, or emotions should be relegated to children. It's also insulting to not-so-insecure adults to try to imply something so unfounded.
While the hobbit was directed towards children, none of the recent-filmed trilogy were. As quoted at CNN's Tolkien Timeline, when The Fellowship of the Ring was published, no less a publication than the New York Times said "No fiction I have read in the last five years has given me more joy than 'The Fellowship of the Ring.' [...] the book is for adults, and not children, like 'The Hobbit.'"
Likewise, when the Twin Towers was published, NY Times this time said "It is an extraordinary work -- pure excitement, unencumbered narrative, moral warmth, barefaced rejoicing in beauty, but excitement most of all; yet a serious and scrupulous fiction, nothing cozy, no little visits to one's childhood."
I think I've made my point.
And as to how this movie is different on the emotional level, sure, many/all movies try to achieve all these emotions. But all of them don't. LOTR2T did, IMHO.
Man, honestly, I was blown away. I was in line at 11:00pm for the 12:01 EST showing here in Tampa, FL. The movie was phenomenal, really engaging, and just had so many different emotions. It is truly a work of art. I haven't heard an audience so engaged since I was probably a child in a theater filled with other children. People would clap, laugh out loud, gasp. There were sad parts, happy parts, tense parts, release/comedic parts. And above all, I *never* checked my watch, as I am sometimes wont to do with other long movies. The characters were portrayed fantastically, and with regard to another risky aspect of movies where you know it's not yet over, the ending wasn't sudden. This chapter was resolved well, and I and my friends and everybody else left satisfied.
Potter may get more money (I dont know, that's just what I hear), but if you took a viewer satisfaction exit poll, I can't believe potter would come near this installment of LOTR.
"Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
Barring the radiation from space and other warranty-voiders, PC hardware has (except for the occasional bad capacitors) been very sturdy. My PCjr still runs, my Leading Edge XT still runs. What is so unreal that I cannot even fathom it, is that the software has run on this thing for as long as it has, without getting corrupted, always booting fine when they need to reboot, etc. Only now in this late hour are major companies starting to remember the K.I.S.S. Principle that led their forefathers, and in doing so, counting on linux. The fewer variables, the more dependable the result.
Fucking "I have it worse than all of you" whiners. A bobble head of the guy who made money off of YOUR work while YOU had to scrape by is certainly worth bitching about. It's like leaving a small tip. It's worse than no tip at all.
Sex is a natural part of life.
Needing foreign chemicals from plants in order to have a good time and/or feel good is not only unnatural, it is fucking pathetic.
Misplaced modifier. Should read as follows:
I didn't understand why we hadn't been back more than the first moon landing's anniversary
"You know what I hate? I hate all these people that think the Matrix is the best movie ever. It's not. I also hate all these people that have never read LOTR and try to compare it to Star Wars (and even claim it rips off Star Wars!!!) MAkes me want to scream, or atleast post here on Slashdot about it."
You know what I hate? People that have read a non-pop book or two, and start railing on people that like pop entertainment. Excuse me, but who the fuck are you to tell me that I'm wrong when I say it is my opinion that a particular movie is the best ever? That's like saying "I hate people when they say redheaded women are the sexiest women out there! They're WRONG!" Step outside yourself, and take a look back. A long look.
"Please don't get me wrong: I am not necessarily in favour of the spectrum being one big free-for-all unlicensed hodgepodge[...]"
"I'm confused by your comment. Do you mean that the spectrum [should be licensed...]?"
Wow, you are really stupid.
p.s. Just for the nitpickers: the original quote "should not be unlicensed" is a double-negative. My correction, "should be licensed," means the same thing.
"at times when the spectrum lay fallow"
WTF? Where do they find these twits?
"the IMAK Smart Gloves."
:-P
Please tell me that's pronounced "EE-mock," or anything other than "EYE-mack." I don't want to wear the entrails of a computer so 'cute' that my sister wanted one even though she doesn't know anything else about them.
"I tend to agree and like the saying:
:), know the next question I will ask in response to your response is, "And where did the source of that come from?" :-P
Nothing can be produced out of nothing
-- Diogenes"
Diogenes knew that this statement both supports and refutes both religious creationism and "big bang." It was tongue-in-cheek. Whether you're a creationist or big-bangist, you believe at some point matter came into existence where nothing was before. And before the bangists respond
"funny you should mention that because there's this little thing in physics called pair production and it deals with quarks, and wait, get this, they spontaneously pop into existence, isn't that a bitch. and its been observed too, so i guess something can be produced from nothing.
:)
a bugg"
Nice knowledge, but you should know from whence it comes. Law of conservation of energy states (yes, LAW) that nothing can come from nothing. What you are speaking of is matter coming from energy. Yes, e=mc^2, and all that, states that matter and energy are interchangeable. Ahh yes, the answer to the great question of philosophers over the ages, "Where does fat go when I burn it?" The opposite, as you have stated, also occurs, and has been proven; i.e. an object, when energy is added, gains mass. *tangent* This is even true for POTENTIAL ENERGY! How cool is this: A spring, when compressed, weighs more!!! (Link, Page 10)
While energy converting to matter may put off heat death a little while longer, it's no great epiphany
"I can't take credit, and I am not sure who said it. I stole if off of Lycaeum's [lycaeum.org] website years ago."
:-P
In other words, I think he wants to be modded back down.
"straight men use macs"
Wow, that IS a backwards country!
I tried it too, but I didn't get a kernel panic, it just moved the directory.
So it moved a directory huh? It moved a folder over another folder of the same name? Did it copy the contents of the source folder into the destination folder? Did it delete the destination folder? What happened?
"'Oh God, get off your high horse. '
:)"
Not being a Christian, I wouldn't know whether God belongs on his high horse or not
Only Christians believe in a God? Wow. I have to get out more.
"double standard -- why can the US have weapons of mass destruction and not Iraq?"
As much as I joke about canada, I think if we just up-and-out-of-fscking-nowhere hard-core invaded their land, we deserve to be disarmed.
Get a clue.
"Well, if everyone is an artist, who's gonna catch bad guys, pick up your trash, make your hamburgers, etc?"
:-P. If I didn't also know how to program, I probably wouldn't find it quite so funny.
The same thing most artists are doing today.
I'm a musician, I can joke
"The poem cited above was written by a man who was vitctim of the nazi holocaust. It's magnificient, but I feel it's a little out of context here...
I mean, the DRM/'right-to-backup-your-media-debate' is important, but the holocaust issue is in another league entirely. Literally millions of people exterminated. Get a perspective, please, don't trivialize REAL atrocities."
Oh God, get off your high horse. Lessons learned in the greatest atrocities can be applied to the smallest debates and hardships every day. Man-vs-Man conflicts are all just that, man-vs-man conflicts. Some are large scale, some are small scale. In some, people die; in others, people are jailed or lose their rights. But overall, a large conflict, like WWII, is just a small one under 1*10^xx magnification. We can see details, and indeed harbingers, we might otherwise miss, and apply lessons learned to other small problems, before they become big problems.
I've got Jewish blood *and* Gypsy blood, and I'm tired of saying we can never look back on what happened, because of "reverence" or some such drivel. In a true atrocity, lessons learned can be applied to every facet of life.
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"Morality the the penury of faith "
Lau Tzu never hit Preview either? Wow!
Ohhhhhhh, sorry! By violating Godwin's law, you have just lost the argument. But hey, thanks for playing!
"I second the endorsement of the EFF ... but shouldn't we be above throwing money at a problem? ;-)"
:-P
Well, we're technically throwing "good" lawyers against the "bad" ones. But just like warcraft, you need to spend some gold and lumber if you want healthy warriors
Shit. Does that make us peons?
Mplayer tries YOU.