I know; Ifni bless Ron Howard, he did what he did out of love for the franchise, just like Hamill schlepping to every freaking con for decades and coming up with witty and unique signatures for kids (of all ages) over and over again... there in the mid-90s, he and Mayhew and Prowse pretty much carried the franchise hand-over-hand to a new generation.
Without them, it would've died then and there.
Then to have it all dumped in the Mickey Mouse Blender... *Triple facepalm*
I read a couple years ago that Jackson bought the rights to the Temeraire series; now THAT has epic potential. Napoleonic wars, only with dragons in the Navy. AS the Navy.
mnem If we save the whales, where will we keep them?
It's funny, because all my young life I was waiting for them to finish the fucking story, and now it's finally happening, they've gone and fucked it all up. The first trilogy took too long to happen... 3 years between releases meant aging actors in the last one, and the production timetable was split between my generation and the next, so customer base was fragmented. Then Lucas understandably wanted to take a break, yeah... but 16 years?
Then 1, 2 & 3, after introducing one of the most universally despised sidekicks of movie history, pretty much reduced the origins of the greatest villain of modern times to a fucking tantrum thrown by a whiny, angsty teenager. I cannot facepalm hard enough here.
Add to that the the Great RetCon Scandal and by the time I was an adult, I just wanted to punch Lucas in the dick and have the mantle pass to pretty much anybody else, just so long as stuff got MADE in some sort of regular timetable, hoping they might get around to finishing "The story of a guy, a girl, and a galaxy!" before everybody was fucking dead. Well, it ALMOST happened. *More facepalm*
I enjoyed Solo more than 1, 2 and 3... and I was actually looking forward to the Boba Fett & Chewbacca backstories. THOSE are perfect fodder for the Disney treatment. The Clone Wars toon series was probably the truest to the original property except maybe Rogue One; I was so happy to be able to get my son hooked on them (and yeah, I enjoy the hell out of them too) but then Disney borked that in favor of Rebels rather than having sense enough to finish the origin story of Darth Vader in the inevitable, much more realistic story arc that had just reached apogee.
I TRIED... WE tried... but Rebels is just too... pablum. Even my 11-year-old son can't stomach more than an episode or two at a time.
Then instead of Disney LEARNING from the core mistakes of the 2nd trilogy... what did they do? Instead of coming up with any kind of NEW villain, or even somehow resurrecting Vader (Clone Wars and Ep 3 both gave them canon that could have made that possible... improbable, yes, irritating, yes... but would still have been BETTER) they double down on the "whiny angsty teenager" formula with an actor almost as ill-equipped for the role as Portman was for hers.
When I heard that Alan Dean Foster was involved in 7, I was actually hopeful... he was responsible for so many of of the magical moments of the original three scripts, I hoped somebody might have actually had the common sense to get him involved in the screenplay. Alas, it is clear after seeing the scripts... very little of his work found its way to the actual movies and they ONLY brought him in for the novelization.
So YES... We had HOPE. Just like Leia had at the end of Rogue One. But unless they pull some unbelievable Terminator 2 type ultimate badassery out of their asses with Episode 9, I expect it will be a false hope.
mnem Many Bothans died... err... electrons were terribly inconvenienced... to bring us this information.
This entire pointless article revolves around "markets" so small compared to the "music industry" as to entirely be composed of "data" within the margin for error which would be discarded anyways.:facepalm:
mnem "It's hard work being this cynical; but I have a lot of Karma to burn off."
Yes, it is that assumption that is, as always, the weak link in the chain. Long strings of digits and human fallibility mean that thousands of documents are sent to the wrong destination every day... if not every hour.
But hey, that's okay, "It was a accident". :facepalm:
mnem Fax are obsolete, just like the organizations which rely on them.
"Last year, Disney announced that it would remove all its movies from Netflix in 2019 to entice consumers to use their own streaming offering. It also purchased Fox for $71.3 billion to bolster its library of content."
Yup... just what I was thinking. Another "zombie" company; filing for bankruptcy but not actually changing anything except screwing somebody out of some legitimately owed debt, like GM getting out of having to pay back the pension funds previous CEOs raided like it was their personal piggy bank.
Toys R Us, etc wouldn't have to worry that much about age discrimination lawsuits, I suspect; from what I saw, a large number of their store help were already retirees working for minimum wage.
mnem Yey Geoffrey the Giraffe! - The new face of Business as Usual:facepalm:
... they can use to tell lies to go along with their buzzword salad is one of the most valuable lower-level degrees you can get, and career advancement is entirely controlled by the people who already buy and sell those numbers?
Shocking. You'd think there was some kind of pyramid scheme going on here.:rolleyes:
Agreed 100%. I don't want to talk to a computer until it can carry a conversation, & I damned sure don't want our just-now-turned-evil overlords listening in.:facepalm:
"...If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose,' the Walrus said,
That they could get it clear?'
I doubt it,' said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear..."
For our corrupt government to confirm the effectiveness of the hacking they've been doing to all the computer voting machines since they were rolled out?
Wake up. "Russia hacking our elections" was done at the invitation of our corrupt Congress, to allow them the scapegoat they DIDN'T HAVE around the Diebold controversy.
Just as in the years leading up to the market crash and great depression a century ago, it doesn't matter who votes or who they vote for; what matters is WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.
Well, the sex part ain't gonna happen with AC... unless you count necrophilia. Fortunately, that has a very low chance of creating offspring. Just like AC.
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The Waltons saying "Pay Your Taxes!" after they bought and paid for the Tax Heist of '17 is hardly "higher ground"...
mnem
Can you hear me rolling my eyes all the way over there?
"Meh."
mnem
and a half.
... and we think this is somehow a wonderful thing. *SMH*
mnem
"Clean Coal" is, and always has been, a fucking lie.
As long as she has her Party Cannon, everything will be okay. :LOL:
mnem
What could possibly go wrong?!?
I know; Ifni bless Ron Howard, he did what he did out of love for the franchise, just like Hamill schlepping to every freaking con for decades and coming up with witty and unique signatures for kids (of all ages) over and over again... there in the mid-90s, he and Mayhew and Prowse pretty much carried the franchise hand-over-hand to a new generation.
Without them, it would've died then and there.
Then to have it all dumped in the Mickey Mouse Blender... *Triple facepalm*
I read a couple years ago that Jackson bought the rights to the Temeraire series; now THAT has epic potential. Napoleonic wars, only with dragons in the Navy. AS the Navy.
mnem
If we save the whales, where will we keep them?
There was SOME hope...
It's funny, because all my young life I was waiting for them to finish the fucking story, and now it's finally happening, they've gone and fucked it all up. The first trilogy took too long to happen... 3 years between releases meant aging actors in the last one, and the production timetable was split between my generation and the next, so customer base was fragmented. Then Lucas understandably wanted to take a break, yeah... but 16 years?
Then 1, 2 & 3, after introducing one of the most universally despised sidekicks of movie history, pretty much reduced the origins of the greatest villain of modern times to a fucking tantrum thrown by a whiny, angsty teenager. I cannot facepalm hard enough here.
Add to that the the Great RetCon Scandal and by the time I was an adult, I just wanted to punch Lucas in the dick and have the mantle pass to pretty much anybody else, just so long as stuff got MADE in some sort of regular timetable, hoping they might get around to finishing "The story of a guy, a girl, and a galaxy!" before everybody was fucking dead. Well, it ALMOST happened. *More facepalm*
I enjoyed Solo more than 1, 2 and 3... and I was actually looking forward to the Boba Fett & Chewbacca backstories. THOSE are perfect fodder for the Disney treatment. The Clone Wars toon series was probably the truest to the original property except maybe Rogue One; I was so happy to be able to get my son hooked on them (and yeah, I enjoy the hell out of them too) but then Disney borked that in favor of Rebels rather than having sense enough to finish the origin story of Darth Vader in the inevitable, much more realistic story arc that had just reached apogee.
I TRIED... WE tried... but Rebels is just too... pablum. Even my 11-year-old son can't stomach more than an episode or two at a time.
Then instead of Disney LEARNING from the core mistakes of the 2nd trilogy... what did they do? Instead of coming up with any kind of NEW villain, or even somehow resurrecting Vader (Clone Wars and Ep 3 both gave them canon that could have made that possible... improbable, yes, irritating, yes... but would still have been BETTER) they double down on the "whiny angsty teenager" formula with an actor almost as ill-equipped for the role as Portman was for hers.
When I heard that Alan Dean Foster was involved in 7, I was actually hopeful... he was responsible for so many of of the magical moments of the original three scripts, I hoped somebody might have actually had the common sense to get him involved in the screenplay. Alas, it is clear after seeing the scripts... very little of his work found its way to the actual movies and they ONLY brought him in for the novelization.
So YES... We had HOPE. Just like Leia had at the end of Rogue One. But unless they pull some unbelievable Terminator 2 type ultimate badassery out of their asses with Episode 9, I expect it will be a false hope.
mnem
Many Bothans died... err... electrons were terribly inconvenienced... to bring us this information.
... I love and maintain my grandmother's old Studebaker.
mnem
Analog still has a place in the digital world
This entire pointless article revolves around "markets" so small compared to the "music industry" as to entirely be composed of "data" within the margin for error which would be discarded anyways. :facepalm:
mnem
"It's hard work being this cynical; but I have a lot of Karma to burn off."
I wonder how many of those "devices" are smartphones and tablets. :rolleyes:
mnem
"It's hard work being this cynical; but I have a lot of Karma to burn off."
Yes, it is that assumption that is, as always, the weak link in the chain. Long strings of digits and human fallibility mean that thousands of documents are sent to the wrong destination every day... if not every hour.
But hey, that's okay, "It was a accident". :facepalm:
mnem
Fax are obsolete, just like the organizations which rely on them.
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your kids."
mnem
This is where I usually put some pithy remark.
... nobody is even talking about:
"Last year, Disney announced that it would remove all its movies from Netflix in 2019 to entice consumers to use their own streaming offering. It also purchased Fox for $71.3 billion to bolster its library of content. "
mnem
And then there were none.
Yes, and when you fart in the TARDIS, it doesn't linger like in a phone booth; it lingers 'til the end of time... ;P
Yup... just what I was thinking. Another "zombie" company; filing for bankruptcy but not actually changing anything except screwing somebody out of some legitimately owed debt, like GM getting out of having to pay back the pension funds previous CEOs raided like it was their personal piggy bank.
Toys R Us, etc wouldn't have to worry that much about age discrimination lawsuits, I suspect; from what I saw, a large number of their store help were already retirees working for minimum wage.
mnem :facepalm:
Yey Geoffrey the Giraffe! - The new face of Business as Usual
...online reviews are more effective than government oversight."
Yeah, many Americans believe in supply-side economics, too. Doesn't make it any less a fairy tale. :facepalm:
mnem
Sociopaths aren't cute, they aren't funny, and they aren't people to look up to; even though they are running this country.
:LOL: Wanna bet?
Shocking. You'd think there was some kind of pyramid scheme going on here. :rolleyes:
mnem
Oxygen is a gateway drug.
Agreed 100%. I don't want to talk to a computer until it can carry a conversation, & I damned sure don't want our just-now-turned-evil overlords listening in. :facepalm:
[RANDOM MODE]
"...If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose,' the Walrus said,
That they could get it clear?'
I doubt it,' said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear..."
[/RANDOM MODE]
mnem
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9
It's not as if the electoral system in Florida hasn't ALREADY been hacked by the current administration. But now Gov. Nosferatu has a scapegoat.
mnem
If you presented American Politics as a reality TV show, nobody would watch it.
... they think that $550 for even a "flagship quality" phone is some kind of a price breakthrough. *SMH*
mnem
Welcome to the $$$uck.
Good lord... who in the hell wasted a mod point on this? Couldn't you be arsed to find a real troll to burn them on?
For our corrupt government to confirm the effectiveness of the hacking they've been doing to all the computer voting machines since they were rolled out?
Wake up. "Russia hacking our elections" was done at the invitation of our corrupt Congress, to allow them the scapegoat they DIDN'T HAVE around the Diebold controversy.
Just as in the years leading up to the market crash and great depression a century ago, it doesn't matter who votes or who they vote for; what matters is WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.
mnem
Smoke & mirrors... always smoke & mirrors.
And you're just now noticing this fact? ;)
mnem
Welcome to the 21st Century... where America is the worldwide boogeyman that Nazi Germany used to be.
Well, the sex part ain't gonna happen with AC... unless you count necrophilia. Fortunately, that has a very low chance of creating offspring. Just like AC.
mnem
Go Team Venture!!!