Just because you drive a large vehicle that can't drive around other cars doesn't mean you should take out your frustration on someone who has chosen a more efficient form of transport. If people riding past bothers you, you're free to go and buy a motorcycle at any time.
Here is the script to the original version of Shada, as it was to be filmed starring Tom Baker. Also, it contains transcripts of the linkage material inserted into the video version for bits they didn't film.
You know what? It probably is quite accurate, like you say. Especially in the case of over-hyped films.
After all the hype and marketing there has been whetting your appetite and inciting your deire for Matrix sequels, once you're actually sitting there watching them you will experience some kind of relief so closely akin to pleasure that you will probably come out saying you enjoyed them, no matter how crappy the films were.
That would be depressing if you thought about it, so I advise that you don't.
I just think the dearth of new ideas is particularly prevalent this year; more so than other years. And I wonder what it means that the most dense section of the problem seems to fall on our demographic.
To address your points, indeed LoTR is a trilogy and therefore is entitled to consist of three films. But that doesn't change the fact that Return of the King will be far from a new concept. That's my beef.
As for The Matrix and Star Wars, there may have been hints and murmers from the beginning of making the original films part of something bigger, but there would have been no trilogies had the first ones not been so sooo so successful. Both films are complete stories of their own right, and would not have suffered for the story to not have been continued from there. Particularly in the case of The Matrix, I am fully expecting the sequels to achieve very little but to cheapen the self-contained elegance of the original.
Obviously though, this is personal opinion of mine, and speculating on the quality of a film I haven't seen yet is probably not helpful. But for me, to re-capture the feeling of "wow, this is a really cool idea" that I felt while watching the original Matrix, I will need to go and watch another original film. If I can find one.
Matrix Reloaded, Return of the King, Spiderman 2, Star Wars Ep 3, Doom 3, Halflife 2, etc etc etc.
Has anyone noticed that almost everything we are looking forward to this year (or early next) is a sequel?
I thought we were supposed to be the intelligent ones? The nerds, the intellectual elite? Can we really be satisfied by all these re-hashes of the same old ideas? Don't we crave something new to feed our minds?
The court doesn't know what the Windows code does. IANAL but I reckon it might be entertaining to construct a defense around the statement "Windows did it".
So you've got a photo-realistic graphics engine, which generates entire worlds of vision, but it all goes to a pre-recorded soundtrack. It's like "Doom 1" or something with all those pre-rendered sprites on a nearly-proper 3D background.
So I'm imagining the next generation of computer games generating sounds on-the-fly by simulating the physics of (for example) alien vocal chords, perhaps changing as you damage the monster's throat with bullets. No more hearing the same old sounds over and over - If you have ever walked through a fort in Morrowind and heard the same voice giving you the same greeting over and over again, you might see the need for development in this field.
Nah, they just have to put a big shiny button on Internet Explorer 7 that says "Search the Web" and let the near monopoly in Web browsers that they got from their monopoly in Operating Systems make them a monopoly in search engines. There's a little one already there in IE6, all it needs is a bit more marketing.
And it can suck just as much as Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and every other crappy thing they sell. People will use it anyway. You've seen it happen.
I like April fool's posts. Not only are they entertaining; they also serve point out the power of the media - you can say anything in print or on TV (and, though perhaps more limitedly, on the Internet), and thousands of people will believe you. No matter how stupid what you say is.
Of course, it's more difficult to get people to believe you on April 1st.
If only people watched TV and read newspapers like it was April 1st every day.
Does a person HAVE to watch a rectangular moving image in order to have an idea? Be it CNN or Michael More - it all comes down to someone telling you what to conclude.
Maybe, hopefully, AC#1 closed his/her eyes for a moment and THOUGHT.
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Just because you drive a large vehicle that can't drive around other cars doesn't mean you should take out your frustration on someone who has chosen a more efficient form of transport. If people riding past bothers you, you're free to go and buy a motorcycle at any time.
Be interesting to see how much it changes.
Why stick to a car-like design when you can improve on it? Cars are a lazy, Victorian, inefficient idea.
This could be side-splittingly funny, if only I could be sure that it was meant as a joke...
You know what? It probably is quite accurate, like you say. Especially in the case of over-hyped films.
After all the hype and marketing there has been whetting your appetite and inciting your deire for Matrix sequels, once you're actually sitting there watching them you will experience some kind of relief so closely akin to pleasure that you will probably come out saying you enjoyed them, no matter how crappy the films were.
That would be depressing if you thought about it, so I advise that you don't.
We were so underwhelmed by our IMAX cinema in Auckland that it closed after a few months.
So much marketing and hype, so little entertainment.
I just think the dearth of new ideas is particularly prevalent this year; more so than other years. And I wonder what it means that the most dense section of the problem seems to fall on our demographic.
To address your points, indeed LoTR is a trilogy and therefore is entitled to consist of three films. But that doesn't change the fact that Return of the King will be far from a new concept. That's my beef.
As for The Matrix and Star Wars, there may have been hints and murmers from the beginning of making the original films part of something bigger, but there would have been no trilogies had the first ones not been so sooo so successful. Both films are complete stories of their own right, and would not have suffered for the story to not have been continued from there. Particularly in the case of The Matrix, I am fully expecting the sequels to achieve very little but to cheapen the self-contained elegance of the original.
Obviously though, this is personal opinion of mine, and speculating on the quality of a film I haven't seen yet is probably not helpful. But for me, to re-capture the feeling of "wow, this is a really cool idea" that I felt while watching the original Matrix, I will need to go and watch another original film. If I can find one.
Matrix Reloaded, Return of the King, Spiderman 2, Star Wars Ep 3, Doom 3, Halflife 2, etc etc etc.
Has anyone noticed that almost everything we are looking forward to this year (or early next) is a sequel?
I thought we were supposed to be the intelligent ones? The nerds, the intellectual elite? Can we really be satisfied by all these re-hashes of the same old ideas? Don't we crave something new to feed our minds?
Obviously not. But wouldn't you like to think so?
The court doesn't know what the Windows code does. IANAL but I reckon it might be entertaining to construct a defense around the statement "Windows did it".
So you've got a photo-realistic graphics engine, which generates entire worlds of vision, but it all goes to a pre-recorded soundtrack. It's like "Doom 1" or something with all those pre-rendered sprites on a nearly-proper 3D background.
So I'm imagining the next generation of computer games generating sounds on-the-fly by simulating the physics of (for example) alien vocal chords, perhaps changing as you damage the monster's throat with bullets. No more hearing the same old sounds over and over - If you have ever walked through a fort in Morrowind and heard the same voice giving you the same greeting over and over again, you might see the need for development in this field.
Nah, they just have to put a big shiny button on Internet Explorer 7 that says "Search the Web" and let the near monopoly in Web browsers that they got from their monopoly in Operating Systems make them a monopoly in search engines. There's a little one already there in IE6, all it needs is a bit more marketing.
And it can suck just as much as Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and every other crappy thing they sell. People will use it anyway. You've seen it happen.
Darn tootin'. Plug your whinge-holes everyone.
I like April fool's posts. Not only are they entertaining; they also serve point out the power of the media - you can say anything in print or on TV (and, though perhaps more limitedly, on the Internet), and thousands of people will believe you. No matter how stupid what you say is.
Of course, it's more difficult to get people to believe you on April 1st.
If only people watched TV and read newspapers like it was April 1st every day.
Does a person HAVE to watch a rectangular moving image in order to have an idea? Be it CNN or Michael More - it all comes down to someone telling you what to conclude.
Maybe, hopefully, AC#1 closed his/her eyes for a moment and THOUGHT.
"Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction"
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