I don't think Hollywood gets it: people want new stories, not rehashes of bad 90's syndicated TV shows. Sequels, prequels and remakes are notably uncreative.
Unfortunately Hollywood does get it. The vast majority of movie goers will pay to see anything with explosions, F/X and a big name star. Look at the summer movie numbers. Why actually pay a screenwriter to come up with some shit like Torque when you can take something the studio already owns and "update" it. In the same vein why pay someone to write a good screenplay when you can buy the rights to a novel with a built in fan base and make a lowsy watered-down adaptation, with explosions. Same thing for pre/sequels.
Thats a trend that been building for a while now, and has begun moving to other entertainment industries (TV and Videogames), and its only going to get worse. Look to Hollywood if you want commitee written popcorn movies. Look to indies if you want art (not that all indies are good).
And please god, I hope no one in Hollywood ever "discovers" Takashi Miike. If they do to him what they did to John Woo, Jet Li and Jackie Chan, my life will lose all meaning.
So the new War of the Worlds is a remake of Independence Day, which wasa remake of War of the Worlds. A *Meta-Remake* if you will.New Holyywood buzzword, give it 6 months...
Actually pretty cool how Passion of Christ has kicked some serious boxoffice butt. Are moguls looking at this and thinking, "Hey, we could remake The Ten Commandemnts!"
My biggest fear about that is now Hollywood is going to start churning out ultra-violent religous epics.
Sodom and Gommarah starring Ben Affleck with Charlise Theron as Lot's wife. David and Goliath with Ashton Kutcher. Samson with The Rock and J.Lo. I wouldn't mind it so much actually if they leave the sex in, but we know that they won't, becaus that would be un-Christian...
What if we could "burn" memory space of a program to a CD rom so that a proper working, unaltered anti-virus and firewall could run without fear of being disabled?
How do you do that? If antivirus can burn itself (or a checskum of its unaltered self into ROm then couldn't the virus do the same?
The only solution I see is having the Anti-virus hardwired (ala Palladium) into the sytem and manufacturing. But then you have to worry about the virus changing definitions which need to be constantly updated. Right now its a foot race. The virus is releaed and virus companies scrabble to cook up a fix and distribute it. Unfortunately each new worm that comes out seems to be edging them out more and more.
A Law show based in Canada. How can a marraige of possibly the two most boring subjects ever go wrong...
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The thickness of the ice sheet may well be such that getting to the ocean below (assuming there is one) could turn out to be impractical, even using heat.
The only thing I'm wondering is what name they're going to use to distance themselves from P2P. MATRIX is taken, so maybe Fellowship of the Anti-Terrorists...
Games are becoming more mainstream, which leads companies to produce "safer" tried and true games
Agreed. The next big innovation (before immersive VR that doesn't suck) will be cheap, easy to use game engines. Big Game makers are just going to keep cranking out Resident Evil clones and GTA sequels. When independent devlopers can take a good looking game engine and use some imagination to make a good game then the industry will take off again. A good example is, How many poeple still play Half-Life (1), almost no one but how many ppl play Counterstrike and other HL mods?
What MMO really need beside more immersion is super-servers that can host 100k + players instead of a bunch of little servers that hos 5k players. So everyone who plays a game is literally in the same world.
I don't CA listed anywhere but with Ahhhnold at the helm its only a matter of time. We should rally all just unite and buy an island in the South Pacific somewhere, set up a data Haven.I really sick of Ashcroft and his cronies continuing efforts to get all up in my shit.
It's always important to keep in mind that there are billions who have it worse.
This always sounds good on paper but does little good in reality. I spent a lot of my life in some pretty shitty situations (life is pretty good now thank you) I used to say this to myself all the time. Did nothing to help me feel better though. Mostly I've found it useless to think about those who have it better or worse than you do. Just keep your mind on improving your own situation and survive.
I don't get that. I download A LOT of porn (Thank You Bittorrent) but I only have like 6 CDs of it saved. Mostly I save stuff I really like or to give to a friend still on dial-up. Why save 2 TB of porn. Will you really even watch all of it again?
fuck no. I saw a documentary one time about a porn shoot. Its a lot of performance pressure on the guys. A woman can fake it. A little lube and make some noises. The men have to be able get up and go on command. Thats why there are so few male porn stars. I don't need that kind of stress.
some people have wierd or just really specific fetishes. Ponying up a little will get you a constant supply of high quality stuff that its hard to find for free
I wouldn't pay for pics of like Jenna Jameson though. That'd just be stupid.
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I don't miss em at all. Ever try to overclock a Radeon 9600Pro? Where would I fit this thing
With Arrnohld being Governor we're already on our way there...
Old TECH. Catholic school girls have had this trick down for years...
Unfortunately Hollywood does get it. The vast majority of movie goers will pay to see anything with explosions, F/X and a big name star. Look at the summer movie numbers. Why actually pay a screenwriter to come up with some shit like Torque when you can take something the studio already owns and "update" it. In the same vein why pay someone to write a good screenplay when you can buy the rights to a novel with a built in fan base and make a lowsy watered-down adaptation, with explosions. Same thing for pre/sequels.
Thats a trend that been building for a while now, and has begun moving to other entertainment industries (TV and Videogames), and its only going to get worse. Look to Hollywood if you want commitee written popcorn movies. Look to indies if you want art (not that all indies are good).
And please god, I hope no one in Hollywood ever "discovers" Takashi Miike. If they do to him what they did to John Woo, Jet Li and Jackie Chan, my life will lose all meaning.
...or at least some of it.
Where do you live? $9.50 last I checked.
So the new War of the Worlds is a remake of Independence Day, which wasa remake of War of the Worlds. A *Meta-Remake* if you will.New Holyywood buzzword, give it 6 months...
My biggest fear about that is now Hollywood is going to start churning out ultra-violent religous epics.
Sodom and Gommarah starring Ben Affleck with Charlise Theron as Lot's wife. David and Goliath with Ashton Kutcher. Samson with The Rock and J.Lo. I wouldn't mind it so much actually if they leave the sex in, but we know that they won't, becaus that would be un-Christian...
How do you do that? If antivirus can burn itself (or a checskum of its unaltered self into ROm then couldn't the virus do the same?
The only solution I see is having the Anti-virus hardwired (ala Palladium) into the sytem and manufacturing. But then you have to worry about the virus changing definitions which need to be constantly updated. Right now its a foot race. The virus is releaed and virus companies scrabble to cook up a fix and distribute it. Unfortunately each new worm that comes out seems to be edging them out more and more.
Why?
and for the record I still think Han SHOT first.
Let me restate your caveat with something most of us can agree on.
*Some of it may be good, but for every Firefly or Babylon 5 there are 2 Star Trek:Enterprise or Galactica 1980
there hows that...
A Law show based in Canada. How can a marraige of possibly the two most boring subjects ever go wrong...
Thats what bunker busters are for...
LOL! $1.99 in CA. Last week the low was $2.30. And thats the cheap stuff...
The only thing I'm wondering is what name they're going to use to distance themselves from P2P. MATRIX is taken, so maybe Fellowship of the Anti-Terrorists...
whaaaaa?!! oh, sorry you must live in Spain.
Agreed. The next big innovation (before immersive VR that doesn't suck) will be cheap, easy to use game engines. Big Game makers are just going to keep cranking out Resident Evil clones and GTA sequels. When independent devlopers can take a good looking game engine and use some imagination to make a good game then the industry will take off again. A good example is, How many poeple still play Half-Life (1), almost no one but how many ppl play Counterstrike and other HL mods?
What MMO really need beside more immersion is super-servers that can host 100k + players instead of a bunch of little servers that hos 5k players. So everyone who plays a game is literally in the same world.
I don't CA listed anywhere but with Ahhhnold at the helm its only a matter of time. We should rally all just unite and buy an island in the South Pacific somewhere, set up a data Haven.I really sick of Ashcroft and his cronies continuing efforts to get all up in my shit.
This always sounds good on paper but does little good in reality. I spent a lot of my life in some pretty shitty situations (life is pretty good now thank you) I used to say this to myself all the time. Did nothing to help me feel better though. Mostly I've found it useless to think about those who have it better or worse than you do. Just keep your mind on improving your own situation and survive.
oh...and that Freaks Geeks submission was weeks ago.
Empornium, its the only way to fly.
I don't get that. I download A LOT of porn (Thank You Bittorrent) but I only have like 6 CDs of it saved. Mostly I save stuff I really like or to give to a friend still on dial-up. Why save 2 TB of porn. Will you really even watch all of it again?
fuck no. I saw a documentary one time about a porn shoot. Its a lot of performance pressure on the guys. A woman can fake it. A little lube and make some noises. The men have to be able get up and go on command. Thats why there are so few male porn stars. I don't need that kind of stress.
There's actually truth in this. They refused to lisence the Beta technology to Porn Producers. So they industry went to VHS. The rest is history.
I wouldn't pay for pics of like Jenna Jameson though. That'd just be stupid.
I'm not usually a grammar Nazi but you spelt it wrong 4 times...