That's like telling me how sad and tragic throwing my toaster away would be to my blender. I think the main reason anyone actually felt sad for the character was that in their heads, he was "Haley Joel Osmet" and back in those days, everyone secretly wanted to get all Michael Jackson on his hiney.
I just can't buy that the first robot to experience any signs of what is supposedly "emotion" (but really just his programming) would also in that same magical instance be capable of comprehending such emotional nuances as the ending required.
Osmet was still just an old fashioned robot without the advancement of the ones that "rescue" him. He was still just a fancy toaster with the typical "I'm a real boy!" transformation.
For some reason, I keep counting Devil's Own as a Jack Ryan film. It's an honest mistake. I mean, if you didn't know better - wouldn't you assume it was a Jack Ryan film just based on the plot and characters?:)
Exactly what in the movie confirmed that these were robots from earth? In fact, I don't necessarily recall that anything even confirmed they were *robots* (except that it was just asumed).
Like I said, I watched it along time ago, so maybe I missed something in the ending where this was very clearly explained.
See, I got the movie, I just didn't think it made sense (nor was the extra hour necessary).
Specifically, I don't get why he 'went to sleep forever'. Since he understood that his mom could only be there for one day, why couldn't he have fun with her, go to bed and then wake up after she was gone? And if he couldn't then why bother telling him that she was only there for one day?
I may have forgotten the exact ending as I haven't seen it in a LONG time and didn't care much for it.
Aside from the conflict over the ending, the acting and scenerios in the thick of it were fairly lame, too. Hell, as a geek, how can you accept the whole ultra-light submarine transformer thingy?! How lame was that?!
My bad. For some reason, I got it into my head that he had a very brief role (as someone other than Han) in Star Wars I,II or III. I checked it out and I was clearly wrong about that.
I haven't seen II or III, so I didn't know for sure.
Well, the difference is that you clearly like Disney-endings while most people seem to agree that a tragic ending would have been more powerful and enjoyable. I so regretted that the film didn't end with the boy/robot whistfully observing the blue fairy.
I think there would have been something more powerful in that. An unreal boy with "real" feelings, lost for eternity in his expectations for a miracle or some sort of redemption from an unreal fairy.
After watching that, the only thing I could think of was that I'd wished Spielberg had dropped dead and Kubrick had stayed around to finish that.
No, his name came to mind - but I sure as hell don't want to be him. He's too sensitive and not tough-guy-ish enough (except when weilding a light saber, I guess).
I guess the main difference is that Harrison Ford was one of those guys that was all of the above while still being a rugged man's man. So many of these other guys are cookie-cutter pretty boys that make the girls swoon, can maybe act, and get a few tough roles that they somehow manage to pull off.
Sure, the round of big stars had their pretty boys, too. They had Robert Redford and Paul Newman, for example. But watch Cool Hand Luke and tell me that Paul Newman isn't a man's man - a total badass and a rugged dude.
Then again, maybe teenagers today see movie stars differently than people nearing 30 see them (just like with music).
Regarding Henry? (A good change of pace compared to his other films)
Witness?
Mosquito Coast (awesome movie)?
Frantic? (Very underrated movie)
A little film called THE FUGITIVE....
Another little film called.. uh... BLADE RUNNER....
Oh, not to mention he had parts in the beginning of his career in a couple little movies known as APOLOCYPES NOW and AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Sure, they weren't big parts or anything, but that his career was just getting going.
And that's ON TOP of four STAR WARS movies, three INDIANA JONES movies and three(?) JACK RYAN movies.
Seriously - all one has to do is look at his list of movies on IMDB to be impressed by the amount of great work he has done and great movies he has been involved in.
When I think of "movie stars" pre-Kieth Ledger and Cameron Diaz (in other words, real stars), I think of very few people. Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood...
Ford was (and still is, I suppose) the man women loved and men wanted to be. He had a good sense of comedic timing, a handsome look, a stoic persona. What modern male actors can you say is the guy that men universally want to be and women universally want to be with?! I can't think of any guy who has that right mix of bad-ass, intelligence, commedy and sex appeal. I guess some would argue Colin Farrel, but.. I mean - eew. I sure don't want to be him.
If you want a good idea of the contrast, look at Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan... then look at Ben Affleck as the new Jack Ryan. While I don't think Affleck was awful, he was no god damned Harrison Ford!
It was a great movie, except that everything after the "blue fairy" was stupid. I don't care how they justified it, the whole aliens (which looked dumb) thing was just lame.
Dude - he's Harrison Ford. He's Indiana Fucking Jones. He's Han Frigging Solo. He's at a point in his career where he can probably have a binding contract rider to have both directors shave their nuts and glue the pubes to their upper lip and do a little Adolph dance, if he wants to.
Hell, he's doing three movies in 2006 and he's still the top of the A-lists.
Harrison Ford has made more good movies than both of those directors combined.
Right, but the claim in question was that a diesel engine (in specifica, truckers were being discussed) could be run on off the shelf veggie oil with no modification or alteration to the vehicle at all.
I'd actually heard something on CoastToCoast AM a couple months ago (I wasn't really paying attention, becuase I just listen to those whackjobs for background noise) and Art Bell and Willie Nelson (yes, that Willie) were talking about how you could somehow use vegetable oil or restaurant grease dumpings to fuel your vehical with little or no alterations to your vehical. In fact, one guy said that when he ran out of gas once, he went into a store and bought some canola (or whatever) and it worked just fine.
Of course, I don't get my science from Art Bell and Willie Nelson, so I just brushed it off.
Sadly, I think most people are in agreement that America will not stop using oil, until it stops existing.
It's Marc Andreeson (two Es, one S) and Jim Clark. But they could have found that out if they'd done a google search for all the OTHER complete histories of netscape/internet/browsers sites out there.
By the way, I would reccommend The New New Thing which is a sort of biography of Jim Clark through SGI, Netscape, Healthscape, his enormous frigging high-tech sailing yacht and a number of other things. It is a great bit of insight into the overkill of the top execs in the 90s, regarding the original internet company (essentially).
Hey, everone else may have jumped ship and been screwed over, but at least guys like Clark walked away with yachts that cost more than the any dozen people will make in their life.:)
I stuck with 2000 for the longest time and spat on XP. I don't care for 2000, but since I had to have a couple windows boxes around, I demanded that they be 2000. But after having to account for extended LBA (for drives larger than 127gb) and other issues, I decided to give XP Pro a try. You know what? I actually am pleased with it. I'll still take my Debian or Gentoo, thanks - but for Windows, XP ain't all that bad.
Just change your settings to get rid of all the XP GUI crap and change back to classical everything on the interface and you can't even tell you're using XP - except that more things work with less trouble than on 2000. And the crashes have been no more frequent than they were on 2000.
It doesn't really matter anymore. MSIE has aleady won the browser wars. I mean, Mozilla/Firefox are still on version 1 while Microsoft is almost ready to bring out version 7. You don't have to be a genius to realize that MSIE 7 is 6 more than Mozilla 1. Your average consumer will understand this almost immediately.
This is just a further example of the clear problems with OSS. They simply can't compete and excel at the rate of proprietary software and the version numbers prove it.
I've _never_ heard the word "chillax". What the hell?!
Sounds like something Snoop Dog would have come up with. I'm sorry, but just because you end everything with "izzle" or"azzle" doesn't make them new words. It doesn't even make them new *slang* words!
I don't mind it so much. StarWars is incredibly overrated and I wouldn't waste my three hours and ten bucks to see it (I'm not even sure I'd waste the time to watch it on cable in a couple years) - so seeing all this coverage sort of makes it moot. It's like SinCity. I probably won't bother to ever watch that, either - but I don't need to because there's been so much coverage of it that I've more or less already "watched" it.
Is the next article going to expose us to the life of wannabe starlets who think trade shows are their step to fame and aging strippers who need to keep putting cash in the kitty to afford their "habit"? Maybe we'll get to find out what it takes to be a food vendor at E3. Or how harrowing it is to be part of the janitorial crew...
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Yeah, but it's still just a robot.
That's like telling me how sad and tragic throwing my toaster away would be to my blender. I think the main reason anyone actually felt sad for the character was that in their heads, he was "Haley Joel Osmet" and back in those days, everyone secretly wanted to get all Michael Jackson on his hiney.
I just can't buy that the first robot to experience any signs of what is supposedly "emotion" (but really just his programming) would also in that same magical instance be capable of comprehending such emotional nuances as the ending required.
Osmet was still just an old fashioned robot without the advancement of the ones that "rescue" him. He was still just a fancy toaster with the typical "I'm a real boy!" transformation.
For some reason, I keep counting Devil's Own as a Jack Ryan film. It's an honest mistake. I mean, if you didn't know better - wouldn't you assume it was a Jack Ryan film just based on the plot and characters? :)
Exactly what in the movie confirmed that these were robots from earth? In fact, I don't necessarily recall that anything even confirmed they were *robots* (except that it was just asumed).
Like I said, I watched it along time ago, so maybe I missed something in the ending where this was very clearly explained.
Fuel and gas are not the same thing.
See, I got the movie, I just didn't think it made sense (nor was the extra hour necessary).
Specifically, I don't get why he 'went to sleep forever'. Since he understood that his mom could only be there for one day, why couldn't he have fun with her, go to bed and then wake up after she was gone? And if he couldn't then why bother telling him that she was only there for one day?
I may have forgotten the exact ending as I haven't seen it in a LONG time and didn't care much for it.
Aside from the conflict over the ending, the acting and scenerios in the thick of it were fairly lame, too. Hell, as a geek, how can you accept the whole ultra-light submarine transformer thingy?! How lame was that?!
My bad. For some reason, I got it into my head that he had a very brief role (as someone other than Han) in Star Wars I,II or III. I checked it out and I was clearly wrong about that.
I haven't seen II or III, so I didn't know for sure.
Well, the difference is that you clearly like Disney-endings while most people seem to agree that a tragic ending would have been more powerful and enjoyable. I so regretted that the film didn't end with the boy/robot whistfully observing the blue fairy.
I think there would have been something more powerful in that. An unreal boy with "real" feelings, lost for eternity in his expectations for a miracle or some sort of redemption from an unreal fairy.
After watching that, the only thing I could think of was that I'd wished Spielberg had dropped dead and Kubrick had stayed around to finish that.
No, his name came to mind - but I sure as hell don't want to be him. He's too sensitive and not tough-guy-ish enough (except when weilding a light saber, I guess).
I guess the main difference is that Harrison Ford was one of those guys that was all of the above while still being a rugged man's man. So many of these other guys are cookie-cutter pretty boys that make the girls swoon, can maybe act, and get a few tough roles that they somehow manage to pull off.
Sure, the round of big stars had their pretty boys, too. They had Robert Redford and Paul Newman, for example. But watch Cool Hand Luke and tell me that Paul Newman isn't a man's man - a total badass and a rugged dude.
Then again, maybe teenagers today see movie stars differently than people nearing 30 see them (just like with music).
You're kidding, right?
A Devils Own? (Jack Ryanesque film)
Regarding Henry? (A good change of pace compared to his other films)
Witness?
Mosquito Coast (awesome movie)?
Frantic? (Very underrated movie)
A little film called THE FUGITIVE....
Another little film called.. uh... BLADE RUNNER....
Oh, not to mention he had parts in the beginning of his career in a couple little movies known as APOLOCYPES NOW and AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Sure, they weren't big parts or anything, but that his career was just getting going.
And that's ON TOP of four STAR WARS movies, three INDIANA JONES movies and three(?) JACK RYAN movies.
Yeah, boy. What a slouch that guy is.
Well, also Jack Ryan.
Seriously - all one has to do is look at his list of movies on IMDB to be impressed by the amount of great work he has done and great movies he has been involved in.
When I think of "movie stars" pre-Kieth Ledger and Cameron Diaz (in other words, real stars), I think of very few people. Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood...
Ford was (and still is, I suppose) the man women loved and men wanted to be. He had a good sense of comedic timing, a handsome look, a stoic persona. What modern male actors can you say is the guy that men universally want to be and women universally want to be with?! I can't think of any guy who has that right mix of bad-ass, intelligence, commedy and sex appeal. I guess some would argue Colin Farrel, but.. I mean - eew. I sure don't want to be him.
If you want a good idea of the contrast, look at Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan... then look at Ben Affleck as the new Jack Ryan. While I don't think Affleck was awful, he was no god damned Harrison Ford!
Yes, and she'll be screaming and moaning about her dry-desert of a uterus.
It was a great movie, except that everything after the "blue fairy" was stupid. I don't care how they justified it, the whole aliens (which looked dumb) thing was just lame.
Dude - he's Harrison Ford. He's Indiana Fucking Jones. He's Han Frigging Solo. He's at a point in his career where he can probably have a binding contract rider to have both directors shave their nuts and glue the pubes to their upper lip and do a little Adolph dance, if he wants to.
Hell, he's doing three movies in 2006 and he's still the top of the A-lists.
Harrison Ford has made more good movies than both of those directors combined.
Right, but the claim in question was that a diesel engine (in specifica, truckers were being discussed) could be run on off the shelf veggie oil with no modification or alteration to the vehicle at all.
I'd actually heard something on CoastToCoast AM a couple months ago (I wasn't really paying attention, becuase I just listen to those whackjobs for background noise) and Art Bell and Willie Nelson (yes, that Willie) were talking about how you could somehow use vegetable oil or restaurant grease dumpings to fuel your vehical with little or no alterations to your vehical. In fact, one guy said that when he ran out of gas once, he went into a store and bought some canola (or whatever) and it worked just fine.
Of course, I don't get my science from Art Bell and Willie Nelson, so I just brushed it off.
Sadly, I think most people are in agreement that America will not stop using oil, until it stops existing.
This is unAmerican and you hippies should be ashamed of yourselves! ;)
It's Marc Andreeson (two Es, one S) and Jim Clark. But they could have found that out if they'd done a google search for all the OTHER complete histories of netscape/internet/browsers sites out there.
:)
By the way, I would reccommend The New New Thing which is a sort of biography of Jim Clark through SGI, Netscape, Healthscape, his enormous frigging high-tech sailing yacht and a number of other things. It is a great bit of insight into the overkill of the top execs in the 90s, regarding the original internet company (essentially).
Hey, everone else may have jumped ship and been screwed over, but at least guys like Clark walked away with yachts that cost more than the any dozen people will make in their life.
I stuck with 2000 for the longest time and spat on XP. I don't care for 2000, but since I had to have a couple windows boxes around, I demanded that they be 2000. But after having to account for extended LBA (for drives larger than 127gb) and other issues, I decided to give XP Pro a try. You know what? I actually am pleased with it. I'll still take my Debian or Gentoo, thanks - but for Windows, XP ain't all that bad.
Just change your settings to get rid of all the XP GUI crap and change back to classical everything on the interface and you can't even tell you're using XP - except that more things work with less trouble than on 2000. And the crashes have been no more frequent than they were on 2000.
It doesn't really matter anymore. MSIE has aleady won the browser wars. I mean, Mozilla/Firefox are still on version 1 while Microsoft is almost ready to bring out version 7. You don't have to be a genius to realize that MSIE 7 is 6 more than Mozilla 1. Your average consumer will understand this almost immediately.
This is just a further example of the clear problems with OSS. They simply can't compete and excel at the rate of proprietary software and the version numbers prove it.
And we sure wouldn't want to attribute something to the wrong person in a random, inconsequential, side-conversation between laypersons.
OH NO! SOMEONE CALL GEORGE FRANKLY AND GET THE MATHNET SQUAD ON THE CASE NOW!!!
Speaking of shitty articles, what's up with Zonk? He's posted 32 of the last 37 articles. Where the hell is everyone? This is turning into Zonkdot!
(Not that I have anything against Zonk - no clue who he is).
I've _never_ heard the word "chillax". What the hell?!
Sounds like something Snoop Dog would have come up with. I'm sorry, but just because you end everything with "izzle" or"azzle" doesn't make them new words. It doesn't even make them new *slang* words!
I don't mind it so much. StarWars is incredibly overrated and I wouldn't waste my three hours and ten bucks to see it (I'm not even sure I'd waste the time to watch it on cable in a couple years) - so seeing all this coverage sort of makes it moot. It's like SinCity. I probably won't bother to ever watch that, either - but I don't need to because there's been so much coverage of it that I've more or less already "watched" it.
In depth? You must be shitting me... Have you ever read a "real" gaming magazine
Uh... NO. Do I *look* like I walk around with a pocket protector in my shirt pocket all day? Or like I'd even wear a shirt with pockets?!
"Real gaming magazine". That's the dorkiest thing I've ever heard....!
No... No... I've never really wondered, actually.
Is the next article going to expose us to the life of wannabe starlets who think trade shows are their step to fame and aging strippers who need to keep putting cash in the kitty to afford their "habit"? Maybe we'll get to find out what it takes to be a food vendor at E3. Or how harrowing it is to be part of the janitorial crew...