No, sadly, the director chose not to film the dramatic conclusion to the book. If i had believed this was possible, I could have saved the price of the extended DVD. Sort of leaves the field wide-open for a proper re-make. As soon as the current "rights" expire, perhaps some one will come forward to do that. "Third time's the charm".
Frankly, I just hope I live long enough to see the next remake. Maybe some one could just sort of adapt the books, with some minor abridgement, and not ruin the story.
I think I speak for a minority far smaller than.01%, however I plan to be just as disappointed as before when I go see it anyway. If I had not read the books, I think the movies would have been fine. The only one that was done right was the extended edition DVD of FOTR. Would that that were made into a theatrical print for the Art House circuit.
For a moment I dared to hope that the sequel that the headline referred to was "The Scouring of the Shire", which IMNSHO was the very best part of the whole story. I can only begin to dread what sort of sequel they are going to excrete. "Ewok Adventure" comes to mind. I suppose that the wholesale replacement of the Tom Bombadil/Barrow Wight bit with Aragorn dumping a butcher's roll of surplus cutlery on the table can be excused as a film adaptation neccessity, but I thought that was pretty harsh as well.
AC has a point. The laws and decisions nowadays seem to favor the corporate client in these cases. I am shocked nobody has stepped up in our legislature to make it a federal crime for terrorists with spray cans &c. to impede the protected speech of billboard lessees
Anyone is free to come in, hang around, and watch the election. If it happens inside a black box, there ain't much to see. I've been a poll worker for many years here in the People's Republic of California, and you should see the tin-foil-hat-types that come in to be poll watchers. Comedy. That said, although all the precinct workers' primary goal seems to be upholding the integrity of the system, I don't think I'd advise any one to trust a system that CAN be gamed.
"In an era of increased and intensifying competition among telephone, satellite and cable companies, the case for a cap is even weaker than when the courts rejected it six years ago". Sounds like a lawyer wrote this script. Isn't it nice to see how increased competition and the free market can increase consumer choice and bring down prices. Yes folks, the evidence is in.
Why is it that when we see something like this, we often want to improve on it? I can remember when I first saw this place, back in the '60s, I wanted to drop a few rocks on the playa and come back later to see if they'd moved.
Can't one of these bemused scientists think of a military app (this is war, folks) and get a grant to research this. I have always wondered why they hadn't been able to attribute this definitively to the wind, or something.
I notice the Criminal Mind at work every time I converse with our boys in blue. A friend of mine had to leave a good city government network guru job rather than pirate software for the cops. I guess being above (or beneath) the law is a god-given perk of the job.
If I was a fanatical paranoid FREAK who was, say, running the NSA or something, I'd have a farm of supercomputers in Virginia or someplace running dozens of these operations already. The supermarket data is probably second only to the communications monitoring for analysis of The People. And of course total manipulation of the consumers is another practical application of this technology. Next time Law Enforcement Apologists cry about their lack of resources, remember how well they use what they have already. I actually don't own a tin hat. But I plan on being among the first to check in at the re-education center, once We The People build it.
I'd say that tropical is the common element. Thanks to climate change, I expect that to be a more common element these days. Perhaps the tropics of South America have less human population? I am not informed as to why that could be pertinent. I thought all the weird shit came out of China.
Just doin' what I can, I shun the businesses that practice what I abhor. Kinda blows my mind how stupid a population with an average I.Q. of 100 can be though.
I had a set of books once illustrating the range of the crimes perpetrated by the government of nazi Germany. One volume was purely of experiments documented by German scientists with (mostly) Jewish test subjects. Not volunteers apparently. I won't even list any of the horror show from that book, but it's as if some comic-book editor was inventing mad-scientist crime. As near as I could tell, the ONLY useful knowledge gained was when they timed how long a human could remain viable in freezing water. As in a pilot ditching in the North sea or a sailor overboard. Ghastly.
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AFAICT, the nutcases that want to reduce the military budget tend to get assassinated. Stay away from the windows, Den.
No, sadly, the director chose not to film the dramatic conclusion to the book. If i had believed this was possible, I could have saved the price of the extended DVD. Sort of leaves the field wide-open for a proper re-make. As soon as the current "rights" expire, perhaps some one will come forward to do that. "Third time's the charm".
Frankly, I just hope I live long enough to see the next remake. Maybe some one could just sort of adapt the books, with some minor abridgement, and not ruin the story.
I think I speak for a minority far smaller than .01%, however I plan to be just as disappointed as before when I go see it anyway. If I had not read the books, I think the movies would have been fine. The only one that was done right was the extended edition DVD of FOTR. Would that that were made into a theatrical print for the Art House circuit.
For a moment I dared to hope that the sequel that the headline referred to was "The Scouring of the Shire", which IMNSHO was the very best part of the whole story. I can only begin to dread what sort of sequel they are going to excrete. "Ewok Adventure" comes to mind. I suppose that the wholesale replacement of the Tom Bombadil/Barrow Wight bit with Aragorn dumping a butcher's roll of surplus cutlery on the table can be excused as a film adaptation neccessity, but I thought that was pretty harsh as well.
AC has a point. The laws and decisions nowadays seem to favor the corporate client in these cases. I am shocked nobody has stepped up in our legislature to make it a federal crime for terrorists with spray cans &c. to impede the protected speech of billboard lessees
Anyone is free to come in, hang around, and watch the election. If it happens inside a black box, there ain't much to see. I've been a poll worker for many years here in the People's Republic of California, and you should see the tin-foil-hat-types that come in to be poll watchers. Comedy. That said, although all the precinct workers' primary goal seems to be upholding the integrity of the system, I don't think I'd advise any one to trust a system that CAN be gamed.
"In an era of increased and intensifying competition among telephone, satellite and cable companies, the case for a cap is even weaker than when the courts rejected it six years ago". Sounds like a lawyer wrote this script. Isn't it nice to see how increased competition and the free market can increase consumer choice and bring down prices. Yes folks, the evidence is in.
Why is it that when we see something like this, we often want to improve on it? I can remember when I first saw this place, back in the '60s, I wanted to drop a few rocks on the playa and come back later to see if they'd moved.
Can't one of these bemused scientists think of a military app (this is war, folks) and get a grant to research this. I have always wondered why they hadn't been able to attribute this definitively to the wind, or something.
Oy, if only I hadn't squandered me moderation points this morn'n'. +1 und'rated
Yeah, me too. Cecil knows your pain.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_201.html
I notice the Criminal Mind at work every time I converse with our boys in blue. A friend of mine had to leave a good city government network guru job rather than pirate software for the cops. I guess being above (or beneath) the law is a god-given perk of the job.
I think I need to go out to the garden for a while.
I, for one, could stand more re-airing of that show. However, IMHO, Comedy Central gave it a decent run.
That would be the three-fourths of the world's fresh water that lives in Canada.
If I was a fanatical paranoid FREAK who was, say, running the NSA or something, I'd have a farm of supercomputers in Virginia or someplace running dozens of these operations already. The supermarket data is probably second only to the communications monitoring for analysis of The People. And of course total manipulation of the consumers is another practical application of this technology. Next time Law Enforcement Apologists cry about their lack of resources, remember how well they use what they have already. I actually don't own a tin hat. But I plan on being among the first to check in at the re-education center, once We The People build it.
Better than a vacation on Mars anyway.
I'd say that tropical is the common element. Thanks to climate change, I expect that to be a more common element these days. Perhaps the tropics of South America have less human population? I am not informed as to why that could be pertinent. I thought all the weird shit came out of China.
pfffft.
Viable OS in BIOS, minimum OS on top, only open the apps you want.
I have seen the promised land.
Just doin' what I can, I shun the businesses that practice what I abhor. Kinda blows my mind how stupid a population with an average I.Q. of 100 can be though.
Who would read SPAM?
I had a set of books once illustrating the range of the crimes perpetrated by the government of nazi Germany. One volume was purely of experiments documented by German scientists with (mostly) Jewish test subjects. Not volunteers apparently. I won't even list any of the horror show from that book, but it's as if some comic-book editor was inventing mad-scientist crime. As near as I could tell, the ONLY useful knowledge gained was when they timed how long a human could remain viable in freezing water. As in a pilot ditching in the North sea or a sailor overboard. Ghastly.