I was not a huge fan of District 9, but to even consider the two in the same sentence when it comes to political commentary is just silly. District 9 was an overtly critical action flick, Avatar was platitude-filled garbage.
This decision had nothing to do with politics, just the Chinese film industry looking out for its own interests.
I was very excited about Voddler (I'm a Spotify premium subscriber, and a big movie buff, so it was just what I'd been waiting for), until I read about how the mac client works.
When installed it takes root access (in beta? how can that be safe?), and the server part never shuts down. That's right, when you're not watching a movie, you're still uploading. When you're out and about with your laptop and on a 3G tether, just checking your email and paying for data transfer, you're still uploading. When you have some real uploading to do (for work or whatever), the only way to turn off the Voddler sharing is to uninstall the server part, and then the client and player stops working.
The article states that "the merchandising on Cars currently accounts for over $5bn in revenues."
I fail to see how that could be considered a failure, even if it is their weakest film.
3D scares the shit out of me. Every time filmmaking has had a similar introduction of new technology, the art of filmmaking has taken a huge step back.
When sound was introduced, films suddenly looked the way they did in the 1910s, except for european films that didn't record sound on location, and Chaplin, who continued making silent films.
When color was introduced to combat the introduction of TV-sets (much like 3D is only a gimmick to keep us from downloading movies), cinematography was fell back to where it was in the early sound era.
Early cgi confined the camera to be still.
I've seen some of the recent 3d films, and I'm not impressed. It's not about headaches or feeling nauseous, it's about how limiting it is to the filmmaker, there are so many tools you simply can't do in 3d (handheld, selective focus, superimposition, and so on). It's like telling a painter he can't use certain colors, or telling a composer he's no allowed to shift time signatures.
As someone who's hoping to direct his first feature film in the next ten years or so, I really hope no producer will tell me i have to make it in 3d because "that's the only way to make it sell".
The Pirate Bay is not located in Sweden any more. If the people behind it are convicted they will be a couple million dollars in debt, but nothing will actually happen to the website.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not, but people all over the world are laughing at the notion of Obama being a socialist.
As in the 90s, at least we can rejoice over the lesser of two evils winning.
I'm calling it right now, the sims movie will be about a guy who realizes his life and all his actions are being controlled by someone playing sims, and in the end he finally manages to break free.
With the average text taking half a minute to type, she spent almost two hours per day texting.
Now, how much time does the average teenager spend on AIM or myspace?
In my oh-so-humble opinion, it's because most people see music as something going on in the background, rather than something that should be given undivided attention, the way film and software (your examples, not mine), usually are.
So, all the record labels need to do is find artists that are worth just listening to, and they can load it with as much DRM as they want.
I bet everyone who says they didn't play Sensible World of Soccer are from a certain country where soccer had very little impact before the 1994 world cup.
We played that game like crazy here in Europe.
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Would it have had as much support without the recent (allegedly chinese) attack against Google and other companies?
BYOCT... (Bring your own conspiracy theory)
I was not a huge fan of District 9, but to even consider the two in the same sentence when it comes to political commentary is just silly. District 9 was an overtly critical action flick, Avatar was platitude-filled garbage.
This decision had nothing to do with politics, just the Chinese film industry looking out for its own interests.
Good to hear. Mod this up I guess. (And get me an invite)
I was very excited about Voddler (I'm a Spotify premium subscriber, and a big movie buff, so it was just what I'd been waiting for), until I read about how the mac client works.
When installed it takes root access (in beta? how can that be safe?), and the server part never shuts down. That's right, when you're not watching a movie, you're still uploading. When you're out and about with your laptop and on a 3G tether, just checking your email and paying for data transfer, you're still uploading. When you have some real uploading to do (for work or whatever), the only way to turn off the Voddler sharing is to uninstall the server part, and then the client and player stops working.
No thanks.
The article states that "the merchandising on Cars currently accounts for over $5bn in revenues." I fail to see how that could be considered a failure, even if it is their weakest film.
As far as safe bets go, a Pixar film is a safer bet than a sequel. Have they ever failed?
The headline is wrong, by the way. There will be non-sequels in between.
Let's also dump enough white paint to make a 1 inch cover of the oceans.
I still haven't seen anyone joke about how in sports DNF is short for did not finish. Can we get on that?
3D scares the shit out of me. Every time filmmaking has had a similar introduction of new technology, the art of filmmaking has taken a huge step back.
When sound was introduced, films suddenly looked the way they did in the 1910s, except for european films that didn't record sound on location, and Chaplin, who continued making silent films.
When color was introduced to combat the introduction of TV-sets (much like 3D is only a gimmick to keep us from downloading movies), cinematography was fell back to where it was in the early sound era.
Early cgi confined the camera to be still.
I've seen some of the recent 3d films, and I'm not impressed. It's not about headaches or feeling nauseous, it's about how limiting it is to the filmmaker, there are so many tools you simply can't do in 3d (handheld, selective focus, superimposition, and so on). It's like telling a painter he can't use certain colors, or telling a composer he's no allowed to shift time signatures.
As someone who's hoping to direct his first feature film in the next ten years or so, I really hope no producer will tell me i have to make it in 3d because "that's the only way to make it sell".
The Pirate Bay is not located in Sweden any more. If the people behind it are convicted they will be a couple million dollars in debt, but nothing will actually happen to the website.
So, what's better than the lesser of two evils? Why, of course, the lessest of three evils!
I can't tell if this is a joke or not, but people all over the world are laughing at the notion of Obama being a socialist. As in the 90s, at least we can rejoice over the lesser of two evils winning.
A 55 mm lens with a small format camera could be very long. I seriously doubt they put mm widths in such a law.
Screw the pentagon, i want to know how this military building got its shape.
It's a film based on a videogame. Has there ever been an original film like that?
I'm calling it right now, the sims movie will be about a guy who realizes his life and all his actions are being controlled by someone playing sims, and in the end he finally manages to break free.
So this dude has pictures of himself taken in a mirror with huge cleavage, and does Cyndi Lauper lipsync videos? Hell, I'd pay to see that!
With the average text taking half a minute to type, she spent almost two hours per day texting. Now, how much time does the average teenager spend on AIM or myspace?
Screenshot or it didn't happen!
In my oh-so-humble opinion, it's because most people see music as something going on in the background, rather than something that should be given undivided attention, the way film and software (your examples, not mine), usually are.
So, all the record labels need to do is find artists that are worth just listening to, and they can load it with as much DRM as they want.
Don't forget downloading it every time you want to see changes.
I bet everyone who says they didn't play Sensible World of Soccer are from a certain country where soccer had very little impact before the 1994 world cup. We played that game like crazy here in Europe.
And yet MIT scientists and Harvard scientists get laid just as seldom.
They still use dolphins. You can watch them train in San Diego. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy_Marine_Mamm al_Program
Super glue?