While I have nothing against nudity or testicular cancer awareness, I would still prefer to avoid some other dude's balls in the morning if possible, thanks.
Bullshit. That's what 1997 Lucas said, 20 years after-the-fact. 1977 Lucas (the talented one) never said any such thing. It was just a self-serving bunch of horseshit to justify his butchery.
Let's see the "Kids don't know how to do anything today" grandpa set up a secure wireless router and do a web search, since his generation is so damn smart.
Yeah, but without the FCC, I might have to actually pay attention to what my kids are watching myself. Can't the FCC just screen the babysitter for me, while I take a nap?
All the scenes in Mos Eisley and Cloud City with all the distracting CGI crap going on in the background are pretty annoying too. And let's not forget the ending of ROTJ, with that girl replacing Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker's "ghost."
What anamorphic laserdiscs? AFAIK, the only anamorphic versions ever released were the DVD "special edition" versions. The best non-anamorphic versions ever released were the "theatrical versions" on the second discs of those same DVD releases.
I've never been much into Hitch (he was way before my time and I just never got into him, though I did like "Vertigo"). So I'm unqualified to judge whether he should qualify too.
Some would include Eastwood. I wouldn't, though. I think Eastwood's directing work peaked in the 70's. While he's made good movies since, they're mostly good on the basis of the writing and acting. Eastwood's directing style is pretty pedestrian. He does deserve credit for assembling good casts and using good screenwriters and scripts, but that's not a particularly creative effort. I don't think he's made a visually striking film since The Outlaw Josey Whales, and probably peaked creatively with High Plains Drifter.
Digg is the classic case of a site that started out kind of useful and interesting. But it quickly got way too much press and hype, then subsequently expanded itself into something that tries to be everything to everyone--and lost its focus and value in the process. The comments at Digg have always been pretty lame compared to more mature sites like slashdot (and here you thought you'd never see "mature" and "slashdot" in the same sentence). But it was a pretty good place for tech articles before they started adding every other news and gossip category they could think of. Now it's just an annoying mess. I used to check in there daily for articles, but I honestly now maybe check in once a month, if that.
It would have to be a pretty impressive meteor to render the Earth less survivable than any other body in our solar system. We haven't had one like that for billions of years.
I said "modern" MMO's. Final Fantasy XI is an ancient PC-only MMO that was poorly ported to consoles ages ago. Final Fantasy XIV is another in a long line of PC-only MMO's that is supposedly going to get ported to a console in the distant future. There have been a bunchofthese, however, and none has ever actually materialized in their console form. They show up on the PC, then at some point their console version gets indefinitely shelved.
I always though of Episode 4 as purely Arthurian. Merlin hides Arthur with an adopted family and eventually returns to reveal his true destiny. Owen even refers to Kenodbi as a wizard in the dialog. Luke even gets his Excalibur and has to assemble his knights (with Han Solo as an unlikely Lancelot and Leia as his Guinevere).
Every director has about 10 years of peek creativity, give or take a few years. And Cameron is well past his creative prime (basically from about 1983 to 1992).
There are some notable exceptions to the 10-year-rule, BTW. I would argue that Stanley Kubrick and John Sayles are two of the VERY rare exceptions. Many would include Scorsese as well.
Actually, it would be over 250 years for a reply (127 to get there, 127 for the reply). This system hasn't even received a single radio signal from Earth yet (127 years ago we didn't have radio). And by the time we got a reply, we might not even be using conventional radio signaling anymore (assuming we got incredibly lucky enough to catch them in just the right period where they were).
They might also have been smart enough to have figured out that traveling such distances to so little end was a ridiculous waste of resources, and instead put their brilliance and limited resources into making their original planet more survivable and durable.
I used "almost unimaginable" as in "extremely difficult for the average human to appreciate." The vast majority of the populace thinks of interstellar space as a relatively easily transversible space (thanks to scifi and movies), as something that will almost inevitably be conquered by man in the same way that we sent a man to the moon. They have no idea the incredible difference in scale between a trip to the moon and a trip to another solar system.
I am also continually mystified by the refusal of developers to port even a single MMO to a console. Every developer is spending a fortune to make the PC-only WoW-killer and losing their shirts when it inevitably either fails or flounders. Meanwhile, not a single modern MMO has been developed for a console (and modern consoles have more than adequate hardware to handle it). Considering how many console-only or console-primary gamers that are out there, that seems like a downright bizarre oversight. Everyone is treading the same well-worn path as everyone else and ignoring the one blindingly obvious path that no one has ever went down.
I know a lot of people say that MMO's are somehow impossible to do on a console. But I remember when people used to say that about FPS's and RTS's too.
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While I have nothing against nudity or testicular cancer awareness, I would still prefer to avoid some other dude's balls in the morning if possible, thanks.
I have it on good authority that many gays were breast fed as children. If that's not conclusive proof, I don't know what is.
Yes, we're all familiar with Mr. Mittens.
Bullshit. That's what 1997 Lucas said, 20 years after-the-fact. 1977 Lucas (the talented one) never said any such thing. It was just a self-serving bunch of horseshit to justify his butchery.
Let's see the "Kids don't know how to do anything today" grandpa set up a secure wireless router and do a web search, since his generation is so damn smart.
Yeah, but without the FCC, I might have to actually pay attention to what my kids are watching myself. Can't the FCC just screen the babysitter for me, while I take a nap?
All the scenes in Mos Eisley and Cloud City with all the distracting CGI crap going on in the background are pretty annoying too. And let's not forget the ending of ROTJ, with that girl replacing Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker's "ghost."
What anamorphic laserdiscs? AFAIK, the only anamorphic versions ever released were the DVD "special edition" versions. The best non-anamorphic versions ever released were the "theatrical versions" on the second discs of those same DVD releases.
I've never been much into Hitch (he was way before my time and I just never got into him, though I did like "Vertigo"). So I'm unqualified to judge whether he should qualify too.
His name is Algernon!
Police did find a knife on the floor, corroborating his account that the server came at him first.
Some would include Eastwood. I wouldn't, though. I think Eastwood's directing work peaked in the 70's. While he's made good movies since, they're mostly good on the basis of the writing and acting. Eastwood's directing style is pretty pedestrian. He does deserve credit for assembling good casts and using good screenwriters and scripts, but that's not a particularly creative effort. I don't think he's made a visually striking film since The Outlaw Josey Whales, and probably peaked creatively with High Plains Drifter.
Digg is the classic case of a site that started out kind of useful and interesting. But it quickly got way too much press and hype, then subsequently expanded itself into something that tries to be everything to everyone--and lost its focus and value in the process. The comments at Digg have always been pretty lame compared to more mature sites like slashdot (and here you thought you'd never see "mature" and "slashdot" in the same sentence). But it was a pretty good place for tech articles before they started adding every other news and gossip category they could think of. Now it's just an annoying mess. I used to check in there daily for articles, but I honestly now maybe check in once a month, if that.
Yeah, quite a few MMO's have been absolutely coming to consoles for years now.
That could teach them a thing or two about commerce and trade, I suppose.
It would have to be a pretty impressive meteor to render the Earth less survivable than any other body in our solar system. We haven't had one like that for billions of years.
I said "modern" MMO's. Final Fantasy XI is an ancient PC-only MMO that was poorly ported to consoles ages ago. Final Fantasy XIV is another in a long line of PC-only MMO's that is supposedly going to get ported to a console in the distant future. There have been a bunch of these, however, and none has ever actually materialized in their console form. They show up on the PC, then at some point their console version gets indefinitely shelved.
I always though of Episode 4 as purely Arthurian. Merlin hides Arthur with an adopted family and eventually returns to reveal his true destiny. Owen even refers to Kenodbi as a wizard in the dialog. Luke even gets his Excalibur and has to assemble his knights (with Han Solo as an unlikely Lancelot and Leia as his Guinevere).
Every director has about 10 years of peek creativity, give or take a few years. And Cameron is well past his creative prime (basically from about 1983 to 1992).
There are some notable exceptions to the 10-year-rule, BTW. I would argue that Stanley Kubrick and John Sayles are two of the VERY rare exceptions. Many would include Scorsese as well.
Actually, it would be over 250 years for a reply (127 to get there, 127 for the reply). This system hasn't even received a single radio signal from Earth yet (127 years ago we didn't have radio). And by the time we got a reply, we might not even be using conventional radio signaling anymore (assuming we got incredibly lucky enough to catch them in just the right period where they were).
They might also have been smart enough to have figured out that traveling such distances to so little end was a ridiculous waste of resources, and instead put their brilliance and limited resources into making their original planet more survivable and durable.
I used "almost unimaginable" as in "extremely difficult for the average human to appreciate." The vast majority of the populace thinks of interstellar space as a relatively easily transversible space (thanks to scifi and movies), as something that will almost inevitably be conquered by man in the same way that we sent a man to the moon. They have no idea the incredible difference in scale between a trip to the moon and a trip to another solar system.
Wormholes are the science world's equivalent of "Maybe Merlin can conjure up a Griffon to fly us there!"
I am also continually mystified by the refusal of developers to port even a single MMO to a console. Every developer is spending a fortune to make the PC-only WoW-killer and losing their shirts when it inevitably either fails or flounders. Meanwhile, not a single modern MMO has been developed for a console (and modern consoles have more than adequate hardware to handle it). Considering how many console-only or console-primary gamers that are out there, that seems like a downright bizarre oversight. Everyone is treading the same well-worn path as everyone else and ignoring the one blindingly obvious path that no one has ever went down.
I know a lot of people say that MMO's are somehow impossible to do on a console. But I remember when people used to say that about FPS's and RTS's too.
He had me at "enterprise."