Sometimes I really hate Hollywood. There is absolutely no reason, other than sheer greed and laziness, to go back and exploit a good trilogy with a 20-years-later sequel featuring an embarrassingly aged cast and mediocre storyline. It's essentially a case of Spielberg and Hollywood throwing their hands up and saying "Well, we can't come up with anything ORIGINAL. Let's just make a open money grab by tarnishing one of our quality projects from the past."
If it weren't for the creative young directors coming out of independent cinema and the new paths of distribution now available for the few original films out there, I would have given up on film a long time ago." I haven't seen a quality blockbuster in years, but at least there are still a lot of brilliant smaller films out there (you know, the ones that AREN'T prequels, sequels, and remakes).
Considering the size of the catalog you get access to (even 10% of Netflix beats the Hell out of iTunes), the fact that you get access to Netflix's disc catalog too, the price, the ease of use, and the fact that you don't have to install iTunes on your computer to use it, it seems like a no-brainer.
Bewtween Apple, Realplayer, and various AV software packages playing hide and seek in my system tray and that goddamn Clippy in Word, I've been tempted to throw many a new computer right out my window over the years.
SEE THAT CLIPPY, I'M TRYING TO KILL YOU! CAN YOU HELP ME WITH *THAT*, MOTHERFUCKER?!?!
Doesn't work. When you uncheck it in the program, it still comes back every time (sometimes it hides under processes, but it will eventually reappear in the systray too).
My $50 a year online service is great. Most of my friends are on it and I was able to play GTA4 online from day one, unlike my PSN friends. And I get achievements and a shitload of other features not available on PSN (and I've used both, so I should know)
My HD-DVD add-on drive only cost $130, lets me play a number of titles that aren't available on blu-ray (incl. the awesome Battlestar Galactica HD boxset), and allowed me to get a number of great deals recently when HD-DVD discs were on clearance. It even gives me the bonus of a low-footprint drive that can be moved over next to the couch with a simple USB 2.0 extension cable.
As for sound, both my 360 and PS3 are perfectly quiet (especially compared to the computer server in my setup)
I suspect the real reason was just member burn-out and disinterest, not any recent changes. No MMO lasts forever, and most guilds are even more short-lived.
Listen PS3 fanboy. I own a PS3 and a 360, and I can tell you that the 360 has some absolutely beautiful games that blow away anything on the PS3 in terms of graphics, story, and fun. Drake's Fortune is about the only decent exclusive I've seen on my PS3, and it doesn't even begin to compare with titles like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo 3, or even Gears of War. And I haven't heard a "howls of disappointment" yet about any of the 360 games you mentioned (probably because none of them are even out yet).
The PETA assholes are even worse. I finally just started getting rude and telling them "Look, if I wanted to support an organization that really help abused animals, I would support the ASPCA. Do you HONESTLY think your anti-pet, anti-livestock policy would make life better for all the domesticated pets and livestock that would be thrown out into the wild if we gave them up tomorrow?"
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And I agree with most of these, particularly Apple. I recently spent several hours trying to remove Quicktime from my system and replace it with Quicktime alternative. I had to go in and hand edit the registry. The damn program was incidious about wriggling it's way back into my system tray and running processes if every single reference to it wasn't removed from the registry. That will be the last piece of Apple software I ever install on my system.
The problem is that the hippies keep changing their story. I feel like I'm in an Orwell novel where the enemies and allies keep changing. One day Al Gore is touting ethanol as the solution to all our gas problems, then when it's pointed out that this has led to a global food crisis already, suddenly he's all about wind. Global cooling, the disappearing ozone layer, global warming...what will it be tomorrow, guys?
Doesn't anyone even pay attention to Greenpeace's bitching anymore? I mean, if you've got someone who tells you every day that the sky is falling, no matter what you do, how long before you just tune them out?
You're making the same mistake Peter made in "Office Space," romanticizing the "simple life" of the working class. I grew up working class. It's not romantic. It's not simple. It sucks ass. Working a mind-numbing hard labor job is a fucking nightmare. I went to college and now work a job that is sometimes a bit of a pain; but compared to cutting tobacco, cleaning toilets, and working on a factory assembly line, it's a dream job.
Why waste time in front of a computer when you can pursue more exciting activities--such as shitting yourself in a nursing home, bitterly cataloging your regrets, and complaining about kids these days.
Heinlein deserved to be pissed on. His book was a bunch of right-wing, idealistic, pulp crap. Verhoeven just pointed out the obvious flaws in assuming that a society ran by the military would be benevolent to its citizens.
You're not alone. I was a HUGE Futurama fan and Bender's Big Score was pretty bland. It started off really bad and got a little better toward the end. But overall, it was pretty weak tea. About the only things I liked about it were the call-backs to my two favorite Futurama episodes ("Luck of the Fryrish" and "Jurassic Bark"). Nice to know the dog got to see Fry again, after all.
I like to think maybe they were just out of practice, and the next movies will be better. We'll see.
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You've been on /. this long and you're just now noticing that we bitch about everything?
At least Lucas had the goddamned sense to hire ghost writers for the second and third installments. That's why they got progressively better.
If it weren't for the creative young directors coming out of independent cinema and the new paths of distribution now available for the few original films out there, I would have given up on film a long time ago." I haven't seen a quality blockbuster in years, but at least there are still a lot of brilliant smaller films out there (you know, the ones that AREN'T prequels, sequels, and remakes).
Well, I just had to say it. Okay, you can mod me down now. I deserve it.
Considering the size of the catalog you get access to (even 10% of Netflix beats the Hell out of iTunes), the fact that you get access to Netflix's disc catalog too, the price, the ease of use, and the fact that you don't have to install iTunes on your computer to use it, it seems like a no-brainer.
SEE THAT CLIPPY, I'M TRYING TO KILL YOU! CAN YOU HELP ME WITH *THAT*, MOTHERFUCKER?!?!
Doesn't work. When you uncheck it in the program, it still comes back every time (sometimes it hides under processes, but it will eventually reappear in the systray too).
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0 scratched discs.
My $50 a year online service is great. Most of my friends are on it and I was able to play GTA4 online from day one, unlike my PSN friends. And I get achievements and a shitload of other features not available on PSN (and I've used both, so I should know)
My HD-DVD add-on drive only cost $130, lets me play a number of titles that aren't available on blu-ray (incl. the awesome Battlestar Galactica HD boxset), and allowed me to get a number of great deals recently when HD-DVD discs were on clearance. It even gives me the bonus of a low-footprint drive that can be moved over next to the couch with a simple USB 2.0 extension cable.
As for sound, both my 360 and PS3 are perfectly quiet (especially compared to the computer server in my setup)
How does your PS3 look from so far up Sony's ass?
Why, so some Chinese farmers could grab them all up?
I suspect the real reason was just member burn-out and disinterest, not any recent changes. No MMO lasts forever, and most guilds are even more short-lived.
In other words, get back under the bridge.
The only lesson that we've learned over the years is that the Japanese can't count worth a fuck.
Are you asking for a Wii port, or just being snarky for snarky's sake?
The PETA assholes are even worse. I finally just started getting rude and telling them "Look, if I wanted to support an organization that really help abused animals, I would support the ASPCA. Do you HONESTLY think your anti-pet, anti-livestock policy would make life better for all the domesticated pets and livestock that would be thrown out into the wild if we gave them up tomorrow?"
And I agree with most of these, particularly Apple. I recently spent several hours trying to remove Quicktime from my system and replace it with Quicktime alternative. I had to go in and hand edit the registry. The damn program was incidious about wriggling it's way back into my system tray and running processes if every single reference to it wasn't removed from the registry. That will be the last piece of Apple software I ever install on my system.
The problem is that the hippies keep changing their story. I feel like I'm in an Orwell novel where the enemies and allies keep changing. One day Al Gore is touting ethanol as the solution to all our gas problems, then when it's pointed out that this has led to a global food crisis already, suddenly he's all about wind. Global cooling, the disappearing ozone layer, global warming...what will it be tomorrow, guys?
Yeah, but the Wii is built using baby seal skin.
Doesn't anyone even pay attention to Greenpeace's bitching anymore? I mean, if you've got someone who tells you every day that the sky is falling, no matter what you do, how long before you just tune them out?
After only a year of using it and several tutorials, I figured out have to save a file!
Dude!
You're making the same mistake Peter made in "Office Space," romanticizing the "simple life" of the working class. I grew up working class. It's not romantic. It's not simple. It sucks ass. Working a mind-numbing hard labor job is a fucking nightmare. I went to college and now work a job that is sometimes a bit of a pain; but compared to cutting tobacco, cleaning toilets, and working on a factory assembly line, it's a dream job.
Why waste time in front of a computer when you can pursue more exciting activities--such as shitting yourself in a nursing home, bitterly cataloging your regrets, and complaining about kids these days.
Heinlein deserved to be pissed on. His book was a bunch of right-wing, idealistic, pulp crap. Verhoeven just pointed out the obvious flaws in assuming that a society ran by the military would be benevolent to its citizens.
He should be on all subsequent DVD's.
All hail hypnotoad.
I like to think maybe they were just out of practice, and the next movies will be better. We'll see.