I'm not surprised by any of this. Microsoft's whole business model is to control the user end and force companies into catering to the users. Sure Firefox is gaining ground, but IE is still well above 80% market share and has no white hot smoking sense of urgency to become standard when most web users will eat the food MS feeds them.
Remember the days when making a website included referencing which browser version worked on that particular site. Perhaps that needs to be brought back to help nudge (*force) the casual web surfer into realizing there's a reason web pages look the way they do, and there are alternatives that can be faster, better, stronger.
Problem is, Apple does the same thing with iTunes. You don't get iTunes without Quicktime. You don't get iTunes and Quicktime without getting the iTunes and Quicktime helpers in your startup folder, eating up boot time. And Quicktime loves to just put itself in your taskbar without giving you the option to leave you alone before it installs. Yahoo is worse, but Appple isn't clean either.
Plus iTunes is just sooooo much better. I mean seriously have have any of you tried it?
I thought he spoke monotonously because his breathing was mechanical due to the "accident" with Obi. He is basically a machine in that suit, so any kind of normal human behavior would become labored and I imagine painful.
Nobody uses the phrase knickleheads anymore. Kudos for making me smile.
Dont get me wrong. Lucas' writing is a big player in the nearly unbearable Star Wars 1-3, but even in scenes with no dialogue, where the actor is forced to convey deep and somtimes primal emotion, Hayden fails in almost every outing.
Neil's right that expecting an actor, no matter what caliber, to try to act around the overwhelming glut of extra media of the universe of Star Wars is ridiculous. Even good actors can act around poor dialogue though with exemplary performances during the silent moments.
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I'm not surprised by any of this. Microsoft's whole business model is to control the user end and force companies into catering to the users. Sure Firefox is gaining ground, but IE is still well above 80% market share and has no white hot smoking sense of urgency to become standard when most web users will eat the food MS feeds them. Remember the days when making a website included referencing which browser version worked on that particular site. Perhaps that needs to be brought back to help nudge (*force) the casual web surfer into realizing there's a reason web pages look the way they do, and there are alternatives that can be faster, better, stronger.
Problem is, Apple does the same thing with iTunes. You don't get iTunes without Quicktime. You don't get iTunes and Quicktime without getting the iTunes and Quicktime helpers in your startup folder, eating up boot time. And Quicktime loves to just put itself in your taskbar without giving you the option to leave you alone before it installs. Yahoo is worse, but Appple isn't clean either. Plus iTunes is just sooooo much better. I mean seriously have have any of you tried it?
I thought he spoke monotonously because his breathing was mechanical due to the "accident" with Obi. He is basically a machine in that suit, so any kind of normal human behavior would become labored and I imagine painful. Nobody uses the phrase knickleheads anymore. Kudos for making me smile.
Dont get me wrong. Lucas' writing is a big player in the nearly unbearable Star Wars 1-3, but even in scenes with no dialogue, where the actor is forced to convey deep and somtimes primal emotion, Hayden fails in almost every outing. Neil's right that expecting an actor, no matter what caliber, to try to act around the overwhelming glut of extra media of the universe of Star Wars is ridiculous. Even good actors can act around poor dialogue though with exemplary performances during the silent moments.
Impossible, maybe. But consdering Hayden Christensen never portrayed Anakin as anything but a piece of cardboard, I doubt he's without fault.