If Lukas wants the Tiger Beat crowd, just let the Backstreet boys score the next movie!!
Everyone together now....
"The Sith are Back....alright !!!"
On DiCaprio:
I hope it's the other way around, that Leo is BEGGING Lukas for the part..
Lukas can surely afford to pay Leo's assinine fee, but Lukas has always stayed away from the "Star Factor" hiring decent low-image actors and actresses. Besides, SW doesn't need a film with fodder like Jim Carrey, Hugh Grant or Julia Roberts to attract eyeballs.
my experiences w/ Sun's optical mouse have made me avoid them.
*Special mouse pad is far too fussy for human contact ( must clean almost daily or cursor develops a mind of its own)
*There's no resistance to them, I suppose I prefer some feedback from a mouse.
*Sorry, but Sun system's mice are anti-ergonomic. Right up there with the pitiful i-mac mouse.
*Do you need yet another device to send power to?
MS, again wants to be your 'one stop shop', buying technology from some young upstart and selling it as its own. As a lefty, I hate MS for insisting on providing computer makers with 'righty-only' mice. Kudos to "Dell" for shipping a Logitech symetrical mouse now.
I love my trackball....I'll wait for Kensington or Logitech to take a crack at optical mice.
I sat through "Private Ryan" just fine, but as soon as I got outside, I felt felt a wave of sickness... I broke down in tears 1 block away from the theatre. I thanked the higher powers above that I never had to go to war. I hugged my wife and told how much I loved her. Never has a movie had such a mental impact on me.
Yes, the special effects had their place...how else can the sheer magnitude of human brutality be portrayed. The FX weren't for show. They were to recreate human experience. I don't believe that they were there to "fill in gaps in the plot", like most techno-fluff" that we've been subjected to (need I name them ??) Otherwise, "Ryan" would have end up just another "yee-haw Wayne" movie.
Our generation is so desensitized to violence, that most theatre goes didn't even get the point. We see body parts flying, blood-spurting and people hacked-hacked in movies all the time and think nothing of it.....
When was the last time you were actually MORTIFIED AND DISCUSTED at the sight of someone getting their head blown off ?? This time I WAS.
There was no avoiding it in "Ryan". You have to realize that millions of men died like that. They didn't just fall over w/ a sigh... they were killed in some of the most horrific circumstances possible.
For the first time (in a long while it seem) the technology of special effects were used RIGHT.
My hats off to the makers of "Ryan" as well as all those unfortunate enough to have had to serve on the front lines in any war.
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Microsoft rapes and pillages another useful technology for its own good......
If Lukas wants the Tiger Beat crowd, just let the Backstreet boys score the next movie!!
Everyone together now....
"The Sith are Back....alright !!!"
On DiCaprio:
I hope it's the other way around, that Leo is BEGGING Lukas for the part..
Lukas can surely afford to pay Leo's assinine fee, but Lukas has always stayed away from the "Star Factor" hiring decent low-image actors and actresses. Besides, SW doesn't need a film with fodder like Jim Carrey, Hugh Grant or Julia Roberts to attract eyeballs.
"I'VE GOT A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS"
my experiences w/ Sun's optical mouse have made me avoid them.
*Special mouse pad is far too fussy for human contact ( must clean almost daily or cursor develops a mind of its own)
*There's no resistance to them, I suppose I prefer some feedback from a mouse.
*Sorry, but Sun system's mice are anti-ergonomic. Right up there with the pitiful i-mac mouse.
*Do you need yet another device to send power to?
MS, again wants to be your 'one stop shop', buying technology from some young upstart and selling it as its own. As a lefty, I hate MS for insisting on providing computer makers with 'righty-only' mice. Kudos to "Dell" for shipping a Logitech symetrical mouse now.
I love my trackball....I'll wait for Kensington or Logitech to take a crack at optical mice.
U impatient leech!
I sat through "Private Ryan" just fine, but as soon as I got outside, I felt felt a wave of sickness ... I broke down in tears 1 block away from the theatre. I thanked the higher powers above that I never had to go to war. I hugged my wife and told how much I loved her. Never has a movie had such a mental impact on me.
... they were killed in some of the most horrific circumstances possible.
Yes, the special effects had their place...how else can the sheer magnitude of human brutality be portrayed. The FX weren't for show. They were to recreate human experience. I don't believe that they were there to "fill in gaps in the plot", like most techno-fluff" that we've been subjected to (need I name them ??) Otherwise, "Ryan" would have end up just another "yee-haw Wayne" movie.
Our generation is so desensitized to violence, that most theatre goes didn't even get the point. We see body parts flying, blood-spurting and people hacked-hacked in movies all the time and think nothing of it.....
When was the last time you were actually MORTIFIED AND DISCUSTED at the sight of someone getting their head blown off ?? This time I WAS.
There was no avoiding it in "Ryan". You have to realize that millions of men died like that. They didn't just fall over w/ a sigh
For the first time (in a long while it seem) the technology of special effects were used RIGHT.
My hats off to the makers of "Ryan" as well as all those unfortunate enough to have had to serve on the front lines in any war.
Peace.