I was just pointing out that there exist popular bandwagons they could choose to jump on which, at least in my mind, could do more to hurt it than the prequels ever did. But I agree with you that after that point, why even bother keeping score any more?
Oh please. This geek culture icon has already been thoroughly ruined by the Prequel movies. There's nothing more they can do to hurt it at this point, it'd be beating a dead horse.
I'd beg to differ. Hokey CGI comedy relief characters >> angsty tween romance characters. Have you *seen* the previews for the spate of crap coming out soon courting the Twi-hards? There are depths the Star Wars folks have yet to plumb; let's pray they don't.
Unless the guy having the mental breakdown decides to sue the police regarding his bloodied face and would've been glad for the evidence, in which case he's back to freedom fighter.
... the guy would have complied. Unless of course he's a total douche, in which case that's what disorderly conduct is for, and the police, while still wrong, could have simply taken him to jail, had his possessions surrendered, and then deleted the footage and released him after booking.
Wait, you consider that a better scenario than what actually happened?
Biting? Who ever did that? That's what your pocket knife was for.
As for more aggressive, well... I guess I could understand that conclusion. We were there to catch trout. Fly fishermen were apparently there to show off to other fly fishermen.
How has this not come up before, given the decades' worth of fan-made movie and television prop replicas being sold at conventions and websites around the world? I can remember seeing Star Trek props made from the "original molds" on dealer tables twenty-five years ago - has Paramount been going after these folks for copyright/trademark violations all along? Or is this case different because it's a car?
The AR-15 is a very common rifle for recreational and competition shooting. "Nut" comment aside, she was ultimately responsible: 1) Not properly securing them, 2) Not just getting rid of them while having an unstable individual living in her house.
Four isn't exactly an arsenal. And she was into recreational shooting, they weren't just self defense. But she is indeed the answer in that she obviously did not secure her guns well enough from her disturbed son.
That's most likely the gist of it. For those of us old enough to remember, there were some very "smooth" looking video formats used on television in the late 1960s and 1970s. It was generally associated with low budgets, thus poorer quality shows. Whereas movies, even though at a lower frame rate and not having that smoothness, were associated with quality. I'm sure to the younger generation, adapting to the higher frame rates The Hobbit will no doubt usher in will be much less of a problem. For some of us, it will be difficult to reject half a lifetime of smoothness = crap.
From the reviews I've seen so far, no one seems to enjoy the 48fps. Even mainstream reviewers have referred to it as 1970s video smooth, "old Dr. Who at best." (Paraphrasing from the CNN review this morning). Maybe The Hobbit is the sacrificial movie which needed to be made and receive this kind of backlash, in order to never have such an awful-looking "feature" used in film again.
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Good point. Make that the perception of expensive enough.
The question isn't whether this stuff is strong enough or conductive enough, it's whether it's expensive enough to be used in Monster cables.
No, just frosty.
Yup. That water's full of microscopic spawn of the Elder Things. We're doomed.
So instead of its usual four pixels, it will be up to, what, six or seven?
I was just pointing out that there exist popular bandwagons they could choose to jump on which, at least in my mind, could do more to hurt it than the prequels ever did. But I agree with you that after that point, why even bother keeping score any more?
Monkey Tennis...
I am intrigued.
Oh please. This geek culture icon has already been thoroughly ruined by the Prequel movies. There's nothing more they can do to hurt it at this point, it'd be beating a dead horse.
I'd beg to differ. Hokey CGI comedy relief characters >> angsty tween romance characters. Have you *seen* the previews for the spate of crap coming out soon courting the Twi-hards? There are depths the Star Wars folks have yet to plumb; let's pray they don't.
Unless the guy having the mental breakdown decides to sue the police regarding his bloodied face and would've been glad for the evidence, in which case he's back to freedom fighter.
... the guy would have complied. Unless of course he's a total douche, in which case that's what disorderly conduct is for, and the police, while still wrong, could have simply taken him to jail, had his possessions surrendered, and then deleted the footage and released him after booking.
Wait, you consider that a better scenario than what actually happened?
...they'd try it with carrion crawlers, not flies.
Biting? Who ever did that? That's what your pocket knife was for.
As for more aggressive, well... I guess I could understand that conclusion. We were there to catch trout. Fly fishermen were apparently there to show off to other fly fishermen.
Why don't you convince him to start using deodorant, shave his neckbeard, and start dating a supermodel?
How has this not come up before, given the decades' worth of fan-made movie and television prop replicas being sold at conventions and websites around the world? I can remember seeing Star Trek props made from the "original molds" on dealer tables twenty-five years ago - has Paramount been going after these folks for copyright/trademark violations all along? Or is this case different because it's a car?
Intentional conflation. It was a joke, son.
The AR-15 is a very common rifle for recreational and competition shooting. "Nut" comment aside, she was ultimately responsible: 1) Not properly securing them, 2) Not just getting rid of them while having an unstable individual living in her house.
Four isn't exactly an arsenal. And she was into recreational shooting, they weren't just self defense. But she is indeed the answer in that she obviously did not secure her guns well enough from her disturbed son.
Indeed. The fact that oil painting survived the invention of the camera is pure foolishness.
That's most likely the gist of it. For those of us old enough to remember, there were some very "smooth" looking video formats used on television in the late 1960s and 1970s. It was generally associated with low budgets, thus poorer quality shows. Whereas movies, even though at a lower frame rate and not having that smoothness, were associated with quality. I'm sure to the younger generation, adapting to the higher frame rates The Hobbit will no doubt usher in will be much less of a problem. For some of us, it will be difficult to reject half a lifetime of smoothness = crap.
From the reviews I've seen so far, no one seems to enjoy the 48fps. Even mainstream reviewers have referred to it as 1970s video smooth, "old Dr. Who at best." (Paraphrasing from the CNN review this morning). Maybe The Hobbit is the sacrificial movie which needed to be made and receive this kind of backlash, in order to never have such an awful-looking "feature" used in film again.
Hemi psuedo engineering.
Ok, I'll bite. Citation needed. Or is successful troll successful?
We have always been at war with terrorism. And drugs. And poverty.
And here I was, about to post my very own shoggoth theory. Good show, sir.
My pants don't have side pockets, you insensitive clod!