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| 10-04-11 02:26pm - 4828 days | #669 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think Milla Jovivich is gorgeous and sexy, and I loved her in The Fifth Element. Also enjoyed watching her in the early Resident Evil movies (the later ones are getting a little repetitious). The 3 Musketeers in 3D is coming out. I don't like 3D (it's expensive, and I get eye strain from the 3D glasses). So I will wait for the DVD, probably. Also, I'm not enthusiastic about the way the action has been updated with the fancy fighting and super-advanced weaponry. The old style fighting with swords seemed plenty good enough for me. And the plot and characters have been "updated" and re-imagined and I don't think it's an improvement over the original story. I haven't seen the movie, obviously, but I've seen a number of trailers and read some articles on the movie. Also, and this might seem crazy, but I don't want the Milla Jovovich character to die. If there is going to be a re-imagining, I want her to ride off into the sunset to plot her comeback and revenge against her enemies. She is too lovely to die. Too powerful to die. Too sexy to die. ............. ............. The 3 Musketeers in 3D" holds London premiere LONDON (AP) — One for all and all for one: Athos, Porthos and Aramis will be swashbuckling their way down the red carpet in London for the world premiere of "The Three Musketeers in 3D." The trio of actors taking on the legendary characters — Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans — will be joined at Tuesday's launch by Logan Lerman, who plays their hotheaded colleague, D'Artagnan. Other stars at the premiere include Milla Jovovich, who portrays the mysterious Milady; Orlando Bloom, who takes on the dastardly Duke of Buckingham; and director Paul W.S. Anderson of "Resident Evil" fame. The family adventure sees the 17th-century band of heroes set out to defend the Queen's honor and protect France from war. "The Three Musketeers in 3D" opens in the U.K. on Oct. 12. | |
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| 10-04-11 05:04pm - 4828 days | #670 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not just in the movies. People can be freaky. Uggh. ................ ................ L.A. NOW Southern California -- this just in Ex-model who ate husband's body parts still a threat, D.A. says October 4, 2011 | 7:19 am Orange County prosecutors plan to argue at a parole hearing Wednesday that an ex-model convicted of killing her husband and then cooking and eating parts of his body two decades ago has not reformed and should remain behind bars. Omaima Nelson is seeking early release from California Central Women's Prison, where she is serving 27 years to life after being found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of William E. Nelson. Nelson claimed she was a victim of domestic violence, a claim prosecutors and, ultimately, jurors rejected. Prosecutors said Nelson has a pattern of violence toward men. She was convicted of assaulting a former boyfriend, Robert Hannson of Huntington Beach, in 1990 by tying him up and demanding money at gunpoint. She also bit a security guard's breast and has had several run-ins while in prison, though she has kept out of trouble since 2006, when she was last denied early release, said Orange County Senior Deputy Dist. Atty. Randolph J. Pawloski Prosecutors also stated that she has not taken advantage of prison self-help programs, failed to admit to drug and alcohol problems, has a callous disregard for others and remains a risk to the community. "She should be kept in prison for the maximum denial period," Pawloski said. | |
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| 10-04-11 06:39pm - 4828 days | #671 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I read tonight that Disney/Pixar plans on releasing 3D versions of Beauty & the Beast, Finding Nemo, Monster Inc and The Little Mermaid. Maybe I sinicla but this sounds so much like a cash grab. Sahme on both studios. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-04-11 07:34pm - 4828 days | #672 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I've said it before: the movie business is a business. Cash is king. Yes, they talk about artistic merit and whatnot, but bottom line, there is major interest in how much money they can make. | |
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| 10-04-11 07:35pm - 4828 days | #673 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Perhaps this is an unfair comment: But there are times movie stars make comments without thinking about them very much. Or, if the comments are sincere, it indicates a thought process that is far removed from normal reality: Johnny Depp has made an estimated $300 million on the Pirates of the Carribean movies alone. Now he says he doesn't need the money. He's really taking the money for his two kids. So I guess he thinks it takes more than $300 million to support his two kids. Otherwise they might have to go on welfare or something. I think it makes sense for him to say he's going to take the money if it's offered to him. But to say that the money is really going to his two kids seems a little extreme. Granted, he probably won't spend a fraction of that money before he dies. But to say that this money is for his two kids just seems a little strange, to me. ............ ............ Johnny Depp says he's overpaid to star in Pirates of the Caribbean, for which he's reportedly earned more than $300 million. “Basically, if they’re going to pay me the stupid money right now, I’m going to take it,” Depp tells the November issue of Vanity Fair. "I have to. I mean, it’s not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it’s for my kids. It’s ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It’s for the kids.” Depp, 48, has two children, Lilly-Rose, 12 and Jack, 9, with partner Vanessa Paradis, 38. But he also tells the magazine that there's "a part of me that needs to have this kind of stimulation to the brain." He's come a long way from attending Scientology gatherings for $3 a meeting. “I went to a bunch, man. It was so great, it was so fantastic," he tells Vanity Fair. He's excited about his next project, The Rum Diary, which hits theaters on Oct. 28. He was researching his 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Hunter S. Thompson when they discovered the manuscript for The Rum Diary in Thompson's basement. "I pulled it out. I was like ‘What is this?’ Hunter was like, “Oh, s--t, The Rum Diary ... Hunter didn’t know it was there," Depp says. Depp still holds a grudge against Harvey Weinstein for putting 2004's The Libertine out in limited release. "He made a choice to kill it, Harvey killed a great film," says Depp. Depp also talks to the magazine about posing for photoshoots. "Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow. Raped ... It feels like a kind of weird -- just weird, man," says the actor, who doesn't mind posing with fans. "But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like -- you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.” | |
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| 10-04-11 07:57pm - 4828 days | #674 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I like Depp has an actor but this is one of those cases where he should just Shut the Fuck Up. How unfucking clued do you have to be to discuss with anyone the fact that you were paid 300 millions dollars while millions of people around the world have lost their jobs and when the recession is getting worse. Movie ticket prices keep going up while the quality of movies keeps going down. Don't get me started on when he said that doing photoshoot felt like being raped. I've got an idea for Johnny. How about he tries getting raped and then he may avoid saying such an asinine comment. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-06-11 08:21am - 4826 days | #675 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Orlando Bloom admits he likes to walk around in high heels. Is that why he married a supermodel, Miranda Kerr, so he wouldn't have to buy his own heels? Do Orlando and his wife wear the same size in shoes, so they can switch off? I still don't know if I'm going to see The Three Musketeers in 3D. I don't like 3D, but I do like Milla Jovovich. The movie will be out Oct 21 in the U.S. ........... ........... AP Interview: Orlando Bloom likes being a bad guy LONDON (AP) — He's been a pirate and an elf prince, but now Orlando Bloom is stepping away from the swords and leaving the swashbuckling to others in "The Three Musketeers in 3D." After playing the good guy in both the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Lord of the Rings" film series, the British actor is getting in touch with his nastier side for the latest big screen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' historical novel. He plays the cunning Duke of Buckingham, an English nobleman who likes to stir things up at the French court of King Louis. This time, Bloom was pleased to let his co-stars — Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans playing Athos, Porthos and Aramis — take the glory. "They're like the superheroes of their time and they get all the cool stuff and I get to totter around on a pair of heels, but it was exactly what I wanted to do," said Bloom. Bloom is married to Miranda Kerr, has an 8-month-old son Flynn and claims his family is bit like the three Musketeers, whose motto is "one for all and all for one." Paul W.S. Anderson's movie "The Three Musketeers in 3D" opens in the U.K. on Wednesday. The Associated Press sat down with a cleanly shaven Bloom to find out how much fun he had being bad. ___ AP: What did you enjoy most about being the Duke of Buckingham? Bloom: The hair, a bit of (mus)'tache twizzling, the high heels and the bloomers. The whole nine yards. AP: Not the lines as well? Bloom: Yeah I had a couple of dastardly lines. It was quite fun. AP: Did you really enjoy being kind of bad? Bloom: Kind of bad is a good way of putting it. He's a bit of a bad boy. He's a rake, he's a rogue isn't he? He's a cad. And that was a lot of fun. ... this was just a romp. Stick your tongue in your cheek and go big or go home. AP: How do you feel about watching yourself in 3D? Bloom: I'm wondering if the pompadour quiff is going to take anyone's eye out. I thought it was a bit of a secret weapon, I should have had a sword in there. AP: Is this the type of film you'd want to take your son to see? Bloom: Yes, I think so. I mean he's eight months, so not yet perhaps. I'm not sure he'd appreciate it but he might — he'd marvel at the explosions and stuff. AP: If you could form your own Musketeers ... who would you pick? Bloom: There's a couple of my mates, since I was like 11 or 12, we were always called The Musketeers - Mark, Gibbo and Gibbo. We are the Musketeers, see. But I've also got a family now, that's a bit like The Three Musketeers. | |
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| 10-07-11 12:21pm - 4825 days | #676 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Tower Heist is a new action-comedy film with Ben Still and Eddie Murphy that will be released in movie theaters November 4th. But there is a plan to pre-release it on VOD (Video On Demand), where you can pay $60 to watch it in your own home three weeks after its theatrical release. This would be a test marketing, where the VOD would be available to Comcast subscribers in two cities, Atlanta and Portland. Personally, I'm not going to pay even $9 to watch this movie in a theater. And I'm not a Comcast subscriber, or in Atlanta or Portland. So I won't be paying $60 to watch it in the comfort of my own home. Maybe I will pay $1 for the Redbox DVD, when that becomes available. Or maybe not. But you have to give people in the movie business credit: They are always looking for ways to make more money off of people. But that's not the explanation they use. They call it trying to expand or improve the movie watching experience. ................ ................ Sixty Bucks for �Tower Heist� Is Just Too Cheap For Theater Chain By Will Leitch | The Projector � 2 hours 1 minute ago We're not sure this is precisely the type of pre-release publicity that Brett Ratner and company would want for "Tower Heist" -- it's never the best when much of the discussion surrounding the rollout of your product is an oddly specific discussion of its worth and financial value -- but boy, "Tower Heist" is everywhere. Ever since Ben Fritz at the LA Times broke the story that Universal would release the film on demand three weeks after its initial release for $60 -- 60 dollars! 60! -- the whole industry has been all agog. What does this mean? Does this signal a change in direction for movie release schedules? How is this going to play out? For God's sake, what is with that dog? Theater chains being as they are, they're upset by the whole deal. To the point that one of them, Cinemark, is planning on boycotting the movie all together. "Cinemark has urged Universal Pictures to reconsider its market test of this product," Cinemark said in a statement. "If Universal Pictures moves forward with its Tower Heist premium video-on-demand offering, as announced, Cinemark has determined, in its best business interests, that it will decline to exhibit this film in its theaters." We know that Cinemark is trying to take a stand against Video On Demand in general, as opposed to this specific case, but still: As a consumer, it's pretty amazing to see a theater chain bucking this, rather than, you know, the people expected to pay the 60 bucks. What price would have been all right for Cinemark? We're legitimately curious. $100? $4,000? $8,000? An appendage? It might be an appendage. They would show "Tower Heist" in their theaters if it cost people an appendage to watch it (three weeks after it's out!). As long as they could still buy murderous obesity popcorn, of course. .......................... .......................... Edit01: I just saw that the proposed charge for the VOD would be $59.99, and not $60. But the blogger/article writer rounded the amount off to $60. Anyone here willing to pay $59.99 for the VOD of this movie? Edited on Oct 07, 2011, 12:25pm | |
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| 10-07-11 12:46pm - 4825 days | #677 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I enjoyed Daniel Craig in his first James Bond movie, Casino Royale. But his second James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, was too jumbled and choppy for me to like. Quantum of Solace wasted two lovely ladies, Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton. Casino Royale had a much smoother, better story and showcased Eva Green to real advantage. I realize the focus is on James Bond and the action and plot twists and turns. But the ladies are also an important factor in the Bond movies. If Bond Number 23 is to be released a year from now, they better start hurrying up. Because these blockbuster movies seem to take a while to make. And the movie is listed as in pre-production. Pre-production can take years (or forever, when the movie doesn't ever get made). ............ ............ Is 23rd James Bond Film Titled 'Skyfall'? Access HollywoodAccess Hollywood – 22 hours ago The next chapter in the James Bond series - the 23rd movie - reportedly has a title. According to Fusible.com, MGM and Sony Pictures registered a slew of website domains using the title, "Skyfall," on October 3. The new domains come after a handful of other web addresses were secured in August using the same title. The plot details for the next Bond adventure remain a mystery, but Daniel Craig, who debuted as the sauve agent in 2006's "Casino Royale" and then appeared again in 2008's "Quantum of Solace," will reprise the title role and Judi Dench returns as M. Javier Bardem and Ralph Fiennes have also been mentioned as possible co-stars. The next James Bond film is slated to hit theaters in November 2012. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | |
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| 10-07-11 03:05pm - 4825 days | #678 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I only hope they change the style of the movies so that the new James Bond is more like previous versions. I enjoyed Casino Royal but Quantum of Solace was not that good. I understand that it was a pure follow through from Casino Royal but that's not what I like about James Bond movies. I want the gadget's, the modified car, the hot girl(s), the cool dialogue, and a simple vilain bent on world conquest. I don't want to see a jammed packed movie with a brooding Jason Bourne like character out for vengance. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-07-11 03:13pm - 4825 days | #679 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I'm willing to give them credit that they are out of their mind to even consider making this kind of offer. Who is going to pay 60$ to see a movie in their home 3 weeks after it's been released in theaters? A family of 4 could see the movie in a theater the week of it's release for about the same amount or even less. Then there's the fact that the movie will probably be out on dvd about 2 months from moment of release and that's a copy you own and for half the price of the VOD. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-10-11 08:11pm - 4822 days | #680 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I just read the movie spoiler plot summary for Real Steel, the new Hugh Jackman movie about fighting robots. WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD!!! ............ ............ Hugh Jackman's fighting robot does not win the final battle. My heart is broken. How can the hero's robot lose the final battle? And this movie is from Disney. The kingdom of impossible dreams. Shame on Disney, for the pain and suffering of Hugh Jackman's fighting robot. And for making the robot lose the final boxing match. Shame, I say! I have decided to wait for the DVD, which is a lot cheaper than watching this at the movies. | |
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| 10-11-11 08:30am - 4821 days | #681 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Weapons meant for Pitt film seized in Hungary By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press | AP – 26 mins ago BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly 100 weapons to be used in Brad Pitt's "World War Z" film were confiscated in Hungary because they had not been properly deactivated, authorities said Tuesday. The weapons included machine guns, rifles and pistols. The weapons arrived from London to Budapest's Ferenc Liszt Airport on Saturday and were discovered at a nearby duty free zone, Janos Hajdu, head of Hungary's Counterterrorism Center, said. He said he could not confirm they were meant for the film. "It's possible that all the weapons were brought in for the film, but this would not be allowed by Hungarian law," as the weapons had not been fully deactivated and could easily be used to fire live ammunition, Hajdu said on Neo FM radio. "This is a very complicated case." Hajdu explained that in Hungary weapons were considered to be deactivated only if the process "was irreversible," while the weapons seized could still be fired even though screws had been used to fill the end of the barrels. Bela Gajdos, a weapons supervisor for "World War Z," said Mafilm, a Hungarian film company based near Budapest which had the guns brought to Hungary, had the necessary permits, including a detailed list of the weapons in question, issued by local police authorities. "We had all the permits in order for the weapons to be brought in," Gajdos told The Associated Press by phone. "They were brought in only for this film and are owned by a company in England." In accordance with British regulations, the weapons were prepared to be used with blank ammunition, Gajdos said, while in Hungary the guns were considered to be "not suitably modified." Gajdos said he had been questioned by government investigators and that his home in Budapest had been thoroughly searched by security forces before dawn Monday who also confiscated the permits. Gajdos added that he had not been able to inspect the weapons before the police seized them, but that they would have been checked by him and a Hungarian forensic weapons expert before allowing their use in the film. Adam Goodman, whose company is providing production services for "World War Z," said he had been advised not to comment on links between the seized weapons and the film. "We are preparing as planned. We are not changing our schedule," Goodman told the AP. He added that media reports claiming the film set had been raided by police to confiscate the weapons were "not true." | |
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| 10-11-11 12:31pm - 4821 days | #682 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The reason is obvious. If he wins then the sequel would automatically have to include the part where he loses but since he only loses because the judges award the prize to the other robot then he's like Rocky. The downisde is that I don't think there's going to be a Real Steel 2 so we will never get the Rocky 2 version. The movie has made 49 millions worldwide but only 22 millions domestically. This is a movie that cost 110 millions to produce and who knows how much to promote but it's easily in the 6 to 7 figures. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-11-11 01:04pm - 4821 days | #683 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe there would be more interest in the sequel, Real Steel 2, if there was a subplot of Wolverine (the Hugh Jackman X-Men character) meets the killer robots. | |
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| 10-11-11 01:05pm - 4821 days | #684 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This is the way more of us should be, pro-active film critics who demand not just a refund but an apology, when a movie is disappointing. And maybe more of us should get refunds when a pay site does not live up to our expectations. ............. ............. FilmDistrict Sued Over 'Misleading' 'Drive' Trailer A Michigan woman was disappointed with the Ryan Gosling film, having expected "Fast and Furious" style thrills. The Hollywood Reporter – Mon, Oct 10, 2011 3:23 PM EDT Ryan Gosling's crime drama Drive may have been a hit with critics, earning a score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, but one Michigan woman was so unhappy with the film -- she's suing. Sarah Deming has filed a lawsuit against FilmDistrict claiming that the distributors, "promoted the film Drive as very similar to the Fast and Furious, or similar, series of movies." The film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, sees Gosling as an unnamed stunt driver by day who moonlights as getaway driver by night. While the movie features a few impressive car scenes, the story centers mostly on the Driver's relationship with Carey Mulligan's character and several gruesome casualties along his journey to protect her family from harm. "Drive bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film… having very little driving in the motion picture," the suit continues. "Drive was a motion picture that substantially contained extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith. Deming is seeking a refund for her movie ticket, in addition to halting the production of "misleading movie trailers" in the future. The plaintiff intends to turn her individual case into a class action lawsuit, thereby allowing fellow movie-goers an opportunity to share in the settlement, reports Detroit's WDIV-TV. | |
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| 10-11-11 07:20pm - 4821 days | #685 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Wow it's these kind of lawsuits that DRIVE me crazy about Americans. Come on! It takes a couple minutes to visit a few sites and read up on any movie so she shouldn't have been surprised that this had nothing in common with Fast and the Furious except that there are cars involved in both movies. You can walk out of a movie within half an hour and ask for your money back so why didn't she? It's only a 1hr 40 min movie so she would already have known that this wasn't anything like F and the F after 20 min. This is like the person who goes to the restaurant and eats 3/4 of the meal and then complains that it really wasn't very good and he doesn't think he should pay. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-12-11 07:43am - 4820 days | #686 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Nicolas Cage sounds entirely sane, logical, and reasonable in his viewpoint about watching a movie at the theater versus watching it on TV or on a computer monitor. So he's not a crazy guy all the time. Just sometimes. I wish him well, because I've watched many of his movies. ........ ........ Cage laments lack of screen time for 'Trespass' APBy DAVID GERMAIN - AP Movie Writer | AP – 34 mins ago TORONTO (AP) — Nicolas Cage may be happy he got to work with Nicole Kidman and reunite with director Joel Schumacher on his new thriller "Trespass." Yet Cage isn't thrilled that viewers will be able to watch the movie at home the same day it opens in a handful of theaters. The story of a family terrorized by home intruders, "Trespass" debuts Friday for a limited theatrical run in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and seven other major markets. It will be available at the same time for home viewing through video on demand. The DVD and Blu-ray release follow barely two weeks later on Nov. 1, compared with a typical window of about four months between the time most Hollywood films open in theaters and debut on home video. It's a business decision that will help "Trespass" distributor Millennium Entertainment, an independent outfit that does not have the big marketing bucks of a Hollywood studio, make the most of its advertising dollars. Cage understands that, but he wishes the movie could have a separate life on the big-screen before it goes to smaller television and computer screens — or even tiny cell-phone screens. "I like movies to be seen the way the director wanted them to be seen, which is on the big-screen, with an audience, with their popcorn," Cage said in an interview alongside Schumacher at September's Toronto International Film Festival, where "Trespass" premiered. "I want movies to be an event. I want people to get excited about it and go out for the night with their wife or their date, whatever it may be, and have it be an event. I don't want it to get smaller and smaller and wind up on a cell phone." Smaller distributors such as Magnolia Pictures and IFC Films often release films to theaters and video on demand around the same time. Some films can be watched at home ahead of their theatrical release, such as Kirsten Dunst's "Melancholia," already available to rent through video services a month before it debuts in U.S. cinemas. With Academy Award winners Cage and Kidman, along with director Schumacher ("Batman Forever," ''A Time to Kill"), "Trespass" arguably is the biggest test yet for simultaneous big-screen and home releases. Cage stars as a diamond dealer taken hostage with his wife (Kidman) and daughter by masked thugs looking for jewels and cash. Several studios experimented with plans offering video-on-demand rentals of films such as Adam Sandler's "Just Go with It" and Matt Damon's "The Adjustment Bureau" just 60 days after their theatrical release. Those were expensive rentals — $30 a pop — and the timing was after the films already had done most of their business in theaters. As another test, Universal Pictures is offering home rentals of the Eddie Murphy-Ben Stiller action comedy "Tower Heist" to viewers in Atlanta and Portland, Ore., just three weeks after its Nov. 4 theatrical release. That one will cost $60 to rent, a hefty price for home viewing but potentially cheaper than movie tickets, popcorn and sodas for an entire family to see it in theaters. "Trespass" will be available to rent for as little as $6.99 through such sites and services as Amazon.com, Blockbuster and DirecTV. At that price, and since it plays only in 10 theaters, it's fair to say that most viewers of "Trespass" will end up seeing it at home. "We're very encouraged that it will be quite successful," said David Sobieraj, president of strategic planning and television at Millennium Entertainment. "In this day and age, independents are pretty much consolidating some of the windows on theatrical and home releases. It maximizes the marketing dollars across the board." Those shrinking windows have theater owners worried that more people will stay home and wait for movies on video rather than heading out to cinemas. Top filmmakers including among them James Cameron ("Avatar") and Michael Bay (the "Transformers" movies) sided with theater owners in an open letter last spring, as studios were testing their $30 video-on-demand rentals. Schumacher, who previously directed Cage in "8MM" and Kidman in "Batman Forever," said he would prefer that people see his movies in a theater. But he acknowledges that technology is changing the way fans watch movies. "I'm easily assimilated," Schumacher said. "Yes, it's wonderful when people see your movie on the big-screen, but a lot of our movies are seen over and over again on television, and also DVDs have brought a whole new audience. ... I'll accept it if they say they watched it on their cell phone one day. They watched it and they enjoyed it." Cage concedes that with the high cost of taking the whole family to a movie, parents could save up for a couple of months, "get a big-screen TV and just watch your movies at home. "So that's why people have to get smart about how they release movies, and they have a point. Put it on the big-screen and also get ready for the future, which is, people are going to be watching movies at home with their friends, drinking beer and talking as loud as they want," Cage said. "I get it. I just don't like it." | |
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| 10-12-11 11:03am - 4820 days | #687 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I'm willing to agree that technology has altered the way many people now watch movies by making big screen TV's more affordable for everyone but the biggest reason why people stay home to watch movies is because it's just too expensive for most of them to go to the cinema. It cost in upwards of 60$ for a family of 4 to go to the movies unless they skip on food and beverages. You can buy a big screen TV for the cost of about a dozen movies a year. Hollywood is slowly killing theaters by always taking a larger part of box office ticket sales and forcing theater owners to increase prices at their concession stands so that they can make up the difference. There's something seriously wrong when a movie ticket is 10$ but a soda and popcorn is 12$. I can buy any movie a few months after it's theater release on dvd for 20$ and this is my copy that I can watch as often as I want to. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-12-11 12:26pm - 4820 days | #688 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I got used to watching all movies on my Wide Screen TV. Not having a car makes that decision a fairly easy one. One thing no one ever mentions is the noise level of the average Theater movie. I am half deaf and most movies were painfully loud even for me when I still went to see them. I wonder what made the theater owners decide that blaring noise was best? | |
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| 10-12-11 01:30pm - 4820 days | #689 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I have bought hundreds of DVDs. Maybe over a thousand. And for most of them, I've only watched them once. These are non-porn, mostly regular movies. Some are musical performance DVDs, which I do watch more than once (U2, Tina Turner, Cher, etc.). But it's slowly becoming clear that, for me at least, it makes far more sense to just rent a movie and watch it once, then, if I ever want to see it again, rent it again. Especially with Redbox movies for $1 each. And I'm wondering why I've got such a huge porn collection. The vast majority of the porn (both photo sets and videos), I've downloaded and viewed only once. The thrill is in the search for new porn. But if that's true, why do I have several hard drives loaded with TBs of porn, that I will probably never look at, except to try to delete some of the worst to make room so I won't have to keep buying new hard drives? | |
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| 10-12-11 11:37pm - 4819 days | #690 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
New James Bond villain reported: ........... ........... After warming moviegoers' hearts as Julia Roberts' endearing beau in "Eat Pray Love," Javier Bardem - who won an Oscar for his chilling portrayal of a hitman in 2007's "No Country For Old Men" -- will soon play the bad guy once again. After months of rumors, the Spanish actor, 42, has confirmed he has been cast as the villain for the upcoming 23rd James Bond film, alongside returning Bond stars Daniel Craig and Judi Dench. "I am very excited," Bardem told Christiane Amanpour of joining the famed 007 franchise, during a recent "Nightline" interview. "My parents took me to watch the movies and I saw all of them. So to play that is going to be fun!" Beyond the casting confirmation, Bardem, who became a father to a baby boy with "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" co-star Penelope Cruz in January, was unable to reveal additional information about his latest role. "They chose me to play this man, but I cannot give you many details," he said. The next Bond movie, reportedly titled "Skyfall," is slated for theatrical release on November 9, 2012. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. | |
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| 10-13-11 02:48am - 4819 days | #691 | |
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Micha (0)
Active User Posts: 321 Registered: Jul 04, '10 Location: san jose ca |
lk2fireone wrote: The thrill is in the search for new porn. But if that's true, why do I have several hard drives loaded with TBs of porn, that I will probably never look at, except to try to delete some of the worst to make room so I won't have to keep buying new hard drives? a little too eerie lk… You’re forcing introspection. It may be that I’m really none of my business. I have over 900 videotapes and 7 or 800 dvds. (Only 20 or so are porn and under 100 are factory titles) I rarely watch TV in real time, preferring to burn a show to disc and zapping the commercials. (one hour takes 40 minutes to watch ) I hadn’t reflected much but you probably nailed the thrill being the search. Like you, with a few exceptions, I rarely watch them after downloading ( preceding a favorite title with a @ will make it stick to the top of the list) Unlike you I’m realistic about the probability of my cleaning house to make room for more. To purchase a hard drive, a gigabyte costs about four cents and is getting cheaper daily. After I spend the money, I am determined to get my money’s worth and will burn midnight oil cleaning out the website’s server. I’m at about 5 TB now. When they outlaw porn, I’ll be set. unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck. | |
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| 10-13-11 01:30pm - 4819 days | #692 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Macho man. There will probably be a movie of the week on this one. The article seems a little confused. It states that Asim Martinez used a gun to kill a neighbor, shooting the neighbor 12 times. Over 10 years ago, Asim Martinez beat a different murder rap for allegedly shooting David Walker, 19, to death on a basketball court. But the article also says: "This time, Martinez stabbed a man in the neck with an ice pick after he had slapped Martinez's female cousin, a police source said." So who did Asim Martinez (allegedly) stab in the neck with an ice pick? And did that person also die? ............ ............ Staten Island man commits murder to get even after victim had spit in wife’s face, cops say NY Daily News John Doyle, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A Staten Island man who beat a murder rap more than a decade ago is back in the can after surveillance camera footage showed him using a gun to get even - permanently - with a neighbor, police said. Asim Martinez, 32, committed murder in a rage after his neighbor, Tracy Francis, spit in Martinez's wife's face, a law enforcement source told the Daily News Wednesday. Martinez, seeking to avenge the disgusting slight of his wife, found Francis inside his apartment building on Park Hill Ave. in Stapleton about 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 3. He shot Francis a dozen times, a police source said. But he picked a bad spot for murder: the entire incident was filmed on the building's surveillance camera, authorities said. Police collared Martinez Wednesday on Marcy Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, after he once again turned to violence to punish a man who had wronged a woman in his life. This time, Martinez stabbed a man in the neck with an ice pick after he had slapped Martinez's female cousin, a police source said. Martinez was arrested in the summer of 1999 for allegedly shooting David Walker, 19, to death on a basketball court at Staten Island's Stapleton Houses. He was set free after a grand jury empaneled under then-District Attorney William Murphy opted not to indict him. Martinez now faces charges of murder and weapons possession, said a spokesman for Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan Jr. | |
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| 10-14-11 04:30pm - 4818 days | #693 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This is the kind of religious freedom we should be encouraging in the United States and other nations that believe in personal freedom and the right of free speech. If anyone shows a movie we do not like, or that somehow offends our notion of what is proper, burn their home, and maybe burn them as well. Free speech for a free people. Yes! But what about the fella that showed the movie we didn't like? Does he have any rights? This is a deeply philosophical matter, that will take time to resolve. In the meantime: Burn, Baby, Burn! ........ ........ Protesters attack home of Tunis TV station head By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press | AP – 2 hours 5 minutes ago Radical Islam demonstrators leave as police use tear gas during a demonstration in Tunis, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. Tunisia overthrew its long ruling leader President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January after a month-long popular uprising that inspired similar movements across the region. Nine months filled with new demonstrations, unrest and uncertainty have culminated in the beginning of the campaign for elections on Oct. 23. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi) TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A mob attacked the home of a Tunisian television station owner with firebombs on Friday, following protests against a film his channel aired. The channel Nessma reported that around 100 people attacked the home of station owner Nabil Karoui at night, hurling firebombs and forcing his wife and children to flee out the back. Karoui, who has apologized for airing the movie "Persepolis," which religious conservatives deem blasphemous, was not at home at the time. Earlier in the day, Tunisian police used tear gas to disperse thousands in the capital protesting against the film following weekly prayers. The demonstrations and home assault represent an escalations in tensions liberals and religious conservatives ahead Tunisia's landmark Oct. 23 election for a constitutional body that will determine the future of this North African nation that overthrew its longtime dictator in January. Worshippers poured out of al-Fatah mosque in downtown Tunis in the afternoon and began protesting after the imam preached against "Persepolis," calling it a "serious attack on the religious beliefs of Muslims." Marjane Satrapi's award-winning adaptation of her graphic novels about growing up during Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution contains a scene showing a character representing God. Depictions of God are considered sacrilege in Islam. The film won the jury prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The preacher in Tunis questioned the timing of the broadcast by a private TV station during such a sensitive period before the election, describing it as an attempt to divide Tunisians at a time when national unity was needed. Police stopped the marchers with tear gas Friday as they headed toward the Nessma TV station. Karoui has since apologized for airing the film earlier this week, calling it a "mistake." There have been other protests against the TV station in the cities of Sousse, Monastir, Sidi Bouzid and Beja. Police arrested 50 demonstrators in Tunis on Sunday after they tried to attack the station. There have been a rise in attacks against perceived symbols of secularism by hardcore Muslims in Tunisia ahead of the elections. Once suppressed by the former regime, conservative Muslims are increasingly making themselves heard in the country's politics. Since the government was overthrown in January, Tunisia has been filled with unrest and demonstrations as well as the rise of a new ultraconservative group of Muslims that had kept a low profile under the largely secular regime of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Salafists, as the conservatives are known, attacked a movie theater in June that was showing a film they deemed insulting to Islam and last week there were attacks on university that refused to enroll a student wearing the conservative Islamic face veil. The front-runner in the election is expected to be the Ennahda Party, a moderate Islamist movement that had been severely repressed under the previous regime. | |
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| 10-15-11 03:05pm - 4817 days | #694 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I hope you're just being sarcastic, as all of the current theocracies of the world (which also all happen to be Islamic) only allow people the freedom to suppress or react violently to any hint at civil liberty, usually in the form of another made up "blasphemy" that is so offensive to people's delicate religious sensibilities that violence and/or threats thereof are the only answer. And not to be too one sided, but Islam does have the more violent religious conservatives of recent history. Even Martin Scorcese's "The Last Temptation of the Christ" did not have the pope putting a hit on out the director or the stars, just a bunch of angry, though mostly non-violent, protests and self-righteous whining about "respect" for their way of thinking and a film that nobody was ever forced to see. Compare this to the publication of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses," or the Dutch film "Submission," both of which offended Muslims and ended up with people getting killed as a result! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-15-11 06:06pm - 4817 days | #695 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I thought my sarcasm was pretty clear when I wrote: Burn, Baby, Burn, for people who don't agree with some religious group. At the same time, I realize there are people who do believe in "Burn, Baby, Burn", for people who disagree with their religious beliefs. Whether the burning takes place in this world or in the afterlife (hell). Actually, if I was a strict Muslim, I probably wouldn't be hanging out at this site, except to warn all of you of your terrible behavior. And no, I am not Muslim. Edited on Oct 15, 2011, 06:11pm | |
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| 10-16-11 01:37am - 4816 days | #696 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
It was pretty clear...but I guess I couldn't help replying. And if fire was the only weapon extremist theocrats who hide behind the Koran had then I doubt we'd have as much to fear. Knives, explosives, guns, hijacked planes--yeah, those are a little more worrisome. But why does it only take a cartoon, or movie, or book to unite the more vocal and violent dimwits of a religion?  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-16-11 10:00am - 4816 days | #697 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I keep uttering dire predictions to my loved ones when it comes to the so-called Arab Spring. Everyone is celebrating the new "democracies" in Egypt, in Libya, in Tunesia and the ones to come in Yemen and Syria .. but everyone seems to forget the threat of fundamentalist Islamism that these populist movements are bringing with them. The Tunisian example listed above is a classic example of what may happen when the people of the Muslim world finally get a say in how to govern themselves ... not very encouraging. As a matter of fact it is downright scary how many ordinary folks in the Middle East and Northern Africa would love to take their societies back to the middle ages in the name of Allah! | |
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| 10-16-11 02:42pm - 4816 days | #698 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I'm not sure if that's entirely true, and, like so many of the viewpoints on PU, it may be generational. Many of the young in the Middle East appear to want more Western-style life and culture. That doesn't mean they want the U.S. military there, or some American-backed dictator, but I doubt they really want to live in a theocracy or kingdom in the 21st century. But I don't think this means an abandonment of their religion or history either. Older generations are probably far less welcome to any Western influence, and given the history of the region I could understand why. A bigger threat than the Tunisian example would be what has happened with Iran over the decades. They overthrew a king in 1979--who was the result of the U.S. and the U.K. backing a violent overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader in the '50s--and the resulting chaos did not lead to a freer Iran. Instead they got an oppressive theocracy that's been run by a series of septuagenarian Ayatollahs in man dresses, who make up rules on everything from free speech to appropriate hair styles--hardly anyone's concept of modernism or freedom.  Sorry if you're a religious person, but to me Iran's government is a prime example of why too much religion is so harmful to people. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 10-16-11 06:44pm - 4816 days | #699 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I don't doubt that many young people want more western style life and culture but there's a counter balance of young Muslim people who live in Western Society who yearn to return to more traditional values. This incomprehensible fact (to me) is the scary thing. There are many Muslims who were born and grew up in Germany for whom the taking up of the veil and the living of a more traditional life has become the thing to do. Maybe it is rebellion against Turkish parents who had taken on more western ways, maybe it is a genuinely religious thing, who knows .. but they willingly put themselves back under the yoke of fundamentalism. Even in Turkey itself, a country that has been secular since the beginning of last century an Islamic Party now rules who was only recently attempting to bring back the veil. Only their own constitution stopped them. In Iran and Afghanistan women did far better under odious oppressors like the Russians or the American backed Shah. They were doctors, lawyers, teachers, scientists. Can you honestly say that once the dictatorial forces were removed it was only old men who made everyone revert to fundamentalism. Oh, I know there are exceptions. You are right, there are many young people you yearn to experience our freedoms with all the excesses those freedoms bring with it, but the majority of those Muslims who live in Iran and Afghanistan seem to wish to live under their "good, ole religion." Even the Afghan Constitution is based on the Koran. Using your example, it was not the old grey bearded Ayatollahs that brought about the present state of affairs. They would have never achieved their present position of power without all those enthusiastic young RELIGIOUS firebrands, who even though slightly older now still support them to this day. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood will have a lot to say in the months to come. In Yemen, if their protests turn out to be successful you will have to worry about a lot of new recruits to Al Quaida. You may mark my words. Only recently Christian Copts in Egypt had their churches burned and their lives threatened because they trusted the new powers to do the right thing. Yet those same powers sent tanks crashing through their ranks when they protested the persecution. After all, they were only Christians. In any case, you are absolutely right when you say too much religion is harmful to people .. I am a firm believer in the separation of Church and State and wouldn't have it any other way. Truly religious people in power quite frankly scare me. But when considering North Africa and parts of the Middle East, including the Arab Peninsula please remember that it's not only a handful of old people who are reluctant to change or give up their power who are causing the problem. If you are Muslim, you will live by your interpretation of what the Koran says .. there can be no separation of Church and State with them because in Islam, faith and politics cannot be kept separate. You live by the Sharia law which leaves no room for compromise when it comes to other religions or ways of living!  Sorry! | |
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| 10-17-11 07:49am - 4815 days | #700 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
From Wikipekia: A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Qur'an, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "one who submits to God". Currently, the most up-to-date reports from an American think tank and PBS have estimated 1.2 to 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world, or about 20% of an estimated 2009 world population of 6.8 billion, with 60% in Asia and 20% of Muslims living in the Middle East and North Africa. | |
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| 10-17-11 08:04am - 4815 days | #701 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The Three Musketeers will be coming to theater, Thursday, Oct. 20. The hot-headed young D'Artagnan joins forces with three rogue Musketeers in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas' story. They must stop the evil Richlieu and face off with Buckingham and the treacherous Milady. | |
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| 10-17-11 08:49am - 4815 days | #702 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The movie was released Overseas and it made $49 millions over the following weekend. It cuurently has a 30% rating at Rotten Tomatoes but there are only a small sampling of reviews. The movie may get a higher score as more people review it but it's not looking very good when most of the people that gave the movie a positive rating are using the latest Pirates of the Carribean movie as a reference. The score for the Pirates movie has kept on dropping but that hasn't stopped it from making a killing at the box office. I was curious to see this one in theaters but I think I'll wait for the dvd. I can find better things to invest my money. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-22-11 10:51am - 4810 days | #703 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The rottentomatoes on The Three Musketeers concurently has a tomatometer rating of 25%. That means only 25% of the critics gave this movie a positive rating. I thought (even though I haven't seen it yet) that Milla Jovovich by herself would be worth at least half of these critics (assuming they are human and males) would have given the movie a 50% positive rating, assuming they were not dead or zombified. Is the movie really that bad? I will be waiting for the DVD, to give you the real scoop on this one. | |
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| 10-22-11 11:02am - 4810 days | #704 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I must be getting old. To me it feels like they remake the Three Musketeers roughly every 4-5 years. I have lost count of how many versions there have been in the last 40 years. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 10-22-11 06:11pm - 4810 days | #705 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^It looks like they remake it about every 15 to 20 years. This latest version is pobably the first one to take such a leeway with Dumas original tale. Here are the common issues I've read from people that have seen the movie. These are in no particular oder. The use of American actors in a movie where British actors play the parts of French characters isn't a problem as long as they can also speak with a British accent but since both Logan and Milla have a tendency to let their American accent slip and that can be annoying to some. Too many people felt like this was more like pirates of the Carribean with blimps in place of ships. The effects appear to be quite good but too far fetch and people are getting tired of that kind of stuff. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-25-11 04:24pm - 4807 days | #706 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I just rented Captain America the DVD at Redbox for $1 (actually, $1.09 with tax). I think the movie was once of the best this year. I went to see this movie in the theater, around 3 months ago. And now I am seeing it again on DVD. And I can't believe how fast this movie came out on DVD, because it had a respectable run. But if you haven't seen it yet, it's worth watching. I enjoyed it more than Thor or X-Men that also came out this year. Edited on Oct 26, 2011, 12:59pm | |
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| 10-31-11 11:38am - 4801 days | #707 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There hasn't been a lot of good movies coming out lately. So here's something from the entertainment world. I haven't followed the Kardashian family, but I've heard that they are famous for something. Or maybe it's just being on TV? Anywhere, here's the latest on the Kardashian family: ................. ................. Kim Kardashian files for divorce after 10 weeks AP – 31 mins ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just 10 weeks after her star-studded, made-for-TV wedding, reality starlet Kim Kardashian filed for divorce Monday from NBA player Kris Humphries, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce papers filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court said there was a prenuptial agreement but gave no further details. The divorce, if finalized, would be Kardashian's second. Humphries last played as a forward for the New Jersey Nets. The lavish Aug. 20 wedding at a private estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., was filmed for a two-part special on E! | |
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| 10-31-11 12:06pm - 4801 days | #708 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I read that this afternoon and all I hope is that no one pays to get the story. Nothing would make me happier than to hear that magasines couldn't give a rats ass about this non-story. Everybody knew that she got married to make money from the wedding and everybody knew they would get divorced. I think many people thought it would last more than a season so that they could milk it for as much money as they could but maybe Kris Humphries finally woke up and got some balls. He would really impress me if he revealed all the behind the scene stuff about the wedding so that everyone would finally realise that she and her family are complete dirtbags out to screw anyone. Of course that won't happen because he probably signed a non-disclosure agreement before the wedding. They said that Kim and her family made 18 millions from the weding. Wouldn't it be great if everyone asked her to give back all the gifts. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 10-31-11 12:26pm - 4801 days | #709 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Our family owns a video store for about the last 15 years. They get early releases long before they hit. They also get website for screen releases while still in theaters. Since 2007 | |
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| 11-03-11 05:18am - 4798 days | #710 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
More on how the open letter from Kim Kardashian came to be written. Hilarious. .............. .............. Hollybog: Kim Kardashian's Actual Message to Her Fans -- With Tracked Changes By Temp X | The Wrap – 11 hours ago By now you've probably seen the open letter Kim Kardashian posted regarding her divorce from Kris Humphries. It's a lovely letter that offers all the sentiment that one might expect from someone as worldly and well read as Kim Kardashian's publicists Jill Fritzo and Noelle Keshishian at PMK*BNC. Well, before every final copy, there's a rough draft. And my sources tell me that Kim was insistent she give it a go before her PR handlers cleaned it up and posted it. Thanks to those same sources, I now have that draft combined with Kim's notes and the changes that became her final break-up manifesto. Enjoy... "This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to make my publicist re-write write. I see all of the (what's the word when people like you?) support and I am so thankful for my sponsors, customers, fans, friends and family who are managing my career helping me through this highly-predictable difficult time. Do I have to keep writing? Can't I just do this on Twitter? I am trying not to read all the different (what's the word for that show the cute guy Brian Williams is on?) media reports, but it’s hard not to see all the (what's the word for really, really bad?) negative ones. First and foreskin foremost, I married for ratings and because Ryan Seacrest told me to love. I can’t believe I even have to (what did my daddy do for O.J.?) defend this. I would not have spent so much time on something just for a TV show (because I was busy doing...err...answer this later)! I share so much of my life on a "reality" reality show, that (what's a fancy word for thinking that'll make me sound smart) contemplating whether to even film my wedding for just $6 million was a tough decision to make but when they bumped it up to $12 million, I said 'OK', and maybe it turned out to not be the smartest decision because the ratings weren't what we'd hoped. But it’s who I am as we all saw in the X-rays of my bottom! We filmed Kourtney giving birth, (Whatsherface? The tall one?) Khloe getting married, my porno with Ray J and his awesome penis, God damn, I miss that thing, break ups, make ups, money shots, our best moments and our worst moments. These were all real moments, as real as the nose on my face before I had it tweaked. (Make me sound real here, but still slightly above the losers who watch my show) That’s what makes us who we are. We share Reggie Bush with that slut Melissa Molinaro, we give and receive oral, we love Danilo Gallinari and we are open to every position! Everyone ('Who' or 'that'? Fuck it, no one has read this far anyway) that knows me knows that I’m hopeless a hopeless romantic! I love that $2 million ring with all of my heart and soul. I want to televise a family and (the little thing that Kourtney has) babies and a "real" real life so badly that maybe I rushed in to something too soon, again the ratings for the wedding were less than the season premiere. Plus he's not even the best player on his team. I believed in love and the (stuff that happens when I'm sleeping. You know, where I wake up and I'm naked in Yankee Stadium with Derek Jeter and the Pope) dream of what I wanted so badly. I felt like I was on a (What's that thingy at Disneyland that rolls and coasts?) fast roller coaster and couldn’t get off (ha ha! I said 'get off') when now I know I probably should have. I got caught up with the hookah hoopla and the (Can I just blame the whole thing on E! here?) filming of the TV show that when I probably should have ended my relationship, I didn’t know how to and didn’t want to disappoint a lot of people. I’m being (What's the word when you're not lying about everything?) honest here and I hope you respect my (something that makes me sound like that female boxer chick Hilary Swank played, but without eating the tongue) courage because this isn’t easy to go through. But I do know basic math that I have to follow my heart. I never had the (planning ahead thingy) intention of hurting anybody except maybe the tall guy and I accept full responsibility for my actions and decisions except for all the stuff that's making E! and Kohl's mad at me, and for taking everyone on this waste of time journey with me. It just didn’t turn out to be the tooth fairy fairy tale I had so badly hoped for. Fuckin' A. This is such a goddamn waste of time. I've got reservations at BOA for 7:30. There are also (stuff that happens on that show with the cute guy from 'Saved by the Bell') reports that I made millions of dollars off of the wedding. These reports are simply not true, it was closer to $18 million and it makes me so sad to have to even Claritin clarify this. I’m so smiley face grateful to everyone who took the time to come to my the thing we filmed in Montecito wedding and do it for scale, and I’ll be donating the money for all the gifts to some group of losers the Dream Foundation. This means I get the tax write off and you don't. I’m sorry if I have hurt anyone, but my dad (Don't talk about the O.J. thingy here. People seem to think he might have done it.) always told me to follow my heart I believe now that I really am. I'm having open auditions for my next boyfriend next week at the Beverly Hilton, Conference Room 2D. So if you're between the ages of 21-35 and have a net worth of at least $10 million, come on down. It's for my newest show, "Who wants to marry a Kardashian?" P.S. Suck it Paris. | |
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| 11-03-11 06:49am - 4798 days | #711 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^That's really good but you are way too generous with her. There's no way that Kim was remotely close to the writer of her statement. The writer wouldn't have been able to come up with such an amazing piece of propaganda if Kim was standing over his/her shoulder. Kim would have kept interupting the writer to explain what he/she was writting. Possibly the funniest thing (not really funny)) I've read is that Kim really wanted to get back together with Reggie Bush and he was open to it but she had to be divorced before he would accept and that's why she got divorced so quickly. We all knew she would get divorced for ratings but not this early. There were too many other magazine cover TV interview left to milk. There was sure to be a The Reggis reason makes the most sense because her show will probably suffer and I really think that the brand name as taken a huge hit. Not too mention that her mother had a book coming out and now she won't be able to make all the talk shows to talk about it. I think there will be a huge war in the Kardashian clan in the upcoming weeks and maybe we will finally stop hearing about them. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-05-11 07:34am - 4796 days | #712 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Andy Rooney, wry '60 Minutes' commentator, dies Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old. ............... ............... Andy Rooney: Each Sunday he looked at the everyday By FRAZIER MOORE - AP Television Writer | AP – 1 hr 36 mins ago NEW YORK (AP) — It would be interesting to know what Andy Rooney would say now about the great beyond. But if there's a hereafter for the once lovably cantankerous commentator on CBS News' "60 Minutes," he, even as a new arrival, would already have some pointed reactions — and some bones to pick. Sure, it's Paradise. But who can sleep with all that harp-playing? Maybe he's still miffed about the long line at the Pearly Gates. And, though he was never a fashion plate, he might have a beef with wearing white after Labor Day. That was Rooney's style during his 92-year life and remarkable career. He shrewdly observed the world he shared with the rest of us, and then gave voice to the everyday vexations and conundrums that afflict us all. "I probably haven't said anything here that you didn't already know or have already thought," he declared in his final "60 Minutes" essay — his 1097th — on Oct. 2, 2011. "That's what a writer does." Despite his decades as a "60 Minutes" fixture, Rooney was a writer, not a talking head. Words, not vamping for the camera, were his stock in trade since his first "60 Minutes" essay in 1978, just as words were his business for more than 30 years before that. Rooney, who died Friday, had been a champion of words on TV ever since he joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for the red-hot "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts." Within a few years he was also writing for such CBS News public-affairs such as "The Twentieth Century" and "Calendar." A World War II veteran who reported for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, he came from an ink-on-dead-trees brand of journalism that he never renounced. (During his CBS career, he had a syndicated newspaper column and published 16 books.) So it was logical that he would join "60 Minutes" with its inception in 1968. After all, the legendary creator of "60 Minutes," Don Hewitt, is well remembered for insisting that, even on the visual medium of TV, the words should come first and the pictures follow. A decade later, Rooney was 59. At an age when many people might be pondering retirement, he took his seat before the camera to deliver his first "60 Minutes" essay. Beetle-browed and rumpled, he wasn't telegenic by conventional standards. But nobody minded, or even noticed. Viewers listened to his words and his wry delivery, and he caught on. One reason is clear: He tapped into experiences common to his audience. In his opinion pieces, he drew from a wellspring of random nuisances and absurdities, noting how life often doesn't add up, especially in the modern day. This nettled him mightily, and his essays gave us license to be irked, too, as we tapped into our own inner fuddy-duddy. One Sunday, for example, Rooney focused on motion-picture credits. There are too many of them. They take too long. Who cares, anyway? Things were better when he was a kid, without all those names cluttering the screen and wasting everybody's time. Another week, he marveled that, "If I'm so average American, how come I've never heard of most of the musical groups" — such as Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Usher — "that millions of other Americans apparently are listening to?" He raised topics on which we all could readily agree: how packages misleadingly are bigger than the volume of product they contain, and how "computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." Amen! He validated things in his own wry style that everybody knows: Like, how air travel stinks and how "nothing in fine print is ever good news." He took notably bold stands on certain major issues. He was one of television's few voices to strongly oppose the war in Iraq when it began. But there were easy targets, too. "There are a lot of know-nothing boobs who don't appreciate the modern art being put up in public places in all our cities," he declared peevishly one week. "I know this is true, because I'm one of those know-nothing boobs." Then, occasionally, he strayed into areas beyond his understanding. For example, he dismissed Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide as, in effect, a selfish act. What did Cobain know about suffering? The 27-year-old rock star hadn't suffered through a war or the Depression! (The next week, he apologized on the air.) He could play rough. "One of my major shortcomings — I'm vindictive," he pleasantly acknowledged in a 1998 interview with The Associated Press. "I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened." He summed up: "There's no question I have a negative streak, which has served me well." Indeed. But if Rooney sometimes championed a get-off-my-lawn brand of crankiness, there was usually a twinkle in his eye and a "we're-in-this-together" tone to his writing that gave comfort to his flock. "I've done a lot of complaining here," he acknowledged in his farewell commentary, and voiced a parting complaint: He doesn't like being famous, nor does he like being bothered by fans. "I walk down the street now or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey, Andy!' And I hate that." No autographs, please. "But of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life." Without even being told, his fans always knew that beneath Rooney's grumbling was gratitude for all the good things — his family, his job, his country — that life had given him. His fans identified with that, too. Oh, sure, there were viewers who grew weary of his act, of his comments on the fleeting and the mundane (which, in a popular parody of Rooney, would begin as "Didja ever notice ...?" — a phrase he insisted he had never used). Detractors thought he had long outstayed his welcome. Even so, as he delivered his final essay — which he titled "My Lucky Life" — he spoke for much of the "60 Minutes" audience when he said, "This is a moment I have dreaded. I wish I could do this forever. I can't though." Then he insisted he wasn't retiring: "Writers don't retire and I'll always be a writer." For Rooney, it all came down to the writing, the words: simple, succinct, sometimes pungent, sometimes funny. And not many of them in a single serving. His voice is stilled now, but never fear: If there are computers in heaven doing needless tasks, or forms containing fine print, or "the dullest" Olympic sport of curling, odds are Rooney is writing a cantankerous response. | |
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| 11-05-11 11:55am - 4796 days | #713 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
For some reason this piece of news did not surprise me at all. I got a strange feeling that he waslong for this worl when I heard her was leaving 60 Minutes and also after I read that he was going in for a routine operation. Be at Peace Andy Rooney. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-07-11 05:26am - 4794 days | #714 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Bieber, Gaga dominate MTV awards in Belfast on Sunday. LONDON (AP) — The MTV Europe Music Awards turned into a celebration of Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga Sunday night as the two picked up a number of top prizes, including best male and best female act. Gaga, striking in several outfits throughout the evening, also won for best song and best video for "Born This Way." Bieber picked up best pop act as well. Their live performances captured the differences between the two ascendant mega-stars: the teenage Bieber, wholesome and almost impossibly cute; Gaga challenging and aggressively sexual in her approach. ....... ....... This wasn't on the article posted above, but I read on the Internet the following news about Bieber posted by one fan. Lol, if it's true: "I heard Bieber was in the washroom for 7 minutes after the show. He is now the father of 14 children ... at 30 seconds a pop." | |
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| 11-07-11 08:47am - 4794 days | #715 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
I have to agree, I normally like a little meat on the bones, but for some reason she ooozes sexy. I am looking forward to the next movie. Funny I just got through watching Resident evil shes hot.  Since 2007 | |
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| 11-07-11 10:11am - 4794 days | #716 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I really like her in the Fifth Element but then again I think that movie is a true classic of Sci/Fi. I really liked her in Resident Evil and i thought the film was very well done. I wish I could say that I enjoyed her in the 2 sequels but they aren't very good movies and they dropped the bomb by not using her in more shots. There were way too many performers. She's one of those few performers that hasn't chaged much look wise since her early beginnings Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-07-11 10:25am - 4794 days | #717 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
People I talked with who didn't like it because it was CGI over kill. Many of us go back to the days when an explosion was really and explosion, not a Adobe manufactures blurb on the video. I think CGI has a place in film, but a film unless a cartoon type should not be 100% CGI encoded. I watched the Expendables with Silvester Stalone and some A list actors in it. The movie I thought sucked because lots of stuff was fake and obviously fake. My guess is paying all those actors they could not afford to do it realistically. Since 2007 | |
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| 11-07-11 07:56pm - 4793 days | #718 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^That's not it. The sad reality is that producers have gotten lazy over the last few years and it's easier for them to get a bunch of computer techs to do as much CGI work from the comfort of an office than to actually do location shoots all over the planet or have the special effects guys create elaborate sets on huge sound stages or get the same guys to design animatronics or ships and what not. Producers are probably thinking to themselves. Why use fake blood and squibs to create the effect of a person being shot when you can get a computer tech to create a more impressive blood shot from his computer? It makes sense when you consider that making a fake blood shot using a squib requires someone who knows what he's doing because you are talking about explosives on o near your star. The danger isn't great but then again accidents do happen. Brandon Lee is dead because a fake gun. The problem that producers have failed to realise or don't care is that a more impressive gun shot isn't a better one but usually just a gorier one. Just look at the recent Rambo movie where the bulk of the blood shot effets were all done by CGI compared to the old way with all preceding movies. All the previous version felt more real than that last one because of those old school effects. Another problem is that actors can only imagine so much of what the director tells them is going to be a great effect. The best example is all the Star Wars prequel. The bulk of the effects were green screens. The original 3 movies all required elaborate stages to be built and actual ship to be created so that the actors could interact with a physical object and didn't have to imagine what it should feel like. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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